"The queen had 50,000 crowns put into Danton's hands a short time before these terrible days."-- " The court had Danton under pay for two years, employing him as a spy on the Jacobins."-- " Correspondance de Mirabeau et du Comte de la Marck," III.82.Letter from Mirabeau, March 10, 1791: "Danton received yesterday 30,000 livres" .-- Other testimony, Bertrand de Molleville, I.
354, II.

288 .-- Brissot, IV.

193--.

Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I.40, 42.

Miot was present at the conversations which took place between Danton, Legendre, etc., at the table of Desforges, Minister of Foreign Affairs.