If the people of Paris did not wait for orders to destroy the Bastille and begin the Revolution, can you wonder that in this fiery climate the impatience of good citizens should make them anticipate legal orders, and that they cannot comply with the slow forms of justice when their personal safety and the safety of the country is in peril ?"] [Footnote 2421: "Archives Nationales." F7, 3197.

Dispatches of the three commissioners, passim, and especially those of May 11, June 10 and 19, 1791 (on affairs in Arles).

"The property-owners were a long time subject to oppression.

A few of the factions maintained a reign of terror over honest folks, who trembled in secret."] [Footnote 2422: Ibid., Dispatch of the commissioners, June 19: "One of the Mint gang causes notes to be publicly distributed (addressed to the unsworn) in these words: 'If you don't "piss-off" you will have to deal with the gang from the Mint.'"] [Footnote 2423: "Archives Nationales." F7, 3198.

Narration (printed) of what occurred at Arles, June 9 and 10, 1791 .-- Dispatch of M.Ripert, royal commissioner, Aug.