at Nantes, the use made of revolutionary taxes, brought out on the trial of the revolutionary committee.] [Footnote 33113: Ludovic Sciout, IV., 19.

Report of Representative Becker.

(Journal des Debats et Decrets, p.743, Prairial, year III.) He returns from a mission to Landau and renders an account of the executions committed by the Jacobin agents in the Rhenish provinces.
They levied taxes, sword in hand, and threatened the refractory with the guillotine at Strasbourg.

The receipts which passed under the reporter's eyes "presented the sum of three millions three hundred and forty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-five livres, two deniers, whilst our colleague, Cambon, reports only one hundred and thirty-eight thousand paid in."] [Footnote 33114: Moniteur, XXII., 754.

(Report of Gregoire, Frimaire 24, year III.) "Rascallery--this word recalls the old revolutionary committees, most of which formed the scum of society and which showed so many aptitudes for the double function of robber and persecutor."] [Footnote 33115: Archives Nationales, AF., II., 107.