"We have preferred to expose these funds (one hundred and five millions destined for the army) to being intercepted, rather than to retard this dispatch.

The first thing the Committee of Public Safety have had to care for was to save the republic and make the administrations fully responsible for it.

They were fully aware of this, and accordingly have allowed the circulation of these funds...

They have been forced, through the wise management of the Committee, to contribute themselves to the safety of the republic."] [Footnote 1164: Archives Nationales, Letter of Robert Lindet, June 16, AF.II., 43.

The correspondence of Lindet, which is very interesting, well shows the sentiments of the Lyonnese and the policy of the "Mountain." "However agitated Lyons may be, order prevails; nobody wants either king or tyrant; all use the same language: the words republic, union, are in everybody's mouth." (Eight letters.) He always gives the same advice to the Committee of Public Safety: "Publish a constitution, publish the motives of the bills of arrest," which are indispensable to rally everybody to the Convention, (June 15).] [Footnote 1165: Guillon de Montleon, I., 309 (July 24).] [Footnote 1166: Sauzay, IV., 268 .-- Paul Thibaud, 50 .-- Marcelin Boudet, 185 .-- Archives Nationales AF.II., 46.