Extract from the registers of the Council of the department of Loire-Inferieure, July 14.

The department protests that its decree of July 5 was not "a rupture with the Convention, an open rebellion against the laws of the State, an idea very remote from the sentiments and intentions of the citizens present." Now, "the plan of a Constitution is offered to the acceptance of the sovereign.

This fortunate circumstance should bring people to one mind, and, with hope thus renewed, let us at once seize on the means of salvation thus presented to us."-- Moniteur, XVII., 102.

(Speech of Cambon, July 11.)] [Footnote 1167: Louvet, 119, 128, 150, 193 .-- Meillan, 130, 141.

(On the disposition and sentiments of the provinces and of the public in general, the reader will find ample and authentic details in the narratives of the fugitives who scattered themselves in all directions, and especially those of Louvet, Meillan, Dulaure, and Vaublanc.) Cf.
the "Memoires de Hua" and "Un Sejour en France in 1792 and 1795."-- Mallet-du-Pan already states this disposition before 1789 (MS.
Journal).