A perusal of these furnishes full details concerning the initiative and responsibility of the Committee.

For example, (Nivose 4, year II., letters to Freron and Barras, at Marseilles,) "The Committee commend the vigorous measures you have sanctioned in your orders at Marseilles .-- Marseilles, through you, affords a great example.
Accustomed, as you are, to wielding thunderbolts, you are best calculated for still governing it...

How glorious, citizen colleagues, to be able like you, after long continued labors and immortal fame, how gratifying, under such auspices, to return to the bosom of the National Convention!"-- (AF.II., 36, Pluviose 7, year II., letter to the representatives on mission at Bordeaux, approving of the orders issued by them against merchants.) "concealed behind the obscurity of its complots, mercantilism cannot support the ardent, invigorating atmosphere of Liberty; Sybaritic indolence quails before Spartan virtue.
"-- (AF.II., 37, Pluviose 20, letter to Prieur de la Marne, sent to Nantes to replace Carrier.) "Carrier, perhaps, has been badly surrounded;....

his ways are harsh, the means he employs are not well calculated to win respect for the national authority;...

he is used up in that city.