Re-form the staff and officers of the National Guard.

To secure more prompt and surer execution of these measures of security you may refer to the present municipality, the Committee of Surveillance and the Cannoneers.] [Footnote 3288: Ibid., AF.,II., 37.

To Ricord, on mission at Marseilles, Pluviose 7, year II, a strong and rude admonition: he is going soft, he has gone to live with Saint-Meme, a suspect; he is too biased in favor of the Marseilles people who, during the siege "made sacrifices to procure subsistences;" he blamed their arrest, etc .-- Floreal 13, year II., to Bouret on mission in the Manche and at Calvados.

"The Committee are under the impression that you are constantly deceived by an insidious secretary who, by the bad information he has given you, has often led you to give favorable terms to the aristocracy, etc."-- Ventose 6, year II., to Guimberteau, on mission near the army on the coasts of Cherbourg: "The committee is astonished to find that the military commission established by you, undoubtedly for striking off the heads of conspirators, was the first to let them off.

Are you not acquainted with the men who compose it?
For what have you chosen them?
If you do not know them, how does it happen that you have summoned them for such duties ?"--Ibid., and Ventose 23, order to Guimberteau to investigate the conduct of his secretary] [Footnote 3289: See especially in the "Archives des Affaires etrangeres," vols.