Robberies, murders, and conflicts have ceased in Marseilles since the establishment of this guard."] [Footnote 3109: Archives Nationales, 3144 and 3145, No.1004.

(Reports of the councillors of State on mission during the year IX, published by Rocquam, with omissions, among which is the following, in the report of Francois de Nantes.) "The steps taken by the mayors of Marseilles are sufficiently effective to enable an emigre under surveillance and just landed, to walk about Marseilles without being knocked down or knocking anybody else down, an alternative to which they have been thus far subject.

And yet there are in this town nearly 500 men who have slaughtered with their own hands, or been the accomplices of slaughterers, at different times during the Revolution....

The inhabitants of this town are so accustomed to being annoyed and despoiled, and to being treated like those of a rebellious town or colony, that arbitrary power no longer frightens them, and they simply ask that their lives and property be protected against murderers and pillagers, and that things be entrusted to sure and impartial hands."] [Footnote 3110: Roederer, III., 481.

(Report on the Senatorerie of Caen, Germinal 2, year XIII.)--Faber, "Notice sur l'interieur de la France"(1807), p.110, 112.