[88] Ibid., AF.,II., 37. To Ricord, on mission at Marseilles,
Pluvi?se 7, year II, a strong and rude admonition: he is going soft,
he has gone to live with Saint-M?me, 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. - Flor?al 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." -
Vent?se 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 Vent?se 23, order to Guimberteau
to investigate the conduct of his secretary
[89] See especially in the "Archives des Affaires ?trang?res," vols.
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