One bottle had no
effect on him; he could empty a cask and show no signs of it.
[110] Moniteur, XXII., 425. (Session of Brumaire 13, year III.)
Cambon, in relation to the revolutionary committees, says: "I would
observe to the Assembly that they were never paid." A member replies:
"They took their pay themselves." ("Yes, yes." - Applause.)
[111] Moniteu, XXII., 711. (Report by Cambon, Frimaire 6, year III.)
- Cambon stated, indeed, Frimaire 26, year II., (Moniteur, XVIII.,
680), concerning these taxes "Not one word, not one sou has yet
reached the Treasury; they want to override the Convention which made
the Revolution."
[112] Ibid., 720. "The balances reported, of which the largest
portion is already paid into the vaults of the National Treasury,
amount to twenty millions one hundred and sixty-six thousand three
hundred and thirty livres." - At Paris, Marseilles, and Bordeaux, in
the3 large towns where tens of millions were raised in three-quarters
of the districts, Cambon, three months after Thermidor, could not yet
obtain, I will not say the returns, but a statement of the sums
raised. The national agents either did not reply to him, or did it
vaguely, or stated that in their districts there was neither civic
donation nor revolutionary tax, and particularly at Marseilles, where
a forced loan had been made of four millions.
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