"
[59] Lord Malmesbury, "Diaries," II., 544. (September 9, 1797.) The
words of Mr. Colchen.) "He went on to say that all the persons
arrested are the most estimable and most able men in the Republic. It
is for this reason and not from any principles of royalism (for such
principles do not belong to them) that they are sentenced to
transportation. They would have supported the constitution, but in
doing that they would have circumscribed the authority of the
executive power and have taken from the Directory the means of
acquiring and exercising undue authority."
[60] Barb?-Marbois, "Journal d'un D?port?," preface, p. XVI.
[61] Mathieu Dumas, III., 84, 86.
[62] De Goncourt, "La Soci?t? Fran?aise pendant le Directoire," 298,
386. Cf. the Th?, the Grondeur, the Censeur des journaux, Paris, and
innumerable pamphlets.- In the provinces, the Anti-Terrorist, at
Toulouse the Neuf Thermidor, at Besan?on, the Annales Troyennes at
Troyes, etc.
[63] Mallet-Dupan, II., 309, 316, 323, 324, 329, 333, 339, 347. "To
defend themselves constitutionally, whilst the Directory attacks
revolutionarily, is to condemn themselves to inevitable perdition." -
" Had it a hundred times more ability the Legislative Corps without
boldness is a lightning flash without thunder.
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