* Decree concerning suspected people: 

     “Art.  I. Immediately after the promulgation of the present decree,
     all suspected persons that are found on the territory of the
     republic, and who are still at large, shall be put under arrest.

“II.  Those are deemed suspicious, who by their connections, their conversation, or their writings, declare themselves partizans of tyranny or foederation, and enemies to liberty—­Those who have not demonstrated their means of living or the performance of their civic duties, in the manner prescribed by the law of March last—­Those who, having been suspended from public employments by the Convention or its Commissioners, are not reinstated therein—­Those of the ci-devant noblesse, who have not invariably manifested their attachment to the revolution, and, in general, all the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and agents of emigrants—­All who have emigrated between the 1st of July, 1789, and 8th of April, 1792.

“III.  The execution of the decree is confided to the Committee of Inspection.  The individuals arrested shall be taken to the houses of confinement appointed for their reception.  They are allowed to take with them such only of their effects as are strictly necessary, the guards set upon them shall be paid at their expence, and they shall be kept in confinement until the peace.—­The Committees of Inspection shall, without delay, transmit to the Committee of General Safety an account of the persons arrested, with the motives of their arrest. [If this were observed (which I doubt much) it was but a mockery, few persons ever knew the precise reason of their confinement.]—­The civil and criminal tribunals are empowered, when they deem it necessary, to detain and imprison, as suspected persons, those who being accused of crimes have nevertheless had no bill found against them, (lieu a accusation,) or who have even been tried and acquitted.”

Indications that may serve to distinguish suspicious persons, and those to whom it will be proper to refuse certificates of civism: 

     “I.  Those who in popular assemblies check the ardour of the people
     by artful speeches, by violent exclamations or threats.

     “II.  Those who with more caution speak in a mysterious way of the
     public misfortunes, who appear to pity the lot of the people, and
     are ever ready to spread bad news with an affectation of concern.

“III.  Those who adapt their conduct and language to the circumstances of the moment—­who, in order to be taken for republicans, put on a studied austerity of manners, and exclaim with vehemence against the most trifling error in a patriot, but mollify when the crimes of an Aristocrate or a Moderee are the subject of complaint. [These trifling events were, being concerned in the massacres of September, 1792—­public peculations—­occasional, and even habitual