departure, is ready to disappear before the divisions so skilfully fomented by perfidious imputations. (Loud cheering.) You will see renewed, do not doubt this, the disorders, the convulsions of which you are weary, and to which the completion of the Revolution ought also to be a completion.  You will see renewed without hopes, projects, temptations which we openly brave because we feel our strength and are united—­because we know that so long as we are united they will not be attempted; and if extravagant ideas should dare to try them it would always result in their shame.  But the attempts would succeed, and on the success of them they might, with some semblance rely, if we were once divided amongst ourselves, not knowing in whom we might believe.  We suspect each other of different plans when we have but the same idea—­of contrary feelings, when every one of us has in his heart the testimony of his colleagues’ purity, during two years of labour performed together—­during consecutive proofs of courage—­during sacrifices which nothing can compensate but the approving voice of conscience.”

Here Barnave’s voice was lost in the applauses of the majority, and the Assembly electrified, seemed for the moment unanimous in its monarchical feeling.

X.

At the sitting of the 25th of August, the Assembly discussed the article of the constitution which declared that the members of the royal family could not exercise the rights of citizens.  The Duc d’Orleans ascended the tribune to protest against this article, and declared, in the midst of applauses and murmurs, that if it were adopted, there remained to him the right of choosing between the title of a French citizen and his eventual right to the throne; and that, in that case, he should renounce the throne.  Sillery, the friend and confidant of this prince, spoke after him, and combated with much eloquence the conclusions of the committee.  This discourse, full of allusions to the position of the duc d’Orleans, impossible to be misunderstood, was the only act of direct ambition attempted by the Orleans party.  Sillery began by boldly replying to Barnave:—­“Let me be allowed,” he exclaimed, “to lament over the deplorable abuse which some orators make of their talents.  What strange language!  It is attempted to make you believe that you have here men of faction and anarchy—­enemies of order, as if order could only exist by satisfying the ambition of certain individuals!  It is proposed to you to grant to all individuals of the royal family the title of prince, and to deprive them of the rights of a citizen?  What incoherence, and what ingratitude!  You declare the title of French citizen to be the most admirable of titles, and you propose to exchange it for the title of prince, which you have suppressed, as contrary to equality!  Have not the relatives of the king, who still remain in Paris, constantly displayed the purest patriotism?  What services