"Military schools shall be open to common use; they shall deal with all branches of the service: police, account-keeping, and Republican discipline. "A general officer and an officer from the chief staff shall be specially set apart for this object. "The general will find the army in excellent spirits, and he will only have to keep it so. "He must watch and arrest suspected men, who might escape from the army. "All communication with the enemy must be avoided. "No one must be allowed to penetrate into his camp under any pretext whatever. "Deserters must be sent to the rear to some suitable place. "He must maintain an accurate correspondence with the minister of war, independently of that from the headquarters. "In short, his sense of patriotism and his courage render him worthy of the confidence of the nation. He will not keep back anything, and he will set his brothers-at-arms an example of every Republican virtue." It is clear that these instructions had nothing very revolutionary about them. But when he reached Bayonne, serious differences broke out between my father and the Representatives of the People sitting in that town. These Representatives of the People were citizens Monestier, Pinet senior, Garreau, d'Artigoyte, and Cavaignac. This Assembly had gained for itself a sorry notoriety in the south; and when the above-mentioned members heard that my father was coming, knowing his moderate views, they tried to ward off the blow. On the 3rd Brumaire, before my father had actually arrived, they issued the following proclamation:-- "IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE: "The Representatives of the People within the sphere of the Army of the Western Pyrenees and the adjoining departments, being informed that the minister of war has promoted to the rank of divisional generals in the Army of the Western Pyrenees certain citizens who have not the confidence of Republicans; appointments which have raised a sense of uneasiness among the democratic people of Bayonne; fearing, in the first place, that the _sans-culotte_ officers placed in their posts by the Representatives of the Montagnards may be deprived by them; and, secondly, fearing that they will see a recrudescence of intriguers and military spies at work misleading the soldiers; have been impelled to communicate their fears to their colleague Garreau, who has already on their behalf drawn up the following provisional measures: "Being informed that citizen Dumas has been appointed by the Executive Council general of the Army of the Western Pyrenees, that he is on his way to Bayonne, and that he has been announced by his aide-de-camp Darièle, who has already arrived in the said town;