[Footnote 152: "Thus Paris, without courts of justice, without police, without a guard, at the mercy of one hundred thousand men who were wandering idly in the middle of the night, and for the most part wanting bread, believed itself on the point of being besieged from without and pillaged from within; believed that twenty-five thousand soldiers were posted around to blockade it and cut off all supplies of provisions, and that it would be a prey to a starving populace."--_Memoirs of Marmontel._] [Footnote 153: Hist. Phil. de la Rev. Fr., par Ant. Fantin Desodoards, t. i., p. 148.] [Footnote 154: Professor William Smyth, in his very able and candid lectures, delivered at the University of Cambridge, England, though his sympathies are with the court in this conflict, writes: "On the whole, it appears to me that there can be no doubt that a great design had been formed by the court for the dissolution of the National Assembly and the assertion of the power of the crown. That military force was to have been produced, and according to the measure of its success would, in all probability, have been the depression of the spirit of liberty, even of national liberty, then existing in France. Less than this can not well be supposed; much more may be believed."--_Lectures on the French Revolution_, vol. i., p. 251.] [Footnote 155: The Old Régime and the Revolution, by M. de Tocqueville, p. 190.] [Footnote 156: Michelet, vol. i., p. 136.] [Footnote 157: "They were going to make payments with a paper money, without any other guarantee than the signature of an insolvent king."--_Michelet_, vol. i., p. 137.] [Footnote 158: "A list of the proscribed had been drawn up in the committee of the queen. Sixty-nine deputies, at the head of whom were placed Mirabeau, Sièyes, and Bailly, were to be imprisoned in the citadel of Metz, and from thence led to the scaffold, as guilty of rebellion. The signal agreed upon for this St. Bartholomew of the representatives of the people was the change of the ministry."--_Histoire des Montagnards, par Alphonse Esquiros_, p. 15.] [Footnote 159: Lectures on the French Revolution, by Wm. Smyth, vol. i., p. 241.] [Footnote 160: Louis, Viscount of Noailles, was a deputy of the nobles. With La Fayette, Rochefoucault, and others he warmly espoused the cause of popular liberty. He voted in favor of uniting with the National Assembly, and was the first to exhort the clergy and the nobility to renounce their privileges, as injurious to the common weal. When the Revolution sank degraded into the hands of low and worthless men, he retired from the public service; but when Napoleon came to the rescue, he again entered the army, and was subsequently killed in a battle with the English.--_Enc. Am., Art. Noailles._]