New-York tribune., 1909-09-04
THE TERROR.
+ Lu1d Episode Dra5on from It's
Secret UistOrH

IN 1-.a. v.s-1 the Committee Of Public Safety
re- holding It's saugaiEaE, sway over Paris,
some ri It's most carefully hidden deliberations
--r- being systematically betrayed to the Brit
ssr govern aae.r- Lord GrenviAe, the Foreign
Minister 81 that tlle Was in receipt oi COM
-r.ufca Ll9us sent il roundabout fashion hy
SOS. a. The very council table n The Secret Com
ua.ttee If Nine. lie central source Of all the evil
worked ag the organized assassins Of the Terror
What lerI1us stuff vas embodied in these mis-
sires may be gathered from the simple state
rnent accompanying one Of them, Il humbly
beg leave 10 observe u your Iordship that If the
irci5sed paper should be seen By ans except his
ma5esty's ministers 1t might possibly lead 70
discovery which would b. very fatal 70 the
writer of it," Very fatal indeed one can
imagine what would have happened 10 the com
mittee.s secretary had his treachery come to
light The document in question dis-nterred
from "The Dropmore Papers" mas recently been
reproduced in The Spectator II gives the
reader d thrilling sense Of the frenzy with which
the royal family was pursued 70 It's extinction.
This paper relates % a meeting Of the COM
mittee held early in September. 1888. AZ the
house of "the taept but none the less Infamous
Pacle." Various matters Of public interest
we're brought UP. but the fate Of Marie An
toinette was especially considered. "On the sub
1act of the Queen" the spy reports, "Carnbon
observed that Forgues said that they were in
treaty with BRUSSELS, Vienna and Prussia on
that subject. atd that perhaps ny alarming
them, but putting OF the judgment they might
greatly further their object. Heraut, Barrere
Jean Bon ST Andre, and Hebert rose In fury
against this proposition, saying that 10 keep
Louis XVII Il g, the DauphinI alive served the
same purpose IN every way. that the blood Of
the Queen was necessary 10 associate the Revo-
Iutionary Tribunal with the Convention and 10
make the town II Paris co-partner Of the des-
tinies Of the Convention; that the death Of Capet
was more especially the deed OF the Convention
while that Of the Queen would be the deed Of
Paris. Of the Tribunal. and Of the army of the
Revolution" This sinister summary would
alone cause us 10 SOC tho Terror in The Spec
tator's' phrase 'hy fash Of lightning" but
il is commonplace besic@ the mad torrent -
vitriol' which marked the consultation Of these
butchers. II was liberated by Hsbert and is
thus recorded by The spy:
! have promised the head of Antolnette I .bsu
- ana rui 10 oH myself it you are slow ir ,i,
lS IL fo Uc have promised IN on your rart to ~.
tHHS futpttfa. VINO arc demanding IT, and without
"LcH you cease to br The instinct ~ R.r,,t.tiC
makes them wish 10 unite th.mss Ives 10 us ~ ,-is
eXpatCTy sacrifice. and set YOU hesitate, Iy,It 7
WItl tell sou one thing that VIII decide YOU I can
H4l see HsAt where n is dark, ! cannot see roses
~hen there are only daggers / know not whether
tiirfr remains 10 Won any hone of the Republic ~
thH constitution or ~ tie safety Of your persons
but ! know ms that II you have any. you greatly
deceive E0uFsrlt~F
fon oiH al perish II eaHa0t be- otheraotss do
aot kAQO tehefheY Il has been 1CeH or iII d0as 10
tri9O me thing 70 l0here II Is But there IL fsi
Xour generals are all eetraying you. and they viii