Everyday which passes enhances the dangers of the 
country. The Assembly, which ought to be the firmest suppor
of order, has become a focus of conspiracies. The patriotism
of three hundred of its members has been unable to check its
fatal tendencies. Instead of making laws in the public interest
it forges arms for civil war; it attacks the power which I hold
directly from the People, it encourages all bad passions, it 
compromises the tranquillity of France; I have dissolved it,
and I constitute the whole People a judge between it and me.
