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198 prevent their being opened at the London post-office. When Robespierre and his confederates were declared under arrest by the Convention, Rose, on account of his firmness and courage, was deputed to conduct them to the Committee of General Safety, who gave him a receipt testifying their safe delivery. In the evening the Convention sent him to the rebellious Commune with a summons to appear at the bar and hear its orders. The Commune, on learning his arrival and errand, had him arrested and brought before them. He showed such boldness that Fleuriot, the president, bade him go back and tell the Convention they would appear arms in hand and enforce their rights. Taking this insolent message as a release, Rose left the room, fought his way on the stairs past two men who tried to stop him, and ran at full speed. He had scarcely left the Hotel de Ville than the Commune on second thoughts decreed his arrest, but it was too late. When the Commune was outlawed, Rose also accompanied several deputies who went and harangued the troops brought by Henriot to the Carrousel to crush the Convention. Let us hope that Merlin de Thionville, to whom Rose sent a statement of his services, secured him the reward due to his intrepidity. Arthur had two colleagues in the Commune of British birth or extraction. James, doubtless the William Benjamin James who took part in the capture of the Bastille, was a teacher of English.