[77] The affair of the 30th of April signally disappointed the chiefs
of the insurrection, who decreed the formation of a Committee of
Public Safety, and caused Cluseret to disappear. “The incapacity and
negligence of the Delegate of War having,” they said, “almost lost
them the possession of Fort Issy, the Executive Commission considered
it their duty to propose the arrest of Citizen Cluseret, which was
forthwith decreed by the Commune.”