A party of these met a falfe patrol of twenty two men, who, of courfe, did not know the watch-word. Thefe were inftantaneoufly put to death, their heads cut off and carried about the ftrects or pikes (on promena leurs tetes fur des piques) This happened in la Place Vendome, their bodies were ftill lying there the next day. Another falfe patrol, con fifting of between two and three hundred men, with cannon, wandered all night in the neighbourhood of the theatre Français: it is fad they were to join a detachment from the battalion of Henri IV. on the Pont neuf, to cut the throats of Petion and the Marfeillois, who were encamped on the Pont St Michel, (the next bridge to the Pent neuf) which caufd the then acting parifh affemblies to order an honorary guard of 400 citizens, who were to be anfwerable for the liberty and the life of that magiftrate, then in the council-chamber. Mandat, commander-general of the national guard, had affronted M. Pe tion, when he came from the chateau of the Tuileries to go to the National Affembly; he was arrested and fent to prifor immediately. The infurrection now became general; the Place du Caroufel (fquare of the Caroufals, a iquare in the Tuileries, fo called from the magnificent feftival which Louis XIV. in 1662, there gave to the Queen and the Queenmother) was already filled; the King had not been in bed; all the right had probably been spent in combining a plan of defence if attacked, or rather of retreat. after feven, the King, the Queen, their two children, (the Dauphin, feven years old, and his fifter, fourteen,) Princess Elizabeth, (the Queen's fifter, about fifty years old,) and the Princefs de Lamballe, croffed the garden of the Tuileries, which was ftill fhut, efcorted by the national guard, and by all the Swifs, and took refuge in the National Affembly, when the Swifs returned to their pofts in the chateau.

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The alarm bells, which were inceffantly ringing, the accounts of the carrying heads upon pikes, and of the march of almoft all Paris in arms; the prefence of the King, throwing himself, as it were, on the mercy of the legislative body; the fierce and deter minate looks of the galleries; all thefe things together had fuch an effect on the National Affembly, that it immediately decreed the fufpenfion of Louis XVI; which decree was received with univerfal applaufe and clapping.

At this moment a wohnded man rufhed into the Affembly, crying, "We are betrayed, to arms, to arms, the Swifs are firing on the citizens; they have already killed a hundred Marfeillois.

This was about nine o'clock. The demoerats, that is to fay, the armed citizens, as before mentioned, had dragged feveral pieces VOL, LV. January 1793.

of cannon, fix and four pounders, into the Caroufal fquare, and were affembled there, on the quais, the bridges, and neighbouring ftreets, in immenfe numbers, all armed; they knew the King was gone to the National Affembly, and came to infift on his decheance (forfeiture) or refignation of the throne. All the Swifs (fix or feven hundred) came out to them, and permitted them to enter into the court-yard of the Tuileries, to the number of ten thousand, themfelves ftanding in the middle; and when they were peaceably Smoaking their pipes and drinking their wine, the Swifs turned back to back, and fired a volley on them, by which about two hundred were killed; the women and children ran immediately into the river, up to their necks. many jumping from the parapets and from the bridges, many were drowned, and many were shot in the water, and on the baluftrades of the Pont-royal, from the windows of the gallery of the Louvre.

The populace now became, as it were mad; they feized on five cannon they found in the court-yard, and turned them against the chateau; they planted fome more cannon on the Pont royal and in the garden, twenty-two pieces in all, and attacked the chateau on three fides at once. The Swils continued their fire; and it is faid they fired feven times to the people's once: the Swifs had thirty fix rounds of powder, whereas the people had hardly three or four. Expreffes were fent feveral miles to the powder-mills, for more ammunition, even as far as Effonne, about twenty miles off, on the road to Fontainebleau. The people contrived, however, to difcharge their twenty-two cannon nine or ten times t. From hine to twelve the firing was inceffant; many waggous and carts were conftantly employed in carrying away the dead to a large excavation, formerly a ftone quarry, at the back of the new church de la Madeleine de la ville l'Eveque (part of the Fauxbourg St Honoré, thus called )

Soon after noon the Swifs had exhausted

all their powder, which the populace percei ving they ftormed the chateau, breke open

*"This is afferted on the authority of all the French newspapers, and of feveral ejewitneffes. It will never be poffible to know the exact truth, for the people here faid to be the aggreffors are all fluid.-The Swifs had trufted, that they would have been backed by the national guard, who, on the con trary, took the part of the people, and fired on the Swifs, (who ran into the chateau as foon as they had difcharged their pieces, by which feveral were killed."

"The balls did no other damage to the palace than breaking the windows, and leas ving impreffions in the ftones, perhaps an inch in depth."

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"On Thursday the 9th of Auguft, the legiflative body completed the general difcontent of the people, (which had been railed the preceding day, by the difcharge of e

very accufation against la Fayette,) by appearing to protract the queftion relative to the King's decheance (forieiture,) at a time when there was not a moment to lose, and by not holding any affen bly in the evening.' The fermentation increafed every minute, in a very alarming manner. The mayor himfelf had declared to the reprefentatives of the nation, that he could not anfwer for the tranquillity of the city after midnight. Every body knew that the people intended at that hour to ring the alarm-bell; and to go to the chateau of the Tuileries, as it was fufpected that the Royal Family intended to efcape to Rouen, and it is faid many trunks were found packed up and ready for taking away, and that many carriages were feen that afternoon in the court-yard of the Tuileries.

At eight in the evening, the generale (a fort of beat of drum) was heard in all the fections, the tecfin was likwife rung (an alarm, by pulling the bells of the churches fo as to cause the clappers to give redoubled ftrokes in very quick time. Some bells were ftruck with large hammers).

All the fhops were fhut, and alfo moft of the great gates of the hotels; lights were placed in almost every window, and few of the inhabitants retired to their repofe: the night paffed, however, without any other difturbance; many of the members of the national affembly were fitting foon after midnight, and others were expected. Mr Petion, the mayor, had been fent for by the King, and was then in the chateau; the num ber of members neceflary to form a fitting being completed, the tribunes (galleries) d manded and obtained a decree to oblige the chateau to releafe its prey, the mayor; he foon after appeared at the bar, and from thence went to the commune (manfion-house.)

It was now about fix o'clock on Friday morning, (10th.) The people of the fauxbourgs, (fuburbs) efpecially of St Antoine and St Marcel, which are parted by the river, affembled together on the Place de la Bafile, and the crowd was fo great that twenty-five perfons were fqueezed to death. At seven the streets were filled with armed citizens, that is to fay, with federates, (felect perfons fent from the provinces to aflift at the federation, or confederacy, held laft July 14.) from Marfeilles, from Bretagne, with national guards, and Parifian fans-cullottes, (without breeches, thefe people have breeches, but this is the nane which has been given to the mob.) The armis confifted of guns, with or without bayonets, piftols, fahres, fwords, pikes, knives, fcythes, faws, iron-crows, wooden billets, in fhort, of every thing that could be used offenfively.

"According to the Journal de la fecond legiflature, feance de la nuit 11 Aout."

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the doors, and put every perfon they found to the fword, tun bring the bodies out of the windows into the garden, to the amount, it is fuppofed, of about 2000, having loft 4000 on their own fide. Among the flain in the chateau were, it is afferted, about 200 noblemen and three bishops: all the furniture was deftroyed, the looking glaffes broken; in fhort, nothing, leit but the bare walls.

Sixty of the Swifs endeavoured to efcape through the gardens, but the horfe (gendar merie nationale) rode round by the street of St Honoré, and met them full butt at the end of the gardens. The Swifs fired, killed five or fix and twenty horfes, and about thirty men, and were then immediately cut to pieces; the people likewife put the Swifs poiters at the pont tourrant (tuning-bridge) to death, as well as all they could find in the gardens and elfewhere they then fet fire to all the cafernes (barracks) in the caroufal, and after wards got at the wine in the collars of the th tean, all o' which was immediately drank: many citizens were continuelly bringing into the National Affen.bly jewels, gold, louis d'ors, plate, and paper, and many thieves were, as foon as difcovered, inftantly taken to lamp-irons, and banged by the ropes which fufpend the lamps. This timely feverity, it is fuppofed, faved Paris from an univerfal pillage. Fifty or fixty Swifs were hurried by the populace to the Place de Grêve, and there cut to pieces.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon every thing was tolerably quict, and I ventured out for the firit time that day*."

We have extracted the foregoing paffages, because they appear to exhibit the faireft ac- count that we have yet feen of the circum ftances attending that dreadful businels, pr ticularly with refpect to the alledged treachery of the Srifs guards; who, it is now generally allowed, on all hands, were the aggreffors in that horrid feene of butchery! It fems, therefore, somewhat unjust to reproach the populace, with fo much feverity as often has been done, by our news writers and pamphleteers, on accoun of the flaughter that enfued, in which the lofs of lives on their fide, appears to have been really as fix to one. Poor wretches! what is it now to thofe that perished, whether their nation is fcourged by ONE defpot, or by MANY tyrants? M.

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"The whole of the foregoing account is taken from verbal information, and from all the French papers that could be procured Although I a not an eye witres, I was low ever an ear winds of the engagement, being only half a mile diftant from it."

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