and proceeded from thence to the Royal Baftille, where they demanded entrancethe gares flew open. The Affembly, knowing the King to be very much in danger, wifely deputed twenty-four Members to wait on his perfon. M. Goyer entered the Hall about fix o'clock, vifibly agitated, and afcended the tribune to call the attention of the Houfe to a momentous concern"I have juft feen," said he, my King, the Hereditary Reprefentative of the nation, infulted, threatened, under-valued; I have feem him between M. M. Ifoard and Vergniaud, who were exerting themfelves in fersening him from popular fury, with a red cap on his head, and in the moft imminent danger."

On M. La Croix's motion, the Affembly decreed that a deputation of twenty-four Members should go every half hour to the palace to report the fituation of the royal family. At seven the first deputation returned, and one of them, M. Mazuyer, faid, that at the moment the King was in the midft of an immenfe croud, several Members of the House advanced to comfort him; his Majefty, with calm dignity, thanked them, and uttered these never-tobe-forgotten expreffions-" An honeft man, who has done bis duty, and who has nothing to reproach bimfelf with, knows neither fear nor remorse." Then taking the hand of a national guard that was by his fide, and placing it on his heart, he with energy added, "feel whether it beats !" It is needjefs to mention that the Affembly applauded this trait of heroiẩm.

Paris, June 23. The Minifter for the Home Department informed the Affembly, that the King had ordered him to communicate to them a letter from the Department of Paris relative to the state of the capital, and a placart which had been ftuck up in the Fauxbourg of St. Antoine, to the following purport:

Petition of the Fauxbourg of St. Antoine
to the National Affembly.

"The men of the 14th of July rife a fecond time, and are come to denounce a "King no longer worthy to fill the throne. "We demand his head. If you refuse to "comply with our defires our arms are "raifed, and we will extirpate the traitors "wherever we find them, even amongst "yourselves."

A voice on the left fide of the Affembly here called out for the order of the day, at which the Affembly expreffed the utmost indignation; and it was demanded that the Member fhould be fent to the Abbey. The memorial was afterwards referred to the new

Committee of Twelve to report in the evening.

In the evening feffion M. Mouraire made the report in the name of the Committee, purporting that the text of the law respect. ing the troubles being formal, the Commiffion could prefent no new legislative measure; but propofed to invite, in the name of Liberty, all good citizens to join the conftituent authorities, for the support of order and the fecurity of their perfons. This decree, the Affembly, eager to prove its determined refolution to fupport the law, decreed without any difcuffion, and ordered it to be fent to the 83 departments. Decrees of liquidation took up the rest of the feffion.

M. Bazire obferved, that he held a paper in his hand, which had occafioned all the prefent confufion; it was the King's Proclamation, which he would first read, and afterwards denounce.

PROCLAMATION BY THE KING, ON THE

EVENTS OF THE 20th OF JUNE. "Frenchmen cannot hear without concern, that a multitude, excited by fome factious perfons, came with arms in their hands into the King's Palace, drawing a piece of cannon even into the guard-room; that they broke open the doors of his apartment with axes, and there audaciously abufing by affuming the name of the nation, attempted to obtain by force the fanction which his Majefty had conftitutionally refufed to two decrees.

"The King opposed to the menaces and inful's of thefe factions perfons, only his confcience and his love for the public weal.

"The King knows not at what point they would ftop; but he thinks it right to inform the French nation, that violence, to whatever excefs it may be carried, shall never tear from him his confent to whatever he fhall think contrary to the public interest.— He expofes, without regret, his own peace, and his perfonal fafety; he gives up, even without pain, the enjoyment of the rights which belong to all men, and which the law ought to refpect in him as well as in all citizens; but as the Hereditary Reprefentative of the French nation, he has fevere duties to fulfil, and though he will make the facrifice of his own repofe, he will not facrifice his duties.

"If those who wish to overthrow the Monarchy have need of one crime more, they may commit it.-In the crfis in which he finds himself, the King will to the last mɔment give to the Conftituted Powers the example of that courage and firmness which

can

can alone fave the empire. In confequence, he orders all the Adminiftrative and Municipal Bodies to watch over the lives and properties of the people,

"Given at Paris, the 22d day of June
1792, the 4th year of Liberty.
(Signed)

(And under)

"LOUIS.

TERRIERK."

After the appearance of the King's Proclamation, which confiderably exasperated the populace, who tore it down wherever they found it, was publifhed the following PROCLAMATION by the MUNICIPALITY. "Citizens, preferve tranquillity and fee your dignity.

"Be upon your guard against the fnares which are laid for you. It is wished to create divifions among the Citizens armed and unarmed.

Cover with your arms the King of the Conftitution; environ his perfon with reSpest, that his alylum may be facred.

"Refpect and caufe to be refpected the National Affembly, and the Majelty of the Reprefentatives of a Free People.

"Do not affemble in arms; the law forbids it, and this law has just been renewed.

"In crowds, the most innocent may mingle with the worst intentioned,

"The Law reproves all violence, and you have entruited to your Magiftrates the execution of this law,

"Shew yourselves worthy of Liberty, and remember, that the people who are the moft free, are alfo most the flaves of their laws. (Signed) PETION, Mayor. "DEJOLY, Registrar." The National Affembly patfed the fol. lowing Decree respecting the fo egoing hand

bill.

"The National Affembly, informed by the Minifter of the Interior, that the enemies of the people and of liberty feek all means to overthrow the Conftitution, and, ufurping the language of Patriotism, are upon the point of misleading many of the inhabitants of Paris :

"Juftly indignant at the criminal provocations and placards which have been denounced to them, and confidering that the duty of the Legiative Body is to maintain the Conftitution and the inviolability of the Hereditary Reprefentative of the Nation, but that the laws have committed to the conftitated authorities all the means which are neceflary for alluring order and public tranquillity, declare, that it is not neceffary to take any new legiative measures, but invite in the name of the nation and of liberty ali citizens to be faithful to thofe to whom the depofit of the Conftitution is committed; to uate all their efforts to thofe of the confti

tuted authorities for the maintenance of the public tranquillity, and for guaranteeing the fafety of perfons and properties. The National Affembly decrees the publication of the prefent act, and orders the Minister of the Interior to give an exact account, every day, of the ftate of the city of Paris."

Paris, July 7. This morning, at ten o'clock, an extraordinary Affembly of the General Council of the Commonalty was held, when the Mayor laid before it an Arret of the Directory of the Department, by which the Mayor and the Procureur of the Commonalty are provifionally fufpended from the exercife of their functions, for having, on the 20th of June laft, failed in the execution of the law. M. Petion declared immediately, that he was eager to obey the law, and requested the Affembly to appoint a Prefident. The Council-General, after having ordered the arret of the Department to be registered, proceeded to the appointment of a Municipal Officer, to fulfil, ad interim, the functions of a Mayor. The votes were divided between Meffrs. Boire and Guillaume Leroy; but the former had the majority. M. Demouffeaux, by virtue of the Arret of the Department, will act as Procureur of the Commonalty.

M. Petion left the Council amidst repeated fhouts of applaufe, and was conducted home by a numerous body of Patriots.

Paris, July 9. In the Seffion of the 6th inft. the Minister for Foriegn Affairs laid before the Affembly an order of the Court of Spain, revoking the prohibition issued against the tranfportation of French Negroes to the Spanish Colonies.

M.

In the Seffion of the 7th the Prefident informed the Affembly, that the Order of the Day was allotted to the difcuffion of the measures to be taken for the general safety. M. Brifot was to open the business. Lamourette, however, arose and informed the Affembly, that he had a motion which he wished to make previously, which was, "That all thofe Members who both abjured and execrated a Republican form of Govern ment, or one confifling of two Houses, should rife." The whole Affembly iminediately arofe, and folemnly declared, they rever would fuffer, either by the introduction of the Republican fyftem, or by the establishment of Two Houfes, any alteration whatever in the Conftitution. A general cry of "Reunion" followed directly. The Memhers who fat on the fide formerly denominated the left, went and mixed with the Members of the oppofite fide, who received them with open arms, and in their turn went and placed themfelves on the benches on the left fide; in fact, all parties minglet together

Rogether. On the fame feats were feen Meffrs. Jaucourt and Merlin, Dumas and Bazire, Albite and Raymond; no more fufpicions prevailed, and the words Sets and Parties feemed to be abolished. A Deputa tion of 24 Members were charged to wait on the King, and acquaint him with the transaction. Meffrs. B zire and Carnot then moved, that the Administrative Corps of Paris, and the Judiciary Corps, should be fent for and made acquainted with it alfo, that they might communicate it to their fellow-citizens; which was ordered accordingly.

M. Ozelin with a Deputation from the General Council of the Commonalty appeared before the bar, and requested of the Af fembly a fpeedy decifion respecting the fufpenfion of the Mayor of Paris and the Procureur of the Commonalty. An Addrefs was alfo read, figned by the Members of the Municipal Corps, approving the conduct of thefe two officers. The Affembly ordered the Executive Power to report on the bufi nefs the next day.

Here the Deputation returned from the King, and foon after the King, accompanied by all his Minifters, entered the Affembly amidst reiterated cries of "Vive la Nation! Vive le Roi!" His Majefty placed himself by the fide of the Prefident, and, addreffing himfelf to the Affembly in a short fpeech, informed them that the happy moment which he had fo long wifhed for was then arrived; that the Nation and the King were as one, and both aimed at one end, the falvation of France. He faid, fo eager was he to haften to the Affembly, that it was with the utmost impatience he waited for the arrival of the Deputies. Here the cries of "Vive la Nation! Vive le Roi!" were redoubled, and the King quitted the Affembly amidst the acclamations of the Tribunes.

In the evening one of the Secretaries read the verbal procefs of the National Affembly in the morning, which turned chiefly on the motion relative to the measures to be taken for the general fafety. He obferved, that the most speedy and efficacious mean was the union of the Members of the Legislative Corps, disturbed by fufpicion and political jarrings. He therefore moved, as the means of preventing these diffenfions, "To pronounce a folemn execration against all projects tending to alter the Constitution, either by the establishment of Two Chambers, by the establishing a Republic, or in any other manner." The Affembly, by a fudden and spontaneous movement, all rofe, and decreed this propofition, amidst a thunder of applaute; and the Decree was or. VOL. XXII.

dered to be fent to the 83 Departments. The Members then arofe, and approaching from all parts of the Hali mingled together.

A letter was read from the King, requesting the Assembly to decide in the bufi. nefs of the Arret of the Department, as he was perfonally concerned therein, and from motives of delicacy wifhed not to interfere.

Paris, July 11. In this day's Seffion of the National Affembly, M. Herault reported from the joint Committees on the political state of the Nation. Their opinion was, to declare that the country is in danger.

M. Lacipede propofed the following form of the declaration, which was voted almost unanimously :

"Numerous bodies of troops are advancing towards our frontiers. All thofe who abbor liberty are arming against our Constitution. CITIZENS, OUR COUNTRY IS IN DANGER. Let thofe who are to have the honour of marching the first to defend all that they hold moft dear, always remember that they are Frenchmen, and freemen; let their fellowcitizens maintain at home the fafety of perfons and of property; let the Magiftrates of the people watch attentively; let all, with the calm courage which is the attribute of true force, wait for the fignal of the law before they act, and our country will be faved."

On the motion of M. Vergniaud, the Affembly voted

AN ADDRESS TO THE FRENCH, ON THE DANGERS OF THEIR COUNTRY. "Citizens,

"Your Conftitution restores the princi ples of eternal justice. A league of Kings is formed to deftroy it. Their battalions are advancing they are numerous, under rigorous difcipline, and long practised in the art of war. Do you not feel a noble ardour inflame your courage? Will you fuffer hordes of foreigners, like a deftructive torrent, to overflow your fields? Will you fuffer them to ravage your harvests; to waste your country by burning and cruelties; in a word, to load yourselves with chains dyed in the blood of all you hold most dear?

"Our armies are not yet complete an indifcreet fecurity too often reftrained the ardour of patriotifm. The levies of recruits ordained have not been so completely fuccefsful as your Reprefentatives had hoped. Internal troubles, added to the difficulty of our fituation, caufe our enemies to give themfelves up to vain hopes, which to you are an infult.

"Haften Citizens: fave liberty, and vindicate your glory.

"The National Affembly declares, that our country is in danger.

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Madame the King's daughter, and a Lady of the Court, Another voiture followed with perfons of the King's fuite. The fix Minifters walked on foot at the doors of the King's voiture, which reached P Ecole Militaire exactly at twelve.

This escort then formed behind the building in the Plain of Federation, in a fquare battalion, while an immenfe crowd filled the amphitheatre and the interior part of the plain.

The Altar of the Country was fhaded by a palm-tree; perfume was burnt in four caffolettes at the angles; and at every half hour 60 pieces of artillery were fired.Eighty-three poplars, with large bandages or labels, pointed out their ftations to the Federators of the eighty-three Departments. A pyramidal monument was erected at the foot of the Altar of the Country, with the infcription, "To our brothers in arms who bave fallen upon the frontiers for the defence of Liberty."

Under thefe circumstances of preparation the arrival of the proceffion was expected; which, upon its return from the Boulevard St. Antoine, had received into its bofom the National Affembly. At two o'clock the proceffion began to open into the Plain of Federation by the Rue de Greville. Groups of men and children, with women bearing pikes and ftaves, defiled after a detachment of 50 Maitres de Cavalerie, and another of National Guards. Other women followed, bearing branches of trees and other fymbolical figures. Four legions of the Parifian Guard, with their drums and mufic in front, afterwards defiled; in the middle of which were the Commiffioners of the Section, the Commiffioners of Police, Juftices of Peace, the Tribunals of the Districts, intermixed with strong detachments of the 104th and 105th regiments, commanded by M, M. Chereonfand Maupertuis; Meffieurs Wittenkoff and Menoa, General Officers, commanding the divifion of the Interior, were with their Etat Majors in the middle of the plain, oppofite to a valt balcony, in which were the King, the Queen, the Prince Royal, their family, and fuite.

Before the 5th Legion of National Guards entered the plain, the National Affembly, preceded by a piquet of cavalry, the Sapeurs of the National Guard, and a detachment of Volunteer Grenadiers, escorted by others of Grenadiers and Gendarmerie, entered the Plain of Federation. The Affembly stopped before the King's balcony. The King, accompanied by his Minifters, defcended, placed himself on the left hand of the Prefdent, and, with him, marched at

the head of the Affembly. The King's efcort, which was in order, then joined that of the Affembly, and the whole proceffion moved towards the Altar of the Country.

The Affembly and the King fhould alone have proceeded to its fummit; but a great number of perfons, especially an affemblage of citizens bearing a Baftile in relief, had before established themselves upon the plat form. The proceffion should have afcended the Altar of the Country in order, and the Prefident, the King, and the National Guards, should alone have afcended as far as the book of the Law, and taken the oath. This plan could not be entirely conformed with; the King remained upon the first platform in the midft of the Affembly, preffed himself by the affiftants at the ceremony.

There the constitutional oath was taken in the midst of the acclamations of all the people, who prefented at this moment, in the midst of their eagerness to approach the Altar, the most interesting, picturesque, and fublime coup d'œil. A general difcharge of artillery announced the taking of the oath. During this time, the two laft legions entered with the Department and the Munici pality, at the head of whom was M. Petion,

The Affembly and the King, being obftructed from reaching the other fide of the Altar by the crowd, whom they were unwilling to have removed, returned by the fide on which they afcended; and the Deputies accompanied the King to l'Ecole Militaire, where he went into his carriage, and returned by the road through which he came to the Thuilleries.

There was in each battalion a greater or lefs number of Federators, or Inhabitants of Paris, armed with pikes, of whom fome fhouted in the streets, and as they defiled before the King, fhouted "Vive Petion!" Some other shouts relative to prefent circumstances were heard, and particularly against the conduct of M. La Fayette. Upon the Altar of the Country fimilar fhouts were at times repeated by men who had drawn back their clothes from the neck and arms, and by others who had the old uniform of the Gardes Francois. Several cannoneers, placed without the ranks, under the balcony of the King, were alfo obfcrved to repeat them, and one especially, upon crying "Vive Petion!" appeared to give the fignal to the battalions as they palled. All, however, did not answer to the fhout, and the regiments of the line, after the air "Ca Ira,' played "Qu peut on etre mieux," and fhouted" Vive la Nation, et le Roi!" which the populace repeated.