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a general alarm and ferment through the nation. The Parifians, in parti-. 
cular, become again aungereufly outrageous, and every thing bears the fame. . 
ofped asin the preceding mouths of Fune and Fuly. In this fate of affairs, 
the king, ever wifbing io preferve or refiore tranquillity, fends Neckar with 
a@ propofal to the affeimbly, declaring that be would be contented with a 
Jifpenpve veto, whofe cperation fioid not laft longer than one or two legif- 
latures. This propofal received with fatisfadiion; and it was decreed, 1 
that the royal fufpenfion fooxld continue during tawo legiflatures, Great dew | 
bates on the quefiion, whether the national ajembly fbould be compofed of one | 
or tavo chambers. Queffion at length carried for a fingle chamber by a pro- | 
digious majority: Members cbliged to procure certificates how they had 
given their votes, to preferve their houfes and families from deftrudion. 
Affembly decree, that the legifiative body foall be renewed every iwo years 
by elections. Receive a setier from the king, containing his objections to 
certain parts of fome of the netv laws, which occasions much difcontent in 
the'affembly. King obliyed to give his faction fimply, and wthout comment, 
to the laws in queftion. Things tending faft to an extraordinary crifis beth 4 
in Paris and Verfailies. Affembly, however, confirm the hereditary fuc- . 
ceffion of the crown; and declare the king’s perfon facred and inviolable. 
Arrival of the regiment of Flanders at Ver/ailles, the caufe or prétence of 
ihe enfuing mifehiefs. Entertainment given by the officers of the king’s life 
guards to thofe of the new corps, productive of much licentioufacls and Sally. 
This banquet occafions a violent ferment both at Paris and Verfailles. Nu- | 
merous army of xvomen, after plundering the tora houfe, and fupplying i 
themfelves with arms and artillery, march from Paris to Verfailles. Are 
followed by unnumbered bands of ruffians. And not long after by La 
Fayetie, at the head of a confiderable ariny of the national guards. Events 
of the 5th and 6th of Odober. King and royal family led captive to 
Paris. Tumult in Paris, and the murder of a baker, foon after the arrival 
of the national affimbly, occafion the greateft alarm and apprehenfion in that 
body. Severe decree paffed, by which the magiftrates are empowered to pro- 
claim martial law, and to proceed to the laft extremities in repreffing the fu- 
ture outrages of the mob. La Fayette procures the Duke of Orleans’ departure 
to England. 
N the pinching fcarcity of mo- 
ney which now prevailed, the 
king and queen fent their gold and 
fiver plate to the mini for coinage. 
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in the royal perfonages, who were 
obliged to deftine the plate to be 
converted into current coin for the 
relief of their immediate necefli- 
We had originally underttood this 
to have been, in the prefent {pirit 
of the time, a patriotic donation, 
intended to cive’a fan@ion and 
countenance to the offerings of fil- 
ver trinkets, {mall fums of money 
and pieces of plate which were 
continually made. But it appears 
from Neckar, who could not be 
miitaken, that this meafure pro- 
ceeded from mere abfolute poverty 
ties. 
it foon appeared, and might have 
been eafily forefeen, that the pa- 
triotic offerings were totally inca- 
pable of relieving the public necef- 
fities, which were of too vatt -a 
magnitude to be at all affeéted by 
fuch trifling refources: fo that the 
danger of a public bankruptcy, and 
of a total ceflation of all the opera- 
tions cf government, could not-but 
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