a 
HISTORY OF EUROPE, 
mad with loyalty. A loyal air, 
waich, with a fong appropriated to 
it, “© O Richard, O mon Rail’: &ce. 
had till very lately been highly po- 
pular; being -now played by the 
muiic, excited» the general fever to 
the higheit pitch. Kabaut fays that 
the dauphin was carried by. his 
ia mother completely round the 
table; that enthufiafm then taking 
poffeiion of the gueits, they, fword 
in hand, drank the aueult healths 
of all the family, while the court, 
bowing and curtfeying, retired. 
-  YVhe » banquet was continued 
through the greater part of the 
night, and ended in the mof com- 
plete drunkennefs, It will be no. 
great matter of furprize, that the 
moft imprudent and the rafhett 
things were faid or done. It 1s faid 
on one fide, that after repeated li- 
bations to, the royal family, one of 
the prefent faihionable toatts, either 
_ the nation, the new conttitution, or 
the afiembly, being propofed by one 
_ of the Verfaillian oificers, it was re- 
jected with the greateft marks of 
contempt. It appears that the an- 
cient white cockade had never been 
quitted by the royal life guards, 
who had conffantly refufed adopting 
_ the new itriped one of the Parifians; 
and that the officers of Flanders, in 
one of the freaks of their feftivity. 
having adopted a fimilar determi- 
i nation, {tripped the national. cock- 
_ ades out of their hats, and, it is 
_ faid, were fupplied by the court la- 
ee dies with white ones, as falt as they 
_ gould make, or procure them to be: 
made; Jt was likewife added, and 
had a prodigious effect in inflaming 
_ the populace, that ‘the national 
_ cockades had been torn, trampled: 
_ Mpon, and treated with every mark 
__ 0f contempt which folly or outrage 
Gould infpire. This, however, aps 
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pears to have been one of thofe nu- 
merous calumnies which were now 
fo fuccefsfully propagated, on every, 
occafion in which the court was any 
way concerned; the charge being 
abfolutely refuted by the folemn 
tefimony on oath of all or mof of | 
the officers. who were that night 
prefent. 4 
-Nothing could exceed the rage 
which the account of this ill-fated 
banquet, loaded with - all the ad- 
ditional circumitances which malice 
and invention could fupply, pro- 
duced upon tne populace of Paris, 
The famine which preffed fo forely. 
upon fo vaft a multitude, would in 
itfelf, indeperdent of all political 
caufes, have been fufficient to dif- 
pofe amuch more temperate and 
better-conditioned people to out- 
rage and violence. ‘They immedj- 
ately charged the queen with being 
at the head cf a con{piracy forcarry= 
ing off the king and exciting a civil 
war; and they reprefented this af- 
fair at Verfailles as the opening of 
the plot; this they faid was too ma- 
nifeft to admit of a queftion; and 
the contempt fhewn for the national 
cockade, with the refufal to drink 
profperity to, the nation, were to he 
confidered as a declaration of war 3. 
that it was time to terminate at 
once all thefe inquietudes; and that 
as fome were defirous of carrying 
off the king to place him at the 
head of a party,. they had no other 
courfe to take, than to be beforer 
hand with them, by fecuring his. 
perfon in the capital..-We pafs over 
the {currilitjes and motives td im- 
mediate violence which were thrown 
out by the caballers and demagogues, 
At the fame time, the ,ftarying mul- 
titude, having been taught to believe 
that the famine proceeded from th 
court, and had been particularly ex~ 
cited 
