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eftablifhed among them; at the 
fame time that he feems to think, 
no limits could otherwife have been 
affigned to the effeéts of their capri- 
cious uproar. 
A fecond army of Amazons was 
preparing to follow the firft, who 
were with much difficulty difperfed 
by La Fayette, the national guards 
telling their general that they could 
not fre upon, or ufe any force 
againft their fellow-citizens who 
were afking for bread. At the 
fame time, the rage for going to 
Verfailles, which had for fome days 
been induftrioufly fomentgd among 
the people, was now become gene- 
ral, and fo ftrongly infeéted the na- 
tional troops, that they rather com- 
manded than defired their officers 
to lead them thither. Upon this oc- 
¢afion fome of the grenadiers told 
La Fayette without referve, that un- 
derfianding the king was an idiot, 
there was no doubt but matters would 
goon much better by the appointment 
of a council of regency. As this was 
not only the peculiar language and 
do&trine of Mirabeau, and of thofe 
other leaders of the cabal who were 
initiated in its moft fecret mytteries, 
but as it was publicly known that 
the eftablifhment of a council of re- 
gency was the moft immediate ob- 
ject of their ambition, none could 
be at a lofs to determine from what 
fource the grenadiers had derived 
this idea, 
_La Fayette, who feemed aftonith- 
ed at even the idea of offering any 
violence to the king’s perfon, or 
laying any teftraint upon his’ in- 
clination with refpe& to refidence, 
endeavoured to allay this fermenta- 
tion, and temporized with the troops 
as long as poflible; but they be- 
coming évery inftant moré outrage- 
ous, and at length dirééting their 
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menaces againft himfelf, he and his 
principal officers, under an imme- 
diate apprelienfion for their lives, 
were compelled to fubmit to the de- 
mands of the foldiery: but in order 
to legalize his proceedings as much 
as he could, he firft required and 
obtained an order from the mayor 
and council of Paris, to lay before 
the king the uneafinefs of his peo- 
ple. This done, he began his march 
from Paris, at the head of the na- 
tional army, accompanied by its 
artillery, and with every difplay of 
military pomp and parade, about — 
five o’clock in the afternoon. Ra- - 
baut obferves, “ No pencil can de- 
“« piét the frantic joy of Paris, ‘on 
« beholding her militia march; 
‘ with the intention of feeking 
“and bringing away the king. ‘The © 
“ capital is aflured that hér diftrefs 
«* fhaii at length be terminated.” ° 
Notwithftanding the boafted dif- 
cipline and order which Maillard © 
was {aid to have fo fuddenly, and it 
might almo{t be faid miraculoufly, ” 
eltablithed in his Amazon army, it 
appears their march to Verfailles — 
was marked by fuch. circumftances 
of outrage, {uch brutality, and grofs 
obfcenity of language, and fuch 
horrid and profane curfes, oaths 
and imprecations, as were without — 
example in any country under the — 
name or character of civilization.’ — 
lt was currently reported at the 
time, and we never heard it contra’ 
dicted, that having hung up to 
death two unfortunate paffengers 
whom they met on the way, they 
had the audacity to boaft to the na-’ 
tional affembly of thefe wanton and. 
horrid murders, which, it feems, no — 
member would venture to reprove* 
them for. Maillard prevailed on the 
women, which certainly could have 
been no eafy tafk, to permirhim to be” 
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