HISTORY, OF, EURGQFE. 
faw that the bare name of the king, 
which did not produce the fmalleft 
benefit to himielf, might be turned 
0 great account by aitording fome 
fanction to their proceedings, and 
thereby become-a moit ufeful initru- 
ment in the confirmation of their 
Borer. Upon thefe principles no 
lefigns that affected the king’s life 
‘could originate or be received in 
this party. 
The other fagtion, of which Mi- 
tabeau was, at lealt, the oltenfible 
head, and the leaders of which were 
generally called the cabal, held very 
different views, though they pur- 
fued the fame means, and nfed the 
fame initruments, the mobs of Paris, 
for their attainment. The firit, as 
we have feen, wifhed to confine 
the king, perhaps for life, within 
‘the walls of that capital; but the 
fecond hoped to terrify him into 
“a flight; in which cafe they would 
Have proceeded to depofition ; and 
ey the circumftances of the 
f ight might have afforded an op- 
‘portunity for greater and more de- 
‘cifive violence. Though thefe af- 
Go the character of republicans, 
‘and generally afed along with 
them, yet fo far were they from 
withing the overthrow of the fove- 
‘Feignty, that they very reluctantly 
ea even the reductions that 
‘Were made in its authority; they 
“withed it to continue perfect, and 
Whole, but wanted to change the 
ands in which it was placed; fo 
hat having fet up a phantom of 
power, which, from its weaknefs, 
they knew they could manage as 
they pleafed, 4 very few of their 
principal leaders would be enabled 
fterwards to govern with fupreme 
authority. 
two caules partitularly dangerous ; 
was the extreme protligacy, and 
‘“ . 
This party was from , 
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total want of principle, joined with 
uncommon abilities, of fome of its 
leaders ; the other was the profound 
fecrecy with which its ultimate 
views were kept concealed, fo that 
the real objects of its purfuit and 
conduét were never apparent. 
The republican party were tri. 
umphant upon this occafion; and 
the views of the cabal, if not en- 
tirely feen through, were at leaft fo 
far underftood, as to excite much 
miftruft, and draw no fmall degree 
of odivm upon their leaders. 
Though the revolution was now 
completed, and no_vifible obftacle 
remaining which could check the 
republicans in their future career, 
yet the idea of fhutting themfelves 
up within the walls of the turbu- 
lent city of Paris, where 100,c00 
pair of jealous and fufpicious eyes 
were to be an eternal watch upon 
their conduét and aétions; where 
they were to be fubjected to the ca- 
price of a frantic and bloody popu- 
lace, who had conitituted themfelves 
both judges and executioners of the 
law in all cafes of life and death; 
and where the moft zealous patriot 
was liable to become an initanta- 
neous victim to the falfeft report, 
or to the moft unfounded fufpicion ; 
thefe confiderations, acting altoge- 
ther, could not but ftrike a great 
part of the affembly with the moit 
ferious and alarming apprehenfions, 
and thereby ferve much to leffen 
that fatisfaction and exultation of 
pride and fuccefs, which their fignal 
triumph over the crown, and that 
extreme and abje& ftate of degra- 
dation to which it was reduced, 
might otherwife have afforded. 
in order, by every means in their 
power, to guard againft this danger, 
which, however unayowed, was 
equally ¢bvious to all, the aflembly 
; immediately 
