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immediately paffed the ftrongeft re- 
folutions that could be framed, re- 
fpe&ting the facrednefs and inviola- 
bility of their perfons. But thele 
being in no degree fufficient to re- 
move the general impreflion of dan-. 
ger which had taken place, fo great 
a humber of members were conti- 
nually applying for leave of ab- 
fence, that it feemed at length as 
if the aflembly would be entirely 
eeferted; and it was found necei- 
Jary, as a remedy for the evil, to 
pafs an order or refolution, that. no 
farther applications for leave fhould 
bé received, ! 
Thefe. appréhenfions had not, 
however, time to wear off before an 
event took place which fufficiently 
dhewed that they were by no means 
ill-founded, For the aflembly had 
not been long in Paris, when thofe, 
loyal and peaceable citizens, being 
perhaps apprehenfive that their 
tights and authority might, with- 
out frequent exertion, becepie dor- 
mant, and lapfe into what the law- 
yérs call a ftate of defuetuds, deter- 
mined to give their new viittants of 
the afflembly an early fpecimen of 
what thofe rights and that authority 
were, fo as to prevent all future 
miftakes about their nature and 
extent, and at the fame time toafford 
a ftriking inflaice of their own due 
qualification, from the eafe and fa- 
cility with which they adminiftered 
fummary juilice. There could be no 
want of an object on which to dif- 
play their juftice and dexterity, 
while there remained. a baker full 
in exiftence. The lot accordingly 
fell upon an unfortunate member of 
that fraternity, who happened to be 
totally innecent ef any known 
crime, or of any breach whatever of 
the laws; but the pithy death-term 
ef ‘monopolizer’ being fuddenly 
‘from the town houfe, as a formida= 
founded in his ears, he was, at noon 
day, dragged out of his own houfe, — 
and jnftantly hanged before the door, 
in the fight of his wife and fa= 
mily. 
While the affembly wete at a ~ 
diftance, matters of this fort were 
pafied over without concern or no- — 
tice; but this tumult taking place 
under their eyes, and the danger 
feeming already at their own doors, 
the alarm and apprehenfion excited — 
by it were beyond defcription. This 
paroxyfm of terror, however, pro- jj 
duced an excellent effect, it rouzed J 
the affembly into a degree of exer- Jj 
tion, the want of which had been © 
long and lamentably felt; -and its 
very excefs proved the means of in- | 
fpiring them with courage. They — 
likewife could not but feel how 
much their authority and dignity 
were {ct at nought and degraded, 
and that public opinion, upon which © 
every thing depended, would be 
fhaken, if fo violent an outrage, 
committed almoft in their prefence, 
and as if it had been to fhew whp- 
were in future to be their mafters, 
had been fuffered to pafs with im- 
punity. Under thefe, and fimilar 
impreffions, the affembly imme: 
diately paffed a very effective and 
fevere law, founded much upon the 
principle of the Englith riot aét, by 
which the municipa] magiftrateg | 
were obliged to proclaim arta 
law whenever the mob proceeded ta. 
outrage; and were befides farnithed 
with a red, or, as it is called by feae 
men, a bloody flag, which, upon 
fuch occafions, was to be difplayed 
ble emblem of the confequences 
which would enfue. In the fame 
fpirit, the Parifiaa rabble were con- 
demned to the inexpreflible mortifi- 
catign ef beholding twe or three oe 
the 
