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108] ANNUAL REGISTER, 19990. 
refpedt to the civil lift. King notwithfanding firmly rejeés all the perfuum ~ 
fions ufed to induce him to pay the defired vifit. Great diftreffes of the — ' 
country. 20,000 people fed by charity at Lyons. 6,000 eftates advertized | 
to be fold. - Decretot’s noble manufafuries at Louviers nearly ruined.. Riots: 
at Verfailles.. Some obfervations on the extraordinary conduct of that peo~ | 
ple through the courfe of the king’s troubles. Parifians become again tumul- 
tuous, and, without regard to the general famine, want to have the price 
of bread fixed at a lower rate than it could have been afforded in the moft 
plentiful feafons. . Their rage increafed to the higheft pitch upon the ac- ~ 
quittal of Bezenval by the chatelet. Form a plot for forcing the prifon, ~ 
and murdering him, on their own principles of Jummary juftice. All their 
Schemes overthrown, and Paris reduced to order, through the adiiuity and ~ 
vigour of La Fayette, well fupported by the Bourgevife militia. Surrounds 
a body of 1,100 of the mutineers at night, and makes 200 of them prifonerse — 
Chatelet proceed to the trials of Lambefc, Broglio, and others of the prin- 
cipal refugees, for the real or fuppofed plot of the preceding month of Faly. © 
Are all acquitted, through the failure of any evidence to fupport the charge. | 
Various confpiracies apprehended or fpcken of for the rejcue of the king’s 
perfon. The Juljece of the king’s inftant death, as the ajigned penalty for ~ 
any attempt to his refcue, a matter of public converfation in all companies ~ 
and among all ranks, without the fmallef? expreffion of horror, at the idea of ~ 
fo deplorable a cataprophe. King’s frmue/s at length gives way, and he \) 
‘fubmits to pay the propofed vifit to the national affembly, and to make a) 
Speech nearly fimilar to that preferited. Affairs of the clergy finally fettled, ©) 
their property feized, and affignats created. ; 
pt ene 
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§ foon as the new law for re- 
ftraining the judicial violences 
of the mob, had produced fome de- 
gree of order and fecurity in Paris, 
the national affembly applied itfelf 
clofely and without interruption for 
feveral months to the adjuftment of 
public bufinefs ; of which they had 
fill fuch an abundant quantity on 
their hands, that, viewed as a whole, 
it feemed to prefent fuch an inex- 
tricable wildernefs of jarring ele- 
ments, fortuitoufly jumbled together, 
as no time or care could be fufficient 
to reduce to order: for what they 
-had hitherto done was rather to be 
confidered as an outline, containing 
hafty fketches of what was further 
intended, than as any completion of | 
the feparate parts of the defign. 
But, independent of the old, which 
they had already in any degree 
gone through, they had an infinite Ss 
quantity of new matter to confider, 
arrange, and decide upon. _ 
Among the moit remarkable of — 
the meafures immediately adopted, | 
was the political annihilation, at one © 
blow, of the two firft orders in point — 
of dignity, and the two moft ana 
cient and only original orders of the © 
fiate; while things were now ar- 
rived at fuch a pais, that this degra- ~ 
dation of the nebles and clergy, and _ 
this total change of the conflitution, © 
was effected without a fingle ftrug- _ 
gle, by a fimple-decree, which only | 
announced, in. fo many words, | 
«That there was no longer any — 
diftinétion of orders in France.’? | 
The aflembly then entered upon the ~ 
bufinefs of elections, which required 
an entirely new code of Jaws or re- 5 
gulations, to render it conformabie- f 
to 
