HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
the room of Bailly, the court bribed 
a majority of the electors of Paris 
to vote for Petion, in preference to 
La Fayette; in the hope that the vio- 
lence of the former would eventu- 
ally overthrow the new order of 
affairs, and bring back the old. It 
was suspected that there wasa col- 
lusion between the friends of the 
“pessimum* and Marat, who had been 
in the service of the, @ount d’ Ar- 
tois, and who was suspected of be- 
ing still in that prince’s interest. It 
was the constant business, as is 
well known, of Marat, to pour 
forth the bitterest invectives against 
Mirabeau, Lameth, La Fayette, 
and all whom he supposed to be of 
greatest credit with the people. 
‘Marat did not, like Robespierre, des- 
pise money; it was in truth necessary 
to his luxurious manner of living. 
The only scheme of defence and 
‘counteraction approved bythe King, 
was a féte in honour of the mayor 
of Destampes. The féte of Chateau 
Veux, celebrated on the 19th of 
June, 1791, in honour of the sol- 
diers who had revolted at that place, 
and had been condemned to the 
gallies, but released by the absurd 
populace as martyrs to liberty, and 
carried in triumph through the 
‘Champ de Mars, had all the success 
which the contrivers of it intended. 
It familiarized the people with ideas 
of revolt, and entirely extinguished 
the faint remains of respect they 
had still retained for the King and 
his authority. A plan for counter- 
acting this impression, proposed by 
one Buob, an honest Alsacian,whose 
zealous endeavours for turning the 
popular tide in favour of royalty 
were eminently signalized in other 
instances, was highly approved by 
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his Majesty, and adopted. By the 
address of Buob, and means of his 
adherents, a féte in honour of the 
mayor, who had just been massacred 
in a popular insurrection, while dis- 
charging the duties of his office, and 
who was very generally regretted, 
was voted by the sections and muni- 
cipality of Paris, in spite of all the 
manceuvres of the Jacobins to pre- 
vent it. For encouraging this, the 
sum of 10000 ‘livres, contributed 
from the civil list, was prepared as 
the produce ofan anonymous sub- 
scription. Nothing was omitted to 
render the celebration of the féte 
splendid and affecting; and numer- 
ous pamphlets were distributed, exe- 
crating the plots and crimes of the 
factions. But such resources pro- 
duced only a momentary effect, and 
were but feeble barriers against the 
superior energy of the Jacobins, and 
the strong current of public pre- 
judice. 
The King was now in a deplora- 
ble situation. The nobility and 
clergy, the natural pillars ofthe royal 
authority, had emigrated, or con- 
tinued to emigrate; he was deserted 
or forced to part with the servants 
in whom he could confide, end com- 
pelled to receive in their stead, Ro- 
land, Servan, Claviere, of the Jaco- 
bin club, and Dumouriez, who had 
no fixed principle but that of sailing 
with the tide, and making the most 
of circumstances for hisown advant- 
age. He was personally insulted, 
deprived of his guards, and reduced 
with his family literally to board- 
wages. The grand principles and 
pillars of the monarchy; the power 
of coining and collecting money, 
and that of directing the public 
spirit or tone of France, were over- 
Maury’s policy was called. 
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