HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
nister of the home department,* 
produced a very good effect, not 
only in Paris, but in all the differ- 
ent departments, which sent ad- 
‘dresses to the King, and also to 
the Assembly : demanding that the 
authors and abettors of the insur- 
rection might be punished with 
the utmost severity. These it was 
not difficult to trace to the Jacobin 
club. It evidently appeared that 
Petion the mayor, and Manuel the 
procurator of the municipality of 
Paris, might easily have prevented 
or quelled the insurrection. The 
mayor arrived calmly in the even- 
ing, after the tumult was nearly 
over, in his carriage from Ver- 
sailles, whither he had gone with- 
out any plausible or pretended rea- 
son, and, aswas generally believed, 
for no other purpose than to be out 
of the way when his presence and 
authority might have been neces- 
sary for the preservation of order 
and the prevention of outrage. 
Both Petion and Manuel were 
suspended from the exercise of 
their offices by the department 
of Paris, of which the irreproach- 
able Rochefaucault was president. 
This decision made a great noise 
in the capital. The majority of 
the citizens approved it; the roy- 
alists thought it too moderate ; the 
Jacobins were enraged, and breath- 
ed vengeance. 
The executive government now 
seemed to have gained courage, as 
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well as a degree of solidity, from 
the fortitude of the King, applaud- 
ed by the general voice of the na- 
tion. In these circumstances La 
Fayette, at that time general of 
one of the three armies on the fron- 
tiers, who, on the 16th of June 
had addressed a letter to the As- 
sembly, full of severe complaints 
against the Jacobin club, with whom 
he had become an object of calum- 
ny, left his army, without asking 
leave of absence, and unexpectedly 
appeared at the bar ofthe Assembly, 
to complain, in the name of his ar- 
my, and all good people in France, 
of the insult offered to the consti- 
tutional head of the nation. He 
avowed the letters he had sent. 
He intreated them to step forward 
and save the country from ruin, 
by dissolving the Jacobin club, and 
inflicting exemplary punishment 
on the instigators of the disgrace- 
ful outrages of the 20th instant. 
Various conjectures and comments 
were made on this step of the Ge- 
neral, by those who were not will- 
ing to give him great credit for 
real patriotism, or real kcourage. 
Some said that he would not have 
ventured on this movement if he 
had not perceived, or imagined 
that he perceived, on the occasion 
of the 20th, the tide of popular 
opinion had begun to flow again 
toward monarchy.’ Others alleged 
that he bore a personal spite against 
Petion, of whom he was the un- 
* 'n place of Dumouriez who had resigned, and was permitted to return to 
bis post in the army. 
Dumouriez, with the approbation of his colleagues, Duran- 
thon and La Coste, advised the King to dismiss the three ministers, Rolland, Cla- 
viere, and Servan, who had endeavoured to force his Majesty to sanction the two 
decrees : yet he resigned his office as minister, and abandoned the King for persist- 
ing in the yery measure which he himself advised, when he found that it was only 
by making court to the Jacobins that he could expect either preferment or stability 
in office, . 
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