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grants, if his Majesty should be re- 
duced to thehumiliation of owing 
the restoration of his authority 
to their services. This unfortu- 
nate manifesto did not produce fear, 
but a closer union, and a more de- 
termined purpose to ruin those in 
whose behalf it was issued. 
The third anniversary of the re- 
volution, furnished the leaders of 
the Jacobins with a pretext for in- 
viting, for the safety of Paris, fede- 
rates from all parts of France: 
amongst others, a number of aban- 
doned wretches from Marseilles, 
who had been guilty, of various 
crimes, and particularly active in 
the massacre at Avignon, Underthe 
auspices of this rabble the federa- 
tion was celebrated, and ina style 
and spirit entirely suitable to their 
genius. When the King appeared 
in the place assigned him in this 
festival, there was a_ profound 
silence ; but no sooner had Petion 
entered the Champ de Mars, than 
the whole people repeated, ‘‘ Long 
live Petion! No Austrian com- 
mittees! No traiterous  corres- 
pondence with Brunswick! Down 
with the departments and the 
veto |”? 
The Marseillois, under the com- 
mand of General Westerman, a 
Prussian, were too late for the 
federation, but not for the pur- 
pose of both uproar and confusion, 
for which they had come, and 
for which they had in reality been 
called. Having entered Paris at 
the Barriere du Trone, tliéy tra- 
versed the city till they came to 
the Thuilleries. In their way thi- 
ther they made it their business to 
wait on Petion, who received them 
kindly, though it was his business 
to chace them out of the city, as 
had been done at Lyons, and 
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other places, and even at Melun, 
which is a very small town. They 
obliged every person whom they: 
met in the streets to change their 
silken cockade for others made of 
worsted. On this occasion a very 
remarkable example was exhibited 
of the fluctuating natureof courage, 
and of the various circumstances 
by which it may be roused or dis- 
pelled, especially in great and un- 
disciplined bodies. On the spot 
where the citizens of Paris, armed 
with sticks and stones, three years: 
before, triumphed over a regular 
ammy, under the Prince de Lam- 
besc, did the small but resolute 
Marseillois triumph over the na- 
tional guards of Paris, amountin 
to thirty-two thousand, and wit 
the command of an hundred-and- 
twenty cannon. The Marseillois, 
after paying their homage to the 
Assembly, went to a tavern in the 
Elysian Fields, where near an hun 
dred officers, of the Parisian guards, 
were also dining. A quarrel was 
raised; a contest ensued: the 
whole of the guards, directly in 
arms, paraded, and were in readi- 
ness for action; yet the Parisians, 
while their companions in arms re« 
mained passive spectators, were put 
to flight, with the loss of one 
killed, five wounded, and two taken 
prisoners. They next paid a visit 
to the Jacobins, where they re- 
ceived the fraternal embrace, and 
were admitted as members of the 
club; which, thus reinforced, be- 
came like the Assembly itself, both — 
a deliberative and executive body. 
The passive citizens, or those 
who paid no taxes, arranged them- 
selves around the centre of the’ 
Marseillois and the Jacobins. The — 
number of this formidable associa-_ 
tion @vas daily increased by the 
general 
