AA] 
this extremity, the band of gentle- 
men already mentioned, resolved, 
if possible, to force a passage to the 
National Assembly. Rallying all 
the Swiss they could find, with a 
few of the national guards, they 
descended into the main court in a 
body, to the number of about 500, 
300 of whom were Swiss. Having 
passed with considerable loss thro’ 
the Porte Royal, and divided them- 
selves into smaller bodies, they hur- 
ried along the gardens in different 
directions. Of those who took the 
nearest line to the hall ofthe Assem- 
bly, several fell by the fire of the 
insurgents from the terrace of the 
Feuillants, and even that of the na- 
tional guards, who had been placed 
inthe gardens, for the defence ofthe 
Thuilleries. Within the palace all 
was massacre, followed by a gene- 
ral plunder. The national guards, 
with the exception of afew who had 
joined the band of gentlemen, 
assisted in the pursuit and murder 
of the royalists. 
Of the whole regiment of Swiss, 
near 1000 strong, not more than 
180 survived, including those who 
had first accompained the King, 
and afterwards, as was reported 
by M. d’Hervilly to the Assembly, 
According to the best accounts, 
there fell, besides the Swiss, five gen- 
tlemen, 100 domestics of the royal 
family, and twenty of the national 
guards, who had remained faith- 
ful to their duty. On the other, 
3000 Parisians, and 3 or 400 
federates. 
As the Marseillois had been the 
foremost even among the federates 
in the attack, so they were found 
to be the most humane ainong the 
conquerors of the castle of the 
Thuilleries. While a considerable 
number of Swiss who escaped from 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
3 
the palace by the Champ Elysees | 
were pursued through the streets, ’ 
and dragged from the shops and ! 
houses to which they had fled for 
shelter, the Marseillois received» 
about fifty or sixty, who had asked ® 
for quarter, into their protection. ® 
They were delivered tothe national \ 
guards, and conducted by them to 
the town-house, where they waited » 
in the square for orders from the” 
municipality respecting the place! 
of their confinement. The fero~© 
cious multitude, bursting through'! 
the ranks of the national guards, * 
who were at no pains to repel or! 
moderate their rage, murdered) 
their helpless prisoners in cold’ 
blood. Another party of the Swiss, 
amounting to a considerable num- | 
ber, who had also been saved by ) 
the federates, were confined in the 
guard-house. A mob, however, 
gathering round the place, de- 
manded the heads of those unhappy: 
soldiers. A general thirst of blood 
was excited, and raged like a con-— 
tagious disease throughout Paris. | | 
But this inhuman fury was con't 
trasted with many compassionate 4 
and generous deeds. The Swisss 
who had come by the nearest way! 
to the palace, were saved by certaims 
citizens of Paris, and certain depu=t 
ties of the Assembly. The deputy? 
Lasource informed the Assembly oft) 
the danger of those poor Swiss,p 
Gorsas stood fast at the door of my 
guard-room, haranguing the mob, 
and using all the means that huma-» 
nity could dictate for preventing® 
them from attacking the prisoners.) 
The president La Croix opposed, 
with firmness, some days after,” 
petitions for speedy sentence, by 
which was understood the execution 
of the prisoners at Orleans: andon 
one occasion he deprecated the po-> 
pular 
_—" 
— 
at ee ee ot 
4 
