coming to inform them that their 
first, were going to be admitted, 
the gate was opened, and the crowd 
rushed into the palace. The zeal 
of the mayor of Paris, the ascend- 
ancy which his virtues and his 
patriotism give him over the minds 
of the citizens, the presence of the 
representatives of the people, of 
whom successive deputations con- 
stantly surrounded the King, pre- 
vented all seriousdisorders; and few 
assemblages so, numerous ever gave 
occasion to less disorder of any 
kind, | 
_ The King had mounted, the en- 
signs of liberty; he had done jus- 
tice to the citizens, by declaring 
that he thought himself in safety in 
the midst of them; the day of the 
federation was approaching ; citi- 
zens from all the departments were 
to repair to Paris, there to swear to 
maintain that liberty for which they 
were going to fight on the frontiers ; 
and all might still have been re- 
paired. But the ministers saw no- 
thing in the events of the 20th of 
June but a favourable occasion for 
sowing division between the inha- 
bitants of Paris and those of the 
departments, between the people 
and the army, between the several 
portions of the national guard, be- 
tween the citizens who remained at 
their homes and those who were 
mee to the defence of the state. 
The very next day the ising chang- 
ed his language; a proclamation, 
full of calumny, was profusely dis- 
tributed among the arraies; one of 
ir generals came, in the name of 
which he commanded, to de- 
vengeance, and to point out 
ictims. . A considerable num- 
te ‘of directories of department, 
stitutional resolutions, dis- 
eter! 
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deputies, who had been refused at, 
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closed the, plan, they had long be- 
fore formed, of raising themselves 
into. a sort of intermediate power 
between the people and their re- 
presentatives, between the National 
Assembly and the King. Justices 
of the peace commenced, in the 
very palace of the Thuilleries, a 
dark procedure, in which it was 
hoped to involve those of the pa- 
triots. whose vigilance and. whose 
talents were the most dreaded. Al- 
ready one of these justices had at- 
tempted to infringe the inviolabili- 
ty of the representatives of the peo- 
ple, and every thing announced a 
plan dexterously concerted for find- 
ing in the judicial order the means 
of giving an arbitrary extension to, 
the royal authority ; letters from 
the minister for the home depart- 
ment directed the employing of 
force against the federates, who 
might wish to take at Paris the oath 
to fight for liberty; and it required 
all the activity of the National As- 
sembly, all the patriotism of the 
army, all the zeal of the enlighten- 
ed citizens, to prevent the fatal 
effects of thisplanof disorganization, 
which might have lighted up, the 
flames of civil war... An emotion 
of patriotism had extinguished, in 
fraternal union, the divisions that 
had appeared but too often in the 
National, Assembly, and from this 
also the means of safety might have 
sprung: the prosecutions commenc- 
ed by the King’s order, at the in- 
stance of the intendant of the, civil 
list, might have been stopped ; the 
virtuous Petion, punished, by an 
unjust suspension, for having spared 
the blood. of the people, might have 
been reinstated by the King; and 
it was possible that this long series. 
of faults and treasons might have: 
fallen again entirely upon those, 
perfidious 
