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the suburb was ina short time sur- 
rounded by large bodies of the 
military, as well as of citizens; and 
the insurgents were threstened with 
a bombardment ef their houses, un- 
Jess they complied with the orders 
of the convention. Seeing that 
resistance was vain, they offered to 
capitulate: but they were informed 
that their submission must be urcon- 
ditional. On their hesitating whe- 
ther to submit or to risk a contest, 
the troops of the convention pre- 
pared to execute its orders, when 
the insurgents finding themselves 
inadequate to the force brought 
against them, consented to lay down 
their arms, and surrender at dis- 
cretion. To this they were partly 
forced by the inhabitants of that 
large and populous suburb, who re- 
flecting that they must be the princi- 
pal sufferers in case of a bombard- 
ment, thought it more for their in- 
terest to throw themselves on the 
mercy of the convention, than to 
stand the event of a confli€t, which 
at all events would be ruinous to 
them, even were the insurgents able, 
by a vigorous defence, to procure 
conditions less severe. 
Thus, after a doubtful conflid of 
three days, fortune declared at last 
for the convention, ‘This proveda 
complete triumph to the moderate 
party, and an entire overthrow to 
the terrorists and their adherents. 
The arms, artillery, and warlike 
stores of this tur ulent party of the 
Parisians, were taken from them, 
together with those weapons which 
had proved so terrible in their 
hands, and with which so much 
mischiefhad been perpetrated, their 
pikes; the deprivation. of which 
filled them with more grief, and 
humbled them. more than any mea- 
suse yet adopted against them. ‘The 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1705. 
pike was a ready instrument for the’ 
purpose of an instantaneous insurrec- 
tion, always at hand, and required 
no more than bodily strength and 
courage, in neither of which the 
classes that chiefly handled it were 
deficient. They could not help 
recolle@ing what feats they had 
achieved with this dreadful wea- 
pon. They locked upon them- 
selves as a conquered people, over 
whom their victorious fellow citi- 
zens would henceforth ‘exercise that 
empire which their better regulated 
strength had acquired, and to which 
their more prudent condué entitled 
them ; a refiection that struck the 
generality of men, on this occasion, 
was the impropriety of trusting‘arms 
in the hands of any but the decent 
classes of the community. All the 
horrors of the revolution were per- 
petrated by the lowest descriptions 
of the people ; and terrible as they 
were, would have been still worse, 
unless they had been restrained by 
the seasonable interposition of the 
middling sort of people; few of 
whom were guilty of those criminal 
excesses that brought so much dis- 
grace on the revolution. 
After the suppression of this dan- 
gerous insurrection, the convention 
thought it indispensable to make 
some examples of its authors and 
promoters. Six of their own body 
had largely participated init. These 
were tried by a military commission, 
and sentenced to die. Three of 
them were executed on the scaffold; 
and three perished by their own 
hands. About fifteen others of in- 
ferior note were also put to death ; 
but the convention did not judge it 
sufficient to punish these alone, and 
were of opinion, that those who 
were the primary causes of all these 
commotions, ought to atone for the’ 
evils 
