26] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



liverance of the majority of their 

 representatives from the oppression 

 they were under, in order that 

 tliey might deliberate peaceably 

 on the destiny of the republic. 

 " General, and you soldiers," said 

 he, raising his voice, " you will 

 not acknowledge, as legislators of 

 France, any others than such as 

 shall rally around me ; as for those 

 who remain in the Orangery, let 

 force expel them. Those ruffians 

 are no longer the representa- 

 tives of the peojile, but the repre- 

 sentatives of the poniard." He 

 concluded his harangue with the 

 popular cry of vive la rcpub/i(iue, 

 which was re-echoed by the soldiers 

 and all the spectators. 



The general, animated by this 

 alacrity, excited by the sanction of 

 tlie president, ordered a corps of 

 grenadiers to march forward, and 

 he was instantly obeyed. At the 

 sound of the di'ums beating the pas- 

 de-charge* the spectators rushed 

 out by the doors and windows. 

 The deputies rose up, crying, 

 some of them, v'wc la repiiblicjiic ! 

 others, vive la consliliUion ! The 

 soldiers entered the hall, with fixed 



bayonets, as ordered, and halted. 

 A chief of brigade of cavalry said 

 aloud, " Citizens, representatives, 

 there is no longer any safety in 

 this place, I invite you to with- 

 draw." This invitation was an- 

 swered by a general cry of vive la 

 repuhli(iHc ! On which the officer 

 who commanded the grenadiers, 

 mounting the tribune exclaimed, 

 " Representatives withdraw : it is 

 the orders of the general." Still 

 the deputies kept their seats: the 

 tumult waxed greater and greater, 

 and some of the members began to 

 address the soldiers : when another 

 officer called out, " Grenadiers, 

 forward." The drums beat to the 

 charge, and the grenadiers ad- 

 vanced from the door to the mid- 

 dle of the hall, which was now 

 cleared, amidst the noise of drums. 

 The deputies, as they went out, 

 cried, vive la repul)lt<iuc ! The 

 greater part of them returned im- 

 mediately to Paris: others re- 

 mained to observe the movements 

 of the troops in the court of the 

 castle, and to see the upshot of this 

 day's proceedings, at St. Cloud. 



* All attack with fixed bayonets, and without firing. 



