. historical chronicle. 
we now touch the very crisis | 
of our fate. Either the king | 
or the club must triumph in| 
two days from this date. 
Last night, Monday, the Ja- 
-cobins declared their sittings 
permanent. Nothing could e- 
qual the extravagance of their 
conduct. 
M. ia Fayette fhould be sent to 
Orleans to stand trial as a trai- 
tor; but it was recollected 
that he was ‘at the head of an 
‘army who might not give a 
‘civil reception to the huifsier 
of their club. It was even 
proposed that a decree fhould 
be paised, declaring him to be 
the enemy of France, and that 
consequently every citizen had 
aright to kill him. And it 
-was finally proposed, that the 
national legislative afsembly 
fhould be declared an a/semblee 
constituente. 
Finding themselves howe- 
ver in a minority in the nati- 
onal afsembly, they had next 
recourse to the agents, on 
whom they had hitherto de- 
pended, the mob. By the in- 
stigation of these leaders, a 
vast body of people, consisting 
of men, women, and children, 
armed with weapons of all 
sorts, entered the national af- 
sembly, and pafsed through 
it with drums beating and 
_ colours flying, Irom thence 
they proceeded to the Thuil- 
leries, leaving the afsembly in 
the most. anxious solicitude 
They proposed that | 
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for the safety of the king; 
and bursting open the doors of 
the palace, the whole royal a- 
partments were filled for near- 
ly the whole day with a perpe- 
tual succefsion of armed bands, 
who loudly demanded the king 
would sanction the two obnox- 
ious statutes. But even among 
this mob the-king has now be- 
come so popular acharacter, and 
he behaved with.so much firm- 
nefs and decorum, that no one 
was found so wicked as to inflict 
that wound which was probab- 
ly expected by those who in- 
stigated. it, and which must 
have plunged the nation into 
a sea of bloodthed. 
Thus pafsed over a day that 
will probably be long celebra- 
ted in the annals of France, as 
one of the most important that 
ever occurred in that country. 
This violent procedure imme- 
diately removed that mist from 
the eyes of the national alsem- 
bly, which had hitherto pre- 
vented them from seeing the 
infinite absuzdity and danger of 
countenancing the proceedings 
of-a mob, under any pretext 
whatever: And it was unani- 
mously decreed, That, on no 
account, {hall any armed force 
be admitted in future into the 
national afsembly.. What will 
be the farther effects of this 
check to the proceedings of 
the Jacobin club, and the con- 
sequences of the increase of 
power to the opposite party, 
