Slat h erases 
the Avent 
o <a and, as a preliminary step, an to 
4 i ~ chambers to verify their votes. To this 
the commons strongly objected; but as their objections 
were not attended to, they jo business sepa- 
rately ; the nobility did the same ; the clergy, however, 
offered their mediation between the contending 
>= these proceedings it was too evident that the 
Assembly was constituted in such a manner, as not 
to promise unanimity, and consequently that the ob- 
ject of its meeting would not be fulfilled. The dis- 
tresses of the state, which they were met to deliberate 
upon and remedy, could not be removed effectually 
and permanently, until a more equal and productive sys- 
tem of somite, ioee established. Nor could the at 
ified, until the abuses, 
seteat bch thay ed liked up their voice, had been 
put down; and yet as the nobility and clergy were 
principally’ concerned in both these objects, it was desi- 
rable that they should manifest a conciliating spirit. 
Between the period of its first rasp | and the begin- 
ning of June, several of the clergy, and a few of the no- 
bility, had agreed to act along eth the commons; but 
as the rest were refractory, the Abbé Sieyes, on on the 15th 
of that month, made.a motion, the object of which was 
to declare, that the commons, with snch members of the 
nobility and clergy as had united with them, were the 
known and acknowledged representatives of the nation. 
On the following day this motion was carried ; and the 
appellation of National Assembly was given to the meet- 
The Na- 
tonal As- 
sembly. 
Their bold "f neie very first measures Pay indieated the spirit 
measures ; which they were actuated. taxes were declared 
il egal, because ex had not received the. consent of the 
nation; but so as the National Assembly sat, they 
might be levied ; mn a moment it was dissolved, the peo- 
ple were no longer bound to pay them. The public 
debt was placed under the protection of the honour and 
faith of the French nation ; bs Toast edaces sna imme- 
diately appointed, to enquire into the causes and remedy 
of the dearth which then afflicted the om. 
Thus did) Louis find, that his authority was in a great 
measure wrested from him by the National Assembly ; 
and the great body of the nobility and clergy, by their 
refusal to unite with the commons, likewise saw them- 
selves shut out from power, and their privileges inva- 
ded. It was not to be Pe fpernnpca yal 
spp’.  tienitly sdbmit. On the 21st of June, when the 
ties of the National Assembly attempted to enter their 
place of meeting, the door wean claal.againit ther, under 
the pretext, that preparations were for the roy- 
al presence on the 23d. They immediately retired to a 
tennis court, where they unanimously 
took an oath to weer themselves as inse le, and 
to continue to mect wherever possib could. On 
they MO day, Leap mestat sles ef them, 
Bailly was declared peeuident of the National 
FRANCE. 
Assembly. On the 2 the King met the three orders 
in the gushed We oceed ings 
lic in 1 
ed, in which the subjects for deliberation, and 
es of the King, mm te bel ‘When his Majesty 
retired, > commanded the three : roel et 
The nobi almost unanimous . most 
We the commons a4 ny 
The crisis which now seemed fast i 
delayed for a short time, by the King’s desire 
quillity. This induced him to recommend the wen 
and clergy to join the commons ; and the junction ac- 
cordingly took place on the 27th of June. of the 
members of these orders, however, refused to obey the 
no 
ere were 
pit : 
or a dangeg he ely fe bate ; 
but ea sean 
feeling arose from an undefined and; vague desire. 
, Violent in its nature, and uncertain in its means 
or object. Srike catiosteana Patna Aeeatiads 
polis, and such the conduct of the a 
tase tanepneet. Cie seoiennainnen he king were 
se ms ne hey ld nt 
and firmness united, co! Digewthe him from 
the impending But no such qualities existed 
in his councils ; he aedines bkaekeeme 
liating ; but as such, his conduct was only. the more 
caleiilated to a harm, poser per esr 8 which he 
himself approved an 0 were done away, ps 1 
bably gat day, by the harshness of his 
advisers, aps Brey ECE ORL sk ke om 
sanction to onan large bodies of troops in 
capital and its vicinity. 
as might have been anticipated. — 
sufficiently strong to keep down the citi , while they. 
were exposed to be insulted by them; tie 
took place ; srid during, the:iritated tate of the gaublio 
mind, Monsiear Neckar was di dismissed cction in Panis 
permitted with themselyes into 
this concession = too late ; a 
le. 
pate i nh it et 
ed; the governor, w 
d to a place of execution, and his 
his body, was carried in triumph cease 
