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BAILLY BECOMES MAYOR OF PARIS. — SCARCITY. — 
MARAT DECLARES HIMSELF INIMICAL TO THE 
MAYOR.— EVENTS OF THE 6TH OF OCTOBER. 
The Bastille had been taken on the 14th of July. 
That event, on which, during upwards of half a century, 
there have been endless discussions, on opposite sides, 
was characterized in the following way, in the address to 
the National Assembly, drawn up by M. Moreau de 
Saint Méry, in the name of the City Committee :— 
“ Yesterday will be for ever memorable by the taking 
of a citadel, consequent on the Governor’s perfidy. The 
bravery of the people was irritated by the breaking of 
the word of honour. This act (the strongest proof that 
the nation who knows best how to obey, is jealous of its 
just liberties,) has been followed by incidents that from 
the public misfortunes might have been foreseen.” 
Lally Tollendal said to the Parisians, on the 15th of 
July: “In the disastrous circumstances that have just 
occurred, we did not cease to participate in your griefs ; 
and we have also participated in your anger ; it was just.” _ 
The National Assembly solicited and obtained permis- 
sion from the king on the 15th of July, to send a depu- 
tation to Paris, which they flattered themselves would 
restore order and peace in that great city, then in a con- 
vulsed state. Madame Bailly, always influenced by 
fear, endeavoured, though vainly, to dissuade her hus- 
band from joining-the appointed deputies. The learned 
academician naively replied, “ After a presidency that 
has been applauded, I am not sorry to show myself to my 
fellow-citizens.” You see, Gentlemen, that Bailly always 
admits the future reader of his Posthumous Memoirs 
confidentially into his most secret feelings. 
