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il est rare, peutetre, que Funique ambition d’un Souverain soit d’ob- 
tenir de ses sujets; qu’ils s’entendent enfin pour accepter ses bienfaits. 
‘‘ ‘ Je vous ordonne, Messieurs, de vous separer tout de suite, 
et de vous rendre domain matin, chacun dans les Chambres ap- 
pretees a votre ordre, pour y reprendre vos seances. J’ordonne en 
COD sequence au G-rand Maitre des Ceremonies de faire preparer les 
salles.’ 
“ After the King had retired, he sent two separate messages to 
the Deputies of the people to separate, and received for answer that 
nothing but force should determine them to leave the Salle^ or to 
interrupt their deliberations. They then proceeded to pass a variety 
of resolutions, the chief of which were to persist in all their former 
arretes, and to continue their meetings as before, under the title of 
Assemblee Nationale. 
‘‘ In the afternoon a great crowd assembled before the apart- 
ments of M. Keeker (amoug whom were some hundreds of the 
Deputies of the people, and many people of very high rank), re- 
questing him not to abandon them at so critical a juncture ; and 
about five o’clock, the very day that the above speech was pronounced, 
he received a message from the King and Queen. He remained 
with them a considerable time, and at last came out and told the 
people he was to continue in office ; for, in their anxiety to know 
the result, an immense crowd had forced their way into the apart- 
ments of the palace. He made an attempt to return to his own 
apartments by a private passage from the King’s closet, but he was 
forced out of doors by the people, and, I am told, was carried home 
through a crowd who pressed forward to kiss his clothes. The 
same evening fireworks were thrown before his windows, and, it is 
said, continued the greater part of the night. I called accidentally 
next morning on a gentleman, who was in M. Keeker’s apartment 
during the whole of the business. It is supposed that this very 
extraordinary revolution, which took place so suddenly in the plans 
which the King seemed to have formed in the morning, proceeded 
from a discovery of the general dispositions of the army, and par- 
ticularly of the Gruards. 
“ Kothing of much consequence took place at Versailles the 
three following days. The Deputies of the people continued their 
Seances, under the title of Assemblee Nationale, and those of the 
