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M. Mounier entered the faloon and announced the accepta¬ 
tion of the king pure ar.d fimple, he was interrupted by 
the cries of the populace; “ Is it advantageous to ns i 
will it procure us bread ?” Even the female deputies 
who had accompanied the prefident, had reafon to regret 
the unexpetted honour which the voice of their comrades 
had conferred upon them ; they too announced the auf- 
picious promifes of the fovereign ; but thefe were tar 
from fatisfying their impatient companions ; they accufcd 
them of having been corrupted ; and compelled them to 
return to the cattle, and to demand from the king that he 
would fubfcribe hispromife. M. de St. Pried condefcend- 
cd to explain to them the different meafnres that the king 
and the minifters had adopted for the Subsidence of the 
capital ; and he delivered to them a paper Signed by his 
majefty, in which he engaged for the moft fpeedy and ef¬ 
fectual fuccours. 
The horrors which pervaded Verfailles foon reached 
the ears of the Parifians ; and the marquis de la Fayette 
prefented himfelf at the Hotel de Ville, and demanded 
permifiion of the commons to march to Verfailles ; this 
was immediately granted ; and at four in the evening, 
about five hours after the factious populace had quitted 
the capital, the marquis, at the head of 18,000 men, point¬ 
ed his march towards Verfailles. It was ten at night be¬ 
fore an aid-de-camp of the marquis announced to the king 
and the national affembly the approach of the Parifian 
army. Their commander halted his army at a fmall dis¬ 
tance from the town, and adminiftered to his foldiers the 
oath to be faithful to the nation, to the law, and the 
king. Fortified by this proof of allegiance, he next 
prefented himfelf to the national affembly, and allured the 
prefident both of his own pacific intentions and of thole 
of his followers. F'rom the national affembly the mar¬ 
quis paffed to the royal prefence ; where beheld the fame 
language, and fo fully poffeffed his majelly of his Secu¬ 
rity, that the king declined the prefence of the national 
reprefentatives, and contented himfelf with declaring that 
it was his intention never to feparate himfelf from the feat 
of their councils. 
The deputies ftill however continued fitting, and were 
employed in difeufling the code of criminal law ; but 
thefe deliberations were interrupted by the frequent cries 
of the multitude for bread. At length the tempeft feem- 
ed to have exhaulted its force ; the crowd funk into a 
momentary filence ; the militia who had marched from 
Paris, benumbed with cold and wet, fought Shelter in the 
taverns, the fiubies, and the courts of the different houfes; 
they were liberally fupplied with liquor and provifions ; 
and all was peace, when his majefty, opprefi'ed by fa¬ 
tigue, about two o’clock in the morning, retired to reft. 
The marquis, fatally impreffed by the deceitful quiet 
which prevailed, contented himfelf with placing a few 
Scattered fentinels, and haftened to rejoin the national 
atfembiy. Though M. Mounier declared, that if any 
doubt remained he would ftill keep the deputies fitting, 
he was anSwered by the marquis with fo perfect a reliance 
on the attachment of his own army, and fo favourable a 
reprefentation of the tranquillity that reigned every 
where, that the prefident consented to difmifs the affem¬ 
bly, and refigned himfelf to deep ; an example that was 
loon followed by Fayette himfelf. But the infurgents 
were now preparing for mifehief the moft cruel and San¬ 
guinary. The name of the queen was mingled with their 
imperious demand of bread. At length, about fix in 
the morning, the frantic crowd precipitated themfelves 
on the hotel of the gardes-du-corps. The thin remnant 
of the troops were incapable of demining the torrent ; 
the doors were forced ; fifteen of the gardes-du-corps 
were dragged away by the multitude; the reft fled to¬ 
wards the caftle, and were eagerly purfued by their blood- 
thirfty enemies ; two of the gardes-du-corps fell a viflim 
Jo their fury near the iron railing ; a third was Slaughtered 
on the marble ftaircafe; the fcattered fentinels placed by 
the marquis de la Fayette were inactive Spectators of the 
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bloody feene ; the hottfehold troops that had efcaped tb e 
firft attack, in vain attempted to defend the interior of 
the palace ; their feeble efforts were foon overcome by 
the infurgents, w ho now rufhed forwards to the apartments 
of the queen. 
The door of the royal chamber was defended by M. 
Miomandre; while he heroically oppofed himfelf to the 
lioft of murderers, he loudly called to her attendants to 
fave the queen. That princefs was haftily awakened by 
her women, and by a private paffage was conducted al- 
moft naked to the apartment of the king; Miomandre, 
her gallant protestor, fell indeed covered with wounds ; 
but his life was preferved by the goodnefs of his consti¬ 
tution and the Skill of his furgeons. A Short moment be¬ 
fore the multitude rufhed towards the apartments of the 
queen, the king had been roufed from his Sleep by the in¬ 
creasing tumult. The duke of Luxembourg had a Wo 
been awakened by the Same cauS*e ; he now prefented 
himfelf in the chamber of his fovereign, followed by the 
few gardes-du-corps that he could colledt. Round the 
Standard of thefe, the ancient French guards ranged them¬ 
felves, and joined in repelling the attempts of the in’fur- 
gents and aflalfins; by degrees the mob was compelled to 
retire into the lower courts; while regular ports were 
established, and every precaution taken to Secure the caftle 
from a Second attack. 
On the firft intelligence of thefe difaftrous events, the 
marquis de la Fayette quitted his bed, and endeavoured 
to atone by his activity for his former credulity. The 
militia of Paris affembled at the voice of their commander; 
and their united efforts wrefted from the populace Several 
of the gardes-du-corps, whofe fate had been deferred to 
render it more lingering and cruel. A considerable body 
of the national troops were alfo introduced into, the caftle; 
and to footh the people, the king and queen, by the ad¬ 
vice of the marquis, appeared in an open balcony ; while 
the gardes-du-corps were prevailed on to contribute to 
the general tranquillity, by the humiliating meafure of 
furrendering their arms and accoutrements. Yet thefe 
conceflions were far from fatisfying the multitude. The 
Parifians conceived that plenty could only be Secured to 
the capital by the prefence of the monarch ; they now 
demanded, with imperious voices, the removal of the 
royal family from Verfailles ; and the king, after a Short 
deliberation, was compelled to acquiefce in their demand. 
A deputation of thirty-fix members of the national affem- 
bly now waited on the king ; and on the news that his 
majefty intended to remove to Paris, that number was 
Swelled to an hundred, and was appointed to accompany 
him to the capital. 
About one o’clock in the afternoon Louis XVI. attend¬ 
ed by the royal family, fet out from Verfailles ; and the 
order of the match prefented a Scene of horror that fur- 
palfes defeription. A crowd of frantic women, Staggering 
under the debauch of the preceding night, Stained with 
the blood which they had wantonly Shed,mounted on horfes, 
fantastically ornamented with the hats and uniforms, and 
armed with the weapons, of the hottfehold troops ; thefe 
were Surrounded by a hod of men, the refufe of a vaSl 
capital; two of which, with their arms naked and bloody, 
displayed aloft on their pikes the heads of two of the 
gardes-du-corps whom they had inhumanly maftacred. 
Behind were the Survivors of thofe unhappy trie’n on 
foot, bare headed, without arms, and Shuddering with 
horror at the goary vifages of their ill-fated comrades. 
The royal family followed, encompaffed by the dragoons, 
the regiment of Flanders, and the Swifs guards ; conti¬ 
nually expofed to the infillts of a licentious rabble, who 
inceffantly reproached them as the authors of that fcarcity 
which the hand of Providence had inflicted. In this pro- 
cellion the queen presented an object as extraordinary as 
it was affecting. Though youth and beauty naturally ex¬ 
cite companion ; and though illuSlrious Sufferers gene¬ 
rally infpire pity from the comparison of their former 
Splendour with their fallen Slate j yet her Subjects beheld 
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