The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-09 00:00:00

77"a1+31,4 and PROGRESS or the FRENCH
REVOLUTION, fi-ont I iBB to 1816.

mince
tyro foitnerly tinder a barba.:•Ous Arista.-
. *acY• The Clergy formed the first estates the
Nobility the second, the Tiers Etat the 'Third,
and the Parliament the fourth. The thr:.(l bore
411 the taxes; and the King was
The inferior Clergy, being excluded from prefer-
nt, regarded the 'supe'rior with envy; the Pro-
./incial Noblesse 'beheld with cot:tempt the vices of
the Courtiers, and the Higher Orders were anxious
to
diminkh the arrogance of the Crown. Prac-
tising Lawyers, restrained from the bench, panted
tar a change, anti the Monied Men for the
doNnfall of the Nobility. These were tire
Glary insfruments of the Revolution that fol.
4'wed,

. 'lite First Estate had long been considered as
Ilse and the Popish Religion ritTLculons.
()ri the 13th of July, 1788, extreme darkness
°terwhelmed divers parts of France, attended
With wind, hail, and thunder, which destroyed all
the crops ; and in the spring of 1789 an attempt
w"S made to reduce the power of the Crown. The
tates-General were summoned to Meet at Vet--
ladles .o'n the 25th of April, which was afterwards
Pnstptined to the 4th of May. Some Jacobin
slitletnbers from Bretagne, so called front the hall
.114, the Jacobin Vriars where they sat, and the
li.4fistocrats, held conferences at Madame Po-
The Tiers Etat beiog popular, seized zedLl'e legislative authority, and on the 17th of June
41'i0ri!y of the Clergy united with them, to the
ttlarin 'of the Nobility ; when a Royal Sessions
Proclaimed, and they retired to a tennis-
crtnn. where they swore never to separate until
the Constitution were complete. The Sessions
tiltt. and Versailles was in a tumult. to Paris
thereis was a famine, and many seditious pieces
‘ilkted from the press. The military were se-
lit", and on the •)3(1 of June the soldiers, under
khk4intl Ilroglio, refused to fire on an incensed
4,°: Lite Assembly addressed the King to re-
po tle
the Tiers Etat, who refused it. He offered
call them to Soissona, but Mirabeau said," We
11:1"t remove, to place ourselves between two
11)514 armies ; we do not ask to run away front
the tro," I_
t; , hut desire they ma!, be removed from
n Then. the Bastile was destroyed, and
to:w ht linistry formed, whose conduct was cen-
ket ‘e
The Duke of Liancourt forted his Way
t~eulteil'iinftt and informed him that the artily had
Paris. Count D'Artois was present,
Dike informed him that he was proscrib-
to "I
'n he made his escape. The King went
late I;l42'eMbly, and the next day to Paris. The
de~llin'trY escaped, except Feullons, who had
R1,4,41*4 he would make the people eat hay) for
ti.„: he was seited by his own vassals in the cowl-
bi:roiand brought to Paris with a bundle of it at his
ud there hanged on a lamp-iron. His sonsin-
Leal etthier, shared the same fate, and both their
t)tis wete stuck upon poles. The commotions
.eXtentied to the provinces, and Viscount de
tht4llles and the Duke d'Agtdon said the cause of
ttblir"s the misery of the People. After this
eXtth to
was proposed, and that none should be
ki;lt—ltted from them, with an abolition of the
and tei 144". On the 4th of August, Tythes
The 'e
Revenue of the Clergy were taken sway.
tio11111"v Ministry, including Neckar, found va-
stiqi tileulties in raising money ; and the As-
kit,,„l "tete(' on the rights of man and the
laytveThey veto- debate d whether the Legis-
1"'t1•5 "Y should consist of one or two Cham-
-4);,; 41/(1 about this time the fish-women, slam,
• %°Nt .
mt'sti to Versailles, headed by MaillardTe ;
tin
cite followed them at the head of the Na-
1, 4'id• These poor women demanded
kade
t4rll on the nth of August au attempt was
and theo kill the Queen in her Palace ; but she
ht
tnbitclal Family were saved by La Fayette.
D he 4
atln-lealled out, Away with the King to Pa-
itko of obe Was taken a prisoner there. The
(t)etoh 'lans fled to England, and On the 19th
the National Assembly held their first
,thte
ber_i eXtrdot dioary proceedings excited a ge-
it.4l;beo:inieerkto EoglaPro!, excepting two volun-
-44ti01l
,e 3. called the Constitutional and Revo-
-1"44-t2t)eietits. who approved of them. One
ti 1 If`Cl'eated f . .
etliktioti
of “r information,
Itutilti hot faetious books amongst those who
ittlitithat
Oilli.ctrd to buy them. The other \vas
pt4ter3, in I ler, and formed of Protestant Dis-
t).
lind Inetnory of our deliverance trout Po-
tion arbitrar
oh- ill 1688. Y Power on our peaceable Reso-
vittuzi The purpose of the former was
aril t
° infl
Govle lane a rue the minds of the people,
'ore _
erottletn. cort mislead them against their
' hit " the 4th of November, there-
ereaotled a
ltt e br• Price, a Dig Minister.,
'4tcali°ll, arialte ssentio
',l°!l the city of Loudon on the
tritu, •
411(44 the cpngratulatyry