Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-31

the continued dangers which threatened the
capital and the chamber, precluded the pos
sibility of deliberate proceedings. The safe
~ of considerable number of the deputies
was endangered. He in.tanced an attack
made on Mr.. Duhiei, respectable mer-
chant, on the preceding day, at the place
LOUIS XIV. by an officer commanding de-
tachment of dragons.
Mr.. Latte, as deputy from Paris, claim.
ed right to be heard with especial atten-
ton. He attributed the daily renewal of the
tumuts of the metropolis to the employment
of the Gen arms and troops of the line in.
stead oil the national guard, which be con-
tended, was the only force that could be con-
stitutionally employed for the suppression OF
riots, and had their services been resortedto
the shedding of blood, he was convinced,
would have been averted.
Mr.. D. Girardin said, that for 80 years he
had not seen any assembly of the people
dispersed by troops of armed soldiers until
within few days. Paris resembled cap
tured city; troops stationed in various quar-
tiers, and posts fixed for their attendance
He felt assured, that an evaporation had
been excited by the appearance OF the regu-
lar force.
Mr.. Martin de Garay stated having heard
a noise in the street Richie Pause, where lie
resided he put his head out of the window,
and beheld troop of dragons gallopping
along the street, and brandishing their
swords. Soon after wounded man was
carried into one of the neighboring Cafes;
be as an unfortunate old man. There was
man apprehended who was accused OF ha-
wing excited The tuinult, but it was soon
found out hat he was spy employed 10
raise disturbances. for he was perceived on
bis apprehension to give frie nd y squeeze
to the hand of one OF the gems d'arms, and
some seconds after was allowed 10 escape
quietly from amidst the guard. A voic from
the left-"Yes; the agents of the police ex-
cite the disorders"
M. Demarcay gave detail of what had
happened to him, and to VI. CorcelIes, Oh
leav ng the chamber on the preceding day.
Two persons who met them asked the news
of the sitting, and they stopped tor lew
seconds to relate the iacis wien platoon
OF cavalry dispersed the party, under the au-
.hority OF the order OF the police, which re-
CURED, that three persons should not be seen
together in the streets.
Nj. de Ambrugeac defended the conduct
of the military, who, in his opinion. exhibit
ed great moderation; the groups they dis
persed were houtlng-'Long live the En-
peror' The rational guard, although indis-
putabIy brave, were not equal to what was
expected from their services this had been
seen on two remarkable occasions, the Goth
Of June, and the 10th OF August. Without
the employ ment of reg ular troops, the cham
Der might be assured that il would be i'm
possible TO re-establish or to preserve tram
guilty.
M. Bignon.-Are we at Constantinople,
then?
NJ. Mechin declared that the metropolis
was treated ike uesieged town. lie was
willing TO do justice to the duke of 'larfn-
tun, and also TO the troops employed by the
police but he conceived that accusation
should attach TO those ministers who called
in the regular troops. 1t would have been
better to have availed themselves oil the as
sistance of the national guard, as it was bet
ter to arrest than to kill.
Louvel appears /; all eyes are fixed upon
Eim: without the least appearance OF agi-
taton, he advances aud takes his seat be-
tw cen his two advocates, Messrs. Achamba-
rett and Bonnet.
nj. Casinir Perrier, while rendering full
justice TO the royal guard, complained that
violence was used in dispensing that portion
of the people who merely stood up for shell
ter from the rain under the arcades of La
Rue de Rivoli.
The keeper of the seals insisted that the
excuses which had lately been perpetrated
were the acts of single party, leagued in
opposition to authority, which was bound to
dispense the mob.
NJ. Benjamin Constant commenced re-
ply in so incorporate manner, that the
chamber refused 10 hear him further. The