Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1827-04-13


the following celebrated lines which were
as opposite as Ingenious, and which are
familiar to most Of our readers:
"Tro patriots WE, for tc it understood,
We left OUR country for orr country's good
Tasmrcc'ion otthc 5ih Of October
Att0ck on the Palace Of FersaitlcS.-
The American Quarterly Review, which
! has Just been issued from the press at
| Philadelphia, contains an able summary
of the Preiimiaary Sketch Of tie FrcRch
| RCrOlati0n, pretixed by Sir Waller Scott,
TO his forthcoming Life of Napoleon
Bouaparte. The editor of the Review
having been permitted by tie proprie-
tors OF that work TO select for publica-
! ton some OF its most interesting pasSag
es, we take the opportunity to lay be-
! fore our readers the account which that
| gifted and eloquen; historian has pre-
scented ofihe terrible attack of the popu-
lace Oh the palace of Versailles, Oh the
9th of October, which resulted in the
forcible transfer Of the royal family TO
| nominal residence in, but an actual i'm
prisonment at the Thulleries in Paris.
We regret that our limits will not per-
nit US to publish the whole of this
sketch, as it is contained in the Review,
and which is every way worthy OF its dis
tiDguished author. lie most material
parts it, however, are given below,
and viii frequently repind the reader OF
a kindred description Of similar scene,
flao fl. Il
OF the Heart Of Mid Lothian.
After speaking of the immediate caus-
eS OF this terrible eruption, he goes on TO
| state
That ofthe 9Th October, 1880, was of
Il singular description, the insurgents be-
ing chiefly OF the temaiesex The mar
ket women, DANES eur Ralles as they
| are called, half unsexed by the mascu-
line nature OF their employments and
entirely so by Tue ferocity OF their man
ners, had figured early in the revolution.
( With these were allied and associated
most Of the worthless and barbarous of
their own sex, such dsgraceiul speci-
mems OF humanity as serve but to show in
what Il degenerate state it may be found
to exist Females ofthis description be-
gan toPSsemble early in the morning, in
large groups, with the cries for bread
which so easily reused a starving me-
tropolis. There were observed amongst
them many men disguised as women,
and they compelled all The females they
met to 90 along with them. They march
ed 10 the Hotel de Vale, broke bold
ly through several squacrons OF the Ma
tional Guard, who were drawn up in
front OF that building for its defeuce,
and were with difficulty dissuaded
from burning the records which it con-
tanned. They next seized a magazine
OF arms, with three or four pieces OF can
non, and were joined by miscellaneous
rabble, armed with pixies and scythes,
| and similar instruments, VINO called them
selys; inc conquerors of the Bastile.-
The still increasing multitude re-echoed
the cry Of'Bread! bread!'-'to Versailles!
to Versailles.'
The National Guard were now called
outin force, but speedily showed their off
GERS that they too were infected with
the humor OF the times and as much in
disposed to Subordination as the mob, TO
dispense which they were summoned
La Fayettc put himself at their head
not to give his own but 10 receive their
orders. They refused to act against
women, whc. they said were starving and
in their turn demanded to be led to YER
sailles, to dethrone-such was their
!anguage-'the king, who IS driveler,
and place the crown on the head of his
SON. La kayette hesitated, implored,
explained but he had ds yet TO learn
the situation of revolutionary general.
SIS it not strange" said one of his SOL
diers, who seemed quite to understand
the military relation of officer and pri-
yate on such an occasion, lis it not
strange that la Fayeps pretends to
command the people, when it is his part
to receive orders from lhem?'
Soon afterwards an order arrived
from the Assembly Of lie commune of
Paris, enjoining the commandments
march, upon his own report that it was
impossible to Withstand the will of the
people. lie narcned accordingly In
good order, and at the head of large
force OF the National Guard, about four
or five hours after the departure of the
mob, who, while he waited in a state of
INDIGESTION, were already far on their way
to Versailles.
1t does not appear that the King, or
his ministers had any information of
these hostile oycmeDts.-Assuredly
there could not have been royalist in