Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-24

which comm inLs the whole line Of tho street, ro-
peatcd the story given IN the newspapers, con-
Meeting i. occasionally with such minor circum-
stances had happened to fall under their im,ne-
diato notice.
Thus at a grocors shop whore had stopped
from curiosity to follow the course of n cannon
shot which had carried away one Of the door posts,
and atcr penetrating tho wall on the other side to
the depth of five or six inches, had met with some
substance which caused it to rebound, committing
no small damage among tho bottles aud show
glasses in tho interior. Observing tho attention
with which looked at the loss he had sustained,
the proprietor of the shop, producing the corpus
deiicfi in the shape of an eight pound bullet, poin-
ted out the il had taken with the greatest
mnutcnoss; explained his own situation during tho
day, and tho opportunities he enjoyed of making
in person; concluding his account with
the story had so often heard before, of the Storm
ing of the church and the capture of several hun
dred prisoners.
Now tho shop Of this respectable grocer is with.
in fifty yards Of the principal entrance of the
Church Of 81. Merry, that by going out into tho
middle of the street, he might have ascertained
that the doors of the principal entrance, at least
| had not been injured by cannon shot-by walking
| round it, he would have found that the doors and
windows were all entire-and by entering IL, as ON
| that day he might have done ut any time he would
have been satisfied, from the state Of the altars the
chairs and proving desks, that no such scenes of
violence had taken place within it had been dc.
| scribcd The priests and door-keepers it is true
had taken flight, that from them information
| could be obtained; but from the concurrent testi-
mony of people who 1.-Two within the clois,ers on
thrco different sides of the church. il was proved to
nae beyond all Doubt that the whole story was
fable, and that there had been nothing like fighting,
either in the church in the closters which sur.
| round it.
Some blackguard boys had got indeed into the
befry, where they had shut themselves in while
they amused themselves in sounding the tocsin.
AT late hour in the day, when the insurgents had
| been driven from tho barricadcs which they had
raised at intervals throughout the whole length OF
the rue st. Martin, and had afterwards been expel-
led from the houses commanding these barbados,
OF which they had in general taken forcible posses
sion without the consent of the owners-the troops
it appeared, had entered the Church of St. Merry
convenient place of rest, after the fatigues OF
still in the bcfry, they proceeded without any cere
mony to drive them out, in order to put an end tc
the alarm produced by the sounding OF the tecsin
but without unnecessary violence, and certainly
| without any thing like bloodshed.
The final struggles so picturesquely described il
| the Nouvelliste, as having taken place on Wednes
day evening in the Place dc la Bastille, and in TIN
Place de Chatelet, were found, moro nnut
enquiry, to be equally destitute of foundation. Th
hotel called the Vcau qui tete, which contains th
largest rooms for public meetings in f'ars, wa
described the Of this expiring effort of The
insurgents; where, according TO tho account of THU
semi official journalist, they still fighting from
the windows when his paper went to press. In the
interior of the Place dc Chatlet, however, the ut
most tranquility had prevailed throughout the day
| In the course of his promenade, the King had pas
sed round it about o'clock, and Mt or 7, instea,
of fighting, large party of the National Guards
and Of the officers Of the line, had sat down to din
nor to celebrate their victory.