National Gazette

Translations from French Papers.

Bourdeaux, Sept. 20. On the 16th instant, M. Duifort, late commandant of the National guards for the department of Gironde, was arrested in his house by a detachment of the guards, by order of the municipality, and carried to the common prison, and his papers put under the custody of the seal. The same day the municipality issued a decree to the following effect: "The municipality being informed that men's vests are manufactured in this city, variegated with flowers-de-lis, and on which are imprinted the arms of the German empire, with the motto—Long live the King. Long live the Queen!—and being also informed that these vests are worn as a mark of discrimination, and as a signal for the enemies of the constitution to know each other by, upon a proper occasion—Be it therefore ordained, that the mayor and officers belonging to the municipality, after having made inquiry into, and satisfied themselves in regard to the truth of this matter, do make report to the attorney-general: and that all persons be, in future, strictly forbidden to wear waistcoats or vests, of the above description, under pain of being prosecuted as enemies of the public peace."