Gazette Of The United States

REVOLUTION at PARIS and VERSAILLES.

The following is an authentic copy of the resolutions of the District of the Cordeliers,

PARIS,
October 7.

adopted by the other Districts of Paris, which occasioned the decisive measure of the Marquis de la Fayette's march to Versailles, at the head of the National Militia.

October 4, 1789.

THE district of the Cordeliers being this day legally and extraordinarily convoked and assembled, and being informed by the public papers and the report of ocular witnesses, that on Thursday the first of this month, the officers of the Gardes du Corps gave an entertainment in the hall of the Opera-House, at Versailles, to the officers of the regiment de Flandres, to which were invited the officers of the Trois Evêchés, the Dragoons, the Swiss and Cent Suisses, the Garde Nationale of Versailles, the Maréchaussée and Prévôté, being in all about two hundred and fifty guests; and that after the healths of the King and Queen, and of the Dauphin were given, (that of the Nation omitted) the air of "O Richard! O my King!" &c. was played by the music of the regiment de Flandres. Some grenadiers and fusiliers of that regiment were then introduced to join their officers; and to confound the sentiments and libations of the company, a grenadier drew his sabre, saying, that he had ill defended his King (as if serving the nation was betraying the King). The national cockade was also insulted; they having substituted the black cockade, and afterwards the white; that they had audibly said, that this last was the only good one, although the King and the National Assembly, and even the whole nation, had adopted invariably the colours of red, blue, and white, ever since the day of taking the Bastille, and of the arrival of the King at Paris; that, such an insult to the symbol of liberty, and to the nation, who will defend it to the last extremity, could only be the effect of that aristocracy, which is renewing even in the National Assembly, which alone appears in the unjust opinion which prevails in the affairs of Orleans, Macon, and Marienburgh:

That such an entertainment, given in the very moment when all good citizens sacrifice a part of their subsistence, is an insult to the public distress; that the people who thus acted, have rendered their patriotism doubtful; more especially when one recollects, that the day which had been fixed for the execution of the fatal project, which the vigilance of the good citizens of Paris rendered abortive, was preceded by similar rejoicing.—

Resolved unanimously, That every citizen in Paris, and even every stranger, inhabitant thereof,
shall again be positively invited to keep or take, without delay, the national cockade, composed of the colors red, blue, and white, exclusive of all others, and to wear it at the outer loop of his hat, or at the button hole of his coat.

2. That every individual of whatsoever station, quality, or condition, Frenchman or foreigner, passing in this district wearing a black cockade, or a white only, shall be at first desired by the first soldier upon duty to take it off, and to wear a national one instead thereof; and in case of refusal to be stripped of it, and conducted to the district to be interrogated and sentenced accordingly; and if the Assembly is not sitting, to be taken to the Hotel de Ville before the committee of the Police, to be by them sentenced according to their deserts.

3. That in case of the delinquent's being caught a second time in the same crime, he shall be accused as a traitor to his country, and as such delivered over to the hands of justice, to be tried without delay.

4. That all districts to which these resolutions shall be communicated, shall be invited to join therein.