Gazette Of The United States

By the last accounts from Paris, it appears that attempts to disturb the tranquility of that city had been partially successful. Insurrections on account of the apparent scarcity of bread, and high prices of other necessaries of life, had taken place, and shops, stores, &c. of the grocers, had been entered by large bodies of men and women, and the owners of the property compelled to sell at such prices as their visitors thought proper to dictate. A plan of shutting the barriers had been in agitation, and a new massacre appeared to be pending—but the Convention frustrated the design: and vigorous exertions were made by the Communes and the Commandant of the National Guard, to restore order and tranquility. Notwithstanding these agitations, the recruiting of the army goes on with vigour; and the contingent of Paris, more than 12,000 men, is said to be already complete.