Gazette Of The United States

Sept. 1. The Palais Royal has been a scene of tumult the whole day, chiefly owing to the discontented members of the district having chosen the different Coffee-houses as convenient places to discuss points that belong to the Districts only, which nevertheless drew vast crowds about the doors, and rendered the Arcades absolutely impassable.

About 7 o'clock, 300 French guards took possession of the garden, cleared the principal Coffee houses, and shut them up, cut off the communication between the Arcades and the garden, by locking all the gates under the arches, but at the principal entrance, then divided into companies, and patrolled the rest of the evening, dispersing the people, by marching through every knot of men, that chance or curiosity drew together.

About 11 o'clock, an extract from a verbal process of the Assembly of Representatives of the Commons of Paris, was distributed among the people.

In this extract the Assembly declares its indignation at the proceedings of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, in the Palais Royal, laments that the abode of a Prince, whom they love and cherish, should be profaned by the encouragement of the most atrocious calumny, and of such bloody purposes, as revenge or ignorance may wish to see executed. It reminds the people of their influence on the great provincial towns, warns them against the ill consequences that such disorderly meetings must necessarily bring on; and authorizes the Marquis de la Fayette, to use the power entrusted to him by the good citizens of Paris, for quelling all disturbances in the streets, and to take into custody those that appear to be most active in misleading the people, that they may be immediately tried and punished, according to the nature of their offence.

This Extract is signed,

VAUVILLIERS,

BLONDEL,

Presidents.

VINCENDON,

DE JOLY,

BROUSSE DESFAUCHERTS,

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Secretaries.

The method of silencing the leaders is worthy of relation, it being as ingenious and original, as exempt from violence, M. de la Fayette was determined not to leave them even the popular merit of persecution.

A message was sent to the mad Marquis de St. Huruge, requesting his presence at the Hotel de Ville; and on his appearing, M. de la Fayette addressed him with his usual urbanity, acquainting him, that rumors were spread abroad injurious to his character as a man of rank and an officer (he has the cross of St. Louis) as well as of the good citizen, which he was persuaded were destitute of foundation. On his replying that they certainly were unjust, "Of that we are all convinced (answered the Marquis) and it is for that very reason that we are desirous of availing ourselves of your military experience and talents, and of giving you an opportunity, which you certainly will readily embrace, of silencing the voice of calumny, by offering you the command of a patrol of citizens in this quarter of the Palais Royale."

There was no flinching from such a proposal; and he was thus ingeniously compelled to appear at the head of the patriot citizens, to appease the tumult he himself had instigated but twenty hours before.

The committee of the National Assembly, however, not deeming this amende honorable a sufficient punishment, in a few hours after he came off guard, had him apprehended and committed to the State Prison of the Abbaye de St. Germain, as a warning to the rest of the idle or factious Motion-makers.

The failure of Oudard, the late Inspector of the Police, has astonished every body. In this fellow's books were registered the names of all the women of ill fame in Paris, who lived by prostitution. He seldom had fewer names at one time of this description of persons, than forty thousand; and from every one of these wretches he annually got something. No sum, however small, was beneath his acceptance.