Gazette Of The United States

Last week, during several days, the thermometer of popular fermentation at Paris, was at the highest. Several causes singularly concurred to produce this effect, viz. the departure of Mesdames—the abolition of the Droits d'Entree, the high tax lately imposed on industry—the destruction of the gaming houses, the turning adrift thousands of sharpers, and seizing their gambling tables and cash—the intrigues of various clubs, but particularly that of the Jacobins, whose tyranny is become intolerable.

M. de la Fayette expected every moment an explosion which would have laid the capital in ruins. To his vigilance, coolness, and intrepidity, the inhabitants of Paris are, a second time, indebted for their safety.