mself spoke openly of a plot against liberty.
A fresh insurrection now took place. Urged in part by famine, in part by
wild cannibal passions, and in part by objects of treason and ambition,
on the 5th of October, several thousand furious women, intermixed with a
number of men of the most abandoned characters, assembled together, and
after having committed some outrages, set up a long and hideous cry "To
Versailles!" And the cry was not long confined to them. It resounded
also among the citizen-militia, and among the great mass of the
population of Paris, and Lafayette placed himself at the head of
the insurrection. On the night of the 6th of October the palace of
Versailles was attacked; many of its defenders were slain; and the king
and the royal family, being rescued from the hands of the infuriated mob
by Lafayette at the head of the national guard, were carried in triumph
to Paris. The heads of the unfortunate defenders of the monarch, fixed
on pikes, adorned the procession as it passed through the streets of the
city. This new triumph of the populace occasioned another change in
the constitution by the national assembly: the king being compelled to
accede to every thing which they chose to establish. But France was not
yet tranquil. The king and the people--except the factionists--became
again, in appearance, if not in reality, reconciled; but there was still
an under-current of mischief at work, which finally involved the monarch
in ruin, Paris in bloodshed, and all Europe in war!

{GEORGE III. 1789-1791}

STATE OF PARTIES IN ENGLAND.

The events which had taken place in France during this year, naturally
attracted the anxious notice of other European states. In England many
persons read of them with pleasure, others with suspicion and jealousy,
and others with anxiety and alarm. The general opinion was favourable
to the revolution, arising from the natural abhorrence with which
Englishmen look upon despotism under every possible form and shape. Even
Fox and Pitt at first united in a tribute of admiration of the great
movement; they, with others, overlooking its most criminal excesses,
on the presumption that it would tend to establish the liberty and
the happiness of the French people. All parties, indeed, agreed in
believing, or at least hoping, that the states being properly modelled
would by degrees effect the most important reforms, and produce the
most valuable results, not only to the French themse