Moreover, the most moderate and firmest of its members, sent away on purpose, are on missions to the Assembly, at the palace, and in different quarters of Paris, while its galleries are crammed with villainous looking men, posted there to create an uproar, its deliberations being carried on under menaces of death .-- That's why, as the night passes, the equilibrium between the two assemblages, one legal the other illegal, facing each other like the two sides of a scale, disappears.

Lassitude, fear, discouragement, desertion, increase on one side, while numbers, audacity, force and usurpation increase on the other.

At length, the latter wrests from the former all the acts it needs to start the insurrection and render defense impossible.

About six o'clock in the morning the intruding committee, in the name of the people, ends the matter by suspending the legitimate council, which it then expels, and takes possession of its chairs.
The first act of the new sovereign rulers indicates at once what they mean to do.

M.de Mandat, in command of the National guard, summoned to the Hotel-de-ville, had come to explain to the council what disposition he had made of his troops, and what orders he had issued.