Report on the Diplomatic Archives of the Department of State, 1789-1840

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS. I. Wiluam Short To John Jay. (Despatches, Prance, Volume I, Despatch No. 2.) Paris October 9th. 1789. Sir. I had the honor of announcing to you in a letter of the 3Oth. of September the departure of Mr. Jefferson ifrom this place, a letter from him of the 8th. instant informs me...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS. I. Wiluam Short To John Jay. (Despatches, Prance, Volume I, Despatch No. 2.) Paris October 9th. 1789. Sir. I had the honor of announcing to you in a letter of the 3Oth. of September the departure of Mr. Jefferson ifrom this place, a letter from him of the 8th. instant informs me that he was detained at Havre by contrary winds. Within these few days events of a very extraordinary and unexpected nature have taken place here. Three weeks ago a Regiment of Infantry had been ordered to Versailles, their arrival there was cause of Jealousy to the French guards who have acted a considerable part in this revolution, and who instead of the post they formerly occupied near the King's person are now in the pay of the City of Paris under the appellation of National guards, the distressing scarcity of bread which has continued here for some time had excited among the people much discontent and uneasiness, in this state of the minds of the soldiery and people, which it is apprehended designing persons wished to make use of, accounts were brought from Versailles of an entertainment given by the gardes du corps to the officers of the regiment of infantry. reports were printed and circulated in a number of inflammatory gazettes of circumstances having taken place at this entertainment which shewed designs unfriendly to present measures, this sufficed in these times of alarm and suspicion to create a considerable degree of fermentation; and on Sunday evening the 4th. inst. large crowds assembled in the Palais Royale in a tumultuous manner, detachments of the guard were sent there and patrolled the garden; they did not attempt to disperse the people, as they had proceeded to no excess except in words, the night separated the crowd, as the same movements of the ...