fired, and killed one of the Paris militia. The peace being thus
broken, the people rushed into the palace in quest of the offender.
They attacked the quarters of the Garde du Corps within the palace,
and pursued them throughout the avenues of it, and to the apartments
of the King. On this tumult, not the Queen only, as Mr. Burke has
represented it, but every person in the palace, was awakened and
alarmed; and M. de la Fayette had a second time to interpose between
the parties, the event of which was that the Garde du Corps put on
the national cockade, and the matter ended as by oblivion, after the
loss of two or three lives.

During the latter part of the time in which this confusion was
acting, the King and Queen were in public at the balcony, and neither
of them concealed for safety's sake, as Mr. Burke insinuates. Matters
being thus appeased, and tranquility restored, a general acclamation
broke forth of Le Roi a Paris- Le Roi a Paris- The King to Paris. It
was the shout of peace, and immediately accepted on the part of the
King. By this measure all future projects of trapanning the King to
Metz, and setting up the standard of opposition to the constitution,
were prevented, and the suspicions extinguished. The King and his
family reached Paris in the evening, and were congratulated on their
arrival by M. Bailly, the Mayor of Paris, in the name of the
citizens. Mr. Burke, who throughout his book confounds things,
persons, and principles, as in his remarks on M. Bailly's address,
confounded time also. He censures M. Bailly for calling it "un bon
jour," a good day. Mr. Burke should have informed himself that this
scene took up the space of two days, the day on which it began with
every appearance of danger and mischief, and the day on which it
terminated without the mischiefs that threatened; and that it is to
this peaceful termination that M. Bailly alludes, and to the arrival