of the King at Paris. Not less than three hundred thousand persons
arranged themselves in the procession from Versailles to Paris, and
not an act of molestation was committed during the whole march.

Mr. Burke on the authority of M. Lally Tollendal, a deserter from the
National Assembly, says that on entering Paris, the people shouted
"Tous les eveques a la lanterne." All Bishops to be hanged at the
lanthorn or lamp-posts. It is surprising that nobody could hear this
but Lally Tollendal, and that nobody should believe it but Mr. Burke.
It has not the least connection with any part of the transaction, and
is totally foreign to every circumstance of it. The Bishops had never
been introduced before into any scene of Mr. Burke's drama: why then
are they, all at once, and altogether, tout a coup, et tous ensemble,
introduced now? Mr. Burke brings forward his Bishops and his
lanthorn-like figures in a magic lanthorn, and raises his scenes by
contrast instead of connection. But it serves to show, with the rest
of his book what little credit ought to be given where even
probability is set at defiance, for the purpose of defaming; and with
this reflection, instead of a soliloquy in praise of chivalry, as Mr.
Burke has done, I close the account of the expedition to
Versailles.*[4]

I have now to follow Mr. Burke through a pathless wilderness of
rhapsodies, and a sort of descant upon governments, in which he
asserts whatever he pleases, on the presumption of its being
believed, without offering either evidence or reasons for so doing.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts,
principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted,
or denied. Mr. Burke with his usual outrage, abused the Declaration