Monthly Chronicle.

nity of the Secretary of State , that the affair of the preceding night would have no disastrous consequence . i found at my house General Duphot , Adjutant-General Sherlock , and two French Painters . We spoke of the paltry revolutionary attemp' of the night before , as the news of the moment . We were about to sit doivn to table , but were retarded by the absence of rny Secretaries , who were engaged in drawing up a correct list of the persons entitled to wear the French national cockade . This I wished to send to the Secretary of State hefore dinner . The porter now informed me , that twenty individuals were

determined to force the house , and had in their hands a large quantity of French national cockade- ; , which they were distributing to the passers by , whom they excited to crv out , ' Vive la Republique ! Vive la Peuple . Bomain ! ' One of them insisted on speaking with me ; it was an artist whom I knew , having been recommended to me at Paris by the Minister your predecessor . He presented himself to me with the air of a fanatic : ' We are free ' . ' said he , ' but we demand the support of France . ' This mad oration was particularly revolting in the mouth of an artist who had been one of the three with whom I had had the conversation on the 26 th . I made him sensible of this . I desired him and his comnanions tn

retire immediately from the jurisdiction of France , or otherwise that I should take strong measures ngninst them . He drew hack confounded . The military men who were with me endeavoured to convince them of the folly of their enterprize . ' Were the Government of the town , ' , said General Sherlock , ' to point a single cannon against you , what would become of your pretended Liberty ?'"Upon this tbe man withdrew . A French artist came and informed me , that the number of the multitude without increased ; that he had distinguished in the crowd a number of the spies of

Government , who were well known , and who called out louder than the rest , ' Vive lo Rejjttblhue ! Vfoe le Peuple Romnin ! ' that handfulls of piastres were thrown among them , and that the entry to the Court was obstructed . The French officers demanded of me orders to dissipate ihe mob by force . I chose rather to speak to them myself in their own tongue . —I dressed myself in my diplomatique robe , and went into the Court , accompanied by the French officers who were then in the palace . I heard a long discharge of imisquetry . A party of cavalry had penetrated into the midst of the place , within the French jurisdiction , and were

crossing it on full gallop . They had fired through the three great porticos of ihe palace . The mob had taken refuge in the court-yard , and on the stair-case . I met in my passage with nothing bin persons dying , intimidated fugitives , bold enthusiasts , and persons hired to excite and to denounce the agents of commotion . A company of fuzileers had followed the cavalry very close . I found them partly advancing into the portals of my palace . At my presence they stopped . I asked for their leader , whom being hid in the ranks , I could not distinguish . 1 asked this troop , by whose order they had entered into the jurisdiction of France ? I ' ordered them to withdraw . They drew back a few paces , and I thought that I had succeeded in that point . I then withdrew towards the mob , who had retired into the interior of the court . As the troops withdrew , some of the mob

advanced against ( hem as fast as they went off . I told them , m a decided tone , that I'would compel the first amongst them who should dare to pass the middle of the street to return ; at the same time General Duphot , Adjutant-General Sherlock , two other officers , and myself , drew our swords to awe this unarmed assemblage , a few of whom only had pistols and stilettos . While we were thus busied , ihe fuzileers , who had merely retreated to get without the reach of the pistol shots , made . a general discharge . Some of the people in the outer-ranks were wounded by the spent-balls . We who were in the middle were , however , respected .

The fuzileers prepared to load again . I took advantage of this moment : I recommended it to Citizen Beuharnais , the Aid-de-camp to the Commanderin chief , who chanced to be with me on his return from a mission to ihe Levant , and to the Assistant of Adjutant-General Arrigni , to restrain , sabre in hand , this troop , which was animated by very different sentiments ; and I advanced with General Duphot and Adjutant-General Sherlock , in order to persuade the company of fuzileers to retire , and to cease firing . 1 called out to them to retire from the jurisdiction of France ; thai the Ambassador would himself undertake to see