_Plan of the Democrats to bring the King and Assembly to Paris--Banquet of the Garde du Corps--Riot at Paris--A formidable Mob of Women assemble to march to Versailles--The National Guard refuse to act against the Insurgents, and demand also to be led to Versailles--The Female Mob arrive--Their behaviour to the Assembly--To the King--Alarming Disorders at Night--La Fayette arrives with the National Guard--Mob force the Palace--Murder the Body Guards--The Queen's safety endangered--Fayette's arrival with his Force restores Order--Royal Family obliged to go to reside at Paris--The Procession--This Step agreeable to the Views of the Constitutionalists, Republicans, and Anarchists--Duke of Orleans sent to England._ We have mentioned the various restrictions upon the royal authority, which had been successively sanctioned by the National Assembly. But the various factions, all of which tended to democracy, were determined upon manœuvres for abating the royal authority, more actively powerful than those which the Assembly dared yet to venture upon. For this purpose, all those who desired to carry the Revolution to extremity, became desirous to bring the sittings of the National Assembly and the residence of the King within the precincts of Paris, and to place them under the influence of that popular frenzy which they had so many ways of exciting, and which might exercise the authority of terror over the body of representatives, fill their galleries with a wild and tumultuous band of partisans, surround their gates with an infuriated populace, and thus dictate the issue of each deliberation. What fate was reserved for the King, after incidents will sufficiently show. To effect an object so important, the Republican party strained every effort, and succeeded in raising the popular ferment to the highest pitch. Their first efforts were unsuccessful. A deputation, formidable from their numbers and clamorous violence, was about to sally from Paris to petition, as they called it, for the removal of the royal family and National Assembly to Paris, but was dispersed by the address of La Fayette and Bailli. Nevertheless it seemed decreed that the Republicans should carry their favourite measures, less through their own proper strength, great as that was, than by the advantage afforded by the blunders of the Royalists. An imprudence--it seems to deserve no harsher name--which occurred within the precincts of the royal palace at Versailles, gave the demagogues an opportunity, sooner probably than they expected, of carrying their point by a repetition of the violences which had already occurred.