_Defeats of the French on the Frontier--Decay of Constitutionalists--They form the Club of Feuillans, and are dispersed by the Jacobins--The Ministry--Dumouriez--Breach of confidence betwixt the King and his Ministers--Dissolution of the King's Constitutional Guard--Extravagant measures of the Jacobins--Alarms of the Girondists--Departmental Army proposed--King puts his Veto on the decree, against Dumouriez's representations--Decree against the recusant Priests--King refuses it--Letter of the Ministers to the King--He dismisses Roland, Clavière, and Servan--Dumouriez, Duranton, and Lacoste, appointed in their stead--King ratifies the decree concerning the Departmental Army--Dumouriez resigns, and departs for the Frontiers--New Ministers named from the Constitutionalists-- Insurrection of 20th June--Armed Mob intrude into the Assembly--Thence into the Tuileries--La Fayette repairs to Paris--Remonstrates in favour of the King--But is compelled to return to the Frontiers--Marseillois appear in Paris--Duke of Brunswick's manifesto._ It is not our purpose here to enter into any detail of military events. It is sufficient to say, that the first results of the war were more disastrous than could have been expected, even from the want of discipline and state of mutiny in which this call to arms found the troops of France. If Austria, never quick at improving an opportunity, had possessed more forces on the Flemish frontier, or had even pressed her success with the troops she had, events might have occurred to influence, if not to alter, the fortunes of France and her King. They were inactive, however, and La Fayette, who was at the head of the army, exerted himself, not without effect, to rally the spirits of the French, and infuse discipline and confidence into their ranks. But he was able to secure no success of so marked a character, as to correspond with the reputation he had acquired in America; so that as the Austrians were few in number, and not very decisive in their movements, the war seemed to languish on both sides. In Paris, the absence of La Fayette had removed the main stay from the Constitutional interests, which were now nearly reduced to that state of nullity to which they had themselves reduced the party, first of pure Royalists, and then that of the _Moderés_, or friends of limited monarchy, in the first Assembly. The wealthier classes, indeed, continued a fruitless attachment to the Constitutionalists, which gradually diminished with their decreased power to protect their friends. At length this became so contemptible, that their enemies were emboldened to venture upon an insult, which showed how little they were disposed to keep measures with a feeble adversary. [Sidenote: CLUB OF FEUILLANS.]