CHAP. VIII.--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, 152 CHAP. IX.--The Day of the Tenth of August--Tocsin sounded early in the Morning--Swiss Guards, and relics of the Royal Party, repair to the Tuileries--Mandat assassinated--Dejection of Louis, and energy of the Queen--King's Ministers appear at the Bar of the Assembly, stating the peril of the Royal Family, and requesting a Deputation might be sent to the Palace--Assembly pass to the Order of the Day--Louis and his Family repair to the Assembly--Conflict at the Tuileries--Swiss ordered to repair to the King's Person--and are many of them shot and dispersed on their way to the Assembly--At the close of the Day almost all of them are massacred--Royal Family spend the Night in the Convent of the Feuillans, 172 CHAP. X.--La Fayette compelled to Escape from France--Is made Prisoner by the Prussians, with three Companions--Reflections--The Triumvirate, Danton, Robespierre, and Marat--Revolutionary Tribunal appointed--Stupor of the Legislative Assembly--Longwy, Stenay, and Verdun, taken by the Prussians--Mob of Paris enraged--Great Massacre of Prisoners in Paris, commencing on the 2d, and ending 6th September--Apathy of the Assembly during and after these Events--Review of its Causes, 182