pistols, swords, pikes, pruning-hooks, scythes, &c. lined all the streets through which the procession passed, and, with the crowds of people in the streets, doors, and windows, saluted them every where with cries of ’Vive la Nation;’ but not a single ’Vive le Roy’ was heard.  The King stopped at the Hotel de Ville.  There Monsieur Bailly presented and put into his hat the popular cockade, and addressed him.  The King being unprepared and unable to answer, Bailly went to him, gathered from him some scraps of sentences, and made out an answer, which he delivered to the audience as from the King.  On their return, the popular cries were ’Vive le Roy et la Nation.’ He was conducted by a Garde Bourgeoise to his palace at Versailles, and thus concluded such an amende honorable, as no sovereign ever made, and no people ever received.  Letters written with his own hand to the Marquis de la Fayette remove the scruples of his position.  Tranquillity is now restored to the capital:  the shops are again opened; the people resuming their labors, and if the want of bread does not disturb our peace, we may hope a continuance of it.  The demolition of the Bastile is going on, and the Milice Bourgeoise organizing and training.  The ancient police of the city is abolished by the authority of the people, the introduction of the King’s troops will probably be proscribed, and a watch or city guards substituted, which shall depend on the city alone.  But we cannot suppose this paroxysm confined to Paris alone.  The whole country must pass successively through it, and happy if they get through it as soon and as well as Paris has done.

I went yesterday to Versailles, to satisfy myself what had passed there; for nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye-witness.  They believe there still, that three thousand people have fallen victims to the tumults of Paris.  Mr. Short and myself have been every day among them, in order to be sure of what was passing.  We cannot find, with certainty, that any body has been killed but the three before mentioned, and those who fell in the assault or defence of the Bastile.  How many of the garrison were killed, nobody pretends to have ever heard.  Of the assailants, accounts vary from six to six hundred.  The most general belief is, that there fell about thirty.  There have been many reports of instantaneous executions by the mob, on such of their body as they caught in acts of theft or robbery.  Some of these may perhaps be true.  There was a severity of honesty observed, of which no example has been known.  Bags of money offered on various occasions through fear or guilt, have been uniformly refused by the mobs.  The churches are now occupied in singing ‘De projundis’ and ‘Requiems,’ ’for the repose of the souls of the brave and valiant citizens who have sealed with their blood the liberty of the nation.’  Monsieur de Montmorin is this day replaced in the department of foreign affairs, and Monsieur de St. Priest is named to the home department.  The gazettes of France and Leyden accompany this.  I send also a paper (called the Point du Jour) which will give you some idea of the proceedings of the National Assembly.  It is but an indifferent thing; however, it is the best.