M. Charles Dunyer, in a letter to the
National, declared that government having
violated its oaths, the duty of obedience
had ceased, and that he for one would not
pay taxes until the arbitrary ordinances
were repealed. The National also issued
a protest signed by the editors of the Globe,
Courrier des Electeurs, Courrier, Tribune
des Départements, Constitutionnel, Temps,
Courrier Français, Révolution, Journal du
Commerce, Figaro, Journal de Paris, and
Sylphe, declaring they would all continue
to publish without leave or licence from
government. But next day some of the
more timid constitutional journals applying
for licences, were refused, and ceased to
exist, while others appeared with blackened
and defaced columns.

Thirty-two deputies met, on the Monday,
at the house of M. Lafitte, the
banker; and many of the constitutional
peers met at the Duke de Choiseul's.
At both meetings resistance was
proposed. The king, refusing to receive
the peers' protest, forty couriers were
instantly sent to the towns and villages
within one hundred miles of Paris, to
urge the co-operation of the inhabitants
with the inhabitants of the metropolis. In
the mean time the king and the Jesuits
were not idle. Marshal Marmont, Duke of
Ragusa, was entrusted with the command
of Paris; general officers were sent to
Grenelle and Angers; and troops were ordered
in from all the barracks fifty miles round.
The guards in the city were doubled, and
towards the evening bodies of the
gendarmerie were stationed about the Bourse
and on the Boulevards. The Bank refusing
to discount bills, many of the great
manufacturers, who felt this to be a proof of want
of confidence in the government, at once
discharged their workmen, who instantly
thronged the streets. Most of the journals
on their way to the provinces, containing the
obnoxious ordinances, were stopped at the
central post-office; and M. Mangin, the
detested prefect of police, issued an ordinance
on the Monday evening, forbidding the
circulation of anonymous writings, and
threatening instant prosecution of all proprietors
of reading-rooms and cafés who bought
or circulated journals printed contrary to
Polignac's ordinance. The police, acting on
this tyrannical decree, instantly closed
almost every café and reading-room, and nearly
all the theatres. The Parisian, deprived
of his petit journal and his comédie, at one
fell swoop, was now ready for any
desperate act. Government spies infested every
street. The passport offices were crowded
by alarmed foreigners; revolutionary songs
were forbidden to be sung in the Champs
Elysées by the agents of the police. Yet
the storm gathered fast. Shops and
public buildings were shut earlier than
usual. Young men of the tradesmen class
paraded the streets with sword-sticks,
shouting, "Vive la charte!" Towards
night, better dressed men joined them
armed with sword-sticks and pistols.
Crowds of artisans with bludgeons, rushed
along vociferating "Vive la Liberté!"
under the windows of the Treasury, at
Polignac's hotel, at the Palais Royal, and
outside the hotel of Montbel, the Minister
of Finance, in the Rue de Rivoli. Charles
the Tenth came privately to Paris from a
shooting party of several days' duration at
St. Cloud, and slept at the Duchess de
Berri's. The leaders of the coming revolution
spent the night in grave deliberation.

On the Tuesday (July 27) M. Mangin
issued an ordinance, describing certain
vague outrages committed in Paris by a
seditious mob, and ordering citizens to avoid
the wretches, to remain in their dwellings
"with prudence and good sense," and at
night to place lights in their windows.
This day the Constitutionnel (seventeen
thousand subscribers) was suppressed by
the police, and a sentry was placed at the
office door, to prevent the distribution of
the already printed copies. At mid-day
the guards were under arms in the Champs
Elysées: while angry men, mounted on
chairs, or leaning from windows, read
inflammatory papers to the people. Every
manufactory was closed, and before one
all the shops shut, while troops of
gendarmes patrolled at full gallop to disperse
the gathering and feverish mob. Troops
came pouring in with fixed bayonets. The
king was at the Tuileries. In the Place
Carousel there were several thousand
soldiers, with the lancers of the Royal Guard,
and a great many cannon. At the Place
Vendôme a strong guard of infantry was
placed to protect the column with its
badges of royalty from being defaced. The
surrounding crowds menaced the troops,
and shouted, "Vive la charte!"—"Down
with the absolute king!" About four
o'clock the gendarmes charged the people
in the Palais Royal, drove them out pell-
mell with the flats of their sabres, and
closed the gates. The storm had begun
to break. About five o'clock six or seven
young men with sticks tried to stop
and disarm a mounted gendarme, who