The Duke of Brunswick's declaration, which has not been officially notified, has produced very little sensation here. The aristocrates are dissatisfied with it, and the démocrates affect to despise it.

We have reports from the northern army that many Austrians have deserted and come over to them, and they assert that the evacuation of Bavay was rendered necessary by a plan of a desertion of three thousand men being discovered by the Austrian general. These reports serve to keep up the spirits of the Jacobins.

Mr Bigot de Sainte Croix, the late minister at Coblence and formerly at Stockholm, has, after mature deliberation, accepted the Department for Foreign Affairs. He is esteemed a man of abilities, of information, and what is essential at present of courage.

At the end of this day's Logographe, your Lordship will see a curious letter from the Duke of Orleans to the Assembly, in which he complains that this country will probably cease to be benefited by his services.

In the inclosed journal of this evening your Lordship will see that the National Assembly has refused to order the printing of a letter from His Most Christian Majesty, and that it has sent to the examination of a committee a petition presented by the Mayor and Common Council of Paris in the name of the forty eight sections for the King's destitution.

Quo tanta dementia cives !

PARIS, August 4th, 1792.

In the present extremely precarious state of the royal family, I have been desired to express to the Minister of Foreign Affairs the sentiments of His Majesty with regard to the proceedings of the National Assembly and the Municipality and sections of Paris derogatory to and attacking the safety of Their Most Christian Majesties. I have declined to act in this business till I can receive instructions from your Lordship. The person of Her Most Christian Majesty is certainly in imminent

danger. On Thursday the extraordinary committee is to make its report upon the King's destitution. I wish therefore to receive your Lordship's instructions as soon as possible.

PARIS, August 12th, 1792.

Staley arrived this morning with your Lordship's dispatch No. 27.

The inclosed letters will prove my anxiety to dispatch a messenger with an account of the late proceedings and they will at the same time shew your Lordship the cause of the delay.

The Assembly having on Wednesday last acquitted Mr de la Fayette of the several charges which had determined their Commission extraordinaire to propose a decree of impeachment against him, gave rise to a considerable discontent among the people. This disposition which first appeared by threats and acts of violence against the members who had voted in favor of the general continued during the following day, when in the evening they learnt that the great question of His Most Christian Majesty's deposition fixed for Thursday, had scarcely been mentioned. The numbers assembled in the Faubourg St Antoine increased considerably during the night which past in the midst of the alarm occasioned by the beating of the drums and the sound of the tocsin, but without any accident.

The greatest part of the regiment of the Swiss Guards, and a considerable body of National Guards were placed at the Palace of the Thuilleries.

Early on Friday morning, the people having first taken possession of the arsenal moved towards the Thuilleries with a train of artillery: on their road they put to death several persons who had formed a false patrole. At ten o'clock the danger being imminent, the King with the royal family left the palace, and crossing the garden by the advice of the members of the department, took refuge in the National Assembly, in a room adjoining to which they have continued ever since. A short time after the action began between the people and the Swiss, who were left to guard the palace; the

National Guards having either retired or gone over to the other side, a very sharp fire was kept up for near twenty minutes, when the Swiss were overpower'd and almost all killed at their posts or in their flight: the number of killed on both sides is not yet known, but cannot be less than fifteen hundred : several persons of distinction, among whom was Mr de Clermont Tonnerre were put to death in different parts of the town the : furniture of the palace was destroyed by the people, and the out-buildings adjoining to it are all burnt to the ground. The Assembly having first declared itself permanent, decreed, in the course of the day, that the executive power was withdrawn from the King, that his ministers had lost the confidence of the nation and that, for the present, the government should be trusted to a ministry named by themselves: that the primary assemblies should be convened for the twenty-sixth of this month, to which all citoyens should be admitted without distinction of rank or property in order to appoint a national convention to meet at Paris on the twentieth of September to decide ultimately upon the forfeiture of the Crown and the mode of establishing an executive power: that His Most Christian Majesty should be lodged in some place of safety and that the civil list should no longer be continued.

The Assembly has named for Ministers, Mr Danton pour la Justice, Mr le Brun pour les Affaires Etrangères, Mr Monge pour la Marine, Mr Servan pour la Guerre, Mr Clavière pour les Contributions, and Mr Roland pour l'Interieur. Commissioners. have also been named by the Assembly and sent to the several armies with very extensive powers. The people of Paris on their side have named a new Common Council which has already broke the municipality except Messrs Péthion and Manuel.

Mr Mandat the late commander of the National Guard is I believe put to death, and they have given his place to Mr Santerre.

The people having begun to destroy the statues of Louis XIV and Louis XV, the Assembly by a decree ordered all the statues of Kings to be taken down.

The Assembly has ordered a Court Martial to be formed to

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inquire into the conduct of the few remaining Swiss officers and soldiers and has issued a decree of impeachment against Mr D'Abancourt, the late Minister of the War Department, for not having removed the Swiss soldiers from the capital.

MR DUNDAS TO LORD GOWER.

WHITEHALL, August 17th, 1792.

In the absence of Lord Grenville, I have received and laid before the King your Excellency's dispatch No. 40 by Morley.

His Majesty learns with the deepest concern the heighth to which the distractions in Paris have been carried and the deplorable consequences to which they have led, which are doubly affecting to His Majesty from the regard which His Majesty invariably feels for the persons of Their Most Christian Majesties, and his interest in their welfare, as well as from the wishes which he forms for the tranquillity and prosperity of a kingdom with which he is in amity.

Under the present circumstances as it appears that the exercise of the executive power has been withdrawn from His Most Christian Majesty, the credential under which your Excellency has hitherto acted can be no longer available: and His Majesty judges it proper, on this account, as well as most conformable to the principles of neutrality which His Majesty has hitherto observed, that you should no longer remain in Paris. It is therefore His Majesty's pleasure that you should quit it, and repair to England, as soon as you conveniently can, after procuring the necessary passports.

In any conversation you may have occasion to hold previous to your departure you will take care to make your language conformable to the sentiments which are now conveyed to you: and you will particularly take every opportunity of expressing that, while His Majesty intends strictly to adhere to the principles of neutrality in respect to the settlement of the

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internal government of France, he at the same time considers it as no deviation from those principles to manifest by all the means in his power, his solicitude for the personal situation of Their Most Christian Majesties, and their royal family; and he earnestly and anxiously hopes, that they will at least be secure from any acts of violence which could not fail to produce one universal sentiment of indignation through every country of Europe.

LORD GOWER TO LORD GRENVILLE.

PARIS, August 18th, 1792.

Your Lordship's instructions in your dispatch No. 27 were precisely such as I expected and desired to receive, but I thought it my duty to have the authority of such instructions before I could give a decided answer.

The inclosed newspapers will inform your Lordship, as fully as it is possible in the present circumstances, of the proceedings in this metropolis; I have only to add that Their Most Christian Majesties and the royal family are placed in the tower of the Temple, the only building in which the Municipality would answer for their security, and in order to render that still more secure, they are now forming a fossé round it.

It appears that the National Assembly waits to see what impression the papers discovered at the Tuileries and which the new commissioners will communicate to Mr de la Fayette may have upon his final plan of conduct.

I inclose the procès verbal of the proceedings at the English and Irish seminary and a letter to me upon that subject from the commissioners of the Conseil Général de la Commune.