FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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Gee Of VersaiHcS.


The American Quarterly Review, which
has been issued from the press at Philadcl-
phia, contains an able summary otthe Pre-.
iiminary sketch of the French Revolution
prefxed by Sir Walter Scott, to his forth
coming life Of Napoleon Bonaparte. The
editor of the Review having been permitted,
by the proprietors of that work, to select
for publication some of the most interesting
passages. we take the opportunity to lay
before our readers the account which gift
ed and eloquent historian has given OF the
terrible attack OF the popu!ace on the pail
ace of Versailles, on the 5th of October,
which resulted in the torcible transfer of
the royal family in, but an actual imprison-
ment at, the Thuilleres in Paris. We re-
gret that our limits will not permit US to
publish the whole of this sketch, as it IS
contained in the Review, and which is every
way worthy fits distinguished author. The
most material parts of it, however. are given
below, and will frequently remind the read
er Of kindred description Of similar
scene, by the-same hand, in the admirable
tale of the Heart of Mid Lothian.


After speaking Of the immediate causes
Of this terrible eruption, he goes on to state:
| That OF the 5th October. 1889. was of a
singular description, the insurgents being
chiefly of the female sex. The market wo-
men, Danes aur Hailes, as they are called.
half unsexed by the masculine nature of
their employments. and entirely so by the
ferocity Of their manners, had figured early
in the revolution. With these were allied
and associated most of the worthessiand bar
barous Of their own sex, such disgraceful
specimens of humanity as serve but to shew
in what disgraceful state it may be found
to exist Females Of this description began
to assemble early in the morning, in large
groups. with the cries for "bread," which
so easily ronsed a starving metropolis
fsI'here were observed amongst them many
men disguised as women, and they compeli
ed all the females they met to go along with
them. They marched to the Hotel de Vile,