Memoir of the life of John Law of Lauriston

14g ' LIFE OF JOHN LAW
time occurred. One M. de Boursel passing
in his carriage along the Rue St. Antoine,
had his way impeded by a hackney coach-
man, whom his servants fell upon, and he got
out to assist them. The man cunningly cried
out, " There is Mr. Law who is going to mur-
der me ; fall upon and kill him ;" a crowd in-
stantly assembled, and with sticks and stones
pursued De Boursel into the Jesuits churchy
as far as the altar; near which observing a
little door open, he escaped through it, bar-
ring it behind him, to the interior of the con-
vent, but his equipage fell a sacrifice to the
fury of the mob.*
From this and several other instances, Mr.
Law could not but observe how strongly the
current of popular indignation ran against
him ; and as the month of December ap-
proached, his situation became still more dan-
gerous and alarming. The plague, which
then raged at Marseilles, at the same time
that it increased the discredit of the paper,
and the confusion of affairs, augmented the
* Kragm. ii. 290. Examc-u, i. 334. Mem. Kej. in.
3.6.