text:  The cry was now on all sides--"Advance the day is our own!" The whole multitude rushed forward clashing their pikes and muskets and firing their cannon which were worked by deserters from the royal troops; the Marseillais a band of the most desperate-looking ruffians that eye was ever set upon chiefly galley-slaves and the profligate banditti of a sea-port led the column of assault; and the sudden and extraordinary cessation of the fire from the palace windows seemed to promise a sure conquest