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During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
de - Lnmballe ' s head , which has been brought you , that you may know how the people avenge themselves on their tyrants : f advise you to shew yourself ifyou will not have them come up here . " A" this threat the Queen fainted away : 1 flew to support her , and Madame E . izaheth assisted me in placing her upon a chair , while her children meln ' n . r into tears , endeavoured bytlu-ir caresses to bring her to herself . The wretch kept looking on , and the King , with a firm voice , said to him :
" We are prepared for every thing , Sir , but you might have dispensed with relating this horrible disaster to the Queen . " Their purpose being accomplished , he went away with his companions . ' The Queen , coming to herself , mingled her tears with those of her children , and all the family removed to Madame Elizabeth ' s chamber , where the noise of the mob were less heard . I remained a short time in the Queen ' s , and looking out at the window , through the blinds , I saw again the Princess de Lamballe ' s head . The person that carried it was mounted upon the rubbish of some houses , th . it
were ordered to be pulled dawn for the purpose of insulating the Tower : another stood behind him , holding the he rt of that unfortunate Princess , covered with'blood , on the point of a sabre . The crowd being inclined to force the gate ofthe Tower , was harangued by a Municipal Officer , named Daujon , and I very distinctly heard him say : " The head of Antoinette does not belong- to JVH : the departments have their respective rights to it ; France has confided
these great culprits to the care ofthe City of Paris ; and it is your part to assist in securing them , until the National Justice take vengeance for the people . '' He was more than an hour debating with them before he could get them avvaj' . ' At a subsequent period , M . Clery informs us , that the charters ofthe greater part ofthe Municipal Officers picked out for the Temple , shewed what sort of men had been employed for the Revoiu'ion of the ioth of August , and forthe massacres ofthe 2 d of September .
' One of them , named James , a teacher of the English language , took it into his head one day to follow the King into his closet , and to sit down by him . His Majesty mildly told him that there his colleagues had always left him by himself ; that as the door stood open he could never be out of his sight , but that the room was too small for two , James persisted in a harsh and brutal mariner ; the King was forced to submitand giving up his course of reading for that dayreturned
, , to his chamber , where the Municipal Officer continued to beset him , with the most tyrannical superintendance . ' One morning , when the King- rose , he thought the Commissioner on duty was the same who had been on guard the evening before , and expressed some concern that he had not been relieved ; but this maik of goodness was only answered with insults . " I come here ''
, said the man , "to watch your conduct , and not for you to busy yourself with mine . " Then going- up close to his Majesty , with h ' hat on his head , he continued : — " Nobody has a right to meddle will ) it , and you less than any one else . ' He was insolent the whole day . I have since learnt that his name is Meunier .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
de - Lnmballe ' s head , which has been brought you , that you may know how the people avenge themselves on their tyrants : f advise you to shew yourself ifyou will not have them come up here . " A" this threat the Queen fainted away : 1 flew to support her , and Madame E . izaheth assisted me in placing her upon a chair , while her children meln ' n . r into tears , endeavoured bytlu-ir caresses to bring her to herself . The wretch kept looking on , and the King , with a firm voice , said to him :
" We are prepared for every thing , Sir , but you might have dispensed with relating this horrible disaster to the Queen . " Their purpose being accomplished , he went away with his companions . ' The Queen , coming to herself , mingled her tears with those of her children , and all the family removed to Madame Elizabeth ' s chamber , where the noise of the mob were less heard . I remained a short time in the Queen ' s , and looking out at the window , through the blinds , I saw again the Princess de Lamballe ' s head . The person that carried it was mounted upon the rubbish of some houses , th . it
were ordered to be pulled dawn for the purpose of insulating the Tower : another stood behind him , holding the he rt of that unfortunate Princess , covered with'blood , on the point of a sabre . The crowd being inclined to force the gate ofthe Tower , was harangued by a Municipal Officer , named Daujon , and I very distinctly heard him say : " The head of Antoinette does not belong- to JVH : the departments have their respective rights to it ; France has confided
these great culprits to the care ofthe City of Paris ; and it is your part to assist in securing them , until the National Justice take vengeance for the people . '' He was more than an hour debating with them before he could get them avvaj' . ' At a subsequent period , M . Clery informs us , that the charters ofthe greater part ofthe Municipal Officers picked out for the Temple , shewed what sort of men had been employed for the Revoiu'ion of the ioth of August , and forthe massacres ofthe 2 d of September .
' One of them , named James , a teacher of the English language , took it into his head one day to follow the King into his closet , and to sit down by him . His Majesty mildly told him that there his colleagues had always left him by himself ; that as the door stood open he could never be out of his sight , but that the room was too small for two , James persisted in a harsh and brutal mariner ; the King was forced to submitand giving up his course of reading for that dayreturned
, , to his chamber , where the Municipal Officer continued to beset him , with the most tyrannical superintendance . ' One morning , when the King- rose , he thought the Commissioner on duty was the same who had been on guard the evening before , and expressed some concern that he had not been relieved ; but this maik of goodness was only answered with insults . " I come here ''
, said the man , "to watch your conduct , and not for you to busy yourself with mine . " Then going- up close to his Majesty , with h ' hat on his head , he continued : — " Nobody has a right to meddle will ) it , and you less than any one else . ' He was insolent the whole day . I have since learnt that his name is Meunier .