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During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
wile . " "It is no business of mine , " replied he , refusing to take it ; " I am come here to conduct \ ou to the scaffold . " His Majesty then turning to Gobeau , another Municipal Officer , "I beg , " said he ,-" that AOU will give this paper to my wife ; you may read it ; there are some particulars in it L wish to be made known to the Commune . '' ' I was standing behind the King , near the fire-place ; he turned
round to me , and I offered him his great coat . " 1 don ' t want it , " said he , " give me only toy hat . '' I presented it to him—his hand met mine , whi-h he pressed once more for the last time . " Gentlemen , '' said he , " addressing the Municipal Officers , " 1 should be glad that Clery might stay with my son , as he has been accustomed to be attended by him ; i trust that the Commune will grant this request "
. . His Majesty then-looked at Santerre , and said : " Lead on . " ' These were the last words he spoke in his apartments . On the top ofthe stairs he met Mathey , the Warden of the Tower , to whom he said ; " I spoke with some little quickness to you ( he day before yesterday , do not take it ill . " Mathey made no answer , and even . affected to turn from the King while he speaking
was . 4 I remained alone in the chamber , overwhelmed with sorrow , and almost without sense of feeling . The drums and trumpets proclaimed his Majesty ' s departure from ( he Tower .... An hour after , discharges of artillery , ^ and cries y Vive la Nation ! Vive la Republique ! were heard .... The best of Kings was no more I '
Edmund Burke.
EDMUND BURKE .
BURKIANA : OR , THE WITTY SAYINOS , THE SHREWD REMARKS , AND POLITICAL OPINIONS OF THE LATE RIGHT HON .
REPLY TO JOHNSON , j O ) NE ofthe company said Dr . Johnson shall be our dictator . ' ¦ Were ^ I , ' said Johnson , ' j our dictator , you should have no wine ; it wouldj be my business cavere nequid detriment ! respublica caperet : —wine is duugeious ; Rome was ruined by luxury . ' Burke replied ,
' if you allow no wine as dictator , you shall not have me lor master of the horse . ' EFFECTS OF DEBAUCHERY . ' IT is no wonder , ' he said , ' the issue ofthe marriage bed should he puny and degenerate , when children are formed out of the rinsing of bottles . '
POLITICAL PROFLIGACY . ' THKRE is something , ' he . says , ' uncertain on tlie confines of the two empires which they first pass through , and which renders the change easy and impercep'ible . There * re even a sort of splendid impositions , so well contrived , that , at the very time the path of rectitude is quitted for ever , men seem advancing into some nobler VOL . XI . . A ii
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During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
wile . " "It is no business of mine , " replied he , refusing to take it ; " I am come here to conduct \ ou to the scaffold . " His Majesty then turning to Gobeau , another Municipal Officer , "I beg , " said he ,-" that AOU will give this paper to my wife ; you may read it ; there are some particulars in it L wish to be made known to the Commune . '' ' I was standing behind the King , near the fire-place ; he turned
round to me , and I offered him his great coat . " 1 don ' t want it , " said he , " give me only toy hat . '' I presented it to him—his hand met mine , whi-h he pressed once more for the last time . " Gentlemen , '' said he , " addressing the Municipal Officers , " 1 should be glad that Clery might stay with my son , as he has been accustomed to be attended by him ; i trust that the Commune will grant this request "
. . His Majesty then-looked at Santerre , and said : " Lead on . " ' These were the last words he spoke in his apartments . On the top ofthe stairs he met Mathey , the Warden of the Tower , to whom he said ; " I spoke with some little quickness to you ( he day before yesterday , do not take it ill . " Mathey made no answer , and even . affected to turn from the King while he speaking
was . 4 I remained alone in the chamber , overwhelmed with sorrow , and almost without sense of feeling . The drums and trumpets proclaimed his Majesty ' s departure from ( he Tower .... An hour after , discharges of artillery , ^ and cries y Vive la Nation ! Vive la Republique ! were heard .... The best of Kings was no more I '
Edmund Burke.
EDMUND BURKE .
BURKIANA : OR , THE WITTY SAYINOS , THE SHREWD REMARKS , AND POLITICAL OPINIONS OF THE LATE RIGHT HON .
REPLY TO JOHNSON , j O ) NE ofthe company said Dr . Johnson shall be our dictator . ' ¦ Were ^ I , ' said Johnson , ' j our dictator , you should have no wine ; it wouldj be my business cavere nequid detriment ! respublica caperet : —wine is duugeious ; Rome was ruined by luxury . ' Burke replied ,
' if you allow no wine as dictator , you shall not have me lor master of the horse . ' EFFECTS OF DEBAUCHERY . ' IT is no wonder , ' he said , ' the issue ofthe marriage bed should he puny and degenerate , when children are formed out of the rinsing of bottles . '
POLITICAL PROFLIGACY . ' THKRE is something , ' he . says , ' uncertain on tlie confines of the two empires which they first pass through , and which renders the change easy and impercep'ible . There * re even a sort of splendid impositions , so well contrived , that , at the very time the path of rectitude is quitted for ever , men seem advancing into some nobler VOL . XI . . A ii