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Traits In The Life Of The Late Unfortunate Queen Of France.
A great and uncommon event , however , restored her to their esteem , for in a few years after , Her Majesty warmly e & pots ' sed " the cause of the Americans , and is said to have induced her Royal Consort to enter into a war in their defence . —The birth of a-Dafiphin too delig hted the people , and their tears at Ids death being speedily - dried banother princethe Consort of Louis XVI . seemed to
up y , have acquired and merited the love , affection , and esteem of the people . ,. ' ,.. ., But France was now on the eve of a Revolution , dissimilar to all others , that had hitherto occurred , and fraught with events equally fatal to empires and to monarchs . Unfortunately for the Queen , she had about this time rendered the occasioned
herself odious to the Nation ; in addition to murmurs by the relief administered to the necessitous Treasury of fier brother the Emperor Joseph , an equivocal transaction relative to the famous diamond necklace , in which the Cardinal de Rohan-first figured away as a dupe , had made her a number of enemies . The report too of some female frailties , and the writings of Madame de la Motte , who pretended to have been the witness , and even the pandar of her pleasures , rendered the Queen of ! ¦ ' ranee obnoxious to the censures not only of the French , but of all Europe .
We leave the invidious task of recording the particulars on which these reports were founded , to the future Historian . . Such an atonement has been made , during three years of uninterrupted persecution , that the "Recording Angel" must have long ; since blotted out every venial fault with " a tear !" That relentless Faction , which had put an end to the life of her not in
Consort , and had vowed revenge upon herself , were long putting their ' threats in execution . Her Majesty was brought to trial , and , after a summary process , executed by the Guillotine , on Wednesday the 16 th of October , 1793 . Thus died in the 3 8 th year of her age , by the hands of the common executioner , and in consequence of the verdict of her late subthe wife of and the
jects , the daughter of an Emperor , a King , mother of a Prince , who was called the Dauphin at his birth , nominated the Prince Royal by the Constituent Assembly , and looked upon for several years as the heir to the greatest and most splendid Throne in Europe . . ¦ Such has been the useless cruelty exercised against tins beautiful
and unhappy princess , that her errors have been forgotten 111 the magnitude of her sufferings , and all men unite in accusing the perpetrators of a deed , who were instigated to it by no marked neces-, sity , and who basely attempt to veil the workings of personal hatred
under the name of pubhc . iustice . . Her late Maiesty had four children : Louis Joseph Xavier Fran , cis , Dauphin of France , born October 27 , 17 81 , and who died in 17 88 ; Louis Charles , born March 27 , 178 ; , now a close prisoner 111 the Temple ; Marie Theresa Charlotte , born December uj , ifi & i and Sophia Helena Beatrix , born July 9 , 1786 ..
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Traits In The Life Of The Late Unfortunate Queen Of France.
A great and uncommon event , however , restored her to their esteem , for in a few years after , Her Majesty warmly e & pots ' sed " the cause of the Americans , and is said to have induced her Royal Consort to enter into a war in their defence . —The birth of a-Dafiphin too delig hted the people , and their tears at Ids death being speedily - dried banother princethe Consort of Louis XVI . seemed to
up y , have acquired and merited the love , affection , and esteem of the people . ,. ' ,.. ., But France was now on the eve of a Revolution , dissimilar to all others , that had hitherto occurred , and fraught with events equally fatal to empires and to monarchs . Unfortunately for the Queen , she had about this time rendered the occasioned
herself odious to the Nation ; in addition to murmurs by the relief administered to the necessitous Treasury of fier brother the Emperor Joseph , an equivocal transaction relative to the famous diamond necklace , in which the Cardinal de Rohan-first figured away as a dupe , had made her a number of enemies . The report too of some female frailties , and the writings of Madame de la Motte , who pretended to have been the witness , and even the pandar of her pleasures , rendered the Queen of ! ¦ ' ranee obnoxious to the censures not only of the French , but of all Europe .
We leave the invidious task of recording the particulars on which these reports were founded , to the future Historian . . Such an atonement has been made , during three years of uninterrupted persecution , that the "Recording Angel" must have long ; since blotted out every venial fault with " a tear !" That relentless Faction , which had put an end to the life of her not in
Consort , and had vowed revenge upon herself , were long putting their ' threats in execution . Her Majesty was brought to trial , and , after a summary process , executed by the Guillotine , on Wednesday the 16 th of October , 1793 . Thus died in the 3 8 th year of her age , by the hands of the common executioner , and in consequence of the verdict of her late subthe wife of and the
jects , the daughter of an Emperor , a King , mother of a Prince , who was called the Dauphin at his birth , nominated the Prince Royal by the Constituent Assembly , and looked upon for several years as the heir to the greatest and most splendid Throne in Europe . . ¦ Such has been the useless cruelty exercised against tins beautiful
and unhappy princess , that her errors have been forgotten 111 the magnitude of her sufferings , and all men unite in accusing the perpetrators of a deed , who were instigated to it by no marked neces-, sity , and who basely attempt to veil the workings of personal hatred
under the name of pubhc . iustice . . Her late Maiesty had four children : Louis Joseph Xavier Fran , cis , Dauphin of France , born October 27 , 17 81 , and who died in 17 88 ; Louis Charles , born March 27 , 178 ; , now a close prisoner 111 the Temple ; Marie Theresa Charlotte , born December uj , ifi & i and Sophia Helena Beatrix , born July 9 , 1786 ..