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Monthly Chronicle.
trtiintainiTig with other Powers the accustomed relations of union and of Peace , j-jjc Majesty wishes ardently to be enabled to treat for the re-establishment of general tranquillity with such a government , exercising a legal andpermau ' eiit authority , animated with the wish for general tranquillity , and possessing power to enforce the observance of it ' s engagements . The . King wouid propose none other than equitable and moderate conditions , not such as the expences , the risques and the sacrifices of the War might justify , but such as hi . ; Majesty thinks himself under the indispensable necessity of requiring with a view to these
considerations , and still more to that of his own security , and of the future tranquillity of Europe . His Majesty desires nothing more sincerely that ! thus to terminate a War which he in vain endeavoured to avoid , and all the calamities of which , as now experienced by France , are to be attributed only to the ambition , the perfidy and the violence of those whose crimes have involved their own country in misery , and disgraced all civilized nations . As his Majesty has hitherto been compelled to carry on War against the people of France collectivelto treat as enemies all those who suffer their property
y , aitd blood to be lavished in support of an unjust aggression , his Majesty would see with infinite satisfaction the opportunity of making exceptions in favour of the well-disposed inhabitants of other parts of France , as he has already done with respect to those of Toulon . The King promises , on his part , thesuspension of hostilities , friendship , and ( as far as the course of events will allow , of which the will of man cannot dispose ) security and protection to all those who , by declaring for a Monarchical Government , shall shake off the yoke of a sanguinary Anarchyof that Anarchy which has broken all the most sacred . bonds
, of society , dissolved all the relations of civil life , violated every right , confounded every duty , which uses the name of Liberty to exercise the most cruel tyranny , to annihilate ali property , to seize on all possessions , which founds its power on the pretended consent of the people , and itself carries fire and sword through extensive provinces , for having demanded theirlaws , their religion , and their lawful Sovereign . It is then in order to deliver themselves from this unheard-of oppression , to put an end to a system of unparalleled crimes , and to restore at length
tranquillity to France and security to all Europe , that his Majesty invites the co-operation of the people of France . It is for these objects thathe calls upon them to joirf the Standard of an Hereditary Monarchy , not for the purpose of deciding , in this moment of disorder , calamity , and public danger , on all the modifications of which this form of government may hereafter be susceptible , but in order to tmite themselves once more under the Empire of Law , of Morality , and of Religion ; and to secure at length to their own country , external Peace , domestic Tranquillity , a real and genuine Liberty , a wise , moderate and beneficent Government , and the uninterrupted enjoyment of all the advantages which cars' contribute to the happisiess and prosperity of a great and powerful nation .
EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE ; ON Wednesday the i ' 6 th , Marie Antoinette was conducted from ( he prison of " the Conciergerie , to the Place de la Revolution , beyond the garden of the Tiiuil- ' ieries , where Louis had suffered before her . All the National Guards in the several sections of Paris were under arms , ane Hsnriotthe Commandant in Chief attended the Queen , in aprivate coach , with s-
guard of cavalry , to the place of execution . Nothing like sorrow or pity for the Queen ' s fate was shown by the people , wholir . ed the streets through which she had to pass . On her arrival at the Place de fa Revolution , she was helped out of the carriage , and ascended the scaffold with seeming composure . She was accompanied by a Priest , who discharged the office of Confessor , and gave her absolution before she was fixed to the fatal machine . She was in a half-mourning dress , evidently not adjusted with much attention . Ker hands were tied behind her back , she looked , around , apparently
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
trtiintainiTig with other Powers the accustomed relations of union and of Peace , j-jjc Majesty wishes ardently to be enabled to treat for the re-establishment of general tranquillity with such a government , exercising a legal andpermau ' eiit authority , animated with the wish for general tranquillity , and possessing power to enforce the observance of it ' s engagements . The . King wouid propose none other than equitable and moderate conditions , not such as the expences , the risques and the sacrifices of the War might justify , but such as hi . ; Majesty thinks himself under the indispensable necessity of requiring with a view to these
considerations , and still more to that of his own security , and of the future tranquillity of Europe . His Majesty desires nothing more sincerely that ! thus to terminate a War which he in vain endeavoured to avoid , and all the calamities of which , as now experienced by France , are to be attributed only to the ambition , the perfidy and the violence of those whose crimes have involved their own country in misery , and disgraced all civilized nations . As his Majesty has hitherto been compelled to carry on War against the people of France collectivelto treat as enemies all those who suffer their property
y , aitd blood to be lavished in support of an unjust aggression , his Majesty would see with infinite satisfaction the opportunity of making exceptions in favour of the well-disposed inhabitants of other parts of France , as he has already done with respect to those of Toulon . The King promises , on his part , thesuspension of hostilities , friendship , and ( as far as the course of events will allow , of which the will of man cannot dispose ) security and protection to all those who , by declaring for a Monarchical Government , shall shake off the yoke of a sanguinary Anarchyof that Anarchy which has broken all the most sacred . bonds
, of society , dissolved all the relations of civil life , violated every right , confounded every duty , which uses the name of Liberty to exercise the most cruel tyranny , to annihilate ali property , to seize on all possessions , which founds its power on the pretended consent of the people , and itself carries fire and sword through extensive provinces , for having demanded theirlaws , their religion , and their lawful Sovereign . It is then in order to deliver themselves from this unheard-of oppression , to put an end to a system of unparalleled crimes , and to restore at length
tranquillity to France and security to all Europe , that his Majesty invites the co-operation of the people of France . It is for these objects thathe calls upon them to joirf the Standard of an Hereditary Monarchy , not for the purpose of deciding , in this moment of disorder , calamity , and public danger , on all the modifications of which this form of government may hereafter be susceptible , but in order to tmite themselves once more under the Empire of Law , of Morality , and of Religion ; and to secure at length to their own country , external Peace , domestic Tranquillity , a real and genuine Liberty , a wise , moderate and beneficent Government , and the uninterrupted enjoyment of all the advantages which cars' contribute to the happisiess and prosperity of a great and powerful nation .
EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE ; ON Wednesday the i ' 6 th , Marie Antoinette was conducted from ( he prison of " the Conciergerie , to the Place de la Revolution , beyond the garden of the Tiiuil- ' ieries , where Louis had suffered before her . All the National Guards in the several sections of Paris were under arms , ane Hsnriotthe Commandant in Chief attended the Queen , in aprivate coach , with s-
guard of cavalry , to the place of execution . Nothing like sorrow or pity for the Queen ' s fate was shown by the people , wholir . ed the streets through which she had to pass . On her arrival at the Place de fa Revolution , she was helped out of the carriage , and ascended the scaffold with seeming composure . She was accompanied by a Priest , who discharged the office of Confessor , and gave her absolution before she was fixed to the fatal machine . She was in a half-mourning dress , evidently not adjusted with much attention . Ker hands were tied behind her back , she looked , around , apparently