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mined, that by fome means or other, 
* the refidence both of the court and 
of the national affembly fhould be 
' transferred from Verfailles to Paris, 
This defign being known, the court, 
and particularly the queen, were 
‘ftrack with horror at the idea of 
being compelled to refide among fo 
_ tumultuous a people, who from their 
_ bloody acts of cruelty had already 
been ftigmatized in the public prints 
by the name of the cannibals of Pa- 
tis. At the fame time, that the no- 
bility might have no doubt remain- 
ing as to their impending and abfo- 
lute ruin, they were regaled in every 
coffee-houfe with writings, in which 
the ftrongeft hopes were exprefied, 
_ that ina very fhort time, the term 
_‘nobility’ would fr ever be banifhed 
from the French language. Under 
thefe circumftances 6n both fides, it 
is not to be doubted (although the 
fact hasin no degree been proved) 
that the queep liftened eagerly to 
any propoial os removing the court 
‘to fome reafonable diftance, which 
_- might prevent that, to her, moft 
_ dreadful of all events, the being 
_ committed to the jealous and dan- 
gerous cuftody of the frantic, un- 
controlled, and ever {ufpicious Pa- 
_- fifians; nor will it be doubted, on 
the other hand, their character con- 
fidered, that many rath and impru- 
_ dent things, were faid or propofed 
__ by the difcontented nobles. 
._ . As correlative to this ftate of 
_ things, the moft atrocious accufa- 
tions, which the bittereft rancour 
_ could imagine, were uniparingly 
_ laid by each party againit the other. 
+ The nobles and clergy were every 
day charged with new confpiracies 
againit the revoluvion; and each 
ees! with its peculiar circum- 
© fances of alarm or of horror. It was 
_ AMerioufly and confidently afferted, 
an 
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as if the writer had himfelf feen it, 
that a fubfcription was fecretly 
opened for the murder of all good 
citizens ; and that priefts and nobles 
were the fubfciibers to this bloody 
inftrument of profcription.. It was 
further faid, that it was refolved 
once more to inveft Paris and Ver- 
failles with an army, to diffolve, 
{word in hand, the national af- 
fembly, and to kindle in every part 
of the empire the flames of civil 
war. On the. other fide a charge 
was openly laid, by men of emi- 
nence, who didnot fhrink from fup- 
porting it, that the violent repub- 
licans were refolved, at the hazard 
of murder and civil war, to compel 
the king and the national affembly 
to refide within the walls of Paris, 
and thus render both, and through 
them the whole nation, fubfervient 
to the influence, and inftruments to 
the caprice of that turbulent ca- 
pital. 
The rebellious French guards, 
who had deferted and fought a- 
gainft their fovereign, and who 
were now in the actual pay of the 
city of Paris, under the denomina- 
tion of center companies, were 
feized (unlefs it proceeded from 
fome hidaen caufe) with a moft 
unaccountable fit of ambition, to 
have again the honour of attending 
and guarding the king’s perfon, 
which they claimed as an undoubted 
right, and even talked of marching 
to Verfailles to enforce the claim. 
St. Huruge, who was now at li- 
berty, was the chief inftigator and 
caballer in this matter. It will be 
eafily judged that, exclufive of the 
apparent danger of entrulting the 
king’s perfon in fuch hands, nothing 
could be more perfonally odious or 
mortifying to him, than to be com- 
pelled to endure the fight and at- 
tendance 
