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grievous refle€tion to perceive, not being otherwife under the prefent 
only that all their efforts ware fruit- fyftem, they fhould, notwithftand- 
lefs, but that a directly contraryand ing, perfevere in the fame fruitlefs 
moft dangerous ftate of affairs had toil, and devote their lives, with- 
taken place. They faw the mo- outa compe aap» by placing 
narchy overthrown; the king a them in the hands of the Parifians; 
rifoner, not merely to his-own or whether they fhould at once fe- 
Fibjects, confidered generally as cede from the affembly, and fubmit 
fuch, but to the rabble of Paris; their conduct in every thing, along 
while his iife hung fufpended by a with the caufes of this procedure, 
hair, which it was in the power of to their conftituents, as well as to 
every ruffian to fnap orto cut in a the public at large? 
moment. They faw that liberty for The greater part of the member, 
which they had fo much contended, prefent, notwithftanding thefe rea~ 
now placed in fuchatrain, that if fons, in the veracity of which they 
caufes produced their proper effects, all equally agreed, were yet unwil- 
it was likely to be deftroyed before ling to abandon their feats. Mou- 
it was formed. ‘The national af- nier and Lally Tolendal were at 
fembly muft now remove to Paris, the head ofthe feceders. 
which had for fome time been the —_ But before Mounier had quitted 
| prime with,and chief objectin view, the prefident’s chair, he had the 
with fome of the moit dangerous of addrefs, with the fervent aid of his 
thé fattious leaders who ruled that friends, to carry a very important 
_ body. In Paris, the reprefentatives refolution, and which there was lit- 
of the people would become as ab- tle reafon to expect could have been 
folute prifoners as the king; and pafled. This was an order for an 
France would be-governed by laws, enquiry into the horrid mafflacre, 
framed by thefe leaders, and en- intended and aétua!ly commenced 
forced on the affembly by the ter- -on the 6th of Otober, and for pro- 
ror of their inftruments, the cabals fecuting the authors thereof. ‘This 
‘and mobs of the capital. As for was the foundation of all the pro- 
themfelves, the purity of their views ceedings which were condutted in 
“and the integrity of their conduct the chatelet upon the fubject ; and 
z Id not preferve them from con- though fubftantial juftice was not 
wal danger and menace to their obtained, nor probably could be 
s; indeed it was unhappily too expected, yet it could not be with- 
Clearly thewn, that thefe were qua- out fome good effect, by letting 
ities now fo little regarded, that wanton murderers fee, that they 
‘they could procure neither efteem might not always be fafe in the 
nor fafety. The queftion now for gratification of that horrid pro- 
‘them to confider was, Whether, penfity ; and reminding them, that 
‘having fulfilled the duty which they public enquiries, and public prefe- 
‘Owed to the public to the utmoft cutions, were not pleafant matters, 
their power, but without effect, to play with. It would have done 
finding affairs now ina ftate much honour to the national aflem- 
thich not only rendered them to- bly, would have prevented much 
; ufelefs for the prefent, but well-founded reproach, which will 
hich cut off all hope of their ever not wear off while the memory of 
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