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@oncern in the tranfattion, The 
ferment was fo violent, that nothing 
lefs'than the refolution and firinriels 
of the national guards, could have 
revented their proceeding to the 
bie extremities. 
' This ferment unexrectedly pro- 
duced, or at leaft haftened, the re-’ 
fignation of Mr. Neckar, and_his 
final departure from France. ‘That 
minifter, who had fo long been the 
idol of the people at Paris and Ver- 
failles, having, on the night of that 
tumult, réceived intelligence that he 
was deftined to be made a victim 
to the fury of the mob, he fled from 
his houfe, and fpent many hours 
imder the greatet apprehenfion and 
terror in the fields near Paris. He 
iow at once perceived, that he had 
not.only held his place too long 
for his fafety, but for his honour. 
He had long felt his credit with 
the affembly declining ; but ever 
fincé the removal of that body to 
Paris, he experienced fuch repeated 
inftances of flight and indifference, 
as made him feel to the heart, that 
he was now only confidered as the 
tool ofa party, who having done its 
bufinefs was no longer thought ne- 
ceflary, arid might be laid by with- 
out ceremony. Camus, and feve- 
yal other of their members, feemed 
to make it a point continually to 
ceavil at his plans, and to bring cap- 
tious charges and accufations upon 
trifling or contemptible matters 
againft him; nor was this ungra- 
cious’ and unworthy condu& ever 
in the fmatlleft degree difcounte- 
nanced. Jn return for this treat- 
imeitt, he frequently told the affem- 
bly home and blunt truths, which 
did not by any means tend to con- 
ciliate favour. 
On this recent affair’ at’ Paris, he 
fent a letter with his refignation to 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
the national affembly, who having 
read it, called, with the moft care- 
lefs and contémptuous indifference, 
for the order of the day, without 
taking the fmalleft notice of it. 
Pierced through and through by 
this difdainful treatment, this un- 
grateful. return to all his paft ac- 
knowledged fervices, which, un- 
déubtediy, was not the lefs felt 
from a Véxatious recollection of the 
fulfome flatteries with which they 
had hetetofore fo often bedawbed 
him, thé unhappy minifter fet’ out 
directly for Swifferland. . But he 
foo found that the bitter cup of 
his humiliation was not yet exhauft- 
ed, and that the dregs were among ~ 
the moft odious parts of the potion, 
Mr. Neckar was {topped at a little 
town called Arci-fur-Aube by the 
national guard, who being now all 
ftatefmen, and in.a certain degree — 
fovereigns, wifely determined, that — 
it was by no means fitting a finan- 
cial minifter fhould be permitted to ~ 
quit the country until he had made 
a fair fettlement, and undergone a 
ftri& fcrutiny as to his accounts, — 
and they accordingly confined him 
asa prifoner. He was now toun- 
dergo the mortification of a fecond — 
application to the national aflembly, — 
in which he ftated, that above © 
160,000], fterling of his property — 
being lodged in the French, funds, 
and confequently within their cog- — 
nizance, that fum, which he had 
depofited there through the pactictic * 
motive of fupporting the public cre- 
dit, would be an ample fecurity for, 
any error or deficiency which BS 
poffibly appear in his accounts; 
and therefore requefting, that hts 
health, in its prefent precarious flate, 
fhould no longer be injured, either 
by confinement, or by detention 
from the falubtious air of his native | 
country. 
