HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
of good-will and respect are of 
great importance in society, as they 
not only tend to restrain the ex- 
pressions, but in some measure the 
growth of discordant passions. 
Bertrand de Moleville, minister of 
the marine, declared his opinion in 
council, that the insult offered by 
the assembly ought not to be passed 
unnoticed; but the King was on 
all occasions averse to vigorous 
measures. 
About this time the Jacobins, 
both in and out of the assembly, 
began to be very sparing in the 
application of the titles of King 
and Queen. Circumlocutions were 
used; such as “the executive power 
and his wife.’ By the mob they 
were commonly stiled, ** Monsieur 
and Madame Veto.” 
Though the act of degradation 
was repealed, the example of inso- 
lence was set; and the viler sort 
of the populace resorting in crowds 
to the places under the walls of 
the Thuilleries, gave vent to their 
malignant passions, in revilings of 
the whole royal family, not to be 
repeated. The Queen was insulted 
in one of the walks. The un- 
generous mob appeared continually 
under the windows of the King’s 
apartments, loading him with in- 
sults and injuries; and no person 
of either sex, attached to the royal 
family, could visit the palace in 
safety.* On this account it was 
determined to shut up the garden 
of the Thuilleries;—but the assem- 
bly decreed that though the garden 
belonged to his Majesty, the ter- 
-tace on the side next to the assem- 
[io 
bly belonged to the nation. The 
mob, or, as they stiled themselves, 
the nation, were freely adinitted to 
their own terrace. The royal re- 
sidence was exposed to any out- 
rage they might be induced to 
commit: and a dislike and distrust 
of the King, by this ridiculous dis- 
tinction between a right of property 
in one part of the garden, and that 
of another, nourished in the breasts 
of the people. 
March 17, 1792. The tide of 
the public spirit running strong 
against the court, three of the 
ministers, Duport, Cahier, and Far- 
bé, resigned their offices; and Gar- 
nier, Roland, and Claviere, agree- 
ably to the desire of the assembly, 
were appointed in their stead :— 
Garnier, minister of war; Roland, 
for the interior; and Claviere for 
contributions. Dumouriez was no- 
minated to the department of 
foreign affairs, and de la Coste, in 
the room of Bertrand de Moleville, 
to the marine. 
De Lessart, to whom Dumouriez 
succeeded, had been accused on 
the first of March, of having de- 
ceived the nation; of having omit- 
ted to give information to the as- 
sembly of a concert formed among 
foreign powers, against the liberty 
and independence of France; of 
not having pressed the measures 
proper for the defence and safety 
of the nation; of having given to 
Prince Kaunitz details improper to 
be communicated, on the situation 
of the kingdom; of having meanly 
sued for peace, and having refused 
to obey a decree of the assembly of 
* One of their methods of insult consisted in accusing the Queen of every 
abominable crime: another, in singing songs, in which the King was treated 
with ridicule, insolence, and even with menaces of violence. 
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