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of their own at their command; - 
and for this end, on pretence of an 
-apxiety for the safety of the capital 
after the removal of the troops of 
ithe line, they agreed on the forma- 
tion of a camp of twenty thousand 
men, to consist of volunteers from 
every part of the kingdom, and as- 
sembled under the walls of Paris. 
It was very well known that these 
volunteers would everywhere be 
-chosen by the republican party, 
whose power was universally felt, 
and had impressed such a general 
terror as gave them a complete con- 
troul over every election, Servan, 
the minister at war, in connivance 
with the Girond party, Condorcet, 
Brissot, Vergniaud, aud others, 
without any order from the King, 
and without communicating his in- 
tentions to his colleagues, proposed 
the measure of the encampment in 
aletter to the president of the Na- 
tional Assembly. 
_. The Assembly, whose usurpations 
“increased in proportion as the King’s 
powersof resistance were weakened, 
not only passed this but another 
atrocious decree, conceived in the 
same spirit of jealousy and rancour, 
for the banishment of the priests, 
who refused to violate the oath they 
had taken tothe heads of the church 
and the monarchy, and to take a 
mew oath to the new constitution. 
The King shewed the utmost repug- 
mance to sanction either of these 
decrees, notwithstanding the threa- 
tening intimations he daily receiv- 
_ ed from his ministers Claviere, Ser- 
_ van, and Roland. Many squabbles 
took place between these men and 
the other ministers, who, though 
@eeply tinctured with republican 
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ideas, yet seemed to be touched 
with the King’s misfortunes, and al- 
ways behaved to him with respect. 
They were shocked at the conduct 
of their colleagues, and determined 
to take the present opportunity to 
procure their dismission. Dumou- 
riez, with the approbation of Du- 
ranthon and La Coste, made a pro- 
posal of three new ministers to the 
King; which he accepted with the 
joy of a person who feels himself 
suddenly relieved from a load under 
which he is ready to sink. 
The King, thus freed from these 
three ministers, persisted with the 
utmost firmness in refusing his sanc- 
tion to those two decrees. The 
spirit that appeared in the capital 
on the dismission of three violent 
ministers, did not at first give any 
ground for inquietude respecting 
the refusal of the royal sanction to 
the two atrocious decrees. But 
though a silence was maintained on 
the subject of the decree against the 
priests on the 26th of June, twenty 
deputies from the Fauxbourg St. An- 
toine,* appearing at the bar of the 
Assembly, boldlyavowed themselves 
the authors of the meeting of the 
20th of June, inveighed against the 
executive power, which, they said, 
would sacrifice the arms of France 
to the King of Hungary, if by doing 
so the reign of despotism could be 
restored. ‘ It is always,”’ said their 
orator, ‘from the foot of the throne 
that the stream of conspiracy spreads 
itself into every part of the body.” 
About the same time petitions were 
sent to the Assembly from different 
sections of Paris, Laval, Lyons, and 
other places agitated by the Jaco- 
bin club, accusing the King of 
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* The St, Giles’s of Paris. 
perfidy, 
