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in silence in an age so abundant in 
journalists and all denominations of 
writers. ‘To these writers, all of 
them concurring in the most im- 
portant factsand circumstances, we 
refer our readers for circumstantial 
details of the massacres of Paris, and 
other parts of France. Among 
these, however, there are a few 
which cannot be wholly omitted in 
this place, as they serve to illustrate 
not only the inhuman fury of the 
Parisians at this time, but the pro- 
gress of the revolution from bad to 
worse; from false theories of go- 
vernment, to the most depraved and 
destructive actions. 
The amiable and generous Prin- 
cess of Lamballe was massacred, al- 
though her only crime was a sin- 
cere and unconquerable attachment 
to her royal mistress, and a detesta- 
tion equally insurmountable, of the 
murderer of her husband. Being 
called to take the oath of liberty 
and equality, and that of hatred to 
the King, to the Queen, and to 
royalty, she said, ‘I will readily 
take the first, but I cannot take the 
last; it is not in my heart.” A 
person who was there, said in her 
ear, ‘‘ Swear, or you are a dead 
woman.’ The Princess lifted up 
her eyes without saying a word, 
and went towards the door. The 
president gave the usual sign for 
execution*, and in an instant she 
was assassinated. ‘Then aked body 
was submitted to insults scarcely to 
to be imagined, certainly not to be 
expressed. Here, once for all, we 
shall take occasion to relate that it 
was a common thing for persons of 
both sexes to give poignancy and 
zest to their other crimes, by a stu- 
died violation of all the sentiments 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
of decorum and modesty. The 
head of the Princess, after bemg 
carried on a pole to the Temple, 
was exposed to the view of the 
King and Queen, who expected 
the same fate. The head, we are 
told by M. Clery, who saw it with 
horror, “ though bleeding, was not 
disfigured ; and her fine light hair 
still curling round the pike.” 
The Count de Montmorin, who 
had taken refuge on the 10th of 
Avgust in the house of a fisher- 
woman in the Fauxbourg St. An- 
toine, being discovered by the im- 
prudence of his hostess, was arrest- 
ed, and conducted to the bar of the 
National Assembly. He answered 
the questions put to him with great 
calmness, and in the most satisfac- 
tory manner; butthecircumstances 
of his having concealed himself, 
and a bottle vf opium being found 
in his pocket, formed, as they said, 
a presumption that he was con- 
scious of some crime. * Having 
been detained two days in the 
committee, he was sent a prisoner 
to the Abbey, when he was mur- 
dered, with circumstances too 
shocking to be mentioned. 
In the first stages of the revolu- 
tion, the tumults, outrages, and 
most criminal excesses, flowing 
from speculative principles, though 
erroneous, were not disgraced with 
the additional turpitude of theft 
and robbery. On the 20th of 
June there was nothing missing or 
misplaced in the royal apartments 
in the Thuilleries: and many 
proofs of a zeal, at least disinterest- 
ed, were exhibited even on the 
10th of August ; but after that pe- 
riod, when the reign of numbers 
and physical force was established, 
the 
* Qu’on enlargisse la prisoniere—The prisoner must be released. , 
