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and.if there be conspirators, let 
them perish by the sword of the 
~ In fine, let the reign of clubs, an- 
nihilated by you, give place to the 
reign of the law; their usurpations, 
to the firm and independent exer- 
~cise of the constituted authorities ; 
their disorganizing maxims, to the 
true principles of liberty ; their de- 
lirious fury to the calm and steady 
courage of anation that understands 
its rights, and defends them: in 
fine, their factious combinations to 
the true interests of our country, 
which, in this moment of danger, 
ought to unite all those to whom 
her subjugation and her ruin are 
not objects of atrocious joy, or in- 
famous speculation. 
Such, gentlemen, are the repre- 
_ sentations and the petitions submit- 
ted tothe nationalassembly, as they 
are to the king, by a citizen, whose 
love of liberty will never be ho- 
nestly questioned ; whom the dif- 
ferent factions would hate less if 
he had not raised himself above 
them by hisdisinterestedness ; whom 
silence would have better become, 
if, like so many others, he had been 
indifferent to the glory of the na- 
tional assembly, and the confidence 
with which it is of importance that 
it should be surrounded: and who 
cannot better testify his own con- 
_ fidence than by laying before it the 
truth without disguise. 
Gentlemen, I have obeyed the 
dictates of my conscience, and the 
obligation of my oaths. I owed it 
to my country, to you, to the king, 
and, above all, to myself, whom the 
hances of war do not allow to 
tpone observations that I think 
eful, and who wish to believe 
that the assembly will find in this 
a new homage of my devotion to 
~ Vox. XXXIV. 
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its constitutional authority, of my 
personal gratitude, and my respect. 
(Signed) La Fayverre. 
Letter from the King tothe National 
Assembly, June 21. 
bt bee nationalassemblyisalready 
apprised of the events of yester- 
day : no doubt Parisis full of conster- 
nation, I leave to the prudence 
of the assembly the management of 
the constitution, and also the indi- 
vidual liberty of the hereditary re- 
presentative of the people. France 
will learn what has happened with 
grief. As for me, nothing shall 
hinder me from steadily pursuing, 
without the least distrust, the views 
which are directed by the consti- 
tution, which I have sworn to main- 
tain, and to obtain those ends which 
it prescribes. 
(Signed) Louis. 
Proclamation by the King, on the 
Events of the 20th of June. 
FRENCHMEN cannot hear 
without concern, that a multitude, 
excited by some factious persons, 
came, with arms in their hands, 
into their King’s palace, draw- 
ing a piece of cannon even into 
the guard-room ; that they broke 
open the doors of his apart- 
ment with axes, and there audaci- 
ously abusing, by assuming thename 
of the nation, attempted to obtain 
by force the sanction which his Ma- 
jesty had constitutionally refused to 
two decrees.—The King opposed 
to the menaces and insults of these 
factious persons only his conscience 
and his love for the public weal, 
The King knows not at what point 
they would stop ; but he thinks it 
right to inform the French nation, 
that violence, to whatever excess it 
may 
