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minals *, . Every species of villany 
was |permitted, under the name of 
patriotism. France was inundated 
with blood—flames covered it with 
ruins—and._ strangers beheld with 
horrorand consternation that coun- 
try, whose laws,manners, politeness; 
prosperity, and above all, its fidelity 
to its kings, were so much boasted 
of ;.and which, by a frightful revo- 
lution, was. suddenly converted into 
aland.of discord, proscription, exile; 
conflagration, and carnage; and 
where every violence was permitted 
with, impunity.. Inflamed) with an 
insatiable ardour of exercising this 
pretended sovereignty of the peo- 
ple, each wished to govern, and to 
divide the bloody remnants. of the 
supreme authority, Hence arose 
innumerable’ assemblies of electors, 
municipalities, cantons, districts, 
and departments; Hence those fa- 
tal turns from which intrigue scan- 
dalously. procured the most shame- 
ful.elections';, that general lottery 
of all places, all|,public functions 
of the episcopacy itself, and other 
church-dignities.in which violence;: 
deception,.and Deism, obtained al-; 
most the whole prizes. Hence so-, 
cieties of conspirators and enthusi- 
asts, stifling and suppressing; by per- 
secution and popular punishment,, 
the voice! and, opinion of honest 
men. |'Hence the galleries domi- 
neering over the usurping assembly; 
and the delirium of the assembly it- 
self, which thought it enjoyed au- 
thority, when it only servilely obey- 
ed the impulse of fanatics and mad- 
men without doors, and was sub- 
jected to the fickle passions of the 
people. 
In this general and systematic 
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anarchy, ereated by the most exe- 
crable and profound art, thousands 
of victims were. sacrificed in all 
quarters; and) provinces and whole 
towns weré given up without mer- 
cy to the most shocking barbarities. 
—Every one who; was suspected, 
was consigned to destruction :++ 
every one who was moderate, was: 
considered as criminal :+~all. those 
who had. property to make, them 
objects of plunder were denounced: 
as enemies of the public good; and, 
ina word, amidst accusations com 
manded, solicited, and paid for; in: 
the midst of committees of research, 
clubs, assemblies of ,all kinds, and, 
national prisons, into which tyrah-! 
ny arbitrarily crowded faithful sub-, 
jects, whom judges, even chosen 
by the factious, could not condemn, 
and dared not acquit; amidst: the 
agitation of all passions excited at 
the same time, virtue alone was.a 
crime, established right was usurpa> 
tion, and every one. was a soves' 
reign, except the sovereign him- 
self! azodt her; aeddo 
| The organ of \the:factious, :the) 
mayor of Paris, had the impudence: 
insolently to tell Jhis King and: 
master, that the people had :con- 
queredhim. Thepeople, indeed, de- 
tained their monarch a captive in: 
their kingdom ; and his days, per- 
haps, would: not have been pro-) 
longed, but by the forced and sa~» 
lutary escape of one of his brothers, 
and princes of the blood. 
Themonarchand monarchy,liow- 
ever, still in appearance, subsist- 
ed; odious and intolerable decrees 
having taken place of the simple 
observations of his most Christian 
Majesty. The revolters were irii- 
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* To the soldiers set at liberty from the gallies, and the assassins of Avignony 
Nismes, Arles, &c 
tated 
