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the most necessary laws *; that he 
had no longer any authority over 
the sea and land forcest ; that the 
right of making peace and war was 
taken from him {; that he was de- 
prived of the power of electing ma- 
gistrates §; and that, not enjoying 
even the power of going wherever 
he pleased, which the constitution 
secures to all citizens, his most 
Christian Majesty was forced to re- 
side near the pretended legislative 
body ||; and that the chain which 
detained him could not be extend- 
ed farther than the distance of 
swenty miles. 
The supreme authority in France 
being never-ceasing and indivisible, 
the King could neither be deprived 
nor voluntarily divest himself of 
any of the prerogatives of royalty, 
because he is obliged to transmit 
them entire with his own crown to 
his successors. 
He could be dethroned only by 
an abdication: but the acts which 
he committed cannot even be consi- 
dered as a partial abdication, be- 
cause he could not divest himself of 
the crown but to invest the pre- 
sumptive heir, and because the es- 
sential condition of the validity of 
such an act would bea full and en- 
tire liberty which did not exist; and 
this it is perfectly notorious that his 
most Christian Majesty never en- 
joyed. It is well known that the 
* Decree of September 24, 1789. 
REGISTER, 
1792. 
violence, outrages, and dangers with 
which his people were threatened, 
and on account of which he was 
continually harassed, never suffer- 
ed him to be in freedom a moment. 
How then could the sovereigns of 
Europe acknowledge a revolution 
which, to the scandal of the whole 
world, dethrones 2 puissant and 
just monarch, continually destroys 
his liberty, endangers his life as 
well as the lives of the Queen and 
royal family ; and which, by an uni- 
versal system of anarchy, would 
force all sovereigns, though the ho- 
nour of theirdiadems did not render 
it a duty, to consider as personal 
outrages to each of them individu- 
ally, all those which have been, or 
may hereafter be, offered to their — 
most Christian Majesties? Warned 
by the examples of the past; by 
the days, above all, of July 13th, 
14th, and 17th; by those of Oct. 
5th andGth, 1759,strangely reward- 
ed by the community of Paris **; 
by the oath of liberty taken by a 
captive monarch on the 5th of Fe- 
bruary, 1790; by the scandalous 
atrocities committed even in the 
apartment of the King, Feb. 28th, 
1791,0n his mo-t faithful servants ; 
by the ferocious insults of a hired 
mob and licentious soldiery, offer- 
ed for three hours successively on 
his most Christian Majesty and fa- 
mily, in his palace, on the 18th of 
+ Decree, February 28, 1792, and April 28, 1791. 
t Decree, March 22, 1790. 
§ Decree, August 16, 1790. 
|] Decree, Ma ch 24, 1792, Article ITT. 
#* The community of Paris decreed patriotic medallions to five women, who 
had heen at the head of he execrable expedition f Versailles: and the Abbe Malot, 
a Victorin monk, president of the community, had the audacity to say, ** Receive” 
this prize, which your country bestows on your virtues, your wisdom, and your 
patriotism.” The names of these wretches were, Agues ie Fevre, Genevieve Do- 
gan, Denise le Ferre, Petit, and Marie-Louisa Boujon. 
April, 
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