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ment'they aresuppressing his guard, 
and arresting the faithful captain of 
it; at the moment they are suffer- 
ing his Majesty to be denounced, 
menaced, and publicly insulted ; 
and that the most villainous canaille, 
breaking open the doors of his pa- 
lace, come with pikes in their hands 
(as it had done on the 20th of June 
preceding) to signify to him, with 
unblushing effrontery, its will, and 
pollute his sacred head with the 
most disgraceful symbols of revolt. 
That such horrible iniquity should 
pass unpunished, makes nature 
shudder. But so far from punish- 
ing these guilty persons, thereigning 
faction multiplies them, and invites 
to the capital the most determined 
assassins from all parts of the coun- 
try, as if it wished to announce, in 
the face of all Europe, armed against 
such crimes, that at the last hour of 
the revolution, its atrocity surpasses 
even the horrible excesses which 
marked its first progress. 
This affecting review of the at- 
tempts committed against the per- 
son of the King, grieves our soul 
too poignantly that we should re- 
flect on itany longer. It therefore 
remains with us only rapidly to-ex- 
pose the other attempts, which have 
violated all the laws of the king- 
dom, and destroyed public order 
to its very foundation. 
The force and the dignity of the 
throne being annihilated, all the 
powers of it have been accumulat- 
ed in the grasp of a factious majo- 
rity, governed by incendiary clubs; 
and which (being supported within 
by hired auditors, and without by 
seditious gangs of people) has exer- 
cised, without shame, the most ar- 
bitrary despotism, against which it 
has never ceased to declaim. 
We have seen it proscribing in- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1702. 
distinctly abuses and privileges; 
confounding destruction with re- 
form; opposing an intemperate li- 
centiousness to the wise liberty 
which a beneficent monarch had of- 
fered to his people, occupied only 
in destroying it ; encompassing it- 
self with ruins; undermining all 
kinds of property; attacking all the 
revenues, particularly that which 
was appropriated to the dignity of 
the throne ; suppressing the inse- 
parable distinction of monarchical 
government, held sacred from im- 
memorial possession; stripping the 
crown of prerogatives which the 
whole nation, with the unanimous 
consent of its different parts, had 
commanded to be respected ; and 
reducing the royal power even to 
less than a shadow. 
They destroyed the administra- 
tion of justice by trusting fortunes, 
privileges, and persons, to the in- 
capacity of subaltern judges, re- 
movable at pleasure; placed out of 
the reach of the observation of the 
supreme head of the state, and de- 
pendent on the caprices of a mob, 
masters of their choice and of their 
fate. They invaded the property — 
of the clergy at the moment in 
which they were offering to the 
finances of the state sacrifices ca- 
pable of restoring them; they 
changed and confounded the li- 
mits of ecclesiastical jurisdiction; 
exacted from the pastors an oath 
inconsistent with their consciences; 
offered them the alternative of 
apostacy or deprivation. — The 
clergy of France having remained 
unshaken in their duties, except- 
ing a very small number of rene- 
gadoes, who did themselves justice 
by separating from a body worthy 
of public veneration, the assembly 
not only dared to declare the epis- 
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