STATE PAPERS. 
During this war with foreigners, 
who pretended to take up arms for 
the King of the French, the nation 
might reasonably expect that the 
King would act a decided part, and 
form opposition not only by express 
declarations, but by such military 
preparations as might leave no room 
to doubt of his sentiments. 
These expectations of the nation 
have been disappointed; the King 
has not taken a single measure pro- 
per to convince either the French 
or foreign nations of his constitu- 
tional sincerity. Such acts of his 
as have been denominated formal, 
either came very late, or were equi- 
vocal, and were not stamped with 
that frankness and loyalty which 
carry conviction. The preparations 
he made were faint; they were 
slow and inadequate; the decrees 
which ordered them were ill exe- 
cuted, or not at all. Offensive war 
met with every obstacle, and was 
entered into no farther than to turn 
it into an intrigue, wherein the 
court of the Thuilleries, the gene- 
rals, and the foreign powers, visibly 
acted in concert. 
Nor were the treasons going on 
at home less manifest than those 
concerted abroad: the King was 
constantly attended by men who 
detested the revolution, and by mi- 
nisters who gave it a retrograde 
tendency. When this council was 
composed of patriots, they were 
soon dismissed from it. He had 
need of a guard devoted to anti-re- 
volution principles: such an one 
was formed, and yet that did not 
satisfy him, but he must also pay 
a salary to his quondam body guards, 
who were disbanded by a decree, 
and actually in a state of open re- 
bellion on the frontiers. To put an 
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end to popular associations which 
supported liberty; to bring the Na- 
tional Assembly into disrepute; to 
create misunderstandings between 
the national guards and the people; 
to discredit assignats, and facilitate 
the return of the emigrants, were 
so many feats to be atchieved; and 
the King had closed with all such 
projects, and encouraged them with 
criminal perseverance; proofs of all 
which have been discovered in the 
books of accounts of the civil list, 
and other authentic pieces. The 
money allowed to maintain the 
splendour of the throne was em- 
ployed to crush the nation and stifle 
liberty, to hire assassins, and mur- 
der the very people who had raised 
him to that throne. Such a multi- 
plicity of treasons could not but be 
detected: and the representatives of 
the people were examining what 
remedy the constitution afforded, in 
order to prevent them for the fu- 
ture, and whether the King's case 
did not amount to that of abdica- 
tion, when the people rose, and pre- 
vented the decision, 
At present, itis proved that the 
blood which was shed in the insur- 
rection of the 10th of August must 
be laid to the account of those court 
devoted chiefs who transformed the 
Thuilleries into a place of war; and 
were so dastardly perfidious as to 
order their soldiers to fire on the 
citizens of Paris and the confede- 
rates, at the very instant they and 
the Swiss were interchanging tokens 
of amity and coofraternity. The 
friends of tyranny expected, in this 
conflict, to see despotism triumphs 
but they themselves were vanquish- 
ed; and the people, now wrought 
up to fury, demanded the King 
should be divested, and even de- 
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