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ts rights, and to the confcioufnefs of its force and courage, and 

 to the loyalty of your co-operation, can entertain no apprehen- 

 fion of alarms from without, and is about to contribute, by its 

 tranquil confidence, to the fpeedy fuccefs of its internal govern- 

 ment. 



" What ought to be great in your eyes. Sire, dear to our 

 hearts, and what will appear with luftre in our hiftory, is the 

 epoch of this regeneration ; which gives to France, citizens — 

 to the French, a country — to you, as a King, a new title of 

 grandeur and glory — and to you again, as a man, a new fource 

 of enjoyment, and new fenfations of happinefs." 



Loud plaudits followed. 



The icing quitted the Aflembly in the midft of fhouts of 

 Vive le Roi — The Affembly, in a body, accompanied him to the 

 palace of the Thuilleries, in the midft of acclamations and 

 fhouts of joy from the people, military mufic, and repeated 

 difcharges of artillery. \ 



September ig. 



M. Goupil moved, that as the conltitution was now finiihed, 

 it (hould be publifhed all over the empire with all poflible fb- 

 lemnity : That, after proclaiming it in each municipality, Te 

 DeuiH Ihould be fung, and that this ceremony (hould be fol- 

 lowed with feftivals and public rejoicings ; and that this fhould 

 be accompanied by a rekafe of all the prifoners of a certain de- 

 fcription. 



Thefe propofals were adopted — The laft with fome modifi- 

 cation. 



September 16. 



M. Duport, in the name of the Committee of Criminal Ju- 

 rifprudence, recapitulated the articles of the decree concern- 

 ing the organization of juries, when fsveral alterations were 

 adopted, and it was decreed, " That the epocha of the exift- 

 cnce of trial by jury is fixed for the ift of January 1792." 



I. " That until the ift of January 1792, criminal procefles 

 fhall be continued to be carried on according to the exiftihg 

 form£» 



a. " That the executive power fliall make, without delay, all 

 the necefiary preparations for the a<ftivity of juries, from the 

 firft of January 1792." 



Upon the propotition of M. Emmery, in the name of the 

 Conftitutional and MiUtary Committees, the Aflembly pafled 

 the following decree : 



•• The National Aflembly decrees, that the officers of the 

 army ihall take the following oath : 



" I fwear to be faithful to the Nation, to the Law, and to 

 the King •, to maintain the conftitution with all my power ; to 

 execute, and to fee executed^ the law s and aiiUtary ordinan- 

 ces." 



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