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id CoNDEMNATION AND EXECUTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. 
The decree of the Convention, ordering ‘that her tral fhould come on 
within eight days, was implicitly obeyed by the Revojutionary Tribunal. 
The trial took placeon the 15th ult. 
‘The following is an extract of part of the proceedings: 
ACT OF ACCUSATION, OR INDICTMENT. 
Martz ANTOINETTE stands charged, 
ast, With having dilapidated and lavifhed the finances of the nation, in 
concert with the execrable Calonne, by causing to be transmitted to the 
Emperor several miliions, wiich still serve to carry on the war’ with 
France. : 
2dly, With having, in imitation of Brunehaud, and De Medecis, who 
also called themselves gueens of France, conspired against the liberty of the 
French nation. 
gdly, With having sought to starve the people in 1789. 
4ithly, With having excited the murders of October 5. and 6. 
sthly, With having, in concert with Bally and da Fayette, caused the 
patriots-to be butchered inthe Champ de Mars. 
6thly, With having prevailed upon the Swifs to fire on the people on the 
toth of August. 
qhly, With having, like another Agrippina, forgotten that fhe was a 
mother, in order to commit incest with her son. . 
Marie Antoinette heard the reading of the act of accusation, without 
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seeming to be in the least moved. 
[Here the interrogatory began.] 
President—“ What is your name?” 
Queen—“ Marie Antoinette, of Lorrain and Austria.” : 
President—“ Your quality.” 
Queen—* I am the widow of Louis Capet king of the French,” 
[Here the witnefses were called in.] 
Laurent Lecointre, the first witnefs, formerly chief of division of the nae 
tional guard of Versailles, and at present a member of the Natiénal Con- 
vention, related the historical occurrences ot the sth and 6th of October ; 
and from his relation it. appeared, that the ci devant gardes’de corps, or 
life-guards, were th: first aggrefsors. Lecointre spoke also, though not as 
an ocular witnefs of the nocturnal riot which was occasioned Oct. 3. at 
Versailles by the late king’s life-guards in the hall of the Opera. ‘“ Marie 
Antoinette,”’ said he, “ repaired to that banquet :—fhe applauded the con- 
_ duct of the guards: fhe also visited the regimentof Nafsan and the chaf- 
seurs of Trois Eveches, who were quartered in the Orangerie of the Gardens 
of Versailles,” 
