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~ Queen—* I repaired, I must own, with my hufband and his children té 
the hall of the Opera-house; but I did not sée that the national cocade was 
trod under foot. It is false thet I ever spoke to the soldiers of the regiment 
of Nafsau, or to the chafseurs of Trois Eveches.”’ 
President—* What did you say to the life guards when you appeared. 
at that orgy >?” 
Queen—* I applauded that banquet, because it was to nae produced the . 
union of the life guards with the national guards.” - 
Public Accuser—“ Have you not held secret councils at the house of 
the ci-devant Duchefs of Polignac—Councils at which the ci-devant French 
ptinces afsisted, and in which, after having discufsed the fate of the empire, 
you gave yourself up to the infamous pleasures of debauchery.” 
Queen—“* All the state affairs were discufsed in council, and no where 
else. Ihave no knowledge of the rest of this afsertion.” 
Public Accuser—“ Are not Thouret, Barentin, and de Espremenil, the 
authors of the articles of the declaration of June 23.2” ; 
Queen—‘* The ministers in place alone composed the council at that 
time.” 
Fudge—* Did not your hufband communicate his designs to you, when 
he invested the hall of the representatives-of the people with troops ?” 
Queen—‘ My hufband reposed his confidence in me; he communicated 
to me the speech which he was to have made on that occhsion. He had 
in other respects, no bad intentions.” 
FJudge—* Why did troops of the line invest Paris and Werdanices ld 
Queen—* For the sake of general safety.” 
Judge— What use have you made of the immense sums which you 
have been entrusted with? 
Queen—* No endrmous sum has been entrusted to me; the accounts 
of my household will prove what use has been made of all I have re- 
ceived.” 
Fudge—* How did the family of the Polignacy who were so poor at 
first, grow so rich 2” b 
o hairokis That family held offices at court, which were very lucra« 
tive.” ' 
‘Many other questions were afked, and answers given in the same re- 
collected manner, which our limits prevent us from particularising. The 
fo! owih» may fhow of what nature the evidence was that was hin 
“against her. 
ou sulon,ci-devant judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal—* All the 
facts bs dateal in the act of accusation are of such public notoriety, that 
it is unecefsary to spend time on them: If my fullest conviction can be of 
any weight, I will not hesitate to affirm, that I am fully persuaded that’ 
this woman is guilty of the greatest crimes; that the has always conspired 
