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Against the liberty of the French people. The following is a circumstance 
‘which I have to relate to you:—On the roth of August, I was present at 
the siege of the Chateau of the Thuilleries. I saw under the bed of Marie 
Antoinette full or empty bottles, from whichI concluded that fhe had her- 
“self distributed wine to the Swifs soldiers, that these wretches in their in 
toxication, might afsafsinate the people.” Roufsillon then declared, tha* 
his intention, and that of the other patriots, was, after having inflicted jus- 
tice on the Etat Major of the Swifs guards, to proceed to the Convention, 
ta sacrifice the royal family, who had taken refugethere. ‘ We met (ad- 
ded he) Brifsot and Guadet, who conjured us not to commit that political 
erime ; I say, political crime, for it can never surely be a crime in morals 
to ridthe earth of tyrants.” 
When the mock forms of justice were gone through, the Tribunal de« 
clared the widow Capet guilty of having Leen accefsary to and having co- 
operated in different maneuvres against the liberty of France ; of having 
entertained a correspondence with the enemies of the republic ; of having 
participated in a plot tending to kindle civil war in the interior of the re- 
publ ic, by arming citixens against each other. 
When the sentence was read to the queen, fhe cast down her eyes, and 
did not again lift them up. ‘‘ Have you- nothing to reply upon the deter- 
mination of the law? said the president to her. ‘ Nothing,” fhe replied. 
“ And you officious defenders ?”’ ‘* Our mifsion is fulfilled with respect te 
the widow Capet,” said they. 
Sentence of death was then pafsed upon her, and the next day, viz Wed- 
nesday 16th ult. fhe was guillotined, at half past 11 o’clock in the 
forenoon. 
The whole armed force in Paris was on foot from the place of justice te 
the place de la Revolution. The streets were lined by two very close rows 
of armed citizens. As soon as the ci-devant queen left the Conciergerie, 
to ascend the scaffold, the multitude which was afsembled in the courts and 
the streets, cried out brave, in the midst of plaudits. She had ona white 
loose drefs, and her hands were tied behind her back. She looked firmly 
round her or all sides. She was accompanied by the ci-devant Curate of 
St Landry, a constit utional priest, and on the acataled preserved her natural 
dignity of mind. 
When laid hold of by the executioner, fhe was observed to faintly smile, 
and submitted to her execution in the most pafsive manner: but at the 
moment, not a fhout or murmur was heard among the immense multitude ~ 
that surrounded. 
Three young persons who dipped their handhercheifs in her blood, were 
immediately arrested. 
Fronson de Coudray and Chaveau de la-Gards, the pleaders for Maric 
Antoinette, were, by order of the Committee of General Safety, put in 
