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Roland, and feveral others of the then leaders of 

 France, moft of whom have lince been guillo- 

 tined. 



During my abode in Paris, I was an eye-wit-, 

 nefsofmany fhocking malTacres, and I cannot 

 help wondering at my own efcapes; for at a 

 time when liveries were forbidden to all but the 

 foreign minifters, and brilliant equipages wholly 

 out of ufe, I had both of the moft fplendid 

 kind, and was generally called an arifiocrate^ a re- 

 proach I did not take much pains to contradid:. 

 The time fixed fbr the trial of the unfortunate 

 Louis now drew near, and vaft preparations 

 were made for that purpofe. During this time 

 the violence of the Jacobin party daily increafed, 

 though it had not then reached its height of 

 wanton and indifcriminate murder. 



When the day arrived for the King to appear 

 before the Convention, I, with Mr. Maxwell, 

 went in the fuite of Beruyer, to fetch him; the 

 whole way was lined with troops, and the con- 

 courfe of people was immenfe. The unhappy 

 monarch was found drefled in a morning- coat 

 of grey Bath coating, a v/aiftcoat, and, I think, 

 breeches of the fame; his hair rolled up, and his 

 beard long, not expecting, as we imagined, a 



vifit of that kind.* 



A lingular 



* Clery fays that the King ^<7<^ received private intelligence, 

 and defcribes the means by v/hich fugh intelligence was ob- 

 tained. 



