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tog. — Reaches Bois le Due. — Propofes an enter^ 

 prize which is approved^ and occafions him to go 

 to the Hague. — Returns with power to carry his 

 plan into execution. 



i^ANTERRE difpatchcd one of his Aides-du- 

 Camp to announce to the Convention the death 

 of the King, as foon as his head was flruck off; 

 he himfelf ftaid to fee the body interred, and 

 then rode to the hall of the Convention. 



The letter he 'had fent by his Aid-du-Camp 

 contained fo many boafls of his own fliocking 

 brutalities, that the Prefident refufed to read it 

 aloud, and contented himfelf by announcing the 

 event to the Convention. The whole city feem- 

 ed quite melancholy : for fome days hardly any 

 one was to be (ten in the flreets, and the few 

 that flirred out, wore evident marks of grief 

 and difmay in their countenances. On the night 

 of the King's death I went into feveral of the 

 theatres : they were empty; and I am well con- 

 vinced that nine-tenths, not only of the people 

 of Paris, but of all France, at that time were 

 flill devoted to their fovercign, but they wanted 

 a leader and confidence in each other, to enable 

 them to prevent, or to avenge his fall. 



Mr. Ncwcomb, before-mentioned, who had 

 only waited in Paris to fee whether the Con- 

 vention would dare to put their threat in exe- 

 cution. 



