FRANCE. 
proper weight, and to preserve to the constitution’ the History. 
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> was dread- 
y in‘its actual circumstances, but as a dread- 
of what was to come. Before, around, 
and behind’ the royal family, were a mob of frantic 
women, debauched pend rents attended and cheered 
The success and triumph of the unprincipled and fe- 
, who were anxious to lay ee 
power, in order that they might ify their diaboli 
i was now nearly complete. having forced 
ig the , and in virtually 
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reality as well as the name of a monarchy. 
On the 19th of June, a motion was made to suppress Hereditary 
all hereditary titles, liveries, and coats of arms. This titles sup- 
was also carried ; and, of all the King’s ministers, Nec. Pressed. 
kar alone, a plebeian, bred and born in a democracy, 
and who always professed republican principles, 
advised his Majesty to refuse his assent to the decree. 
_ The French are fond of spectacle; and of this fond- 
ness it was now resolved to take advan’ The Bas- 
tile had been destroyed on the 14th of July the prece- 
ding year. As the anniv of this event was now 
approaching, it was 
oath 
plain which adjoins the capital, was fixed on for the - 
ceremony. . In the midst of it an altar was placed, and 
around a altar an amphitheatre was constructed, ca- 
pable of containing 400,000 le. At 4 o'clock in 
the evening, the Marquis de ayette ascended the 
oy and took an oath gi pst = the pane the 
, and the King: the deputies e r troops 
and militia te! pai ttt The Marquis was fol- 
lowed by the president of the National Assembly, who 
took an oath varying in substance a little from that taken 
thee military; and each deputy repeated aloud, after 
president, “ I swear.” The King also, s ing his 
arm towards the altar, took an oath to emplo the 
power to him by the constitution, for the main- 
tenance of the constitution, and the execution of the law. 
~ Neckar had long been convinced that his influence 
- The ipal proceedings of the National Assem was on the wane, and that, even if he still enjoyed it 
during the remainder of 1789, related to the undiminished, he could do no , either in restrain- 
erected ier hoary ts, and the con- ing the blind fury of political innovation, or in re- 
fiscation of the lands, ~ Early in the followi ing order to the finances; he was besides a vain man; 
and, as has been already remarked, more conversant 
that on that day a civic Civic oath, 
be taken. The Champ de Mars, a spacious 14th July. 
in detail than in general principles and comprehensive 
views. On the 4th of September he press, his re- Neckar re- 
signation. ’ signs. 
The hostile reparation: s of Germany, Spain, Italy;.,,._,; 
and Savoy, hal in the beginning of i791. assomed a porn of 
character that could leave little doubt they were intend~ Germany, 
ed against France, With respect to Germany, the Ger- &c. 
ee eer 
wnireas | ‘As the Assembly were sensible that their proceedings 
man princes, who territory 
of the Rhine, could not be indifferent tors of a 
revolution in their immediate neighbourhood, which 
had stripped the French nobili all their privileges, 
and, in many instances, had deprived them of their 
lives. Besides, the German its were not slow in 
following the example set them by their brethren in 
France ; so that what they had actually suffered, as 
well as the dangers they apprehended, stimulated the 
German princes against the Revolution. [n their ap- 
prehensions of future danger, the other princes, at pre- 
sent remote from the example and influence of the Re 
volution, were not slow in participating ; and these 
prehensions likewise took of several of the sove- 
reigns of E . There were also other considera- 
tions which influenced some of them: the Emperor of 
Germany was naturally anxious respecting the fate of 
his sister, the Queen of France, who was peculiarly 
obnoxious to the Revolutionists; and the King of Spai 
were viewed with suspi and by foreign could not behold with indifference one branch of the 
powers, they decreed that the French ; would ne- Bourbons stript almost entirely of regal power, and the 
ver embark’in any war with a view A tong wo nor King, as it were, the slave of his own le. 
ever their forces against the liberties of any peo- Parisians, alarmed at these hostile preparations; 
ple. tweet" femme og were suspicious that the King was consenting to them ; 
Lc pc of’ its unjust and 2 but and their suspicions were increased and strengthened 
by the departure, "in the ‘month: of February, of his 
on the north’ side 4+ 9.1791. 
