FRANCE, 
ie  Feouted tl every moderate Frenchmtan, who had been ac- 
lto 
m roo 
n "5 ee Boullls, 
a great peal, emigrated, and pei fent to the affem- 
bly a furious letter: “ You fhall anfwer,” fays he, ‘ for the 
lives of the king and queen t the monarchs of the uni- 
; ia a a oe hair of their heads, and not one 
n Paris. I know the ro 
me 
‘the emperor 
‘at the time was ieee but it. was as etelly ee 
and it has generally been underftood to have been intended 
for the purpofe of concluding a league. for the invafion = 
2 the new modelling of its government, and the 
on of fome of i its fairelt provinces. ~ ose ailer- 
by were not deficient in — on their par ey formed 
new confituti ion, and on 13th of Sede nl ies 
announced his acceptance ent was or 
‘be notified to all the foreign courts, and che affembly sae on 
a general amnefty with ref{pect to the events of the revolu- 
8 
had teen knov 
fentbly,” diffolved itfelf, and gave ‘pla ace to the fucceeding 
legiflative -body that had been reais d according to the rules 
pre referibed ‘by the new conttitutio 
From this period focieties and ene "began to'be ‘formed 
“in all parts of the ‘metropolis ; 
“fo called from the name of the-place where the members af- 
gulature. Being at “by violen 
Nie they were not able to obtain seem ithe Tea. 
undiion with the muriicipality of Paris, collected a 
Tee concourfe of people of all defcriptions, and appeared ; 
-proé oclaim ey emperor, a aligeett c 
i high. authority, aad having under- a contro imamenfe 
with cannon before the palace 
‘they’ nae eee ad ae fatisfied. 
the month of June, and dfte 
‘but that of the Jacobins, - 
-volution, till at len 
- eleGed a conful, and then chief . conful, in imitation of the 
er that, events fucceeded each ha 
ther with fach fapidity, tha at it would’be fruitléfs in tative 
ba even, 
ily fubdaed by t 
kin B's. of the fame’ eae, " Over Te 
of 
terri itory 
every mark of contempt and infult. From this place they 
were fent to = o palace of the Temple as prifoners, under 
trict all perfons’ canes to them were feized 
and a cS different 
‘On the 20th of September ae a national convention 
affembled. It contained men of all characters, orders, and 
ranks, but the general afpeét of it fhewed molt decidedly 
that the republican party had a ep : vat fupericrity, 
and o day of their meeting, Co *Herbois, w ho 
had ca eee n actor, afcended nee tribune 
pofed “ The at abolition of royalty in F 
queftion was carried ” acclamation, and the houfe ad- 
journed. n the next day it was decreed that. public 
acts fhould a dated by the year of the French republic, 
and ot citizens were declared eligible to all vacant offices 
and 
Te was now determined to bring the king to trial, and on 
the 11th of December he was conveyed to the ar of the 
‘convention, to hear the char ges. exhibited againtt. hi 
though -he had no previous intimation refpeCting thei na- 
ture, he replied to them with clearnefs and precifion, and’ . 
i) 
‘with a full confcioufnefs . is own innocence. The trial 
came on the 26th, when the king appeared for the laft time 
‘at the ie of. the rational afflembly. 
The difcuffion was, 
however, continued to the 18th oe January, when, after.a. 
fitting of . mer -four ae the ay aga of d 
aw ‘shoes d b e fmall ee of five 
ngth Bona aparte contrived: to get Hee 
At firft this. 
- a limited time only, but during that 
o- malse it not only an-office for :life, , 
, CON» - 
ace ite d.with. 
mies anda mighty: population, he has gone-on from vidiory 
i ra sala till, . i = he has ee ioe the whole . 
contin es.of Bavaria, Saxony, and Wirtemberg, . 
ave all "been ‘waited :to ;that thigh hong leans by: his a 
ftnence.. On. thrones: of: Welt , Ho alland, ..and 
Be ce he has phiced three of: = own. boi Ss, sash on rbat 
of eee ‘his creature ene 
di rade ¢ 2 
iy 
Lipids 
| tithe-and | power 
O° his . z 
terrors a the inquitition. ; Withzrefpe& to ‘Auttria, | fhe-has 
2. agaia 
