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writing, and of a letter which Laporte wrote to you on 
the «9th of April; in which, recapitulating a converfa- 
tion he had with Rivarol, he told you, that the millions 
which you had been prevailed upon to throw away had 
been productive of nothing. For a long tin;*: you had 
meditated on a plan of efcape. A memorial was delivered 
tt> you on the 28th of February, which pointed out the 
means for you to effect it; you approved of it by marginal 
notes.—What have you to anfwer? 
Louis. I never felt greater pleafure than that of reliev¬ 
ing the needy: this proves no delign. 
Prof On the 28th, a great number of the nobles and 
military came into your apartments in the caftle of the 
Thuilleries to favour your efcape : you wanted to quit 
Paris, on the 10th of April, to go to St. Cloud.—What 
have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. This accufation is abfurd. 
Pref. But the reliftance of the citizens made you fenfi- 
ble that their diftruft was great; you endeavoured to dif- 
card it by communicating to the condiment affembly a 
letter, which you addreffed to the agents of the nation in 
the vicinity of foreign powers, to announce to them, that 
you had freely accepted the conftitutional articles, which 
had been prefented to you ; and, notwithftanding, on the 
21 ft you took flight with a falfe paffport. You left be¬ 
hind a proteft againft the felf-fame conftitutional articles; 
you ordered the minifters to fign none of the aCts ifl'ued 
by the national affembly; and you forbade the minifter of 
juftice to deliver up the feals of ftate. The public mo¬ 
ney was lavifhed to infure the fuccefs of this treachery, 
■and the public force was to protect it, under the orders 
of Bouille, who (hortly before had been charged with the 
maffacre of Nancy, and to whom you wrote on this head, 
“ to take care of his popularity, becaufe it would be of 
fervice to you.” Thefe fads are proved by the memorial 
of the 23d of February, with marginal comments in your 
own hand-writing ; by your declaration of the 20th of 
June, wholly in your own hand-writing ; by your letter 
of the 4th of September, 1790, to Bouille; and by a note 
of the latter, in which he gives you an account of the life 
he made of 993,000 livres, given by you, and employed 
partly in trepanning the troops who were to efcort you.— 
What have you to anfwer r 
Louis. I have no knowledge whatever of the memorial 
ot the 23d of February. As to what relates to my jour¬ 
ney to Varenres, 1 appeal to mv declaration to the com- 
miffaries of the conftituent affembly at that period. 
Prof. After your detention at Varennes, the exercife of 
the executive power was for a moment fufpended in your 
hands, and you again formed a conspiracy. On the 17th 
of July, she blood of citizens was ftied in the Champ de 
Mars. A letter, in your own hand-writing, written in 
1790 to La Fayette, proves that a criminal coalition fub- 
liited between yon and La Fayette, to which Mirabeau 
acceded. The revifion began under thefe cruel aufpices; 
all kinds of corruptions were made ufe of. You have 
paid for libels, pamphlet?, and newfpapers, defigned to 
corrupt the public opinion, to difcredit th'e afiignats, and 
to fupport the caufe of the emigrants. The regifters of 
Septeuil ftiew what immenfe fums have been made ufe 
of in thefe iiberticide manoeuvres.—What have you to 
anfwer ? 
Louis. What happened on the 17th of July has nothing 
at all to do with me. I know nothing of it. 
Pref. You feemed to accept the conftitutisn on the 
14th of September ; your fpeeches announced an inten¬ 
tion of fupporting it, and you were bufy in overturning 
it, even before it was completed. A convention was en¬ 
tered into at Pilnitz on the 24th of July, between Leopold 
of Auftria and Frederic-William ot Brandenburgh, who 
pledged themfelves to re-ereit in France the throne of 
abfolute monarchy, and you were filent upon this conven¬ 
tion till the moment when it was known by all Europe.— 
What have you to anfwer? 
N C E. 
Louis. I made it known as foon as it came to uiv know- 
ledge : befides, every thing that refers to this fubjefft con¬ 
cerns the minifter. 
Pref. Arles had hoifted the ftandard of rebellion ; you 
favoured it by fending three civil eommilfaries, who made 
it thair bulinefs not to reprefs the counter-revolutjonifts, 
but to juftify their proceedings.—What have you to 
anfwer ? 
Louis. The inftructions which were given to the com- 
miffaries nnift prove what was their million ; and I knew 
none of them when the minWlers propofed them to me. 
Pref. Avignon, and the county of Venaiftin, had been 
united with France; you caufed the decree to be exe¬ 
cuted; but a month after that time civil war defolated 
that country. The commiffaries you fent thither alflfted 
to ravage it.—What have you to anfwer? 
Louis. I do not remember what delay has been caufed 
in the execution of the decree ; befides, this occurrence 
has no perfonal reference to me ; it only concerns thofe 
that have been fent, not thofe who fent them. 
Pref. Nimes, Montauban, Mende, Jales, felt great 
fliocks during the firft days of freedom. You did nothing 
to ftifie thole germens of counter-revolution till the mo¬ 
ment when Saillant’s confpiracy became manifeftly noto¬ 
rious.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. T gave, in this refpeft, all the orders which were 
propofed to ine by the minifters. 
Pref. You fent twenty-two battalions againft the Mar- 
fellois, who marched to reduce the counter-revolutioniflrs 
of Arles.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I ought to have the papers referring to this mat¬ 
ter, to give a juft anfwer. 
Pref. You gave the fouthern command to Witgenftein, 
who wrote to you on the 21ft of April, 1792, after he 
had been recalled : “ A few inftants more, and I (hall caM 
around the thrbne of your majefty thoufands of French, 
who are again become worthy of the wifhes you form for 
their happinefs.”—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. This letter is dated fince his recal; he has not 
been employed fince. I do not recoiled! this letter. 
Pref. You paid your late life-guards at Coblentz ; the 
regiffers of Septeuil atteft this ; and general orders figned 
by you prove that you fent confiderable remittances to 
Bouille, Rochefort, Vauguyon, Choifeul, Beaupre, Ha¬ 
milton, and the wife of Polignac.—Wlut have you to 
anfwer ? 
Louis. When I firft learned that my life-guards af- 
fembled beyond the Rhine, I flopped their pay ; as to the 
reft, I do not remember. 
Pref. Your brothers, enemies to the ftate, caufed the 
emigrants to rally under their banners : they railed re¬ 
giments, took up loans, and concluded alliances, in 
your name : you did not difclaim them ; but at the mo¬ 
ment when you were fully certain that you could no longer 
crofs their projects, your intelligence with them by a 
note, written by Louis Staniflaus Xavier, figned by you-r 
two brothers, was conceived in thefe words : “ I wrote 
to you, but it was by poll, and I could fay nothing. We 
are two here, who make but one ; one in fentiments, one 
in principles, one in zeal of ferving you. We keep fi- 
lence ; becaufe, were we to break it too foon, it would 
injure you : but we fliall fpeak as foon as we (hall be 
certain of general fupport, and that moment is near. If 
we are fpoken to on the part of thofe people, we. (hall 
hear nothing ; but if on your part, we will liften: we 
(hall purfue our road ftraight. It is therefore defired that 
you will enable us to fay fomething. Do not (land on 
ceremonies. Be eafy about your lafety : we only exift 
to ferve you ; we are eagerly occupied with this point, and 
all goes on well ; even our enemies feel themfelves too 
much interefted in your prefervation to commit an ufelefs 
crime which would terminate in their own deftrudfion.” 
.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I difowned all the proceedings of my brothers, 
according 
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