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according as the conflitution prefcribcd me to do, and 
from the moment they came to my knowledge. Of this 
note I know nothing. 
Pref. The foldiers of the line, who were to be put on 
the war eflablifliment, confided but of ioo,oco men at the 
end of December, you therefore neglefled to provide for 
the fafety of the (fate from abroad. Narbonne required a 
levy of 50,000 men, but he (topped the recruiting at 26,000, 
in giving affurances that all was ready ; yet there was no 
truth in thefe affurances. Servart propofed after him to 
form a camp of 20,000 men near Paris ; it was decreed 
by the legiflative affembly ; you refilled your fanftion.-— 
What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I had given to the minifters all the orders for 
expediting the augmentation of the army : in the month 
of December laft, the returns were laid before the affem¬ 
bly. If they deceived themfelves, it is not my fault. 
Pref. A flight of patriotifm made the citizens repair 
to Paris from all quarters. You iffued a proclamation, 
tending to flop their march ; at the fame time our camps 
were without foldiers. Dumouriez, the fuccelfor of Ser- 
van, declared that the nation had neither arms, ammuni¬ 
tion, nor provifions, and that the pods were left defence- 
lefs. You waited to be urged by a requed made to the 
minider Lajard, when the legidative affembly wifhed to 
point out the means of providing for the external fafety 
of the date, by propofing 'the levy of forty-two batta¬ 
lions. You gave commiilion to the commanders of the 
troops to difband the army, to force whole regiments to 
defert, and to make them pafs the Rhine, to put them at 
the difpofal of your brothers, and of Leopold of Audria, 
with whom you had intelligence. This fa 61 is proved by 
the letter of Toulougeon, governor of Franche Comte.— 
What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I know nothing of this circumdance ; there is 
not a word of truth in the charge. 
Pref. You charged your diplomatic agents to favour 
this coalition of foreign powers and your brothers againfl 
France, and efpecially to cement the peace between 
Turkey and Audria, and to procure thereby a larger 
number of troops againd France from the latter. A letter 
of Choifeul-Gouffier, ambaffador at Condantinople, ve¬ 
rifies the faft.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. M. Choifeul did not fpeak the truth : no fuch 
thing has ever been. 
Pref The Pruffians advanced againd our frontiers: 
your minider was fummoned on the 8th of July to give 
an account of the date of our political relations with 
Pruflia ; you anfwered, on the 10th, that 50,000 Pruffians 
were'marching againfl 11s, and that you gave notice to 
the legiflative body of the formal acts of the pending 
hodilities, in conformity to the conflitution.—What have 
you to anfwer ? 
Louis. It was only at that period I had knowledge of 
it: all the correfpondence paffed with the minifters. 
Pref. You entrufled Dabancourt, the nephew of Ca- 
lonne, with the department of war ; and fuch has been 
the fuccefs of your confpiracy, that the pods of Longwy 
and Verdun were furrendered to the enemy at the mo¬ 
ment of their appearance.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I did not know that Dabancourt was M. Ca- 
lonne’s nephew. I have not diveded the pods. I would 
not have permitted myfelffuch a thing. 1 know nothing 
of it, if it has been fo. 
Pref. You have deflroyed our navy—a vafl number of 
officers belonging to that corps had emigrated; there 
fcarcely remained any to do duty in the harbours ; mean¬ 
while Bertrand was granting paffports every day ; and, 
when the legiflative body reprefented to you his cri¬ 
minal conduct on the 8th of March, you anfwered, that 
you were fatisfied with hisfervices.—What have you to 
anfwer ? 
Louis. I have done all I could to retain the officers. 
As to M. Bertrand, fince the legiflative affembly pre- 
fented no complaint againd him that might have put him 
in a date of accufation, I did not think proper to turn him 
out of office. 
Pref. You have favoured the maintenance of abfolnte 
government in the colonies ; your agents fomented trou¬ 
bles and counter-revolutions throughout them, which 
took place at the fame epoch when it was to have been 
brought about in France, which indicates plainly that you 
had laid this plot.—What have yon to anfwer ? 
Louis. If there are any of my agents in the colonies, 
they have not fpoken the truth ; I had nothing to do with 
what you havejud mentioned. 
Pref. The interior of the date was convulfed by fana¬ 
tics ; you avowed yourfelf their protestor, in manifefling 
your evident intention of recovering by them your an¬ 
cient power.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I cannot anfwer to this ; I know nothing of 
fuch a projeft. 
Pref. The legiflative body had paffed a decree on the 
29th of January againd the factious prieds; you fufpended 
its execution.—Whathave you to anfwer ? 
Louis. The conflitution referved to me the free right 
to refufe my iandfion of the decrees. 
Pref The uncitizen-like conduct of the guards whom 
the conflitution had granted you, had rendered it necelfary 
to difband them. The day after, you fent them a letter 
expreffive of your fatisfadfion, and continued their pay. 
This fadt is proved by the treafurer of the civil lid.— 
What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I only continued them in pay till fredi ones could 
be raifed, according to the tenor of the decree. 
Pref. You kept near your perfon the Swifs guards; 
the conflitution forbade you this, and the legiflative af¬ 
fembly had exprefsly ordained their departure.—What 
have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. I have executed all the decrees that have been 
enabled in that refpedt. 
Pref. You had private companies at Paris, charged to 
operate movements ufeful to your projedts of a counter¬ 
revolution. Dangremont and Gilles were two of your 
agents, who had falariesfrom the civil lid. The receipts 
of Gilles, who was ordered to raife a company of (ixty 
men, fliall be prefented to you.—What have you to 
anfwer ? 
Louis. I have no knowledge whatever of the projects 
laid to their charge : the idea of a counter-revolution 
never entered into my mind. 
Pref. You wifhed to liiborn, with confiderable films, 
feveral'members of the legiflative and condiment affem- 
blies. Letters from St. Leon and others evince the reality 
of thefe deeds.—What have you to anfwer ? 
Louis. Several perfons prefented themfelves with finii. 
lar decrees, but I have waved them. 
Pref. Why did you draw troops to the caflle ? 
Louis. All the condituted authorities law that the caflle 
was threatened; and as I was a condituted authority, I 
had a right to defend myfelf. 
Pref Why did you affix a veto on the decree which or¬ 
dained the formation of a camp of 20,000 men ? 
Louis. The conflitution left to me the free right of re- 
fwfing my fandtion of the decrees; and even from that pe¬ 
riod I had demanded the affemblage of a camp at Soiffons. 
Pref dent, addrefing the convention. The quedions are done 
with.— (To the king.) Louis, is there any thing that you 
wi(h to-add ? 
Louis. I requed a communication of the charges which 
I have heard, and of the papers relating thereto, and the 
liberty of choofing counfel for my defence. 
The prefident, Barrere, informed the king, that his 
two firfl requefls were already decreed, and that the de¬ 
termination refpefting the other would be made known 
to him in due time. It would have been the excefs of 
injudice to refufe a requed fo reafonable in itfelf; it was 
therefore decreed that counfel Ihould be allowed to the 
king. 
