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apartment ; and compared it with the 
tace of the valet-du-chambre. *Pardieu !”’ 
faid he, addrefling himtelf to Louis XVI, 
“‘ itis inconceivable how much you re- 
femble our worthy king!” then ftepping 
upto the baronnets, ‘do but look, ma- 
dam,”’ faid he, ** how much our excellent 
fovereign and your valet-du-chambre are 
alike.” The queen affected not to hear 
him, and kept repeating every inftant, 
“come, come! let us go!”’—Sawfé ex- 
claimed four times: ‘* how much they 
are alike! do but look, madam, I befeech 
you: Would not any one take him for the 
king? It is the king,” faid the queen, 
with a great deal of majefty ; “* Tam the 
queen; and here are Monfeigueur the 
dauphin, Madame Elizabeth, and Madame 
Royale ! it will be your own fault if you 
don’t make your fortune; you muft be 
fenible of the fervice you have it in your 
power to render us, and cannot'doubt that 
our gratitude will be equally great.” 
«‘'The reward, moft grateful to me,” 
anfwered Saufé, ‘* is the honour of hav- 
ing his majetty in my houte, and that of 
paying my refpe& to him in my character 
of citizen; but in my quality of magif- 
trate, [ am under the neceflity of inform- 
ing his majefty that it is impoflible for 
him to proceed; that the people are un- 
der arms to the amount of ten thoufand 
men ; and that the duty of Louis XVI. is 
to remain in the midft of a nation by 
which he is adored, and to return to 
Paris.” 
When the queen, who was thunder- 
ftruck by thefe words, recovered from her 
aftonifhment, fhe was highly incenied ; 
but by dint of politeneis, and foothing 
language, the procnrator of the commune 
found means to appeafeher. ‘The phrafe- 
ology, indeed, which that able magiftrate 
adopted, was fo re{pectful, and fo fuited ta 
the occafion, that it was impoffible for the 
king and queen to be offended. The 
princefs Elizabeth, however, fhewed ftrong 
marks of anger: ‘* come, fir,” faid the, 
in a haughty tone, ‘* be civil at leaft, and 
let us depart.” 
At this jun&ture, Romeuf, general 
La Fayette’s aid-du-camp arrived. He 
fignified to Louis XVI. that he had orders 
to conduct him back to Paris, and at 
length the king confented to fet off. It 
was now five o'clock in the morning. As 
he was coming out of the houfe of Savfé, 
his attention was called to fifteen thou- 
fand men of the national guards of the 
Vicinity, armed with mutkets, fcythes, 
fpits and all kinds of offenfive inftru- 
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ments: § It is, fatd Saufe, to protec? your 
life, and your return.” And, in faét, no 
leis than ten thoufand men accompanied 
his carriage. How it was poffible in fo 
fhort a time to colleét fo large a force in a 
country where the villages, though of 
-confiderable fize, are {cattered at a great 
diftance from one another, is a thing truly 
altonifhing. 
At the moment the king was preparing 
to fet off, Damas, Choifeul, and two 
colonels of dragoons in full uniform 
made their appearance, and were imme- 
diately taken into cuftody. ‘* To the 
lantern with them! to the lantern, re- 
founded on all fides 1’ It is well known, 
that at that time fuch an outcry amounted 
to little lefs than a fentence of death ; 
and they were accordingly about to be 
maflacred, when M. La Fayette’s aid-du- 
camp, and the commandant of the naticnal 
guards of Verdun, clung fo clofely to 
them that it was impoflible to kill one 
without killing the other; and in this 
manner conducted them to prifon. 
The commandant had five hundred 
men under his orders on whom he could 
depend. Romeufentreated him to guard 
the prifoners and fave their lives. ‘* We 
muit endeavour, faid he, to prove to the 
national affembly, that the people are or- 
derly, when properly managed; and we 
muft above all take care that not a drop 
of blood be fhed in this affair.’ The 
minds of thefe two men were congenial— 
both were full of honour, courage, and 
humanity. 
The municipality of Verdun, befides 
fending the above five hundred men, re- 
. quefted Frégeville, then lieutenant colo- 
nel of the fecond regiment of dragoons, 
and now a member of the council of 
five hundred, to march with a picked-de- 
tachment of regular troops. The honour 
of this fervice belonged by right to the 
oldeft general in the town; but the mu- 
nicipality thought proper not to afk for 
any particular detachment, but merely to 
name the officer whom they wifhed to fee 
at its head. 
The lieutenant colonel fet: off with a 
hundred ‘and fifty men, and with a fullde- 
pendance upon all his oficers, except 
three captains, and one fub-licutenant, 
whofe patriotifm was more than equivo- 
cal. On his way, he was informed that 
the king had juft left Varennes, and after 
having proceeded about four hundred 
yards, perceived in a height to his weht, 
the regiment of royal-allemand with two 
or three general ofhcers in uniform. The 
Marquis 
