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found fupper already ferved up, and the 
Royal Family ftanding by the table, in 
eager expectation of his arrival, 
They .natuia'ly believed him to have 
been feverely wounded, as the blood 
flowed fromhis mouth, in confequence of 
being thrown down and crufhed by the 
people in the court, fo as to bring on 
a violent dilcharge of blood from the 
breatt.* 
M. de Mouftier, having affured their 
Majefties that he had received no material 
injury, took up a plate and napkin, and 
placed himfelf behind the Queen, to wait 
on her.t 
A private man of the national guard, 
filled with admiration at the behaviour of 
the Royal Family to their fervant M. de 
Mouttier, fo different, no doubt, from 
what he had been taught to expect from 
thefe perfonages, came foftly up to M. 
de Mouftier, and, his eyes filled with 
tears, faid to him, ** How well do fuch 
wnfortunate mafiers and mifireffes deferve 
the refpe and affection of all vaho ap- 
proach them!” 
Thefe genuine expreffions of fenfibility 
atd compaffion, on the part of a perfon 
of the lower ranks, excited fuch pleasure 
jn the breaft of M. de Mouttier, who until 
now had met with none who indicated any 
fiunilar feelings, that he could not refrain 
from taking this national guard by the 
hand, and faying, in the hearing of all 
the crowd aflembled, that he fhould be 
happy to drink once more a glafs of wine 
with anheneft worthy man, to the health 
_and profperity of his auguft Mafter and 
his family. This natiosal guard readily 
accepted the invitation, but refuled to go 
to the fupper-reom until M. de Moutftier 
fhould be ready to accompany him, al- 
a eee 
* M. de Mouftier is a tall, boney, athletic 
man ; but even when he left London laf, for 
Germany, infummer 1801, he continued to 
fuffer feverely in his breaft and lungs, and 
found his eye-fight fenfibly decayed, in 
confequence of the cruelties he underwent on 
this and other occafions, particularly om the 
arrival of the Royal Family in Paris from 
Varennes.— Note of Editor. 
+ It is proper, once for all, to obferve, 
that the three gardcs-Cu-corps, during this 
journey, performed the duty of others at- 
tached by office to the Royal Family, but 
who, from the circumftances of the times, 
were debarred from fliowing their refpe@t to 
their Sovereign, and executing their offices 
in perfon. 
Yourney of Louis XV1. from Paris to Varennese 
[May 1, 
though the other perfons of the company 
were already fet down. 
M. de Mouftier having at laft finifhed 
his attendanee on the Queen at table, 
conducted his worthy gueft to the fupper- 
room, and placed him in a chair that hap- 
pened to be unoecupied, next to Baillon, 
the commander of the whole party, and 
fate down himéelf in one juft oppofite to it. 
As it was very warm io this apartment, 
the firft thing M. de Moutfticr did was to 
offer to his gueft a glafs of wine, faying, 
<© Come, Sir, let us drink to the health of 
our Sovereign and his family. Who knows 
but that to-morrow I fall be torn in 
pieces. Happen, however, what may, 
if I fall not be fo happy as ta render them 
any good fervice, I foall have the fatisfac- 
tion, at leaf, of dying in ther caufe— 
I foall have nothing to reproach myfelf 
with, for I have done what was my 
duty io them.” 
The {mooth-tongued hero Baillon, mo- 
deftly cafting his eyes down on his plate, 
faid, halfaloud, ** Jt was not your duty.” 
M. de Mouttier, fixing his eyes fedfatt- 
ly on Baillon, with an expreffion where, 
had the other dared to look at him, he 
might have feen the inmoft workings of 
De Mouftier’s foul, replied, with a frm 
tone, ** Sir, it was, it is my duty; and 
not only mine, but that of every brave and 
honeft mans faithfully to ferve his King 3 
as it is the part of a coward and a rajcal 
to betray and abandon him. What I bave 
done 1 am ready to do again, were it pof- 
fible, this very inftant.” 
Baillon, that he might not be any 
longer expofed to hear fuch language, im- 
mediately quitted the table, and drawing 
around him, at the other end of the. 
room, acircle of the officers of the na- 
tional guards, who had fupped in the 
company, he began a long whining vindi- 
cation of his conduét, enlarging on the 
zeal with which he had difcharged his 
duty to the zation. M. de Movftier, 
overhearing the converfation, went up to 
Baillon, and faid, © It qwould, indeed, 
Sir, be a erying injuflice to throw any 
fufpicions on your zeal for the nation ; for 
tf mankind knev2 you as you ought to be 
kncwn, they would be perfectly convinced 
how admirably qualified you are to ferve 
even the refuje of the bafeft rabble.” 
From this time forth the gardes-du- 
corps were relieved from the burthen of 
the company of the tender-confcienced 
Baillon. 
(To be concluded in our next.) . 
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