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rules to his Majefty, and even to reproach 
him for mal adminiftration in public 
affairs. When no one attempted to re- 
ftrain this hehaviour, the King faid, with 
the greateft mildnefs, «* Pray, Jet this 
gentleman and bis friends withdraw, 
that they may not thus torture perfons of a 
right way of thinking, (les ames hounétes.) 
Excefive heat and fatigue have brought 
them into their prefent fiate ; but to-mor- 
row, if they fhall recolle& what they have 
mow jaid, they will be forry for it.” 
As none, however, took any notice of 
his requeft, he turned away from them, 
with thefe words : “ I once flattered my/elf 
that I bad to lament the errors of only the 
leaft-informed portion of my people, mifled 
by a few faious men: but now I per- 
ceive that many of thofe who ought to 
know better things are equally deprav- 
ed: and when the King had fo faid, as 
it was the feftival of Corpus Chriffi, (La 
Fete Dieu,) he immediately prepared to 
attend divine-fervice. 
The Royal Family, whom no circum- 
ftance could ever draw afide from the re- 
gular difcharge of their duty to the Su- 
preme Being, then repaired to the chapel 
ot the Intendant’s hotel : but fcarcely had 
they been there only a few minutes, when 
the people rufhed tumultuoufly in, and 
behaved with fuch feandalous indecency, 
that the Royal Family were forced to 
withdraw. 
** Nothing (faid his Majefty, on rifing 
from his knees,) ought to furprize us on 
the part of men who have laid afide all 
re[pec? even for their’ Maker : but tt is 
the duty of all thofe who know the happi- 
nels of living in fubmiffion 10 his laws, ‘to 
avoid giving any pretence for the commif- 
jfion of greater enormiities.”” 
After their return from the chapel, the 
Royal Family retired for a few moments to 
their apartment, and then fet out on their 
melancholy journey, loaded with every in- 
fult from the furrounding crowd. ° 
This crowd, however, might be con- 
fidered as civil, when compared with that 
which affembled afterwards at Epernay, 
where the Roya! Family were met by the 
Deputies from the Aflembly at Paris, 
Pethion, Barnaye, Dumas, Latour- Mau- 
hourg, and ancther, whofe name M. de 
Mouftier had omitted to mark down in his 
journal, but who had an appearance of 
greater civility than the others; to whom; 
indeed, he feemed tobe fubordinate.. 
' Tw’ of thefe Deputies, Pethion and 
Barnaye, placed themfelves in the car: 
Fourney of Louis XVI. from Paris to Varennes. [June 1, 
riage with the Royal Family ; fo that it 
now Contained no fewer than /e-vez pe: fons. 
From this moment the cry of Vive le 
Roi, which had now and then been faintly 
heard, ceafed entirely to welcome the 
Royal Family all the way to Paris. Itwas 
fucceeded by thofe of Vivent les Députés ! 
Vive Barnaved for Barnave appeared to 
be the idol of the people. 
With thefe cries were mingled others, 
fuch as, Let us eat the hearts of the King 
and Queen, &c. &c. too atrocious and 
horrible to be conveyed to Britith ears ! 
A poor prieft was pafling quietly along 
the road, near Epernay, on. his return 
from performing divine-iervice at a neigh- 
bouring village, with his book under his 
arm. s 
It was enough that he was obferved to 
be a clergyman, to draw on him the at- 
tacks of the multitude. To fave himfelf 
from their ‘ury, he rufhed amidft a paity 
of national guaris, mounted on horfes, 
formerly belonging to the Duke de Gram- 
mont’s company of the gardes-du-corps, 
when quartered at Chalons. Oneof thefe 
men invited the prieft to mount behind 
him, as if he meant to proteét the unhap- 
py man from the populace: but it was 
only to have a better opportunity of in- 
fulting him. Soon after, a grenadier, 
walking near the horle, laying hold of 
the pricit’s leg, threw him over, juft be- 
fore the fore-wheels of the carriage. The 
wretched man; thinking to eicape from 
death, prefied in’ between the wheels, but 
was there twice wounded with a bayon-t, 
to force him to come out. 
He was afterwards difpatched by the 
muskets of the national-guards ; one of 
whem, in the hearing of the company 
~ about the carriage, boafted, that, al- 
though the clergy were an abominable 
race, yet he could not refilt his compaffion 
for the wretch, and therefore had, out of 
kindnefs, blown out his brains. 
Whether it proceeded from a refinement 
in cruelty, or from fome fecret political 
motive, cannot now be afcertained ; but 
f> it was, that the Deputies never failed to 
ftop the carriage in thofe places where 
the populace gave way to the moft hor-- 
rible fpeeches and threats again the 
Royal Family, efpecially again the King 
himfelf, who had never, for an inftant, 
cealed to love his people with the moft 
ardent affection. 
During the firft day’s journey in com- 
pany with the Deputies, couriers were 
continually coming up with difpatches, 
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