4.24, 
to enter it, excepting thofe attached to his 
perfor.” . 
On this, Dumas muttered fomething 
which could not be underftood, but gave 
no orders to the guards. 
“© Why dont you fpeak, (faid M. de - 
-Mouftier ;) if pou are ignorant of your 
duty, why do you undertake it ?” 
Dumas, now, with evident figns of in- 
dignation at fuch a fcene, in the prefence 
of fo many perfons, and of his own troops, 
at Jaf faid to the guards, ‘* OA, it zs 
very true, you muft flop at the chamtber- 
door: but when he (meaning M. de 
Mouttier,) comes out, you are never to 
guit him, but to attend him wherever he 
£0es, excepting only into the King’s apart- 
ment.” 
When this bufinefs was over, M. de 
Mouttier went to the table, with his two 
comrades, and drawing to him a hare, 
afked them whether they chofe any of it ; 
when they declined it, he faid to the at- 
tendants, carry this to thofe perfons (a ces 
gens-la,} and did the fame with ali the 
other dithes. 
In the morning, before fetting out, 
Dumas and Latour Maubourg,* coming 
up tothe gardes-du-corps, as they came 
out of the King’s apartment,  faid, 
** Gentlemen, ( Meffieurs,) we have been 
canfidering your fituation, and we fee but 
one way to preferve you from the fury of 
the people ; which is, that you adopt the 
drefs of the national-guards.”” 
Their anfwer was, ‘ We are ready to 
die; but we will never difgrace our- 
Selves by our own ad.” 
«© At leaft (faid the two Deputies,) put 
oz the great-coat.”” 
<< No, (anfwered the three gardes-du- 
corps,) mo compofition ; no accommoda- 
tions.” ; 
“¢ Then (added Dumas,) jou muff tra- 
wel in our carriage ; there perbeps the 
people will have more refpe for you.” 
“© Our place (concluded thefe gardes, ) 
is on the coach-box, behind, or at the doors 
of the carriage of our unfortunate Maffer 
and his auguft Family ; and there we 
will await our fate, be it what it may.” 
They immediatly repaired, according 
to their orders, to the King, whom they 
had left engaged in writing; for he had 
* This gentleman and a brother were co- 
lonels in the King’s fervice. Their family 
had been, in a particular manner, diftinguifh- 
ed by the favours of their unhappy Sove- 
teign. 
Fourney of Louis XVI. from Paris to Varennes. 
\ 
[June 1, 
written a great deal along the road ; and 
found-him with the Queen and his fier. 
Here they continued until his Ma- 
jefty gave them directions re{petting the 
journey. 
As the Royal Family were in continual 
apprehenfions of lofing their fervants, they 
here again embraced the three gardes-du- 
corps, {peaking to them with the tender- 
nefs of parents to their children, whom 
they were never more to behold. 
Thefe perfonages united to the moft 
heroic courage, fo much condefcending 
goodne(s, that if they had even been of 
the loweft ranks in fociety, the greateit 
fovereign might have been proud of their 
friendthip. If the gardes-du-corps, then, 
fhewed any zeal and firmnefs in their fer- 
vice, fuch conduct was entirely the effect 
of the noble examples of virtue exhibited 
by every member of this unfortunate Fa- 
mily. 
When they had gone down to the 
court, and were ready to ftep into the 
carriage, the new Bifhop came to make 
an apology for their having been fo poor-, 
ly accommodated in his palace. 
“* He had been but too fhort a time, 
(he faid,) i bis fee, to have been able to 
arrange matters for the due reception of 
the Royal Family.” . 
To this the King anfwered, with his 
ufuai calmnefs, ** When a man is not in 
bis owin houfe, he is not expected to make 
any apology for not doing the honours of 
i a ; 
This new Bifhop had been, befere the 
Revolution, parifh-prieft (curé,) of An- 
tilly, in the diocefe-of Sens. His naine 
was Thuin, and he had a brother broken 
on the wheel for robbery, fifteen years be- 
fore, at a town in that neighbourhood. 
The Baron du.....a knight of St. 
Louis, had then the command of the na- 
tional-guardsat Meaux. This office was 
impofed on him, it has been faid, much 
againft his inclination ; and that he had 
come to this town in the hope of render- 
ing fome fervice to the Royal Family.— 
But it happened with him, as with the 
te ae 
greater number of ancient military gen- 
tlemen who accepted, or even intrigued 
for fimilar fituations, that they found 
themfelves to be, not the commanders, 
but the flaves, of the people under them.— 
They were liable, alfo, to be continually — 
fufpected, and were never able to retain 
the good opinion and confidence of their 
troops. “The diforder and licentioufnels 
prevailing, in confequence of thefe cif- 
cumftances, in the old troops of the lines 
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