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as well as among the volunteers, or na- 
tional-guards, can neither be defcribed nor 
imagined, 
When the Royal Family had taken 
their places in the carriage, and M. de 
Mouttier had fhut the door, he found that 
fome grenadiers had feated themfelves by 
the fide of his two comrades, on the coach- 
box, and had left no room for him. He 
defired thefe grenadiers repeatedly to come 
down ; but as they paid no attention to 
him, be addreffed himfelf to Latour- 
Maubourg, faying, ‘* See, Sir! tho/fe 
men have taken my place; I hope you 
ewill make them come down.” 
Latour, witha tone familiar and friend- 
ly, faid, ** Be fo good, Gentlemen, as to 
make a little room ; fit alittle clofer.” 
“¢ What, Sir! (said M. de Mouttier,) 
ts this your way to make yourfelf be obey- 
ed ? Soldiers! make hafie, quick; the 
place ig mine, aud I will bawe it.” 
At lJalt they did make a place for M. 
de Mouftier, which he fogn contrived to 
enlarge. 
The carriage now proceeded towards 
Paris, in the midft of an immenfe multi- 
tude, continually increafing. 
The beat and duft were intolerable.— 
The carriage was loaded with national- 
guards, behind, on the roof, on the fteps, 
between the body and the box, on the box, 
between the box and the pole, on the pole 
itfelf, and on the horfes. Some were even 
ftanding on the box, fupporting them. 
felves onthe fhoulders of the three gardes- 
du-corps, under the pretence of fcreening 
them trom the attacks of the mob. In 
fa&, it was with the utmoft difficulty 
that the horfes were able to move along 
at all with fo enormous a load. 
To this muft be added, the horrible 
fhoutings and howlings on all fides, 
which filled the three gardes with conti- 
nual dread of feeing their beloved Matter 
and his unhappy family butchered before 
their eyes. 
In the midft of thefe horrors, the Queen 
gave an inftance of her natural goodnefs, 
with regard to a grenadier of the national- 
guard, who walked near the carriage, 
and who had already given abundant 
proofs of the ferocity of his difpofition. 
This man complained loudly of the 
heat and fatigue, declaring, with horrid 
imprecations, that he could no longer re- 
fift without fome relief. 
The Queen offered him fomething to 
refrefh him ; but inftead of accepti: ¢ it, 
he exclaimed, with a violent oath, ‘* No, 
uo, none of that for me; for 1 am fure 1 
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Joould be poifoned. - Would you not be de- 
lighted, now, to poifon me ?” 
The Queen, feeming to take no notice 
of what this wretch faid, divided what 
fhe had offered to him, and gave a part of 
ic to the Dauphin, and ate the reft her- 
felf. 
It is here proper to obferve, that the 
Queen had taken very little provifion this 
day in the coach ; not imagining that, fo 
near to Paris, their {ufferings could be of 
long duration. She had therefore only 
taken fome refrefhment intended for the 
two children, 
Although the diftance from Meaux to 
Paris be only nine-leagues, or about 
twenty three Enclifh miles; yet the Royal 
Family were no lefs than between fourteen 
and fifteen hours on the road without 
halting, excepting on fuch occafions as 
{eemed really to have been chofen, from 
time to time, that the multitude might 
have opportunities of loading them with 
every infult and outrage. 
Orders had been difpatched from Paris, 
it was publicly reported, that no one 
fhonld falute them as they paffed ; and 
the order was fo ftriétly obeyed, that not 
a hat was obferved to move, nora fingle 
attempt made to utter Viwe le Rot! 
When the carriage had arrived within 
a dozen miles of Paris, the three gardes- 
du-corps had the fatisfaétion, if {atistac- 
tion it could be called, to obdferve, that 
they now attracted the whole attention of 
the crowd ; by which the Royal Family 
were fuffered to have a fhort interval of 
peace. 
This ferocious mob called out repeat- 
edly to have the three Yedlow-jackets, 
(fee p. 322,) delivered up to them, and 
propofed the various kinds of death 
which each wifhed to inflict on them.— 
Some to flay them alive ; others, to ti¢ 
them to the carriage, and fo drag them to 
Paris ; others, again, had different pro- 
jects, ftill more horrible. 
Once, during thefe outcries, Dumas, 
who commanded the troops, ordered the 
carriage to be ftopped, and faid, ‘* Thefe 
worthy and refpectable citizens—(Ces 
Meffieurs de la Nation—a_ phrafe which 
cannot be tranflated,)—defre that the 
Yellow-jackets fhould come down from the 
coach-box, and they mufi come down.” 
‘© Do you not fee (faid one of the multi. 
tude,) that it is only to murder them ?” 
‘¢ What is that to me, (anfwered Du- 
mas,) that is noconcern of minte—(Qu’ eff 
ce que celame fait, Fem en embarafe 
bien.)” 
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