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1804.] Fourney of Louis XVI. from Paris to Varennes, 437 
At laft, M. de Mouftier, borne along 
by the multitude, reached the bottom of 
the great fair. This he never fhould 
have been able to mount, but for another 
officer of the national-guard, there on 
duty, who, feizing him by the collar, 
and with louder and more horrid lan- 
guage than that of the populace, told 
them, that it would be a pity, indeed, if 
fuch a man as M. de Mouttier fhould 
meet with the reward of his deteftable 
conduét at the hands of the re/pedtable 
citizens of Paris ; that fome new kind of 
torture ought to be contrived for fo atro- 
cious an offender; and that he himfelf 
‘would take upon him tomake De Mouf- 
tier fuffer in fuch a way as to give univer- 
fal fatistaétion. By thefe means did this 
worthy officer fucceed in drawing M. de 
Mouttier from the hands of the defperate 
multitude; and as foon as an opportunity 
for {peaking in private to M. de Mouttier 
occurred, he made the moft hearty apology 
for the feeming brutality of his behaviour, 
which, the officer faid, was the only prac. 
ticable way to prevent M. de Mouttier 
from being torn in pieces. 
As both M. de Mouftier and M. de 
Malden are tall men, they were miftaken 
by the mob:for the Duke de Guiche, for 
M. de la Tour du Pin, for M. le Comte 
Annibal d’Agoult, brother of the Mar- 
guis d’Agoult, major of the regiment of 
French Guards—(les Gardes Frangaifes ;) 
but they were particularly obnoxious 
when taken for M. le Comte d’Agoult, 
who, in the wort of times, evinced on 
every occafion the moft heroic courage, 
and the warmeft attachment to his Royal 
Matter. 
M. de Malden reached the palace co- 
vered with blood, He had received two 
thrufts with a bayonet in the head ; but 
fortunately both grazed the fkull, and 
only laid open the fkin. 
M. de Mouttier fuffered feverely before 
he was refcued from the hands of his 
enemies. His clothes were in rags, his 
hair, particularly his queve, literally torn 
from the head. Having been dragged 
along for a great while, with his head 
bent downwards, fometimes in one direc- 
tion, and fometimes in another, the blood 
was collected in his head to fuch a degree, 
that ‘for a confiderable time he loft his 
fight, while the blood flowed in ftreams 
from his mouth. His fufferings were 
however chiefly occafioned by want of 
fuftenance, efpecially by an intolerable 
thirft, from the exceflive heat and duft, 
and the frequent difcharge of blood.— 
During the whole day he had never 
been fuffered to have even a mouthful of 
water; and thofe who {urrounded him 
were pofitively commanded to afford hint 
no relief. 
When he got within the palace he was 
defired by thofe around him to fit down.— 
He begged, that if they were really per- 
fons of common humanity, they would 
procure him a mouthful of bread anda 
glafs of wine. 
A tumbler was given to him, and one 
of the national-cuards prepared to pour 
into it fome water. —_ 
< What, (faid M. de Mouftier,) o- 
thing but water ? can I have no wine ?” 
<¢ No, (anf{wered the other,) we have 
nothing elfe.” j 
Whilf he poured out the water, fome 
well-dreffed perfons came, and in very ci- 
vil terms begged he would teli them who 
he was. 
<¢ My name ({aid he,) is Mouftier ; and 
I have the honour to be one of the gardes- 
du-corps of his Majefty the King of France 
and Navarre. I belong to that company 
which 1s in garrifon at Troyes, in Cham- 
paign.” : 
‘¢ Then (replied they,) youarea.... 
rafcal—(Tu es un grand... .gueux : 
Tu es un grand feelerat,” Ge. Ge. 
Such language, from_perfons of their 
manner and appearance, roufed his {pi- 
rits, and, throwing the glafs of water on 
the ground, he advanced to the middle of 
the room, with his fifts clenched, againft 
the men who’had, in fo bafe and cow- 
ardly a way, infelted him ; when two 
officers of the national-guards feized him 
round the body, and his infulters made 
off. 
M. de Mouttier obferved to thofe who 
remained about him, that the prefent cir. 
cumftances precifely fuited fuch men as 
thofe who had infulted him: they did 
well, therefore, tomakeé the moft of them. 
That it was, however, to be hoped, that 
injuftice’ would not for ever be crowned 
with fuccefs ; and that, in the mean 
time, it would be well to propofe no more 
queftions to him, for that he was refolved 
to give no more an{wers. : 
Whether it was from compaffion, or 
from a view of changing the converfation, 
M. de Mouftier knows not, but jut at 
this inftant a bottle of good wine, with a 
piece of bread, was ‘produced, The 
bread he ate, and {wallowed two tumblers 
of wine, with greateagernefs,  °* 
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