Williams's Letters: Letters from France: containing a great variety of interesting and original information concerning the most important events that have lately occurred in that country, and particularly respecting the campaign of 1792 ... The 2d edG. G. and J. Robinson, 1796 |
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Page 258 - The manifeflo of the Duke of Brunfwick, whofe threats were ever prefent to the minds of the People. « III. The confpiracy of kings, formed at Pilnitz ; an aflbciation of a new kind, as terrible as it was monftrous. Our countryman, Dr. Parr, has left me nothing to add to his eloquent reflections on the fubjedt.
Page 39 - ... of St. Madelaine, and thrown into a grave, which was instantly filled with quick lime, and a guard placed over it till the corpse was consumed.
Page 258 - I. The inveteracy of a powerful ariftocratic party, which operated from the very beginning of the revolution, and which has kept up an unceafing irritation amongft the people.
Page 37 - ... unhappy monarch, finding the hope he had cherished, of awakening the compassion of the people, frustrated by the impossibility of his being heard, as a last resource, declared that he had secrets to reveal, of importance to the safety of the state, and desired he might be led to the national convention. Some of the guards, who heard this declaration, cried, ' Yes, let him go to the convention !' Others said
Page 47 - Action faithful, and in Honour clear ! * Who broke no Promife, ferv'd no private End, ' Who gain'd no Title, and who loft no Friend, ' Ennobled by himfelf, by all approv'd, * Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Mufe he lov'd.
Page 39 - Surrounding earth, and no trace or vestige remains of that spot, to which, shrouded by the doubtful glare of twilight, ancient loyalty might have repaired and poured a tear, or superstition breathed its ritual for the departed spirit.
Page 37 - ... heard this declaration, cried, " Yes, let him go to the Convention !"—Others faid " No."—Had the king been conducted to the Convention, it is eafy to imagine the effect which would have been produced on the minds of the people, by the fight of their former monarch led through the ftreets of Paris, with his hands bound, his neck bare, his hair already cut off at the foot of the fcaffold in preparation for the fatal ftroke— with no other covering than his fhirt. At that fight the enraged...
Page 38 - ... office. Then it was, that despair siezed upon the mind of the unfortunate monarch ; his countenance assumed a look of horror ; twice in agony he repeated, ' Jesuis perdu ! Jesuis perdu !* His confessor, mean time, called to him from the foot of the scaffold, ' Louis, fils de St. Louis, montez au del!'] and in one moment he was delivered from the evils of mortality.
Page 33 - ... that the people, whom he meant to address from the scaffold, would demand that his life might be spared. And his confessor, from motives of compassion, had encouraged him in this hope. After ascending the scaffold with a firm step, twice the unhappy monarch attempted to speak, and twice Santerre prevented him from being heard by ordering the drums to beat immediately. Alas ! had he been permitted to speak, poor was his chance of exciting commiseration ! Those who pitied his calamities had carefully...
Page 39 - ... the body was conveyed in a cart to the parish church of St. Madelaine, and laid among the bodies of those who had been crushed to death on the Place de Louis XV., when Louis XVI. was married, and of those who had fallen before the chateau of the Thuilleries on the 10th of August. " The grave was filled with quick lime, and a guard placed...