PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA [No. 55, of Vol. lII.] LONDON, July 7 ESCAPE of the ROYAL fAMILY from PARIS THE eft:ape of (he Royal Family was made at one o'clock on Tuelday morning, June 21, Jior was it dilcovered until between seven and eight, wlien the Commandant of the Caflle of the Thuilleries went towards the King's apart ment, to fee whether his Majelty was stirring. He was met by one of the houfbold, who told him that neither the King, Queen, the Dauphin, hoi the Princess Elizabeth, were to be found. I he ili ess in which ihey efeaped is not so well authenticated, nor do we believe that it is pre cilely known to any one. It was at ti. It 1 ulpetfted that M. de la Fayette was p: ivy m the design, for no sooner was the King's el'cape known, than he and Monf. Cazales e Seized and held in confinement, until a deputation from the National Aflerably rescued them The people talked of no less than hang ing rhein, and would have kept their resolution, had not the pretence of the troops protected them. The Duke d'Aumont was likewise flopped by the people, and the clothes torn offhis back. The people were conducting hi in to the Plaa de Crevt, with an intention of hanging him a la lanterne, but he was fortunately rescued by the National guard, and conducted to the guard house, though not without (bine refinance, for the people re fufed to give him up. He had been on duty the preceding evening, and it is (ufpecfted he favor ed the Royal escape. He has demanded to be tried by a Court Martial The escape was certainly made through one jf the piivate doors of the Palace ; it is believed through a pallage leading from (lie pavillion in which the slept, and from which theie is a private communication to rlie garden. This avenue had 110 fen .ry pi.iced over it. It is said that the Royal family got into 1 heir carriages at the Pont Royal, a ihort diltance from the Palace. The carriages confided of a be 11 in drawn by fix horses, and two diligences. The berlin had been made some time before for an officer of the Roy al Guard, and held fix persons very coinmodioufly. The pollill ions who drove the Royal Family from Paris fay, that in the berlin were two women, and two children, and in one of the chaises two men of a swarthy complexion. They drove them as far as Senlis. Several otficers of the King's former body-guard attended at the efcapc, and foine of them followed the Royal carriages at a • . - ■» r* little diltance drellea in liveries. About fifty persons immediately in the confidence of their Majelties are milling. It is fufpe<fted that M. de Bouille, who com mand!! in French Flanders, alfifted the escape through the garrison towns under his authority. The news of the escape became generally known through Paris about nine in the morning, and, as it in ly be supposed, created great confufion ; the National guards were immediately ordered mi !er arms, and double sentries ported at all the ga es of i he ci y, with orders to prevent any pe.fon from palling or repafling. Many faces wore a countenance of surprise, several car ied vjfible marks of terror, and a ge neral difiiKty prevailed. The people, made amock parade of t lie King's Arms in the Marketplaces, and, dafliing them and the figure of a crown to the ground, they trampled upon them, crying out—" Since the King has abandoned what he owed to his high situation, let us trample upon the ensigns of royalty !" The King on rhe preceding; clay had mritten :i letter with Iris own hand, addrefled to M.de la Porte, one of the Ministers of Slate. This let ter contains the reasons which induced his Ma jelly and the Royal Family to make their escape, Copy of the King's 1 rodamation to all the French, rj'i his departure frotn Paris " Whilfl the Kingconld hope to fee order and happiness reilored by the means employed by the National AflVtnbly, and by his own residence rear that Alfembly, he fubniined to every (aeri fied ; he was even content to bear the loss of his liberty, of which he lias been deprived since the month of October i 7P9 ; but now, when the re fill! of all these operations is found to be the de- Ururtion of royalty, the violation of property, the wvafion of pei fonal security, the ellahlifli mentof a compleie anarchy in every part of the cmpiie, without any appearance of authority Saturday, August 27, 1791* fuffieient Co restrain it ; the King, afcer proteft iug against all the adts extorted-from him during liis captivity, thinks proper to submit to the eyes of Frenchmen an accounc of his conduct. " In the month of July, 1789, the King, rely ing on his own integrity, came, without any ap prehensions, among the Parisians. In the month of Olftober of ilie fame year, fully informed of the intentions of the factious, he dreaded left a handle should be made of his departure, in order to foment a civil war. ft is universally known with what impunity crimes were then commit ted. " The King yielded to the wifli cxpreffed by the army of Parisians ; came, with his family, to reside in the palace of the Thuilleries ; no thing was prepared for his reception ; and the King, far from meeting with the accommodati ons to which in his other palaces he was accus tomed, did not even poflefs common convenien ces. In spite of every constraint, he thought proper, the day after his arrival, to give the pro vinces assurances of his residence at Paris. A more painful facrifice was Hill exacted ; he was obliged to remove his Gardes du Corps, of whose fidelity he was allured ; two of them weremallh cred, and several wounded in executing the or ders, which they had received, not to fire all the art of the factious was employed toiGprefent in the worfl light a faithful Queen, whose con duel had been uniformly unexceptionable ; it is even evident that all these machinations were di rected againfl the King hiinfelf. It is to the sol diers of the French Guards, and theParifian Na tional Guard, that the care of the King's person has been committed under the command of the Municipality of Paris, froin whom the Comman der General derives his authority. The King thus has found him felt a prisoner in his own Hate for what other name cm be given to him, who is forcibly surrounded by persons whom he sus pects. It is not in order to criminate the Parisi an National Guard that I repeat this detail, but in order to slate the real facts ; on the contrary, I am ready to do juflice to their attachment,when not under the influence of the factious. The King ordered the Convocation of the States Ge neral ; to the Third Estate he granted the privi lege of a double reprefentatioo ; the re-union of the Orders ; the Sacrifices of the 23d of June —all have been his works, but his efforts have been flighted and perverted. When the States General aflumed the name of the National Afli. ni bly, they revived the plots of the factious in se veral provinces ; they revived those attempts that had been made to reverse the inftrinftions of their conflituents, which appointed laws to be enacted in concert with the King. The Aflem bly have removed the King from the Conftituti on, by denying him the privilege of fandtioning tonftitutional acts ; in which class they ranked whatever acts they thought proper, restricting to the third legislative body the privilege of re fufing its fancftion. They have given him twen ty-five millions which %re entirely absorbed by the neceflary cxpences of his lioufehold. They have left him the profits only ofcertain domains, saddled with oppreflive forms : and have depriv ed him of the patrimony of his ancestors ; they took care not to comprehend, in the article of expence, those services done to the King, as if they were not inseparable from those of the slate. 1 Let the different parts of the adminiflration be examined, it will be found that the King has no longer a fliare ; he has 110 part ill enacting laws ; he can only intreat the Aflembly to dirert their attention to fnch and such subjects. In the ad miniflration ofjuftice, nothing is left for him, but to dispatch the commiflions ofthe judges,and to name the coinmiflaries of the King, whose functions are much less considerable than those of the ancient Procnratoi s-general- The public part has been committed to new officers ; and one prerogative flill remaining, the niofl valua ble of all, that of pardoning and remitting pu nishments, has been taken away from the Kings, and is now veftc-d in juries, in consequence of their of explaining, according to their pleafurp, the sense of the law. Thus the Royal Majeftv is impaired, to which the people former ly had recourse, as to the common centre of goodnefi and beneficence. The internal admi niftratjon of the departments is embarrafled by wheels which obflruct- the motion of the ma chine ; and the fuperimendance of ministers is 1 educed to nothing. 137 [Whole No. 245.]. '• The Societies of Friends of the Constitution, are mucli more powerful, and engrofsevery part of the adlive adminiltratioii. The king lias been declared supreme head of the army ; however, every thing has been done by the Committees of the National rtflembly, without my participation ; they have granted to the King ihe nomination of some places, yet the choice which lie has made, has experienced contradiction ; lie has been obliged to revise the operations of the General officers of the army, because their choice displeas ed clubs ; to them only are to be attributed the greater number of the revolis of the regiments ; when an army no longer refpedts it officers, ic becomes the terror and firebrand of the ftaie: the King has always been of opinion that officers ought to be puniflied as well as soldiers, and that the road to promotion ought no less to be open to the latter according to their desert. As to the foreign affairs, they have granted to the King the nomination of Ambafladors, and the conducfl of negociations ; but they have taken from him the right of making war ; they ought not however to have fufpedted that lie would e ver declare war without special reason. Ihe right of making peace is of a different foit. Ihe King wishes only to a(ft in concert with the nati on, but what power will enter into negociations, when the right of reviling them (hall belong to the National Aflembly, " Independently of the necefTary secrecy, vliich it is impofiible to preserve in an AHembly vhofe deliberations are public, who would choose o stipulate engagements, except the persons with vhom they were formed had the power of rati "ying them ? With refpeft to finances, the King iad recognized before the States General the ight which the nation has of granting fubfidics, tnd in this refpecl he complied 011 the 23d June ivith every thing that had been demanded. On lie 4th February the King requested the Nati jnal AfTembly to rake into conlideration the state as the finances ; they deferred it too long ; they have not yet a just statement of the receipt and expenditure ; they allowed themselves to go in to hypothetical calculations ; the ordinary taxes are in arrear, and the resource which has been employed of the twelve hundred millions of af fignats is almost exhaufled ; they have left to the King nothing upon this occasion but a barren nomination ; he knew the difficulty of this part of the administration ; and if it were pofiible that this machine could have been put in motion without his direcft fuperintendance, his Majesty would only have regretted that there was no di minution of the imports ; an object which he de sired, and in which, had it not been for the Ame rican war,he fliould most certainly have succeeded. " The King has been declared Supreme Head of the Administration of the kingdom, and he has been able to change nothing without the de cision of the AfTembly. The chiefs of the pre vailing party have thrown out such defiance a gainst the agents of the King, and the penalties denounced against prevarications have occasioned so much alarm, that thefe'agents have remained without force. The form of government is in two refpetfs particularly faulty ; the Aflembly exceeds the limits of its power in interfering in justice and the internal administration ; by its Committee of Researches, it exercises the most barbarous of all despotisms. It has established afl'ociarions, known by the name of Friends of the Constitution, which present corporations in fini:ely more dangerous than the ancient; they deliberate 011 every part of the government, and exercise a power of such preponderance, that all the bodies, and even the Aflembly itfelf, can do nothing except by their order. The King does not think it possible to preserve such a Govern ment. In proportion as the period of the la bours of the Aflembly approaches, the sages of whom it is conipofed lose their credit. The new regulations, instead of pouring balm upou the fores, on the contrary inflame their malignity ; a thousand journals and libellous pamphlets per petuate the difordc, which the Aflembly is un able to remedy ; their labours tend only to a go vernment, meraphyficnl in its principles, and im practicable in its execution. " Frenchmen, Is it this which you intended by fendingvour Representatives ? Did yon defile that the defpotifni of clubs should replace the monarchy under which the kingdom has pros pered during fourteen hundred years? The at tachment of Frenchmen to their monarch is rank-
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