The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-08 00:00:00

AN ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY OF LOUIS XVI.
KING OF FRANCE, WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY,
FROM PARIi TO VARS.NNES, AND OF THEIR RE-
TURN TO THE CAPITAL, IN JUNE 1791.
(Continued from cur Paper of Saturday.)
NEAR St. Menehoud, Count de Dampierre was
observed following the King's carriage, at a dis-
tance of about lone hundred paces, and was never at
all so near as to speak to the Royal Family, ;..s his
been often asserted. He rode some time by the
side of a cabriolet, or two-wheeled chaise, in which
were two Ladies of known attachment to the Queen,
and who narrowly escaped assassination on that oc-
count. These Ladies frequently advised M. tie
Dampierre to withdraw from the danger to which
he was exposed, and which soon came upon him.—
The vile instigators of the populace having, even
in contradidion to their Own eves, persuaded them
that Dampierre had adually had conversation with
the King, it was the signal for insulting, assault-
ing, arid finally murdering, that unhappy Officer.
During this transadion the other Commandinfg
Officers, and all those under them, remained per-
fedi), inactive, and took no step whatever to re-
strain the savage fury of the mob.
In order to escape from their rage, after being
shot in several places, he made his horse leap the
ditch on the road side; but some National Guards
on horseback soon came up to him, and literally
hacked him in pieces.
With his mangled limbs each man of the party
returned, and held. them up to the Royal Family as
trophies of their victory.
" I/ive la Nation" was on this occasion triumph-
antly bellowed forth by the ferocious multitude.
An Officer of the National Guatils, whose name
M. de iVlousticr laments to have for&ot ten, young
and well looking, the son of a Major in the Army,
who had received his Commission from the King
prior to the Revolution- -this young Genaeman
presented himself betore the Royal Family, bearing
the hat of poor Dampierre thrust down on the blade
of his sword.
When the King's Gardes-du-Carps, who during
the journey back to Paris were seated on the.
coach-box, represented to this Officer the indecency
of such conduit, especially irons him, whether it was
from revenge on being reproved in the hearing of
the multitude, and of those under his command, or
from a more than common measure of atrocity in
his disposition, it is of little importance to consi-
der, but, with a look and air of outrageous fury, he
snatched the hat from his sword, tore it in a hundred
pieces, and scattered them among the` crowd.
It must, however, be observed, for the honour of
this young hero, that lie was by no means singular ;
the greater part of the leaders of the populace on
this occasion giving evident signs of similar dispo-
sitions.
Mier a succession of scenes of this nature, the
carriage at last arrived, late in the night, in the
tour:-yard of the Intendant's Hotel, at Chilons on
.the Marne. Here the Royal Family alighted, in
the midst of a crowd of National Guards, who by
their language and behaviour shewed themselves to
he not a whit behind any of their companions in re.
volt and disorder.
M. de Moustier, who with the other attendants
had remained behind in the court to take out such
articles as were necessary for the Royal Family,
and to lock the doors of the carriage, observed a
paper work out of the Queen's pocket, and fall on
the ground, as she alighted.
He instantly, as by accident, clropt one of the
sacs-de-nuit on the paper, and., in taking up the bag,
secured the paper, unnoticed by the bye_standers.
This paper he resolved to swallow, rather than that
it should come into the hands of the multitude, who
now talked openly of dispatching him, and regret-
ting that they had suffered his two companions to
enter the Hotel.
M. de Moustier was cruelly treated by this mob,
but at length, through the darkness of the night,
contrived to escape from their fury.
His safety was likewise owing to the circum-
stance, that those who pressed the closest on him,
were soon obliged to turn their sabres against their
companions behind them, to ward from them.
selves the blows intended against M. de Moustier.
The Royal Family, incessantly occupied about
the safety of those who were attached to their ser-
vice, had direfted several persons to endeavour to
rescue M. de Moustier ; but when the hazards of
such an attempt are considered, he is not surprized
that no one was able to execute the order.
Such was the kind anxiety of the Royal Family
for M. de Moustier, that they would not sit down
until he made his appearance in the house. His
struggle with the multitude without had continued
so long, that on entering their apartment he found
supper, already served up, and the Royal Family
standing by the table, in eager expettation of hia
arrival.
c They naturally believed him to have been severe-
ly wounded, as the blood flowed from his mouth,
in consequence of being thrown down and crushed
by the people in the court, so as to bring on a vio.
lent discharge of blood from the breast.*
M. de Nloustier, having assured their Majesties
that he had received no material injury, took up a
_plate and napkin, and placed himself behind the
Queen, fo wait on her.-1-
A private man of the National Guard, filled with
admiration at the behaviour of the Royal Family to
their servant M. de Moustier, so different, no doubt,
from what he had been taught to expert from these
personages, came softly up to M. de Moustier, and,
his eyes filled with tears, said to him, " How well
Jo such unfortunate masters and mistresses deserve
the reset and affedion of all who approach them !"
* M. de Moustier is a tall, bony, athletic man; but even
when he left Lot.don last, for Germany, in summer iBo t, he
continued to sutler severely in his breast and lungs, and found
his eye-sight sensibly decayed, in consequence of the cruelties
lie udder scot on this and other occasions, particularly on the
arrival of the Royal Family in Paris from Varennes.—Nore
of Edik,r.
proper, once for all, to observe, that the three
Gard, s-du-arps, during this journey, performed the duty of
others attached t)y office to the Royal Family, but who, from
the circumstances of the times, were debarred from showing
their respect to their Sovereign, and executing their offices in
person.

At Tetelab, on the 12th of 0 elober last, in consequence of
a wound he received at the reduCtion of that Fort, Col. iohn
Gutherie, of the lion. East India Company's tacit Regiment
of Native Infantry.
Saturday evening, at his father's house on kliglibury Ter-
race, George Fish.
Lately, at Flixton, Mr. John Dean, aged 98 ; he has left
tvio sons and a daughter, 55 grand-children, to 7 great grand-
children, and 14 great great grand-children. —ln all• ri9.
On the 3d instant, at Kensington, Mrs. Martha lngrim,
aged 54.
On the 23d of April, 1203, at Bombay, at the age of 52,
the Laily,ot lames F rushard, Esq.
At Calcutta, the igth November last, Dr. John Campbell,
eldest son of Arthur Campbell, Esq. of Auchinuoaeh.
On the 30th ult. at his house, Queen-street, Edinburgh,
Colonel Christopher Maxwell, late of the 30th Regiment of
toot,
At Thurso, on the loth" ult. Miss Catherine Sinclair,
eldest daughter of the late Robert Manson Sinclair, Esq. of
idgenci.

Among the prisoners condemned and exce-ated at
Turin, were a son, for poisoning his father and
mother ; a wife, for poisoning her hush::4nd; a mar-
ried woman, for poisoning three of her children;
and a maid servant, for poisoning her master, mis-
tress, two of their children, and two of her fellow-
rrvants.

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