The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-03 00:00:00

quainting *him, that soon after his usual hour of re.
tiring to rest, which was well knoldn to every one
connected with the Royal Family to be at midnight,
he :vas to attempt to escape from the Thuilleries ;
and dirdling M. de Choiseul to take all pioper pre-
cautions for facilitating the journey.
Thus M. de Valory rode on before the carriage
to provide horses ; M. de Malden rode behind it ;
and NI. de Moustier mounted the coach.box, where
Count de, Fersen had placed himself, and went as
fat:as Bondy. Here he took leave of the Royal
Family, and use King tenderly embraced him at
parting.
The Count returned to Paris with the postillion,
who had driven the Royal Family that stage.
It was three quarters of an hour past twelve, or,
at most, one in the morning of Tuesday, the 2211
of June, when the carriage left the gate of St. Mar-
tin at Paris. The .j.)urney . from thence to Varen.
nes, a distance of sixty leagues of post (or about
Iso English miles), was performed between the
time just mentioned, and a quarter, or perhaps half an
hour, past ten o'clock at night ; thatis, in twenty-
one hours and a half. . .

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They travelled without any remarkable interrup-
tion or delay, excepting that at a post-house beyond
Chalons, when they were on the point of setting
off, the two forem6st horses at once fell down, with
the driver under his horse—an accident instantane.
ous and unaccounsable ; and when they had been
raised, and were again ready to move, the whole
number of the horses in the carriage came all toge-
ther to the ground, with the drivers, in. a most_ ex-
traordinary way.
M. de Moustier, who had both times released the
drivers from their dangerous situations, complained
of the horses ; but he was assured by the people of
the post-housi, that these were best in the stables,
as they in fat'; appeared to be ; and that, by their
speed on the road, the delay now occasioned would
be amply compensated.
The same horses afterwards went on so well, be.
ing almost constantly on a canter, that upon the
whole no time seemed to be lost in this stage, in
which the carriage went faster than on any other of
the whole journey*.
That the Royal Family might avoid every cause
of delay on the road, they had taken with them in
the carriage a piece of cold veal, which they cut,
and laid on a slice of bread, and ate, as is dore by
sportsmen and travellers in France, who oish to
save the time and expense of eating at an inn.—
They had also one bottle of mild champaign (yin de
champagne non mousseux), together with six bottles_
of water. This was the whole beverage of the
whole Family all the way from Paris to Varennes +.
Thrice only on the whole journey did His Ma-
jesty alight from the carriage ; twice only for the
short time.employed in changing horses ; and this
he did principally to give his family a little relief
from their crowded situation ; and the third time
when the carriage came to go down a hill so steep,
that the postillions were obliged to lock the wheels
with the chain. The Dauphin and the Princess
Royal took the same opportunity to stretch their
limbs, cramped with the confinement of the carriage.
On the last of these occasions, when he had one
foot on the steps to enter the coach, which was sur-
rounded and beset with beggars, seemingly ill tho
greatest distress, be laid his hand on M. de Mous-
tier's arm, who had turned himself so as to prevent
the King from being narrowly examined, and with
tears in his eyes, desired M. de IVloustief not to
take so much trouble, adding, that such precautions
were no longer necessary, as no danger of discovery
was now to be apprehended. He said, at the same
time, that he could not, without the most lively
sorrow, behold the wretched state of the people
around them, nor anticipate the misery that Must be
their lot, should no favourable change in public al.
fairs take place.—" Alas ! (et ied that feeling Prince)
how my poor people are deceived ! My own suf-
ferings would be nothing to me, could they become
the means of procuring the happiness of the French
Nation."
On the first occasion of his quitting the carriage,
the King said to M. de Moustier :—".I am so
unfortunate that I cannot persuade myself that my
journey will be prosperous. ' Happen, however,
what may, I shall have only done my duty, in
chewing to all the world, by this attempt to with_
draw from my oppressors, the thraldom in which I
have hitherto been held. Let no one in future al-
ledge, that-he has been deceived or misled by mec
through any thing that I may do, as has-been but
too long the case during enrcruel captivity
The confidence, or rather the hopes, of meeting
with no interruption on the journey, began to decay
when the carriage reached St. Menehoud, where,
while the horses were changing, the Commanding
officer of a detachment of dragoons quartered in the
town, passing close by M. de Moustier, but without
stopping, and rather affecting to turn his head ano-
ther way, said-to him, in a way nor to be overheard
by the serrounding people; "Make haste,:anal.be.
gone ; if you do nor set off instantly, you ate en.
done." Thia the officer said, although he saw M.
de Moustier with his own hands assisting to put the
horses to the carriage with the utmost dispatch.
.Soon after the King had left St. Menehoud,lhis
party of dragoons was surrounded and disarmed by
the national guards of the place.