The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-02 00:00:00

of the cons any shout the carri.ige, boogied, that,
although the clergy were an abominable race, yet
he rould not resist his compagsion for the wretch,
and therefore had,- out of kindness, Worn out his

Whether it proceeded from a refinement in cruel-
ty, or from -some secret political motive, cannot
tmw-be ascertained ; but so it was, that the Depu.
ties never failed to stop the carriage in those places
where the populace gave way to the most horrible
speeches and threats against the Royal Family,
especially against the King himself, who had never,
for an instant, ceased to love '.ll-is people with the
most ardent affeaion.

During the first day's journey in company with
the Deputies, couriers were continually coming up
with dispatches, which they pressed these gentle-
men t, read, giving Our, at the same time, that.the
Austrians had entered France, and were laying the
whole country waste with fire and sword. The
Deputies, having put on the appearance (for it was
evident to the -persons in the carriage, where two
of them were, that it was only an appearance), of
reading these dispaches, ordered the carriage to halt,
and then announced to the populace, that forty thou.
sand Anstrians had invaded-the country, which was
reduced to the utmost distress ; that all the towns,
even Varennes itself, was already reduced to ashes ;
that the inhabitants, without distinftion of age or
sex, were put to the sword: and that the same ca-
lamities would unquestionably take pLce wherever
the Austrians should penetrate.
These discourses of the Deputies heightened ten-
fold the rage of the multitude, goaded already al-
most to madness by the conduCt of their leaders.
Yet the monstrous absurdity of such reports, which
carried with them their own disproval, might have
been expeCted lather to open the eyes of these de-
luded wretches.

The,effeets they produced, furnish a striking proof
of the melancholy blindness and infatuation of men,
when abandoned by Providence to the fury of their
own passions.

Dumas, one of the Deputies, had been a 114,1j0r-
General in the service of the unhappy Prince, of
whom he was now a principal tormentor. By his
insinuating smiles, and studied familiarity of dis.
course and behaviour, to the crowd around the car-
riage, whom he treated with the most ma7ked at_
tention and respel, leaning on the shoulders of the
private National Guards, talking in their ear, not
as their chief, but as their companion ; calling them,
at every word, friends, comrades, &c. &c. By
these and other arts, this Dumas sheaved sufficiently
that the ignorant multitude aged only in conformity
to the instigations of their direCtors.

At the inn where the Royal Family were to sleep,
after leaving Chalons, the Deputies' took care to
secure for themselves all the best apartments. To
the King was allotted a chamber, where the servants
of those gentlemen would have considered them-
selves to be badly accommodated : but the virtues
of this excellent Prince made him support every in-
dignity with a composure and resignation which
extorted the admiration of even his bitterest enemies.

Far from complaining of his treatment in this inn,
where the bed was too short and too narrow for him
to stretch his wearied limbs on it, his Majesty, with
his own hands, tied his handkerchief about his head,.
and sat down on a wooden-bottomed chair, which
stood by the head of the bed, and desired one of
the ga rdes du-cop-pi to fetch another of the same kind
to support his feet.
Perceiving their anguish at the sight of their be.
loved master reduced to such misery, he, with his
ti,ual condescension, said, " Oh! never think of me.
I am well enough here: How many persons would
think themselves happy to be so well provided for
Such, indeed, was the constant behaviour of the
Royal Family on these trying occasions, that the
Deputies of the Assembly themselves, men sele6led,
certainly with no friendly view, but for the purpose
cf carrying back their SDvereign to his prison in the
capital, were so affeted by the genuine dignity of
their rondua, that, with all their art, they could
not conceal their admiration and respect.
The gravity of discourse, the correaness of be.
haviour, which appeared in the family, had such an
effe& on these Deputies, that, after the first day's
journey, they were utterly unable to maintain the
airs of insolence and effrontery With which they first
presented themselves at the carriage.
When out of the coach, the Duputies could not
refrain, in spite of themselves, from giving proofs,
by their language and gestures, of the most profound
respeel for the whole Family. They seldom ven-
tured to look their master in the face ; and evident-
ly wished earnestly to withdraw from his eye and
oblervatlon% They seemed to feel most pungently
:ht vast distance between themselves and him.

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