At length one of the door-keepers went and purchased, out of his own pocket, a few biscuits and a bottle of wine, which he brought to them. This room had in it only a few bare forms, upon which they lay during the nights of Friday and Saturday.įor the first 12 hours of their confinement, not a soul went near them, nor had they any kind of refreshment.
The King, Queen, and their children were thrust into the president’s room, adjoining to the Assembly. The following particulars respecting the royal family of France, during the dreadful scenes which disgraced Paris last week, have not yet been communicated to the public. The royal family, stripped of their guards, must fall an easy sacrifice to the cursed fury of the Jacobins – and France, to atone the mighty guild, deluged in blood.
This may be considered as a prelude to greater enormities. A long and warm debate, or rather contention, ensued after which, it was determined that this proposition, with the motion for his suspension, should be reserved until the following day, for final decision when it was expected he would be formally suspended, and the exercise of the Executive Power invested in the hands of the Commissioners. It was then proposed that he should be prosecuted as a traitor to the state. By an express received in town yesterday evening from Paris, we learn that on Thursday the motion for the suspension of the King was discussed, and there appeared against the unhappy Louis a great majority.
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