which you have not kept. Soon after that event you attempted to corrupt the public opinion with the afliftance of Talon, who acted in Paris, and Mirabeau, who was to have excited counter-revolutionary movements in the provinces. You lavished millions to effect this corruption, and employed popularity as an engine to enflave the people. Thefe facts are proved by a memorial of Talon, on which you have made marginal comments in your own hand-writing; and by a letter which Laporte wrote to you on the 29th of April; in which, after recapitulating a converfation he had with Rivarol, he told you that the millions which you had been induced to throw away had produced nothing? . I do not recollect with precifion what happened at that period; but the whole of it is antecedent to my acceptance of the conftitution. 2. Was it not in confequence of a plan formed by Talon, that you went to the fuburbs of Saint Antoine, and diftributed money to the poor labourers; when you told them that you could not employ it better? A. My greatest pleasure has ever been to relieve the needy. I cannot conceive how the performance of fuch a duty can be converted into a plot. 2. On the 28th, a great number of the nobles, and feveral military perfons attended you at the Thuilleries to favour an escape that you had meditated. You wifhed to quit Paris on the 10th of April, to go to Saint Cloud, but the refiftance of the citizens made you fenfible that their diftruft of you was not to be baffled. You endea voured to remove it by communicating to the conftituent affembly a letter which you addreffed to the agents of the nation at foreign courts, to announce to them that you had freely accepted the conftitutional articles which had been prefented to you; and, notwithitanding, on the 21ft you took flight with a falfe paffport. You left behind a proteft against these very conftitutional articles; you commanded the minifters to fign none of the acts iffued by the national affembly; and you forbade the minifter of justice to deliver up the feals of ftate. The public money was lavished to fecure the fuccefs of this treachery; and the public force was to protect it under the orders of Bouillé, who fome time before had been charged with the maffacre of Nancy, and to whom you wrote on this fubject, "to maintain his popularity, because it would be of fervice to you." Thefe facts are proved by the memorial of the 23d of Feb. with marginal comments in your own hand-writing; by your declaration of the 20th of June, written by yourfelf; by your letter of the 4th of September 1700 to Bouillé; and by a note of the latter, in which he gives you an account of the ufe he made of nine-hundred and nine-three thoufand livres given by you, part of which were employed to feduce the troops who were to escort you? A. I know nothing of the memorial of the 23d of February. As to what relates to my journey to Varennes, I muft refer to the anfwer I gave, at that time, to the conftituent affembly. 2. After you were ftopped at Varennes, the exercife of the exe who employed themselves in justifying thefe violent proceedings,, inftead of reprefling them. cutive power was, for a moment, fufpended in your hands; and you formed another confpiracy. On the 17th of July the blood of ci-A. The inftructions of the comtizens was fhed in the field of miffioners will prove the object of Mars. A letter written by yourself to their miffion; and I knew none of: La Fayette, 1790, proves, that there them, when they were presented exifted a criminal correfpondence to me by the minifters. between you and him, to which Mirabeau had acceded. All kinds. of corruption were employed by you. You paid the expence of publifhing libels, pamphlets, and newspapers, which were defigned to pervert the public opinion, to difcredit affignats, and to fupport the caufe of the emigrants. The registers of Septeuil fhew what enormities have been employed in thefe manoeuvres, which were employed for the deftruction of liberty. A. Whatever happened on the 17th of July has no relation to me: of the reft I know nothing. 2. You appeared to accept the conftitution on the 14th of Sept. your difcourfes announced the with to maintain it; and you laboured to overthrow it, before it was compleated. A convention had been agreed upon at Pilnitz, the 24th of July, between Leopold of Austria, and Frederick William of Brandenburg, who engaged to re-elevate the throne of abfolute monarchy; and you was filent on the fubject of that convention, till it was known throughout Europe? A. I communicated that event as foon as it came to my 'know. ledge. Eefides, it is a bufinefs, which, according to the exitting . conftitution, is to be referred to the minifters. 2. Arles had raised the standard of revolt; and you favoured it by fending three civic commiflioners, 2. Avignon, and the county of Venaifin had been re-united to France; but a month had elapfed before you executed that decree; and, in the mean time, that country was defolated by civil war. The commillioners, whom you fucceffively fent, completed its devasta. tion? A. I do not recollect why the. execution of the decree was delayed. This circumftance has no perfonal reference to me. The perfons who were fent, and those who fent them, are alone to be. confidered. 2. Nifmes, Montauban, Meude, and Jales, had fuffered great agitations in the early days of liberty; nevertheless you attempted nothing to check these fhoots of a counterrevolution, till the moment when the confpiracy of Duffaillans broke forth. A. I gave every order, on that occafion, which the minifter pro-: pofed to me. 2. You fent twenty-two battalions against the Marfeillois, who marched to reduce the counter-revolutionifts of Arles. A. I muft have the papers relating to that bufinefs, to qualify me to give a proper antwer. 2. You gave the command of the fouth to Wigenftein, who wrote to you on the 21st of April 1792,! after he had been recalled-" In avery thort time I fhall call around the throne of your majefty millions of Frenchmen, who are again become worthy of the wishes you form for their happiness." A. This letter is fubfequent to his recall. He has not been employed fince; nor have I the leaft recollection of the letter. 2. You paid your former body, guards at Coblentz. The regifters of Septeuil bear teftimony to it: and many orders, figned by you, prove that you. remitted confider-; able fums to Bouillé, Rochefort, Vauguyon, Choifeul, Beaupré, Hamilton, and the wife of Polig-, nac. 1. As foon as I heard that my body guards had affembled on the other fide of the Rhine, I ordered their pay to be ftopped. As to the reft, I know nothing of it. Your brothers, who are enemies to the ftate, caufed the emigrants to rally under their ftandards. They railed regiments, made loans, and contracted alliances in your name; and you did not difayow them, till the moment you were certain that you could not interrupt their projects. Your intelligence with them appears by a note written by Louis Staniflaus Xavier, figned by your two brothers, and which was conceived in the following terms. "I wrote to you, but it was by the poft, and I could fay nothing. We are two in perfon, but one in fentiment, in principles, and in zeal for your fervice. We keep filence, becaufe were we to break it too foon, we fhould endanger you: but, we thall fpeak as foon as we are certain of general support, and that moment is at hand. If we are fpoken to on the part of thofe people we fhall hear nothing; but if on your part, we will liften: we fhall puriuc our road ftrait: it is therefore de fired that you will enable us to fay fomething: banish therefore all reftraint. Be at eafe as to your own fafety: we exift but to ferve you: we labour without ceafing for that object; and every thing goes on. well. Even our enemies feel them-, felves too much interested in your prefervation to commit a needlefs crime, which would terminate in their own deftruction. Adieu.LOUIS STANISLAUS XAVIER ET CHARLES PHILLIPE?" d. I difavowed all the various proceedings of my brothers as foon. as I received intelligence of them, as the conftitution prefcribed me. As to the note, I know nothing, of it. 2. The army of the line, which ought to have been raited to the war establishment, confifted only of 100,000 men, at the end of December; you therefore neglected to provide for the fafety of the ftate. Narbonne, your agent, demandeda levy of 50,000 men, but he stopped recruiting at 26,000,. when he declared that the whole, was ready; which, however, was not the truth. After him, Servan propofed to form a camp of 20,000. near Paris, which was decreed by the legislative affembly, but you, refufed your fanction. A. I had given to the minifters all the orders, neceffary for accele rating the augmentation of the. army. Eftimates were laid before the affembly in December: and if the minifters were guilty of deception, it ought not to be imputed. to me. 2. A flight of patriotifim made. the citizens repair to Paris from all quarters. When you iffued a pro-, clamation to ftop their march, though though our armies wanted recruits. Dumouriez, the fucceffor of Seryan, declared that the nation had neither arms, nor ammunition, nor fubfiftence, and that the ports were left defenceless. You had commiflioned the commanding officers, of the troops to difband the army, to force whole regiments to defert, and to make them país the Rhine, that they might be at the difpofal of your brothers, and Leopold of Auftria. This fact is proved by a letter of Toulongeon, governor of Franche Comté, A. There is not a word of truth in this accufation. 2. You charged your diplomatic agents to favour the coalition of foreign powers and your brothers against France; and especially to cement the peace between Turkey and Auftria, to render it unneceffary for the latter to leave troops on the Turkish frontier, and there by enable it to fend a larger body of men against France. A letter from Choifeul Gouffier, ambaffador at Conftantinople, proves the fact. A. M. Choifeul has not spoken the truth. Such an arrangement never exifted. 2. The Pruffians advanced towards our frontiers; and your minifter was fummoned to give an account of our political relations with Pruffia. You anfwered, on the roth, that 50,000 Pruffians were marching againft us; and that you gave notice to the legitlative body of the formal acts of the pending hoftilities, in conformity to the conftitution. . It was at that period when I received the firft intelligence of it. The whole of the correfpondence paffed between the refpective minifters. 2. You entrufted the war department to Daban court, the nephew of Calonne; and fuch was the fuccefs of your confpiracy, that the places of Longuy and of Verdun were furrendered as foon as the enemy appeared before them. A. I did not know that Daban court was the nephew of M. Ca- ̧ lonne-I did not difinantle thefe places; nor do I know that they were dismantled. 2. You have destroyed our ma-. rine; its officers have emigrated in great numbers; fo that very few remained to do duty in our har bours. Nevertheless Bertrand was daily granting paflports; and when the legislative body reprefented his criminal conduct to you on the 8th of March, you answered, that you were fatisfied with his fervices. 4. I did my utmost to retain the officers. As to M. Bertrand, fince the national affembly did not exhibit any specific accufation against him, I did not think it was my duty to fuperfede him. 2. You have encouraged defpotic government in the colonics; and your agents have every where: fomented in thefe colonies the dif turbances and counter-revolutionary plots, which were to have operated there at the fame time, when a counter-revolution was to have been brought about in France: all this fufficiently proves that your. hand conducted the plot? A. If there were any perfons in the colonies who faid they were my agents, they have not fpoken the truth. I know nothing of the bufinefs which you have juft ftated. 2. The national tranquillity was difturbed by fanatics; you thewed yourfelf their protector, and mani fefted fested an evident intention of recovering your former power by their means. A. I have no answer to make to this charge. I had no knowledge of any fuch defign. 2. The legislative body, on the 29th of November, paffed a decree againft feditious priefts, but you fufpended the execution of it. A. The conftitution allowed me the free power of fanctioning or rejecting decrees. 2. Difturbances encreased; the minifter declared, that he knew of no exifting laws by which the guilty could be punished. The legiflative body paffed a new decree, and you alfo fufpended the execution of it. 4. The fame anfwer as that preceding. 2. The conduct of thofe guards which the conftitution had given you, was fo unlike that of good citizens, that the affembly was under the neceflity of decreeing that they should be difbanded: the very next day, you wrote a letter to the affembly, declaring your fatisfaction; and you continued to pay them, as is proved by the accounts of the treasurer of the civil lift. A. I only continued their pay until they thould be re-established according as the decree required. 2. You retained your Swifs guards about your perfon in contradiction to the conftitution; and after the legislative affembly had exprefsly ordered their departure. 4. I confirmed the decree on the fubject. 2. You authorifed d'Angremont and Gilles to maintain private companies in Paris, for the purpose of exciting commotions favourable to your plans of counter-revolution.. 2. You fuffered the French nation to be degraded in Germany, Italy, and Spain, by not exacting reparation for the infults offered to the French in thofe countries? A. The diplomatic correfpondence proves the contrary. Befides, that was the burinefs of the minifters. 2. On the 10th of Auguft you reviewed the Swifs guards at five o'clock in the morning, and they fired firft on the citizens. A. I that day reviewed all the troops that were affembled near me. The conftituted authorities, the mayor of Paris, &c. were prefent. I had even requested that a deputation might be fent me from the national affembly, that they |