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 ¬she might have put aside the calamities which followed, the consequences of which are not yet wound up, nor within the reach of the wisest to foreknow. ¬" The Capetian people, except in the frantic moments of this sanguinary crisis, were noto- riously devoted to a monarchical government; and even in the whirlwind of revolution could never have been driven from it, if proper means had been taken to prevent it. — Their earliest leaders professed openly and with an undisturb- ed support from a national council, to preserve the kingly government in the person of their King, under a balanced constitution, and when the storm was gathering at a distance to over- power it, the supplication which in his name they addressed to the Sovereign of Armata will be considered hereafter as the most afflicting and affecting document which history can ever have to record. — That unhappy prince only asked the commanding influence of this great Country with alarmed and confederating govern- ments. ¬