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 the King, his cousin, and the virulence with which he joined the savage Persecutors of his queen originate thus. When the beautiful Marie Antoinette was shining in all the splendour of united attractions, our gallant made a proffer to her of his person, which she rejected with contempt, and even reported it to her husband, who upbraided him with his baseness. This virtuous nobleman, to gain a seat in the convention, changed his name to that of Mr. Equality; was one of the most forward to condemn his king; and at last, by the jealousy of Robespierre, met that fate he so justly merited. ROBESPIERRE, when deputed to the National Assembly, was provided with a coat upon the occassion, by an old benefactor; but behold the rigid virtues of a republican! He soon inhabited a splendid hotel in the capital, appeared in glittering equivages, and revelled in banquets and entertainments.

Oh may all these who pant for reform, in their different countries be enamoured with such thoughts of rioting on the ruin of their superiors; and panting with glorious ardour for such dignities in the state as have adorned the bloody brows of this assassin be hurried on to commit such crimes against every government, as will produce the same glorious work for devils as this merciless ambitious wretch hath committed here. Not a spark of love for his country entered the breast of this tyger; but to fix himself in his place, and to add to his revelling used constantly, on condemning crowds to the guillotine pronounce, "A little more blood does no harm." DANTON, the former colleague and assistant of Robespierre was the son of a butcher who bred him be a surgeon. He was so mean and cringing to men in power, the nobility and princes that he got surgeon extraordinary to the Count d'Ars, and so unlucky was he in losing patients, that any page or domestic offended the count he was  to threaten to deliver them to be cured