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 of June, 1789, when the king interrupted the sittings of the National Constituent Assembly, which then removed to a tennis court. It mentions, that on the 6th of July, the hall of the National Assembly was surrounded by foreign troops; that, on the 9th the king refused to dismiss them; that on the 10th the king refused to receive the President of the National Assembly; and that on the 20th of June, 1791, he left Paris, with his family.

It passes through several other circumstances, making observations upon them all, to the 10th of August, on the morning of which it avers, the king reviewed his Swiss troops, and commanded them to fire upon the people.

The commandant general said—'Louis Capet attends your orders.'

The unfortunate Louis then appeared at the bar. The Mayor, two municipal officers, and Generals Santerre and Wittenkoff entered with him. The guard remained on the outside, in the hall.

President. "Louis, the French Nation accuses you. The National Convention has resolved, on the third of December, that you shall be judged by itself: on the 6th of December it was decreed, that you should be brought to the bar. They are about to read the act which announces the crimes imputed to you. You may sit down."

Louis seated himself.

One of the secretaries read the whole act. The President taking each article of accusation, called successively upon Louis to answer to the different charges which it contained. He then said—

"Louis, the French people accuse you of having committed a multitude of crimes to establish your tyranny and destroy their liberty. You attacked, on the 29th of June, 1789, the sovereignty of the people, by suspending forcibly the assemblies of their representatives, and by repulsing them with violence from the place of their sitting. The proof is in the process ver- Rh