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 you said, that you wished to inform yourself by its councils, and never to separate yourself from it. What have you to answer?"

Louis. "I made the observations which I thought just upon the two first objects. As to the cockade, that is false, it did not pass before me."

President. "You took, at the federation on the 14th of July, an oath, which you did not keep. Soon after you endeavoured to corrupt the public mind by the assistance of Talon, who laboured in Paris, and of Mirabeau, who was to effect a counter-revolutionary movement in the province. What have you to answer?"

Louis. "I do not recollect what passed in that time, but the whole is prior to the acceptance of the constitution."

Prefident. "On the 17th of July, after your arrest at Varennes., [sic] the blood of the citizens was shed at the Champ de Mars. A letter in your hand, written in 1790, to La Fayette, proves that there existed a criminal coalition between you and La Fayette, to which Mirabeau had acceded. Division commenced under these cruel auspices; all kinds of corruption were employed. You paid libellers to discredit the assignats, and support the cause of the emigrants. The registers of Septeuil point out what enormous sums have been employed. What have you to answer.? [sic]"

Louis. "What passed on the 17th of July, cannot in any manner, regard me; as to the rest, I have no knowledge of it."

President. "You appeared to accept the constitution on the 14th of September; your discourses announced a will to maintain it, and you laboured to overthrow it before it was finished. A Convention was formed at Philintz between Leopold of Austria and Frederick William of Brandenbourg, who engaged themselves to re-establish in France the throne of the ancient monarchy, and you were silent, concerning this Convention, till it was known to all Europe. What have you to answer.? [sic]" Louis.