This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTER V, The end of a conspiracy against the executive government must be sooner or later fatal to the royal family. It is not difficult to foresee that if the public is determined to have no King, and to get rid of the monarch, it is as easy, as Caesar said to Metellus, for them to do it as to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTER V, The end of a conspiracy against the executive government must be sooner or later fatal to the royal family. It is not difficult to foresee that if the public is determined to have no King, and to get rid of the monarch, it is as easy, as Caesar said to Metellus, for them to do it as to declare it. But I make no doubt that you expect to hear by every post of the King's having been murdered, and the whole family put to the sword. Indeed, for my own part, when I consider the sanguinary temper of the faction that governs Paris, and the ease with which the people execute their bloody orders; when I look to the the Thuilleries, and fee the King surrounded by a discontented populace excited by every existing art to acts even of slaughter and of regicide, I can only express my astonishment that no daring fa natic hand has yet executed his commission so far as to remove the great obstacle to the wishes of the governors, and lay the way open by a happy coup de main to that more equal form of policy which they are stretching every nerve to obtain. But the fact is, that however easy this may appear, the most violent of the Jacobins dare not attempt it by any direct means, that is, by a regular commission given to this man or that man, but rather wish the thing to be done by some stroke, as it were, of chance, not aimed apparently against the person of the King, so that he might be taken off as Roflius was, quasi nullo negotio, as easily as a man who is squeezed to death in a crowd, or carried away in a battle by a random shot. As it was well known at the castle that the populace were coming to force the King to sanction the two savourite decrees, proper dispositions of defence had been made to repress, if possible, the excess of the...
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