664 Selec Poetry, Ancient and Modern, for July, 1791. ON HEARING MISS AW, or W strung With the fmooth gold of his Iduna's hair, On yon pale willow all neglected hung, And vocal only to the wand'ring air? Round its fweet tones the lift'ning Elves have clung, What time they to the cooler brim repair Of moonlight brook, by flow'ry fhades o'erfwung, [care. To coil the glittering dance, their fummerRefume it, youth! nor on the mosly shore Of fmoothly-gliding Wenfum loitering lie. Gird on thy crown of bardal oak once more, Nor leave it on the parching ftrand to dry. Lo, Fame, upon the cloudless fummit hoar Of the eternal hill, invites thee to her iky. "And stretch'd upon your treffes fleep, "Regardless of the angry'deep. Sweet child, if pain your bosom tore, "You would at least have liften'd more "To my complaints. Sleep, infant bleft! "And fleep, ye winds! My terrors, reft! "But, greatest Jove! unless my prayer "Too bold, too infolent appear, "Let fome regard to me be shown, "And grant me juftice in my fon!" That mows down nations to the filent tomb, That ftern demand another facrifice. Here Envy's ferpents fting her ev'ry hour; [ray The loft poffeffion of his golden ore. (The torments of his fpirit who can tell, That ev'n on earth anticipates a hell :) Beholds the Furies roll their flashing eyes, While round their hiffing ferpents feem to rife? Thefe gloomy phantoms round the throne refort, And fill with various founds the vaft Pluto. nian court. L. M. Continuation of the Account relative to the Capture of the KING and QUEEN of the French Nation, from p. 580. TH ◄HE first accounts of the flight and capture of the Royal Family of France were, as might be expected, very imperfect; fince which many have been circulated, all differing one from another, yet all agreeing in the main points. M. de Romeuf, Aid de Camp of M. de la Fayette, who had been fent in purfuit of the King, gave this account of his journey: "That having overtaken the King, and communicated to his Majefty the decree of the National Affembly, the King fwore he had no intention to quit the kingdom, but only to go to Montmedi. "The Queen had a paffport, of which the following is a copy: "To all Officers, Civil and Military, charged with the fuperintendance and maintenance of public order in the different departments of the kingdom: "We enjoin you to fuffer to pafs, without interruption, the Baronefs de Kortz, go. ing to Frankfort with two children, a valet de chambre, and three domefticks, without giving, or fuffering her to receive, any hindrance. "This paffport to continue in force for one month only. "Given at Paris, June 5, 1791. June 24. On this reprefentation, M. Montmorin was ordered to the bar; and Commiffioners were charged to examine the registers of office with regard to the conduct of that Minister in this mysterious business. These Commiffioners found the houfe of M. Montmorin furrounded by a furious mob, ready to execute the law; and were happy to report to the Affembly, on their return, that, having examined the registers, they had found that the paffport in queftion had been obtained at the request of M. Simolin, the Ruffian Ambaffador in France. The Minister came to thank the Affembly for a decree which was then paffed in his favour; in which he was much applauded, having been found faithful to the Conftitution. Affembly of the state of the military arrangements; from which it appears, that from the North to Bâle there are feven hundred pieces of cannon, with a fufficient quantity of ammunition in the magazines to carry on a war for seven or eight years, and provifions fufficient to maintain an army (with the aid of the ordinary produce of the country) of 20,000 men for eighteen months. The camp equipage is fufficient for three armies of 60,000 men each, and is daily augmenting. A Deputation of the Municipality of Paris prefented to the Affembly the two Citizens who stopped the King. M. Drouet then gave a detail, of which the following is the substance: "I am the Poftmaster of Sainte Menehoud, formerly a Dragoon in the regiment of Condé; my comrade, William, was formerly a Dragoon in the Queen's regiment. "On the 21st of June, at half after seven in the evening, two carriages and eleven horfes baited at my houfe. I thought I recognized the Queen, and was ftruck with the refemblance of the King to his Majesty's portrait on an Affignat of fifty livres. Thefe carriages were escorted by a detachment of Dragoons, relieved by a detachment of Huffars, under pretence of protecting a treafure. "This confirmed me in my fufpicions; more particularly when 1 faw the Commander of the detachment fpeak with great animation to one of the Couriers, of whom there were three; but, being alone, and fearing to excite any alarm, I fuffered the carriages to pafs, and by a cross-road got to Varennes before them, where they were ftopped by a difpute between the poftillions and the Poftmaster. I then faid to my quondam comrade the Poftmafter, William, are you ftaunch ?- Doubt it not,' replied he. Well,' faid I, the King is in the carriage; he must be stopped.' We then concluded, that, to fecure fuccefs, it was necefiary to barricade the street and bridge by which the carriages were to país. My comrade and I then went to the bridge, where fortunately ftood a carriage loaded with furniture. We overfet it; and then ran to feek the Procureur de la Commune, the Mayor, and the Commandant of the National Guard; and in a few minutes our number increafed to eight men, all hearty in the caufe. The Commandant and the Procureur approached the principal carriage, and asked the travellers who they were? and where they were going? The Queen anfwered petulantly, they were in halte; and produced her paffport. On reading it, fome faid it was fufficient. We combated this opinion, because not figned by the President of the M. Menou at the fame time informed the National Affembly, as it ought to have been. GENT. MAG. July, 1791. A letter was then read from the three Commiffioners difpatched after the King, fpecifying the road by which he was to return, and the time he might be expected to arrive at Paris. M. Menou reported on the neceffity of augmenting the number of General Officers, and of the arms and ammunition to be furnished to the feveral departments. And the National Affembly ordered the Minifter of the War Department to make an augmentation of fixteen General Officers. To thefe General Officers fhall be added a proportionable number of aids de camp. 666 Proceedings of the National Affembly of France. If you are a foreigner, faid we to the Queen, how came you to have a detachment of foldiers to escort you? After a few fuch queftions, and no fatisfactory anfwers returned, it was determined that the travellers should not proceed. They alighted at the houfe of the Procureur. Then faid his Majefty, I am your King-thefe are my wife and children. I charge you to treat us with that refpect which the French Nation have ever fhewn to their Kings! "The National Guards came by this time in crowds, and at the fame inftant the Huffars, fword in hand, who endeavoured to force the house where the King was; but we foon let them know that they should not tear him from us alive. "The Commander of the National Guard had the precaution to plant two small fieldpieces at the upper end of the ftreet, and two at the lower end; fo that the Huffars were between two fires. They were fummoned to difmount. M. Jouglas refufed. He faid his troop fhould guard the King. He was answered, that the National Guard held his Majefty under their protection. The Gunners were ordered to their pofts; they took the matches in their hands; but," faid Drouet, "I have the honour to obferve to you, that the cannon were not then loaded, and that the Commander of the National Guard fo contrived it, as to difarm the Huffars without bloodshed, and the King was made prifoner. "Having thus faithfully discharged our duty to our country, we returned home, amidst the acclamations of our fellow-citizens; and are come to lay before the National Affembly the homage of our fervices." The Prefident congratulated these brave Citizens on the eminent fervices they had rendered their country. June 25. A difpatch was received, ftating the arreft of Meffieurs Choifeul, Dames, Rami, and Floriac, officers commiffioned to affift the King's efcape. It was decreed, that they should remain State Prifoners till the Affembly fhould take up the bufinefs in a regular way. It was then decreed, 1. That the King fhould return to the Thuilleries, under the guard of the Commandant General. 2. A Guard and Governor to the Prefumptive Heir, to be nominated by the National Affembly. 3. That the King and Queen be heard in their own defence. 4. That, till it fhall be otherwise ordained, the Minister of Justice fhall be authorized to affix the feal to the acts of the Legiflative Body. And, 5. That the Minifters of the feveral Departments, with the Commiflioners of the King, fhall be authorized to exercife the executive powers of the State. Haif paft leven o'clock. A great agitation manifested itself. A report was circulated, that the King was crolling to the Thuilleries. [July, Twenty minutes elapfed before the Affembly could refume their deliberations." M. Localioux faïd, the three couriers who had attended the King, and who were now on the carriages bound, were in danger of being hanged by the populace. Twenty Commiffioners went out of the Affembly to restore order. At the fight of the Commiffioners the agitation ceafed, and the Royal Family entered the palace of the Thuilleries without interruption; as did the three men who acted as couriers, viz. M. Valori, Mantile, and Malfon, three Gardes du Corps. One of them let fall a pocket-book, which was immediately delivered to the Prefident, who fealed it up, that nothing fhould be added to its contents. M. le Prefident. I learn that the King's carriages are furrounded by the mob, who are determined to open them. M. Voidell. The united Committees of Reports and Refearches have already taken care of that. The Commiffioners, who had been fent to conduct the King back to Paris (foon after the Royal Family were fecured in the palace), entered the hall, and were received with congratulations. M. Barnave then addreffed the Affembly, and gave a moft fatisfactory account of their proceedings. He confirmed what M. de Romenf had faid of the folemn declaration made by the King when first stopped, "that he never meant to pafs the limits of the kingdom;" and that when the decree was read to him, authorizing their commiflion, he teftified much fenfibility on account of the precautions taken by the National Affembly for the fafety of his perfon, and for the maintenance of the royal dignity. We moreover, he faid, when we joined the Royal Family, addreffed a proclamation to all the Adminif trative Bodies in the King's name, in order to preferve the public tranquillity which every where prevailed; fo that we felt no inconvenience but from the heat and the ordinary fatigues of travelling. We met the King between Dermas and Epernay; paffed the night at Dormans; from thence to Meaux. We wrote from Meaux to the Prefident of the National Affembly, the Mayor of Paris, and the Commander of the National Guard at Paris, to intreat them to take the neceffary meafures to fecure the public tranquillity; which they have happily effected. The National Affembly decreed thanks to the Commiffioners for their faithful fervices. June 26. M. Du ont, in the name of the Committees of Criminal Jurifprudence and of the Constitution, prefented a plan of profecution against the King and the partakers in his flight, which was objected to; but, after a warm debate, was in part adopted, and the following articles decreed: Art. I. That two Commiflioners be appointed pointed by the tribunal in the district of the Thuilleries to take information refpecting the events of the night between the 20th and 21ft of June, as also of fuch anterior facts as relate thereto. Art. II. That the faid Commiffioners shall proceed, without delay, to interrogate all perfons who are in cuftody in virtue of a decree of the 25th inftant, &c. And, Art. III. The National Affembly fhall appoint three Commiffioners to take the declarations of the King and Queen, which shall be taken feparately, figned by their own hands, and laid before the National Affembly. After balloting, Meffrs. Tronchet, Dandre, and Duport, were declared Commillioners to examine the King and Queen. The Guards were then prefented to the Affembly, by whom the King was fecured and conducted to Paris. They were received with particular attention, and addreffed by the Prefident in a fhort but elegant fpeech; which addrefs was heard with applaufe. The Affembly then determined, that there was no longer any neceflity of extraordinary fittings, and that the ordinary fittings should be continued as ufual. June 27. The Prefident informed the Affembly, that he had received an infinite number of Addreffes from Administrative Bodies, from National Guards, and from Citizens; and the Affembly referred the reading of them to an extraordinary fitting, to be appointed for that purpose. The Affembly ordered the Diplomatic Committee to draw up a proclamation, authorifing foreigne s to quit the kingdom without any obstruction. A letter from a citizen of Paris was read, engaging to furnith 1,200 livres towards paying the National Guards, to begin from the day on which the external enemies thould he fo rafh as to attack the empire of the French. The following letter from M. D'Eftaign was read: "Paris, June 23. "No step is indecent when we conform to the wishes of our fellow-citizens. I do not know who is the Officer appointed to receive the Military Oath in this department. I fend it in writing to the National Affembly. I beg it to receive the allur ance of my zed for the maintenance of the Confutution. Already a Lieuten nt-general and a Viceatmiral, I wish there exited a new element in which I might fight for it! "(Signed) D'ESTAIGN." M. Tranchet, in the name of the three Commulfioners appointed to receive the declarations of the King and Queen, gave the following account : "For the purpofe of executing your de cree of the 26th, M. Dandre, M. Duport, and I, met in the evening, and proceeded to the King's apartment in the Thuileries, where we found him alone. After having read to him your decree, I judged it necef fary to remark, that the declaration of his Majefty fhould refer, according to the intent and meaning of the decree, as well to all the tranfactions of the 21st of June, as to the occurrences connected with them, whether of an anterior or a pofterior date. The King anfwered, that he did not understand submitting to interrogatories; but that he would deliver in a declaration, conformably to the requifition that had been made to him by the National Affembly. We then took his declaration, to every page of which he had fet his fignature. We went afterwards to the apartments of the Queen, whom we found, with Madame Elizabeth, preparing to fit down to table; but the latter informing us that her Majefty could not then receive us, because she was going to the bath, we de fired her to appoint another hour; and the fixed upon eleven this morning. Of course we retired; but, returning at the time prefcribed, we were introduced into the bedchamber, where the Queen was without any one attendant whatever. We then read to her the decree of the National Affembly, fubjoining to it the fame obfervation which we had made to the King. She dictated to us her declaration; and, having afterwards heard it read over, put her fignature to every page of it." DECLARATION OF THE KING. "In this declaration his Majefty frankly confeties, that the motives of his journey were to deliver himself and family from the outrages and abuses to which they were expofed by an infolent and incenfed populace; and to defeat thofe menaces with which they were threatened in daily publications, while the authors remained unnoticed and unpu→ nifhed. In thefe circumftances, the fafety of their perfons forbade their longer continu ance at Paris; and the tranquillity of the city made them prefer their departure by night, to avoid that disturbance which otherwife might have proved fatal to fome of their moit deferving fubjects; but he protested that it had never entered his mind to quit the boun daries of his kingdom; and, for proof, adduced the general circumstances that at ended his departure, without money, without friends, and without any pre concerted fcheme whatever, except that apartments had been ordered at Montmedi for their reception (that being a fortified town), where the Queen and her retinue might have remained in fafety till the vigour of Government had been in fome measure restored, and the Conftitution compleated. At this place, his Majefty faid, he had ordered three perfons to attend him as couriers, to enable him to correfpond with the National Affembly and his Minifters for the readier difpatch of public bufinefs, and to give warning in cate of any fudden disturbance that might have been attempted on the frontiers, where the would have been ready to have prefented 668 Declaration of French King and Queen.-American News. [July, himself in the post of danger, and to have repreffed any infurrection. "His Majefty concluded his declaration with affuring the Commiflioners, that, as foon as he was convinced of the certainty of the public opinion, he did not hesitate to facrifice his own perfonal interefts to the welfare of his people, that being the great object of all his wishes, all his defires;-that he fhould willingly forget all unpleasant circumftances that he had experienced, to fecure the peace and happiness of the nation. (Signed) LOUIS." DECLARATION OF THE QUEEN. "I declare that, the King being defirous of quitting Paris with his children, nothing in Nature could have diffuaded me from accompanying him; for that I never will con. fent to quit him, my whole conduct for these last two years has given fufficient proofs. The refolution was fudden, but it was determined. The Governess of my daughter, who had been indifpofed for five weeks, did not receive orders for her journey till the evening preceding. The three couriers who attended the King neither knew the deftination nor the object of our journey -they were fupplied from time to time with money, and received orders as they proceeded. Monfieur and Madame were to join us in France. They left the Thuilleries the fame night h's Majesty did, and took the road to Mons, to avoid embarraffiment. (Signed) MARIE ANTO'NETTE." The declarations, of which the above contain the fubftance, being read, the Affembly proceeded to take into confideration the following propofitions from the Committee of the Conflitution: 1. As to the mode of electing a Governor to the Prefumptive Heir to the Crown. 2. To the nature of the oath to be taken by fuch Governor. And, 3. To the authority he fhall exercise over the Heir Apparent. And, while they were under confideration, a letter from the Duke of Orleans appeared in the Parisian news-papers; in which his Highness declares his readiness to terve his country, by fea or land, in a diplomatic capacity, in which zeal and an unhounded devotion may be required; but, if that of Regency be the queflion, he renounces from that moment, and for ever, all rights which the Constitution gives him to be elected to that office. - O AMERICA. An account is at laft made public of the expedition against the Miami Indians in 1790.- The Aerican troops, confifting of 1200 Militia and 300 Regulars, after feventeen days march, reached the grot Miami village without moleation, where they found the village deferred, and all that was valuable carried off. After a fhort thay they prosseded to the neighbouring villa es, five of which they burnt, and destroyed their provifions and corn, to the amount, as was computed, of fifteen thoufand bushels. The first oppofition they met with was an attack by furprize of a detachment of about 150 Kentucky Militia, fent in pursuit of a body of Indians that had been discovered lurking about the principal town. These led on the party to follow them, till, after a purfuit of about fix miles, they came to a large plain, furrounded on every fide with a thicket, in which the main body of the Indians lay concealed. This was no fooner discovered, than the Militia to a man made a most precipitate retreat, leaving the few Regulars to be cut to pieces, two or three officers and a few privates excepted, who defended themselves at the points of their bayonets till by miracle they made their efcape. Captain Armftrong, who commanded the detachment, faved himself by jumping into a swamp up to the neck, where he remained the whole night a miferable fpectator of the horrid fcene of the war-dance over the dead and wounded of the preceding day. After this, fome few skirmishes fucceeded, but nothing material until the fecond fatal action, which happened two days after the army had left the Miami town. At ten miles diftance the General ordered a halt, and detached from four to five hundred Militia, and about fixty Regular foldiers, com manded by Major Wylls, all under the command of Colonel Hardin, with orders to march back to the town, where a small body of indians had collected themselves, with a view of searching for what might be left behind. These fled on the first appearance of the return of the army, and, taking different routes in fmall parties, encouraged the Militia to purfue them, who again fell into the fame fnare as before, and left the few Regulars to futain the whole force of the Savages; who, notwithstanding they found the Militia returning on their backs, purfued the main object of destroying the Regulars, all of whom, except nine, they cut to pieces. Nothing could equal the intrepidity of the Indians on this occafion; the Militia they appeared to defpife, and, with all the undauntedness, conce vable, threw down their guns, and ruched upon the bayonets of the Regular folders. A great number of the Indions fell; but, being fo far fuperior in numbers, they foon overpowered the Regulars, for while the poor foldier had his bayonet in one In jon, two more would fink their tomahawks in his head. The defeat of the troops was compleat: the dead and wounde ! were left on the field, in pollettion of the Savages. Notwithstanding the above difatter, the migrations from Canadh increate daily.—— Ninety-feven families, befides feveral hundreds of tingle men. chiefly French, have tted to the Weit, along the banks of the Mohawk |