300 OF DUKE OF SHOT-SIMON.

tie air me, aU that lie was. I said that

I to a compliment, that we (the Dukes)

no over the princes of the blood; but what

we should be nobody between the

of the us ; that as this intermediary rank no

we nothing more to say, but to rejoice that

we had no to what -was insupportable. The joy

of IL da forth at my compliments, and he

me a inspired by the transport of

triumph.

if he at the declaration of the King, it

far Foreign dukes and princes

but uttered dull murmurs more

Paris wad the provinces broke

out; the did not silent. de Main-

her the adoration of her

As for me, I but few reflections upon

frightful determination of

tie King. I simply say, it is impossible not to see

in it an the Crown; contempt for the entire

rights are trodden under foot by it; insult to all

the of the blood ; in fact tiie crime of high treason in its

extent. Yes I however venerable
in the eyes of men the majesty of Kings
are his anointed; however
be the known as high, treason, of attempt-

ing singular may "be the

to prevent that crime, and to re-

by the from the infernal

of it,'—we help finding in the

in a in other, however abomi-

nable It be. Yea! to most holy laws, that

of monarchy; to ex-

a tie —the important—the

in the : to to the throne,

; in a word, to