This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 edition. Excerpt: ....-/ ." CHAP. XXIV. A secret message to foreign courts, with which M. Mallel-du-Pan is entrusted.--/ advise the king to recommend him to the Baron de Breteuil.--His majesty s answer.--The effect which the unhappy issue of his journey to Varennes had produced on the king's mind, with respect to the Baron de ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 edition. Excerpt: ....-/ ." CHAP. XXIV. A secret message to foreign courts, with which M. Mallel-du-Pan is entrusted.--/ advise the king to recommend him to the Baron de Breteuil.--His majesty s answer.--The effect which the unhappy issue of his journey to Varennes had produced on the king's mind, with respect to the Baron de Breteuil.--The powers with which his majejly bad entrlisted that minister.--The period and motives of their revocation.'--Cause of the quarrel between Messrs. de Breteuil and Calonne.--The king orders me to recommend Mallet-du-Pan to the Marechal de Castries, and to correspond with the former.--MalleUdu-Pan being arrived in Germany, receives a credential under the kings hand.'--Exhaustedstate of the civil list.--Secret loan. The campaign was going to open; and although the king did not foresee all the ill consequences which would follow, yet yet he looked forward to the war with very great inquietude. Above all, he apprehended that the victories, which he did not doubt would be gained by the Austrians and Prussians, would rekindle the fury of the Jacobins against the priests and nobles who remained still in France. The fears which his majesty expressed in his letters to me, were the occasion of my proposing to him to send a person of confidence to the emperor and the Jrfng of Prussia, to endeavour to prevail on them not to allow their armies to act offensively against France, until they should be under the last necessity of so doing; and even in that ease to make the entrance of their armies into France be preceded by a mani-. festo, in which they should declare, "that, forced to take arms by an unjust attack, they did not impute that aggression either to the king or to the French nation, but to a. criminal faction which oppressed both;...
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