Gazette Of The United States

A writer in the Virginia Chronicle Speaking of French affairs, says—those who have traced the steps which have led to this revolution, will perceive, that all their sufferings, and all the convulsions now agitating the kingdom, have proceeded, from the Queen's patronage of the American cause; and had that sprung from her zeal for its freedom, it would have been laudable; but on the contrary, it arose from her avowed enmity to the English nation.—The King too, who Mr. Burke extols as amongst the best of Monarchs and as possessing the power of hearts, has himself most essentially conduced to destroy the peace of his kingdom, and to endanger the lives and royal prospects of his own immediate family, by sanctioning the union of the Clergy, Nobles and Commons, into one House: his fatal connivance at this Act, which destroyed degree, and consequently the veneration due both to the propriety of rank, and to which property is entitled—at the same moment unlinked all order and subordination.

—The motives for the Queen's conduct were fatally vindictive; to the policy of Louis, wretchedly temporizing in that first destructive step, his present lamentable situation is ascribable alone.