Gazette Of The United States

THE KING's SPEECH,
Delivered on Wednesday, the 16th July, to the STATES GENERAL.

GENTLEMEN,

I ASSEMBLED you for the purpose of consulting you on the most important affairs of State. Nothing is so immediately interesting, or so sensibly affects my heart, as the dreadful disorders that reign in the Capital.

The Chief of the nation comes, with confidence, into the midst of its Representatives, to testify his sorrow, and to intreat them to find the means of restoring order and tranquility.

I know that unjust suspicions have been entertained, that they have dared to assert that your persons were not safe. Will it be necessary for me to argue on the falsehood of rumours so criminal, to which my known character gives the lie?

But I stand or fall with the nation—I confide in you. Assist me in this exigency to maintain the welfare of the State. I depend on the wisdom of the National Assembly.—The zeal of the Representatives of my people, re-united for the public good, is to me a perfect safeguard; and depending on the love and fidelity of my subjects, I have given orders to the troops to withdraw from Paris and Versailles. I authorise and even request you to make known my intentions to the Capital.

This speech was received with acclamations.

On the 20th, at four o'clock, His MAJESTY arrived at the City Hall, where he was received by M. BAILLY, the new Mayor of Paris, who addressed him as follows, presenting him at the same time with the keys of the city, and a NATIONAL COCKADE, which his Majesty put in his hat, and wore.

SIRE,

I present your Majesty with the keys of the good city of Paris—they are the same which were presented to HENRY IV. HE HAD RE-CONQUERED HIS PEOPLE, HERE IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE RE-CONQUERED THEIR KING.

Your Majesty comes to enjoy the peace you have restored to the Capital; you come to enjoy the love of your faithful subjects. It is for their happiness that your Majesty has assembled around you the Representatives of the nation, and that you are about to concur with them in laying the foundation of Liberty and public prosperity. What a memorable day was that in which your Majesty came to your seat like a father in the midst of an united family, whence you were re-conducted to your Palace by the whole National Assembly—guarded by the Representatives of the Nation—pressed by an immense people! You bore in your august features the expressions of sensibility and happiness, whilst around you nothing was heard but acclamations of joy—nothing seen but tears of tenderness and love. Sire, neither your people, nor your Majesty will ever forget that great day—It is the most glorious day of the Monarchy—It is the epoch of an august and eternal alliance between the Monarch and the People. The circumstance is unparalleled—it immortalizes your Majesty.—I have seen the glorious day—and, as if every species of happiness was destined for me, the first function of the station in which the kindness of my fellow-citizens has placed me, is to convey to you the expressions of their respect and love.

The King attempted to speak, but his emotion was too strong to permit him to pronounce the discourse he had prepared.

Mr. Bailly approached His Majesty, and after receiving his orders, said to the Assembly: That the King was come to dispel any remains of uneasiness which might still subsist respecting his disposition towards the nation, and to enjoy the presence and love of his people—that his Majesty wished to see peace and tranquility restored to the capital, every thing return to its accustomed order, and crimes punished according to the laws.

Mr. Bailly then declaring that the King was ready to hear what any of the Assembly had to say.

His Majesty soon after appeared at one of the windows, with the National Cockade, and saluted the people who filled the square before the town-house, the windows, and covered the roofs of the houses, and now burst forth into heartfelt acclamations of Vive LE ROI, which accompanied him out of the town, amidst the firing of Artillery and Musquetry.

NOTES.

On Wednesday, when he came to the National Assembly, and threw himself into their arms for protection.

+ M. Bailly has received the unanimous thanks of the National Assembly, as President, and made Mayor of Paris, by the unanimous voice of his fellow-citizens.