National Gazette

The motives that induced Louis XVI. to accept the constitutional code are of such a nature as not to leave the least pretext for the confederated powers to attack the revolutionists in France.

The King of Prussia has been besieged, in a manner, by the emissaries of Pitt, the English minister, as well as those of the Princes of Orange, who does not consider herself safe in her usurpation, unless a counter-revolution takes place. But the Stadtholder himself well knows that the Emperor would be the principal agent in such an attempt, and that if it should succeed Leopold would acquire the same influence in France, that the King of Prussia now has in Holland. He (Leopold) is extremely avaricious; he hates both clergy and nobility, and without a certainty of success, never would have ventured upon any expedition against France. This certainty could only have arisen from the interior circumstances and general disposition of the nation. The King is still represented as wishing to make his escape from the kingdom, could he elude the vigilance of the army—but those who propagate such an opinion are the very persons that, previous to his first escape, had soured his mind and imbittered his peace, by alarming him with imaginary terrors, and in fact making him a prisoner for fear of treasons that did not exist in the minds of the people.