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death of liouis the Sixteenth , This has , on his part and that of bis friends , been repeatedly denied ; but as the accusation has been repeated , a hundred times repeated in the face of this denial , we shall here extract the proof of its falsehood from the late publicaof M . La Roche . It consists of
attested copies from the Archives of the kingdom , of extraits of the" Proces-Verbal and Bulletin de Correspond dance of the National Convention of the 19 th January , 1793 , " Proems-Verbal .
" Une Lettre du 13 Janvier des Deputes Gre ' goire , &c , Commissaires de la Convention Nationale au cUjpartement du Mont-Blanc , expriine leur voeu pour la condamnation de Louis Capet par la convention saus appel au peuple . "
" Bulletin de Correspondance , " Lettres des Commissaires du Departement du Mont-Blanc * ' Nous declarons done que notre voeu est pour la rondamnation de Louis Capet par la Convention Nationale , sans appel au peuple . '"
These extracts are regularly attested by the Keeper of the Archives . It is necessary to state , that a few months before the king ' s sentence , M . Grdgoire had moved in his place , in the National Convention , and his speech on the occasion is printed , that the punishment of death should be abolished .
The above letter from the Commissioners at Chambery contained originally the words ' * condamnation a mort - " M ' , but . Gregoire prevailed on his colleagues to strike out the two last words , and send their vote with his , as it is worded in the extract , the
original of which exists with the expression a mort , ( to death , ) erased by the Abbess own hand . It certainly appears that he considered Louis as a great criminal , and we do not undertake to decide on the case * of that unfortunate monarch . If we wonder that
a man of the Abba ' s mild character should have passed an unqualified or even an ambiguous sentence on the Sovereign of France , we are bound to notice the absurd injustice of catling him a regicide , who by his speech on
the proposed abolition of the punishment of death , and , by his vote here recorded , had twice most distinctly opposed the execution of Louis . ^ The return of the Bourbons was the signal for all good Royalists to vie with
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each other in traducing the four fame earned by M . Gr £ goire during the absence of the legitimate family . But if" was not till a body of his fellowcitizens bore a public testimony to his great worth , by electing him Deputy
for the Department of the Isfere , that the full cry of this well-trained pack was heard . On this occasion he addressed the first of the Letters named at the head of this article , to Ins constituents . In this he notices and answers the calumnies which have been .
thrown out against him , by those in the pay of the government , and which , he says , are many of them founded on works falsely attributed to him , or grossly interpolated . But we shall only extract one passage , in which he describes the manner in which his Christian zeal was received by the atheists of the Revolution :
Quand , mdigne profondement tie voir T Assemble dans uii oubli sacrilege pr £ coniser l ' apostasie , il ( M . Gr £ goire ) s * elanc , ait a la tribune pour proclamer son immuable attachement a la religion Catholique : des hurlemens , d'horribles menaces tonnaient sur sa t&te . La
faction d ' alors commandait de ne pas inserer son discours dans les feuilles publiques , ou de le travestir ; ce qui expHque la discordance de leurs narrations . Au coin des rues , on affichait des placards , imprimis contre l ' audacieux , qui par sa resistance avait retard ^ le triomph e de la
raison * Pendant plusieurs mois a la Convention c ' e * tait une sorte d ' opprotore de s' asseoir pr&s de lui , pour cela seul qu'il avait de * fendu ses principes religieux * Ces faits se sont passes sous les yeux ; de te * moins dont un grand nombre sont vivans . Et , chose Strange , il a vu , II voit encore se dechainer sim ul t an £ merit
contre lui ceux qui foulaient aux pieds toute religion , et ceux qui s en dexrlarent ensuite les h ^ rauts privilege ' s . "—P . 10 . In the interval between his election and the meeting of the Chamber , various inducements were held out ^ to M . Gr £ * goire to obtain his resignation . These he firml y resisted , and on Ws rg ^ ction on a point of form , which wa $ unwik
lingly listened to b y those ^ nemicp who wished to expel him $ » a , reg ^ ciefcv he again addressed a letter to the * $ lgcr tors , and related the insidious attenapta that had been made to jprocure \ $ k , yoluntary retirement . He again shews the falsehood of the charges proceed
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Review .- ~ Life and Character of Abbe Grigoire . 37
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/37/
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