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Execution Of The Queen Of France. It is with fincere regret we confirm the genera' report of yefterday,refpecting the fate of this un- fortunate PRINCESS, who fuffered under the saxe of the guillotine on Wednefday lafi the 16th inftant; after having been condemned on th;e preceding day by the National Convention, as gzilty of having beenz acce' ay to and having co- operated in diterent nzanceuvrcs agaii-yi tbe li&ery y' France;-of having entertained a correjpondenre awith the en,emzsies of the Repulirk ;--of haaivg par- :icipatedin a plot tending to kinidle civil war in the inferior of the Repablick, by armsing Citizens againj1i each other. When the fentence of the National Con- vention was read to the widow of Capet, heI caft down her eyes, and did not again lift them up. " Have you nothing to reply upon the determination of the law?" faid the Prefident to her. - Nothing," Ihe replied. " And you, officious defenders ?" - Our mifflon is fulfilled with refpec&t to the widow Capet," faid they. The execution took place at half paft eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The whole armed force in Paris was on foot, from the Palace of Af/ice to the P4ace de la Revolution. The itreets were lined- by two very clofe rows of armed Ci- tizens. As foon as the ci-devant Queen left the Concierererie, to afcend the fcaffold, the multi- tude which was affembled in the courts and the ftreets, cried out bravo, in the midft of plau- dits. &faVe Antoinette. had on a white loofe drefs, and her hands were tied behind her back. She looked firmly-round her on all fides. She ivas accompanied by the ci-dfvan t Curate of St. La,dry, a Conflitutional Prieft, and on the fcaf- fold preferved her natural dignity of mind. After the execution, three young perfons dip- ~ped their handkerchiefs in her blood. They were immediately arrefted. Fr;nfon de Coedray and Cfavear de la GaraF, the pleaders ftor MARIE ANTOINETTE, had been put in a flate of arrelt before her fentence was pronounced, by order of the Committee of General Safety. The order fays, that this a *neafLre of general fafety-that the arreft ihall laft only 24. hours, and that every attention {hall be paid to t~hefe prifoners. Thus then has MARIE ANTOINETTE, the unfortunate QUEEN of FRANCE, been brought to the block, and thereby terminated a mifer- able e,iltence. The defcendant of the CJES ARS., condemned by fanguinary judges, has perifhed under the hands of a hangman. The affaffina- tion of Louis XVI. had prepared us for that of his unfortunate Confort; and the horrid calumnies circulated by the Convention and the Municipality of Paris, as well as by the Jacobins, had long fince weakened our hopesfor her prefer- vation. The urnworthy treatment which fhe ex- perienced in the prifon of the Conrciergerie, when She was confined in a loathfome and damp room, appeared to us only as the forerunner of her exe- cution. But how can we wonder at any aations committed by a horde of wretches, who furpafs in wickednefs every thing which the hiflory of tvrants has taught us, or that the mof: fanci- ful imagination could pi&ure to itfelf T We have no doubt but the unfortunlate E'LLZABET Tr, who was the depofitary of her fentiments and the companion of her nisfortulies, will foon fuffer the fame fate. ttECUTIO 4 OF ,THE QUEEN OF FRANrCE.
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