among his enemies; and as he will be back to-morrow, I shall be able to inform you exactly, by the next courier, whether the Biblothèque contains anything curious relative to Milton.

"I suppose you will have seen in all the English papers an account of the shameful and odious conduct of the people of this place on the 20th instant. The miraculous preservation of the King amidst so many dangers, his admirable presence of mind during this long and painful scene, have gained him many friends among the better order of people, and seem to have added much to the affection of the army. His friends only wish that his courage was of a more active nature. In his conduct he seems to be supported by the spirit of a martyr, the tranquillity of a good conscience, the resignation of a Christian; but nothing hitherto shows the enterprizing courage and intrepidity of a hero, capable of great and astonishing resolutions, executed with that energy which strikes his enemies with terror, and ensures success to his cause. 66 Believe, me, &c. &c.

"W. H."

To pursue the fearful march of the French Revolution is no part of this work; but one anecdote connected with the events of the fatal 10th of August, may well find admittance here. The publication of it can no longer offend the delicacy, or wound the feelings of any person now living.

On the evening of that dreadful day, when slaughter had stayed its weary arm, and it became possible for a foreigner to venture forth into the streets of Paris, Mr. Huskisson wan

dered out to view the field of conflict, and to endeavour to obtain some more accurate information of the transactions which had taken place in the last twenty-four hours. The residence of the English Ambassador was then at the Hotel de Monaco, in the Fauxbourg St. Germain, where Mr. Huskisson inhabited a suite of rooms on one side of the gate, similar to one on the other side, which had been the apartments of the Comte de Valentinois, while the Princesse de Monaco lived there. When Mr. Huskisson returned to his apartments, he found that during his absence, Monsieur de Champcenetz, the then Governor of the Tuileries, had taken refuge there. It appeared that this nobleman had, when the palace was assaulted and carried by the infuriated mob, either been thrown, or had jumped from, one of the windows, and that he had fallen amongst some of the unfortunate Swiss, whose bodies lay in heaps around the palace, which they had so gallantly attempted to defend. After remaining in this perilous situation for some hours, and happily eluding the murderous search of the wretches who were busily engaged in giving the finishing stroke to any of the victims who still breathed, M. de Champcenetz had, as the darkness of the evening closed on this fatal day, contrived with much difficulty to make his way unperceived to the hotel of the British Ambassador; where, by passing himself for an Englishman, he had ob

tained access to the apartments of Mr. Huskisson, with whom he was slightly acquainted. Here Mr. Huskisson found him concealed. The situa

tion was one of the utmost delicacy, and of the greatest embarrassment. M. de Champcenetz threw himself upon his honour, and appealed to his generosity and humanity to protect him against the assassins. To drive him from his refuge was virtually to become his murderer, and to deliver him up to a fate even more cruel than that from which he had escaped. To allow him to remain was to incur the deepest responsibility, to run the risk of compromising the Ambassador, and consequently to hazard the danger of provoking a war between France and England. It was as imperative to keep the knowledge that a person so closely attached to the Royal Family had taken shelter in the Hotel of the Embassy, from reaching Lord Gower, as it was to prevent the circumstance from being discovered by the blood-thirsty populace. In this dilemma, Mr. Huskisson at last bethought himself of placing his unfortunate guest under the protection of a laundress, on whose fidelity he knew he could confide. He contrived to have him secretly conveyed to her dwelling, furnished him with money and whatever else he required, and at the expiration of a week of mutual alarm and anxiety, had the happiness of ascertaining that he had quitted Paris in safety. This nobleman died a few years ago, having been

restored to the government of the Tuileries by Louis XVIII.

After the catastrophe of the 10th of August, and the deposition of Louis XVI. by the Convention, the British Government recalled its Minister. Mr. Huskisson accompanied Lord Gower and his family to England. We insert a letter, written shortly after he reached England, which explains his reasons for quitting Paris at this time, rather than continuing there as his Uncle did, and expresses the horror which he felt at the scenes which now disgraced France.

"My dear

"London, Sept. 12, 1792.

"You will not be astonished at receiving this letter from London, as report must have made you ac quainted with the scenes of horror and cruelty, which have disgraced humanity in France, and rendered its capital uninhabitable. The change in the Government, which took place on the 10th of August, obliged Lord Gower to return to England. The obstacles opposed to Englishmen who wished to leave Paris (so great that it was almost impossible), joined to the daily expectation of the terrible events which have since taken place in the beginning of last week, determined me to embrace the offer of returning with him to the land of true liberty. I saw Boulogne, far too sanguine in his expectations of political happiness for France,-too confident in the virtues of a people, disgraced by acts of wanton cruelty unparalleled in history. Their wretched situation, the cruel fate which too probably awaits them, the approaching return of despotism which their corruption and want of union have

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rendered necessary, make me think with sorrow and reluc tance on the subject.

"I have left my uncle and many friends in Paris, but flatter myself they have escaped the fury of the people; as it seems on the last occasion to have been turned principally against the unfortunate priests, or those who, by giving rise to suspicion, on account of their intrigues and imprudent conduct, had already been imprisoned. "Ever yours,

"W. H."

From another letter, written in the following October, Mr. Huskisson appears, shortly after his return from France, to have entertained some thoughts of publishing a pamphlet on the State of Affairs, and to have been only dissuaded from it by the arguments of some of his friends. After mentioning his conversion to their reasoning, he continues

"As for the fear so warmly felt by you, that my ideas should encourage the aristocratical tendency of this country, I was well aware of it at the time; but do not think, in the present situation of things, with the contempt I have shown for the aristocracy of France, that they can have any improper effect of that sort. The first and most ardent of my wishes, as a friend to humanity, as a member of the British empire, is to see it remain in its present prosperous condition, and to see the public opinion, that supreme and sovereign power, united in the support of the constitution as it now stands; for innovation is a boundless ocean, where some attractive resting places, scattered to and fro, may tempt the ruined inhabitants of barbarous