On the 11th of December 1792, the king was brought to the bar of the National Convention. The following account of what passed at the Temple on that day is highly interesting: • At nine o'clock, the King and the Dauphin went up to breakfast with the Queen and Princesses: their Majesties remained together an hour, but always in sight of the Municipal Officers. This constant torment which the Royal Family suffered in not being able to give a loose to any unrestrained expression of their feelings, to any free effusion of their hearts, at a moment when they could not but be agitated with so many fears, was one of the most cruel refinements, and dearest delights of their tyrants. They were at last obliged to part. The King left the Queen, Madame Elizabeth, and his daughter, and what they dared not speak their looks expressed: the Dauphin came down as usual with the King. The Prince, who often prevailed on His Majesty to play a game of Siam with him, was so pressing that day that the King, in spite of his situation, could not refuse him. The Dauphin lost every game, and twice he could get no farther than sixteen. Whenever," cried he, in a little pet, "I get to the point of sixteen, I am sure never to win the game.' The King said nothing, but he seemed to feel the coincidence of the words. At eleven o'clock, when the King was hearing the Dauphin read, two Municipal Officers walked in and told His Majesty that they were come to carry the young Louis to his mother. The King desired to know why he was taken away: the Commissioners replied, that they were executing the orders of the Council of the Commune. The King tenderly embraced his son, and charged me to conduct him. On my return I assured His Majesty that I had delivered the Prince to the Queen, which appeared to relieve his mind. One of the Municipal Officers came back and informed him that Chambon, Mayor of Paris, was with the Council, and that he was just coming up. "What does he want with me?" said the King. The officer answered, that he did not know. • His Majesty for some minutes walked about his room in much agitation, then sat down in an armed chair at the head of the bed: the door stood a jar, but the Officer did not like to go in, wishing, as he told me, to avoid questions: but half an hour passing thus in dead silence, he became uneasy at not hearing the King move, and went softly in; he found him leaning with his head upon his hand, apparently in deep thought. The King, on being disturbed, said, raising his voice: "What do you want with me?"—“ I was afraid," answered the Officer, " that you were ill."- "I am obliged to you," replied the King, in an accent replete with anguish, "but the manner in which they have taken my son from me cuts me to the heart." The Municipal Officer withdrew without saying a word. The Mayor did not make his appearance till one o'clock. He was accompanied by Chaumette, Solicitor to the Commune, Coulom beau, beau, Secretary of the Rolls, several Municipal Officers, and Santerre, Commander in Chief of the National Guards, attended by his aid de-camps. The Mayor told the King that he came to conduct him to the Convention, by virtue of a decree, which the Secretary to the Commune would read to him. The import of the decree was," that Louis Capet should be brought to the bar of the National Conven tion." "Capet," said the King, "is not my name: it is that of one of my Ancestors." He added, "I could have wished, Sir, that the Commissioners had left my son with me during the two hours I have passed waiting for you: but this treatment is of a piece with the rest I have met with here for these four months. I am ready to follow you, not in obedience to the Convention, but because my enemies have the power in their hands." I gave His Majesty his great coat and hat, and he followed the Mayor. A strong body of guards was waiting for him at the gate of the Temple.' At half after six o'clock, the King returned: he appeared fatigued, and the first thing he did was to desire to be shown to his Family. This was objected to, under the pretence of having no orders: he insisted that they should at least be informed of his return, which was promised him. The King then ordered me to speak for his supper at half past eight; he employed the interval of two hours, in reading as usual, but all the while surrounded by four Municipal Officers. At half past eight, I informed His Majesty that supper was served. He asked the Commissioners if his Family were not coming down: they made him no answer. "But at least," said the King, my son is to sleep in my apartment, as his bed and things are here." Still no reply. After supper, the King renewed his instances to see his Family and was told that he must wait the determination of the Convention. I then delivered up the Dauphin's night things. When I was undressing the King for bed, he said, that he could never have conceived all the questions they had put to him; and then lay down with great tranquillity,' The last extract which we shall give relates to the last day of the much-injured monarch:-it discloses circumstances of wanton severity and cruel insult, which we cannot read without abhorrence and indignation: At seven o'clock, the King, coming out of his closet, called to me, and taking me within the recess of the window, said: "You will give this Seal to my Son-this Ring to the Queen, and assure her that it is with pain I part with it this little packet con tains the hair of all my Family, you will give her that too.Tell the Queen, my dear Children, and my Sister, that although I promised to see them this morning I have resolved to spare them the pangs of so cruel a separation: tell them how much it costs me to go without receiving their embraces once more!" He wiped away some tears; then added, in the most mournful accent: "I charge you to bear them my last farewell!" He returned to the turret. The Municipal Officers, who had come up, heard His Majesty, Ff3 and and saw him give me the things, which I still held in my hands. At first they desired to have them given up; but one of them proposing to let them remain in my possession, till the Council should decide what was to be done, it was so agreed. In a quarter of an hour after, the King again came out: "Enquire," said he to me, " if I can have a pair of scissars." I made the request known to the Commissioners. "Do you know what he wants to do?" I know nothing about it.". "We must know." I knocked at the door of the closet, and the King came out. The Municipal Officer, who had followed me, said to him; You have desired to have a pair of scissars; but, before the request is made to the Council, we must know what you want to do with them." His Majesty answered: "It is that Cléry may cut my hair." The Municipal Officers retired; one of them went down to the Council Chamber, where, after half an hour's deliberation, the scissars were refused. The Officer came up, and acquainted the King with the decision. "I did not mean to touch the scissars," said His Majesty; "I should have desired Cléry to cut my hair before you try once more, Sir; I beg you to represent my request." The Officer went back to the Council, who persisted in their refusal. It was at this time that I was told to prepare myself to accompany the King, in order to undress him on the scaffold. At this intelligence I was seized with terror; but collecting all my strength, I was getting myself ready to discharge this last duty to my Master, who felt a repugnance to its being performed by the executioner, when another Municipal Officer came and told me that I was not to go out, adding: "The common executioner is good enough for him." All the troops in Paris had been under arms from five o'clock in the morning. The beat of drums, the clash of arms, the trampling of horses, the removal of cannon, which were incessantly carried from one place to another, all resounded at the Tower. At half after eight o'clock, the noise increased, the doors were thrown open with great clatter, when Santerre, accompanied by seven or eight Municipal officers, entered at the head of ten soldiers, and drew them up in two lines. At this movement the King came out of his closet, and said to Santerre: "You are come for me?""Yes," was the answer." A moment," said the King, and went to his closet, from which he instantly returned, followed by his Confessor. His Majesty had his Will in his hand, and addressing a Municipal Officer, (named Jaques Roux, a priest,) who happened to stand before the others, said: "I beg you to give this paper to the Queen-to my wife.". "It is no business of mine," replied he, refusing to take it; "I am come here to conduct you to the scaffold." His Majesty then turning to Gobeau, another Municipal Of ficer. "I beg," said he, "that you will give this paper to my wife; you may read it; there are some particulars in it I wish to be made known to the Commune." I was standing behind the King, near the fire-place, he turned round to me, and I offered him his great coat. "I don't want it," said he, "give me only my hat." I presented it to him-his hand on." These were the last words he spoke in his apartments. On the top of the stairs he met Mathey, the Warden of the Tower, to whom he said: "I spoke with some little quickness to you the day before yesterday, do not take it ill." Mathey made no answer, and even affected to turn from the King while he was speaking. I remained alone in the chamber, overwhelmed with sorrow, and almost without sense of feeling. The drums and trumpets proclaimed His Majesty's departure from the Tower.... An hour after, discharges of artillery, and cries of Vive la Nation! Vive la République! were heard.... The best of Kings was no more!' The authenticity of these anecdotes, we believe, cannot be questioned: for the honor of human nature, we wish that it could. ART. VIII. Philofophical Tranfactions of the Royal Society of London: OUR first attention in the review of this volume will be di rected, as usual, to the class of ASTRONOMICAL PAPERS; of which we here find but one. On the Discovery of four additional Satellites of the Georgium Sidus. After having announced the retrograde motion of the two First satellite, the interior one of Jan. 18, 1790. Ff 4 Third Wall. Third satellite, the intermediate one of March 26, 1794. Sixth satellite, the most distant one of Feb. 28, 1794. With regard to the magnitudes of these satellites, the Doctor observes that the 2d new or intermediate satellite is considerably smaller than the 1st and 2d old satellites. The two exterior, or 5th and 6th satellites, are the smallest of all; and must chiefly be looked for in their greatest elongations.' The degrees of their relative brightness may be ascertained by the distances from the primary planet at which they become invisible. The 2d satellite appears generally brighter than the 1st; but, as the former is usually lost farther from the planet than the latter, we may admit the 1st satellite to be rather brighter than the 2d.' The first of the new satellites will hardly ever be seen otherwise than about its greatest elongations, but cannot be much inferior in brightnefs to the other two; and, if any more interior satellites should exist, we shall probably not obtain a sight of them, for the same reason that the inhabitants of the Georgian planet perhaps never can discover the existence of our earth, Venus, and Mercury.' In this connection, Dr. H. accounts for the vanishing of the satellites, or their becoming invisible at so great a distance as 18" or 20" from the planet itself. A dense atmosphere of the planet would account for the loss of light, if it were not proved that the satellites are equally lost, whether they be in the nearest half of their orbits or in that which is farthest from us : -but, as a satellite cannot be eclipsed by an atmosphere that is behind it, a surmise of this kind is unfounded. Let us then, (says Dr. H.) turn our view to light itself, and see whether certain affections between bright and very bright objects, contrasted with others that take place between faint and very faint ones, will not explain the phænomena of vanishing satellites. The light of Jupiter or Saturn, for instance, on account of its brilliancy, is diffused almost equally over a space of several minutes all around these planets. Their satellites also, having a great share of brightness, and moving in a sphere that is strongly illuminated, cannot be much affected by their various distances from the planets. The case then is, that they have much light to lose, and comparatively lose but little. The Georgian planet, on the contrary, is very faint; and the influence of its feeble light cannot extend far with any degree of equality. This enables us to see the faintest objects, even when they are only a minute or two removed from it. The satellites of this planet are very nearly the dimmest objects that can be seen in the heavens; so that they cannot bear any considerable diminution of their light, by a contrast with a more luminous object, without becoming invisible. If then the sphere of illumination of our new planet be limited to 18" or 20′′, we may fully account for the loss of the |