The friends of the prince induced him to change his resolution that same night, and he sent La Fayette a note to this effect.

La Fayette requested another interview, in which he called upon him to keep his word, enjoined him to depart in twenty-four hours, and then conducted him to the king.

There the prince accepted the feigned mission, and promised to leave nothing neglected to expose in England the plots of the conspirators of the kingdom.

"You are more interested than any one," said La Fayette in the king's presence, "for no one is more compromised than yourself." Mirabeau, cognisant of this oppression of La Fayette and the court over the mind of the Duc d'Orleans, offered his services to the duke, and tempted him with the last offers of supreme power.

The subject of his address to the Assembly was already prepared: he intended to denounce, as a conspiracy of despotism, this _coup d'etat_ against one citizen, in which the liberty of all citizens was attempted.