In case the carriage was stopped at Lyons, M.de Choiseul was to give instant information to the general to assemble all the detachments, and march to the king's rescue.

He received six hundred louis in gold, to distribute amongst the soldiers, and thus insure their fidelity, when the king arrived and made himself known to them.
M.de Guoguelas left at the same for Paris, to reconnoitre the roads a second time, passing by Stenay, Dun, Varennes, and Sainte Menehould, and to explain clearly to the king the topography of the country; he was also to bring back the latest orders for M.de Bouille, and to return to Montmedy by another route.

The Marquis de Bouille left Metz himself, under pretence of visiting the fortresses under his command, and drew near Montmedy.

The 15th he was at Longwy, where he received a message from the king, informing him that they had put off their journey for four and twenty hours, in consequence of the necessity of concealing the preparations for their departure from a femme de chambre of the queen, a fanatical democrat, who was fully capable of betraying them, and whose duties only terminated on the 19th.

His majesty added that the Marquis d'Agoult would not accompany him, because Madame de Tourzel, the governess of the royal children, had claimed the privileges of her post, and wished to accompany them.
This delay rendered necessary counter-orders of the most fatal nature; all the arrangements as to time and place were thus thrown out.