This statement was confirmed by M.Bailly, the mayor of Paris.

The intendant of the civil list, M.de Laporte, appeared, to present to the Assembly the manifesto the king had left for his people.
He was asked, "How did you receive it ?" "The king," replied M.de Laporte, "had left it sealed, with a letter for me." "Read this letter," said a member.

"No, no," exclaimed the Assembly, "it is a confidential letter, we have no right to read it." They equally refused to unseal a letter for the queen that had been left on her table.

The generosity of the nation, even in this moment, predominated over their irritation.
The king's manifesto was read amidst much laughter and loud murmurs.
"Frenchmen," said the king in this address to his people, "so long as I hoped to behold public happiness and tranquillity restored by the measures concerted by myself and the Assembly, no sacrifice was too great; calumnies, insult, injury, even the loss of liberty,--I have suffered all without a murmur.

But now that I behold the kingdom destroyed, property violated, personal safety compromised, anarchy in every part of my dominions, I feel it my duty to lay before my subjects the motives of my conduct.