My conscience has been equally outraged; even my religious principles have been constrained: when after my illness I wished to go to St.Cloud, to complete my convalescence, it was feared that I was going to this residence to perform my pious duties with priests who had not taken the oaths; my horses were unharnessed, and I was compelled by force to return to the Tuileries.

M.de La Fayette himself could not ensure obedience to the law, or the respect due to the king.

I have been forced to send away the very priests of my chapels, and even the adviser of my conscience.

In such a situation, all that is left me is to appeal to the justice and affection of my people, to take refuge from the attacks of the factions and the oppression of the Assembly and the clubs, in a town of my kingdom, and to resolve there, in perfect freedom, on the modifications the constitution requires; of the restoration of our holy religion; of the strengthening of the royal power, and the consolidation of true liberty." The Assembly, who had several times interrupted the reading of this manifesto by bursts of laughter or murmurs of indignation, proceeded with disdain to the order of the day, and received the oaths of the generals employed at Paris.

Numerous deputations from Paris and the neighbouring departments came successively to the bar to assure the Assembly that it would ever be considered as the rallying point by all good citizens.
The same evening the clubs of the Cordeliers and the Jacobins caused the motions for the king's dethronement to be placarded about.