Will you let him remain a prisoner, exposed to every insult at the hands of the national guards?
Here are his orders: he awaits you; he counts every moment.

Let us march to Varennes.

Let us hasten to deliver him, and restore him to the nation and liberty." Loud acclamations followed this speech.

M.de Bouille distributed 500 or 600 louis amongst the soldiers, and the regiment marched forward.
Stenay is at least nine leagues from Varennes, and the road very hilly and bad.

M.de Bouille, however, used all possible dispatch, and at a little distance from Varennes he met the advanced guard of the regiment, halted at the entrance of a little wood, defended by a body of the national guard.