Be, on your return to your homes, the interpreters of my sentiments to your fellow-citizens; tell them that the king will always be their first and most faithful friend--that he desires to be loved by them, and can only be happy with them and by them." The president replied to the king:--"The National Assembly having arrived at the termination of its career, enjoys, at this moment, the first fruit of its labours.

Convinced that the government best suited to France is that which reconciles the respected prerogatives of the throne with the inalienable rights of the people, it has given to the state a constitution which equally guarantees royalty and liberty.

Our successors, charged with the onerous burden of the safety of the empire, will not misunderstand their rights, nor the limits of the constitution: and you, sire, you have almost completed every thing--by accepting the Constitution, you have consummated the Revolution." The king departed amidst loud acclamations.

It appeared that the National Assembly was in haste to lay down the responsibility of events which it no longer felt itself capable of controlling.

"The National Assembly declares," says Target, its president, "that its mission is finished, and that, at this moment, it terminates its sittings." The people, who crowded round the Manege, and saw with pain the Revolution abdicated into the hands of the king, insulted, as it recognised them, the members of the Right--even Barnave.