waters of England were recommended as
restoratives of my daughter's health. It is impossible, under
these circumstances, to regard the journey of my daughter as
emigration. I feel assured that the law is not applicable in
this case. But the slightest doubt is sufficient to distress
a father. I beg, therefore, fellow-citizens, that you will
relieve me from this uneasiness."

But by this time the Convention began to look upon the Duke of
Orleans with suspicion. Rumors were in circulation that many of the
people, tired of republicanism--which was crowding the prisons, and
causing blood to gush in an incessant flow--wished to reinstate the
monarchy, and to place the Duke of Orleans upon the throne. The
Duchess of Orleans, the child of one of the highest nobles, was not
in sympathy with her husband in his democratic views. His boundless
profligacy had also alienated her affections, so that there was no
domestic happiness to be found in the gorgeous saloons of the Palais
Royal.

Robespierre wished to banish the Duke of Orleans from France, as a
dangerous man, around whom the not yet extinct spirit of royalty
might rally. He moved in the Convention, "That all the relatives of
Bourbon Capet should be obliged, within eight days, to quit the
territory of France and the countries then occupied by the Republican
armies."

The motion was, for the time, frustrated by the following
expostulation by M. Lamarque:

"Would it not be the extreme of injustice to exile all of the
Capets, without distinction? I have never spoken but twice to
Egalite. I am, therefore, not open to the suspicion of
partiality, but I have closely observed his conduct in the
Revolution. I have seen him deliver himself up to it
entirely, a willing victim for its promotion, not shrinking
from the greatest sacrifices; and I can truly assert that but
for Egalite we never should have had the States-General--we
should never have been free."

Thus public sentiment fluctuated. An event soon occurred which
brought matters to a crisis. General Dumouriez, a former minister of
Louis XVI., was in command of the army on the northern frontier.
Disgusted with the violence of the Convention, which was silencing
all opposition with the slide of the guillotine, and apprehensive of
personal danger, from the consciousness that he was suspected of not
being very friendly to the Government, he resolved to abandon the