O

OF

MARIA ANTOINETTA,

ARCHDUCHESS OF AUSTRIA,

QUEEN OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE;

INCLUDING

SEVERAL IMPORTANT PERIODS OF THE

French Revolution;

FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE 16th OF OCTOBER, 1793,

THE DAY OF HER MAJESTY'S MARTYRDOM:

with a

NARRATIVE OF THE TRIAL AND MARTYRDOM OF MADAME ELIZABETH;
THE POISONING OF LOUIS XVII IN THE TEMPLE;

THE LIBERATION OF MADAME ROYALE, DAUGHTER OF LOUIS XVI;
AND VARIOUS SUBSEQUENT EVENTS.

BY JOSEPH WEBER,

Foster-brother of the unfortunate Queen, formerly employed in the Department
of the Finances of France, and now a Pensioner of His Royal Highness
the Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen.

Quæque ipse miserrima vidi. VIRG.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,

By R. C. DALLAS, Esq.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

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AND BY ALL THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN EUROPE.

THE encouragement which I have received from the beginning of the task I have undertaken, and the generous support of so many persons of respectability, have inspired me with a gratitude, which has stimulated my exertions, and prompted me to spare no means to render my publication worthy of its object and deserving of a general approbation. This Work has already obtained such flattering, and, I may presume to say, unanimous suffrages, that, in acknowledgement, I have thought it incumbent on me to endeavour to render it as complete as possible, by adding to it, besides fourteen sheets of Historical and Biographical Annotations, five new Portraits of the Royal Family of France and that of the Illustrious Empress Maria Theresa. Thus I shall have had the good fortune to record in these Memoirs the features of the Grand-Mother, Daughter and Grand-Daughter of Cesarean blood, and to exhibit, as it were, in the same Picture, Three Generations of Illustrious Princesses, whose reunion recalls the remembrance of the most exalted magnanimity, the most heroic fortitude, and the most prepossessing kindness,