BARON THIE BAU LT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOE."]
Sin,—A paragraph in the diary of Gouverneur Morris, American Ambassador daring the Reign of Terror in Paris, gives a melancholy confirmation of the view that Louis XVI. was cruel and brutal in his youth. It occurs in Vol. I , p. 431, of "The Letters and Diary of Gouverneur Morris," and is as follows :—" M. de Trudaine mentioned as having heard from young Montmorin that the Xing is by nature cruel and base. An instance of his cruelty, among others, is that he used to spit and roast live cats. In riding with Madame de Flahant, I tell her that I could not believe such things. She tells me that when young he was guilty of such things ; that he is very brutal and nasty, which she attributes chiefly to a bad education. His brutality once led him so far, while Dauphin, as to beat his wife, for which he was exiled four days by his grandfather, Louis XV." The date is July 14th, 1791.—I
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