"Execution of Louis XVI king of the French" article extrait du journal The Times paru le 25 janvier 1793.

"By an expres which arrived yesterday morning from Meffrs Feetors and Co. at Dover we learn the following particulars of the King's execution:
At six o'clock on Monday morning, the King went to take a farewell of the QUEEN and Royal Family. After staying with them some time, and taking a very affectionate farewell of them, The KING destented from the Tower of Temple, and entered the Mayor's carriage, with his confessor ans two Members of Municipality, passed slowly along the Boulevard which led from the Temple to the place of execution. All women were prohibited from appearing in the streets and all person from being seen at their windows. A strong guard cleared the procession.
The greatest tranquility prevailed  in every street through which the procession passed. About half past nine the KING arrived at the place of execution, which was the Place de Louis XV. Between the pedestal which formerly supported the statue of his grand-father, and the promenade of the Elyfian Fields, Louis monted the scassold with composure, and that modest intreîdity peculiar to oppressed innocence; thr trumpets founding and drums beating during the whole time. He made a sign of withing to harrangue the multitude, when the drums ceafed, and Louis spoke these few words "I die innocent; I pardon my ennemies; I only sanclined  upon compulsion the Civil Constitution of the Clergy." He was procceding but the beating of the drums drowned his voice. His excutioners then laid hold of him and an insiant after, his head was separated from his body; this was about a quarter past ten o'clock. After the execution, the people threw their hats up in the air, and cried "Vive la Nation" Some of them endeavoured to seize the body , but it was removed by a strong guard to the Temple, and the lifeless remains of the King were exempted from those outrages which his Majesty had experienced during his life.

 Le Roi  Louis XVI au pied de la guillotine.

The king was attended on seaffeld by an Irish priest as his confessor, not choosing to be accompanied by one who had taken the National oath. He was dressed in a brown great coat, white waistcoat and black breeches and his hair was powdered.
When M.de Malsherbes announced to Louis the fatal sentence of Death "Ah!" exclained the Monarch " I shall then at lenght be delievered from this cruel suspense."
The decre imported that Louis should be-be headed in the Place de Carouzel, but reason of public safety induced the Executive Councilto prefer the Place de la Revolution, formerly the place de Louis XV.
Since the decree of death was issued a general consternation has prevailed throughout  Paris; the Sans Culottes are the only persons that rejoince. The honest citizens immured within their habitations could not suppress their  heart-felt grief and niourned in private with their families the murder of their much -loved  Sovereign.
The last st request of the unfortunate Louis breathes the foul magnanimity ans a mind enlightened with the finest ideas of human virtue. He appearsnot to be that man which his enemis reporied. His heart was found- his head was clear and he would have reignes with glory, had he but possessed thole faults which his assasins laid to his charge. He mind possesed the suggestion of wisdom; and even in his last moments; when the spirit of life was winged for another world, his lips gave utterance to them, and he spoke with sirinnefs and with resignation [ . . . ]

Les adieux de Louis XVI à sa famille.

[ . . . ]Every bosom burns with indignation in this kingdom, against the ferocious savages of Paris, insomuch that the very name of Frenchman is become odious. A Republic founded on the blood of an innocent victim must have but a short duration. This fact was tried by Oliver Cromwell and proved by the Restoration of CHARLES THE SECOND. 

Shutting the Theatre in the Haymarket yesterday evening, on account of the barbarous murder of the late KING of FRANCE by a set of Conventional Butchers, does the highest honour to Mr. KEMBLE. It was a mark of respect to the memory of the unhappy LOUIS, with which the whole British nation must be pleased. It must likewise be considered as a proof of the great deference Mr. Kemble pays to the opinion the KING had plainly expressed, by not going to the Theatre the preceding evening.

LOUIS XVI of France, was murdered for the same crime, for which Agis, the Macedonian, was put to death by his ignorant rebel subjects; in fine, for wishing to revive the reign of Liberty and Justice, among a People, incapable of knowing the intrinsic value or [---] of either.

 The REPUBLICAN TYRANTS OF FRANCE have now carried their bloody purposes to the uttermost diabolical stretch of savage cruelty. They have murdered their King without even the shadow of justice, and of course they cannot expect friendship nor intercourse with any civilized part of the world. The vengeance of Europe will now rapidly fall on them; and, in process of time, make them the veriest wretches on the face of the earth. The name of Frenchman will be considered as the appellation of savage, and their presence shunned as a poison, deadly destructive to the peace and happiness of Mankind. It appears evident, that the majority of the National Convention, and the Executive Government of that truly despotic country, are comprised of the most execrable villains upon the face of the earth. .