1792.
_Sept_. 20. First sitting of the third legislature, which takes
the title of National Convention. It consists of
745 members.
21. Decreed, that royalty is abolished, and that the
kingdom of France is a republic.
The battle of Grand-Pré gained by General
Dumouricr.
22. Danton resigns the ministry in order to take a
place in the convention.
23. The old Marshal Luckner is ordered to the bar of
the convention.
27. Mons. Cazotte, an author much esteemed, and who
with difficulty escaped from the assassins of the
2d of September, is conducted to the guillotine at
80 years of age.
29. The Austrians begin to bombard Lisle (sic).
Spires taken by the army of Gen. Custine.
_Oct_. 2. The Duke of Brunswick, commanding the Prussians,
begins his retreat from France, and raises the
siege of Thionville.
4. The title of Citizen is substituted for those of
Monsieur and Madame by a decree.
7. The Austrians raise the siege of Lisle.
8. Massacre at Cambray.
9. The soldiers of General Dumourier massacre their
prisoners.
10. Servan quits the ministry.
Garat is appointed minister of justice.
13. Verdun evacuated by the Prussians.
14. A civic festival in honour of the conquest of
Savoy.
18. Nine emigrants guillotined in the Place-de-Greve.
22. The French retake Longwy.
23. Mayence taken by General Custine.
24. Great accusations of Roland to the convention.
25. The French territory evacuated by the Austrians and
Prussians.
26. Frankfort on the Main taken by the French.
31. A great number of returned emigrants denounced to
the commune of Paris.
_Nov_. 2. All work at the camp near Paris is stopped.
3. The house of the deputy Marat is invested,
and the people demand his head.
4. Robespierre endeavours to acquit himself of the
charges brought against him by the deputy Louvet.
6. Report in the assembly of disturbances in the
department of Mayence and Loire.
Three hundred millions of assignats issued with new
emblems.
A discourse upon Atheism pronounced by Dupont, and
applauded by the convention.
The Princess de Rohan-Rochefort is sent to prison
for having written to the ex-minister Bertrand.
7. The battle of Gemappe--the Austrians are defeated
by superior numbers, and an immense artillery.
Dumourier after his victory takes Mons.
A revolt announced at Guadaloupe.
10. Decreed, that all emigrants who shall return
to France shall suffer death, whether men, women,
or children, not excepting those who had never
borne arms.
12. Ghent taken by the French.
14. Brussels taken by the French.
19. General Montesquieu emigrates.
23. De la Coste, ex-minister, and Du Fresne de St.
Leon, committed to the prison of the Abbaye.
24. Insurrection at Chartres and the neighbourhood, on
account of bread.
25. The King asks of the convention some Latin books,
that he may instruct his son himself.
26. Address from Finisterre to the convention,
denouncing the deputies Marat, Robespierre, Danton,
Chabot, Barire, and Merlin. Buzot supports the
accusation.
27. Kersaint proposes to the convention to make a
descent upon England with one hundred thousand men,
and to sign an immortal treaty upon the Tower of
London, which shall fix the destiny of nations, and
confirm liberty for ever to the world.
The Belgians protest against a decree which
trenches on their sovereignty.
30. Decree, charging the municipalities to keep
registers of baptisms, marriages and buryings.
_Dec_. 1. Pethion quits the mayoralty to become a member of
the convention.
Chambon is elected his successor.
Manuel gives up the place of procureur de la
commune for a seat in the convention; Chaumette
succeeds him.
3. Decreed that Louis Capet shall be brought to trial,
and that the convention shall be his judges.
4. Decreed, that whoever shall propose the restoration
of royalty shall suffer death.
8. The royal family is forbid the use of knives,
scissars,(sic) or razors; the King not to be
shaved, but his beard clipped with scissars.
9. The bust of Mirabeau torn from the Pantheon, and
dragged by the populace to the Place-de-Greve.
The minister of justice reads to the convention 150
addresses from the communes of Normandy in favour
of the King.
Philip Egalité renounces all eventual succession to
the crown of France, to assume the title of French
citizen.
18. The King is interrogated at the bar of the
convention.
Barrere is president.
He demands for his advocates Target and Tronchet,
the former refuses to defend him; but Mons. de
Malesherbes, making a voluntary offer of being his
defender, is accepted with Tronchet, and Monsieur
de Seze is added to them.
The mayor of Paris, the procureur de la commune, le
secretaire Greffier, and thirty municipal officers
on horseback, escorted the King's carriage when he
was going to the bar of the convention to be
interrogated, and to hear the act of his accusation
read. The president said, "Louis,--The French
"people accuse you of having committed a multitude
"of crimes in order to establish tyranny upon the
"ruins of liberty." The King having answered with
great precision and coolness, "Louis," said the
president, "a copy shall be given to you of your
accusations. The convention permits you to retire,
and will acquaint you with the result of its
deliberations."
14. The charge d'affaires of Spain writes an earnest
letter in favour of the King, from his master. The
convention treats it with neglect.
16. The French make themselves masters of
Aix-la-Chapelle.
The King is brought a second time to the bar of the
convention. Monsieur de Seze makes an able speech
in his defence at the bar. The King then speaks to
the convention: "My counsel has laid before you my
"justification and defence, I have nothing to add
"but this, that, in addressing you perhaps for the
"last time, I declare that my conscience reproaches
"me with no crime towards my country, and that my
"advocates have spoken nothing but the truth."
27. Generals Luckner and Rochambeau made marshals of
France.
1793
_January_. Roland publishes a letter to oppose the calumnies
against him.
The loyal subjects of Brabant send an address to
the emperor.
Mont Blanc declared to be an 84th department, of
which Chamberry is the capital; this new department
contains 364,652 souls.
General Dumourier writes some severe truths to the
convention, and offers to give in his resignation,
disclaiming all pretensions to a dictatorship.
The convention rejects the King's appeal to the
people.
Prince Charles of Hesse-Philipstadt dies of wounds
he received at Frankfort.
The alien bill passed in England; in consequence of
which, persons suspected may be sent out of the
kingdom by the executive power.
The Prussians and Hessians drive the French from
Hocheim.
The King of Prussia publishes a declaration, that
his army enters Poland only because that country
was infested with French democratic madness.
Remarkable address of the department of Finisterre
against Marat and Robespierre.
La Fayette is conveyed to Magdebourg.
The Empress of Russia assigns lands in the Crimea
to French emigrants, and causes to be paid to the
Prince of Condé, at Frankfort, 200,000 rupees for
the expences of journey.
Dumourier goes to Paris while the convention is
debating about the King. The jacobins insult him.
His army is said to be 120,000 strong.
General Custine celebrates at Mayence the festival
of liberty, by burning the archiepiscopal
ornaments.
17. The convention terminates its deliberations
18. concerning the King. He is condemned to
19. death. All endeavours to delay the execution of
the sentence are rejected.
Of the members of the convention, 366 vote for
death absolutely; 23 for death, but leaving it
hereafter to be discussed, when the execution
should take place; 8 for death, and a certain delay
or respite; 2 for death at the peace; 319 for
detention; and 2 for detention in irons.
Pelletier, one who voted for the King's death, is
assassinated at a tavern.
20. Louis hears with calmness the reading of his
sentence of death. Allowed only two hours to take
a final leave of his wife, his children, and his
sister, who are frantic with grief.
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21. Louis is conducted to the scaffold; his behaviour
is steady and dignified, he speaks a few words
protesting his innocence, forgiving his enemies,
and hoping that his death might restore peace to
his wretched country. The commander of the troops
orders the drums and trumpets to strike up, that
his voice might be drowned, and that he should not
proceed. In a minute after this, his head is
severed from his body. A dead silence prevails in
Paris. The places of public amusement and all
shops are shut up. His last will soon after
published.
The minister Roland, after assisting at the King's
execution resigns his office, so do the deputies
Manuel and Kersaint.
24. The remains of Pelletier are placed with great
ceremony in the Pantheon.
The French envoy at Naples demands and obtains an
audience of the King.
The convention decrees, that their army shall
consist of 502,000 men next campaign.
26. Dumourier leaves Paris for the army, with orders to
take Cologne, cost what it may.
Liege determines to unite itself with France.
Paris, who assassinated Pelletier, is arrested, but
shoots himself.
General mourning at London and Madrid for
Louis XVI.
The convention decrees the union of Nice to the
republic of France.
The British ministry signify to Mons. Chauvelin,
who had been ambassador from Louis XVI. that he is
no longer to be considered as such, and must quit
England.
The sections of Paris complain of want of
provisions.
Lanjuinais, speaking against the murders of the 2d
of September, says, that the number of victims,
assassinated that day, amounted to 8,000, others
say 12,000, and the deputy Louvet states them at
28,000.
_Feb_. 1. The Convention declares war against the King of
England, and Stadtholder of Holland.
General Dumourier levies sixty millions of livres
on the abbeys in Brabant.
The nurse of Madame Royale requests permission to
see her in prison, but without success.
Proclamation by the Emperor, to assure to the
Belgians their ancient privileges.
Great debates in the convention about war.
The marines of Rochelle come to swear fidelity to
the convention.
Philip Egalité takes the oath, in quality of high
admiral of France.
The Marseillois leave Paris, and return home.
An engagement takes place at Mayence between the
national guard and the troops of the line, on the
subject of the King's death.
General Bournonville is recalled from the army, and
appointed minister of war.
Dumourier begins to lose ground in the esteem of
the people.
Eight hundred millions of assignats issued.
Citzen (sic) Basseville, secretary of the French
legation, is massacred by the people at Rome.
Chambon quits the mayoralty of Paris, and is
replaced by the ex-minister Pache.
The parliament of England votes for war.
The French take possession of Deux-Ponts; the duke
with difficulty escapes.
Lyons, opposes with energy the murderous plans of
the jacobins.
The Emperor solicits earnestly the triple
contingent from the empire.
New coinage in France, with the legend of
"Republique Francoise. (sic)"
The wife of the Emperor sacrifices some of her rich
ornaments to defray the cost of the war.
General Miranda sends to the convention the
magnificent key of gold, which was given by
Charles III. to the inhabitants of Louvain.
17. The French make an irruption into Holland, take the
fort St. Michel, surround Maestricht, and menace
Breda.
Lyons destroys the jacobin club, and burns the tree
of liberty.
Paris is in great disorder.
Dumourier addresses a proclamation to the Dutch
against the Stadtholder. The States-general answer
it by a manifesto.
Condorcet reads a constitutional act to the
convention; the jacobins reject it.
The national convention of Liege decrees the
destruction of its cathedral.
Marat excites great tumult in the convention.
Venice acknowledges the republic; Bavaria observes
neutrality.
Custine transports the clergy of Mayence who refuse
to take the oath of liberty.
The French bombard Maestricht, which is defended by
the Prince of Hesse-Cassel.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany declares a neutrality
with regard to the French republic.
25. The British troops under the Duke of York sail from
England.
Breda surrenders to the French.
Dumourier bombards Gertruydenberg and Williamstadt
with Dutch artillery.
The Convention decrees that soldiers have a right
to elect their officers. Marat urges this
decree, and strikes in the face several of those
who oppose it, even in the convention.
The Duke of York arrives at the Hague.
The Stadtholder declares he will defend the
republic to the last.
28. The Archduke Charles, the Prince of Cobourg, and
Duke of Wurtemburg, arrive at Duren.
The French merchants offer to send fifty
privateers to sea.
Discourse pronounced in the convention by
Anacharsis Cloots, on universal fraternity.
Riots in Paris at the houses of the bakers and
grocers.
Brussels desires, and obtains an union with France.
Revolution in Geneva after the French example.
The convention encourages addresses from all
quarters on the death of the tyrant.
Decreed, that the troops of the line shall form but
one body with the national guards.
All treaties of commerce and alliance, with powers
at war, are annulled.
The convention requires 300,000 men to
compleat (sic) their armies.
_March_ 1. Prince Cobourg beats the French near Altenhover.
The British troops land at Fort Ecluse.
The Austrians retake Aix-la-Chapelle.
Proclamation of Dumourier, to stir up the
inhabitants of Liege, Belgium, and Holland.
2. Carra denounces the farmers-general.
Deputy Rhul moves, that the property of foreign
princes be put up to sale.
3. The French raise the siege of Maestricht, and
besiege Williamstadt without success. They
4. are beaten at Tongres by the Prussians.
Gertruydenberg surrenders to Gen. Dumourier.
Zurich, Bern, and other Swiss cantons acknowledge
the French republic.
Manuel accuses the jacobins (sic) of all the evils
since the revolution.
Dumourier imposes 120,000 florins upon the city of
Antwerp.
War declared against Spain.
5. The bloody capture of Liege by the Austrians.
Taking of Ruremond.
The Prussians gain some advantage near Mayence.
Upon the motion of Danton, it is decreed, that a
revolutionary-criminal tribunal be established.
All persons imprisoned for debt are released by the
convention.
Prince Cobourg requires from Liege six hundred
thousand florins.
Arrival of 14,000 Hanoverians in the Low-Countries.
The commune of Paris hoists a black flag, as a sign
of extreme danger to the country.
General Miranda imprisoned in chains at Brussels.
9. Dantzig submits itself to the King of Prussia.
Dumourier conveys to Lisle the treasures of the
churches of Brussels.
He stops the first commissioners of the convention,
and sends them to Paris; he reviews his troops at
Brussels, and marches to the enemy.
Robespierre demands that all despots be overturned,
and that liberty be established on the ruin of all
aristocracies.
Monsieur, regent of France, creates the Count
d'Artois lieutenant-general of the kingdom.
Decreed, that the palace of St. Cyr, near
Versailles, be destroyed.
Decreed, that plate be considered as merchandize.
La Source inveighs bitterly against the English
government.
It is calculated, that 150 divorces take place,
every month in Paris since the decree.
Dumourier causes the plate to be restored to the
churches of Belgium, of which they had been
plundered.
Buzot declaims in the tribune against the despotism
of the convention.
10. Epoch of the counter-revolutions in La Vendée.
The French abandon the siege of Williamstadt.
The Austrian advanced guard enters Tirlemont, but
are obliged again to evacuate it.
16. The States-general reward the garrison of
Williamstadt for their gallant defence.
17. The French and Austrian armies drawn up in order of
battle all day opposite to each other.
18. Bloody battle of Neerswinde, which lasts the whole
day. The French wholly defeated.
19. The battle of Tirlemont; General Valence wounded,
and the French routed.
Dumourier suspected of treason at Paris.
23. Battle of Louvain between the French and Austrians.
The Prussians approach Mayence.
Dumourier demands a truce of six days to evacuate
the Low Countries.
The Empire declares war against France, in
consequence of a resolution of the diet of
Ratisbon.
The Austrians enter Louvain. Prince Cobourg
refuses a truce to Dumourier.
The Duke Frederick of Brunswick quits the army on
account of his health.
The Prussians approach Mayence.
General Santerre solicits a discharge from the
command of the troops of Paris, that he may have
leisure to attend to the affairs of his brewery.
Chenier proposes an oaken crown as a reward for
republican generals.
Duhem complains to the convention, that the vessel
of state is near foundering.
Garat passes from the office of minister of justice
to that of the interior.
Discourse of Danton, to rouse the people en masse
(in a body.)
A constitutional priest, commanding a battalion,
begs the convention to preserve his rectory for him
whilst he goes to the frontiers.
The inhabitants of Frankfort write to Custine, that
they are not willing to receive the French
government.
Insurrection at Orleans.
24. The Austrians enter Brussels and Mechlin.
The Prussians pass the Rhine at St. Goar.
26. Antwerp submits to the Austrians.
The statue of Prince Charles of Loraine, which the
insurgents overturned, is restored.
27. Namur and Mons evacuated by the French.
The Archduke Charles appointed governor of the Low
Countries.
Danton proposes to the convention, that all
citizens be justified to kill any persons who are
hostile to the revolution, wherever they may find
them.
29. The Austrians enter Ghent.
At the end of this month, all Brabant has returned
to the dominion of the Emperor.
Tumults and plunders in private houses at Paris.
The convention summons Dumourier to its bar.
The French are driven out of Worms, and Spires.
_April_ 2. The convention sends Bournonville, the minister of
war, with four commissioners to arrest Dumourier;
but he, apprized of their intentions, seizes them,
and delivers them to the Prince of Cobourg.
Dumourier sends General Miaczinski to secure Lisle,
but he is suspected, and arrested there.
The French evacuate Breda and Gertruydenberg.
Dumourier, accompanied by Gen. Valance, and two
sons of Philip Egalité, together with some
regiments and the military chest, passes over to
the Austrians.
This step of Dumourier induces the convention to
declare itself permanent.
The German princes and nobles, who were detained
prisoners at Landau, are conveyed to Paris as
hostages for the commissioners who are kept by the
Austrians.
Domiciliary visits are recommended at Paris.
Mons. de Blanchland, governor of St. Domingo, is
guillotined at Paris, and dies with extraordinary
firmness.
Great congress held at Antwerp by the chiefs of the
allied armies.
Decreed, that henceforward commissioners shall
remain with the armies, and be invested with powers
unlimited.
Philip Egalité, his third son, his sister, and the
Prince of Conti (sic), conducted prisoners to
Marseilles.
The commune of Vernon is unwilling to suffer
Madame d'Orleans to depart, on account of her ill
heath, and they promise to answer with their lives
for their benefactress and friend.
The Prussians prepare for the siege of Mayence.
The creditors of Egalité fix his annual allowance
at about 8000l. a year. His income is said to have
been between three and four hundred thousand a
year.
Gen. Dampierre forms the camp of Famars, the French
having retired from Holland.
Great debates in the convention on the subject of a
petition from 35 sections of Paris, against the
chiefs of the Mountain.
The English take the island of Tobago.
General Miaczinski, Compte (sic) d'Arenberg, and le
Compte Linanges, sent to the Abbaye at Paris, to
answer for the safety of the commissioners.
12. A long and violent tumult in the convention,
because the members come intoxicated.
13. Marat escapes from prison, and writes an insulting
letter to the convention; decree of accusation
against him.
15. Thirty-five sections of Paris demand the deposition
of Brissot, and twenty other members of the
convention.
Marat remains concealed, but his journal appears
every day.
Weissenau is destroyed by heavy artillery;
Dampierre makes a vigorous resistance. A battle
between Valenciennes and Condé.
The garrison of Lisle makes a powerful sortie.
Dumourier is allowed no part in the operations
against France; at Frankfort he publishes his
contempt for Egalité, and respect for his sons.
21. The Elector of Mayence addresses a letter of thanks
to his subjects. The bishop of Liege returns to
his dominions.
The French make themselves masters of Mont-Beliard.
America declares for neutrality.
Count d'Artois goes to Petersburgh (sic).
The Spaniards obtain considerable advantages near
Perpignan.
The royalists of La Vendée publish a manifesto,
against whom the convention orders twenty thousand
men to march.
Treaty between Great-Britain and Russia; another
between Great-Britain and Sardinia.
Great disorders at Marseilles and Aix.
28. The archduke Charles makes a solemn entry into
Brussels, as governor-general of the Low Countries;
400 citizens draw his coach.
Kellerman deposed from his command by the
convention.
The Emperor reproaches the Elector of Bavaria with
his neutrality, in a remarkable note.
Engagement between the French and Austrians near
Landau.
Dampierre declares that only 800 men accompanied
Dumourier.
Marat suffers himself to be conducted to prison.
The revolutionary tribunal acquits Marat; he is
conducted in triumph to the convention by the mob,
who force themselves into the seats of the members.
The commissioners of the convention, at Marseilles,
are obliged to fly.
The French make a brisk sally from Mayence.
An insurrection at Breslau, raised by a taylor,
(sic) and not suppressed without cannon.
30. Decreed, that the revolutionary tribunal shall be
suspended till the 1st of June next.
_May_ 1. Dampierre gives a bloody battle, to keep up a
communication between Condé and Valenciennes.
Deputies from Nantes require support from the
convention; they announce, that the war of La
Vendée has already cost the lives of 2000 patriots.
3. The King of Prussia, after several bloody fights,
with various success, drives the French from
Costheim.
Sallies are made every day from Valenciennes; Gen.
Mack is wounded in the arm.
Great fire in the port and magazines of
l'Orient (sic).
Twelve hundred millions of assignats issued.
Melancholy accounts laid before the convention, of
the wretched state of the interior parts of France.
6. Houchard attacks the Austrians near Landau.
The garrison of Mayence, and the camp of Famars,
make a sally; a number of men killed.
8. A warm attack at Costheim.
A battle also at Longwy.
This day was a day of general fighting, in all the
armies.
9. General Dampierre dies of his wounds. Lamarche
takes the temporary command.
10. The convention holds its first sitting in the hall
of the Tuilleries, now called the National Palace.
Battle of Hasnon. The convention is disposed to
grant to Dampierre the honour of the Pantheon; but
Danton proposed, and carried a decree, that no one
should obtain that honour till 20 years after his
death.
7. Custine is appointed general of the northern army.
The elector of Bavaria renounces his neutrality,
and orders his contingent of troops march.
General Miranda is acquitted by the revolutionary
tribunal; and receives a civic crown from the
people.
General Valence, who had gone over to the Austrians
with Dumourier, is ordered to quit the states of
the empire.
Interrogatory of Philip Egalité at Marseilles.
The popular tribunal, of Marseilles suspended,
because it was become more adverse to the jacobins
since the arrival of the Bourbons.
General Miaczinski condemned to death by the
revolutionary tribunal.
Santerre sent against the royalists of La Vendée.
Kellerman recovers the esteem of the convention,
and is employed again in the armies.
17. Custine attacks the Austrians near Landau with
30,000 men, and forces them to retire.
General Wurmser repasses the Rhine.
Every day there are skirmishes near Mayence.
Miaczinski is executed--his depositions against
Pethion, Gensonnet, and others, not being proved.
23. The allies attack the camp of Famars, and the whole
line from Orchies to Maubeuge. A bloody action
during the whole day. The French secretly during
the night abandoned the camp of Famars.
Riots in Paris, on account of the arrest of Hebert,
compiler of a gazette called Le-Pere-du-Chesne.
Count d'Artois joins his brother at Ham.
It appears that six patriotic merchants of Holland
had promised Dumourier four millions of florins,
provided he conquered the country.
Le Gendre proposes to exclude from the convention
all who voted for the appeal to the people.
The two parties in the convention come to actual
blows; and confusion and disorder continue for
three hours.
The anti-jacobins obtain the upper hand at Lyons,
and 400 persons are sacrificed.
25. Marat insults the convention. Decreed, that any
member who shall call another villain, or
conspirator, or such-like names, shall be expelled
the convention. Marat instantly violates this law.
Great tumults.
26. All printing-offices and presses, not in the
interest of the jacobins, such as those of Brissot,
Condorcet, Pru de l'Homme, Rabaut, &c. are
destroyed.
27. The elector of Bavaria, after receiving the
Emperor's note, becomes active; a part of his army
marches to Mayence.
30. Hebert is set at liberty. The French from Landau
make an effort to deliver Mayence.
A bold sally is made from Mayence. Prince Louis,
son of Prince Ferdinand, makes a vigorous
resistance. The jacobins are victorious in Paris.
100,000 citizens are under arms all night. The
tocsin (alarm bell) is ringing all day.
The forty-eight sections of Paris demand an act of
accusation against twenty members; among whom are,
Pethion, Brissot, Barbaroux, Chambon, Gorsas,
Guadet, Lanjuinais, Verniaud, &c. Six escape, and
among them is Brissot. Madame Roland is arrested;
her husband not to be found.
The convention in horrible tumult; and the
president (Isnard) unable to calm it, breaks up the
sitting. The result of this famous day was to
devote twenty-two members to the guillotine, to
declare forty-one out of the protection of the law,
and to imprison seventy-one.
_June_. A legion of French gentlemen sails from England to
Ostend.
A party of male and female negroes are presented to
the convention.
The generals of the French armies are as follows:
Custine commands the army of the North at Bouchain;
Houchard that of the Moselle, at Sar Louis;
Beauharnols, the army of the Rhine, at Wissenbourg;
Kellerman, that of the Alps, at Chamberry; Brunet,
that of Italy, at Nice; De Flers, that of the
Eastern Pyrenees, at Bayonne; Biron, the army of
the coasts of Nantes, at Nantes; and Wimpfer, that
of the coasts of Cantal, at Bayeux.
7. The royalists in La Vendée obtain considerable
advantages.
Baron Trenck becomes a jacobin.
9. A bloody battle near Arlon. The French very
numerous. General Schroeder forced to retreat.
Arlon pillaged by the French.
Discussion in the convention about a forced loan of
a milliard of livres.
The Prince of Waldec killed in an attack near Lisle
at the head of the Dutch.
Severe complaints from most of the departments
about the sitting of the 31st of May.
Saumur and Angers taken by the royalists.
13. Manifesto from the Marseilleois to the French
republicans against the convention.
14. The departments of Eure and Calvados declare that
the convention is not free.
The club of jacobins is shut up at Aix.
De-Ferraris, general of artillery, begins to
bombard Valenciennes.
The Prussians open trenches before Mayence.
Marat returns to the convention after a fortnight's
voluntary suspension.
Plan of a republican constitution read.
18. The revolutionary tribunal sends eighteen persons
to the guillotine.
General Wimpfer loses the confidence of the
convention, on account of the disorders in
Calvados.
19. The news reaches London of a naval action on the
18th of April between the French and English.
The army of the Emperor is stated to amount to
225,274 men, exclusive of artillery and the staffs.
Des-Forges nominated minister of foreign affairs.
Count Byland executed.
Dumourier arrives in London. He is ordered to
leave England immediately, but in terms of
civility.
The royalists under Gaston suffer great losses near
Nantes.
20. Deputies assemble at Grenoble to give a judgment
upon the proceedings of the convention on the 31st
of May.
Ferrand, commandant of Valenciennes, exerts himself
by every means to prevent the inhabitants from
desiring to surrender.
Decree of accusation against Wimpfer.
23. Pethion and Lanjuinais escape. Decree of accusation
against Brissot.
The cathedral of Mayence burnt down; the Prussians
summon the city to surrender.
The Imperialists take Weissenau.
_July_ 1. The Queen is informed that she must separate
herself from her son, whose education is committed
to Simon, a shoemaker.
Barrere reports to the assembly, that an
insurrection has taken place in Corsica.
8. Condorcet is denounced by Chabot.
Buzot, Barbaroux, Gorsas, Lanjuinais, &c. are
declared traitors. Some other members are decreed
to be in accusation.
General Sandos is delivered to the revolutionary
tribunal.
Biron is accused of incivism.
The French are forced to evacuate the camp of
Caesar on the Scheldt.
Condé surrenders by capitulation to his Imperial
Majesty.
Insurrection at Lyons, and in several other
departments.
Declaration by the chiefs of the royal and
catholick army of La Vendée.
Admiral Truguet complains to the convention of the
ill state of the marine.
12. Charlotte Corday assassinates Marat; he is buried
with great ceremony in the Pantheon.
Charlotte Corday is executed.
14. The republicans in La Vendée are defeated by the
royalists.
Deputies from St. Domingo complain of ravages by
the commissioners Polverel and Santonax, who are
declared to be in accusation.
Rigorous decree against Corsica. General Paoli
declared a traitor.
The royalists continue their successes.
23. Mayence surrenders to the Prussians.
D'Arnaud-Baculard, an eminent writer, is
guillotined for having lodged an emigrant in his
house.
Decreed, that every soldier shall suffer death who
shall throw away his arms to fly from an enemy.
Decree of accusation against Gen. Custine.
27. General D'Oyre, the commandant of Mayence during
the siege, and all his staff, put under arrest by
the convention.
Valenciennes surrenders to the Duke of York. The
Prince of Cobourg takes possession of it for the
Emperor.
29. Tremendous hail-storms at Paris.
General Custine is sent to the Abbaye.
Decreed, that every 10th of August shall be
celebrated as the festival of the unity and
indivisibility of the republic.
Ordered, that every knight of St. Louis shall
deposit his cross in his municipality.
Decreed, that no assignats, with the late King's
effigy, under the value of 100 livres, shall have
in future any value, but be received only at
present in payment of taxes.
Decreed, that all strangers in France, especially
English, be committed to prison.
Decreed, that all forests and all crops of corn in
La Vendée be burnt.
Decreed, that every vestige of royalty be
destroyed.
Decreed, that the trial of the Queen be commenced.
Decreed, that a camp of 300,000 men be formed
between Valenciennes and Paris.
The invention of the telegraph laid before the
convention.
The effects of the India company seized and sealed.
The members of the revolutionary tribunal doubled,
in order that they may be able to go through
business more expeditiously.
31. Engagement between the republicans and Sardinians.
Motion by Danton, to pass a national sponge over
the enormous number of assignats.
_Aug_. 1. The convention regulates an uniformity of weights
and measures in the republic.
It denounces to all Europe the government of
England.
Ordered, that the Queen be sent to the ordinary
prison of the Conciergerie, and given up to the
revolutionary tribunal.
Chambon moves, that all castles be erased from the
face of the republic.
2. A fire in the arsenal of Huningen.
7. Decreed, that Pitt is the enemy of the human race.
8. All academics and literary societies, which had
been established by letters patent, suppressed by
decree.
A colossal statue of liberty is erected in the
place of that of Louis XV.
14. The new constitution accepted by the fedérés.
Decreed, upon the motion of Barrere, that the
nation will repair in mass to the frontiers; this
was the origin of requisitions.
18. The battle of Lincelles in favour of the allies.
The army of the convention enters Marseilles, after
dispersing the few troops which that city had
raised to oppose it.
Decree for a plan of education purely republican.
The convention charges its commissioners to spare
nothing to reduce Lyons, which is in a state of
rebellion.
A child appears at the bar of the convention,
saying, that instead of preaching up one self-made
God, the convention had established gods in the
principles of equality and the rights of man.
28. Custine is guillotined, at Paris.
Lord Hood addresses a proclamation to the Southern
provinces of France.
Lord Hood takes possession of Toulon, by agreement
with the chief men and inhabitants of the city, in
the name of Louis XVII.
Action between the Spaniards and the French under
Dagobert, in which the former lose their camp.
29. The Spaniards obtain advantages over another army
of the French towards the Western Pyrenees.
Within the last six months, twenty-seven generals
of the republican armies have been disgraced or
accused; of whom, five destroyed themselves, three
perished on the scaffold, and fourteen deserted to
the enemy.
30. Motion to imprison the wives and children of
emigrants.
Motion of Danton to cause the expence of the war to
fall upon merchants and the wealthy.
_ Sept_. 3. Declaration of war by the King of Naples against
the French republic.
Poland is obliged to yield to the treaty of
partition proposed by Prussia.
Decreed, that every administrator of public
accounts, and every national agent shall give in an
exact statement of his fortune previous to the year
1791.
Le Brun and Claviere, ex-ministers, are deivered to
the revolutionary tribunal.
Energetic address from the convention to the French
people, respecting the treason at Toulon.
Decreed, that all foreign property in France,
especially English, shall be sequestered.
The convention resolves that new commissioners be
sent to St. Domingo, in the room of Polverel and
Santonax.
The Vendean generals write to the Count d'Artois,
inviting him to put himself at their head.
11. The city of Quesnoy surrenders to the Imperialists.
Robespierre declares to the convention, that the
country is in extreme danger.
The republicans are defeated at Chantonnay by the
royalists.
12. The Dutch are defeated at Menin.
The Duke of York is forced to raise the siege of
Dunkirk.
General Dumerbian, of the army in Italy, is
arrested.
Engagement between the royalists and republicans.
The Duke de Bethune-Charost arrested.
14. The French attack the combined armies in different
points near Weissembourg without any thing
decisive.
The Duke de Nivernois and other considerable
persons arrested.
Duhem states to the convention, that its
philanthropy cost France 120,000 persons last year.
The number of vessels found in Toulon by the
English was twenty-two ships of the line and five
frigates.
15. Decreed, that every young man from 18 to 25 must
immediately join the army.
Menin retaken by General Beaulieu.
17. The French fail in their attempt to pass the Rhine
at Huningen.
Decreed, that all former nobles and relations of
emigrants, shall be considered as suspected, and be
imprisoned.
Engagement between the Spaniards and French; the
former retire with loss.
18. The royalists near Saumur take the flying artillery
of the republicans.
19. The siege of Lyons is commenced.
Decreed, that all women shall carry tickets of
civism, and wear a three-coloured cockade.
Collot d'Herbois proposes to seize and bury all
counter-revolutionists under the land of liberty,
by means of mines.
Barrere proposes to banish all those who are averse
to republican government.
20. Decreed, that the vulgar aera (sic) be abolished,
and that a new manner be adopted of dividing days
and years, to be called the Republican Calendar.
The French attack the Duke of Brunswick, and are
repulsed near Bitche; several actions take place in
consequence.
21. Decreed, that no produce or manufacture of England
shall be imported into France or the colonies, but
in French bottoms; nor foreign ships convey the
commodities of France from one French port to
another, under pain of confiscation.
22. A great number of persons of distinction arrested.
The King of Prussia leaves his army, and returns to
Berlin.
The Prussians make the French to retreat in the
dutchy (sic) of Deux-ponts.
Two thousand millions of assignats issued.
29. Prince Cobourg passes the Sambre, and invests
Maubeuge.
Decreed that all fathers and mothers shall inform
where their children, in a state of requisition,
are concealed.
Barrere proposes, that as the French nation has
proclaimed liberty to the earth, it should proclaim
liberty also to the sea.
Madame Du Barry, General Houchard, General
Quetinau, and Marshal Luckner, are prisoners in the
Abbaye.
The Duchesses of Grammont and of Chatelet, with
many other nobles, are imprisoned in the Hotel de
la Force.
The number of prisoners in Paris is 2560.
The Queen remains in a dungeon of the Conciergerie,
her trial not yet commenced; nor that of the
deputies, who were put out of the protection of the
law. Brissot, and others, taken and carried to
Paris.
_Oct_. 1. The French obtain a victory over the Sardinians in
the Tarentaise, and in Maurienne. On the side of
Saorgio, the Sardinians have some advantages over
the French.
A great number of members are arrested in the very
convention, and delivered to the revolutionary
tribunal.
Drouet, who stopped the King at Varennes, falls
into the hands of the Austrians.
The constitutional bishop of Derdogne (sic)
presents his new wife to the convention.
6. Gorsas, a member of the convention, is arrested in
the Palais Royal, and guillotined in 24 hours.
Disgrace of Generals Houchard, Schomberg, and
Landremont, who are replaced by Jourdan, Delmas,
and Moreau.
Thuriot complains to the convention, that Jourdan
is appointed to a command, and enjoys public
confidence; a man of blood, fire, and pillage,
whose name posterity will not read without horror.
The national agent, Hebert, reduces the prisoners
in the temple to the strictest regimen; the Queen
is served on pewter.
8. The allies gain considerable advantages over the
French at Toulon.
Cambon proposes to discredit specie in order to
raise the value of assignats.
Billaud Varennes proposes the immediate trial of
the Queen.
Arrest of all the members of the constituent
assembly, who protested against the constitution of
1791.
Republican women appear at the bar of the
convention, declaring that they, as well as men,
are conscious of their rights, and know how to
resist oppression.
8. Lyons, after some days of siege, is forced to
submit. Barrere moves, that the city be destroyed,
and that a column be erected on the spot, with
these words engraven on it, "Lyons waged war
against liberty; Lyons is no more."
13. The allies make themselves masters of the Strong
and famous lines of Weissembourg. Lauterbourg
surrenders to them next day.
All monuments of former Kings who were buried at
St. Denis, are destroyed by order of the
convention.
15. The Queen appears at the bar of the revolutionary
tribunal; Fouquier, the public accuser, reads the
list of injuries and grievances with which she is
charged, and immediately obtains a sentence of
death against her; she hears it with downcast eyes,
and without uttering a word.
16. Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France, is
conveyed in a cart to the place of execution, her
hands tied behind her back, and with her back to
the horse's tail. She mounted the scaffold
quickly, amidst acclamations of the people, which
excited only a smile of pity in her. She looked
earnestly at the Tuilleries, and seemed to dwell
upon the place where her children were; before she
was fastened to the guillotine, she threw her eyes
up to heaven, and Soon after her head was severed
from her body.
Decreed, that the money of France be changed into
francs of gold and of silver, and into republicans.
Work-houses established to prevent begging.
General Ferrand, writing to the convention an
account of his exploits in Arragon and Catalonia,
says, that he expects to plant the tree of liberty
on the walls of Madrid next campaign.
Prince Cobourg, attacked by the French, raises the
siege of Maubeuge, and repasses the Sambre.
17. The French are successful in Piedmont.
It is announced to the convention, that the
intruding bishop of Moulins officiated in a red
bonnet, and with a pike instead of the cross and
mitre.
Every external sign of religion is abolished. The
inscription on burying places is, "that death is
"only an eternal sleep."
22. André Dumont informs the convention from Abbeville,
that he was making the cross and crucifix to
disappear. "I shall comprehend in my proscription
"all those black animals called priests."
The convention orders, that the news of the
conquest of La Vendée be sent to all the
departments.
24. The royalists again appear, and gain great
advantage over the republicans.
Decreed, that every city which surrenders without
standing one assault shall be razed to the ground.
Permission granted to women to regulate their
fortune, as well as their husbands.
The number of prisoners in Paris amounts to 4000.
The French attack the allies for six days
successively; always bringing up fresh troops;
constantly repulsed, they still return and take
possession of the post, if possible, at any
expence.
27. New decree against priests.
The French lose 3000 men in two actions; one
against Wurmser, and a second against the
Prussians.
The royalists of La Vendée compleatly (sic) defeat
the French republicans.
The French, who had taken Menin, Courtray, Furnes,
who besieged Nieuport, and threatened Ostend, are
obliged to retire, and evacuate all they had got in
Brabant.
The commissioners at Lyons write, that 800 workmen
are labouring to demolish the city, pursuant to an
order of the convention. Lyons was the second city
of France.
30. The Duke of York retakes Marchiennes, and makes
1629 prisoners.
31. Twenty-one members of the convention guillotined in
37 minutes, viz. Brissot, Verniaud, Duprat, Valaze,
Gensonnet, Le Hardy, Ducos, Boyer, Fonfrede,
Boileau, Gardier, Du Chastel, Sillery, Fauchet,
Duperret, La Source, Carra, Beauvais, Mainville,
Antiboul, Végée, and La Case.
The royalists of La Vendée take the island of
Noirmoutier.
_Nov_. 1. Egalité conveyed from Marseilles to the prison of
the Conciergerie in Paris.
A column of Vendeans passes the Loire at Ancenis.
Two actions between the Spaniards and French; the
latter lose between five and six thousand men.
A member proposes to guillotine all farmers and
labourers that monopolize.
Decreed, that all lead, iron, copper, and bells of
churches, shall be applied to the use of the war.
The British ambassador presses the Grand Duke of
Tuscany to join the allies.
Decreed, that natural children shall share
inheritances equally with legitimate; provided the
parents have no other husband or wife.
Spoils and plunder of the churches are daily sent
to the convention.
The grand master of Malta takes part with the
allies against France.
Philip Egalité (formerly Duke of Orleans) is
guillotined upon the scaffold to which he brought
his unfortunate King.
Lidon, a member of the convention, shoots himself.
Complaints from all parts of want of bread. The
inhabitants declare they have only a quarter of a
pound of bread each a day.
Bailly, first mayor of Paris, guillotined.
General Beaulieu defeats the French, and forces
them to retreat to Philipville.
Ordered, that farmers of the national domains pay
their rents in kind.
Some persons are ordered to take away by night the
shrine of St. Genevieve, the patroness of Paris,
and whom the Parisians always respected peculiarly;
it is carried to the Mint.
7. Gabet and his constitutional clergy renounce in the
convention the sacerdotal character.
Madame Roland is condemned to death and executed
the same day, with five municipal officers of
Pont-de-Ce.
11. Festival of Reason, in the cathedral of Paris.
A woman is appointed to receive the homage there
which is denied to the Deity.
12. The royalists of La Vendée continue their
successes.
The Piedmontese still unsuccessful, losing their
camp and stores at La Magdeleine.
The national vengeance is at length glutted with
the blood of the inhabitants of Lyons; between 2
and 3000 persons have been massacred by tying them
together, and firing upon them with case-shot; and
the sabre finished those whose wounds were not
mortal.
Fort-Louis surrenders to the allies. 200 persons
are guillotined at Strasbourg for hesitating to pay
their proportion of a sum ordered to be raised in
that city within 24 hours.
Collot d'Herbois and Foucher, commissioners at
Lyons, write, that the work of destruction goes on
too slow. Mines and fires are necessary to forward
the demolition of so great a city.
The allies make a sally from Toulon, kill 2000
French, destroy the works, and take eleven pieces
of cannon.
Manuel and Cassy, members of the convention, and
Generals Houchard and Brunet, are guillotined.
18. Thuriot, Chabot, Bazire, L'Aunay, all deputies, are
imprisoned. Chamfont cuts his throat. Several
actions near Bitche, between the French and
Prussians; the latter are forced to retire.
On the other hand the French lose 8000 men in an
action against Wurmser.
The Sardinians after two actions are forced to
retreat.
Monsieur Lavordy, formerly comptroller of finances,
guillotined.
26. The Vendéans beat the republicans, and take the
post of Austrain.
The Sardinians under General Brentano repulse the
French.
The Spaniards obtain a victory.
Chambon, member of the convention, mayor of Paris
at the King's massacre, is put out of the
protection of the law, and killed by the
inhabitants of Tulle, among whom he had taken
refuge.
Gen. La Morbiere is guillotined.
27. The royalists of La Vendée take several towns in
Brittany; on the 19th they take Granville, but
evacuate it.
Barnave, a deputy to the first assembly, one of
the, authors of the revolution, and Duport, then
minister of justice, guillotined.
29. Project to erect a monument upon the Pont-Neuf,
representing the people as giants.
The convention receives from all parts the letters
of priesthood from the intruders.
Decreed, that a municipal officer with a red bonnet
shall inter the dead.
Robespierre declaims against the eagerness with
which they set about the work of destroying
religion.
A deputation of women appears at the bar with the
red bonnet.
Decree, offering rewards to every abjuring priest.
At Rochefort and other cities the pictures and
books of the churches are burned.
St. Domingo taken by the English.
The orator of the students of the republican school
comes to the bar, to assure the convention that he
and his comrades detest God.
Remonstrances of Mr. Drake, the British minister,
to the Senate of Genoa on the subject of
neutrality.
A member informs the convention that ten thousand
firelocks are made in Paris daily.
Decreed, that a colossal statue be erected in Paris
46 feet high, with the rights of man and the
constitutional act for a pedestal.
Furious declamation of Robespierre against the
British government.
30. General O'Hara, commander at Toulon, taken prisoner
by the French.
The inhabitants of Marly send to the convention all
the precious effects of the palace of Marly, and
all the iron of the famous works of that place.
Decreed, that all the lakes and marshes of the
republic be dried, and sowed with grain of various
sorts.
_Dec_. 1. The Jacobins of Nantes drown 90 priests destined
for Guiana, by sinking the ship in which they were
embarked.
Madame du Barry, the Duke Chatelet, the two
Rabauts, members of the convention, Kersaint and
Noel, members also, are all guillotined. The
ex-minister Claviere kills himself in prison.
One hundred and fifty persons guillotined at
Dunkirk.
The festival of an ass celebrated at Lyons, in
derision of religious worship.
Collot d'Herbois informs the convention of the
massacres which he has executed at Lyons.
The right wing of the Austrian army takes 1200
prisoners, and kills 1700.
The Prince of Condé takes 7 cannon, and kills 1300
men.
The Duke of Brunswick kills takes and (sic) 6000
men.
3. Wurmser defeats the army opposed to him, kills
10,000, and makes 5,000 prisoners.
4. The French evacuate Deux-Ponts, having lost immense
numbers of men and of artillery.
Raymond le Veuve is guillotined at Bourdeaux (sic).
The French attack the Austrian and Prussian armies
almost daily, and are constantly repulsed with
loss.
11. The French, notwithstanding their constant losses
continue to attack the lines of the allies. They
lose 5000 in an attack near Haguenau.
Valadi is discovered and guillotined.
12. The royalists are defeated with great loss near
Mans.
In an action near La Guerche, the Vendéans kill
7000 republicans, and take their artillery.
Birateau, member of the convention, guillotined at
Bourdeaux.
The festival of reason celebrated in all cities of
France, as in Paris.
Madame de Villette, niece of Voltaire, dies on the
scaffold.
14. The French make an attack on the posts of the
allies on the side of Courtray, and are repulsed.
The general, with his aid-du-camp (sic) and staff
to the number of 25, are arrested at Lisle.
16. The French again attack the lines of Gen. Wurmser,
and are again repulsed with great loss.
18. The royalists of La Vendée are again victorious
near Concale.
Toulon is retaken by the republicans, its name is
changed on the motion of Barrere, to that of the
"Port of the Mountain."
Letter of Chabot from the prison of the Luxemburg
to the convention.
20. The Duke of Brunswick, near Weissembourg defeats
the French army, kills 10,000, and takes their camp
and baggage with 47 pieces of artillery.
Rejoicings in Paris on account of the retaking of
Toulon.
The French, after having so often attacked the
allies with great loss, and returned as often to
harrass (sic) them still, at length carry their
point. They take 16 cannon, kill 500 men, and
recover the strong lines of Weissembourg.
27. The allies raise the siege of Landau.
1794.
_Jan_. 1. The representatives of the people, in order to get
rid of prisoners in La Vendée direct that all of
them be thrown into the Loire.
2. The island of Noirmoutier is retaken by the
republicans; 800 royalists are killed and 1200 are
made prisoners.
3. The old marshal Luckner, and the son of General
Custine, guillotined.
4. Eight hundred emigrants perish in crossing the
Rhine.
The States of Brabant require great contributions
for the expence of the war.
Bourdon de L'Oise complains, that the minister is
still too monarchical, and he demands that one
purely republican be appointed.
The Prince of Talmond, one of the chiefs of the
royalists, is taken by the republicans near
Fougeres. The remains of his army joins the
Chouans.
The Chouans, who now begin to be distinguished, are
so called from two brothers, gentlemen of that
name, who were particularly active in levying
troops in Brittany for the service of the
royalists.
6. Mons. d'Espremenil, a counsellor of the parliament
of Paris, and an ex-constituent, thrown into
prison.
General Cartaux sent to the Conciergerie.
Chambon, comptroller of finances, complains that
printing the names of emigrants on large paper is
too expensive, and moves that the small octavo be
used.
Decree of accusation against Roncin and Rossignol,
generals of the republic in La Vendée.
The revolutionary tribunal of Lyons, to please the
people, burns in effigy the Emperor, the Kings of
England, Spain, Prussia, and Sardinia, Mr. Pitt,
and the Pope. The city of Toulon is also burnt in
the representation of a woman.
La Mourette, intruding bishop of Lyons, guillotined.
Herbert is convicted of having received from the
national treasury, for his journal "Le Pere du
Chesne," in June 1793, 123,000 livres, and in
October 60,000 livres.
11. Thomas Payne and Anacharsis Cloots imprisoned in
the Luxemburg.
Ordered by the jacobin club of Paris, that all
sarcasms and philippics, uttered in their tribune
against the government and constitution of England,
be printed and sent to the patriots in the three
kingdoms.
The convention decrees, that all inscriptions on
monuments shall be in the French language.
Decreed, that all property real and personal of the
farmers-general shall belong to the nation.
Pondicherry surrenders to the British.
The president of the convention reads a letter from
Vitré. "The souls of most of the royalists have
"been sent to the Eternal Father; we are every day
"destroying the Chouans, those infernal banditti."
The French are active in restoring the lines of
Weissembourg to cover the siege of Fort-Louis.
The Baron Latude guillotined; he had lived many
years in the Bastille, and was called the proof and
victim of despotism.
The committee of public safety remove Simon, the
shoemaker, from the office of tutor and preceptor
to the son of Louis XVI. confined in the Temple;
and resolve that there is no need of any other in
his place.
A manufacture is offered to the convention of
cloth made of two-thirds hair.
19. The chimney-sweepers request of the convention the
release of Abbé Fenelon, who had been a father to
them during 60 years.
21. The anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. is
declared in the convention a day of glory.
Between the 13th of December and the 24th of
January, 325 persons were guillotined at Lyons, and
330 shot.
Generals Wurmser and the Duke of Brunswick are
succeeded by Generals Braun and Moellendorff.
The female citizen Chapuis, daughter of the
general, demands to serve as a dragoon.
The Count d'Artois sends his diamonds to Marshal
Broglio for the use of emigrants.
Motion by Rhul against the Elector of Bavaria.
A deputation of Americans demand the release of
their countryman Thomas Payne. The president
replies that he is an Englishman.
27. Decreed, that all castles in conquered countries
which cannot be used as hospitals shall be burned.
Decreed, that sixty-two millions of assignats shall
be at the disposition of the war-minister
29. every month. And that 95,000 cavalry be raised for
the next spring.
30. Upwards of three thousand peasants, prisoners from
La Vendée, are guillotined or shot at Nantes.
31 Perigord Tayleyrand, bishop of Autun, ordered to
leave England.
_Feb_. 1. Mons. La Borde, the former court banker, and father
of La Borde de Merville, an ex-constituent, is
forced to purchase his liberty with a large sum of
money.
The opera of "Toute la Gréce" is in great
vogue--the story of it is, that Philip, seeing all
Greece rising in a mass, begs for peace; Greece
refuses to make peace with a King.
Report to the convention, that excellent soap is
made of potatoes.
4. Slavery abolished in all the colonies.
Pichegru appointed commander of the army of the
North in the room of Jourdan.
The treasurer Cambon states to the convention that
last year 4,885,764 livres were coined of copper
and bell-metal.
A deputation of blacks appears at the bar to be
received as brethren.
Decreed, that every officer and soldier, of
whatever rank, shall have an equal quantity of
provisions, a man having but one stomach.
7. The 48 sections of Paris appear at the bar to
protest against any suspension of arms.
All mints for coining money suppressed, except that
of Paris.
The commune of Chamberry sends to the convention
twelve thousand marks [Footnote: Eight ounces
each.] of silver, together with the sword of Prince
Eugene, five feet long.
Manifesto of the Germanic body to justify the war
with France.
The Prince of Talmond and fourteen priests
guillotined.
One of the two brothers, of La Vendée, from whom
the Chouans took their name, is killed by the
republicans.
A bloody quarrel between the republican and
revolutionary soldiers of the French army.
The Vendeans obtain advantages at Cholet.
The Duke and Duchess of Luynes, and Mons de
Montmorency, an ex-constituent, imprisoned.
A work is published under the sanction of the
convention, proving that the national domains, that
is, the estates of the king (sic), the nobles, the
clergy, and the emigrants, are worth twenty
milliards of livres.
Deputies from the county of Mot Belliard demand its
union with France.
The old name of Marseilles is restored; it had been
forfeited by a decree, and was called "Sans-nom."
18. The Abbé Maury is promoted to the dignity of
cardinal.
Troops sent from Paris to La Vendée receive orders
to travel fourteen leagues a day.
20. Thomas Payne claims protection of the club of
Cordeliers, who return for answer the vote he gave
on the King's trial.
Mons. du Chaffault, lieut.-general of marines, an
officer of great services and high estimation, is
massacred in Poitou at the age of eighty-five
years.
The convention, on the motion of Barrere, decree a
political lent, in order to leave the more animal
food for the sick and aged.
A petition from Burgundy demands the death of young
Capet.
Death of Cardinal de Lomenie du Brienne, one of the
earliest promoters of the revolution.
St. Just makes a motion, the object of which is, to
excite the people to murder and vengeance, for 1200
years of crimes which had been committed against
them.
Motion by Danton for an agrarian law.
26. Report upon La Vendée. It consists of sixteen
departments of forty square leagues, between the
Loire and the sea, from Painboeuf to Saumur.
The sister of Mirabeau is reduced to solicit alms
of the convention.
_March_. Several sections of Paris complain to the
convention of a scarcity of provisions.
Decreed, that all the property of priests, either
banished or imprisoned, be confiscated for the use
of the state.
Danton makes a flaming republican speech to the
convention.
All horses of the plough put in requisition.
The number of prisoners in Paris amount to 6100.
9. The minister of justice proposes to institute a
committee of insurrection, to overturn all the
monarchies of Europe.
The sale of the property of emigrants amounted in
the year 1793 only to twenty millions of livres,
not half the real value of the estates of one
emigrant alone, the Duke de Montmorency.
The number of victims destroyed by the guillotine
or grape-shot at Lyons, to this date, amounted to
somewhat more than five thousand.
Populus, an ex-constituent, guillotined at Lyons.
The clubs of the jacobins and cordeliers form an
alliance.
At Nevers seventy-four priests, who refuse to take
the oath, are guillotined. At Dijon fourteen
nobles suffer the same fate, because they used the
titles of Count and Baron.
The merchants of Bourdeaux are all arrested on the
same day, and condemned to the guillotine; but are
permitted to redeem their lives by paying one
hundred millions of livres, to which they are
forced to submit.
14. Robespierre invents a conspiracy, or pretended
treason, in order to secure his authority.
The wife of Momoro, who had played the part of
first goddess of reason, guillotined.
All strangers are banished from Paris.
The Vendeans are beat on the left bank of the Loire
by General Cordelier.
The convention states the expences of 1793 to be at
the rate of four hundred millions of livres a month.
15. Hebert and his partizans (sic) are arrested. The
jacobins betray the cordeliers.
17. Herault de Sechelles guillotined.
21. The Emperor forbids his subjects to make any
payments in France.
24. The island of Martinico submits wholly to the
English.
A secret is laid before the convention of removing
the impression of ink from paper, and of rendering
it as new.
Wives of emigrants forbid to marry foreigners.
Eight thousand men sent to La Vendée.
The revolutionary army is disbanded.
Means discovered to expel foul air, by burning
common salt moistened with oil of vitriol.
30. The brother of Abbé (now Cardinal) Maury
guillotined at Avignon.
31. Jourdan appointed commander in chief of the army of
the Moselle.
Barrere exclaims against atheism and irreligious
principles.
_April_ 5. Danton, Camille des Moulins, Fabre d'Eglantine, De
l'Aulnay, Chabot, La Croix, Philippeau, Bazire, and
Julien, all voters for the King's death, delivered
to the revolutionary tribunal, and guillotined.
Danton, when asked his name and quality, replied,
"a being now that in a few hours will be a
non-entity."
Camille des Moulins, being required to tell his
age, replied, "the same as the sans-culottes Jesus,
"34 years."
Westerman, who stiled (sic) himself the conqueror
of royalists, the Abbé d'Espagnac, and many others,
are guillotined.
7. Formal entry of the Emperor into Brussels.
Decreed, that the executive council be suppressed,
as incompatible with republican government.
Chambon states the expence, extraordinary and
revolutionary, 1,600,000,000 livres.
A deputation at the bar of the assembly demands,
that death be the order of the day.
The prisoners in Paris amount to 6763.
Dumas, a deputy, pretends to point out a method of
knowing a counter-revolutionist by his physiognomy.
St. Lucia taken by the English.
9. Gobet, intruding bishop of Paris, guillotined.
The honours of the pantheon voted to Rousseau.
12. The city of Oneglia taken by the French.
St. Just, in the convention, asks the question
"What is a King compared with a French citizen?"
14. The allies repulse the French on the Lys.
The daughter of Sultan Achmet III. who had fled
into France, and found refuge there during 64
years, obtains alms of the convention, viz. 6oo
livres, (about 25l. sterling.)
18. Laborde, a wealthy banker who had several times
redeemed his life by large sums of money, is
guillotined.
The principal members of the parliaments of Paris,
and of Toulouse, are guillotined.
20. The woods of Vitré and Rennes burned to dislodge
the royalists.
21. Gen. Beaulieu beats the French at Arlon.
22. Guadaloupe taken by the English.
The old Mons. de Malsherbes, one of the generous
defenders of Louis XVI. guillotined.
24. The allies beat the French near Cambray.
26. The Duke of York takes 35 pieces of cannon, and a
French general; he kills 5000 men, and makes 3000
prisoners.
To facilitate the sale of the lands of emigrants,
they are divided into lots of three hundred livres
each, and twenty years credit given.
28. The French seize Courtray the day of the annual
fair, and get a great booty.
29. General Clairfait gains a considerable advantage,
killing 3000 men, and taking several cannon.
30. Landrecy surrenders to the Emperor with a garrison
of 6ooo men.
In this month were executed, besides those
mentioned already, Monsieur d'Espréménil,
Chaumette, procureur of the commune of Paris, Gen.
Arthur Dillon, Hebert and Simon, deputies, Gen.
Roncin, Momoro, Anarcharsis Cloots, a deputy, Du
Buisson, Goutte, an intruding bishop, Gen. Beisser,
the Marquis of Chateau Briant, the Duchesses of
Chatelet and Grammont, the Viscountess de
Pont-Ville, Thouret and Chapellier, two very active
revolutionists.
Kosciusko puts himself at the head of a revolution
in Poland.
_May_ 1. In the prisons of Paris 22,000 persons are
confined, and in all the departments of France
653,000.
The Duke de Biron, upon sentence of death being
passed upon him by the revolutionary tribunal,
cried out, "I deserve it, for having betrayed my
"King and served his enemies."
The Count du l'Aigle, being also condemned, said to
the people, "It is not my head, it is bread and
"your King that you ought to demand."
Decreed, that all royal houses shall be kept for
the use and enjoyment of the people.
10. Robespierre obtains decrees to admit the existence
of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the
soul; and for the establishment of decadary
festivals.
In La Vendée, General Haxo, after the example of
General Moulin, blows his brains out, to avoid
being taken prisoner.
All letters coming into France are opened.
From the 29th of April to the 4th of May, 109
persons are guillotined in Paris, and many more in
the departments.
In the valley of Aost, 6000 French were killed by
the peasants of Piedmont.
Barrere announces the capture of a Spanish camp,
with two hundred cannon, and two thousand men.
All the farmers-general are accused in a mass, and
sent to the revolutionary tribunals,
The town of Sargio and Piedmontese camp taken by
the French.
11. Seventy-one persons, among whom are 27
farmers-general, are guillotined.
Madame Elizabeth, sister of the late King, is
carried before the revolutionary tribunal and
interrogated, " What is your name?" "Elizabeth
"Philippine Marie Helene de France."
"Your quality?" "Aunt of the King." These last
words are scarcely pronounced, when the tribunal
condemns her to death.
12. The next day she is conducted to the scaffold, with
25 persons who were guillotined in her presence; it
being directed that she should suffer the last.
She died at the age of thirty years, and left a
character of unblemished purity.
Decreed, that all aged and infirm priests be kept
in houses belonging to the republic.
Report upon mendacity. Decreed, that the
convention will efface the name of beggary and
poverty from the annals of the republic.
The town and citadel of Bastia taken by the
English.
The commune of Sens writes to the convention, that
it has dug up all the bodies of the Capets that
were interred in their cathedral, in order to bury
them in ordinary ground.
An address to the French nation is prepared by
Barrere, and published by the convention,
concluding with these words: "Let the English
"slaves perish, and let Europe be free."
13. Revolutionary tribunals suppressed, except that of
Paris.
14. L'Huillier kills himself in prison, and Rebecqui
drowns himself--both active agents in the massacres
of Avignon, and of the 2d of September.
15. Kaunitz forces the French to repass the Sambre with
the loss of 5000 men.
18. The Duke of York, with 3500 men, is attacked by
15000 French, and forced to retreat.
General Beaulieu, near Bouillon, kills 3000 French,
and takes 700.
22. Battle near Tournay, lasts 16 hours; the French
lose 12,000 men, and the allies 3000.
A French army of 10,000 men penetrates into
Luxembourg.
24. Kaunitz takes 80 cannon, kills 2000 French, and
takes 3000.
Insurrection of the patriots at Liege.
The Emperor quits the army, and returns to Vienna.
29. Battle of Germersheim; the French lose 400 killed,
and 600 taken prisoners.
A plot to assassinate Robespierre and Collot
d'Herbois fails of success; the former obtains a
guard for his person.
_June_ 1. The British fleet under Lord Howe engages the
French; the latter loses eight sail of the line.
2. The convention decrees, that no Englishman or
Hanoverian shall be made prisoner in battle--no
quarter to be given, but all without reserve to be
put to the sword.
The Duke of York communicates this barbarous decree
to his army, in a manner that does honour to a
soldier and to a man.
The guillotine is destroyed by the people at St.
Brieux, and the revolutionary tribunal expelled.
4. The French are routed near Charleroy with the loss
of 4000 men.
The man who saved Collot d'Herbois from
assassination, obtains a pension of 1500 livres a
year.
Decreed, that the members of the convention, when
on duty, shall wear marks of distinction.
Proclamation of the Emperor to induce all Brabant
to rise in a mass.
A military school is instituted in the plain of
Sablons near Paris.
Decreed, that a new grammar be published, to give
to the language of liberty a character that is
suitable to it.
8. Jourdan, called Coupe-tête, general of the army at
Avignon, guillotined.
The son and daughter of Louis XVI. employed to make
shoes and shirts for the nation.
10. General Clairfait is obliged to retreat.
The French take Port-Vendre, Collieure, and St.
Elme.
13. A festival to the Eternal. Robespierre acts the
part of Pontiff. The ceremony is designed to
satisfy the people, by putting an end to atheism.
The members of the convention assume the
distinction of a plume of feathers in the hat, and
a three-coloured scarf.
The French army in Maritime Flanders amounts to
170,000 men.
The inviolability of the members of the convention
is renewed.
A large convoy from America with corn arrives in
France.
16. The French lose 7,000 men in an action near
Charleroy.
Ypres surrenders to the French--this conquest opens
all Brabant.
The numerous forces opposed to the allies oblige
them to retreat.
20. One milliard two hundred and five millions of
livres in assignats issued.
Port-au-Prince taken by the English.
The dread of the guillotine causes fifty thousand
persons to emigrate.
21. Commencement of a quarrel between Robespierre and
Bourdon de l'Oise, and another between Tallien and
Robespierre.
Ninety-four nuns transported to Africa.
Twenty-one members of the parliament of Toulouze
(sic) guillotined at Paris.
26. Every thing in France is put in requisition, men,
horses, provisions, and all sorts of property.
28. Some terrible conspiracy is supposed, and announced
to the public in order to authorise new massacres.
"Paris," says Barrere, "shall be henceforth the
"city with a hundred gates; each gate shall
"announce some triumph, or some revolutionary,
"epoch".
29. The French besiege Charleroy.
The number of persons guillotined this month is as
follows. From the first to the ninth of June, 100
On the 9th, 22
10th, 30
11th, 33
12th, 8
13th, 20
From 14 to 17th 103
17 to 20th 50
On the 21st, 26
22d, 14
25th, 48
27th, 29
Total guillotined in Paris in the month of June 483
_July_ Religious worship abolished at Liege, the priests
banished, and the churches demolished.
3. Sir Gilbert Elliot receives the crown of Corsica in
the name of the King of Great-Britain.
Proclamation of the Stadtholder on the dangers
which threaten Holland.
A festival of the human race at Paris--it ends with
adopting poor children.
The French take Mons and Ostend; 87 persons
guillotined.
Newport also falls to the French--130 emigrants
shot.
Tournay taken by the same. The British
7. forced to evacuate Alost. Fifty persons condemned
to death.
8. The Austrians quit Brussels; the French enter it,
and retake Landrecy.
Spires, Mechlin, and Louvain, abandoned by the
allies.
Sixty persons guillotined at Brest.
Robespierre, in an address to the convention, is
heard for the first time with coolness.
The plunder of the churches of Brabant is sent to
the convention, together with two millions of
livres in specie from Mons.
18. Namur opens its gates to the French.
19. Revolution at Geneva.
The convention is charged in its accounts with 150
reams of paper a day;--each of its decrees costs
83,000 livres; on the first of April last, 6800
decrees had been passed by the three legislatures.
The members who compose the committee of public
safety, at this time of havoc and universal terror,
are Robespierre, Couthon, Billaud Varennes,
Barrere, Collot d'Herbois, Lindet, Prieur, Carnot,
and St. Just.
26. Robespierre denounces to the convention one hundred
of its members. A party instantly rises against
him. He is attacked by Billaud Varennes and
Tallien, and thunderstruck with the accusations
against him.
27. Robespierre endeavours to kill himself; the wound
not mortal.
28. All the following persons are guillotined this day:
Robespierre the elder and the younger, Couthon and
St. Just, members of the convention; Henriot,
commander in chief of the Parisian guard; La
Vallette, another commander; Dumas, president of
the revolutionary tribunal; Lescott Fleuriot, mayor
of Paris; Payan, chief agent of the commune;
Viviers, a criminal judge, and president of the
jacobin club; Simon, preceptor of the young Prince;
upwards of eighty municipal officers; one Deputy, a
commissioner with the army, and one general
officer, all partizans of Robespierre.
Tallien proclaims in the convention, that the day
of the tyrant's death is a festival for universal
fraternity.
From the 1st to the 19th of July were guillotined
in Paris, in all 406 persons.
On the 20th, 34
21st, 29
22d, 46
24th, 30
From 25th to 27th 135
28th, 22
29th, 70
Total guillotined in July 772
_Aug_. 1. At this time the guillotine remains unemployed.
The convention charges sixteen committees with the
management of public affairs.
2. The Spaniards are defeated--The French take
Fontarabia and St. Sebastian.
Pichegru, with 190,000 men, is commanded to conquer
Holland.
3. Prince Cobourg calls upon the States of Germany to
assemble and oppose with unanimity the alarming
mass of French troops which is on the point of
breaking in upon them.
5. The convention abolishes Robespierre's system of
terror.
Brussels gives a civic feast on account of its
union with France.
The French enter Treves, and summon Breda.
Pelet solicits the convention for the return of
order, of justice, and of commerce.
10. The English take possession of Calvi.
11. The states-general earnestly exhort the Dutch to
defend themselves.
13. A general release of prisoners confined in France
by order of Robespierre--they amounted to upwards
of 500,000.
Quesnoy retaken by the French, with 3000 men.
The telegraph first made use of.
15. An ambassador from America receives the fraternal
kiss.
26. L'Ecluse surrenders by capitulation to the French.
Ordered, that all persons may travel freely without
passports in the interior of the republic.
The new ambassador from Geneva received in the
convention.
29. Valenciennes surrenders; its garrison consisted of
8ooo men, of whom 1100 were emigrants.
30. Condé surrenders to the French.
Frèron and Tallien propose measures of moderation,
that is, a system opposite to that of terror.
_Sept_. 1. The Emperor threatens to withdraw his troops, if
the circles of Germany do not support him better.
The academy cf arts and sciences of Paris discovers
a method of making pot-ash from the horse-chesnut
(sic).
Bois-le-Duc and Breda inundated.
The convention passes some decrees favourable to
the emigrants.
5. Rochelle and Montfort denounce the nobles and
priests.
6. An orator of one of the electoral clubs of Paris
presents a petition, which he is unable to read.
Bertier acquaints the convention that he has set at
liberty all prisoners in the North under 15 years
of age.
The convention receives numerous congratulations on
the death of Robespierre.
Tallien resigns his seat as member of the committee
of public safety.
Motion of Barrere against bankers and stockjobbers.
An attempt is made to assassinate Tallien, but he
escapes with some severe wounds.
10. The flag of the republic of Geneva is received into
the convention.
Merlin, of Thionville, makes an animated speech in
the convention against the jacobins.
The two ruling parties in the convention are, the
partizans of terror, called the Mountain. and the
Moderates.
Protests and placarts (sic) are stuck up in all
parts of Paris against the despotism of the
convention.
11. The convention decrees that all those shall be
subject to the laws against emigrants, who quitted
France since the 1st of July 1789, and did not
return before 9th of May 1792.
Decreed, that the nation will pay no more salaries
to ministers, or others officiating in any
religious worship.
Motion by Duhem to expel all that remains of the
family of Capet from the territory of the republic.
Report of Lindet on the state of France, in which
are marked its dangers, errors, and disasters.
The Spaniards are forced to give up the important
city of Bellegard to the French at discretion.
12. The Piedmontese are repulsed with considerable
loss.
13. Great commotions at Marseilles.
15. Ordered, that the remains of Marat be interred in
the Pantheon.
16. The British and Hanoverians pass the Rhine with
some loss. The Duke of York retires to Nimeguen.
Ceremonies established for the observance of the
days called "Sans-culottides," which are the
supplementary days of the republican calendar.
General Clairfait marches towards Cologn (sic), and
passes the Roar (sic).
The French invest Maestricht, and take possession
of Aix-la-Chapelle, Malmedi, and Spa.
Balloons are used by the French to make
observations of their enemy's proceedings.
Twenty-nine waggons loaded with gold and silver, to
the value of 18,359,404 livres are brought to Paris
from Belgium.
The throne of the Elector of Treves is among the
spoils.
25. A national festival is celebrated at Paris on
account of the evacuation of the French territory
by the enemy.
27. Crêvecoeur surrenders by capitulation to the
French.
30. The allies still continue to retreat.
Decreed, that all directories and all municipal
bodies of the republic shall be purified; and all
revolutionary committees reorganized.
_Oct_. 1. General Clairfait passes the Rhine.
Keyserslautern taken by the Prussians.
3. The French enter Juliers. The body of Rousseau
transferred to the Pantheon.
4. Bommel and Bois-le-Duc surrender to the French.
The garrison of Nimeguen sallies, and kills 2000
French.
Proclamation of the Prince of Orange, exhorting the
Dutch to resist the enemy in a body (en masse.)
5. Lyons permitted to resume its name--confiscation,
and massacres are suspended there.
6. The convention addresses the French people to
acquaint them that henceforward the order of the
day shall be "severe, but not atrocious or
"sanguinary justice."
Pichegru makes himself master of Cologne, Gueldres,
and Cleves.
French soldiers who died this campaign in the
hospitals at Lisle, amount to 47,000.
The English pass the Rhine. The French enter
Bonne (sic).
The chiefs of the royal and catholic armies in
Bretagne make a solemn appeal, to the French
people, to incite them to rally about the standards
of religion and of the King.
The following contributions were levied by the
French in Brabant:
Livres.
At Antwerp 10,000,000
Ghent 7,000,000
Brussels 5,000,000
Bruges 4,000,000
Mechlin 1,260,076
Lierre 500,000
Oudenarde 500,000
Ipres 1,000,000
Alost 4,000,000
Ostend 2,000,000
Courtray 3,000,000
Ath 150,000
Mons 1,640,875
Louvain 2,000,000
Namur 5,000,000
Huy 126,171
Total 51,177,122
12. The Russians entirely defeat the Poles under
Kosciusko, and take Warsaw.
The French take Worms; and pass the Rhine.
20. The British and Dutch defeated on the banks of the
Meuse.
25. The French take Coblentz and Venloo.
Six thousand young women put in requisition in
Brabant to attend the hospitals.
The states of Holland openly abandon the interests
of the Stadtholder.
Great numbers of emigrants shot at Ipres, Neuport,
and l'Ecluse.
Freron, the journalist, attacks furiously in the
convention the remains of Robespierre's party.
Proclamation by General Washington to check the
buds of rebellion in America.
Assignats burned to the 30th of September last,
amounted to 2,367,000,000 livres.
All public ordinances by the representatives of the
people begin in this form, "The thunder of God: in
"the name of the representatives of the people, it
"is commanded under pain of death, &c."
Address from the court of Madrid to stimulate the
Spanish nation against the French.
Motion by Baraillon to imprison all those who have
had national property conveyed to them under its
value, and those who have laid waste the lands and
houses of emigrants and of condemned persons; and
all those who have misapplied public money.
Decree to abolish the jacobin club.
_Nov_. 4. Rhinfeld surrenders at discretion; Maestricht by
capitulation.
Nimeguen surrenders.
French commissaries proclaim liberty at Martinico.
Billaud Varennes endeavours in vain to revive the
jacobins.
The convention offers full pardon to the rebels of
La Vendée who will lay down their arms and serve
the republic.
Guadaloupe is retaken by the French.
Cambon reports that assignats in circulation amount
to 6,400,000,000 of livres, and the expence of the
present year to 2,200,000,000 livres.
Addresses of congratulation from all parts on the
overthrow of the jacobins.
17. The Spaniards defeated by the French.
Republican General Dugommier killed.
20. The Spaniards again defeated--three generals taken.
St. Fernard, Figueras, and Aspaetta, surrender.
30. Grave surrenders to the French.
Carrier and his bloody accomplices decreed to be in
a state of accusation.
Decreed, that all emigrants be for ever banished
from the republic, their property confiscated, and
their return punished with death.
_Dec_. 1. The French make several unsuccessful attempts on
the side of Mayence, but are repulsed with loss.
7. Ten members of the revolutionary committee of
Paris, convicted of peculation (sic) and abuse of
power, are condemned to twenty years imprisonment,
and to stand six hours in the pillory at the Place
de Grêve, the place of common executions.
The municipality of Nantes forbid all persons to
drink the water of the river Loire, on account of
the infection from the dead bodies which were
victims of Carrier's cruelty.
8. The seventy-one members who had been proscribed by
Robespierre resume their seats in the convention.
11. The French pass the Waal, attack the Hanoverians,
and retire.
12. Utrecht taken by the French.
19. The Dutch send commissaries to Paris to treat of
peace.
25. The Austrians retire across the Rhine. The French
pass the Meuse, having taken fort St. André. The
Dutch regiments of Hohenloe and Bentinck lay down
their arms.
26. The English quit Bommel abandoning their artillery.
The law which forbad quarters to the English and
Hanoverians is repealed.
Clundest surrenders to the French.
Loizeroles submits to be imprisoned and to be put
to death in the stead of his son.
30. The decree of Robespierre revoked, which condemned
those to death who had connection with nobles or
clergy. All his laws decreed to be reviewed, and a
plan proposed of forgiving all revolutionary
crimes.
The French take 120 pieces of cannon, and 1600
prisoners.
A great fire in the arsenal of Landau.
Pensions decreed to men of letters.
Upon a motion by Clauzel, a prosecution is decreed
against all the accomplices of Robespierre, who is
called "the butcher of the French people."
The British parliament votes almost unanimously for
the prosecution of the war.
Carrier suffers on the scaffold for all his
atrocities.
1795.
_Jan_. 1. The salary of members of the convention raised from
18 to 36 livres a day. "Keep your 36 livres, (said
"some persons on this subject) but let us have a
"Louis."
The people of Lyons drag about the streets the bust
of Marat, Challier, and Pelletier de St. Fargeau,
who had but lately been objects of their idolatry.
A woman appears at the bar of the convention,
furnished with scythes, by means of which it was
stated that a woman and child could mow five acres
in a day. Honourable mention!
Decreed, that the sovereignty of the people is
inalienable, and that they have a right to chuse
(sic) any form of government except royalty.
3. The French are dislodged from their position at
Wardenberg by the English and Austrians.
The French attack the British rear-guard.
9. The whole British army passes the Rhine.
10. The French army passes the Waal in different points
at the time on the ice, and takes possession of
Thiel. All the rivers of Holland and the Low
Countries are frozen over so as to bear the
heaviest weights, and favour the operations of the
French extremely.
Cambon states the number of livres in circulation
in the form of assignats to amount to
9,600,000,000; and he proposes a lottery to reduce
the number to four milliards (each one thousand
million).
Mercier makes a bold speech in the convention
against the abolition of religious worship.
14. The French attack the British along their whole
line from Arnheim to Amerongen.
The Prince of Orange and his son resolve to quit
the Hague.
The states of Holland agree with the French to
deliver up their country to them. The Fleet of
Holland is locked up by the ice, and shares the
fate of the country.
An imposition of one million of livres in specie is
laid upon Liege, and a thousand livres a day for
every day's delay.
Hostages are sent from Liege to Paris.
Utrecht summoned and taken without opposition.
Wurcum, Dorcum, and Dort, taken.
18. Pichegru sends detachments to take possession of
Leyden, Amsterdam, and the Hague.
The Princess of Orange and her daughter-in-law
depart for England.
Tallien moves in the convention to put to death all
the partizans of the system of terror which covered
France with bastilles and scaffolds.
Breda, Bergen-op-Zoom, Gertruydenberg, and
Williamstadt, open their gates to the French, upon
hearing that Holland was given up.
The French generals require that within the space
of one month Holland shall supply them with 200,000
quintals [Footnote: 100lbs. each.] of flour,
1,000,000 of rations of hay, 200,000 rations of
straw, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, 150,000 pair of
shoes, 200,000 shirts, 20,000 pair of boots, 20,000
coats and waistcoats, 30,000 pair of breeches,
150,000 pantaloons, 50,000 hats, and 12,000 oxen.
28. Duhem is ordered to the Abbaye prison, for saying
that aristocracy and royalism were triumphant. He
is refused admittance, there being no room.
31. Report on the finances states that the expences of
the last month exceeded the receipt by 218,779,475
livres.
Dubois Crancé, on the state of the republic,
reports, that eleven hundred thousand men are under
arms.
_Feb_. 2. A ship is laid on the stocks at Brest called "the
"Avenger of the Country," intended to carry 136
guns; 24 feet longer, and 3 feet wider, than any
ever built.
The assembly of the provisionary representatives of
the United Provinces acknowledges the rights of man
and the sovereignty of the people, dismisses the
states-general, abolishes the office of
stadtholder, suppresses the regency of the Hague,
and appoints a new committee of the India company.
A deputation from the people of colour thanks the
convention for liberty granted to the negroes
(sic).
Disturbances at Rouen, and other great cities.
Four presses of false assignats seized at Paris.
Ordered, that deputies be sent to the colonies
beyond the Cape of Good-Hope.
4. Gouly harangues the convention to inflame it
against England, which has usurped, as he said, a
tyrannic dominion over the sea.
Petitioners appear at the bar, demanding bread.
Zealand capitulates.
The republic of Basle acknowledges the French
republic.
A decree upon religious worship, which seems to
allow it more liberty than of late.
Rovere in full convention charges Syeyes with
having been an instrument and counseller of
Robespierre.
8. Tumults at the theatres in Paris.
9. The sections of Paris demand the trial of Barrere,
of Collot d'Herbois, and Billaud Varennes.
10. The convention ratifies a treaty of peace with
Tuscany.
The administration of Belgium addresses the
convention, desiring an union with France.
11. Barrere, Collot d'Herbois, and Billaud Varennes,
decreed to be under arrest.
Antwerp informs the convention that 40,000 Belgians
are ready to join the army of the republic, and
give the last blow to the impious coalition of
crowned tyrants.
The convention appoints to the command of its eight
armies Pichegru as commander in chief, Jourdan,
Moreau, Kellerman, Sharer, Moncey, Clancaux, and
Hoche.
14. Deputies are nominated for the East-Indies.
16. The Dutch announce that they have begun the great
work of their regeneration.
17. Decreed, that all letters belonging to Robespierre
be printed.
19. Suspension of arms between the royalists of La
Vendée and the republicans.
Assassinations at Avignon.
23. Conferences between Charette and the commissioners
of the convention.
The French bombard Luxemburg.
Emigrants enrolled in London for an expedition to
the coast of France.
The liberty granted to the press gives public
writers an opportunity of expressing their
sentiments boldly of the convention, and of the
revolution.
27. Charette, Stofflet, and their officers, dine with
the French commissioners.
28. Charette joyously received at Nantes.
Cambon states that the expences of this month
exceed the revenue by 443,164,974 livres.
_March_ 1. A reward is offered for destroying wolves.
4. Carnot presents the following description of the
last campaign, viz. 27 victories, of which, 8 were
pitched battles. 120 actions of smaller
importance. 88,000 enemies killed, and 91,000 made
prisoners. 116 places or strong cities taken, of
which 36 were by siege or blockade; 230 forts or
redoubts; 800 pieces of cannon, 70,000 muskets,
1,900,000 pounds of powder, and 90 stands of
colours, taken by the republic.
Victory of Admiral Hotham in the Mediterranean.
Commotions in Paris for want of provisions.
Eleven persons massacred at Toulon.
Insurrection at Bourdeaux.
The convention has many debates about Barrere and
his associates.
The Dutch are required to give up to the French
republic all the coined money in their possession.
Rouzet tells the convention it is time that France
should resume her rank among civilized nations.
5. A committee is appointed to prepare a constitution
(the third in five years).
Boursault reports that the war in La Vendée is
extinguished, but that another had broken out,
called that of the Chouans.
Le Sage denounces the wind which blew down the flag
from the convention-hall.
Decreed, that the 71 deputies proscribed by
Robespierre resume their places.
14. The treaty of peace with the Vendéans read in the
convention, except the secret articles.
Boissy d'Anglas harangues upon the atrocities in
France, which he attributes to royalists.
17. A committee is appointed to treat with foreign
powers.
Carletti is received as ambassador from the Grand
Duke of Tuscany.
_April_ 1. Tumults in Paris for bread and a constitution.
2. Tumults continued at Paris and Amiens.
Barrere, Collot d'Herbois, Vadier, and
Billaud-Varennes, condemned to be transported to
Guyana.
4. Tumults continue.
5. The King of Prussia makes peace with the republic.
Motion made to discredit the republican calendar as
an act of despotism worthy of Robespierre. Fails
of success.
The convention takes a guard of 554 life-guard men,
and sixty of the artillery.
The newspapers of Paris speak of the convention
with great boldness.
To quiet the people, it is given out that corn is
coming in from all quarters.
Admiral Renaudin receives orders to put to sea.
Baron de Stael is sent as ambassador from the King
of Sweden to engage in friendship and alliance with
the convention.
Rhull ventures to pronounce in the convention an
eulogy on the old monarchy.
The deficit in the last month amounts to
660,000,000 livres,
Discourse of Thibadeau to inflame republicanism.
Several communes petition for their former churches
and worship; the convention passes to the order of
the day.
Fortier, compiler of the paper called "The
"Political Correspondence" imprisoned for saying
"that if all the monsters who murdered Louis XVI.
were dead, not a Frenchman would shed a tear over
"the tomb of any one of them."
Sylverster, from the tribune, assures the French
people that notwithstanding the scarcity there is
no danger of starving.
Cambon, who had been treasurer three years and a
half, arrested.
The convention grants to the Duchess of Bourbon
relief to the amount of 18,000 livres; about 70l.
according to the value of assignats.
Credit appears to revive; 270 livres in assignats
for the louis.
Patroles (sic) are doubled in Paris; much
apprehension is entertained.
19. The convention announces peace with the Chouans.
_May_ 1. Decrees severe against emigrants.
Preliminary articles signed between France and
Holland.
Seventy persons massacred in a tumult at Lyons.
On the motion of Dubois Crancé, decreed, that three
milliards of assignats be issued.
S. The Spaniards defeated near Figueras.
Motion to permit a loss of two per cent. a month on
assignats.
Vernier, successor to Cambon, states the expence of
the last campaign at 3,000,000,000 in assignats;
and the last month at 738 millions.
15. An alliance offensive and defensive concluded at
the Hague between France and Holland; the first
article excludes the Stadtholder for ever; the
second assures to France one million of livres for
the expence of the war.
A vigorous action near Mayence.
Great agitation at Naples; several disturbers of
the peace imprisoned.
A deputy complains earnestly against the facility
with which divorces are obtained.
The Sardinians defeated near Mount St. Bernard.
Decreed, that Le Bon be brought to trial charged
with cruelties equal to Carrier's.
Twenty members of the revolutionary tribunal
guillotined.
20. An alarming insurrection of the people of Paris
against the convention; Ferrand, a deputy, is
massacred at the feet of the president; the
assassin of Ferrand is condemned
22. to death, but is rescued by the people; the
23. suburb St. Antoine marches against the convention,
which is in extreme danger and
24. alarm; divisions take place among the insurgents,
and they lose their force at once. After having
had the advantage some time, the terrorists are
overcome by the moderates.
The convention resumes its deliberations, disarms
the fauxbourgs, decrees the arrest of a great
number of its own members, and orders the immediate
execution of fifty of the chiefs of the
insurrection.
Decreed, that Barrere's transportation be
suspended, and that he be tried again, his sentence
being too mild.
The terrorists rise at Toulon, as at Paris, and are
subdued with much difficulty and bloodshed.
25. The Chouans, seeing themselves betrayed and
deceived by a phantom of a treaty which had been
held out to them as secure and permanent, again
take up arms.
28. Rhull blows his brains out.
A petition is presented to the convention demanding
a separation of the supreme powers, as the only
means of guarding against tyranny.
The Spaniards are again defeated by Kellerman.
A camp of 3000 men, chiefly cavalry, formed at the
Tuilleries.
A proclamation of the convention to French seamen
concludes thus, "War, eternal war, against the
"English."
Lanjuinais obtains a decree for freedom of
religious worship.
31. Decreed, that the revolutionary tribunals, created
May 13, 1793, be suppressed.
Ordered, that the tribunals prosecute the authors
and accomplices of the massacres of Sept. 2, 1792.
The convention, afraid that Barrere's trial should
take up too much time, decrees that he be
transported to Africa.
Among the papers of the jacobins is found an order
of the old committee of public safety to pay
100,000 livres for printing the correspondence of
that society.
A journalist in Paris ventures to write thus:
"Legislators, do not exhaust your strength and
"genius in discovering that which has been done
"before your time; give us the best government you
"can; consider that the people of France were the
"happiest and the longest so of any people; give us
"the laws we have been used to."
_June_ 1. The commune of Valenciennes deliberates in a full
assembly whether it should continue to acknowledge
the convention; or whether it should not arrest the
representative Lamar.
5. Dutch ambassadors are received in the convention,
and the treaty of alliance between the republics
ratified.
6. The Vendéans declare that the treaty with them is
shamefully evaded; and they again take up arms.
Their brave leader Charette publishes a manifesto.
Decreed, that the property of those condemned or
executed since the establishment of the
revolutionary tribunals shall be restored to their
families; except those of Louis Capet, and his
wife, of Philip Egalité, and Madame du Barré (sic).
Decree to apply the palace of Versailles to
national uses.
Assignats burned to this month amount to
2,623,680,000 livres.
7. The fortress of Luxemburg, almost impregnable,
surrenders to the French from want of provisions.
8. Louis Charles, the descendant of 60 Kings, the son
of Louis XVI. whom the royalists acknowledged as
King since the 21st of Jan. 1793, under the name of
Louis XVII. in the eleventh year of his age,
finished his unhappy life and vain reign in the
prison of the Temple, where he had been confined
near three years without communication with any
friend. History alone will hereafter instruct the
world whether or not he died a natural death, as
the convention took great pains to have it
believed.
11. Decree in favour of those whom the tyranny of
Robespierre caused to fly from the kingdom.
A motion is well received to declare the produce of
the next harvest public property.
General Santerre, long detained in prison, and
released at the death of Robespierre is again
denounced.
Proposed "' to change the odious name of
"revolutionary committee, and to suppress the
"infamous red bonnet, as being only the symbol of
"blood."
14. The republicans receive a severe check at
Grand-Champ from the royalists.
The law repealed which forbad the wives and
daughters of emigrants to marry foreigners.
The republicans charge the royalists with violating
the late treaty. The latter retort the charge.
The republicans claim the victory of the 14th ult.
The nephew of General Dubois writes a letter full
of invective and gall against the convention.
All sorts of pastry forbidden, on account of the
scarcity of corn.
The decree which declares all assignats, bearing
the King's bust, to be of no value in future, takes
away from private property one milliard, 665
millions, and 157 thousand livres.
The expence for public instruction amounts to
300,400,000 livres.
20. Romme, Goujon, Duquesnoy, Soubrany, Duroy, and
Bourbotte, members of the convention, and active
leaders in the late riots, are executed.
23. Boissy d'Anglas reads a new constitution, which the
convention proposes to read article by article.
Insurrection at Arras for bread.
The convention orders a school of 200 apprentices
to watch-making.
26. Bellisle is summoned by the English, and returns a
resolute answer of defiance.
A complete victory obtained over the Spaniards.
2. The emigrants in England are put under the orders
of Puissaye, and disembark at Quiberon.
The deputies Peyssard and Forrestier condemned to
prison. Prieur de la Marne and Albitte escape
judgment by flight.
The value of a louis-d'or is up to 1000 livres.
All citizens from 16 to 60 commanded to serve in
the national guard; and in their oath to swear
these words, "Hatred against Kings".
Decreed, that murders, which were to be punished
with 20 years imprisonment, shall in future be
punished with death.
A member proposes that the convention should look
back and punish all judiciary assassinations,
abuses of authority, massacres, and arbitrary acts
committed since the 1st of Sept. 1792. The
convention passes to the order of the day, saying,
that such retrospect would involve half of France.
All the members of the revolutionary committee of
Brest are delivered over to the tribunals.
The Vendeans have further successes.
Fresh massacres are committed at Maçon.
A section of Paris demands of the convention that
it should efface the inscriptions on the gates of
churches, by which the nation, at the instance of
Robespierre, granted a certificate of existence to
the Supreme Being, and insured immortality to the
soul.
The churches in Paris are opened, and service
performed with great ceremony.
22. Lord Bridport engages the French fleet, and takes
three sail of the line.
30. The convention decrees that the daughter of the
late King shall be given up to the Emperor, in
exchange for the commissioners whom Dumourier had
put into the hands of the Austrians.
_July_ 1. The powers of the administrative bodies at Lyons
are suspended, and the mayor ordered to the bar of
the convention.
The "Reveil du Peuple"(awakening of the people), a
new song against the terrorists, is in great vogue.
Lanjuinais proposes to suppress the publication of
the votes of the convention, which costs the nation
2,300,000 livres annually.
Report of Genissieu in favour of transported
priests.
Tallien and Blad, members of the convention,
ordered to repair instantly as representatives to
the department of La Vendée.
2. Le Bon, pale and trembling, enters the convention,
and begins his defence: "His crimes (he observes)
"are those of the convention itself, under whose
"orders he acted."
3. Horrid massacres in the Southern provinces.
Various skirmishes between the French and Austrians
reported.
Bread 16 livres a pound in Paris.
Bloody action at Chatillon between the Chouans and
republicans.
The convention decrees that France is a republic,
one and indivisible.
6. Le Bon continues his defence.
Bresson asserts that it is impossible to make
France a democratic republic; he votes for a
senate, an executive power, and censors.
A member complains that the rights of man only, and
not the duties of man, are subjects of
consideration.
14. Anniversary of the French revolution celebrated.
Project of a national tontine.
A loan of a milliard at three per cent.
Lanthenas reads a motion from Thomas Paine, he not
being able to speak French.
Mons. d'Hervilly is wounded near Aurai (sic).
Warm action between the republicans and Chouans
near L'Orient.
Le Bon proceeds with his defence.
Disorders at St. Malo; and at Lyons.
15. The royalists attack the camp of St. Barb; forced
to retreat.
16. The Spaniards again defeated.
17. Le Bon decreed to be in a state of accusation.
Report of a complete overthrow of a Spanish army.
Tumults at the theatres.
France contains 28,000 square leagues of 2280
toises. Each league contains 3,850 acres (arpents)
which make 105,400,000 acres. Valuing the acres
one with another at 150 livres each, the total
value of the lands would be 15,810,000,000. The
debts of the republic at this time are
17.500,000,000, and these are secured by the lands;
there is a deficit therefore of 1,690,000,000.
20. The regiment of Hervilly murders its officers, and
8oo of them desert, giving the word of order to the
republican general.
The emigrants at Quiberon, being betrayed to
General Hoche, a general attack is made on them,
and almost all are cut to pieces. The brave Count
Sombreuil, after distinguished proofs of generous
gallantry, is taken prisoner.
The prisoners are ordered to Vannes, with General
Sombreuil, the bishop of Dol, and other
considerable persons.
Tallien, in his reports to the convention, states
the loss of the royalists at 10,000 men and that of
the republicans as trifling; his whole report
appears extravagant.
Another victory over the Spaniards is gained by the
republicans.
Peace is concluded with Spain.
Fresh, but unsuccessful, attempts are made to
induce the convention to give up the republican
calendar.
23. Ordered, that the committee of legislation make a
report upon all the laws relative to divorce.
28. Read in the convention the treaty concluded at
Basle between France and Spain.
The convention decrees two festivals, one in honour
of the fall of Robespierre, the other of the 10th
of August.
30. Mons. Querini, ambassador from Venice, arrives at
Paris.
Report of another victory obtained over the
Spaniards the 17th of this month.
A plot discovered at Rome to open the prisons, to
put to death the principal persons of the
government, and burn the houses of the cardinals.
A proclamation from Louis XVIII. to all his
subjects, dated Verona.
The chiefs of the royalist army solicit succours
from the British government.
_Aug_. 1. Motion by La Riviere "to pursue with national
"justice all execrable terrorists".
Comartin, Jarry, Boisgontier, and eight chiefs of
the Chouans, contrary to the faith of the treaty,
are seized and brought up to Paris.
2. The convention ratifies the peace with Spain.
The laws of divorce suspended.
All the departments make great complaints to the
convention of a scarcity.
3. The eight chiefs of the Chouans, Comartin, Jarry,
Gazel, la Nourraye, Salignac, Dufour, Boisgontier,
and de la Haye, delivered to the military tribunal.
Disorders at St. Omer's.
The workmen at the wharfs (sic) at Paris refuse to
work without two hundred livres a day wages.
4. Boudin moves to put an end to the revolution.
6. The colonies decreed a part of the French empire.
8. Journalists denounced; several deputies arrested,
among whom is Lequinis.
More deputies denounced; Dupin, Piori, Po, Massieu,
Chaudron, Rousseau, Fourche, and la Planche,
decreed in a state of accusation.
The Count Sombreuil, the Bishop of Dol, and 600
emigrants, condemned by the tribunal of Vannes to
be shot.
13. In the prisons of Paris 4413 persons are confined.
Nantes in great distress.
The convention discusses the subject of a
constitution.
A deputation from Belgium demands to be united with
the French republic.
16. Treaty of friendship between the French nation and
the regency of Tunis.
The convention decrees a new constitution.
The King of Spain ratifies the treaty of peace with
France.
The convention annuls all revolutionary sentences
passed since March 13th, 1793, except those of the
tribunals of Paris.
The emigrants not comprized in the exceptions are
for ever proscribed.
21. The convention decrees that two-thirds of the
succeeding legislature shall be chosen out of the
present convention.
Violent declamation of Tallien against emigrants
and royalists.
All clubs or popular societies are by the decree of
the convention abolished.
The Count d'Artois lands in England on his way to,
and with the design of forming a junction with,
Charette.
A new mode of preserving corn discovered by a
physician of Montpelier.
22. Tumults in the theatres of Paris.
The convention brings large bodies of troops into
Paris.
Boissy d'Anglas, presenting a picture of France
triumphant on all sides, and forcing Kings to court
its friendship and alliance, beseeches the
convention to distinguish the last moments of its
existence by acts of beneficence, healing all
wounds, drying up tears, and repairing by the force
of justice those evils which tyrants had brought
upon the world.
24. Lyons is denounced as attached to royalty.
25. The constitution is declared to be perfected.
The word _Sans-Culotides_ is excluded from the
calendar.
28. The section of Mail complains that the capital is
filled with troops.
Treaty of peace between the Landgrave of
Hesse-Cassel and France.
Several sections complain of the number of troops
in Paris, and of the election of two-thirds of the
present convention into the next legislature.
General Montesquieu, and the ex-constituent
Talleyrand Perigord, recalled by a decree into
France.
30. Much discontent in Paris; the sections make
considerable movements; every thing seems to
forebode an explosion.
31. The constitution is laid before the people for
their acceptance, and approved of in general; but
the election of two-thirds disliked
_Sept_. 1. Decreed, that the property of transported priests,
which had been confiscated by former laws, shall be
restored to their families.
Decreed, that no minister may officiate in public
or private without having submitted to the laws of
the republic.
Decreed, that Louise Marie Adelaide de Bourbon
Penthievre, wife of Philip Egalité, be restored to
liberty.
6. Dusseldorff taken by the French; the army of the
Sambre and the Meuse passes the Rhine under General
Jourdan.
The section of the French theatre denounces the
members of the deputation of Paris to the
convention, as authors of the crimes of the 2d of
Sept. 1792, and 31st May 1794.
Decreed, that the relations of emigrants be
excluded from every employment administrative or
judiciary.
Of six thousand three hundred and thirty-seven
primary assemblies, containing 958,226 persons,
914,800 voted for accepting the constitution,
41,892 rejected it, (so the convention reports);
consequently it was decreed that the new
constitution is become a fundamental law of the
state.
As to the re-election of the two-thirds--of 270,338
voters, 167,757 voted for the re-election and
95,373 against it.
The convention declares the enlargement from prison
of all terrorists who had been imprisoned since the
death of Robespierre.
The committee of marine writes thus to the
convention: "We are going to prepare arms in our
"arsenals and forges against the most perfidious of
"our enemies, against the haughty England, which
"must fall under the efforts of a nation which has
"subdued the rest of Europe."
20. The army of Pichegru having passed the Rhine near
Manheim, this city surrenders itself to the French
by capitulation, of which one of the articles is,
that the Palatinate shall be considered a neutral
country.
The convention addresses the Parisians, to inform
them that if any attack be made upon the national
representatives, the convention will remove to
Chalons-sur-Maire (sic). The convention, which
never had so much apprehension for its safety,
ordered the republican columns to march to its
defence.
Decreed, that every member of the convention shall
make a declaration of his fortune before, and since
the revolution.
Joubert, representative of the people, writes to
the convention, that the French, since their
passage of the Rhine, have taken 371 pieces of
cannon, 331,000 pounds of powder, and other stores.
Decreed, that Belgium and all the countries which
are, or shall be, conquered from the House of
Austria, shall be incorporated with the French
republic.
The section of Le Pelletier writes severe truths to
the convention.
The salaries settled by the constitution upon the
750 members of the next legislature, amount to 174
millions of livres a year. The salary of the five
members of the executive directory amounts to
20,400,000 livres.
According to the new organization, Belgium and the
county of Liege form nine departments, of which,
the chief towns are Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp,
Brussels, Liege, Maestricht, Mons, Namur, and
Luxemburg.
A funeral ceremony in honour of the victims of
decemviral tyranny.
A famous resolution of 33 sections of Paris is the
cause of a terrible explosion hereafter.
Proclamation of the convention on the danger which
threatens.
An afflicting picture given of the state of the
Southern provinces of France, by a representative
of the people who was an eye witness of it.
The primary and permanent assemblies of Paris
demand of the convention the re-imprisonment of the
terrorists, and enquiry into the conduct of the
committees of government.
_Oct_. 5. An extraordinary fermentation agitates all Paris.
A civil war is ready to break out. The clashing of
arms, the general beating of drums, and the cannon,
are heard on all sides. Several bloody engagements
take place between the sections and
conventionalists. Two thousand dead bodies lie in
the streets. The party of the convention, by the
aid of the troops of the line and of a formidable
artillery, defeats the insurgents.
Execution and proscription of the chiefs and movers
of the insurrection.
Tallien renews his motion to transport all those
who did not like a republican government.
The Count d'Artois, under convoy of Sir John
Warren, takes possession of l'Isle Dieu (sic).
A French squadron of six sail of the line falls in
with a valuable British convoy from the
Mediterranean, and captures the Censeur, a 74 gun
ship, and several merchantmen.
Vernier, the organ of the committee of finances,
proposes to substitute money made of some metal in
the place of 18 milliards of assignats in
circulation.
The inhabitants of Versailles supplicate the
convention to take into consideration the sad state
of their commune.
A horrible picture is laid before the convention of
massacres in the South; the banks of the Rhone and
of the Durance are said to be covered with dead
carcases, upon which the dogs are feeding.
Garnier de Saintes addresses from the tribune the
royalists of France. "Insects," (says he) "return
"to your nothingness; ye shall perish, whilst we
"shall be masters of the world, with which we will
"share our fortune and our liberty."
Tallien prophesies, that before three months a
counter-revolution will be effected; and he
therefore advises his colleagues to make their
political testament.
Thibadeau immediately accuses Tallien of all the
calamities of the revolution.
Clairfait and Wurmser compel the French to repass
the Rhine precipitately, and obtain great
advantages over them.
Baudin, the organ of the committees of government,
proposes to the convention to adopt a plan of a
general amnesty for any act regarding the
revolution, excepting always the banished priests,
the emigrants, the fabricators of forged assignats,
and the assassins of the South.
As to the punishment of death, it is not to be
abolished till peace be established.
24. Rewbell pretends that the new government cannot
establish itself but by calling in the assignats,
and substituting an augmentation of taxes.
The convention, having proclaimed an amnesty,
declares its sittings at an end; and to make up the
500 members who are to remain, it constitutes
itself into an electoral body.
Le Bon is condemned to death by the criminal
tribunal of Amiens.
The colonists of St. Domingo, who are at Paris,
nominate their deputies to the new legislature.
26. From the 12th to the end of this month the
Austrians continue without ceasing to pursue the
French, and to destroy them in great numbers.