Part 7 (1/2)

Garat pa.s.ses from the office of minister of justice to that of the interior.

Discourse of Danton, to rouse the people en ma.s.se (in a body.) A const.i.tutional 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 pa.s.s 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 Egalite, together with some regiments and the military chest, pa.s.ses over to the Austrians.

This step of Dumourier induces the convention to declare itself permanent.

The German princes and n.o.bles, 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 Egalite, his third son, his sister, and the Prince of Conti (sic), conducted prisoners to Ma.r.s.eilles.

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 Egalite 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 pet.i.tion 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 Conde.

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 Egalite, 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 Vendee 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 Ma.r.s.eilles 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.