Part 9 (1/2)

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 s.h.i.+ps 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 pa.s.s the Rhine at Huningen.

Decreed, that all former n.o.bles 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 c.o.c.kade.

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 b.i.t.c.he; 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 s.h.i.+ps 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 a.s.signats issued.

29. Prince Cobourg pa.s.ses 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 d.u.c.h.esses of Grammont and of Chatelet, with many other n.o.bles, 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 const.i.tutional 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.