Part 16 (1/2)

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, amba.s.sador 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 princ.i.p.al 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, Ma.s.sieu, 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 const.i.tution.

A deputation from Belgium demands to be united with the French republic.

16. Treaty of friends.h.i.+p between the French nation and the regency of Tunis.

The convention decrees a new const.i.tution.

The King of Spain ratifies the treaty of peace with France.

The convention annuls all revolutionary sentences pa.s.sed 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 friends.h.i.+p 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 const.i.tution 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-Ca.s.sel and France.