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Title: Historical Epochs of the French Revolution

Author: Henry Goudemetz

Translator: Francis Randolph

Release date: October 29, 2005 [eBook #16962]

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ***

HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION;

WITH THE Judgment and Execution OF

LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE;

AND A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION,

Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH.

PRICE 4s.

HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF H. GOUDEMETZ,

A FRENCH CLERGYMAN EMIGRANT IN ENGLAND.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO

His ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of YORK,

BY THE REV. DR. RANDOLPH.

TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS,

THE THIRD EDITION OF THE

Judgment and Execution Of

LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE;

WITH A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION,

Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH;

AND THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS IN

THE COURSE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, DISTINGUISHED ACCORDING

TO THEIR PRINCIPLES.

BATH, PRINTED BY R. CRUTTWELL FOR THE AUTHOR;

AND SOLD BY C. DILLY, POULTRY, LONDON: THE BOOKSELLERS OF BATH, &c.

MDCCXCVI

DEDICATION.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK.

SIR,

WITH the design of serving an amiable and worthy man, I have availed myself of your Royal Highness's permission to dedicate to you the translation of a work, which, as a faithful narrative of events, wants no additional comment to make it interesting. A detail of facts, in which your Royal Highness, in behalf of your country, has been so honourably engaged, may not prove unwelcome in aid of recollection; and a detail of facts, built on the experimental horrors of popular power, and which, proceeding from the wildness of theory to the madness of practice, has swept away every vestige of civil polity, and would soon leave neither law nor religion in the world, cannot, either in point of instruction or warning, be unreasonably laid before my fellow-citizens at large.

Under the sanction, therefore, Sir, of your illustrious name, I willingly commit to them this memorial. And if an innocent victim of oppression should thus derive a small, though painful, subsistence from a plain and publick (sic) recital of his country's crimes, I shall be abundantly repaid for the little share I may have had in bringing it into notice; and by the opportunity it affords me of subscribing myself

Your ever grateful and devoted humble servant,

FRANCIS RANDOLPH.

BATH, July 22, 1796

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Contents

PREFACE

RESULT OF THE THIRD SCRUTINY.

THE LAST WILL OF LOUIS XVI.

A LIST OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS UNDER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

List of Illustrations

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PREFACE

THE following sheets contain a journal of principal events of the French Revolution. The best authorities have been resorted to, and the facts are related without any comment. The reader will find a faithful outline of an interesting and momentous period of history, and will see how naturally each error produced its corresponding misfortune.

Various causes contributed to effect a revolution in the minds of Frenchmen, and led the way to a revolution in the state. The arbitrary nature of the government had been long submitted to, and perhaps would have continued so much longer, if France had not taken part in the American war.

The perfidious policy of VERGENNES, who, with a view of humbling the pride of England, assisted the subject in arms against his Sovereign, soon imported into his own nation the seeds of liberty, which it had helped to cultivate in a country of rebellion; and the crown of France, as I once heard it emphatically observed, was lost in the plains of America. The soldier returned to Europe with new doctrines instead of new discipline, and the army in general soon grew dissatisfied with the Monarch, on account of unusual, and, as they thought, ignominious rigours which were introduced into it from the military school of Germany. The King also, from a necessity of retrenchment, had induced his ministers to adopt some mistaken measures of economy respecting the troops, and thus increased the odium which pride had fostered, and by diminishing the splendour of the crown, stripped it of its security and protection.

To this was added the wanton profusion of the Court in other expenses, and the external parade and brilliancy, which, if they impoverish, often dazzle and gratify the people, was exchanged for familiar entertainments, which gave rise to frequent jealousies among the nobles, and tended to lower that sense of awe and respect for royalty among the people, which in monarchies it is of the utmost importance to preserve.

At this time, also, philosophical discussion had reached its pinnacle of boldness. Infidelity had woven the web of discord in the human mind, which was now ripe for experiment, and ROUSSEAU and VOLTAIRE were the favourite authors.

Previous to the year 1789, from the extreme disorder of the finances, it became necessary to raise money by extraordinary taxes, which the common powers of the parliament were deemed insufficient to authorize; and afraid, in the present temper of the people, to impose upon them unusual burthens, ministers looked with solicitude for some other sanctions.

Monsieur DE CALONNE was unwilling to adopt so dangerous an expedient as that of assembling the states-general; [Footnote: An Assembly consisting of deputies from the three orders of citizens in France, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the tiers-etat; which last included every French citizen who was not of the clergy or nobility.] he therefore adopted the expedient of summoning an assembly of notables, or eminent persons, chosen by the King from the different parts of the kingdom.

This assembly did not prove so favourable to the measures of the minister as he expected: Monsieur DE CALONNE was displaced, and the assembly was soon after dissolved, having declared itself incompetent to decide on the taxes proposed.

The King then commanded the parliament of Paris to register his edicts for successive loans to the government; but his commands were rejected. [Footnote: Chiefly, as it was supposed, through the influence of the Duke of Orleans.]

In the meantime, that spirit of discussing philosophical subjects, which we have before mentioned, now fixed itself on politics. The people exclaimed against the weight of taxes, and the extravagance of courtiers; they complained of peculiar exemptions from the general burthens, and of grievances which arose from lettres-de -cachet, and other despotic powers of the government.

The King, desirous of yielding to the wishes of the people, recalled Monsieur NECKAR to the administration, and in conformity to his advice, his Majesty declared his resolution of convening the states-general. But in order to regulate all matters relative to the meeting of this important assembly, it was resolved to convoke the notables a second time. Among these, a diversity of opinion appeared respecting the comparative number of deputies to be sent by the Commons, and the two other orders; the cardinal point on which the whole success of the revolution eventually turned. [Footnote: The last assembly of the states-general, which had been held in France in 1614, was composed of 140 deputies from the order of the clergy, among whom were five cardinals, seven archbishops, and 47 bishops; 132, representatives of the nobility; and 192 deputies from the commons. The Cardinal de JOYEUSE was president of the clergy; the Baron SENECEY of the nobility; and the president of the commons was ROBERT MIRON, Prêvot-de-Marchands, (an officer similar to that of mayor of Paris.)] All the classes into which the notables were divided, decided for an equality of deputies, except those in which MONSIEUR and the Duke of ORLEANS presided.

In these, it was agreed that the representatives of the commons should be equal in number to those of the other two states. The ministry were of opinion that this double representation was adviseable (sic), and persuaded themselves that, through their weight and influence they should be able to prevent any mischief to be apprehended from this preponderance of the tiers-etat. By their advice, the King issued an ordinance in January 1789, throughout the whole kingdom, commanding the people to assemble in their bailiwicks, and to nominate deputies to represent them in the states-general; viz. 300 for the clergy, 300 for the nobility, and 600 for the commons.

HAC FONTE DERIVATA CLADES.

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N. B. The first legislature, which was called the National Assembly, has now the name of the "Constituent Assembly."

The second is called the "Legislative Assembly;" and the third legislature is called "the National Convention."

HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

1787.

March.          THE Assembly of Notables first convened under the

ministry of Mons. de Calonne, comptroller-general

of the finances.

1788.

August.         Mons.  Necker replaced at the head of the finances

on the dismission (sic) of Mons. de Calonne; and

Mons. de Lomenie, archbishop of Toulouse, made

prime minister.

Nov.            Mons. Necker persuades the King to call the

Notables together a second time.

1789.

January.        Letters issued in the name of the King for an

assembly of the States-general.  The clergy to

depute 300 representatives, the nobility the like

number, and the commons 600.

May         5.  Opening of the States-general at Versailles.

June       17.  The chamber of the Tiers-Etat (commons) declares

itself a national assembly.

19.  The Tiers-Etat takes the famous oath, known by the

"serment au Jeu de Paume," not to separate until

the constitution should be established.

23.  The King goes in person to the assembly—but his

presence, far from intimidating the members,

renders them so intractable that from this epoch

may be dated the first attacks upon the royal

authority.

24.  Forty-eight of the nobles, with the Duke of Orleans

at their head, unite with the tiers-etat (third

estate, or commons).

A considerable number of the clergy follow their

example.

28.  The King, from a desire of peace, requests the

whole body of nobility and clergy to unite in one

assembly with the commons; which is acceded to.

29.  Great rejoicings in Paris on account of this union.

July       11.  The King in disgust dismisses Monsieur Necker.

12.  The Prince de Lambesc appears at the Tuilleries

with an armed party of soldiers.

13.  The city of Paris flies to arms.  The Bastille is

attacked, and taken by the populace;

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14.  Mons. de L'Aulnay, the governor, falls a victim to

the fury of the assailants.  Bertier, intendant of

Paris; Foulon, secretary of state; and de

Flesselle, prêvot des Marchands, (somewhat like

mayor of Paris) are massacred.  From, this period

the maxim was adopted, "that insurrection was the

most sacred of duties."

15.  The King goes to the assembly to confer with it

upon the disturbances of Paris.  Many considerable

persons fly the country.

16.  The Marquis de la Fayette, and Monsieur Bailly, are

nominated, one to command the national guards of

Paris, the other to be mayor of Paris.

17.  In hopes of quieting the alarming tumults, the King

comes to Paris.  Bailly harangues him freely at the

Hotel de la Ville, (sic) and the King receives the

three-coloured cockade.

August      1.  Massacre of the mayor of St. Dennis.

4.  Abolition of tithes, and of all feudal rights and

privileges.

Louis is proclaimed the restorer of French liberty.

7.  The King is obliged to recall Necker.

27.  The liberty of the press is established.

Sept.      15.  The person of the King is decreed to be inviolable;

and the crown of France hereditary and indivisible.

29.  Decreed, that it be recommended that all church

plate be brought to the mint.

Oct.        1.  The King is  forced to accept and give the sanction

of  his approbation to the famous "Rights of Man."

5.  The Marquis de la Fayette at the head of 30,000

Parisians marches to Versailles.

6.  After murdering the King's guards under the windows

of the Palace, they forcibly conduct both him and

the Queen to Paris amidst the insults of the

populace, and with great danger of their lives.

10.  Tayllerang-Perigord, bishop of Autun, proposes that

the nation should seize the property of the clergy.

12.  Decreed, that the National Assembly be removed from

Versailles to Paris.

15.  The Duke of Orleans obtains leave to go to England.

19.  The first sitting of the National Constituent

Assembly at Paris.

21.  The people of Paris hang a baker.

The Jacobin Club commenced at this time; first

known by the name of the "Club de la Propagande."

The name of Jacobins was derived from the house

where the club met, and which had belonged to the

religious order of Jacobins.

Nov.       22.  The commune of Paris makes a patriotic gift of its

silver buckles.

A general patriotic contribution is first

requested, and afterwards forced.

Dec.        7.  Decree upon the disturbances at Toulon.

Another for dividing France into 83 departments, 83

tribunals, 544 civil tribunals, 548 districts, and

43,815 municipalities.

10.  Vandernoot, and the disaffected in Brabant, write

to the King and to the National Constituent

Assembly; but their letter is returned.

25.  Mons. de Favras, knight of St. Louis, arrested.

1790.

January     1.  The King is stripped of most of his royal

prerogatives.

4.  The assembly desires him to fix the amount of his

civil list.

6.  The castle of Kéralier burnt by plunderers.

The three orders of the clergy, nobility, and

commons, suppressed as distinct orders of the

monarchy.

7.  Decree for the form of a civic oath to be taken by

the national guards.

13.  Decreed that Paris shall form one department.

Decree in favour of Jews; another to remove the

prejudices which are attached to the families of

criminals.

Feb.        1.  The King, after a long speech to the assembly,

takes the civic oath, together with all the

members.

19.  De Favras executed.

20.  Death of Joseph IId. emperor of Germany.

March.          Massacres and fires in Lower-Languedoc.

7.  Grand review of the national guards in the Elysian

fields.

The scarcity of specie induces the necessity of

issuing paper money called assignats.

8.  Decreed, that the colonies form a part of the

French empire.

11.  Insurrection at Meaux.

12.  The red-book (book of court-accounts) made

publick.(sic)

14.  Insurrection at the national theatre.

18.  Sale of the property of the church decreed, by

which the government is enabled to abolish the duty

on salt.

April.          The Prince of Conti takes the civic oath in the

municipality of Paris.

11.  The Abbé‚ Maury and Viscount Mirabeau  attacked

by the populace on coming out of the assembly.

The assembly refuses to acknowledge the Roman

Catholick (sic) religion as the religion of the

state; and this resolution is followed by

forbidding all particularity of dress or form in

ecclesiastics.

22.  General Paoli, at the head of a deputation from

Corsica, presents himself to the national assembly.

24.  Insurrection at Marseilles.

May.            Report and decree upon  the disturbances at Mount

Auban.

Monastic vows prohibited in future.

17.  Orders of knighthood and military decorations

abolished.

22.  Decreed, that the right of making peace and war

belongs to the people.

25.  The Parisians occupied with hanging several

robbers.

June.           Public Seminaries and academies of instruction

suppressed.

9.  The King goes to the assembly, and requires 25

millions of livres for his civil list.

10.  The Queen's dower fixed at four millions.

One million is voted for the King's brothers.

16.  Massacres and disorders at Nismes (sic).

19.  Suppression of nobility, of all titles and orders,

of armorial bearings, and of livery-servants.

July        3.  Justices of the peace appointed throughout the

kingdom.

14.  Ceremony of a general federation, at which the King

is obliged to assist, to commemorate the destruction

of the Bastille.

Trial by jury introduced in criminal matters.

Judges to be chosen by cantons and districts; one

for the former, and five for the latter.

26.  The constituent assembly publishes a civil

constitution for the acceptance of the clergy,

which they refuse to admit.

August.         Affair at Nancy—five regiments revolt.

Insurrection at Martinico (sic) announced.

Désilles shot at Nancy by the Swiss.

Mons. Necker, whose popularity declined, is obliged

to leave the kingdom precipitately.

The assembly, having declared the property of the

Crown to be that of the nation, grants to the King the

sum he required for his civil list.

Sept.           Horrid massacres in the colonies.

Oct.       28.  Fourteen castles are burned and plundered in

Dauphiny.

30.  Outrageous conduct of two regiments at Béfort.

Nov.        2.  The clergy propose to raise four millions of livres

in their own body for the exigence of the state.

The assembly seizes the whole ecclesiastical

revenue, without any respect of persons or

property.

13.  Pillage of the house of the Marshal de Castries at

Paris.

21.  Duport-du-Terre appointed keeper of the seals.

27.  The assembly requires that every ecclesiastic,

doing duty, shall swear to maintain with all his

power and interest the constitution, and every

thing that had been or should be ordained by its

decrees.

1791.

Jan.            The debts of the church decreed to be national.

The King refuses to sanction the above decrees

respecting the clergy, but is at length forced to

it by threats and terror.

4.  The clergy in the national assembly refuse to comply

with the foregoing decree, and in consequence of

their refusal a law passes that their benefices

shall be filled by such of the clergy as will take

the oaths of allegiance to the state.

Abolition of all the parliaments and sovereign

courts of France.

The Count d'Artois finds it prudent to quit the

kingdom.

Out of 138 prelates only four take the

constitutional oath, namely, the archbishop of

Sens, the bishops of Viviers, Orleans, and Autun.

The latter alone carries his apostacy (sic) so far

as to consecrate other bishops, who were presented

to the vacant sees.

Horrid treatment at Chateau-Gouthier of Mad'lle de

la Barne de Joyeuse.

10.  Decree about stamps.

14.  Decreed, that bishops and parsons shall be elected

by the people.

23.  A violent meeting at the Jacobin club.

24.  Massacres at the village de-la-Chapelle near Paris.

26.  Decree to enforce the oath by priests.

29.  Mirabeau president of the constituent national

assembly.

February.       Deputation of Quakers to the assembly.

Decree to admit the free cultivation of tobacco.

Disorders in Le Querci.

21.  The King's aunts stopped at Arnay-le-Duc, and

forced to shew their pass, and permission to retire

to Rome.  With difficulty they obtain leave to

proceed.

Insurrection at Vincennes near Paris.

March       4.  The pope issues two letters against the

ecclesiastical constitution of France, and the

clergy who had taken the oath to it.  He deprives

the archbishop of Sens, the Cardinal de Lomenie de

Brienne, of his cardinal's hat.

Massacres at St. Domingo.

5.  Indisposition of the King.

9.  Decreed, that the prisoners charged with treason

(lêze-nation) shall be conveyed to Orleans.

Gobet, a member of the assembly, appointed bishop

of Paris.

Insurrection and massacres at Douai.

22.  Decree excluding women from the regency.

25.  The majority of the Kings of France fixed at

eighteen years.

Discussion on the fate of the invalids.

Mons. de M'Nemara massacred at l'Isle-de-France.

26.  Public functionaries compelled to residence.

28.  The monarchical club at Paris attacked by the

populace with stones, and dispersed.

29.  Report upon an insurrection at Toulon.

The minister of the church of St. Sulpice, who had

not conformed to the national oath, escapes with

great difficulty from the violence of the populace.

April       3.  The death of  Mirabeau announced to the assembly:

decreed, that he shall have the honours of the

Pantheon, (formerly the beautiful church of St.

Genevieve).

7.  Decreed, that no deputy to the national assembly

shall be admissible into the ministry until four

years after the expiration of the legislature of

which he is a member.

8.  Decreed that no deputy to the assembly shall accept

any favour from the executive power  for four

years.

Several nuns in Paris and elsewhere were publicly

whipped for persisting to adhere to the old forms

of worship.

10.  Insurrection at Cevennes.

Report on the insurrection of a regiment in

Languedoc.

13.  Engagement between the officers and garrison of

Weissembourg.

14.  Riot at Nantz (sic) on account of the inauguration

of the three-coloured flag.

17.  The sale of the property of the church is decreed.

18.  The King proposes to go to St. Cloud; the people

oppose and stop him.

The King complains of this violence to the

national assembly, but with little effect.

20.  Report of massacres in the county of Venaissin.

The King's ministers, through the influence or fear

of the national assembly, write to all the foreign

courts, that the King had placed himself at the

head of the revolution—from this epoch may be dated

the great emigrations of the nobility and other

considerable persons.

The Abbé Maury, the most intrepid defender of the

cause of the church and the King, retires

precipitately to Rome.

23.  Sad recital in the assembly of distresses in St.

Domingo.

26.  Assignats of five livres are issued.

27.  Massacres in the Limousin.

28.  Decreed, that soldiers may frequent jacobin

societies.

May         1.  The barriers are thrown open—all duties in the

interior parts of the kingdom abolished.

Civil war in the Venaissin.

3.  The effigy of the pope (sic) burnt in the

Palais-Royal.

7.  Decree permitting priests, who have not conformed,

to officiate in private.

Mons. de Massei massacred at Tulle.

Decree upon the people of colour.

19.  Massacre in the Vivarais.

26.  Decreed, that the Louvre and the Tuilleries united

shall be the habitation of the King, and that all

monuments of science and art shall be collected and

kept there.

31.  Decreed, that the punishment of death shall be

inflicted without torture.  From thence came the

use of the guillotine;-an instrument of death so

called from its author, a member of the national

assembly.

June.           Letter of the Abbé Raynal to the assembly.

Persecutions against non-conforming priests.  Their

tithes given to the proprietors of the estates.

5.  The King deprived by decree of the power of

granting pardons.

7.  A law against regicides.

Conforming priests are everywhere put in possession

of the benefices of those who would not conform.

A general sale of ecclesiastical property.

18.  Decreed, that all military men take an oath of

fidelity to the nation.

Insurrection at Bastia.

21.  The King and royal family make their escape

22.  from Paris; they had nearly reached the frontiers,

when they were stopped at Varennes,

25.  and brought back ignominiously to Paris.

Count Dampierre is massacred under the King's eyes.

The Marquis de Bouillé writes a menacing letter to

the assembly on the subject of the King.

An order is intimated to the King to disband his

body guards.  All the royal functions are

suspended.  The King is kept a close prisoner.

Monsieur, the King's brother, escapes to Coblentz.

July        9.  M. de Cazelés resigns his place as a deputy.

10.  The national guards ordered to the frontiers.

11.  The body of Voltaire transferred to the Pantheon.

14.  Grand celebration of the anniversary of this day.

17.  Insurrection in the Champ de Mars—the red flag (the

signal of danger) continues flying a long time.

Disorders in the Pays-de-Caux, and at

Brie-Compte-Robert.

23.  Violent decree against emigrant nobles.

The assembly proceeds rigorously against those who

accompanied the King in his flight.

The King himself is not considered so culpable.

All distinctions of nobility, and all titles, are

wholly abolished.

The ministers are required to give an account every

ten days to the assembly of the execution of its

decrees.

The decree on people of colour spreads

consternation at St. Domingo.

August.         Money is coined from the metal of the bells in

churches.

One hundred thousand livres voted to the academy of

science for the purpose of bringing weights and

measures to one uniform standard.

The title of Dauphin changed to that of Prince

Royal.

Rewards are decreed to all those who stopped the

King.

A committee is appointed to manage national

domains; that is, the confiscated property of the

King and clergy.

Decreed, that if within a month the King do not

take the oath to the nation, or if he retract it,

he shall be adjudged to have forfeited the crown.

Decreed, that the guard for the King shall not

exceed 1200 foot, and 600 horse.

Those who may be placed in succession to the throne

to have no other title than that of French princes.

Registers of the births, marriages, and burials, of

the royal family to be deposited in the archives of

the national assembly.

Suppression of the payment of a mark of silver,

which was heretofore required from such as were

deputed to the legislature.

Decreed, that every law relative to taxes shall be

independent of the royal sanction.

The ceremony of marriage to be considered

hereafter as a civil contract only.

Rousseau admitted to a place in the Pantheon.

The national assembly declares, that it will not

revise the constitution which it has just

established, before the expiration of thirty years.

Sept.           The completion of the constitution announced to the

people, and that it will admit of no change.  The

departments are all occupied in electing new

deputies to represent them in a second assembly.

Sixty members are appointed to carry the act of the

constitution to the King.

4.  The King restored to liberty.

Suppression of the order of St. Esprit; the

decorations of the blue ribband to be appropriated

to the King and the Prince-royal only.  The King

declines to retain a distinction which he cannot

communicate.

Decreed, that the Rhine and Rhone be united by a

canal.

14.  The King accepts the constitution in form; he takes

the oath in presence of the assembly; and is

crowned by the president with a constitutional

crown.

Great rejoicings throughout all France.

The national guard to take place of the King's.

Whipping, and burning in the hand, annulled.

Three days allowed to every person under accusation

to defend himself and repel the charge.

In consequence of the acceptance of the

constitution, all criminal proceedings are stopped;

all persons confined on suspicion of

anti-revolutionary principles set at liberty; no

more passports required; a general amnesty takes

place; and the decree against emigrants is revoked.

Disturbances at Arles—suppression of the high

national court of Orleans—and of all royal

notaries—national notaries appointed.

Prohibitory or commanding clauses in wills to be of

no avail henceforward.

Every sort of property dependent upon, or connected

with, churches or charities, is confiscated.

All the world admitted to the title and rank of

French citizen, without any distinction of country.

Decree to unite Avignon and the county of Venaissin

to France.

Certificates of catholicism suppressed, which

hitherto were required before admission into any

office.

Severe penalties against introducing titles of

nobility into any public document.

All the chambers and societies of commerce

abolished.

Jews admitted to the rights of French citizens.

The constituent assembly prepares to lay down its

powers, without rendering any account of its

proceedings.

Violent remonstrances against this.

Decree against clubs and popular associations.

30.  The King goes in state to close the session of this

first or constituent assembly.

CHAPTER II.

1791.

Oct.        4.  The second assembly takes the name of the

Legislative Assembly, and is opened by the King

in person. It consists of 700 members.

An oath is taken to observe the law.

An administrator in one of the departments flies

with a large treasure.

17.  Massacre at Avignon, with unusual horrors.  Jourdan

and his people destroy 600 victims in an ice-house.

Insurrection at Paris on account of religious

worship.

The Marquis de la Fayette resigns the command of

the Parisian guard.

The expressions "sire" and "majesty," applied

to the King, suppressed by decree.

Twenty-one committees formed out of the legislative

assembly to transact all business.

Riots at Montpellier.

The pictures of the Palace-royal sold for a million

eight hundred thousand livres.

27.  Insurrection in Alsace.

29.  Notice given to Monsieur the King's eldest brother,

to return to France, on pain of forfeiture of all

his rights, and confiscation.

One hundred millions of assignats issued.

Disturbances in Artois and Lower Normandy on

account of religious worship.

The archbishop of Ausch, and several bishops,

brought before the tribunals.

30.  Insurrections in almost all parts of the kingdom,

on account of the prohibition of religious worship.

Charrier, ex-constituent, and nominated by the

people as successor to the Cardinal de

Rochefoucault, in the archbishoprick (sic) of

Rouen, ashamed of his usurpation, abdicates the

archiepiscopal dignity.

Violent decree against emigrants; the King opposes

his veto to it.

The King refuses his assent also to another equally

violent decree, for the banishment of all the

catholic priests who had not taken the oath

prescribed.

Guimper, the first constitutional see, is taken

possession of by D'Expilly, an ex-constituent,

i.e. a member of the last assembly, which had

taken the name of the constituent assembly.

Violent insurrection in the colonies, supposed to

be excited by some of the leading members of the

assembly.

Nov.            New decree for a civic oath.

In the legislative assembly the answers are read

from foreign powers, relative to the King's

acceptance of the constitution.

Massacres at Caen in Normandy; horrid treatment of

Mons. de Belsunce, a lieutenant-colonel.

Eighty-four persons of consideration thrown into

prison.

10.  The Dunkirk carrier assassinated at Paris, and his

letters stolen.

15.  The King confined to his apartment, under the guard

of a corporal.

17.  Varnier denounced by Bazire, is sent to prison at

Orleans.

Pethion elected mayor of Paris.

18.  He goes to the jacobins to thank them for having

obtained his election.

Manuel is appointed procureur syndic of the commune

of Paris (a place next in importance to that of

mayor).

20.  Disorders at Montpellier.

25.  Delatre committed to prison at Orleans.

26.  Chabot enters the King's apartment with his hat on

his head.

Decreed, that non-conforming priests shall not make

use of the churches.

Dec.        1.  Three hundred millions of small assignats issued.

2.  Insurrection at Brest.

6.  Malvoisin, and twelve others, imprisoned at

Orleans.

16.  Decreed, that every member of the Bourbon family

shall quit France in three days.

M. Loyauté sent to prison at Orleans.

20.  Several castles burnt at Sens.

24.  Insurrection in the departments of Loir et Cher.

The King goes to the assembly to discuss the

subject of war with foreign powers.

27.  Lucknor and Rochambeau made marshals of France, and

with La Fayette appointed to command the armies.

M. de Narbonne goes to visit the frontiers.

Forty soldiers, who had been sent to the galleys,

are set at liberty.

Establishment of a new high national court.

Manuel causes the letters of Mirabeau, which were

found in the mayor's office, to be printed and

sold.

28.  The Queen goes to the opera, and is much applauded.

29.  Manifesto proposed by M. Condorcet, to acquaint the

world with the sentiments of the French nation, if

it should be forced into war.

31.  Decreed, that the ceremonies of New-year's day

shall be abolished.

1792.

Jan.        1.  Egalité (duke of Orleans) ill received at the

Tuilleries.

5.  Massacre of the minister of Chateau-neuf.

Motion of Herault, that foreign powers be required

to forbid the white cockade to be worn by

emigrants.

11.  Carra proposes at the Jacobin club, that the crown

of France be offered to the Duke of York.

15.  Plan of a decree for declaring war against the

Emperor.

16.  Decreed, that Monsieur has forfeited the regency.

Three hundred millions of small assignats issued.

17.  Fire and ravages at Port-au-Prince.

Great tumult at Paris on account of the monopoly of

of sugar and coffee.

19.  Fire of La-Force.

21.  A conforming priest, his wife, and children,

presented to the assembly, and loaded with caresses.

27.  Summons to the Emperor, to declare whether or not

he is willing to live in peace with France.

31.  Decreed, that all travellers in France must supply

themselves with a passport.

Feb.        1.  Decreed, that all those shall be imprisoned who

travel under a false name.

Eighty-four prisoners, who were confined in the

castle of Caen, set at liberty.

2.  Letter of Manuel to the King beginning with these

words, "I do not love kings".

5.  Fires and massacres at St. Domingo.

6.  The Abbé Fauchet preaches at the Pantheon.

7.  Riots at Paris on account of a false rumour of the

King's flight.

Great fires in the town of Haquenau.

Decreed, that the property of emigrants belongs to

the nation; order for its sequestration.

Riots at Noyon about corn.

Insurrection at Dunkirk.

14.  The red bonnet becomes the general fashion.

Assassination at Mount Héri.

Insurrection at the Fauxbourg (sic) St. Marceau, on

account of the scarcity of sugar.

Struggle between the clubs of the Jacobins, and the

Feuillants; the latter so called from a religious

society of that name, at whose house they met.

17.  De Lessart denounced by Fauchet.

22.  Motion, that no deputy be permitted to go to the

clubs of Jacobins or Feuillants.

28.  Treaty of Pilnitz between the Emperor and Prussia.

March       1.  Death of the Emperor Leopold II.

3.  Seditions at Etampes; Simoneau, the mayor,

assassinated.

De Lessart, minister for foreign affairs, sent to

the prison of Orleans.

15.  Death of Gustavus III. king of Sweden.

Total change of the King's ministers.

Decreed, that the King shall pay taxes like all

other persons.

19.  Jourdan, and his accomplices at Avignon acquitted.

A new guard begins to do duty about the King.

Roland appointed by the King minister of the

interior department.

Insurrection at Poitou.

The Swiss Cantons demand from France the regiment

of Ernest.

Alienation of the domains of St. Lazare, and of

Mount-Carmel, two orders of knighthood, of which

Monsieur was president.

April       1.  Troubles in Provence and Dauphiny.

On the motion of Torne, constitutional bishop of

Bourges, all peculiar religious dresses are

abolished, and all secular congregations.

6.  Pethion writes to the 48 sections, inviting them to

give a fête to the liberated soldiers of

Chateau-vieux.

15.  A civic fête is given to the above soldiers, who

had been imprisoned for crimes.

16.  Riots at the Hotel de Ville in Paris, on account of

the statues of la Fayette and Bailli.

20.  The King goes to the national assembly to demand

whether it is willing to declare war.

War declared against the King of Bohemia and

Hungary.

M. de Castellane, bishop of Mendes, sent to prison

at Orleans.

29.  The army of Dillon routed near Tournay, and that

general massacred by his own soldiers near

Lisle (sic).

The French routed near Mons under the command of

General Byron.

May         2.  Suppression of the military houses of Monsieur and

the Count d'Artois.

6.  Desertion of the royal German regiment.

8.  Report of the murder of several commissaries.

10.  Pethion, in the commune of Paris,  presents a

silver sword to Réne Audu, a heroine of the 6th of

October 1789.

Decree concerning prisoners of war.

11.  New disorders at Avignon.

12.  Desertion of the regiment of Berchini.

13.  M. Brival, a deputy, writes to the King to desire

that his cane may be restored to him, which was

taken from him at the gate of the Tuilleries.

Abbé Maury elevated to the dignity of an

archbishop, and appointed nuncio extra-ordinary of

the holy see, to the diet of Ratisbon.

Decree, depriving the brothers of the King of the

million which had been voted to them.

Renewal of the decree for the transportation of

priests, which the King still refuses to sanction.

14.  Massacre of the Abbé Figuemont at Mentz.

16.  Bavai taken by the Austrians.

24.  Much pains taken to prove the existence of

a committee in favour of the Austrians.

27.  Discontent in Paris on account of the King's

having a guard.

28.  The King is forced to dismiss it.

29.  Mareschal (sic) de Brissac, who commanded the

King's guard, sent to prison at Orleans.

30.  The first column of the Prussian army arrives at

Frankfort.

June        3.  A civic fête in honour of M. Simoneau, mayor of

Etampes, massacred the 3d of March in an

insurrection.

6.  Massacre at Brussels.

Reduction of the monies allowed for the pay and

entertainment of the King's ministers.

8.  The King refuses to ratify the decree for encamping

20,000 men near Paris.

13.  Roland, Claviere, and Servan, dismissed from the

ministry.

Ordered that all pedigrees of nobility be burnt,

and all papers relative thereto.

A number of patriotic gifts to support the

expence (sic) of the war.

The tree of liberty planted in all parts.

20.  In order to force the King to sanction some decrees

to which he had given a negative, the people go to

the Tuilleries, break open the gates, and burst

into the apartments.  The King conducts himself

with great firmness.

The high national court at Orleans condemns

Monsieur, the Count d'Artois, and the Prince of

Condé, to be beheaded, and their property

consequently to be forfeited.

A new mode adopted for proving births, marriages,

and burials.

26.  The department of La Somme offers 200 batallions,

to enforce respect to the King.  Several others

make similar offers.

28.  La Fayette quits his army, and goes to complain to

the national representatives of party violence.

A petition against Pethion is signed at the houses

of all the notaries.

30.  La Fayette returns to the army, and as soon as he

is departed, he is burnt in effigy at the palace

royal.

July        2.  Letter of the King to the French armies.

3.  Suppression of all the staff-officers of the

national guard of Paris.

4.  Decreed, that the nation is in danger.

The Duke of Brunswick arrives at Coblentz.

Distinguishing marks granted to the legislators and

administrators.

6.  Dumourier goes to take the command of the army.

7.  Pethion, mayor of Paris and Manuel, suspended, but

very soon after restored.

Ministers all changed.

11.  A petition against the King signed at the Elysian

fields.

14.  Anniversary of the federations observed with

great ceremony.

19.  Massacre of M, de Saillant, chef-du-camp de Salés.

20.  Proclamation of the King, on the dangers of the

country.

Decree, that the property of emigrants be sold.

Many of the constitutional priests sign a

recantation of their oaths, and not enough are

found to fill the vacant cures.

Massacres at Alais, Bourdeaux, Arles, and in other

places.

28.  Decree, obliging people to mount guard under pain

of imprisonment.

Three hundred millions of assignats issued.

M. d'Espemenil, an ex-constituent, is knocked down

and poignarded at the Tuilleries, and with

difficulty saves his life.

30.  The Marseillois arrive at Paris; ravages and

cruelties committed by them.

Cockades of ribbands proscribed.

Du Hamel massacred in the street of St. Florentin.

Aug.        3.  Decreed, that all Frenchmen be armed with pikes.

Invitation to foreigners to come and defend the

land of liberty.

5.  Massacre at Toulon of nine members of the

magistracy, under the pretence of aristocracy.

A report is spread about the Tuilleries, that

the King intends to escape.

8.  Decreed, by a majority of 426 to 224, that there is

no ground of accusation against La Fayette.

Several members complain of outrages committed on

them, on account of votes they had given.

10.  Attack and pillage of the palace of the Tuilleries.

Massacre of the Swiss, and of a great number of the

King's followers.  Louis XVI. and his family fly

for safety to the assembly.

Horrible riots and outrages in Paris.

11.  Continuation of frightful outrages and murders.

All foreign ambassadors quit France.

12.  Roland, Clariere, and Servan, recalled to the

ministry.

Danton appointed minister of justice.

The statues of the King all thrown down.

Servan appointed minister of the war department; de

Monge, of the marine; Clavieres, of finances;

Roland, of the interior; and Le Brun, of foreign

affairs.

The King and his family are all conducted to the

Temple.

14.  Several ex-ministers and royalists committed to

prison.

Decreed, that all the administrations of the

kingdom shall be new formed.

15.  Persons departing, even with passports, stopped.

17.  Establishment of a tribunal for the summary trial

of royalists.

18.  The Austrians and Prussians enter the French

territory.

Decree against La Fayette; who, with part of

his staff, quits the army and falls into the

hands of the Austrians, by whom he is detained a

prisoner.

20.  Montmorin, ex-minister of foreign affairs,

imprisoned.

22.  M. D'Angremont guillotined at the Carouzel (sic).

23.  Longwy taken by the Prussians.

24.  M. de la Porte, comptroller of the civil list,

guillotined.

25.  M. Durozoi, author of the gazette of Paris,

guillotined.

26.  A civic festival, in honour of the sans-culottes

who were killed in the affair of the 10th of

August.

Decreed, that all ecclesiastics who have not taken

the national oath, shall be transported.  In the

number of these victims were 138 archbishops and

bishops, and sixty-four thousand priests of the

second order.

General Kellerman commands the army of Marshal

Luckner, and Dumourier that of General la Fayette.

27.  In a sitting of the jacobins, Manuel causes an oath

to be taken, that every exertion will be used to

purge the earth of the pest of royalty.

30.  Domiciliary visits, that is, nightly searches

in the citizens houses, for obnoxious persons.

Sept.       1.  Letter of the minister Roland, to all the

municipalities, to induce them to agree in finding

the King guilty.

M. Montmorin, governor of Fontainbleau,

although acquitted by the tribunal, is conveyed

back to prison by the people.

2.  The city of Verdun is taken by the Prussians.

From the 2d (sic) to the 9th of this month, the

most horrid outrages perpetrated without ceasing,

7605 prisoners, &c. inhumanly murdered, and the

assassins publicly demand their wages.  Every house

is a scene of dismay.  Massacres and butcheries are

committed in all the prisons and religious houses.

These horrors drive a great number of inhabitants

from Paris.

The Duke de la Rochefoucault, ex-constituent and

president of the department of Paris, is torn to

pieces by the populace.

10.  Massacre at Versailles of 53 prisoners from

Orleans, who, it appears, were summoned to Paris

for the express purpose of having them disposed of

in this expeditious manner.

Troops are enrolled for the frontiers.

A camp is formed close to Paris.

13.  The French armies fall back towards Chalons.

14.  The King accepts the constitution.

15.  Decreed, that the King's person is inviolable,

and the crown of France indivisible and hereditary.

16.  Robbery of the wardrobe of the crown.

Decree, formally allowing divorces.

18.  Philips, of the club of jacobins, presents in a

little box, to the legislative assembly, the heads

of his father and mother, whom his patriotism, as

he said, had just sacrificed.

19.  The last sitting of the legislative assembly.

CHAPTER III.

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.

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.

CHAPTER IV.

THE new legislature, or fourth assembly of the

French, enters upon its office.  It is composed of

a legislative body of 500 members; of a council of

ancients 250; of an executive directory of 5

members; and of 6 ministers, viz. for the interior

department, for the war, for justice, for the

admiralty, for foreign affairs, and for finances.

The five members of the executive directory are, La

Reveillere, le Paux, la Tourneur, Carnot, Rewbell,

and Barras; all ex-deputies of the national

convention.

Nov.            The legislative body is employed in discussing a

decree passed in the last sitting of the

convention, which imposed a tax of six milliards on

the landed property, and two milliards upon

industry.

The criminal tribunal acquits Gen. Menon, suspected

of having taken part in the, rebellion of the

sections.

The depreciation of assignats is at this time so

great, that a pair of shoes costs 300 livres, a

yard of cloth 3000, a bushel of potatoes 120, a

pound of bread 40, a pound of coffee and of sugar

175, a pound of candles and of soap 80 livres each;

a louis-d'or is worth 4,600 livres.

The executive directory obtains a grant of three

milliards, to be at its discretion distributed

among the different offices.

The subsistence of Paris not being assured, it is

decreed, that 250 quintals (each 100lbs. weight) be

levied on the departments bordering on Paris.

The Cape of Good-Hope is taken by the English.

The trial of Comartin, one of the chiefs of the

Chouans, occupies at present the military tribunal,

and all Paris.

The republican generals, and many deputies of the

convention are implicated in this affair.

A ship full of emigrants, among whom are the Duke

de Choiseul and the Count de Montmorency, is driven

by a tempest into Calais.  They are given up to the

criminal tribunal of that city.

Besides the sum above granted to the executive

directory, twenty-one millions more are allowed to

them.  Thirty millions more added for the expences

of the legislative body.

23.  Public and formal audiences are given by the

executive directory to foreign ambassadors.

Insurrection of 15,000 peasants in the Velay.

Manheim is taken by the Austrians; 394 pieces of

cannon are found in it.

Worms and Spires are retaken by the Austrians.

Decreed, that the executive directory may sell the

moveable or personal property of the republic, (le

mobilier) even to the timber in the national

forests.

Dec.            According to the report upon the finances, the

arrears due amount to 3,500,000,000 livres; the

debt to the national bank is 31,000,000 in specie,

and 7,500,000 in specie to foreigners.

The service of the next month requires

20,220,000,000 in assignats.

Letter from the directory to the legislative body

declaring, that the state is in the most calamitous

situation; that the springs of government are

almost broken, that the public treasure is

exhausted, and that they are threatened with evils,

which may overwhelm the republic.

Decreed, that a forced loan shall be levied of

600,000,000 in specie upon a million of citizens.

It is computed that by means of three hundred

millions in specie, thirty milliards of assignats

will be taken out of circulation.  In this forced

loan assignats are to be taken at one per cent.

A motion is made to sell Compiegne, Fontainbleau,

Chantilly, Ramboullet, Meudon, St. Germaine, St.

Cloud, Choisy, Vincennes, and the wood of Boulogne.

The legislative body decrees 1500 millions for the

service of the armies.

Boissy d'Anglas proposes to restrain the liberty of

the press.

The city of Deux-Ponts taken by the French under

General St. Eyr (sic).

The supplying Paris alone with provisions costing

350 millions every ten days, the directory

acquaints the legislative body that the funds

granted for that purpose are exhausted.

Decreed, that the directory shall nominate all the

judges not elected by the primary assemblies.

All the ministers agree in declaring that every

thing is lost, if haste be not made in procuring

funds.

Merlin of Douai, minister of justice, writes to all

the criminal tribunals, to perform their duty with

energy towards the emigrants, against whom the

republic had sworn eternal war till death.

New successes of the republicans in Italy.

The Austrians continue to obtain advantages over

Pichegru and Jourdan.

Gronville, envoy from the republic to Copenhagen,

is threatened with recall if his Danish Majesty

does not acknowledge the French republic.

Cambon, to exculpate himself from charges of

misconduct, publishes an account, setting forth,

that during forty-four months of his administration

there were issued only 11,578,056,623 livres in

assignats, and in the ten months and a half after

him there were issued 17,852,226,000 livres in

assignats.

Judgment and Execution of

LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE;

WITH A LIST OF THE

Members the National Convention,

Who voted for and against his Death.

AND

THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS IN THE COURSE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, DISTINGUISHED ACCORDING TO THEIR PRINCIPLES.

THE THIRD EDITION.

BY H. GOUDEMETZ, A French Clergyman, Emigrant in England.

TO THE TRULY HUMANE AND BENEVOLENT, WHOSE LIBERALITY THE AFFLICTED STRANGER HAS SO LARGELY EXPERIENCED, THIS LITTLE PUBLICATION, HONOURED WITH THEIR PATRONAGE AND PROMOTED BY THEIR MUNIFICENCE, is, IN TESTIMONY OF THE GRATITUDE WITH WHICH HIS HEART OVERFLOWS, MOST THANKFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THEIR EVERLASTINGLY OBLIGED AND DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT,

H. GOUDEMETZ,

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JUDGMENT

AGAINST

LOUIS XVI.

IN the National, Convention of France, [Footnote: N.B. In this Convention, 76 were ex-nobles; between 50 and 60 ex-priests; the rest consisted of lawyers, merchants, husbandmen, and a great number of artisans, men who had no property, but what they acquired by spoil from the rich.] on the 17th, 18th, and 19th days of January, 1793, the three following questions were successively put to the vote.

QUESTION THE FIRST.

Is LOUIS guilty or not?

Of the 745 members of the Convention, 20 were absent, 5 sick, 27 gave modified opinions, 693 voted in the affirmative.

President "I declare in the name of the National Convention LOUIS "CAPET to be found guilty of a conspiracy against the liberty of the "nation, and of an attempt to disturb the public security."

QUESTION THE SECOND.

Shall the sentence to be passed upon LOUIS be referred to the sanction of the people?

The result of the appel nominal on this question was; 3 sick; 20 absent; 10 refused to vote; 283 voted for, and 424 against it.

President "I declare in the name of the National Convention, that its "sentence shall not be submitted to an appeal to the people."

QUESTION THE THIRD

What punishment shall be inflicted upon LOUIS?

The appel nominal for the definitive sentence, by DEPARTMENTS.

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[Editor's note: The decisions of the members of the convention are given Department by Department and the list is followed by an alphabetical list of the members with the page number on which each appears. For this reason it has been decided that the page numbers of the original publication should be shown from this point.]

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N.B. The first column expresses the name and quality of the voters; the second, the manner in which they gave their votes; in the third, those who voted for death absolutely are distinguished by the mark +; those for death with restrictions as to the time, by the letter D; those for detention, banishment, &c. by the letter O; absentees (a); not voted, by (nv); sick by (m); the fourth column shows the fate or punishment of many of the members; A signifying assassinated; G guillotined; I imprisoned; M massacred; P proscribed and S suicides.

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1. HAUTE GARONNE (TOULOUSE)

Mailhe       Death...............................................+

Delmas       Death...............................................+

Projean      Death...............................................+

Perès        "We are a Political  body, and not a court of

"justice; we cannot make ourselves, judges without

"becoming despots.  I vote for confinement

"(reclusion) and afterwards banishment."..........O

Julien       Death...............................................+  G

Calès        Death...............................................+

De Sacy      Death, with respite (avec sursis)...................D

Mazade       "I do not think I have power to judge; I am for

"confinement."......................................O

Rouzet       Detention...........................................O  I

Drulhe       Detention...........................................O

2. GERS (AUSCH)

La Plaigne   Death...............................................+  I

Montaut      Death...............................................+  I

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Descamps     Death...............................................+  I

Dubarran     Death...............................................+  I

La Guire     Death...............................................+

Cappin       Detention...........................................O

Jehon        Death...............................................+

Bousquet     Death, with discussion as to the time...............D

Moysset      Detention...........................................O  I

3. GIRONDE (BOURDEAUX)

Vergniault   Death...............................................+  G

Gensonnè     Death...............................................+  G

Guadet       Death, with respite.................................D PG

Jay          Death...............................................+

Ducos        Death...............................................+  G

Gazeau       Death...............................................+

De Leyre     Death...............................................+  I

Fonfrede     Death...............................................+  G

Grangeneuve  "Although many Of my colleagues have manifested

"sentiments ill agreeing with the impartiality of a

"court of judicature; and have employed all

"possible means of influence, in order to extort

"from the national convention a sentence of death;

"I vote for confinement only." .....................O  G

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Du Plantier  Death, with respite.................................D

La Caze      Confinement and banishment..........................O  G

Bergoin      Confinement.........................................O

4. L'HERAULT (MONTPELLIER)

Cambon       Death...............................................+  I

Bonnet       Death...............................................+  S

Rouyer       Death...............................................+  I

Viennet      "An accumulation of power being monstrous, I

"declare myself incompetent to give any other

"sentence than for confinement."....................O

Fabre        Death...............................................+

Curèe        Confinement or deportation..........................O

Cambacerès   Death, in case of invasion only.....................O

Brunel       Confinement.........................................O

Castillon    Confinement and banishment..........................O  P

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5. ISLE ET VILAINE (RENNES)

Pastoret     Dead during the appeal.

Duval        Death...............................................+

Sevestre     Death...............................................+

Chaumont     Death...............................................+

Lanjuinais   "We have no right to put to death a vanquished

"enemy.  I vote for confinement or banishment.".....O  P

Beaugeard    Death...............................................+

Dubignon     Confinement.........................................O

Mauxel       Confinement until we have peace.....................O

Fermont      "As a man, I do not think I have a right to take

"away the life of another.  As a legislator, I

"never will vote for death."........................O  I

Le Breton    "If two-thirds of the votes were required, I might

vote for death."....................................O  I

Obelin       Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

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6. INDRE (CHATEAUROUX)

Thibaut      Death...............................................+

Le Jeune     Death...............................................+

Pepin        I am deputed only to make laws......................O

Porcher      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Derazey      Confinement.........................................O  I

Boudin       Confinement or deportation..........................O

Mainville    Confinement.........................................O  G

7. INDRE ET LOIRE (TOURS)

Gardien      "I fear neither factions nor robbers, their

"menaces shall never prevail on me; I think

"myself free, because I have no fear.  Detention."..O  G

Nioche       Death...............................................+

J. Dupont    Death...............................................+

Ruelle       Death...............................................+

Pottier      Death...............................................+

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Isabeau      Death...............................................+

Bodin        "A sacrifice of human blood can never be the,

"foundation of liberty.  Consequently I vote for

"banishment.".......................................O

Champigny    Confinement or deportation..........................+

Vigèe        Confinement or banishment...........................O  G

8. ISERE (GRENOBLE)

Baudran      Death...............................................+

Rèal         "I have no doubt but that if the people were

"consulted, they would choose the mildest

"punishment.  I therefore must in consequence

"give my vote for detention.".......................O

Genevois     Death...............................................+

Charrel      Death...............................................+

Amar         Death...............................................+  I

Genissieu    Death...............................................+

Servonat     "Let my vote expose me or not to abuse or menaces,

"I pronounce boldly for confinement or

"banishment.".......................................O

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Prunelle de

Lierre       "The National Convention ought to consult only

"justice.  I therefore give my opinion for

"banishment.".......................................O

Vaublanc     Detention.......................................... O

Boissieu     "Not having the commission of a judge, I do not

"consider myself as qualified to apply penal

"laws.".............................................O

9. JURA (ST. CLAUDE)

Grenot       Death...............................................+  I

Prost        Death...............................................+

Laurenceot   "Notwithstanding the menaces which have been

"thrown out, I vote for detention.".................O  I

Amyon        Death...............................................+  I

Ferroux      Death...............................................+  I

Bonguyode    "Is it not time, that the blood of Frenchmen

should cease to flow?  I vote for perpetual

"imprisonment.".....................................O

Vernier      Confinement.........................................O  P

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Babey        Confinement or banishment...........................O  I

Le Montey    Confinement.........................................O

10. LES LANDES (DOL)

D'Artigoyte  Death...............................................+  P

Dirès        Death...............................................+

Ducos l'ainé Death...............................................+  G

Gadroy       "I will not, like others, invoke the penal code,

"since we have lost sight of those wholesome forms

"that were instituted for all citizens.  Besides,

"I do not think, that we have a right to inflict

"the punishment of death; nor does the interest of

"my country require it."............................O

Saurine      "My constituents have not deputed me to be a

"criminal judge."...................................O

Le Franc     Confinement or banishment...........................O

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11. LOIRE ET  CHER (BLOIS)

Brisson      Death...............................................+

Foussedoire  Death...............................................+  I

Chabot       Death...............................................+  G

(ex capuchin)

Fressine     Death...............................................+

Le Clerc     "The punishment of death being an outrage against

"humanity, and my powers not being unlimited, I can

"vote only for detention."..........................O

Vanaille     Death...............................................+

Gregoire     Absent by commission................................a

12. HAUTE LOIRE (PUY)

Raynault     Death...............................................+

Delcher      Death...............................................+

Flageas      Death...............................................+

Faure        Death...............................................+  I

Bonnet

fils       Death...............................................+

Barthelemy   Death, with discussion as to the time...............+  D

Camus        Absent by commission................................a  I

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13. LOIRE INFERIEURE (NANTES)

Chaillon     "I have not been deputed to exercise the functions

"of a juré.  I hold my commission from good men,

"who are enemies of tyranny and of every

"accumulation of power."............................O

Le Fevre     Confinement or banishment...........................O  I

Meaulle      Death...............................................+  P

Millinet     Confinement or banishment...........................O

Villiers     Death...............................................+

Jarry        Confinement.........................................O  I

Fouchè       Death...............................................+

Coustard     Banishment..........................................O  G

14. LOIRET (ORLEANS)

Delaguelle   Death...............................................+

Lombard-la   Death...............................................+

-chaux

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J. B. Louvet Death...............................................+  P

Leonard      Death...............................................+  I

-Bourbon

La Boissiere Death with respite..................................D  G

Garan-Coulon "I maintain that liberty cannot subsist with this

"usurpation of power.  Tyranny is always there,

"where some men are above the laws, and others

"below them.".......................................O

Le Page      "Nature has impressed upon my heart an invincible

"aversion to the shedding of blood.  My opinion is,

"that one man has not a right to condemn another

"man to death.".....................................O

Guerin       "I cannot prevail upon myself to put to death a

"vanquished enemy.".................................O  P

Gentil       Confinement.........................................O

Pellè        Confinement.........................................O

15. LOT (CAHORS)

Cledel       Death...............................................+

St. Andrè,   Death...............................................+  I

noble

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Mont Mayan   Death...............................................+

Delbret      Death, with respite.................................D

Cavaignan    Death...............................................+

Alboys       "The fear of poignards has no influence upon

"my heart.  No man can be punished but by virtue

"of some law antecedent to the offence."............O

Ansy         Confinement.........................................O  E

Boygnes      Confinement.........................................O

Salleles     Confinement.........................................O

Cayla        Absent through sickness.............................m

16. LOT ET GARONNE (AGEN)

Vidalot      Death...............................................+

Paganel      Death...............................................+

Boussion     Death...............................................+

Fournel      Death...............................................+

Claverie     "I cannot pronounce upon the fate of Louis but

"according to the constitution.  Now the

"constitution speaks only of the forfeiture of

"the crown."........................................O

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Gayet-la

-Prade       "Not to oppose the constitution to the penal code,

"I choose rather to vote for confinement."..........O

Noguer       "Having examined my conscience as a public man, I

"give my opinion for detention."....................O

Laurent      Confinement.........................................O

Laroche      Confinement or banishment...........................O

Dorisy       Confinement.........................................O

17. LA LOZERE (MENDE)

Random       Death...............................................+  I

Servierre    Death...............................................+

Monestier    Death...............................................+

Barrot       "As the death of Louis does not appear to me to

"be necessary, or even useful to the republic,

"I vote for detention.".............................O

Aubert       Confinement.........................................O

Pellet       Absent by commission................................a

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18. MAINE ET LOIRE (ANGERS)

Choudieu     Death...............................................+  I

De l'Aulnay  Death...............................................+  G

l'ainè

Le Paux      Death...............................................+  P

Le Clerc     Death...............................................+

Pèrard       Death...............................................+

De.

Houilliere   "I am not a judge; I am merely a legislator.

"Consequently I can vote only for detention.".......O

D'Andenac    Confinement.........................................O

l'ainè

D'Andenac    Confinement or deportation..........................O

le jeune

Pilastre     Banishment..........................................O

De l'Aulnay  Confinement.........................................O

le jeune

Le Maignan   Confinement.........................................O

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19. LA MANCHE (COUTANCES)

Le Moine     Death...............................................+

Ribet        Death, with respite.................................D

Le Tourneur  Death...............................................+

Le Carpentier Death..............................................+

Bonnesoeur   Death...............................................+

Laurence     Death...............................................+

Havin        Death...............................................+

Hubert       Death...............................................+

Gervais

-sauvè       "If the people had been willing to accumulate

"upon my head the various functions of accuser,

"juryman, and legislator, the burthen would have

"been above my strength.  I vote for confinement."..O

Pinel        I vote freely for detention.........................O

Poisson      Banishment..........................................O

Engerrand    Confinement.........................................O

Bretel       Confinement.........................................O

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20. LA MARNE (RHEIMS)

Prieur       Death...............................................+  I

Thuriot      Death...............................................+  I

Ch. Charlier Death...............................................+

De la Croix  Death...............................................+  G

de Constant

De Villers   Death...............................................+

Armonville   Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Drouet,      Death...............................................+  I

maitre   de postes   Vatelier     Death...............................................+

Poulain      Confinement.........................................O

Blanc        Banishment..........................................O  I

21. LA HAUTE MARNE (LANGRES)

Guillardin   Death...............................................+

Monnel       Death...............................................+

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Roux         Death...............................................+

Valdruche    Death...............................................+

Rousseau     Death, with discussion as to the time...............D

La Loi       Death...............................................+

Wandelin

-court      "I except against myself (je me suis recusè)

"as judge; therefore I can vote only for

"confinement, as a measure of general safety."......O

22. MAYENNE (LAVAL)

Bissy,       Death...............................................+

le jeune

Esnè         Death...............................................+  I

Du Rocher    Death...............................................+

Enjubaut     Death...............................................+  I

Serveau      Death...............................................+

Villars      "As the stability of a republic does not depend

"upon the life, or death of a single individual,

"and killing a tyrant is the last resource of

"tyranny, I vote for confinement."..................O

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Le Jeune     "The law of death not being applicable to the

"case before us, I abstain from pronouncing

"judgment of death."................................O

Plaichard

-chottiere   Perpetual confinement...............................O

23. LE MEURTHE (NANCY)

Malarme      Death...............................................+

Levasseur    Death...............................................+

Bonneval     Death...............................................+

Salle        "My opponents have said, Do not appeal to the

"people, because the people would not vote for

"death; but for my part I wish not to vote, but

"as the people would do."...........................O PG

Molveau      "Convinced that the day, on which the head of

"Louis should fall, would probably be that of

"the establishment of a new tyranny; and

"apprehensive that his death would be for France,

"what that of Charles 1. was for England, I give

"my opinion for confinement or banishment.".........O

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Lalande      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Zangiacomi   Confinement and banishment..........................O

Michel       Confinement and banishment..........................O

24. LA MEUSE (VERDUN)

Pons         Death...............................................+

Moreau       "The safety of the state does not appear to me to

"require the death of Louis; I am for banishment."..O

Roussel      "Far from being dangerous, I think it sound

"policy to let Louis live.".........................O

Baroche      "The judiciary power being no part of my

"commission, I vote for confinement."...............O

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Harmand      "I cannot bring the punishment from the penal,

"code, since you have discarded all the forms

"of it.  I am therefore for banishment."............O

Marquis      "I am for provisional confinement.".................O

Tocquot      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Humbert      Confinement and banishment......................... O

25. MORBIHAN (VANNES)

Lequinio     Death...............................................+

Audrein      Death...............................................+

Le Hardy     "Farewell to the liberty of my country, if we are

"to be every thing at once.  No! we are not judges.

"The death of Kings has never been salutary to

"liberty.  If the convention were to judge, I

"should wish to see at least sixty of its members

"excluded. I am for confinement."...................O  G

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Corbel       "A measure of safety is preferable to a rigorous

"application of the law.  I therefore vote for

"provisional confinement."..........................O

Gillet       "Inaccessible to fear, I assert that capital

"punishment is useless and dangerous.

"Perpetual confinement."............................O  M

Le Mailland  Confinement and banishment..........................O

Michel       Confinement and banishment..........................O

Rouault      Confinement.........................................O  I

26. LA MOSELLE (METZ)

Anthoine     Death...............................................+

Bar          Death...............................................+

Nentz        Death...............................................+  I

Thirion      Death...............................................+  I

Becker       "Neither the menaces with which this tribune has

"resounded, nor those puerile fears, with which

"people have sought to fill us, shall make me

"act contrary to my Sentiments, which is for

"confinement and banishment.".......................O

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Merlin       Confinement.........................................O

Couturier    Absent on commission................................a

Blaux        Confinement.........................................O  I

27. LA NIEVRE (NEVERS)

Saustrault   Death...............................................+

Damrobe      Death...............................................+

Le Fiot      Death...............................................+

Guilrault    Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Legendre     Death...............................................+

La Planche   Death...............................................+

Jourdan      "The punishment of death is contrary to my

"principles.  I cannot put a fellow-creature to

"death."....................................... ....O  G

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28. NORD (DOUAY)

Merlin       Death...............................................+

Duhem        Death...............................................+  I

Cochet       Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Fockedey     Confinement.........................................O

Senault      Death...............................................+  P

Carpentier   Death...............................................+  P

Pryese       Death...............................................+

Sallengros   Death...............................................+

Poultier     Death, with discussion as to time...................D  G

Aoust        Death...............................................+  G

Gossuin      Absent upon commission..............................a

29. OISE (BEAUVAIS)

Couppè       Death...............................................+  I

Calon        Death...............................................+

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Isorè        Death...............................................+

Ch. Villette Confinement and banishment..........................O  M

Delamare     Confinement or banishment...........................O  I

Massieu,

evêque

intrus      Death...............................................+  P

Cloots.

Baron   Prussien   Death...............................................+  G

Portier      Death, with respite.................................D

Bèzare       Death...............................................+

Bourdon      Death...............................................+  P

Godefroy     Absent upon commission..............................a

30. L'ORNE (ALENÇON)

Valazè       Death...............................................+  G

La

Hosdiniere   Death...............................................+

Desrouais    Death...............................................+

Dubois       Death...............................................+

Beauprè      Death, with respite.................................D

Colombel     Death...............................................+

Thomas       "If the enemy invade our territories, I vote for

"death; otherwise for detention."...................O

Duguè

d'assey      "Having never been able to satisfy that I could

"be both legislator and judge at once, I vote for

"detention."........................................O  I

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Fourney      "The constitution has not inflicted the

"punishment of death upon Kings who may be guilty

"of conspiracy.  I am therefore for confinement

"and banishment."...................................O

31. DEPARTMENT DE PARIS

Robespierre  "The tyrant has deserved death.  I vote for

l'ainè      "death."............................................+  G

Avocat d'Arras

Danton,

avt.       "I vote for death"..................................+  G

Collot

d'Herbois,

comedian   Death...............................................+  B

Billaud Va

-rennes      Death...............................................+  B

Cam.

Dèsmoulins   Death...............................................+  G

journaliste   Marat,       Death...............................................+  A

journaliste   La

Vicomterie   Death...............................................+  I

Legendre,

butcher    Death...............................................+

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Raffron      Death...............................................+

Panis        Death...............................................+  I

Serjeant     Death...............................................+  P

Robert       Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Freron       Death...............................................+

Beauvais     Death, with discussion as to time...................D  G

Fabre

d'Eglantine, Death...............................................+  G

journaliste   Osselin      Death...............................................+  G

Robespierre

le jeune    Death...............................................+  G

David,

artiste    Death...............................................+  I

Boucher      Death...............................................+

Laignelot    Death, with discussion as to time...................D  I

Thomas       Confinement.........................................O

Manuel       "Laws of blood ought not to be among the

"principles of a republic.  The right of death

"belongs only to nature.  Louis is laid low

"upon the ground; it is too easy to kill him,

"for me to give the blow."..........................O  G

Dussault     "A man may be, in my opinion an excellent patriot,

"without putting to death his fallen enemy.  I vote

"for confinement and banishment."...................O  P

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D'Orleans,

called

Egalitè     "My conscience tells me that Louis deserves death." +  G

32. PAS DE CALAIS (ARRAS)

Garnet       Death...............................................+

Duquesnoy    Death...............................................+  S

Le Bas       Death...............................................+  S

Guffroy      Death...............................................+

Bollet       Death...............................................+

Varlet       "I vote for detention, because the nation ought

"not to be influenced by sentiments of revenge."....O

Enlard       "My conscience points it out as my duty to have

"nothing to do with the penal code.  I am for

"confinement and banishment.".......................O

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Dannon       "The experience of those nations, who have put

"their King to death, proves the contrary of

"what you hope for.  I am for confinement and

"transportation."...................................O

Personne     Confinement and banishment..........................O

Tho. Payne   Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Magniez      Confinement and banishment..........................O

33. PUY DE DOME (CLERMONT)

Couthon      Death...............................................+  G

Gibergues    Death...............................................+  I

Maignet      Death...............................................+

Romme        Death...............................................+  S

Soubrany     Death...............................................+  G

Rudelle      Death...............................................+

Monestier    Death...............................................+

La Loue      Death...............................................+

Blanval      Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Du Laure     Death...............................................+  P

Bancal       "The thirst of vengeance and of blood is found

"only in individuals and factions; but never in a

"great nation.  I think, besides, that the

"majority of French citizens would not vote for

"actual death.  A legislator ought to resist all

"private passions which surround him, to brave

"with firmness every danger, and to obey nothing

"but his conscience and his reason.  I am for

"detention."........................................O  I

Page 179

Girot

-pouzol     Confinement and banishment..........................O

..

34. HAUTES PYRÉNNÉES (SIC) (TARBES)

Barrere,

ex-noble   Death...............................................+  B

Ferrand      Death...............................................+  M

La Crampe    Death...............................................+

Dupont       "Behind this mausoleum I see a lion springing

"from his den, and a dangerous enemy substituted

"in the place of a vanquished one.  I vote for

"confinement."......................................O

Picquè       "I am for death; but not till after the cessation

"of hostilities."...................................D

Gertoux      Confinement and banishment..........................O

35. BASSES PYRÉNNÉES (PAU)

Sanadon,

eveque

intrus      "Being a legislator, I am not a judge.  I cannot

"vote but for confinement.".........................O  P

Pèmartin     "I am only at liberty to adopt a measure of

"safety, which is, confinement or banishment."......O

Comte        "I am for the same punishment as the last

"speaker."..........................................O

Meillant     "It Would, in my judgment, be a most mistaken

"measure to cut off that head, which may one

"day become useful.  Confinement and

"banishment.".......................................O

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Casenave     "The accumulation of so many inconsistent powers

"appears to me, notwithstanding the paradoxes

"and sophisms which art has invented in the

"course of this proceeding, to be a monstrous

"tyranny, in which I am not willing to bear a

"part.  The only punishment applicable to Louis

"is forfeiture of the crown.".......................O  P

Neveu        "I fulfil my duty in voting for confinement.".......O

36. PYRÉNNÉES ORIENTALES (PERPIGNAN)

Montegot     Death...............................................+

Cazanies     Death...............................................+

Biroteau     "During the war I vote for confinement; and

"after peace is established, for death."............O  G

Guyter       Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Fabre        Absent through sickness.............................m

Page 182

37. HAUT RHIN (COLMAR)

Ritter       Death...............................................+

La Porte     Death...............................................+

Joannot      Death...............................................+

Pflieger     Death...............................................+

Dubois       "I am not a judge.  This character belongs to

"none of us.  If we were judges, we should

"perform the duties Of such, and observe forms.

"I am for provisional confinement.".................O

Albert       Provisional confinement.............................O

Rewbel       Absent through sickness.............................m

38. BAS RHIN (STRASBOURG)

Laurent      Death...............................................+

Bentabole    Death...............................................+

Louis        Death...............................................+  P

Page 183

Arbogast     "I see the security of the republic depends on

"the detention of Louis until time of peace.".......O

Christiani   Confinement.........................................O

Dentzell     Confinement.........................................O  I

Simon        Absent upon commission..............................a  G

Rhull        Absent upon commission..............................a  S

Erman        Absent through sickness.............................m

39. RHONE ET LOIRE (LYON)

Dupuis, fils Death...............................................+

Dubonchet    Death...............................................+

Pressavin    Death...............................................+

Noel Pointe  Death...............................................+

L'Evêque     Death...............................................+

Chasset      "The convention, by its conduct in the violation

"of judiciary forms, has convinced me that it

"does not mean to place itself in the situation

"of a judge.  It is therefore not permitted me

"to  vote for death.  I am for confinement until

"the time of peace."................................O

Page 184

Michel       "Reasons of state and of public good make me

"incline to detention.".............................O

Patrin       "The existence of Louis is useful; his death.

"dangerous."........................................O

Lanthenas    "My opinion is, that Louis deserves death; but

"only in case of a foreign war."....................O  I

Eusset       Death...............................................+

Moulin       "I vote for death; but not until all the Bourbons

"are expelled.".....................................O

Vitet        Confinement.........................................O  P

Fournier     Confinement.........................................O

Bezaud       Confinement and banishment..........................O

Forest       Confinement and banishment..........................O

40. HAUTE SAONE (VESOUL)

Gourdan      Death...............................................+

Siblot       Death...............................................+

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Bolot        Death...............................................+

Dormier      Death...............................................+

Vigneron     Confinement and banishment..........................O

Chauvier     Confinement and banishment........................ .O

Balivet      Confinement and banishment..........................O

41. SAONE ET LOIRE (MACON)

Carra,

journal

-iste       Death...............................................+  G

Gelin        Death...............................................+

Guillermin   Death...............................................+

Reverchon    Death...............................................+

Bodot        Death...............................................+

Guilmardet   Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Mailly       Death...............................................+

Montgilbert  "If the enemies invade the French territory, then

"only I am of opinion that Louis should die.".......O

Moreau       Death...............................................+

Masuyer      Confinement till the peace..........................O PG

Page 186

Bertucat     "I cannot judge arbitrarily in this case.

"Perpetual confinement."............................O

42. LA SARTHE (LE MANS)

Richard      Death...............................................+

Primaudiere  Death...............................................+

Phelippeau   Death...............................................+  G

Boutrone     Death...............................................+

Levasseur    Death...............................................+  I

Froger       Death...............................................+

Letourneur   Death...............................................+

Syeyes       "Death, (adding) without a word more"...............+

Salmon       "I am for detention; lest the anarchists and

"ambitious find in the death of Louis more food

"for their intrigues."..............................O  I

Chevalier    "The law does not permit me to pronounce any

"other sentence than forfeiture of the crown."......O  I

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43. SEINE ET OISE (VERSAILLES)

Lecointre    Death...............................................+  I

Bassal       Death...............................................+  P

Audoin       Death...............................................+  P

Treilhard    Death...............................................+

Tallien      Death.............................................. +

Chenier      Death...............................................+  G

Royt         "I vote for death, but not until after the

"constitution has been ratified."...................O

Mercier      "The sentence of death is impolitic and dangerous.

"The phantom of a King may be of marvellous

"service to us.  Perpetual confinement."............O  P

Kersaint     "I do not think myself called forth to pronounce

"a judicial sentence.  And if I were a judge, I

"should vote in mercy, and not in hatred.  I have

"no notion of a great nation acting from revenge;

"in this struggle the inequality of the parties

"makes it shocking.  I am for confinement until

"the time of peace."................................O  G

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Dupuis       Confinement.........................................O

Alquier      Death, after the peace..............................D

Gorsas,

journa

-liste      Detention...........................................O  G

Haussman     Absent by commission................................a

Hèrault de

Sechelles,

avocat

-general    Absent by commission................................a  G

44. SEINE INFERIEURE (ROUEN)

Albite       Death...............................................+  p

Pocholles    Death...............................................+

Vincent      "To condemn Louis to death is to provoke a civil.

"war, to ruin the nation, to overturn the state,

"and to destroy liberty altogether.  I am for

"confinement and banishment.".......................O  G

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Bailleul     "Consider that before posterity the illusion will

"cease, and the passions will be no more.  You

"wish for the happiness of the people, and the head

"of Louis is your security for it.  I vote for

"detention."........................................O  I

Mariette     "I have only the quality of legislator; that of

"judge is inconsistent with it.  I vote for

"banishment.".......................................O

Doublet      "The evils which the death of Stuart brought upon

"England, make me vote for detention."..............O  I

Rualt        "It is very strange that people are so earnest to.

"follow the penal code, when they have not

"followed, in the forms of proceeding, any one of

"the articles of criminal legislation.  I vote for

"provisional confinement."..........................O  P

Faure,

libraire   Confinement and banishment..........................O

Bourgeois    Confinement and transportation......................O

Hardy,

medicin    Confinement and banishment..........................O

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Yger         Confinement and banishment..........................O

Hecquet      Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Duval,       Confinement and banishment..........................O

avocat   Lefevre,

juge      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Blutel       Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Delahaye     Confinement.........................................O  P

45. SEINE ET MARNE (MELUN)

Mauduit      Death...............................................+

Tellier      Death...............................................+  S

Cordier      Death...............................................+

Bernard      "I am for death, but not until after the

"constitution is settled."..........................O

Bailly de    "I consider Louis as an hostage necessary to public

Juilly      "tranquility.  I am for confinement and

"banishment.".......................................O  P

Himbert      "I have the fullest conviction that I cannot act as

"a judge.  You have annulled the high national

"court, and are you not afraid that history will

"accuse you of having usurped a power which did not

"belong to you?  I am for confinement and

"banishment.".......................................O

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De France    "Since all judiciary forms are trampled under foot,

"I vote for confinement.............................O

Vigny        Confinement and banishment..........................O

Geoffry,     Confinement.........................................O

l'ainè

Opoix        Confinement and banishment..........................O

Bernier      Provisional confinement.............................O

46. LES DEUX SEVRES (NIORT)

Lecointepuy

-raveau      Death...............................................+

Dubreuil     Death...............................................+  I

Cochon       Death...............................................+

L'Official   "I declare that I have no power to judge

"criminally.".......................................O

Jard-        Confinement and transportation......................O

panviller

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Anguis       Confinement and transportation......................O

Du Chatel    Absent through sickness.............................m  G

47. LA SOMME (AMIENS)

Saladin      Death...............................................+  I

Dumont       Death...............................................+

Delecloy     Death...............................................+

Scellier     Death...............................................+

Florent      "Although my opinion does not seem to be that which

-louvet      "will prevail, I vote for detention."...............O  P

Du Festel    "My electoral assembly was so far from designing to

"give me a judicial power, that when it nominated

"me a deputy, it appointed two haut jures"

[Footnote: They are appointed in every department

to try all causes, civil and criminal."] "at the

"same time.  Confinement and banishment."...........O

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Sillery,     "My constituents were not so senseless as to

noble      "accumulate upon my head all sorts of powers.  I

"vote for banishment................................O  G

De Veritè    "I cannot be accuser and judge in the same cause.

"Confinement and banishment.........................O  P

Rivery,      Confinement.........................................O

avocat   Gantois      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Martin       Confinement.........................................O

St. Prix

Asselin,     Confinement.........................................O

avocat

48. LE TARN (CASTRES)

La Source    Death...............................................+  G

La Combe     Death...............................................+

St. Michel

Campmas      Death...............................................+

Gourry       "As soon as you shall have voted the expulsion of

"all the Bourbons, I will vote for the death of

"Louis; but not before."............................O

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Soloniac     Confinement and banishment..........................O

Marvejols    Confinement and banishment..........................O

Rochegude    Confinement and banishment..........................O

Meyer        Confinement and transportation......................O

D'Ambermènil Absent by illness...................................m  I

49. LE VAR (TOULON)

Escudier     Death...............................................+  I

Ricard       Death...............................................+  I

Charbonier   Death...............................................+  I

D'Espinassy  Death...............................................+

Isnard       Death...............................................+  P

Roubaud      Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Barras       Death...............................................+

Antiboul     Confinement.........................................O  G

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50. LA VENDEE (FONTENAY-LE-COMTE)

Goupilleau,  Death...............................................+  P

l'ainè

Goupilleau,  Death...............................................+

le jeune

Maignen      Death...............................................+

Fayo         Death...............................................+

Musset       Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Garros       Death...............................................+

Gaudin       "I cannot  imagine  that the French people

"delegated to us a despotic power—that is, a power

"to make laws and to apply them.  I am for

"confinement and banishment.".......................O  I

Girard       Confinement and banishment..........................O

Morisson     "I do not think that Louis is subject to our

"jurisdiction; therefore I abstain from voting."....nv

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51. LA VIENNE (POITIERS)

Piozzy       Death...............................................+

Martineau    Death...............................................+

Ingrand      Death...............................................+

Thibaudot    Death...............................................+

Creuzè-      "I do not think that men who make laws can order

la-touche   "the death of any man.  I vote for confinement and

"banishment.........................................O

Creuzè-      Confinement.........................................O

paschal

Dutroubor-   Confinement and banishment..........................O

nier

Bion         Confinement and banishment..........................O

52. LA HAUTE VIENNE (LIMOGES)

Gay Vernon   Death...............................................+

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Lesterp      "For death, in case of an hostile invasion."........O  P

beauvais

Bordas       "As a measure of safety, I decide for confinement.".O

Faye         "My conscience forbids me to vote for death.".......O

La Croix     Confinement and banishment..........................O  G

Rivaud       Confinement.........................................O

Soulignac    Confinement.........................................O  P

53. LES VOSGES (EPINAL)

Perrin       Death...............................................+

Poulain      Death, but not till after the constitution.......   O

grand-prè

Souhait      Confinement.........................................O

Baland       Confinement.........................................O

Couhey       Confinement and banishment..........................O

Bresson      "Judges prostrate themselves before a law that is

"equal for all, but we have violated equality to

"make an exception against a single individual.

"Judges have a bandage of ice (bandeau glace) upon

"their forehead, but hatred against Louis burns and

"devours us.  Judges reject severe opinions, but we

"publish with pride the rigour of our judgments.

"Judges mitigate the horror of a condemnation by

"the expression of pity, but our aversion pursues

"Louis even under the axe of the executioner.  From

"hence I conclude that we are not judges, and that

"I cannot vote but for confinement."................O  I

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Noël         Absent by commission................................a  G

Hugo         Absent by commission................................a

54. L'YONNE (AUXERRE)

Le Pelletier Death...............................................+  A

de St. Fargeau

Maure        Death...............................................+  S

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Herard       Death...............................................+

J. Boileau   Death...............................................+  G

Turreau      Death...............................................+  I

Bourbotte    Death...............................................+  G

Finot        Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Precy        Death, but not till after the constitution..........O

Chatelain    Confinement and banishment..........................O

55. L'AIN (BOURG-EN-BRESSE)

Deydier      Death...............................................+

Merlin       Death...............................................+

Gautier      Death...............................................+

Royer        Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Mollet       Confinement.........................................O

56. L'AISNE (LAON)

Quinette     Death...............................................+  I

Jean de Brie Death...............................................+

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St. Just     Death...............................................+  G

Beffroy      Death...............................................+

Petit        Death...............................................+

Fiquet       Death...............................................+

Loisel       Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Boucheron    Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Condorcet,

academicien  "The  punishment of death is contrary to my

"principles; I shall never vote for it. I vote

"for the heaviest punishment of the penal code

"which does not amount to death."................* PM

Dupin,          "I am of the Same opinion with Monsieur

"Condorcet; that is, I vote for confinement in

"chains."........................................*

Belin           "I vote for death only in case of invasion

"by the enemy."..................................O

[Footnote: * N.B. These two are in the report said

to have voted for chains.]

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57. L'ALLIER (MOULINS)

Vidalin      Death...............................................+

Martel       Death...............................................+

Beauchamp    Death...............................................+

Chevalier    "I think it my duty not to vote."...................nv

58. HAUTES ALPES (GAP)

Izoard       Confinement.........................................O

Barety       Confinement.........................................O

Borel        Confinement.........................................O

Caseneuve    Confinement.........................................O I

Serres       "My country, my conscience, my love of liberty,

"dictate my vote for detention."....................O

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59. BASSES ALPES (DIGNE)

Maysse       Death...............................................+  I

Derbès       Death...............................................+

la tour

Savornin     Death...............................................+

Peyze        Death...............................................+  G

Verdallin    "I vote for detention, because the death of Louis

"would only cause tyranny to revive."...............O

Reguis       Confinement and banishment..........................O

60. L'ARDECHE (PRIVAS)

Gleizal      Death...............................................+

Soubeyran    "I vote for death, but not till the expulsion of

"all the Bourbons.".................................O

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Gamon        "I am for the same punishment, but in case of

"invasion by the enemy."............................O

St. Martin   "I would have Louis live, because the pretensions

"to royalty will be without any danger, so long as

"they shall rest on his head.  I am for life and

"confinement."......................................O

Garilhe      "Every irrevocable act which is not ratified by the

"people, is void.  I am therefore for confinement.".O  I

Boissi-      Confinement and transportation......................O

d'Anglas

Corin-       Confinement and banishment..........................O

Fustier

61. ARDENNES (MEZIERES)

Ferry        Death...............................................+

Dubois       Death...............................................+

Robert       Death...............................................+

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Monesson     "I consent to death, provided that you first expel

"all the Bourbons.".................................O

Vermond      "If there shall be an invasion, I vote for death."..O

Bodin        Banishment..........................................O

Thierrier    Perpetual detention.................................O

Blondel      Confinement; death in case of invasion..............O

62. ARRIEGE (FOIX)

Vadier       Death...............................................+  B

Espert       Death...............................................+  P

Clauzel      Death...............................................+

Camp         Death...............................................+

Martin

Lakanal      Death...............................................+

Gaston       Death, with discussion as to time...................D

63. AUBE (TROYES)

Courtois     Death...............................................+

Robin        Death...............................................+

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Garnier      Death...............................................+

Rabaut       "Persuaded that the ashes, from the funeral pile of

St. Etienne "kings, like the ashes of martyrs, only produce

"others; satisfied also that my nation ought not to

"have the ferocity of the tiger which tears to

"pieces, but the courage of the lion which despises,

"I vote for preserving Louis as an hostage."........O  G

Perrin       Confinement and banishment..........................O  G

Bonnemain    Confinement and deportation.........................O

Douge        Confinement and deportation.........................O

Pierret      Confinement and deportation.........................O

Duval        Confinement and banishment..........................O

64. L'AUDE (CARCASSONE)

Azema        Death...............................................+

Girard       Death...............................................+

Bonnet       Death...............................................+

Ramel        Death...............................................+  G

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Morin        Confinement.........................................O

Tournier     Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Marragon     Death...............................................+

Periès       Confinement and transportation......................O  I

65. L'AVEYRON (RHODES)

Camboulas    Death...............................................+

Jos.         Death...............................................+

la Combe

Seconds      Death...............................................+

Louchet      Death...............................................+

Baux         Death...............................................+

Godefroy-    "Eternal justice forbids us to condemn Louis to

Ysarn       "to death; because it abhors aggravation, and the

"making of ex-post-facto criminal laws, in order to

"apply them to acts that are past.  Now there is no

"written law which inflicts this punishment upon

"Louis for any act, before he was hurled from the

"throne into a prison.  I satisfy myself in voting

"for confinement."..................................O

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St. Martin-  Confinement and banishment..........................O

Valogues

Lobinès      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Bernard      Confinement and banishment..........................O

St. Afrique

66. BOUCHES DU RHONE (AIX)

Duprat       Death...............................................+  G

Rebecqui     Death...............................................+  S

Barbaroux    Death...............................................+ PS

Bayle        Death...............................................+  I

Granet       Death...............................................+  P

Gasparin     Death...............................................+  G

Rovere       Death...............................................+

Pelissier    Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Laurent      Death, with discussion as to time...................D

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Durand       "I see more inconvenience in the death of Louis,

Maillane    "than in his existence.  I vote therefore for

"confinement."......................................O

Du Perret    Confinement and banishment..........................O  G

67. CALVADOS (CAEN)

Bonnet       Death...............................................+

Taveau       Death...............................................+

Jouenne      Death...............................................+

Dubois       Death, only in case of invasion.....................O

Dubais

Fauchet

evêque      "The convention has no right to accumulate, to

intrus    "confound, and to exercise all powers.  It is the

"right of tyranny alone.  I may be subjected to it,

"but I never will practise (sic) it.  I am no

"judge, and therefore can only vote for detention.".O  G

Vardon       "I declare myself incompetent.".....................nv

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L'Homond     Confinement.........................................O

Doulcet,

pontè-      Confinement and banishment..........................O

coulant   Cussy        "I do not think that the glory or the interest of

"the French people permit them to strike a

"vanquished enemy.  I vote for confinement."........O  G

Le Got       Confinement.........................................O

Ph.          Confinement and banishment..........................O  I

Belleville

Dumont       Confinement and banishment..........................O

68. CANTAL (ST. FLOUR)

Milhau       Death...............................................+

La Coste     Death...............................................+  I

Tarriè       Death...............................................+

Peuvergue    "My conscience tells me that the death of Louis

"would be  prejudicial to the republic."............O

Thibault     Confinement and banishment..........................O

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Meseujac     Confinement and banishment..........................O

Chabanon     Confinement and banishment..........................O

Jos. Maille  Absent with leave...................................a

69. LA CHARENTE (ANGOULEME)

Bellegarde   Death...............................................+

Chedanau     Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Guinberteau  Death...............................................+

Chazaud      Death...............................................+  G

Brun         Death...............................................+

Ribereau     Death...............................................+  I

Cuvelier     Death...............................................+

De Vars      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Maulde       Confinement and banishment..........................O

70. CHARENTE INFERIEURE (SAINTES)

Bernard      Death...............................................+  I

Nion         Death...............................................+

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Echasseriaux Death...............................................+

Brèard       Death...............................................+

Ruamps       Death...............................................+  I

Lozeau       Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Vinet        Death...............................................+

Garnicr      Death...............................................+

Giraud       "As a legislator I think it most beneficial that

"Louis should live."................................O

D'Autriche   "I declare that my sentiments are subject to no

"undue influence of any sort.  So far are we from

"being judges as well as legislators, that you

"decided yesterday that we are not judges; I mean,

"by your resolution, that this question should be

"determined by a simple majority of votes.".........O

De Chezeau   Confinement and banishment..........................O  G

71. LE CHER (BOURGES)

Foucher      Death...............................................+

La Brunerie  Death...............................................+

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Peltier      Death...............................................+

Alasseur     "What says history?  Caesar was assassinated, and

"had a successor.  The English sacrificed their

"tyrant, and returned to their chains.  Rome

"banished her kings, and had liberty.  I am for

"banishment.".......................................O

Baucheton    Confinement.........................................O

Dugêne       Confinement.........................................O

72. LA CORREZE (TULLES)

Brival       Death...............................................+

Lannot       Death, with discussion as to time...................D  I

Borie        Death...............................................+  I

Chambon      Death...............................................+  G

Lidon        Death...............................................+  S

Penieres     Death...............................................+

Lafond       "I think it my duty to abstain from voting." .......nv

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73. CORSE (Corsica) (BASTIA)

Salicetti    Death...............................................+

Chiappe      "Having nothing to do with the application of

"punishment.  I consider only the security of my

"fellow citizens, which is the supreme law; in a

"word, I am for detention.".........................O

Andrèe       "The punishment for Louis can be no other than that

"of forfeiture."....................................O

Bansio       "I flatter myself that I shall deserve well of my

"country in voting for detention."..................O

Peraldi      Confinement and banishment..........................O

Casabianca   Provisional confinement.............................O

Mottedo      Confinement.........................................O

74. COTE D'OR (DIJON)

Bazire       Death...............................................+  G

Guyton-      Death...............................................+

morveau

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Prieur       Death...............................................+  P

Oudot        Death...............................................+

Treilhard    Death...............................................+

Guyot        Death, with discussion as to time...................D

Berthier     Death...............................................+

Lambert      "That I may not accumulate all functions, I think

"it is my duty to abstain from pronouncing any

"juridical (sic) punishment.".......................O

Marcy        "The convention may set itself up for a jury; but

"it can be only to judge the crime, and not the

"criminal.  To pass a definitive judgment upon

"Louis is, in my opinion, an outrage against the

"definitive will of the nation.  To pronounce

"sentence of death, is an usurpation of the right

"of the Sovereign.  I will not be a judge—I

"cannot, and I ought not to be one.

" Representatives of the people!  You have

"destroyed the despot; suffer the man to live.  Let

"him drag in captivity a groveling life.  You are

"the depositaries of French honour.  Europe has her

"eyes upon you.  Posterity is advancing.  It will

"judge you, and its voice will pass through ages." .O

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Rameau       "It is not in your power to give me the quality of

"judge, which I have not received from the

"sovereign.  Accordingly I do not think myself

"bound by this monstrous decree." ..................O

75. COTES DU NORD (ST. BRIEUX)

Londe        Death...............................................+

Couppè       "Of the two punishments proposed to be inflicted on

"Louis, I choose the mildest, that is detention."...O

Champeaux    "My constituents have deputed me to make laws, and

"not to judge.".....................................O

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Guyomard     "The re-union of all powers characterises

"despotism, whether it be in an individual, or in a

"body of men.  It is bad policy to multiply the

"number of our enemies fourfold, and to lavish the

"blood of our brethren.  Shall we then, by

"punishing Louis, augment the list of victims still

"more?  I vote for confinement.".............. .....O

Gondelin     "I am not afraid of menaces.  I am ready to

"sacrifice my blood for my country.  I vote,

"according to my conscience, for detention."........O

Gautier,     Perpetual confinement...............................O

le jeune

Fleury       Perpetual confinement...............................O  I

Giraud       Perpetual confinement...............................O

76. LA CREUSE (GUERET)

Huguet       Death...............................................+  I

Guyes        Death...............................................+

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De Bourges   "In my capacity as legislator, I am unwilling to

"deliberate and to give my vote upon the question,

"what punishment shall be inflicted on Louis."......O

Tenier       "As history teaches, that from the ashes of one

"king another springs up, I vote for detention."....O

Coutisson    Confinement.........................................O

Jaurand      Confinement.........................................O

Baraillon,   Provisional confinement.............................O

physician

77. LA DORDOGNE (PERIGUEUX)

La Marque    Death...............................................+  I

Pinet        Death...............................................+

Lacoste      Death...............................................+

Taillefer    Death...............................................+  P

Peussard     Death...............................................+  I

Allafort     Death...............................................+

Lambert      Confinement.........................................O

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Bouquier     Death...............................................+

Roux-        Death...............................................+

fazillac

Meynard      "My  reason tells me, that I cannot both make and

"apply the law; it tells me, that I cannot destroy

"the effect of the law, in order to substitute my

"own will in its place; it tells me in short, that

"the blending of powers is too arbitrary for the

"government of a free people, and that I ought not

"to vote, but (as a measure of public safety) for

"provisional confinement." .........................O

78. DOUBS (BESANCON)

Michaud      Death...............................................+

Vernety      Death...............................................+

Monnot       Death...............................................+

Besson       Death...............................................+

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Guyrot       "I do not condemn Louis to death, because, when I

"open the penal code, I see that other forms were

"necessary, other judges, and other principles.

"I am for confinement.".................... ........O

Sèguin       Confinement, and banishment.........................O

79. LA DROME (ROMANS)

Julien       Death...............................................+  I

Santeyra     Death...............................................+

Boisset      Death...............................................+

Jacomin      Death...............................................+

Collaud de   Death, in case only of invasion.....................O

la Salcette

Fayolle      "I have never been satisfied that the convention

"should set itself up for a court of justice.

"Confinement."......................................O  I

Martinet     Confinement.........................................O

Marbos       Confinement.........................................O

Gèrente      Confinement.........................................O

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80. L'EURE (EVREUX)

Lindet,      Death...............................................+

l'ainê,

evêque

intrus   Buzot        Death...............................................+  P

Duroy        Death...............................................+  G

Bouillerot   Death...............................................+

Lindet       Death...............................................+

le jeune

Richou       "Foreseeing that the death of Louis will be the

"source of bitter misfortunes, I should regard

"myself as unworthy the name of citizen, if I voted

"for his punishment.  Confinement and banishment."..O  P

Le Marechal  "That I may not be reproached with having swerved

"from my mission, and with having set an example of

"the most monstrous tyranny, I vote for

"confinement."......................................O

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Vallèe       "I am for provisional confinement, and for death in

"case the French territory be invaded.".............O  I

Savary       Confinement.........................................O  I

Topsent      Confinement.........................................O

81. L'EURE ET LOIRE (CHARTRES)

La Croix     Death...............................................+

Brissot      Death...............................................+  G

Pethion,     Death...............................................+ PM

maire de

Paris   Le Sage      Confinement.........................................O  P

Loiseau      Death, with delay...................................+

Châles       Death...............................................+  P

Fremenger    Death...............................................+

Giroust      "Having no power to vote but as a legislator, I am

"for detention."....................................O  I

Bourgeois    Confinement.........................................O

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82. FINISTERRE (QUIMPER)

Boham        Death...............................................+

Blad         Death...............................................+  I

Guernoi      Death...............................................+

Guermeur     Death...............................................+

Gommaire     "Considering the past events which I have seen,

"considering the present events which I now behold,

"and considering those future events which I

"apprehend, I am of opinion that the life of Louis

"is of more value to the republic than his death."..O

Marcè        Confinement and banishment..........................O

Queince      Confinement and transportation......................O

Kervelegan   "I am of the same opinion as the last.".............O

Kleber       Confinement.........................................O

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83. LE GARD (NISMES)

Jal          Death...............................................+

Leyris       Death...............................................+

Vouland      Death...............................................+  P

Chazal,      Death...............................................+  I

fils

Tavernel     "Death, but not until after the ratification of the

"constitution.".....................................O

Aubry        The same............................................O  P

Rabaut-      The same............................................O  G

pommier

Balla        Confinement.........................................O

The Names of the above-mentioned Voters in alphabetical order.

N.B. The figures refer to the page.

Alasseur     212 Baudran      156 Bolot         185 Carpentier le 165

Albert       182 Bansio       213 Bonguyode     157 Carpentier    173

Albite       188 Baux         206 Bonnemain     205 Carra         185

Alboys       162 Bazire       213 Bonnesoeur    165 Casabianca    213

Allafort     217 Bayle        207 Bonnet        153 Caseneuve     201

Alquier      188 Beauchamp    201 Bonnet        208 Casenave      181

Amar         156 Beaugeard    154 Bonnet        159 Castillon     153

Ambermèuil   194 Beauprè      174 Bonnet        205 Cazanies      181

Amyon        157 Beauvais     176 Bonneval      168 Caze          153

Andrèe       213 Becker       171 Bordas        197 Cavaignan     162

Andrè (St.)  161 Beffroy      200 Borel         201 Cayla         162

Anguis       192 Belin        200 Borie         212 Chabanon      210

Ansy         162 Bellegarde   210 Boucher       176 Chabot        159

Antiboul     194 Belleville   209 Boucheron     200 Châles        221

Anthoine     171 Bentabole    182 Boudin        155 Chaillon      160

Aoust        173 Bezaud       184 Bouillerot    220 Chambon       212

Arbagast     183 Bergoin      153 Bouquier      218 Champeaux     215

Armonville   166 Bernard      190 Bourbotte     199 Champigny     156

Artigoyte D' 158 Bernard      210 Bourdon       161 Charbonier    194

Asselin      193 Bernard St.      Bourdon       174 Charlier      166

Aubert       163  Afrique     207 Bourgeois     189 Charrel       156

Aubry        223 Bernier      191 Bourgeois     221 Chasset       183

Audoin       187 Berthier     214 Bourges (de)  217 Chatelain     199

Audrein      170 Bertucat     186 Bousquet      152 Chaumont      154

Aulnay de l' 164 Besson       218 Boussion      162 Chauvier      185

Aulnay de l' 164 Bezere       174 Boutrone      186 Chaux (la)    160

Azema        205 Billaud Va-      Boygnes       162 Chazal        223

B.           rennes      175 Brèard        211 Chazàud       210

Babey        158 Bion         196 Brisson       159 Chedanau      210

Bailly de Ju-    Biroteau     181 Breson        197 Chenier       187

illy       190 Bissy        167 Bretel        165 Chevalier     186

Baland       197 Blad         222 Breton (le)   154 Chevalier     201

Bailleuil    189 Blanc        166 Brissot       221 Chiappe       213

Ballivet     185 Blanval      178 Brival        212 Choudieu      164

Balla        223 Blaux        172 Brun          210 Christiani    183

Bancal       178 Blondel      204 Brunel        153 Claverie      162

Bar          171 Blutel       190 Brunerie (la) 211 Clauzel       204

Baraillon    217 BOdin        156 Buzot         220 Cledel        161

Barbaroux    207 Bodin        204       C.          Clerc (le)    159

Barety       201 Bodot        185 Calès         151 Clerc le)     164

Barras       194 Boham        222 Calon         173 Cloots        174

Barrere      179 Boileau      199 Cambacerès    153 Cochet        173

Baroche      169 Boisset      219 Cambon        153 Cochon        191

Barrott      163 Boissi-D'An-     Camboulas     206 Cointe-pui

Barthelemy   159   glas       203 Campmartin    204  -raveau (le) 191

Bas (le)     177 Boissiere la 161 Campmas       193 Cointre (le)  187

Bassal       187 BOissieu     157 Camus         159 Collau de la

Baucheton    212 Bollet       177 Cappin        152  Salcette     219

Collot           Derasey      155      E.          Gamon          203

d'Herbois   175 Descamps     152 Echasseriaux 211 Gantois        193

Colombel     174 Desmoulins   175 Egalitè      177 Garan

Combe (la)   206 Despinassy   194 Enlard       177  -coulon       161

Combe St.        Desrouais    174 Engerrand    165 Gardien        155

Michel (la) 193 Devars       210 Enjubault    167 Garilhe        203

Condorcet    200 Deydier      199 Ermann       183 Garnier        205

Comte        180 Dirès        158 Escudier     194 Garnier        211

Corbel       170 Dorisy       164 Esni         167 Garnot         177

Cordier      190 Dormier      185 Espert       204 Garros         195

COrinfustier 203 Doublet      189 Eusset       184 Gasparin       207

Coste (la)   209 Douge        205      F           Gaston         204

Couhey       197 Doulcet      209 Fabre        153 Gaudin         195

Couppè       173 Drouet       166 Fabre        181 Gautier        199

Couppè       215 Drulhe       151 Fabre d'Eg -     Gautier        216

Courtois     204 Dubarran     152  lantine     176 Gayet          163

Coustard     160 Dubibgnon    154 Fauchet      208 Gayvernon      197

Couthon      178 Dubois       174 Faure        189 Gazeau         152

Coutisson    217 Dubois       182 Faure        159 Gelin          185

Couturier    172 Dubois       203 Faye         197 Genevois       156

Crampe (la)  179 Dubois-Du-       Faye         195 Genissieu      156

Creuzè-la-        bais        208 Fayolle      219 Gensonnè       152

Tonche      196 Dubouchet    183 Fermont      154 Gentil         161

Creuzè-pas-      Dubreuil     191 Ferrand      179 Gèrente        219

chal        196 Duchatel     192 Ferry        203 Geoffroy       191

Croix (de la)166 Ducos        152 Ferroux      157 Gertoux        180

Croix (la)   197 Ducos        158 Fevre (le)   160 Gervais-fauvè  165

Croix (la)   221 Dufestel     192 Finot        199

Curèe        153 Dugêne       212 Fiot (le)    172 Gibergues      178

Cussy        209 Duguè-dassy  174 Figuet       200 Gillet         171

Cuvelier     210 Duhem        173 Flageas      159 Girard         195

D.           Dumont       192 Fleury       217 Girard         205

Damrobe      172 Dumont       209 Florent-lou-     Girot-pou-zol  179

D'Andenac    164 Duperret     208  vet         192

D'Andenac    164 Dupin        200 Fockedey     173 Giraud         211

Dannon       179 Duplantier   153 Fonfrede     152 Giraud         216

Danton       175 Dupont       155 Forest       184 Giroust        221

David        176 Dupont       179 Fouchè       160 Gleizal        202

D'Autriche   211 Duprat       207 Foucher      211 Godefroy       174

Debrie       199 Dupuis       183 Fournel      162 Gommaire       222

De Chezeau   211 Dupuis       188 Fourney      175 Goudelin       216

Delamare     174 Duquesnoi    177 Fournier     184 Goupilleau     195

Delbret      162 Durand-mail-     Foussedoire  159 Goupilleau     195

Delaguelle   160  lane        208 Franc (le)   158 Gourdan        184

Delcher      159 Duroy        220 France (de)  191 Gorsas         188

Delahaye     190 Dussault     176 Fremenger    221 Goussuin       173

Delecloy     192 Dutroubour-      Freron       176 Gourry         193

Delmas       151  nier        196 Fressine     159 Granet         207

Dentzell     183 Duval        154 Froger       186 Grangeneuve    152

Derbes-la-       Duval        190      G.

tour        202 Duval        205 Gadroy       158 Gregoire       159

Grenot       157 Jeune (le)    155 Loiseau      221 Mellinet      160

Guadet       152 Jeune (le)    167 Loisel       200 Mercier       187

Guerin       161 Joannot       182 L'onde       215 Merlin        172

Guermeur     222 Jourdan       172 Lozeau       211 Merlin        173

Guernoi      222 Jouenne       208 Louchet      206 Merlin        199

Guffroy      177 Julien        151 Loue (la)    178 Meyer         194

Guillardin   166 Julien        219 Louis        182 Meynard       218

Guillermin   185 Just (St.)    200 Louvet       192 Meseujac      210

Guilmardet   185      K.           Louvet       161 Michaud       218

Guilrault    172 Kersaint      187       M.         Michel        169

Guinberteau  210 Kervelegan    222 Maignen      195 Michel        171

Guire (la)   152 Kleber        222 Maignan (le) 164 Michel        184

Guyès        216      L.           Magniez      178 Milhan        209

Guyomard     216 Lacoste       217 Maignet      181 Moine (le)    165

Guyot        214 Laignelot     176 Mailhe       151 Mollet        199

Guyrot       219 Lakanal       204 Maille       210 Molveau       168

Guyter       181 Lafond        212 Mailland         Mounel        166

Guyton-mor-      Lambert       214  Durand      218 Monnot        218

veau        213 Lambert       217 Mailland (le)171 Moneson       204

H.         Lalande       169 Maillv       185 Monestier     163

Hardy        189 Lanjuinais    154 Mainville    155 Monestier     178

Hardi (le)   170 Lannot        212 Maysse       202 Montant       151

Harmand      170 Lanthenas     183 Malarmè      168 Montégot      181

Hauffmann    188 Laroche       163 Manuel       176 Montey (le)   158

Havin        165 Laurence      165 Marat        175 Montgilbert   185

Hecquet      190 Lauranceot    157 Marbos       219 Montmayan     162

Herard       199 Laure (du)    178 Marcè        222 Moreau        185

Herault de       Laurent       207 Marcy        214 Moreau        169

Sechelles   188 Lefevre       190 Marèchal (le)220 Morin         206

Himbert      190 Lecointre     187 Mariette     189 Morisson      195

Homond L'    209 Lecointe-         Marque (la)  217 Mottedo,      213

Hosdiniere   174  puyraveau    191 Marquis      170 Moulin        184

Houilliere de164 Laurent       182 Marragon     206 Moysset       152

Hubert       165 Laurent       163 Martel       201 Musset        195

Hugo         198 Legendre      172 Martin St.   203       N.

Huguet       216 Legendre      175 Martin St.       Nentz         171

Humbert      170 Legot         209  Prix        193 Neveu         180

I./J.          LequiniO      174 Martin St.       Nioche        155

Ingrand      196 Lesterp-           valogues    217 Nion          210

Isabeau      156  beauvais     196 Martineau    196 Noël          198

Isnard       194 Letourneur    186 Martinet     219 Noël pointe   183

Izoard       201 L'Eveque      183 Marvejols    194 Noguer        163

Izore        174 Levasseur     168 Massieu      174       0.

Jacomin      219 Levasseur     186 Mauduit      190 Obelin        154

Jal          223 Leyris        223 Maure        198 Official (L') 191

Jard pan-        Leyze (de)    152 Mauld        210 OpOiX         191

viller      191 Lidon         212 Mauzel       154 Osselin       176

Jarrv        160 Lindet        220 Marade       151 Oudot         214

Jaurand      217 Lindet        220 Masuyer      185       P.

Jay          152 Lobinès       207 Meaulle      160 Paganel       162

Jehon        152 Loi (la)      167 Meillant     180 Page (le)     161

Panis         176 Primaudiere   186 Ruamps       211 Thomas       174

Pastoret      154 Projean       151 Ruelle       155 Thomas       176

Padrin        184 Prost         157 Rudelle      178 Thuriot      166

Paux (le)     164 Prunel        157      S.          Tocquot      170

Payne         178 Pryese        173 Sacy (de)    151 Topsent      211

Pelissier     207     Q.            Sage (le)    221 Tournier     206

Pellè         161 Queince       222 Saladin      192 ToUrneur le  165

Pellet        163 Quinette      199 Salicetti    213 Treilhard    187

Pelletier, le 198      R.           Salle        168 Treilhard    214

Peltier       212 Rabaut pom-       Salleles     162 Turreau      199

Pemartin      180  mier         223 Sallengtos   173     V.

Penieres      212 Rabaut St.        Salmon       186 Vadier       204

Pepin         155  Etienne      205 Sanadon      180 Valazè       174

Perard        164 Raffron       176 Savornin     202 Valdruche    167

Peraldi       213 Rameau        215 Santeyra     219 Valleè       221

Perès         151 Ramel         205 Saurine      159 Valogues     207

Perès         206 Randon        163 Savary       221 Vardon       208

Perrin        197 Raynault      159 Saustrault   172 Varlet       177

Perrin        205 Rèal          156 Scellier     192 Vatelier     166

Personne      178 Rebecqui      207 Seconds      206 Vaublanc     157

Pethion       221 Reguis        202 Seguin       219 Venaille     159

Petit         200 Reverchon     185 Senault      173 Vergniault   152

Peussard      217 Rewbell       182 Serjeant     176 Verdallin    202

Peuvergne     209 Ribereau      210 Serres       201 Viritè (de)  193

Peyz          202 Ribet         165 Serveau      167 Vermond      204

Pflieger      182 Ricard        194 Serviere     163 Vernety      218

Phelippeaux   186 Richard       186 Servonat     156 Vernier      157

Picquè        180 Richou        220 Sevestre     154 Vicomterie

Pierret       205 Ritter        182 Siblot       184  (la)        175

Pilastre      164 Rivaud        197 Sillery      193 Vidalin      201

Pinel         165 Rivery        193 Simon        183 Vidalot      162

Pinet         217 Rhull         183 Soloniac     194 Vicunet      153

Piozzy        196 Robert        176 Soubeyran    202 Vigneron     185

Plaichart         Robert        203 Soubrany     178 Viguy        191

chottiere    168 Robin         204 Souhait      197 Villars      167

Plaigne (la)  151 Robespierre   175 Soulignac    197 Villiers (de)166

Planche (la)  172 Robespierre   176 Source (la)  193 Villers      160

Pocholles     188 Roche-gude    194 Syeyes       186 Villette     174

Poisson       165 Rocher (du)   194      T.          Vigèe        156

Pons          169 Romme         178 Taillefer    217 Vincent      188

Porcher       155 Rouault       171 Tallien      187 Vinet        211

Porte (la)    182 Roubaud       194 Tarriè       209 Vilet        184

Portier       174 Rovere        207 Taveau       208 Vouland      223

Potrier       155 Rousseau      167 Tavernel     223      W.

Poulain       166 Roussel       169 Tellier      190 Wandelin

Poulain grand     Roux          167 Tenier       217  -court      167

Prè          197 Roux-fazillac 218 Thibaut      155      Y.

Poultier      173 Rouzet        151 Thibault     209 Yger         190

Precy         199 Rouyer        153 Thibaudot    196 Ysarn Godf.  206

Pressavin     183 Royer         199 Thierrier    204      Z.

Prieur        166 Royt          187 Thirion      171 Zangiacomi   169

Prieur        214 Rualt         189

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RESULT OF THE THIRD SCRUTINY.

PRESIDENT VERGNIAULT.

"CITIZENS!

"I am going to pronounce the sentence of rigour against Louis. "When justice has spoken, humanity should then make her voice heard. "I intreat the members and the tribune to observe profound silence. "The assembly is composed of 745 members: 1 of these is dead—6 are "sick—2 absent without assigning any reason—11 are absent with "leave—4 have not voted; the total is 24, which, being deducted "from 745, there remain 721 voters, of whom the absolute majority is "361.

"36 are for death, leaving the time of it to be discussed hereafter.

"9 for death, with respite.

"2 for death, after a peace.

"2 for chains.

"319 for confinement.

"366 for death.

"CITIZENS,

"The punishment pronounced against Louis is DEATH."

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THE APPEAL OF LOUIS XVI.

"I OWE it to my honour, I owe it to my family, not to subscribe to an "accusation which I have not merited. I declare therefore, that I "bring an appeal to the nation at large from the judgment passed "against me; and I give to my defenders all necessary powers, in "order that this present appeal may be inserted in the Journals of "the Convention."

Refused!

The ADDRESS of Mons. DE SEZE, one of the defenders of the King,

to the Convention.

"THE ratification by the French people, which Louis demands,

"is the exercise of a natural and sacred right which belongs to

"every person accused; it is the right of every man, and

"consequently of Louis.  If we did not prefer this claim in his

"defence, it was because it was not in our power to foresee that the

"National Convention would resolve upon judging him; or, if it did

"judge him, that it would condemn him.  We now learn, that the fatal

"decree, which condemns Louis to death, has been carried by a

"majority of five votes only.  Permit me, Citizens, to represent to

"you, in the name of humanity, in the name of that sacred principle

"which calls for every mitigation in favour of the accused, that this

"circumstance, so very extraordinary, may well engage you

"voluntarily to accede to the proposed ratification.  I demand it in

"the name of justice, in the name of our country, in the name of

"humanity.  Exercise your own high powers; but do not astonish France

"by the exhibition of a judgment that must appear terrible, when the

"surprising minority comes to be considered.

"Citizens, permit me to adjure you once more in the name of "Louis XVI. and to conclude with suggesting to you, whether, whilst "you are contending for the security of the nation, and its real "interest, you will not tremble, when you reflect, that the safety of "the republic, the Security of the French empire, and the happiness "of 25 millions of people, may possibly depend upon five votes."

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FOURTH APPEL NOMINAL.

THE object of this fourth appeal was to know whether the execution of Louis might be deferred; 310 were for respite, and 380 against it. Thus, by a majority of 70 votes, it was decreed, that the sentence against Louis XVI. should be executed without delay.

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THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI.

21st JANUARY, 1793.

THE minister of justice and the heads of the administrative corps, having proceeded to the Temple on Sunday the 20th of January, about four in the evening, notified to Louis the warrant for his execution. "I demand," said the King, "a respite of three days to "prepare myself for appearing before God. To assist me in this work, "I desire to have Mr. Edgeworth, (an Irish clergyman) with whom I may "freely communicate. I desire that he may be secured from all "uneasiness, or apprehension, on account of this charitable office "which he shall perform for me. I desire to be relieved from that "perpetual watch which the council-general has set over me for some "days. I demand in this interval the privilege of seeing my family "when I shall desire it, and without witnesses. I could also wish, "that the Convention would, as speedily as may be, set about "determining the fate of my family, and permit them to see each other "freely and commodiously, when they shall think proper.

"I recommend to the liberality of the nation all those persons who "have been attached to me. Among my pensioners there are many aged "men, women, and children, who have no other means of subsistence."

Of all there requisitions Louis obtained only that of seeing his family without witnesses. It was the first time since his imprisonment. The interview lasted two hours. It is impossible to express the horror of the moment, when he was obliged to tear himself away from them. On his return to his apartment, the King passed a almost the whole of the night in prayer. He then laid down and slept a few hours, and early in the morning betook himself again to prayer.

The 21st of January, at half past eight o'clock, Santerre, the commandant-general, came to signify to Louis the order for his going to execution. Having requested three minutes to speak with his confessor, he then turned to Santerre, and told him that he was ready to follow him.

The King crossed the first court of the Temple on foot; he then entered the coach of Pethion, the mayor of Paris, with his Confessor and two Gendarmes. His route lay along, the Boulevards, which were lined with above two hundred thousand men in arms. All the way Louis was deeply engaged in reading the prayers appointed for persons at the point of death.

Being, arrived at the Place de Louis XV. which was the place of execution, about ten o'clock in the morning, he alighted from the carriage with calmness, took off his clothes himself, remaining in his white under-waistcoat, untied his cravat, and opened the collar of his shirt; he then threw himself upon his knees to receive the last benediction of his Confessor, got up immediately after, and ascended the scaffold alone. At that moment his Confessor cried out to him, "Son of St. Louis, you are going up to Heaven!" [Footnote; Other accounts state, that it was when the King had just prepared himself for the stroke of the fatal instrument, that Mons. Edgeworth, his confessor, called out (in the imperative) with a loud voice, "Enfant de Saint Louis, montez au Ciel." "Son of St. Louis, mount up "to Heaven."]

Far from opposing those who came to cut off his hair, and bind his hands, " Do with me," said he, "what you will, it is the last "sacrifice." He then made a motion with his hand to obtain "silence.—"I die perfectly innocent of all the pretended crimes laid "to my charge—I forgive all those who have had any hand in my "misfortunes, and I pray that my blood may be of use in restoring "happiness to France—and you, unhappy people!" ......

At these words, the unfeeling Santerre gave orders that the drums should beat, crying out to the King, "that he had not brought him "there to declaim, but to die." At that instant his head was severed from his body! ......

The corpse was immediately conveyed to the Magdalene burying-ground, and thrown into a pit twelve feet deep, into which a considerable quantity of quicklime was cast.

It is said, that after crying out, "Vive la Nation!" "Vive la Republique!" some volunteers dipped their pikes, and others their handkerchiefs, in the blood of the victim. One person alone had the courage to cry out, Grace, and was instantly cut down with a sabre.

Thus died Louis XVI. King of France and Navarre. He was born the 23d of August, 1754, ascended the throne the 10th of May, 1774, and reigned eighteen years and three months.

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The following dates relative to the destiny of this prince have

been brought together and contrasted.

21st April, 1770, Marriage of Louis at Vienna, and delivery of the

ring.

21st June, 1770, Great rejoicings at Paris on account of his

marriage.

21st January, 1772, Festival doings in the city on account of the

birth of the first Dauphin.

21st June, 1791, The King's departure, or rather flight to

Varennes.

21st September, 1792, Abolition of Royalty.

21st January, 1793, Louis beheaded.

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THE LAST WILL OF LOUIS XVI.

IN the name of the most holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, this day, the 25th of December, 1792, I, Louis XVI. by name, King of France, having been four months shut up with my family in the Tower of the Temple, at Paris, by those who were my subjects, and deprived of all communication whatever, even, since the 11th of this month, with my family; being moreover involved in a trial, of which it is impossible to foresee the issue, on account of the passions of men, and for which there is no pretence nor motive in any existing law, having none but God for witness to my thoughts, and to whom I can address myself, I here declare, in his presence, my last will and sentiments.

I leave my soul to GOD my creator; I beseech him to receive it in his mercy; not to judge it according to its merits, but to those of our Lord Jesus Christ, who offered himself as a sacrifice to GOD his Father for us men, unworthy of it as we are, and I more than any.

I die in the faith of our holy mother the catholic, apostolic, and Roman Church, which derives her powers in an uninterrupted succession from St. Peter, to whom Jesus Christ had entrusted them; I firmly believe and acknowledge all that is contained in the apostles' creed, the commandments of God, and of the church; the sacraments and mysteries, such the Catholic Church teaches, and has always taught them; I never pretended, to be a judge of the different modes of explaining the dogmas which divide the church of Jesus Christ; but I have always trusted, and shall always trust, if God grants me life, to the decisions that the ecclesiastical superiors, together with the holy catholic church, give and shall give, according to the discipline of the church since Jesus Christ. I pity with all my heart our brethren who may be in error, but I do not pretend to judge them; nor do I love them the less in Jesus Christ, according to what christian charity teaches us, and I pray God to forgive me all my sins: I have scrupulously sought to know them, to detest them, and to humble myself in his presence. Not being permitted to make use of the ministry of a catholic priest, I pray God to receive the confession which I have made to him of them; and above all, my sincere repentance for having put my name (though against my will) to acts that may be contrary to the discipline and faith of the catholic church, to which I have always been sincerely and faithfully united. I pray God to accept my firm resolution, if he grants me life, to make use as soon as possible of the ministry of a catholic priest, that I may accuse myself of all my sins, and receive the sacrament of penance. I beseech all those whom I may have inadvertently offended, (for I do not remember to have knowingly given offence to any person) and those to whom I may have given bad examples, or caused scandal, to forgive the injuries they think I may have done them.

I implore all charitable persons to join their prayers to mine, to obtain from God the pardon of my sins; I, with all my heart, forgive those who are become my enemies, although I have not given them any reason to be so; and I beseech God to forgive them, as well as those who, through a false or mistaken zeal, have brought many misfortunes on me.

I recommend to God, my wife and children; my sisters, my aunts, my brothers, and all those who are attached to me, either by the ties of blood, or in any other way whatever. I particularly beseech God to cast a merciful eye on my wife, my children, and my sister, who have long suffered with me, to support them by his grace, if they should happen to lose me, and as long as they remain in this perishable world.

I recommend my children to my wife; I never doubted her maternal tenderness for them. I above all recommend to her to make them good christians, and honest people; to make them consider the grandeurs of this world (if they be condemned to possess them) only as dangerous and perishable possessions, and to direct their attention to Eternity, the only solid and durable glory. I beg of my sister to continue her tenderness to my children, and to be a mother to them, if they should have the misfortune of losing her who is such.

I intreat my wife to forgive me all the afflictions she suffers for my sake, and the sorrows I may have given her in the course of our union; as she may be certain that I have no fault to find with her, even where she may think she has cause to reproach herself.

I earnestly recommend to my children, after what they owe to God, (which is the first of all duties) to live always in harmony with one another, to be submissive and obedient to their mother, and grateful to her for all the care and trouble she takes for them out of regard to my memory. I desire them to consider my sister as their second mother.

I recommend to my Son, if he has the misfortune to become King, to remember that he owes himself entirely to his fellow citizens; that he must forget all hatred and resentment, and particularly all that relates to the misfortunes and afflictions that I endure; that he can only make the people happy by reigning according to the laws, but at the same time, that a King cannot make himself respected, and do all the good he wishes, without having the necessary authority; and that otherwise, being restrained in his operations, and not inspiring respect, he is rather hurtful than useful.

I recommend to my son to take as much care of all those persons who were attached to me, as the circumstances he may be in will allow him; to recollect that it is a sacred debt which I have contracted towards the children or the relations of those who have died for me, and those who suffer for my sake. I know that there are several persons among those who ought to have been attached to me, who have not acted towards me as they ought, and have even been ungrateful towards me; but I forgive them, (often in time of trouble and confusion, men are not masters of themselves) and I beg my son, if he finds the opportunity, to think only of their misfortunes.

I wish I could here give a testimony of my gratitude to those who have shown a true and disinterested affection for me. If, on the one hand, I have been sensibly affected with the ingratitude and disloyalty of those, to whom I had shewn at all times only kindness to them, their relations, or friends; on the other hand, I have had the consolation to receive proofs of disinterested affection and regard from several others. I beg them to accept my best thanks.

In the present state of things, I should fear to expose them if I spoke more explicitly; but I particularly recommend to my son to embrace every opportunity of discovering them.

Nevertheless, I think I should wrong the national feeling, if I were not openly to recommend to my son Messieurs De Chamilly and Hue, whose sincere affection for me induced them to shut themselves up with me in this melancholy abode, and who ran the risque (sic) of being the unfortunate victims of their attachment. I also recommend Cleri, with whose attentions I have had all reasons to be satisfied ever since he has been with me. As he is the person who has remained with me to the last, I request Messieurs de la Commune to give him my clothes, my books, and the other trifles which have been deposited at the Council of the Commune.

I also very willingly forgive those who guarded me, for their ill treatment, and the constraint which they thought necessary to keep me under. I have found some feeling and compassionate minds; may they enjoy in their hearts the pleasure that their turn of thinking must afford them.

I request Messieurs De Malsherbes, Tronchet, and De Seze, to receive my best thanks, and assurances of my gratitude for all the care and attention they have shown me.

I conclude with declaring before GOD, being ready to appear before him, that I cannot reproach myself with any of those crimes that have been laid to my charge.

Made and copied in the Tower of the Temple, the 25th of December, 1792.

(Signed)           LOUIS.

And undersigned BEAUDRAIS, Municipal Officer.

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A LIST OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS UNDER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Note. The letter R at the head of a name Signifies Revolutionary; D means doubtful, i.e. a character not fully known; L signifies Loyalist, and an innocent victim. The letters at the end of a name signify A assassinated; I imprisoned; G guillotined; M massacred; P proscribed; S suicide.

L  De Favras, knight of the order of St. Louis                      G

R  De Clermont-Tonnere, marèschal of France, ex-constituent; that

is, member of the first national assembly                        M

L  De Clermont-d'Amboise, cordon bleu; i.e. knight of the Holy

Ghost                                                            G

L  D'Halouville, sub-governor of the dauphin                        M

L  Le Vicomte de Maillè, marèschal-de-camp                          M

R  Le Due de la Rochefoucault, ex-constituent                       M

L  Le Vicomte de Broves, colonel, ex-constituent                    M

L  The celebrated Durosoy, compiler of the Paris Gazette            G

L  Delaporte, intendant of the civil list                           G

L  L'Abbè Rastignac, an author and ex-constituent                   M

L  L'Abbè Lenfant, preacher to the King                             M

L  The prisoners of the Convent des Carmes, to the number of 140    M

L  The prisoners of l'Abbaye St. Germain, to the number of 162      M

L  The prisoners in seminary of St. Fermin, to the number of 92     M

D  The prisoners in the Hotel de la Force, 167                      M

D  The prisoners of the Grand Chatelet, 214                         M

D  The prisoners in the Conciergerie, 85                            M

D  The prisoners of the Castle of Bicêtre, 153                      M

L  The prisoners of the Cloister of the Bernardins, 73              M

L  The prisoners from Orleans butchered at Versailles, 57           M

L  Le Comte de Montmorin, minister and secretary of state           M

L  Dulau, Archbishop of Arles                                       M

L  De la Rochefoucault, bishop of Beauvais                          M

L  De la Rochefoucault, bishop of Saintes                           M

L  L'Abbè de Puysegur, vicar-general of Rheims                      M

L  De la Mothe, body-guard of the Count D'Artois                    M

L  The Princess de Lamballe                                         M

L  The Marquis de Montmorin, governor of Fontainebleau              M

L  Delessart, minister and secretary of state                       M

L  The Duke de Brissac, marèchal de France                          M

L  The bishop of Mendes                                             M

R  Mounier, president of the constituent assembly                   P

R  The two brothers Lameth, ex-constituents                         P

R  All the members du cotè gauche of the first assembly, i.e.

those who were originally for the revolution, and distinguished

themselves by sitting on the left side of the hall               P

Louis XVI. the object of lamentation to every true Frenchman     G

R  Basseville, agent of the republic at Rome                        M

R  General Marquis de la Fayette, ex-constituent                    I

R  General Winphen, ex-constituent                                  P

L  The Marquis d'Angremont                                          G

L  De Blackmann, major of the Swiss guards                          G

L  De Cazotte, a man of letters, upwards of 80 years of age         G

R  General Montesquieu, ex-constituent                              P

R  The celebrated Count Mirabeau, expelled from the pantheon.

(Depantheonisè.)

R  Chabroud, advocate to the Duke of Orleans, ex-constituent        P

D  Le Comte de Tally Tollendal, ex-constituent                      P

D  Le Comte de Cazalès, ex-constituent                              P

D  Baron de Beaumarchais, author of Figaro                          P

L  D'Abancourt, minister of war                                     M

R  Duperron, administrator of police                                M

L  Thierry, principal valet de chambre of the King                  M

L  Chantraine, master of the wardrobe to the King                   M

D  De Rhuliers, commandant of the household cavalry, (la

gendarmerie a cheval)                                            M

L  Dom. Chevreux, general of the benedictines                       M

L  De St. Palaye, counsellor (sic) of the chamber of accompts       M

L  Maussabrê, aide-du-camp to the Duke de Brissac                   M

R  Desmarais, chief in the office of assignats                      M

R  Amelot, director of the Caisse de l'Extra-ordinaire              M

R  Garat, cashier of the public treasure                            M

L  Hèbert, general of the Eudists, (a monastic order) and confessor

to the King                                                      M

L  Deprès, vicar-general of Paris                                   M

L  Langlade, vicar-general of Rouen                                 M

L  Bonneau, vicar-general of Lyons                                  M

L  Defoucault, vicar-general of Arles                               M

L  Defargue vicar-general of Toulon                                 M

L  Delubersac, almoner to the King's sisters                        M

L  Turmenyes, grand master of Navarre                               M

L  Comte de St. Mart, colonel                                       M

L  Dewittgestein, lieutenant-general and cordon rouge, i.e.      commander of the order of St. Louis                              M

L  The Abbè de Boisgelin, agent-general of the clergy of France     M

L  Thirty Swiss officers                                            M

L  De Rohan Chabot, brother of the Prince of Lèon                   M

L  Dechamplost, principal valet de chambre of the King              M

L  Thirty officers of the King's guards                             M

D  Romainvilliers, chef de division                                 M

L  Decharnois, a man of letters                                     M

D  Delachesnaye, chef de division                                   M

R  General Dumourier                                                P

R  De Bournonville, minister of war                                 I

R  General Dillon                                                   M

R  The two sons of the Duke of Orleans                              P

L  De Blanchelande, governor of St. Domingo                         G

R  De Perigord, bishop of Autun, first author of the schism in

France                                                           P

R  Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Marat                         G

R  General Paoli, of Corsica                                        P

R  General Custine, ex-constituent                                  G

R  The intruding bishop of Ausch                                    P

R  General Guetineau                                                G

R  General Servan                                                   P

R  General Biron                                                    G

L  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France                                G

R  The Duke of Orleans, called Egalitè                              G

R  Bailly, ex-constituent and first mayor of                        G

R  Roland minister of justice at the time of the King's trial       S

R  Madame Roland, his wife                                          G

L  Duchesne, intendant of Madame                                    G

R  General Houchard                                                 G

R  General Roulè                                                    G

L  Gilbert Desvoisins, president of the parliament of Paris         G

R  Ysambert, brigadier-general of the republican army               G

D  The two brothers Raba, Jews of Bourdeaux, worth a million        G

D  The mother-in-law, of Pethion, the mayor of Paris                G

R  General Brunet                                                   G

L  Delaverdy, comptroller-general of the finances                   G

L  About thirty thousand French gentlemen emigrated.

L  Near sixty thousand ecclesiastics transported out of France

R  General la Morliere                                              G

L  De Bèrulle, first president of the parliament of Grenoble        G

D  Harrop of London, a merchant in Paris                            G

R  Barnave, advocate, ex-constituent                                G

R  Duport-dutertre, ex-minister of justice                          G

R  Emmery, president at the time of administering the oath; a jew   G

L  The Countess du Barry, mistress of Louis XV.                     G

D  The Duke du Chatelet, colonel of the French guards               G

R  Le Brun, ex-minister of the home department                      G

D  Dietrick, mayor of Strasbourg                                    G

R  General Arthur Dillon                                            G

R  General Beauregard                                               P

R  Garat, minister of the republic                                  G

R  Champfort, of the French academy                                 S

R  Hydius, deputé suppleant, i.e. one chosen to supply a vacancy  S

R  Clavieres, minister of public contributions                      S

R  Luckner, revolutionary marshal of France                         G

D  The son of General Custine, aged 25 years                        G

R  General Stengel                                                  P

R  Delomenie, archbishop of Sens, decardinalisè, degraded from

the dignity of cardinal                                          S

L  De Champenetre, an officer of the French guards                  G

R  General Ferriere                                                 P

D  Jolly, ex-minister of finances                                   P

L  Boucher d'Argis, lieutenant criminel (sic) Chatelet de Paris     G

R  General la Vallette                                              P

R  General 0-moran                                                  P

R  General Beauharnois                                              P

R  General Ferrand                                                  P

R  General Landremont                                               P

R  General Schomberg                                                G

R  General Beysser                                                  G

R  General Hedonville                                               P

R  General Dumesnil                                                 P

R  General Demars                                                   P

R  General Barthelemy                                               P

R  General Protaux                                                  M

L  Clery, a person in the King's confidence                         I

R  Anacharsis Cloots, called the orator of mankind                  G

R  Chauvelin, ambassador in England                                 P

R  General Duhoux                                                   P

L  Some thousands of victims at Lyons                               G

L  Similar victims in thousands at Toulon                           G

L  The Countess of Lauraguais                                       G

L  The Count of Troussebois, lieutenant-colonel                     G

L  The Prince Jules de Rohan                                        I

L  The Duke and Duchess of Luynes                                   I

L  The Duchess of Montmorency                                       I

R  General Le Tanducre                                              I

R  General D'Ortoman                                                I

L  De Levis, marshal of France                                      I

L  The Prince Charles of Hesse D'Armstadt                           I

L  Gueau de Reverseau, intendant of the finances                    G

R  The Countess de Genlis                                           P

R  General Westermann                                               G

L  The Duchess of Richlieu                                          I

L  Duchaffaud, lieutenant-general of the naval forces               M

R  La Mourette, intruding bishop of Lyons                           G

L  Maussion intendant of Rouen                                      G

L  The Countess de la Rochefoucault                                 G

R  Chapelier, advocate at Rennes, ex-constituent                    G

R  Viscount de la Roque                                             G

L  Count de Chateau-vieux, cordon-rouge                             G

R  Charrier de la Roche, intruding bishop of Rouen                  G

R  De Quincon, ex-constituent                                       G

R  Buffet, ex-constituent                                           G

R  Perisse du Luc, ex-constituent                                   G

L  The Princess of Monaco                                           I

L  Countess of Choiseul                                             I

R  General Carteaux                                                 I

D  Count de Choiseul la Baume                                       I

L  Marquis of Briant, lieutenant-general in the King's army         I

L  Le Marquis de Pujet                                              G

R  Hèbert, national agent                                           G

R  Roncin, commander of the revolutionary army                      G

R  Montmoro, administrator of the department of Paris               G

R  Dubuisson, commissary of the executive power                     G

L  Comte de Balleroy, lieutenant-general                            G

R  Gouttes, intruding bishop of Autun                               G

L  De Champcenetz, governor of the Tuilleries                       I

R  Antonelle, mayor of Arles, ex-constituent                        I

R  General Santerre                                                 I

R  Deforgues, minister of the republic                              I

R  The Abbè d'Espagnac                                              G

L  De Chamberon, carmelite of St. Denis                             G

L  Dom. Courtin, superior general of Clugny                         G

L  De Tourzell governess of the royal children                      I

L  De Tourzel, the son and daughter of the foregoing                I

L  Le Comte de Querhoent, marechal du camp                          G

L  De Vergennes, formerly minister of foreign affairs               I

L  De Vergennes, his son                                            I

L  La Tour du Pin, formerly minister at war                         I

L  Madame Chauvelin de la Bourdonnois                               I

L  The Duchess de Charost                                           I

R  Clavieres, brother of the ex-minister                            I

L  Pelletier de Rosambeau, president of the parliament of Paris     G

L  Devendeuil, director of the India Company                        I

L  Delahaye, farmer-general                                         G

L  The Abbè Maury, brother of the cardinal of that name             G

L  The Countess de Suffren                                          I

L  The Count de Raincourt, lieut.-general                           I

R  Thouret, advocate of Rouen, ex-constituent                       G

L  The Marquis Delamotte-Senoux                                     G

L  The Marquis de St. Germain d'Apehon, colonel                     G

R  Parè, ex-minister of the home-department                         I

R  Gobet, intruding bishop of Paris                                 G

R  Chaumette, procureur of la commune de Paris                      G

R  The wife of Camile Desmoulins, the journalist                    G

R  The wife of Montmoro, the first goddess of reason                G

R  The wife  of Hébert, national agent                              G

R  Grammont, comedian and adjutant in the army                      G

R  Lacroix, commissary of the executive power                       G

R  Chevalier de St. Huruge, a flaming revolutionist                 I

L  Count D'Aubusson, cordon rouge                                   I

R  Van Eupen, a Brabanter                                           G

L  De Sarron, De Gourgues, De Champlatreux and D'Ormessen, all

four presidents of the parliament of Paris                       G

L  The Marquis de la Roche Lambert                                  I

L  Madame de Choiseul-Meuse                                         I

L  De la Borde, banker to the court                                 G

R  General Hoche                                                    I

R  The Duke de Bethune Charost                                      G

L  De Beausset, lawful bishop of Alais                              I

R  Selle, inspector-general of the military effects of the army     G

L  The, Countess de Montmorin                                       I

R  General Ramel                                                    G

R  Vincent, national agent                                          G

L  De Cheville, intendant d'Orleans                                 I

L  Duval D'Esprèmenil, counsellor of the parliament of Paris and

ex-constituent                                                   G

L  Madame Joly de Fleury, lady of the advocate-general              G

L  De Malsherbe, counsellor of state and one of the defenders of

Louis                                                            G

L  Mademoiselle de Malsherbe                                        G

L  Marquis de Chateau Briant                                        G

L  The Marchioness de Chateau Briant                                G

L  Duchess du Chatelet                                              G

L  Duchess de Grammont                                              G

L  Anisson du Perron, printer to the King                           G

L  Mademoiselle de Bethissy, 17 years of age                        I

D  The wife of General Schomberg                                    I

R  The father of General Santerre                                   I

L  The Duke de Villeroy, first captain of the body-guards           G

R  Count D'Estaing, vice-admiral of France                          G

L  Count de la Tour du Pin, lieut.-general                          G

R  Count de Bethune Charost                                         G

D  Count du Prat, colonel                                           G

L  De Crosne, intendant of Rouen, and formerly lieutenant of police

at Paris                                                         G

L  De Nicolai, president of the grand council                       G

L  Angran, lieutenant civil de Paris                                G

L  The Countess du Bussy                                            G

L  Terray, intendant de Lyon                                        G

L  Madame Terray, his lady                                          G

R  Coffinel, solicitor of the Queen's trial, and judge of the

revolutionary tribunal                                           G

L  Troussebois de Bellesise, a canoness, aged 81 years              G

R  Jourdan, of Avignon, surnamed Coupe-tete                         G

R  Grouvelle, agent for Denmark, and registrar of the convention at

the time of the King's death                                     P

R  Le Flotte, minister of the republic                              I

R  Du Fourney, a furious jacobin                                    P

L  Marquis de Choiseul la Baum, and his steward                     G

L  De Willerval, knight of St. Louis                                G

D  Count de Levis, colonel, ex-constituent                          G

R  Picquet, aide-de-camp to General La Fayette                      G

D  The two Tassins, famous bankers in Paris                         G

L  Count de Sombreuil, governor of the invalids, and his son        G

L  The Prince de Rohan Rochefort                                    I

D  The Comte de Laval Montmorency                                   I

R  Servaux, agent to the committee of general safety                I

D  Musquinet de la Fage                                             G

L  Gattey, bookseller in Paris                                      G

D  De Tolozan, general of brigade                                   I

L  Thorin de la Thane, captain in the Swiss guards                  I

L  Gigot Boisbernier, canon of Sens                                 I

L  Ariaque de Guybeville, honorary president of the parliament of

Paris                                                            G

L  Gougenet, governor of the India company                          G

L  Du Chillan, marèchal du camp                                     G

L  Le Noir, formerly lieutenant de police in Paris                  G

R  La Ville, member of the revolutionary committee                  G

R  La Peize, member of the revolutionary committee                  G

L  Duport, counsellor of the parliament of Paris                    G

L  Camus de la Ribourgere                                           G

L  The president Roland                                             G

L  The president Hocquart                                           G

L  The Count de Blin                                                G

L  Le pere D'Anquetil, an author                                    I

R  Schneider, public accuser at Strasburgh                          G

R  General Chapuis                                                  I

L  De Pommeuse, counsellor of the great chamber                     G

R  General Goguet                                                   M

R  The brother of Hebert, national agent                            I

R  The two brothers of the ex-minister Du-Portail                   G

L  The Marquis de Jancourt, ex-constituent                          G

D  Almost all the farmers general                                   G

Madame Elizabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI.                 G

L  The Count de Sourdeval                                           G

D  The Count Lomenie de Brienne, minister of war                    G

R  De Lomenie, coadjutor of Sens                                    G

R  Chevalier de Lomenie                                             G

D  Le Comte de Lomenie, colonel                                     G

L  De Serilly, treasurer at war                                     G

L  De Serilly, major of Swiss guards                                G

L  Chambertrand, dean and vicar-general of Sens                     G

L  The Marchioness de l'Aigle                                       G

L  The Marchioness de Senozan                                       G

L  The Marchioness de Crussot d'Amboise                             G

L  The Countess de Montmorin                                        G

L  The Countess de Rossay                                           G

L  Madame de Serilly, aged 31                                       G

L  A great number of religieuses, (nuns)                            G

R  Pache, mayor of Paris                                            I

R  Ansi, ex-legislator                                              I

L  De Beauvilliers, and his wife                                    I

R  L'Huillier, national agent                                       S

L  The Count de Lastie                                              I

R  The brother of General Santerre                                  I

R  Moreau, adjutant of the army                                     G

D  De Marguerite, mayor of Nismes, ex-constituent                   G

R  General Haxo                                                     S

R  General Moulin                                                   S

L  Brillon de St. Cyr, maitre des comptes                           G

L  Beller, auditor of accounts                                      G

R  General Charbonnier                                              I

D  Count de Levis Mirepoix, ex-constituent                          G

L  De Vigneron, president of the parliament of Nancy                G

R  Donadieu, general of brigade                                     G

L  The Marquis d'Apremont                                           G

D  The Marquis de Bieville, and his son                             G

L  The Marquis de Trans                                             G

L  The Viscount de la Vallette                                      G

D  William Newton, an Englishman                                    G

D  The Baron de Marguerite                                          G

L  Fourteen members of the parliament of Toulouse                   G

L  The Prince de Rohan Rochefort                                    G

D  The Count de Laval Montmorency                                   G

D  The Count de Pons                                                G

L  De Sartine, son of the heretofore minister of state              G

L  Madame de St. Amaranthe                                          G

L  The Prince de St. Maurice                                        G

L  The Viscount de Boissancourt                                     G

L  The widow of Mons. D'Esprèmènil                                  G

R  Michonis, municipal officer of Paris                             G

L  The Count de Mesnil                                              G

D  Defreteau, counsellor of the parliament  of Paris,

ex-constituent                                                   G

R  Dom. Gerle, a Carthusian, ex-constituent                         I

R  Quevremont, physician to Egalitè                                 I

D  The Marquis de Chassenet                                         I

R  The wife, the daughter, and the son-in-law of the mayor Pache    I

R  Ginguenet, a patriotic poet                                      I

L  De Rosset, count de Fleury                                       G

L  The Abbè Tremouille, grand dean of Strasbourg                    G

L  The Count de Gamaches, standard-bearer of the horse-guards       G

L  De Briffeuil, ecclesiastical counsellor of the great chamber of

Paris                                                            G

L  Le Brasseur, formerly intendant of the marine                    G

L  Eleven new members of the parliament of Toulouse                 G

L  Peruchot, directeur des fermes                                   G

L  De Varennes, formerly major of infantry                          G

R  The celebrated advocate Linguet                                  G

L  Twenty-two young ladies, from 17 to 25 years of age              G

L  De Mouchy, marshal of France                                     G

L  The lady of the Marshal de Mouchy                                G

L  The lady of the Marshal de Biron                                 G

D  The widow of the General Biron                                   G

R  Victor de Broglie, ex-constituent                                G

L  De St. Priest brother of the heretofore minister                 G

R  Phillippe, a deputy supplèant                                    I

L  The Count de Polastron                                           G

L  The Marquis de la Guiche                                         I

L  Lambert, formerly comptroller-general of the finances            G

L  Chamilly, valet de chambre to the King                           G

L  Madame du Portal, abbess of Joui                                 G

L  The Marquis de St. Didier                                        G

R  Two of the legionary chiefs of the national guard                G

L  Pichard, president of Bourdeaux                                  G

L  Vicq. D'Asyr, a celebrated physician at Paris                    G

R  D'Aoust, De Lattre and Du Verger, three generals of the

republican army                                                  G

L  The Abbè de Salignac de Fenèlon, aged 85 years                   G

L  De Fenèlon, son of the ambassador at the Hague                   G

L  De Bacquencourt, counsellor of state                             G

L  The duke de Gesvres, cordon bleu                                 G

L  The Prince d'Henin, captain of the guards of the Count d'Artois  G

L  De Nicolas, president of the chamber of accounts                 G

L  Ysabeau de Mouvel, registrar of the parliament                   G

L  De la Baume, marechal du camp                                    G

L  De Boisgelin, marechal du camp                                   G

L  Ten young women not more than twenty years of age                G

L  Two young men of 14 and 17 years (fate not stated-Editor)

L  The Marquis de la Roche du Maine                                 G

L  De Giac, maitre de requètes                                      G

L  The Count de Chastenier                                          G

L  Debesse, bailly de Malthe                                        G

L  From the 5th to the 10th Of July, 1794 are reckoned 295 persons  G

L  The Viscount de Damas, and his son                               G

L  De Verdieres, general-officer                                    G

L  De L'Aupespine, canon of St. Claud                               G

L  Random de la Tour, treasurer of the King's household             G

L  De Boisgelin, cordon bleu, and his wife                          G

L  The Abbè Royer, counsellor of state                              G

L  The Abbè Radix, counsellor in the parliament of Paris            G

L  Geoffroi D'Assy, cashier of the general receipts                 G

L  De Pènant, president of the chamber of accounts                  G

L  De Pènant, president of the court of Aides, and his son          G

L  Dom. Nonan, prior of the Carthusians at Paris                    G

L  The Chevalier de Puyvert, officer of the navy                    G

L  The son of the immortal Buffon                                   G

L  Macdonald, colonel of the regiment de Foix                       G

L  Rapin Thoyras, captain of artillery                              G

L  De Montarly, captain of infantry                                 G

L  Clermont, mayor of Salines, ex-constituent                       G

R  Marcandier, journalist of Paris                                  G

R  La Croix, member of the committee de Surveillance                G

D  Imbert, officer of the Marêchausseè                              G

L  Le Comte de Faudoas, captain of cavalry                          G

L  The daughter of the above, aged eighteen years                   G

L  Souchet d'Alvinant, governor of the King's pages                 G

L  Rousseau, fencing-master to the royal children                   G

L  Huet d'Ambrun, maitre de requètes'                               G

L  La Chapelle, commissary of the King's houshold (sic)             G

L  Sixteen Carmelites of Compeigne   (sic)                          G

L  Conin de St. Luc, president of the parliament of Bretagne        G

R  Legris, registrar of the revolutionary tribunal                  G

L  De Blancheland, son of the governor of St. Domingo, aged

20 years                                                         G

L  The lady of the Marshal de Noailles, aged 70 years               G

L  The lady of Viscount de Noailles, aged 35                        G

L  The Dutchess d'Ayen, aged 57 years                               G

L  De Talaru, cordon rouge                                          G

L  The Marquis de la Roche Lambert                                  G

L  Boutin, formerly treasurer of the navy                           G

L  La Borde, farmer-general                                         G

L  Lassond des Essarts, chef d'escadron                             G

R  General de Flers                                                 G

R  Gossin, ex-constituent                                           G

D  The Marchioness de la Fayette                                    I

L  The Baron St. Ouin                                               G

L  Perrot, president of la Cour des Aides                           G

L  Perrot, president of the chamber of accompts                     G

L  De la Morelle, president of the great council                    G

L  The son of Morelle, aged 18 years                                G

L  Papillon de la Fertè, comptroller of the privy-purse             G

L  Count de Hauteford                                               G

L  De Carboniere, canon and count of St. Claude                     G

L  Madame de Montmorency, abbess of Montmartre                      G

L  The lady of Marshal de Levis                                     G

L  Marquis d'Harbouville                                            G

L  The Baroness d'Hinnisdal                                         G

L  Tardien-Malessy, marèschal de camp                               G

L  The Countess des Vieux                                           G

L  The wife and daughter of Marèschal Tardien Malessy               G

L  The Baron de Blaizel                                             G

L  D'Ornano, marèschal de camp                                      G

D  De Nicolai, son of the president, aged 24 years                  G

L  Moreau, architect of the city of Paris                           G

L  Melin, formerly clerk of the war-office                          G

L  Geoffrey d'Assy cashier-general of the finances                  G

L  De la Chalotais, procureur-general of the parliament of Rennes   G

L  The Count de Menil-durand                                        G

L  De Pernot, marèschal de camp, aged 80                            G

L  Durand de Bignel, colonel of 100 Swiss                           G

L  The son of the Viscount de Millé                                 G

L  Count D'Ailly                                                    G

L  De Champagney, colonel of the regiment de Flandres               G

L  De Goudrecourt, lieutenant of the King's guard                   G

D  Edelman, a celebrated musician                                   G

L  An hundred and fifty-one persons at Rennes                       G

R  The Deputy Le Bas                                                G

L  The Count de Forestier                                           G

L  The Viscount de Gavrey                                           G

L  The Prince de Mont-Bason de Rohan                                G

R  Gouy d'Arcy, ex-noble, ex-constituent                            G

R  Du Salm Kirbourgh, sovereign prince in Germany                   G

R  General Beauharnois                                              G

L  Baron Trenck                                                     G

R  Chenier, author of the tragedy of Cha. IX.                       G

L  The Marquis de Montalambert                                      G

D  Crequi de Montmorency                                            G

D  The Duke de Clermont-Tonnere                                     G

L  The Marquis de Crussol d'Amboise                                 G

L  The Countess d'Ossun                                             G

L  De St. Simon, bishop of Agde                                     G

L  The Count de Thiars                                              G

L  The Countess de Narbonne Pellet                                  G

L  The Princess Grimaldi-Monaco                                     G

L  The Marquis d'Usson                                              G

L  The two Trudaines, counsellors of  the parliament of Paris       G

L  The Countess de Perigord                                         G

L  The lady of the Marèschal D'Armentieres                          G

L  The Comte de Soyecourt                                           G

L  The Princess de Chimay                                           G

L  The Marquis de Carcado                                           G

R  Hauriot and La Vallette, commandants of the armed force at Paris G

L  The Duke of St. Aignan                                           G

L  The Duchess of St. Aignan                                        G

R  Dumas, president of the revolutionary tribunal                   G

R  Lescot-Fleuriot, mayor of Paris                                  G

R  Payan, president of the commune de Paris                         G

R  Vivier, criminal judge, and president of the jacobinS            G

R  Simon, a Shoemaker, preceptor to Louis XVII.                     G

R  Eighty municipal officers of Paris                               G

R  One deputy, a commissioner with the army                         G

R  One patriotic general officer                                    G

R  Maximilien Robespierre, advocate of Arras, ex-constituent, and

member of the convention, who enjoyed for a long time the

absolute power of a dictator, aged 35 years                      G

R  George Couthon, advocate of Clermont, and member of the

convention, aged 38 years                                        G

R  De St. Just, ex-noble, member of the convention, aged 26 years   G

R  Robespierre, the younger, advocate of Arras, and member of the

convention, aged 27 years                                        G

R  Le Mounier, one of the principal actors in the massacre Of 2d of

September, 1792                                                  G

R  The Baron de la Tude                                             G

L  The Prince de Talmont                                            G

R  General La Poype                                                 P

L  De Sablonnay, marèchal de camp                                   G

L  The Viscount de Meleur                                           G

L  Le Baron de Clermont-Tonnere                                     G

L  The son of General Precy                                         G

R  Coffinel, judge of the revolutionary tribunal                    G

R  Fouquier Tinville, public accuser                                G

R  Le Bon, deputy of the convention                                 G

L  The Marquis de Beauvoir                                          G

R  Guillotin, ex-constituent                                        G

R  De la Harpe, literateur                                          I

R  L'Abbè de Lille                                                  I

R  Van-Eupen, Brabançon                                             G

R  General Turreau                                                  P

R  Carrier, deputy of the convention                                G

R  106 Jacobins of Marseilles                                       G

R  General Dugommier                                                M

R  Bouchotte, war minister                                          I

R  Trial, comedian                                                  G

R  General Polier                                                   M

Admiral Martin                                                   G

R  130 Jacobins of Lyons                                            M

R  Goujon, deputy of the convention                                 S

L  La Marquis de Boisbèranger                                       G

R  Francoeur, director of the opera                                 G

L  Cazault, president of the parliament of Bourdeaux                G

L  Cormatin, chief of the Chouans                                   B

L  The Bishop of Dol                                                M

L  Le Chevalier de Sombreuil                                        M

L  De Tintinuiac, officer                                           M

L  Le Comte de la Villeneuve                                        G

R  The General Serrurier                                            P

L  Le Comte de Linange                                              I

L  Le Comte de Colloredo                                            I

L  Le General Stofflet                                              M

L  Le General Charrette                                             M

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HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION;

WITH THE Judgment and Execution OF

LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE;

AND A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH.

PRICE 4s.

HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF H. GOUDEMETZ, A FRENCH CLERGYMAN EMIGRANT IN ENGLAND.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO His ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of YORK, BY THE REV. DR. RANDOLPH.

TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, THE THIRD EDITION OF THE Judgment and Execution Of LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE; WITH A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH; AND THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS IN THE COURSE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, DISTINGUISHED ACCORDING TO THEIR PRINCIPLES.

DEDICATION.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK.

Contents

List of Illustrations

PREFACE

HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

RESULT OF THE THIRD SCRUTINY.

THE LAST WILL OF LOUIS XVI.

A LIST OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS UNDER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

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