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

by Henry Goudemetz

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.