Part 15 (1/2)

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 ma.s.sacred in a tumult at Lyons.

On the motion of Dubois Crance, decreed, that three milliards of a.s.signats be issued.

S. The Spaniards defeated near Figueras.

Motion to permit a loss of two per cent. a month on a.s.signats.

Vernier, successor to Cambon, states the expence of the last campaign at 3,000,000,000 in a.s.signats; 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 a.s.sures 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 ma.s.sacred at the feet of the president; the a.s.sa.s.sin 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 pet.i.tion 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 wors.h.i.+p.

31. Decreed, that the revolutionary tribunals, created May 13, 1793, be suppressed.

Ordered, that the tribunals prosecute the authors and accomplices of the ma.s.sacres 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 a.s.sembly whether it should continue to acknowledge the convention; or whether it should not arrest the representative Lamar.

5. Dutch amba.s.sadors are received in the convention, and the treaty of alliance between the republics ratified.

6. The Vendeans 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 Egalite, and Madame du Barre (sic).

Decree to apply the palace of Versailles to national uses.

a.s.signats 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.