Cambon moved that it should be called the Hymn of Liberty. Ordered.

August 7. General Aubert Dubayet, with four officers of the Etat Major of the garrifon of Mentz, and in the name of himself and 9000 national guards of that garrifon, gave a brief account of the fiege and the hardthirs they had endured, as the beft anfwer to the calumnies that had been circulated against them. All they requested, as- a reward of their past labours, was to be fent with all poffible difpatch against the rebels in La Vendée.

Every fentence in this fpeech was followed by loud applaufes, which the Prefident faid was the best indemnification for the momentary injustice that had been done the brave garrifon of Mentz.

The General was conducted to the Prefident's chair, and received the kifs of fraternity amid the loudest acclamations. His fpeech was ordered to be printed.

One of the officers who accompanied him prefented an addrefs from the troops of the garrifon, fignifying their acceptance of the Constitution, and their wish to combat the rebels, under the command of Aubert Dubayet.

The Conftutional Authorities of Paris, and the Commiffioners from the Primary Affemblies of the Departments, prefented a joint addrefs of fraternity; in which they profeffed that they knew their duty too well to imagine that they were invested with power equivalent to those of the Convention; that they would never tranfgrefs the juft bounds of the powers with which they were invefted; and that they would live and die Mountaineers.

The Members of the Convention and the galleries waved their hats, and shouted, Vive La Republique !

Auguft 8. The Convention decreed, that, from the ft of November next, bread shall be fold in all parts of the Republic at three fous per pound; the bakers are to be granted au indemnification according to the price of grain; and the indemnification is to be fupported by a tax on the rich.

Marat's widow appeared at the bar, and demanded vengeance against the calumniators of her deceafed husband.

Herault de Sechelles was chofen Prefident; and Favan, Leonard de Bourdow, and Amar, Secretaries.

Auguft 17. All the Commiffioners of the Primary Affemblies, who had this morning gone to the Champ de Mars, to receive on the altar of the country the departmental forces, and the ark of alliance, in which was depofited yesterday the minutes of the acceptance of the Conffitution, and the Conftitution itself, now entered the Hall. When they appeared with the fafces and the ark, all the Deputies rofe up, and when the ark was depofited in the middle of the building, every perfon prefent uncovered, and the whole

edifice furrounded with shouts, Vive la Republique !

August 12. Danton moved that the Commiftioners should have full power to tax the rich, against whom their vengeance should be directed, with whatever they should deem neceffary to fupport the war. This was decreed, the whole Affembly rifing at once as a fign of their adherence to it.

August 15. Danton propofed the following decree: "No corps, armed and paid by the Republic, shall disband itself, unless orders be given that it be replaced. Every citizen that fhall quit his colours, without being replaced, thall fuffer death.-Adopted.

On the propofal of the Committee of Commerce, it was decreed to prohibit all exportation, by fea and land, of bread, fifh, wine, fruit, cider, brandy, vinegar, oil, honey, fugar, foap, pot-ash, sea-coal, unwrought feel, clothes, ftuff, &c. The towns of Dunkirk and Bayonne are allowed, for their own confumption, to import the above commodities, on account of their being free-ports.

Charlier, in the name of the Committee of Legislation, proposed to grant an indemnification to a French merchant, driven from Spain (where he kept a confiderable manufactory) by virtue of a royal Schedula, ordering the French to quit that country.

Barrere read another Schedula iffued by the Catholic King, which ordains the confifcation of all the property belonging to Frenchmen to the profit of the Spaniards who fuffered by the French Revolution. Barrere proposed a decree of reprifals, by which the Spanish regulations against Frenchmen are turned by France against the Spaniards reúdent within the jurifdictton of the Republic. Decreed, with applaufe.

Barrere, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety:-" Citizens, tactical wars will not fuit a free nation. The wars of kings refembled tournaments, which lafted as long as the patience of the people could fupport them. The war of the people ought to be a torrent, a flood of liberty. To-morrow your Committee will present to you the military measures; to-day it proposes to you to make the following declaration.

"The people of France declare, by the mouth of their Reprefentatives, that they will rife in one body, in defence of their 1berty, equality, and of the independence of their territories and conftitution!"

Decreed unanimoufly, amidst the londeft burfs of applause, and cries of Long live the Republic l

Barrere then presented a plan of a decree refpecting the organization of Commiffioners charged to conceit measures with the Envoys from the Primary Affemblies, to make the people rife, and to procure fupplies of provi fion and ammunition throughout the Republic. In his decree, which was paffed, no citizens, not even the public functionaries, are excepted from ferving the Republic.

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August 17. Address to the French nation, propofed by Barrere, and adopted by the Convention :

"The cries of joy, which the acceptance of the Conflitution has excited in the prefence of your reprefentatives, refound, without doubt, through the whole extent of the Republic.

"Never, fince men and empires existed, has fo great a focial act been accomplished in fo auguft and grand a feast. Let your envoys fent to Paris do juftice to this celebrated city, which has been the object of every calumny, only becaufe fhe has brought about all our Revolutions. Let them fay whether they have not found in every citizen an exeerable enemy of tyrants and of anarchy-in every man a friend-in every repast a fraternal feaft.

"O fpectacle the moft magnificent and affecting that the earth has ever difplayed to the review of the Eternal!-To arms, Frenchmen!-At the inftant when the people, friends and brothers, embrace each other, the defpots of Europe violate your property, and lay walte your frontiers. To arms! rife to a man! Liberty calls for the arms of all thofe of whom the has received the oaths. This is the fecond time that tyrants and confpired flaves foil with their feet the territory of a fovereign people. The one half of their facrilegious army found in it, the first time, their graves; may they all now perish! and may their bones, whitened in our fields, rife in heaps as trophies in the midft of our land, which their blood thall have rendered more fertile !-To armis, Frenchmen Cover yourfelves with the highest glory in defending your adored liberty, of which the first tranquil days will fhed upon you, and upon generations of your defcendants all kinds of happiness, and profperity."

Auguft 18. The Convention, having heard its Committee of Public Welfare, decreed as follows:

1. The French people declare, through the organ of their reprefentatives, that it is about to rife in a mass for the defence of its liberty and Conftitution, and to deliver France from her enemy.

2. The Committee of Public Welfare fhall prefent to morrow the mode of organizing this grand national movement.

3. There fhall be named 18 reprefentatives of the people, to be fent to the different Departments. They are charged with directing the operations of the Primary Affemblies, relative to the meatures of public fafety, and to the demand of arms, men, fubfiftence, forage, aud horses.

4. They are authorized to give commiffions to the Envoys of the Primary Affemblies, without which they cannot make the demand above-mentioned.

5. The reprefentatives of the people shall concert, with the Committee of Public Wel fare and the Executive Council, the affembling and direction of the force, and of the means which have been executed.

6. The reprefentatives of the people are directat equally to renew, in the whole or in part, the members of the Conftituted Authorities, and the different Public Functionaries, and to replace them provisionally by citizens of acknowledged patriotism.

7. In no cafe, nor under any pretext, shall there be chofen or preferved any Adminif trators of public Functionaries, who have cooperated or adhered to liberticide refolutions, tending to federalifm, or fubverfive of the unity and indivifibility of the Republic, or who may have given particular proofs of incivifm, even when they may have retracted their former refolutions.

Names of Months

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Sleet Month

WINTER

Snow Month
Rain Month
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Oct. 22 to Nov. 20

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Dec. 21 to Jan. 19 Jan. 20 to Feb. 18 Feb. 19 to March 20

March 21 to April 19 April 20 to May 19 May 20 to June 18

Brumaire

Frumaire

Nivos

Pluvios

Ventos

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Floreal

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Genoa, 08. 7. The fquadron under the command of Admiral Gell, confifting of the St. George of 98 guns, three thips of 74 guns, two frigates, two fire fhips, and three floops, arrived in the Mole this morning; and this evening a Spanish fquadron, under the command of an admiral, confiiting of a 90 gun ship, two of 74, and a frigate, also anchored in the Mole. A French frigate of 38 guns, called La Modefte, being in the harbour, and having broke the neutrality in various inftances, particularly by arming two gun-boats to cruize against England, notwithstanding the remonftrances of the Senate, Admiral Gall, being informed of this circumstance by an English advice-boat, ordered the Bedford to be along fide La Modefte, and command her to ftrike. The Bedford ordered the French captain to pull down the Republican flag, and hoift the royal colours, which he refufed: the Bedford gave him a falute of mufquetry, when the Frenchman ftruck. The admiral fent his firft lieutenant on-board to take the command, fhifted the prifoners into the Bedford and Captain, mauned the French fhip, and to-morrow intends to fend her to Toulon. The Doge has defired the two admirals to attend the Senate to-morrow morning, to give an account of their conduct. The two admirals have promifed to attend at the Doge's palace, and to accompany him to the Senate.

Flarence, 08. 15. Lord Hervey, the British Amballador to this Court, has prefented two Memorials, infifting upon the removal of M. La Flotté, the pretended French Minifter. But, thefe Memorials not having produced the defired effect, his Lordship prefented a third Memorial on the ith inftant, and declared therein that the British Court, in concert with its Allies, was determined to tolerate no longer the neutrality of the Grand Duke of Tuscany; and that his Royal Highnefs, unless he thould give a categorical anfwer within the course of twelve hours from the delivery of the Note prefented by his Lordship, and communicate his refolutions before the expiration of that period, fhould be confidered and dealt with as an enemy on the part of the Allied Maritime Powers.

The Grand Duke, having received this Memorial, gave immediate orders for M. La Flotté, fuite to quit the Tufcan territories in all poffible hafte. The Republican agent obeyed without delay.

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.

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fent, by his Majefty's Command, to the Commanders of his Majeity's Fleets and Armies employed against France, and to his Majefty's Minifters refiding at Foreign Courts.

THE circumftances, in confequence of which his Majefty has found himself engaged in a defenfive War against France, are known already to all Europe. The objects which his Majefty has proposed to himself from the Commencement of the war are of equal notoriety. To repel an unprovoked argieffion, to contribute to the immediate defence of his Allie, to obtain for them and for himself a just indemnification, and to provide, as far as circumstances will allow, for the future fecurity of his own fubjects, and of at: the other nations of Europe; thefe are the points for which his Majefty has felt it mounibent on him to employ all the means which he derives from the refources of his dominions, from the zeal and affection of his people, and from the unquestionable justice of his caufe.

But it has beccine daily more and more evident how much the internal fituation of France obftructs the conclufion of a folid and permanent Treaty, which can alone full his Majefty's juft and falutary views for the accomplishment of thefe important objets, and for restoring the general tranquillity of Europe. His Majefty fees, therefore, with the utmost fatisfaction, the profpect which the prefent circumstances afford him, of accelerating the return of peace, by ma king, to the well-difpofed part of the people of France, a more particular declaration of the principles which animate him, of the objects to which his views are directed, and of the conduct which it is his intention to purfoe. With refpect to the prefent fituation of affairs, the events of the war, the confi dence repofed in him by one of the most confiderable cities of France, and, above all, the with which is manifefted almost univer fally in that country, to find a refuge from thets rany by which it is now overwhelmed, render this explanation on his Majetty's part a preffing and indifpenfable duty: and his Majefty feels additional fatisfa3ion in making fuch a declaration, from the hope of finding, in the other Powers engaged with him in the common caufe, fentiments and views perfectly conformable to his own

From the first period when his Moft Chriftian Majetty Louis the XVIth had called his people around him, to join in con◄ certing meatures for their common trappinefs, the King has uniformly thewn by his conduct the fincerity of his withes for the

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fo interefting, an undertaking. His Majefty was deeply affed with all the misfortunes which enfued, but particularly when he perceived more and more evidently that meafures, the confequences of which he could not difguife from himfelf, muft finally com pel him to relinquish the friendly and was fic fyftem which he had adopted. The moment at length arrived, when is Majesty saw that it was neceffary for him not only to defend his own rights and thofe of his alles, not only to repel the unjult aggreffion which he had recently experienced; but that all the deareft interests of his people impofed upon him a duty ftill more important, that of exerting his efforts for the preservation of Civil Society ittelf, as happily established among the Nations of Europe.

The deigns which had been profefted of reforming the abufes of the Government of France, of establishing perfond liberty and the rights of property on a folid foundation, of fecuring to an extentive and populous country the benefit of a wife legillain, and an equitable and mild administration of its laws; all thefe falutary views have unfortunately vanished. In their place has fucceeded a fyiten destructive of all public order, maintained by proïcriptions, exiles, and confifcations without number; by arbitrary imprisonments; by mailacres, which cannot even be remembered without hortor; and, at length, by the execrable murder of a juft and beneticent Sovereign, and of the illuftrious Princefs who, with an unthaken firmness, has fhared all the misfortunes of her royal confort, his protracted fusterings, his cruel captivity, his ignominiou death. The inhabit ints of that unfortunate country, fo long flattered by promifes of hap inef, renewed at the period of every fresh crime, have found themfelve, plunged into an abyfs of unexampled cala nities; and neighbouring nations, instead of deriving a new fecurity for the maintenance of general tranquillity from the establishment of a wife and noderate Government, have been exposed to the repeated attacks of a ferocious anarchy, the natural and neceliary enemy of all public order: they have had to encounter acts of aggreffion without pretext, open violations of all treaties, ung rovoked declarations of war; in a word, whatever corruption, intrigue, or violence, could efice for the purpels to penly avowed of fubverting all the inftitutions of fociety, and of extending over all the nations of Europe that confufion which has produced the mifery of France.

This state of things cannot exist in France without involving all the furrounding Power in one common danger; without giving them the right, without impofing it on them as a duty, to stop the progrefs of on evil which exifts only by the fucceffive violation of all law and all property, and which attacks the fundamental principles by which mankind is united in the bonds of civil fociety. His

Majesty by no means difputes the right of France to reform its law. It never would have been his wish to employ the influence of external force with respect to the particular forms of Government to be established in an independent country; neither has he now that with, except in fo iar as fuch interference is become effential to the fecurity and repofe of other Powers. Under thefe circamatances be demands from France, and he demands with juftice, the termination of af Sem of Anarchy, which has no force but for the purposes of mischief, unable to difch urge the primary duty of all governmeat, to reprefs the d forders, or to punish the crimes, which are daily increafing in the in etior of the country, but difpofing arbitrarily of the property and blood of the inhabituts of France, in order to disturb the tranquillity of other Nations, and to render all Barape the theatre of the fame crimes and of the face misfortunes.

The King demands that fome legitimate and (table Government should be eRablished, founded on the acknowledged principles of usiverfal justice, and capable of maintaining with other Powers the accustomed relations of Union and of Peace. His Mjetly withes ardent to be enabled to treat for the reeftablishment of general tranquility with fuch a Govern sent, exerciting a legal and permanent authority, animated with the with for general tranquillity, and pollefing power to enforce the obtervance of its engagements. The King would propofe none other than equitable and moderate conditions; not fuch as the expences, the rifques, and the facrifices of the war might juttify, but fuch as his Majefty thinks himself under the indifpenfabic neceflity of requiring with a view to thofe confi terations, and itilt more to that of his own fecurity, and of the future tranquility of Europe. His Majefty defires nothing more timerely than bus to terminate a war which he in vain endeavoured to avoid, and all the clamities of which, as now experienced by France, are to be attribrtedonly to the ambition, the porfidy, and the violence of thofe whofe crimes have involved their own country in mifery, and difgraced ail civilized nations.

As las. Majerty has hitherto been compelled to carry on War against the people of France collectively, to treat as enemies all thofs who fuffer their blood and property to be lavished in fuport of an unjust aggresion; his Majefty would fee, with infinite fatisfaction, the opportunity of making exceptions in favour of the well-difpofed inhabitants of other parts of France, as he has already done with refpect to thofe of Toulon The King promifes on his part the fufpenfion of hoftilities, friendship, and (as far as the courfe of events will alto, of which the will of man cannot difpose) fecurity and protection to all thofe who, by declaring for a Monarchical Government, thall shake off the yoke of a fanguinary