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againft the new government, and implants deeply the feeds of future conten- 
6 
fio®and war. Weft India colonies thrown into a ftate of the utmoft dif- 
order and confufion, and at length precipitated into the moft dreadful feenes 
of 7 filation, confagration, and maffacre, avhich terminate in final deftruc- 
tion, by a feries of ill-judged and precipitate meafures, of impolitic, impradti- 
cable, or contradi ory decrees... Great difarders in the army. Soldiers throw 
off all fubordination and difcipline. The people being now in poffeffion of 
libzrty, a defire of uncontrolled rule and fovereignty becomes the leading and 
general paffion, a circumftance which ferves greatly to unite them, and to 
Strengthen the new f/ftem. The weak attempts of the royalifts, and the con- 
tinual reports of plots, confpiracies, and invafions, caufe fuch a general 
alarm, that the provinces affciate ond arm; fo that France feems covered 
awith camps and armies. State of the ariffocrates and parties adverfe to 
government. Corfica annexed to France as part of the kingdom. Applica- 
tion from the court of Spain relative to the difpute with England, brings on 
a debate on the queftion, in whofe bands the right of peace and war foould 
Le lodged. Second application from Spain brings on a change of the mi- 
nifiry. Mutiny of the fleet at Breft. Anacharfis Clootz introduces to 
the affembly his ambafjadors from all mankind. Decree for abolifbing all 
titles, and obliterating all memorials of nobility and family diftinGion, for 
ever in France. Grand national confederation at Paris. Bloody conteft 
at Nancy. Mr. Neckar quits the kingdom, after various difgraces, and 
narrowly efcaping the fury of the Parifians. Schifm of the French 
clerzy 3 ihe greater part of whom fubmit to the lofs of their penfions, and 
zo expulfion from their paftoral duties, rather than to take the newly- 
preferibed oaths. [132 
CHRONICLE.: [193—[246 
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Births for the year 17905 — —_ — — [231 
Marriages — _— mee — [232 
Promocions — _—  — pa — [234 
Deaths — = a, ees — [239 
Sheriffs appointed by his Maje/ty in council for \790 0 <= — [245 
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