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vcntion decrees that (rekerals xomknijicd to Death for Treason shall he 

 '•:ie(uted at the Head vf'tlie Armij. Abolishes the Practice of Flogging 

 in the Nacy, andsuistitutcs other Punishments. Admits Two Mulattoes 

 and One ^i'egro as Deputies to the Convention from St. Domingo. Abo-^ 

 tishcs Slavery. EstabCishment of the Maximum, and Speech (f Barre/fl 

 on this Occadon.' Kdiu Powers granted to the Committee of Pttldic- 

 Safetj/. Decree against reputed Enemies to the Revoluliun. Anuocr t9.. 

 the Declaration nfthe British Ministry. Candiuct cf Rolespierre, Danton, 

 and Barrcre. Enmity letiueen Rolespierre and Duntpn. Machinatiom of. 

 Robes fierre against the Cordelier Club audits chief Leader Helcrt. Cha"- 

 racterofHehert and of the Cordelier Club. Designs and Cotiduct of lh~, 

 iert. He is arrested and Ircug/it btfore the Revolutionary TribunaW' 

 Charges against hha. He is condemried and executed, together with And\^ 

 charsis Cloot-z, end eigh'een other.\. Danton and Camille Desmoulins' 

 unite in a Project for a rnilder System u/ Government. Robespierre sus-.. 

 pects thfir Designs. Interviciv between him and Danton. Falre d'Eglan- '. 

 tine and other Members of the Convention arrested. Legarde dgends 

 him in the Convention against the Attaeks of Robespierre. Accomplices 

 in tlie Conslnrdcy attributed to Falre d'Eglantini. Trial of Danton, 

 Camille Desmoulins, and of the other Prisoners, by the Revolution ar if 

 'Fri!/unal. Liveitives of Si. Just ^n the Convention against Falre 

 a'El^lo-ntine. Bold BehavioiW of Danton on his Trial. He is ccnd^ifined 

 to Death and icccuted. His Cl'.aruc.er. 



THE unnatural excesses com- Tjie intrepid and vigilant Cba- 

 mittcd by the repubiicaa retle, who, from the , various con- 

 party in La Vendee, produced an ctahnents in v/hich he had, kin 

 effect quite contrary to what hati hidden, and indefatigablj watched 

 been proposed. By the uninerciful the transactions, daily taking placS; 

 rava Tes of that country, it was in- avound lu'm, inbtantly seized this 

 fended to crush for evc-r the possi- opportunity of rouzing once more 

 hjlity ot ail insurrection. E^ut in tlie roya:! party into action. He 

 destroying the property of the secretly visited those in whom he 

 Wretched inhabitants, they had not coula place confidence, and through 

 been able to. involve tju-m all in the them prepared all the others to 

 «!jree destrwrtlan; Multitudes had unite again for their common de- 

 e?caj)ed, and lay concealed in the fence. He colloctcd in a short 

 vast forests of that woody region, time a bcJy of twelve thouyand 

 !n the many marshy tracks with men, endeared to each other by 

 which it abound:;, and ia the the m.isfortunes they had partici- 

 mountainous and almost inaccer.si- pated in the same cause, and ren- 

 ole parts. Animated with' rage dered desperate by the con«idera» 

 »nd rcsenttnent at the deprivations tion that their sustenance must 

 of every m^ans of subsistence, and h. Mice For wards be procured at the 

 having no longer any thing to lose point of the sword. At the head 

 but their hves, they v.-ere now de*- of this body, not less resolute from. 

 • rdimed to sacrllice these, in order recessity than from principle, he 

 'j l)e revL-ji^ed o,f their ypprei-jors. fell up;>n a considerable force of 

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