!24 ANNUA'L REGISTER, 1794. 



those who had suffered tijiough his 

 lyranny, and the manifest proofs of 

 its daily increase, and of his deter- 

 mination to exercise it without irio- 

 deralion orpontroul, and to retain 

 it atanyco^t, — these raotives would 

 ha\'e furnished Danton vith aniple 

 means of defence. His personal 

 resolution would kave engaged 

 numbers to join him. The remains 

 of those parties, destroyed by the 

 barbarous faction of which Robe;:-! 

 pierre was the head, and the mea- 

 sures of which JDanton had never 

 approved, would have seized the 

 opportunity of , revenging l4ieir 

 friends and securing themselve.s, 

 hy rallying ro\i\yJi so snirited a 

 ciiief as Danton. The two clubs 

 of the Jacobins and Cordelierswould 

 not havedcserted one wholiadacted 

 so conspicuous a part among them. 

 In the hrst, his credit stood high ) 

 and the latter was full of resent- 

 ment for the loss of their principal 

 member and director, Hcbert> 

 •who had been recently sent to th^ 

 guillotine. Through the support 

 he would have derived frofn these 

 various quarters, and his own con- 

 rage and abilities, he might not 

 only have intimidated his rival, and 

 have prevented his own fate, but 

 raiaed the standard of insurrection 



against him and his p.^rty, and in^ 

 stead of being destroyed himself,, 

 have brought them to destruction. 



The prcibabillty of such an event 

 was fully countenanced by the rea-. 

 dinesstestlliedpn the death of Dan- 

 ton, to sBisak of hina with respect,. 

 ard to Gommeuiorate with warmtji 

 tlie many essential services he had 

 rendered the republic. The ac- 

 cusations bropght against him were. 

 ■SO improbable, arid so destitute of 

 (ruth, that all discerning people 

 readily perceived what must have 

 beet] ^hereal c;'.itses of his condeni^ 

 nation, and united hi regretting liis^ 

 h^rd de>.iiny. But those who, by 

 their situation, stood nearest to the 

 danger ot sharingin it, wpre sensibly 

 that, uu'ess tliey made a common 

 cause, and joined in a firm and 

 speedy, union agpirst the oppressive 

 power through which he fell, their 

 own fajl would in all likelihood 

 be soon or late effected. Conside, 

 rations of this nature produced :\ 

 confederacy of the most resolutq 

 and able members of the Conven-r 

 tion. Their designs however never 

 transj)ired. As the profoundest se.; 

 crecy was necessary totheir success, 

 no indicatioji of them appeared that 

 could subject therji ^.o it^c least diss 

 covery. 



CHAP. VII. 



Confederacy J oymed in the Convention agai»st Rali.ipipiro. Geiierai ^i/lai 

 arnsted, tried, and condemned, together uilh the /('ife^ (f De.swou/in.^. 

 They arc both execiitcd,,n:itliGolat, Clir,umcil,^,,andothtirs. The Coiiveri- 

 tUm orders every Member, on Pcfin of Deathy to give (in Jccoinit'cf his 

 Revemii bejure. and since t'lie lievoliiiion. Robe. pierre' s Conduct in pecu- 

 niary Matters: Convenlional JDei rces against Ex-nofles and Alicnsi. 

 Decrees relating to Lnw-Suits. J)crees against Anti-revolutionary Dis- 

 courses. Decrees against Aged and Xunjui ing Clergymen. Decree prffr 

 hiiiting, the Marriage of the U'ives of Emigrants uilh Foreigners. A(- 

 ternjit to defame the Memory nf Lmiis XI J. Farmers-General trii^d bif 

 the Revolutionary Triliiual] and sweralqj .them, condavijied andexecuted. 

 ' I ' ' Trial 



