ISO ANNUAL REGtSTER, 1794* 



the alarm-bells were ringing ; they 

 rose ui.animously, as it were, by in- 

 stinct the moment they were ap- 

 prized of the cause ; and, running 

 through the sircA-ts, loudly exported 

 everv one to fly to the aid of the 

 Convention. 



In the mean time, Henriot, at 

 the head of his division, madft an 

 attempt on the Thuilleries, where 

 the Convention held it? sittings : 

 but on their proclaiming him out- 

 law ed, his ofBcrrs and soldiers for- 

 sook him directly ; and he uilli- 

 drew with this distressing iatelli-> 

 gence to his associates at the town- 

 honse*. 



Their affairs were now in a des- 

 perate situation. In addition to 

 this check, Le Gendre had dis- 

 persed the Jacobin club and all 

 their parti zaiis, and was now at the 

 head of a numerous body of soldiers 



and citizens determined and prc- 

 ptired to defer d the Convention. 

 The only remaining enemy to be 

 subdued was the force collected for 

 the suL port of Robespierre and the 

 chiefs of his part-', assembled at the 

 town-house. That force however 

 was so censiderable, that had it 

 retained its attachment to that 

 party, and acted with vigoxir in its 

 defence, the issue of the contest 

 would have been very doubtful. 

 But relying on the effect which the 

 scheme of < utlawry had produced, 

 the Convention resolved to attack 

 their enemies with that weapon, in 

 coninnction with the soldiers and 

 citizens appointed for that service, 

 at three o'clock in the morning. 

 On the 28th Bourdon de L'Oise 

 put himself at their head, and 

 marched directly to thetown -house. 

 He halted at the front of it, and 



* The heads of the Robespierrian party had withdrawn from the hall of the 

 Convention to the towa-house of Paris. Robespierre himself was in the midst 

 of them, m the full posscosion of hi.s influence over the sections of Par' s and the 

 oational guard. The Convention were under a kind ot blockade in their hall, 

 against which was pointed a r.un.ljer of cannon. Henriot, the right hand of Robe- 

 spierre, was at the head of the armed force, which invested it on every side. The 

 firs; who moved the outlawry of Henriot was Barras. Several members of the 

 Convention made an eftbrt to get out of their hall, und to promulgate this sentence 

 to all Paris ; but they were opposed and driven back. But a thought struck one of 

 the members, that (he sentence of outiasvry mijiit be signified to Henriot by one of 

 their ushers or door-keepers ; and this expedient completely answered the pur- 

 pose for -vhich it was intended. The usher made his way through the national 

 guards, and delivered the decree of outlawry into the hands of Henriot ; vho 

 threw It into the messenger's face without locking at it, saying, " Go back to 

 those who .sent thee to me, and tell them that I laugh at both them and their 

 decrees." But when the man had gone, on a little reflection, he said, " Let us 

 see, however, what those rascals would be at." On reading the contents of the 

 paper, he was m great agitatio:;, and coming again to his troops, said, in a faultcr- 

 ing vO'Ce, " Would you beilsve it? They have outlawed me." Having said 

 this, he hastened to the town-house. The first of Robespierre's adherents that 

 met him, pushed him under the stair-case with great disdain. " Go," said he, 

 '* you are a coward." The instant Henriot deserted his pest, the cannons, pointed 

 against the Thuilleiies, weie turned against th; town house, Barras was ap- 

 poinii-'d commandant of the military force of Paris, and Robespierre was over- 

 thrown : — a very striking proof, that the greatest revolutions and fate of nations, 

 may somet:me> tlepend upon, the sudden and unaccountable* emotions of one 

 mind I 



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