384. ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



tion whatever, wlioaiein possession 

 of assignats, either belonging to 

 them, or to any other person or per- 

 sons whatever, to bring them with- 

 in the space of twenty-four hours to 

 tlie verifiers to be verified, at the 

 Maison de France, in all the dif- 

 ferent towns now possessed by the 

 French republic ; otherwise they 

 shall be treated as suspected persons 

 and imprisoned, until a peace, in 

 some town in the department of Pas 

 de Calais. 



2. Any persons or personsknow- 

 jng of a depot of false assignats, and 

 not making an imn)ecliate declara- 

 tion of the same, to be ranl:ed as 

 an accomplice, and punished as 

 such. 



3. All shipping, merchaiits, and 

 others, are required daily to bung 

 the assigni-ts they receive, within 

 twenty-four hours after thereceij^t 

 of them, to be verified, or in default 

 of so doing, to be treated as sus- 

 pected. 



4. Every person, or persons, who 

 shall be found endeavouring to pass 

 false assignats are immediately to be 

 denounced by the party, or parties, 

 to whom such assignats are oftered, 

 or, those neglecting so to do, shall 

 be brought before the criminal tri- 

 bunal of the department of Pas de 

 Calais. 



Seen, and judged properto be af- 

 fixed in the usual manner, in my 

 presence. 



Laurent, general. 

 Ageymas, commandant 

 amovible. 

 (Signed) Beyts. 



Addressfrom the nafioTwlconventinip 

 to the French people, Oct. Q, l/QA. 



FRENCHMEN, in the midst of 

 your triumphs, your ruin is 



meditated. Certain perverse men 

 would raise the tomb of liberty in 

 the bosom of Trance. I'o be silent 

 we should betray ourpelves, and the 

 most .sacred of duties is to enlighten 

 you in the perils which surround 

 you. 



Your most dangerous foes are rot 

 tliose satellites ot despotism, whom 

 you are accustomed tovanquish, but 

 th ir perfidious (missiaies, wl o, 

 mingling among jou, combat your 

 independence, by imposition and by 

 calnmny. 



The l;eiis of the crimes of Robe-* 

 spicrre, and of all the conspirators 

 whom } ou have overthrown, labour 

 in every sense to mislead tlie re- 

 public ; and covered with various 

 masks, t'ley seek to lead you to a 

 counter-revolution through the dis- 

 orders of anarchy. 



Such is the character of these 

 whom ambition pusiies on to ty- 

 ranny. They prociaim their princi- 

 ples; they di cotate themselves with 

 sentiments wliich they have not. 

 1 hey call themselves the friends of 

 the people, and they aspire only to 

 authority. They talk oilly of the 

 rights of the people — they strive 

 only to wrest them from their 

 hands. 



Frenchmen, you will suffer your- 

 selves no longer to be deluded by 

 these fallacious insinuations ; in- 

 structed by experience you will be 

 deceived no more. The evil has 

 pointed out the remedy. You were 

 on the pointof falling into the snare 

 of the wicked - The republic was 

 about to perish^ — you merely ex- 

 claimed '* Vive la amvenlio7i !'' the 

 wicked were confounded, and the 

 republic saved. 



Remen)ber that so long as the 

 people and ilie convention are one, 

 the attemp's of the enemies of li- 

 berty will expire at your feet, as the 



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