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in every other state and kingdom. 
‘At Paris, a society or club of Bri- 
tish subjects, on the news of the 
conquest of Brabant, celebrated the 
jovful tidings ina very magnificent 
and generat festival. Some other 
addresses of congratulation from 
British subjects were also trars- 
mitted to the Legislative and Con- 
ventional Assemblies, from England, 
Treland, and Scotland. One of these 
was sent to the Assembly, from the 
Constitutional Society of London, 
by their deputies Joel Barlow and 
John Frost; who, at the same time, 
presented 1,000 pair of shoes as a 
patriotic offering to the brave sol- 
diers of liberty.—In a word, as at 
the time of the reformation, the 
world was divided between, and 
governed by, the ancient faith and 
the new doctrines of the christian 
religion ; so, at this crisis, political 
sympathies and antipathies agitat- 
ed, divided, and governed a great 
portion of the civilized world. 
But there was no country in 
Europe where the victories of the 
republic made so lively an impres- 
sion, and produced such important 
and rapid effects, as in Vrance it- 
self. So greatly was the National 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1792. 
Convention elated with the irre+ 
sistible progress of their arms, that, 
on the 19th of November, in direct 
and open contradiction to their 
former professions, not to interfere 
in the internal government of other 
kingdoms, they passed, by accla- 
mation, a decree “ That the Na- 
tional Convention declared, in the 
name of the French nation, that 
they will grant fraternity and assist- 
ance to all those people who wish 
to procure liberty; and that they 
charge the Executive Power to 
send orders to their Generals to 
give assistance to such people as 
have suffered, or are now suffering 
in the cause of liberty.” This de- 
cree confirmed the suspicion that 
had already been excited by the 
affair of Avignon and Venaissin, 
and other circumstances, that the 
fomentation of sedition and insur- 
rection, in foreign countries, had 
become a systematic principle of the 
French republic; and, of course, 
immediately produced a jealousy 
and caution in neighbouring na- 
tions; and in most of them, a de- 
termination to prohibit all inter- 
course with them, and not admit 
them to settle in their dominions. 
UH AP,, ViIl. 
The Sessions of the British Parliament opened. Debates in the House 
of Commons on the King’s Speech. 
On: the War in India. On the 
Armament against Russia. Motion for Papers by Mr.Gray. Debates 
tn the House of Lords on the Russian Armament. 
House of Commons: on the same Subject. 
 Y, garrma the sessions of par- 
‘Y liament were opened on 
the thirty-first of January, 1792, 
the attention of the people of Great 
Britain was much more taken up 
with the affairs. of the Continent 
Debates in the 
than with their‘own. The: French 
revolution, together with its conse- 
quences, was the great topic of 
conversation, and of general re- 
flections in all parts of Europe; 
and the unsettled. state of France 
excited 
