histoncai chrtmlcle. 

 and above the gratification and until the election 



pension. 



6. " A list of them (hall be 

 formed, and a general aggre- 

 gate of their pensions, which 

 fliall continue to be divided 

 among the survivors of them in 

 the manner of a tontine, till 

 the pension of each amount to 

 500 livres a-year. 



7. " The pension of a hun- 

 dred livres ihall be continued 

 to the widows of such of them 

 as Ihall marry in France. 



14. " The National Afscm- 

 bly grants, as a security, the 

 produce of the estates of the 

 emigrants, the sale of which 

 has been decreed, and collate- 

 rally the revenues of tlie Hate 

 for the payment of the annuities 

 above promised." 



Several other provisions of 

 lefs consequence are omitted. 



Of all the violent steps that 

 have been adopted in France 

 since the commencement of 

 the present disturbances, the 

 following seems to be the 

 most extraordinary, and clear- 

 ly evinces what are the real 

 views of the faction. 



Deposition of the king. 



The envoys of the common- 

 alty, of Paris, with M. Peti- 

 ON demanded in the name ot 

 the forty-eight sections, that 

 the KING (hould be excluded 

 from the throne, that the ma- 

 nagement of affairs during the 

 interregnum (hould be entrust- 

 ed to responsible ministers, 



oi^ a new 

 KING in a national convention. 



M. Petion supported his 

 petition, by exhibiting a view 

 of the king's conduct since the 

 revolution. " He has always," 

 said he, " (hewn himself an e- 

 nemy to the people, — an ene- 

 my to the new laws, — and an 

 enemy to France." 



Evening sitting. 



Mefs. Ricard and Lewinte 

 announced addrefses from A- 

 valou and Falaire, requesting 

 that the king might be depo- 

 sed. Several members moved 

 that the addrefs, presented by 

 M. Petion iiT the morning 

 from the forty-eight sections, 

 of Paris, fhould be printed.— 

 Ordered 



The king sent to the aC- 

 sembly dispatches which he 

 had received from his ambaf- 

 sadors to the elector of Co- 

 logne and the duke of Wir- 

 temberg. His majesty noti- 

 fied, that these tv.'O princes 

 were preparing hostilities a- 

 gainst France, and that na 

 confidence was to be placed in. 

 the promise of neutrality made. 

 by the duke of Wirtemberg. 



Mefs. Thuriot and Grange- 

 neuve, exclaimed against the 

 treachery of the executive 

 power, who afsured the af- 

 sembly, that nothing was to. 

 be appreiiended from the 

 petty princes of Germany,. 

 Thursday next was fixed by 

 the afsembly for determining 

 the important question respec* 



