historical chronicte. 
Trial of the king. 
The National Convention 
having come to a resolution 
that Lewis xvr. fhould be pub- 
licly tried, 
Mythe, on the 7th of No- 
vember, in name of the Com- 
mittee of Legislation, deliver- 
ed in a report respecting the 
mode that ought to be adop- 
ted on that trial, divided into 
no lefs than fourteen distinct 
heads, which are too long for 
our limits ; a considerable dif- 
ference of opinion having ap- 
peared in the Convention on 
this subject, and the arguments 
becoming so long as to be in 
danger of interrupting all o- 
ther businefs, the Convention 
decreed, that this subject 
fhould only be taken into con- 
sideration upon two days of 
each week. 
Many members have deli- 
vered their opinions, several 
of them moderate, and wifhing 
to persuade the Convention 
from motives of policy, as well 
as humanity, to avoid fhedding 
the blood of the king; while 
others with violence exclaim 
that all the misfortunes which 
threaten to overwhelm the 
state, are to be attributed to 
their culpable delay in not 
cutting him off. Nothing bas 
“yet been decidedly determi- 
ned. 
~ In the mean while the king 
is closely confined, and expo- 
sed to every species of indig- 
nity, if the public accounts 
xit 
may be credited. He is said 
also, to be in a state of bad 
health ; so that there is a pro- 
bability that death may re- 
lieve him soon from his 
troubles, and free them from 
the vunpleasing dilemma in 
which’ they stand. The 
queen is also in a bad state of 
health. 
Westerman, adjutant-gene- 
ral of the Belgian army, trans- 
mitted to the Convention 
some information respecting 
the state of the army. By 
these accounts it appears, that 
that 22,000 men had set out 
to reinforce the 28,000 un- 
der general Valence, who are 
besieging the citadel of Na- 
mur: that a column of the e- 
nemy’s troops, consisting of 
15000 men, were marching to 
relieve the garrison: that the 
first fort was taken: that the 
French military chest was en- 
tirely exhausted ; and that on 
the 26th ult. it contained only — 
ten livres: that the ancient 
Belgic States, in concert with 
the clergy, were endeavouring 
to excite an insurrection : that 
the Belgian patriots had pro- 
mised a loan of 30 or 49,0dG0 
millions of florins: but that it 
would. require time to raise it : 
and lastly, the army was in such 
distrefs for want of money, 
that it could not long remain 
in its present situation, 
Miscellaneous, 
Nov. 20. Yesterday morning 
the princefs royal of Denmark 
