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that he had lost the confidence 1 bers opposed the decree pafs € 



■of the nation, and ought to be yesterday. 



superseded by the executive 

 'Council, was renewed. 



Aug. 21. M. Servan, the mi- 

 mlster at war, announced that 

 M. la Fayette, with his staff-offi- 

 cers, had emigrated on the night 

 between the 19th and 20th. 



Aug. 23. The minister of war 

 jiotified, that Luckner and Dil- 

 lon had been deprived of their 

 command, as neither of them 

 seemed much disposed to fight 

 for the new order of things. 

 Marefchal Luckner, in a letter 

 to the minister, said, " I can- 

 not conceive the motives of the 

 afsembly's conduct towards M. 

 la Fayette, — he s\"jre fidelity 

 to the nation, the law, and 

 the king. 1 took the same 

 cath in the face of all France." 

 —The minister added, that 

 Marefchal Luckner had been 

 succeeded in his command by 

 general Kellerman. 



Aug. 24. M. Benvistrod mo- 

 ved, that all the priests who 

 ought to have taken the oath re- 

 quired by the law of Dec. 20. 

 3700, as well as those who, not 

 being subject to the oath of 

 public functionaries, ought to 

 have taken the civic oath pre- 

 scribed by the law of Septem- 

 ber 3. 1791, and who hp.ve not 

 yet taken their oaths, (hall be 

 transported out of the king- 

 dom. 



Aug. 25. The discufsion con- 

 cerning the refractory priests 

 Jreing resumed, several mem- 



After a long debate, the af- 

 sembly decreed, '' that if the 

 refractory priests did not quit 

 the kingdom in fifteen days, 

 they fhould be transported to 

 Guiana in South Ameiica. 



M. de la Port, intendant of 

 the civil list,- was tried on the 

 22d, between one and two 

 o'clock. He was coniitained 

 to be bch'eaded, and he sen- 

 tence was executed tiie same 

 evening in the Flc.ce aa Carou- 

 se/. 



We have just received intel- 

 ligence here that the Ottoman 

 Porte has forbidden all fliips 

 under French colours to enter 

 the Turkifh harbours. 



Aug. 26. M. Jean de Brie 

 presented the following pro- 

 posal for destroying the kings 

 and generals who are now 

 fighting against the liberty 

 of France. He requested 

 permifsion to raise a body 

 of 1 2CO volunteers, who (hall 

 bind themselves by an oath 

 to go and attack individually 

 and collectively, and by every 

 pofsible means, the kings and 

 generals now at war with 

 France. These tyrannicides to 

 be called (/es Doiize Cents) 

 " The twelve hundred," to be 

 armed with poignards and pis- 

 tols. 



This plan was decreed, and. 

 the afsembly were going to 

 settle the pay of these despera- 

 does, when Mefs. Verniant, 



