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T-fasuriar, and Sers, requested gars of their countrj', come to 

 that it might be sent to a com- deliberate on the measures ne- 

 mittee for reconsideration, as cefsary to be taken in the pre- 

 such a measure would induce sent awful and alarming crisis. 

 the enemies to make reprisals, I It has been decreed that the 



and consequently give rise to a . tocsin 

 war of the most horrid kind. 

 ■ 'After a long debate, the plaa 

 was referred to a committee. 

 Aug. 29. A letter from the am- 

 bafsador to the Helvetic diet, 

 stated that the Swiis were incen- 

 sed at the accounts received of 

 the proceedings of the loth, 

 and that nothing was heard 

 among them but exclamations 

 of vengeance. The ambafsador 

 complained of the delays in 

 transmitting to him the necef- 

 sary sums of money. Ordered 

 that the executive power for- 

 ward the money to the ambaf- 

 sador, and that the diplomatic 

 committee examine whether or 

 not the ambafsador {hould be 

 ordered to come away, after 

 declaring to the diet that it was 

 •the firm intention of France to 

 maintain all her treaties to the 

 Swifs. 



jipproach of the diihe of Brun- 

 swick. 

 Sept. 2. The president announ- 

 ■ced that two commifsioners 

 "from the community of Paris re- 

 quested to be admitted to the 

 baron prefsing businefs. Leave 

 being granted, one of them ad- 

 drefsed the afsembly as follows : 

 ■' The council of the com- 

 munity, afflicttd with the dan- 



iliall immediately be 

 rung J the alarm guns fired, 

 and that commifsioners fliall 

 be dispatched to collect all 

 those patriotic citizens who 

 may be desirous of marching to 

 the frontiers. The following 

 proclamation has been ifsued : 



' Citizens, the enemy is at 

 the gates of the capital. Ver- 

 dun is besieged. It cannot hold 

 out longer than. eight days. Ci- 

 tizens, let us repair to-day to 

 the Champ de Mars j let an 

 army of 6o,oco men be imme- 

 diately formed ; and let • us 

 march towards the enemy.' 



" The community of Paris 

 has decreed that their operati- 

 ons (hall be laid before the na- 

 tional afsembly, because they 

 consider it as the rallying point 

 of all good Frenchmen." 



This speech was followed 

 with reiterated applauses, and 

 the -commifsioners were invited 

 10 the honour of the sitting. 

 Paris, Sept. 4. 



The news came that a body 

 of 4000 French, v/hich had 

 been detached by Dumourier 

 for Verdun, had, by treachery 

 also, been led into ambuscade, 

 and cut in pieces. This raised 

 the fury ot the populace to its 

 height. " V\'e have no one.to 



