histofical ebrsHicle. 



Sept. 23. It was decreed, 



I. That the military commit- 

 tee ihall have accefs to the con- 

 vention as ofteft as they (liall 

 alk leave. 



II. That there (hall be form- 

 ed a committee of war, which 

 fliall be divided into two sec- 

 tions, who fhall boncert toge- 

 ther. 



Sept. £4. The sitting termi- 

 nated by the following decree: 



I. The French republic no 

 longer acknowledges princes. 



II. The national convention, 

 in consequence, supprefses all 

 appenages. 



Sept. 25. Mefs. Rober- 

 spierre and Marat were accu- 

 sed by name, as having promo- 

 ted the iliameful afsafsinations 

 that had lately taken place in 

 Paris. The former vindicated 

 himself by an appeal to his pu- 

 blic life j but the reply to his 

 defence was decisively given by 

 M. Earbaroux, a deputy from 

 Marseilles, who declared that 

 he had been applied to by M. 

 Panis, a member of the afsem- 

 bly, to conciliate the Marsel- 

 19!$ to the support of a plan, the 

 bent of which was " to elevate 

 the virtuous Roberspierre to 

 the dictatorfhip I" M. Marat's 

 vindication was as inconclusive 

 as the preceding. He replied 

 by avowing his opinion of the 

 the necefsity of a dictator; and 

 when the afsembly exprefsed 

 their abhorrence, he clapped a 

 pistol to his head, and declared 

 that he would blow out his 



brains, in the face of tlie c'on^ 

 vention, if they proceeded to 

 a decree of accusation !— The 

 motion for a decree being paf- 

 sed over, left this man without 

 a plea for this false heroism ; 

 otherwise, at once debauched 

 and desperate, he might have 

 resembled Catiline both in his 

 life and end. 



M. Danton, who, with Cha- 

 bot and some few others, were 

 more than suspected of enter- 

 taining similar projects, agreed 

 in the condemnation of Marat. 

 The conclusion of this un- 

 expected businefs was a decree 

 declaring, simply, " That the 

 republic was whole and indivi- 

 sibie. 



Sept. 29. Several of the mini- 

 sters having resigned, some of 

 them on account of their be- 

 ing members of the national 

 convention, a long debate took 

 place, whether ministers could 

 be chosen from among the 

 members or not ; when it was 

 at length decreed, " that the 

 ministers could not be chosen 

 from among the deputies." 



This decree brought on a 

 discufsion respecting the two 

 ministers, Roland and Servan, 

 who both persisted in giving 

 in their resignation. The for- 

 mer, because he had been cho- 

 sen a deputy to the national 

 convention ; and the latter, 

 because the state of his health 

 did not permit him to support 

 the fatigues of office. 



A member here bestowed 



