SHORT CHRONICLE 



OF EVENTS. 



January 18. 1792. 



Foreign. 



I HAT heavy political cloud 

 which has long lowered over 

 the horizon of France with a 

 threatenin:^ aspect, has, of late, 

 become more and more gloomy, 

 and seeroi to portend that an 

 important crisis is at hand, big 

 with the fate of thousands, 

 which excites a foreboding an- 

 xiety in the mind of every at- 

 tentive beholder. The emi- 

 grant princes, on the one hand, 

 have omitted no exertion that 

 was in their power, to rouse 



no person can tell : For aliho' 

 it indicates a degree of politi- 

 cal insanity, that nothing but 

 actual desperation could ex-, 

 cuse, yet such acts of despera- 

 tion have been seen 5 and no 

 nation seems to be in a litter 

 state for it, than the French at 

 the present moment. The 

 present national alsembly, un- 

 acquainted with the functions 

 of the important busineis de- 

 volved upon them, seems to be 

 exceedingly embarralscd ot\ all 

 occasions how to proceed. The 

 up foreign enemies to the levies of the taxes have fallen 

 late establidied constitution of I so exceedingly ihprt of the 

 France, and to encoura^re in- neceisary expenditure of the 



ternal divisions in the state •, 

 while the new national afsem- 

 bly, on tlie other hand, appear 

 to be equally forv.'ard in alarm- 

 ing the national fears, and ex- 

 citing the ardent spirit of the 

 French, not only to take up 

 brms in their own defence, but 

 even to rulh forward in quest of 

 their enemies, where-ever they 

 can find them, even in tlic ter- 

 ritories of other princes. Wlie- 

 ther they will carry these ralii 

 threats into actual execution, 

 v-)L. vii. 



ieceisary 

 state, and the dilhculty of en- 

 forcing the collection of these 

 in the present state of affairs, 

 seems to them to be such as to 

 deter them from attempting it. 

 To lose time, in these circum- 

 stances, would seem to threat- 

 en, in their eyes, evils of a 

 more serious nature, than those 

 they are going to encounter. 

 In tills deranged stute of their 

 finance, they have resolved to 

 put arms in the hands of more 

 than 30O;C0:) racfi. To let 

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