HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 



XXVll 



This important queftion oc- 

 cupied the attention of the 

 Aiiembly four days, when, af- 

 ter warm debates, it was nega- 

 tived, 487 to S16. 



The Pope's Brief to the 

 French Nation has juft been 

 promulgated. By it, M. Tel- 

 leyrand Perigord, late Bifliop 

 of Autun, is fiifpendedfrom all 

 his functions, and excommuni- 

 cated after forty days, if in that 

 time he does not return to his 

 duty. 



M. la Fayette, unable to re- 

 fiftthe entreaties, petitions, and 

 tears of the Parilian National 

 Guard, at length has yielded 

 to pity, and on the 2d curt, re- 

 fumed the command ; he paf- 

 fed through the principal ftreets 

 of the capital at the hsad of 

 the unarmed militia, to prove 

 unequivocally that he had once 

 more put on the national drefs, 

 and forgiven, for the fake of 

 his country, the infult he had 

 received from men, rather ig- 

 norant of their duty, than in- 

 tentionally criminal. He wait- 

 ed on the Kin^, ft. 11 followed 

 by his penitent foldiers, who 

 vociferated " Fi've le Roi" with 

 more than ordinary zeal, and 

 mod riotouOy fliowed their 

 loyalty as they filed off before 

 the captive Monarch. A citi- 

 zen foldier, on pafling before 

 his Majcfty, exclaimed, " Sire, 

 Behold your true friends." His 

 Majefty immediately replied 

 with the mod lively emotion, 

 " lam convinced of it." 



A note was read in the Na- 

 tional AfTembly on the 25 th 

 ult. by which it appeared, that 

 the troops fent out to quell the 

 revolt in St. Domingo, had 



mutinied on their arrival, and 

 that the head of M. Morduit, 

 a very worthy officer, had been 

 cut off by the grenadiers of 

 his own regiment. 



The two leaders of the dif- 

 ' turbances in St. Domingo have 

 J been broken on the wheel, and 

 I nearly 200 of their mifguided 

 ' adherents have received fen- 

 tence of death. 



The French King went to 

 the Church t)f St Auguftin on 

 Ealter Sunday, and received the 

 facrament from the hand of the 

 confiitutional Miniflers. The 

 j Q_ueen attended him, and the 

 I offj^c^a/Parifians obferved with 

 extraordinary pleafure, that the 

 ribbons in her hair were, for 

 the firft time, of the national 

 colours I 



The French King's lifters ar- 

 rived at Rome on the i6th ult. 

 Sunday the firft of May, was 

 the day on whigh the payment 

 of all duties of entree into the 

 city of Paris ceafed, according 

 to the decrees of the National 

 AfTembly. Upon this occafion 

 detachments of the National 

 Guards, attended with mufic, 

 made the circuit of the city 

 walls ; and an immenfe quan- 

 tity of merchandize wasbrought 

 within them without the leaft 

 difturbance. There was fome 

 apprehenfion that the harriers 

 would be riotnufly dcftroyed 

 by the mob. They will, how- 

 ever, be quietly taken down, in 

 their turn, under the infpec- 

 tion of the Officers of the pub- 

 lic works. 



Affignats to the amount of 

 ten rjiillions of livres were burnt 

 on the 6th inft. the ceremony 

 was performed in the prefence 



