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north, which amidst so many strongly iortified places must have. beena t 
best but slow, we pretend not at present tosay. It is perhaps of more con- 
sequence for them at present to gain an apparent victory than we are aware 
of, Time will fhow. ; 
In the interior of France the troops of the national conteneest seem, if, § 
pr the accounts that reach us can be believed, to have met with considera- 
ble succefs. Lyons opened it gates to them on the gth ult. after the gar-~ 
rison had to the number of 30,000 men secretly made its escape from 
thence. They have been pursued, and by the account o! the republican ge- 
nerals most of them have been cut to pieces. By the same accounts the 
royalists in Vendée have sustained several defeats. The Spaniards, they say, 
have been also repulsed in the lower Pyrenees, and the’ Savoyards driven 
out of Piedmont. But these reports are of doubtiul authority. Surmises 
likewise are abroad that general Conclaux has left the army near Toulon, 
and taken refuge among the Englifh in that place. But neither 1s this in- 
. formation to be relied on. , 
But it is altogether certain that the national convention irritated by the 
defection of the Lyonoise, and the obstinate defence they made when be- 
sieged , have pafsed a decree to raze that city to the foundation, and: not to J 
leave one stone upon another, except a few houses belonging toa select 
numbet of true sams culottes. This severe decree, unexampled in the his- 
tory of past times, unlefs it be by the decree of the Athenians to raze the 
city of Lesbos, and put to the sword the whole of its inhabitants, 
men, women, and children, which was next day reversed by that giddy 
pe-pie, be put in competition with it. This seemsto have been done with 
a view to please the Parisians, who have long looked upon Lyons as a sort 
of rival to Paris And there is little reason to suspect that it will not be 
carried into effect. The city of Lyons before the present trouble was sup- 
posed to contain not lefs than 150,000 inhabitants, and was the most opulent 
| manulacturing town in France. 
, The queen of France. 
Had not the world been long prepared for the event, by a series of atro- 
cities fast succeeding each other, im an uninterrupted series for a long while 
past, the murder of the queen of France would have exciied the most lively” 4 
sensations Of horror. In the present state of things, it has been considered — 
as little more than an ordinary event. She, poor woman, is at length at 
her rest, and beyond the power of farther outrage. Her son and daugh- 
er yet remain, probably to afford another. and a still more unexampled in. 
\ stance of the wonderful lengths to which the wickednefs of the human 
heart can be carried when uncurb’d by asense of moral rectitude, religion, F 
orthe law. The following is a succinct account of the mock oe by which, 
they disgraced the sacred forms of justice, 
