HISTORICAL CJriRONICLE 



Wednesdat, jiuGusi 14. 1793. 

 Foreign. 



France. 



X HE distractions in France seem to be accumulating. Since the Jaco- 

 bins acquired the ascendency by force of arms, and on the 2d of June 

 overawing the National Convention, so as to coaipel the arrest of the twen- 

 ty-two members, the country is divided into parties not only of republicans 

 and royalists, democrates and aristocrates as formerly; but of republicans 

 against republicans, who seem to be animated with a greater degree of 

 fury against each other than against the favourers of the royal part it« 

 •elf. 



Afsafsination. of JMarat. 

 It is by the hands of a zealot, a champion of one 6f these parties, that 

 Marat, whose crimes have been so long the detestation of all Europe, has 

 been honoured by a mode of death that has been usually applied to per- 

 sons of much more exalted character. A woman named Charlotte Cor- 

 DE, a native of Ca-en in Normandy, of a respectable family there, having 

 conceived an idea that fhe would do an acceptable deed, by ridding the 

 world of this man, came to Paris on purpose to carry her design into 

 execution; which flie effected on Sunday the 14th of July, by stabbing 

 him with a knife. The particulars were nearly as follows : 



On the Thursday preceding his death this woman, of a respectable ap- 

 pearance, arrived at Paris from Caen in Normandy. On the two following 

 days (lie was busied, it (hould seem, in making inquiries respecting the va- 

 rious crimes imputed to her destined victim; and having satisfied her- 

 self as to the truth, on the Sunday Ihe obtained an interview with Ma- 

 rat. 



She continued in conversation with him for some time, afking his opinion 

 of several persons whom (he named ; and on his averring them to be 

 Counter Revolutionists, (lie instantly stabbed him; declarmg that (he was 

 then convinced that every thing (he had heard of him was true. 



On her being seized and interrogated, (he |ustified her conduct by de- 

 claring her conviction that Mar«t had been the ca.ise of all the evils with 

 which France had lately been afflicted; (he seemed to glory in her act, and 

 declared, that (he had not been instigated by any person, and that no one 

 was privy to it. 



Thus penflieda man, who has been a principal actor, if not the instigator 

 cf more important events within the last twelve months, thin perhaps any o- 

 thcr person in a similar period of tune. 



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