X historical chronicle: 



This intrepid afsafsin was instantly seized and tried on the 17th t)«4)r<f 

 the revolutionary tribunal, on which occasion (he behaved with a firmnefs and 

 intrepidity that would have been deemed heroic magnanimity if it had been 

 exerted in a better cause. When brought before the judges her counte- 

 nance displayed heroic disdain, and her answers, by their boldnefs, struck e- 

 very spectator with astonifhment. 



At the beginning of her trial fhe thus addrefsed her judges: — " I did 

 not expect to appear before you ; I always" thought that I fliould be delivered 

 up to the rage of the people, torn in pieces, and that my head, stuck on the 

 top of a pike, v/ould have preceded rslARAT on his state bed, to serve as 

 a rallying point to Frenchmen, if there still are any worthy of that name. 

 But, happen wh.it will, if I have the honours of the guillotine, and my 

 clay cold remains are buried, they will soon have conferred upon them the 

 honours of tne pantheon, and my memory wiil be more honoured in France 

 than that of Judith in Bcti-ulia." Sentence of death was pronounced upon _^ 

 this resolute woman, and the was executed in the evening. 



When fhe was led forth to execution, flie smiled at the guillotine, deli- 

 berately cut off a quantity of her hair, and entreated that it might be scat 

 to her father at Caen. She then told the executioner, with a chearful 

 countenance, that flie was ready, and disired him to remember that (he ' 

 died a pure republican. 



It does not appear that this woman had any accomplice in her plan ; and 

 though some attempts were made in the Convention to inculpate severol 

 of its members as being connected with lier, yet no proofs of that sort that 

 could iraprefs an impartial mind with conviction have, yet been brought 

 forward; though it was c?sy to discover that many persons in the Con- 

 vention were no favourers of Marat's plans. 



The body of Marat was interred with great pomp on the iCth. But it 

 appears from the report of his friends on that occasion, that he had becfn 

 in such a state of health before, as that in all probability he could have li- 

 ved but a fliort time. His body was in such a state of putridity that it could 

 not be exposed so fully to the people as his partizans v.-ould have wifli- 

 ed. 



Few events could have more efiectualiy discovered the inconsiderate 

 b'.iudnefs of that phrenetic zeal which stimulates to afsafsination, than the 

 present. The cutting off of Marat in the present situation of affairs in 

 Trance is like abstracting only a drop from the bucket ; and by exciting 

 the detestation of mankind against the atroc'ous deed, it must tend rather 

 t;) augment the strength of his party than to diminifh it. 

 Capture of Ment%. 

 At last the king of Prufsla hu» succeeded in obliging the garrison of Mentz 

 to surrender. 'i"his event took place by capitulation on the ^^6. of July. 

 Tiic garrison consisting of about 12,000 men were allowed to march out witli 

 tJif hpueurs of wai, but without artillery ;_ and were conducted to France, 



