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paring to abandon } as report says, they are carrying off the artillery anj 

 stores from thence ; nor do we hear that either Douay, Carabray, or 

 Bouchain have been put into a condition to make a vigorous defence. 



The tenth of August, being the day in which the new constitution is tobc 

 accepted or refused by the delegates of the several departments of France in 

 the Champ de Mars at Paris, when, if it be accepted, the present Convention 

 will be difsolved and a new election will take place, a considerable fer- 

 ment in Paris is likely then to take place ; and every engine of intri- 

 gue may be expected to be now fully exerted in favour of the heads of dif- -, 

 rent parties. Condorcet, Brifsot, and others keep themselves at present 

 qui(*t probably in expectation of the result of that event. 

 Custine, 



As was to be expected' from his voilent proceeding?, having been called 

 ^o Paris, was accused in the Convention of many crimes; deprived of his 

 command, and Kellerman we believe appointed in his stead. He was 

 finally committed to the prison of the Abbaye to take his trial before the 

 revolutionary tribunal. It is reported that he has already been guillotined • 

 but this wants confirmation. 



Mijiister at <u>ar deposed and restored, 



BoucHOTTE, pinister at war and his afsistants were, upon the 25th of 

 Ju! y, on the representation ofDARTiGoyxTE.set aside by the Convention 

 as unfit to occupy the important places they held ; and on the afith the 

 men of the 10 of August appeared at the bar requesting he might be re- 

 placed, and upon the motion of Roberspierre the National Convention 

 revoked its decree against Bouchotte and his afsistants amidst the loudest 

 applause. 



Garat, minister for the home department, accused Grain the fi^st agent 

 of the,committee of supplies of the commons of Paris, with being the author 

 of a libel against him ; he justified his conduct in a long speech, and iin. 

 peached that of his adversary. 



In the mean time the accounts we receive respecting the military move» 

 ments in the interior of France, are so vague and contradictory that no- 

 thing with certainty can be made out of them, unlefs it be that none of 

 the parties have as yet obtained any decisive advantage over the other. 

 The following letter of General Wimpen, commanding the rebel troops ii> 

 Calvados, has at least the merit of being laconic. 



" General PVimpen, to the General of the Parisian army, greetirg. 



" If you want civil war, advance — if not, do not set your feet on the 

 territory of L'alvados. I wanted to avert many misfortunes, but soon IhaH 

 an explanation take place." 



Rear Adir.iral Truguet, who for the 'two last years has been chief in 

 command at sea in the Mediterranean station, presents a long representa- 

 tion to the committee of public welfare, respecting the present state of th^ 



