historical chronicle. "^^^ 



VL All good citizens (hall be held, !n the name of the rountr>-, to search 

 for the foreigners who are concerned in the pot denovmced. 



VII. Three millions flial! ne at the disposal of the minister at war, to 

 faril' tate the march of the g: rrison of Ment/ to La Vendee. 



VIII. The minister at war (hall send to the army or the coast of Rochelle 

 all the combustible materials necefsary to set fire to the forests and under- 

 wood of La Vendee. 



IX. The women, the children, and old men, fliall be conducted to the 

 interior parts ot the countr^^ 



X. Tlie property of the rebels (liall be confiscated for the benefit of the 

 Kepublic. 



XI A camp (hall be formed without delay between Paris and the nor- 

 thern armv. 



XII. All the family of the Capets (haU be banlfhed from the French ter- 

 lilory, tliose excepted who are under the sword of the law, and the two 

 oflspring of Louis Capet, who (hall remain in the temple. 



XIII iVlarie A 'toinette (liall be delivered over to the Revolutionary Tri- 

 bunal, and Ihdll be immediately conducted to the prison of the Conciergerie. 

 Lol.i •. Elizabeth fliall remain in the temple till after the judgement of Ma- 

 rie Aiitoinette 



XIV. All the tombs of the kings which are at St Dennis, and in the de- 

 partments, fliall be destroyed on the loth of August. 



XV. Tiie present decree fliall be dispatched by extraordinary couriers to 

 all the departments. 



This disposition is still more distinctly marked by the fallowing decree 

 enatted on the 2 August on the proposal of Couthon- 



1. From the 4th oi the present month, fhe the.^tres appointed by the 



Municipality (hall act, three times a wee.'i, Bri/tiis, Cams, Gracchus, 



WilUatn Tell, and other pieces of this kind, proper to maintain in the 



hearts of Frenchraeti the love of liberty and republicanism. 



X. One of those pieces (hall be acted once a week at the espence of 



the republic. 

 3. Every theatre which (hall dare to art pieces tending to revive ro- 

 yalty, fliall be flint up, and the managers lliall be dealt with according 

 to law. 

 The speeches of the leading men in the Convention are all directed to 

 rouse a spirit or patriotism, which seems impofsible to be atchieved ; tor not- 

 withstanding the fliouts of applause within doors, their effects without doors 

 are not perceptible. Wiy have we not already, sajd Danton on the ad. 

 August, dragged to the frontiers an immense body of citizens? In several 

 departments the people are fired with indignation at this effeminacy, and 

 have demanded that the tocsin of general alarm IhouJd be sounded. The 

 people have more energy than you. Liberty has always proceeded from that 

 part. If yi)U (hew yourselves worthy of them, they will follow you, and 

 your enemies will be exterminated. [Applauses]. I d-mand that tlie Con- 

 vention will erect into a provisional government its Committee of Public 

 Safety; tliat the ■n.nisters lliall be only the first clerks of the provisional 

 government; and that 50 millions (hall beat the disposal of that govern- 

 ment, who (hall give an account of it at the end of the sel'sion, but who 

 fliall have lull power to expend the whole in one day, if they think such a 

 measure use.ui. - - - From tliis date you must commit to the disposal 

 of government, one hundred millions, for the purpose of casting cannon, and 

 making, m.u(kets .md pikts. In all the most considei able, towns, the anvil 

 ouj;ht never to be struck but to forge that iron which you are to turn a - 

 gainst your enemies. — When the harvest is ended, you muat draw frc.u 



