Ijtstorical chronicle: sxi 



Jhe Aiistriars ar.cl Prufsian; are advancing; Pitt is espetriing 5^o!c! to ruin 

 us; and the hr.:iticism of religion and royalty triisleadsthe weak minded. The 

 lorh of August was calm, like the reason of the people, and has recorded 

 our oaths in heaven. The envoys trom the Primary Afsemblies ought to 

 receive the honourable raifsioii of going to warm the public spirit, of in- 

 viting the citizens to the common defence, and to destroy the federal elVorts 

 of the departments. With such an immense population, and such an a- 

 bundant harvest, can we be subdued ? Did not Louis xiv. resist all Europe? 

 Did not Louis xii destroy the league of Camliray ? — Do not the plains of 

 Fontcnoy still exist for the soldiers of liberty ? Make but an effort of co u- 

 rage for two months more, and our liberty will be secured. Envoys of the 

 peofi? your musion is about to be consecrated. The 30,000 cavalry alrea- 

 dy decreed are wanting to our armies. — cannot each of our municipalities 

 furnifn one ? " I summon you said the infamous Brunswick, to the French, 

 last year, to furnifli to-morrow so many men and horses, and so much am- 

 munition." 



" Jvenchmen, what you gave on the bni»al requisition of an Austrian, 

 ■will you refuse to the republic' Ye commlfsi 'nets from Lyonj, Toulon. 

 Marseilles, la Losere, la Vendee, Eures, and Calvados, you have also a no- 

 ble mifsion. Destroy the rclumnies thrown out against Paris. Tell your 

 fellow citizens, that if they sti'l resist the voice of their country,their country 

 ivill be cns!,:vcd. Tell the iNench youth, that they are all in a state of 

 requisition. Let them display valour, union, and unanimity, and victory 

 v-ill be ours." 



Barrere then propos(d the plain of a decree, the object of which was, 

 that the envoys of tiie people fhould be charged to propagate tne principles 

 of the unity ;:n(t mdivisibility of the republic, and to invite the French 

 youth to dciend the common cause — Decreed. 



Barrere presented also the plan of aa addrefs to the French, which wa? 

 also adopted. 



Not yet satisfied that all this would do, Dantov adds, " Barrere has not 

 said all. He his Sjjoken of the interest which the rich have to repel tiie c- 

 nemy, but he has icgotten to say, that if there fiiould be no longer safety 

 for liberty or other resources, we ourselves must direct the vengeance of the 

 people against the rich. (Here the ivhole ajscmbly rose up in testimony 

 'of approbation.) Where patriotism is not sufficiently' pov.-erful, the coiii- 

 mifsioners ought to have tiie direct powe- of requisition. I move that they 

 be invested with more direct and positi V :^owers, and that commiljioners, 

 chosen from among yourselves, fliall be appointed for each district, to con- 

 centrate tliemselves with the envoys of the same districts, in order that they 

 m ay oiiserve the greater unity in thi.ir movements." 

 Ail Danton's propositions were adopted. 



Still farther to conciliate the j.ood will of tlie mob, Barrere on the 15th, 

 in the name of the Committee of public welfare, proposed a decree to supply 

 Paris and all the cities and armies with the republic corn. 



The Convention adopted the decree in four articles, by which all those 

 farmers or othf rs, who are in the pofscfsion of corn in the departments, are 

 bound, on being summoned by the commifsioners of the convention, to give 

 up the same within iwenty-four hours, under pain of being dealt v/ith as trai- 

 tors to the republic. 



On the i6lh, Barrere proposed that it fliould be declared, that thu 

 poopleof France declare by the mouth of their representatives, " that they 

 will rise in one body, in defence of their liberty, of equality, and of the imlc- 

 pendence of their territories and constitution." 



Decreed unanimously, amidst the loudest bursts of applause, and cries »f 

 Long lijc the rtpublk '. ' 



