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: ' : (A. mm m m m w - . m . - . m- - . a.j -.-o- a 1 U R D A Y, February 2i, i 795- N0.475.J .-4; t STATE OF FRENCH POr.n irs Iron the 'all of Roberfpierre, to.the 7th November. tain Bradford, tuff arm,. A n.j i.. j-.tr. . . . vl'"r : different Darts of the Hwu'iWir. Ti,;--.: j . . 1 uuuai vt .juw u uoived. anu a: new on . , ln"1 bWfn hC accufed were . to be altered council, and the judges were held, after they had found . perfon gilty, to declare -with what intention the crime had been committed as it was fuppofed many well af. feded perfons had been led by the intrigues of , panic i, to acl unknowingly againft the ' principles of the revolution between inch and the t eal enemies of the Republic, it was the, wiih of the convention to difcriminare. v l ne arrnd force of. Paris, which had hither to been under the;commatid of one peron, fatal torhe convention by the commander, Henriot being of Riiberfpierre. party, was now thought toe dangercus,to be guided by aiingle individual this command was there-JR-re. .yd.eeeaLthelftntion, to be inverted m a commifiion of five members. i he 28th Augutt, Barriere, in the name of the committee, created the mh, to new organise the committee or tie convention, made a report, which was adopted , " That there Ihall be fix.ieu commit:es of the Nati. .onal Convention." ... Abo tt this time; a qua rrcl began between tain Bradford, j u ft sr rived at B0i: frm nnHE X even at much as the deftru&ton of the Baftile, or we aepoimg their King and the 28th Ju Iv, 794 WJ as grat at Paris as the "14th ol July 1789, or the loth Auguft 1792. . . The Convention werea. their Titling fix .and thirty hours,- and 'the -night between the 27th and 2 8th the city of Paris fav two hundred tnouland men in arms, ready - to fall upon they'did not knoyv who. " Robe rfpierre, with his accomplices, Cou pon and Stvfurt, had been lent frbmTthe National Convention under arrell j but the keepers of the prifons,-were all fo' much in their interf ft, that they would not receive them, and during the confufion they efcap- ed, their guards, and fought a fancruary vith the municipality of the city, who were aflembled and ready ti receive and pro tea them. In the midtt of this Aflembly of all their friends, they were again arrefted, at 1 2 o'clock at night by two relolute mem bers of the Convenutm, accompanied by on. Jy a few gens Pdrmcs, or national guards. "Tiiil intrepid band rufli?d into the hall Tvhere the commune, werj? affimbled, dis charged their piftois at, and 'weunded the traitor. 'The bold icfs of this attack, toge ther with the fall of their leader, (o intimi ' dated the eft, that they made no refllbnce but as faft as poffiblc di (per fed., A few hours nfore bro't theie principal traitors to the Icaftold and the day after, Caffinal 'the; Mayor, Henriot the commander of the arm ed force of Paris, kan'd the greateft part of the municipality folio wee1, to lay their head at the fame fhrine. : v Thus the ftorm which hid gathered with the luddenels, and threatened to be follow, ed with the dcftruclian of the moll; violent ' tornado, foon happily ab.nee', and a calm and peaceable fcene eufued. Aftrr the deilruction of ihis new tyrant the National Convention afflimed a milder plan" of government. Le Glaive de h Ui found fome refpite from its before continued labours The people trembled tUat they had lo long blefled the hand that opprefled them; and their titrations of this Nero wtrc every where equal to the blind adora. tion -Ahich they bad before paid him ; but the gen:ral horror which had pervaded all ranks, as well in the Convention, as with out, from the continual aclion 0 theguilli). tine, began now to lulide-liberry cfopi nion and fpeech were renewed, and that confidence he fween nn and man, the bafil ci locial happm..f, which had been deftrov edby a long train cf bUdy proceedings, tevived t th siyftem of terror abated. Af er the convention had cleared away the rUbbifh of tlnsconlpiraay wi.h thehcacii of the tyrant and his aaomplices, thy be piito ru h-.ir co nmittees 'Ihe com. mrtee ot public fafety wJfc new organized, Jver ak ol. itsfnrnu r.-mendjers - excluded, and a decree p.Ucd to i,are t,e;r memberi renewed, a quarter part, month!, and foment their powers Were abridged, the decree af.l,'d wh.ch authonfed them to arrell de, ul liei. The bloody dtf ree of he 22d Pr.iiial was revoked this decree rc Ipf tied principally the "Revolutionary Tri. buna! and wasjMfled by the influence of Ro..erfp.e,re, whofe fway was abfoluie by i death was to be the punilhnunt ef e. very crime, and the acculed to be allowed pocounc. or attorney, but a public .ecu. fer was eihbhlhed to co, v.cf, fo that few or none who were brought to this bar, ever icturned to their family or friend, gain. -I m. inbunal, the ,,ranl h.d compoffd of June, and judges, either in his mtereft or ter be fit to del roy, were only .coifed be. fore thu tr.bun.l, and the guillotine difp.tch. ed them not lefs than thirty or forty, vic tim s to this - mach'n? of death, bled upon .the ftagrtiTtyt the Niitional Convention and the Jacobins. This loeiety,' lc proud and rjowprfiil " r. ceived a humiliating ltroke in tee overthrow- or KoDcnpterre, whom theyr or at left part of them, endeavored to the lail, to iup)orti Their meeting! ceafi d for fe veral days they atleaU came together, and wit,li but an ill grace, felicitated the convention upon the fortunate difcovery of the confpi racy, and fate 01 the traitors and declared themfelves ever devoted to the'priueip!es of the Revolution and ready at all time,lo lupport the conventior, who Upon this oc cafion, had proved themfelves theguardians and lavior. ol ihe Republic This fhow of frier.dfhip, hbvevir, bad but a fbn durati on thejjr had loft their popularity ; and the :onvention had gained it this was f ufEcient to give p!a to jenvy and they took the, firft opportunity to find fault with the" pro ceedingkof that body, which they wihedto rival. The convention, among many other afts to I often the rigcrs which lod marked . the proceedings of the late faftion, had op. ned the prifon doors, ' and fet at liberty great number, of perlous whDm Rober. fpitrre nad caufed to be arrefted ; ard who only waited their tut h ta bleed it the guil lotine. At this adk of lenity, the Jacobins began bitterly to complain ; :hty declared that the enemies of the Republic, were re ftored to liberty that ariftocracj and mode ratilm, .began every where to raife their audacious heads j and inveighed againft the convention, for di'continuingthcfe feverr, bu falutary meafurei, which" had eonducled Ihe revolution thus far, which kept it. ene roiei In due fubjtftion, and vhich alone could favethe Republic. Theyjddrefled - the other Popular SocieireTIa, and "about Pari., and called upon them b be- upon their guard againft thefe moderate mcafurcs, and pretty boldly Intimated, that there wa. a new fatlion forming in the toevention, which, under tbe pretence uf footinj up The feeds of the old, were in fafi endeavor, iog to eftablifh a worfe upon itstuir.. and that they bad adopted this mild plan, as the neftlikelf to rrve their ends, whilft the paffons of the people were warm againft that party who had mdve'd in he ppofite extreme. They received, or pietended to r.ceive, .nd publifhed addrrflei from a great nimbcr of fotietiei, in difTerenf pruof ihe Republic, which declared themllve. devo ted to the Jicobini, .nd Jciniig them in rrotefling, that the hew procetding, only . favered theariftocrati, and tl.st theie even began to opprelt the Patrioti-h.y were huwevcr .cewfed of framing thefe adrcOcs themfelfes. On tho ether hand, the con. ven tion were daily r eceiving the thank of he people,, from all parts, in addreflesfor ty, in f.rppreliing the monftrourconfpiracy s i and high y approving of tiiejuitrce, and hvZ .:-j-"7 iicpiairoi pfOceedir,gs7ther bad adopted particularly commenaing their prompt attention to the fafrcrlng of their e low-cilizenv on thWrann of the -late confpirator. had dtagged to prifon-and declared UemlelveseVer?devmed to the Reprelentativesof thenatron-that the convennon wa, their only pomtof ralhment, and defirmg them to remain at their pofts' during the Revolution. , . . It muft be notad that a number of the inembers of the Convention were alfb mem- . bers of this fociety of Jacobins, land thefe forming a pmy i the Cunvention, had de jiominattd themlelves the Mountain. R0- the Jacobin fociety its fupporters, and by ' way of der.hon they called the reft of the " Convention, the frogs of the mudpuddle, - ' oroftke moral,, fo much were they below the Mountain The , all bf ; Roberlpierre . had reverled the fcei.e, and this opprelled part of the National Aflm.bly, become the moft.powerful-and in ordr to harmonite ,the members among-themfeives, the con. vention decreed there ihould be no diftindi- -pntofrtieHn--theibodyi-cnct-ihat-ihe name of Mountain fhouid not hrreafter be mentioned.! The Jacobins however began to rally round the Mountain, wW h thev . Wfrdaf,rUed uId not i0 crufld .-raHltdl rid,culed the rtthar. party under the name of the frog., whe they laid were raifing their heads , above themuil; but it w.a only that they might be the esfier- tut eff Barrere, and Collot D'Herbou were ' fufpecledof being panies of the late confpf racy,. and Je. veral hints had been thrown out againft them in the Convention at laft la Cointre, de Verfailles, puttickly acculed them, and hrcught forward n ad cf de nunciation againft them, vith fcur rtfier member, of the Convention, Billaud ,Var. rennes, Vadier, Amar, and David hi -accufation contained a; articles ; none of which the Convention thought were Tup ported, andthelc members were acquitted, and the accufation decreed calumnious. About the firft of September, the faro. ' bin. expelled Tallien, (one cf the National Aflembly , and the principal oneindenoun cmgJtoterlpierre) from their fociety, and-' a niKf,t cr two after, this member was af. faulted in the flreet by an afTaflin, who dif. charged a p.ftof at and wounded him in thi fliouldtr 5 the wcund proved not dtfperate, and it was not long before he was able to take his feat in the convention again. The jacobins were accqftd c f being at the bot tom of mis, and tbey did not fee fit to de ny it t but rather made fport ol the evenr, and caft feveral occafion.l farcafms on the wounded member. Thefe two bcdiei now came to open war. The Jacobins declared that tbe convention favoured and protected " i.('oc",, aB! Rryaftratid lufTcred thefe ' to epprel, the tru Patriots , they invited the other Popular focieties toproteft againft thefe proteedii g', .nd to withdraw their ' confidence from all who blindly acquicficd in them. And they refdved to hold no farther correfpondence with any feciety whofe cry wa.'Vivt la Convention. Flt 1 new. .n,UVf mrnc Jn he Na. uonal AfTemblr Merlin, de Thfanville' demmnced the fociety of Jacobin, as a dan! -gerotrjnd turbulent body, accomplices of Kcberfpierre, who though they had alT.ft. . ed tn ovenurnirg the throne, now when there was 110 throne te deftroy, were in deavoring tc deftro the Reprefenntlrebo! dy vt the nafien. He denounced them as reLf.kn?wJi,.ntnekfood oMnnocent viflim. which hae been ficrificfd under the late fyrtnt, and as d.tlrit.g them te bring back the reifn 0f terror which the Convention had fo happily difperkd. The Convention a t . ; a i i I 1 III 1 1 n I, ,7
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