the offspring of Louis Capet, who are in the Temple. 13. Marie Antoinette fhall be delivered over to the revolutionary tribunal, and shall be immediately conducted to the prifon Conciergerie: Louife Elizabeth fhall remain in the Temple till after the judgment of Marie Antoinette. 14. All the tombs of the kings, which are at St. Denis, and in the departments, fhall be destroyed, on the roth of Auguft, &c. From this decree, fo charged as it is with hostile defign, and democratic vengeance, the legiflators who adopted it, proceeded to fet tle and arrange fuch public diverfions and amufements, as were deemed proper to fill up the interval of cruelty; or, as fome may think, to incite them to it. On the fecond of Auguft, therefore, it was decreed, 1. That the theatres appointed by the municipality, fhould act three times, in every week, the dramatic pieces, called Brutus, Caius Gracchus, and William Tell, with fuch leffer exhibitions as are moft proper to maintain, in the hearts of Frenchmen, the love of liberty and republicanism. 2. One of these pieces fhall be acted once in every week, at the expence of the republic. 3. Every theatre, in which any performance, tending to revive royalty, fhall be audaciously reprefented, fhall be shut up, and the managers punifhed with exemplary feverity. It was alfo ordered, that the Marseilles hymn, which was hereafter to be denominated the hymn of liberty, fhould be fung after the concluding fcene of all theatrical spectacles. We must now mention a very extraordinary project, which marks the daring fpirit of the man who conceived it. On the 15th of Auguft, Barrere propofed, that the people of France thould declare, by the mouth of their reprefentatives, that they will rife in one body, in defence of their liberty, equality, independence, and the conftitution. This propofition being received with loud burfts of applaufe, Barrere prefented a plan for carrying his defign into effect; and it was fhortly introduced in its matured ftate, by the committee of public welfare. Barrere concluded the fpeech with which he introduced the decree, in the following manner. "How happy will the time be, when, after having driven their enemies from their facred territories, the people of France fhall, on their frontiers, erect majestic columns, on which they will engrave the fublime decree, by which you have declared, in their name, that-y t-you renounce every idea of conqueft, and the abolition of roy alty. Behind and near thefe columns, fhall be impregnable ftrong holds, arfenals well ftored, and freemen. Thus fhall you wait in peace, the refpect or hatred of the univerfe." This extraordinary decree contains the following articles. 1. From this prefent moment, till that when the enemies fhall have been driven from the territories of the republic, all Frenchmen fhall be in permanent readinefs for the fervice of the armies. The young men fhall march to the combat; the married men fhall forge arms and tranfport provifions; the women thall make tents and cloaths, and attend in the hofpitals; the children fhall make lint of old linen; the old men fhall caufe cause themselves to be carried into the public fquares, to excite the courage of the warriors, and preach hatred against the enemies of the republic. 2. The national edifices fhall be converted into ftore-houses; the ground of the cellars fhall be washed with lie, to obtain falt-petre. 3. The mufquets and military fire-arms, fhall be immediately delivered to thofe who are to march against the enemy: the internal fervice of the republic fhall be performed with fowling pieces. 4. All faddle-horfes fhall be given up to complete the cavalry: the draught horfes, and others, except thofe employed for purpofes of agriculture, fhall convey the artillery and provifions. 5. The committee of public welfare is charged to take all neceffary measures to establish, without delay, an extraordinary manufacture of arms of all kinds, fuitable to the efforts of the French nation. It is authorised, in confequence, to form all the establishments, manufac tures, and working places, which fhall be deemed neceffary for the execution of thofe works; and to fummon, throughout the republic, all the artists and workmen who can contribute to their fuccefs. The fum of thirty millions fhall be at the difpofal of the minifter at war, to be taken out of the four hundred and twenty-eight millions in alignats, which are in referve in the cheft with three keys. The 'central establishment of this extraordinary manufacture shall be at Paris. 6. The reprefentatives of the people fent into the departments to execute the prefent law, fhall have the fame authority, and fhall con cert measures, with the committee of public welfare: they are invefted with the unlimited powers attributed to the reprefentatives of the people with the armies.. 7. No Frenchman fummoned to ferve, fhall be fuffered to fend The public funca fubftitute. tionaries thall remain on their poft. 8. The rifing or movement shall be general; the unmarried or widowed citizens, from the age of twenty-five, fhall eighteen to march firft: they fhall form, without delay, in the chief place of their district: they thall daily be exercifed till the day of their departure. 9. The reprefentatives of the people thall regulate the calls and the marches, fo that the armed citizens may not reach the place of their rendezvous, before the fupplies and ammunition, and all the mechanical parts fhall have been brought together in a competent proportion. io. The general points of rendezvous thall be determined by circumftances, and pointed out by the reprefentatives of the people, fent out to enforce the execution of the prefent law, by advice of the generals, in concert with the committee of public welfare and the provifory executive counfel. 11. The battalion, which shall be organifed in every diftrict, fhall be ranged under a banner, with this intcription: The French nation rifen against tyrants. 12. The battalions fhall be organised according to the eftablithed laws, and their pay fhall be the fame as that of the battalions now on the frontiers. 13. In order to collect a fufficient cient quantity of provifions, the farmers and ftewards of the national lands fhall pour into the principal rendezvous of every district, a fufficient quantity of corn, the produce of the faid lands. of the convention, which was every hour producing fomething ftrange and monftrous; but that it fhould, in any degree, be received by the people, might not be altogether expected, on the awowed principles even of the French revolution, Jacobins, and the friends of Jacobins, will, with 14. The proprietors, farmers, and holders of corn, fhall be obliged to pay their arrears of taxes in the produce of the fields, and alfo two-out doubt, confider the general thirds of the taxes for 1793. confent to rife in a mass, as a proof of that ardent love of liberty, which is boafted, at this time, to have infpired every patriot heart in France. It muft, indeed, be confeffed, that a very active enthusiasm prevailed among the French people; but it was not founded on a knowledge or fenfe of genuine freedom: it was violent, cruel, and precipitate; it was eafily called forth, and set in motion; but not operating on any principle, however it might be employed, its course must be licentious, and its tendency was rather to mischief than to good. 15. The national convention appoints citizens Chabot, Tallien, Carpentier, Renaud, Dartgoytte, La Planche of Vievre, Mallarme, Legendre, Lanot, Roux-Fuzillac, Pagenel, Boiffet, Tallifer, Baile, Pinet, Fayan, Lacroix, and Ingrand, as adjuncts to the reprefentatives of the people, who are actually in the armies, and in the departments, in order to execute in concert with them the present decree. 16. The commiffioners of the primary affemblies are invited to repair, without delay, into the departments, to fulfil the civic miffion entrusted to them by the decree of the 14th of Auguft, and to receive the commiflions to be affigned to them by the reprefenta tives of the people. 17. The minifter of war is charged to take all the meafures neceifary for the execution of the prefent decree. The fum of fifty millions fhall be placed at his difpofal, to be taken out of the four hundred and fifty-eight millions of affignats in the cheft with three keys. 18. The prefent decree fhall be fent into the departments by extraordinary couriers." That fuch a decree fhould be proposed cannot produce the leaft aftonishment in the minds of thofe who are familiar with the hiftory We shall now leave, for a fhort time, the commotions of Europe, to confider and record the events of the West Indies- a very interefting part of the globe to the nations of Europe.-Admiral La Forey had failed from Barbadoes, on the 12th of April, accompanied by major general Cuyler, who commanded the land forces, destined for an attack on the ifland of Tobago. They arrived there on the 14th, and the troops were disembarked by three in the afternoon. The commandant res fufing to furrender on the fummons, the works were effectually ftormed, and carried, against a strong resistance, with inconfiderable lofs. The number of the enemy that defended the place were equal to the troops who made the attack. In the beginning of the follow vie. ing month the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon furrendered at difcretion to the British forces, under the command of captain Affleck, of his majefty's fhip Alligator, and brigadier-general OgilAn attempt was alfo made on the island of Martinico, by a body of troops, confifting of about 1100 men, under the command of major general Bruce, in confequence of an invitation from the royalifts in that island. The British forces made good their landing on the 16th of June. The plan, which had been concerted, was to attack two batteries that defended Saint Pierre; the taking of which would produce an immediate poffethion of that town. The morning of the 18th was the time fixed for executing this project, and the whole force marched forward, before day-break, in two columns; the one confifting of the British troops, and the other of the French royalifts: but the latter, by fome mistake, began by firing upon each other, and the whole body of them were fo difconcerted by this circumftance, as to retire inftantly, and in great confufion, to the poft from whence they had advanced. This conduct rendered the expectation of any alliftance from them very doubtful; and as the British troops were not equal to the attack of Saint Pierre by themselves, they returned to their former poft, from whence they embarked on the 19th. The 20th and 21ft were employed in embarking the royalifts, who, if they had been left behind, would have fallen a facrifice to republican vengeance. A confiderable number of the most respectable inhabitants of St. Domingo, lamenting the fituation of France, and groaning beneath the tyranny of the commiflioners. Polverel and Santhonax, whom the French convention had fent to regulate the affairs of that colony, had implored the British governs ment to take them, on certain conditions, under its protection till a general peace, when the forereignty of Saint Domingo would be finally fettled. Accordingly major-general Williamfon failed from Jamaica on the 9th of Sept. with commodore Ford, having on board the 13th regiment, two flank companies of the 49th, and a detachment of artillery, to take poffeffion of the town and forts of Jeremie. This was effected on the nineteenth, the British colours were hoifted on both forts, and the troops were received with loud acclamations by all ranks of people. The commodore failed from thence to the Mole, where he arrived on the 22d; when a deputation of twenty perfons from thence came on board, to, beg that he would take poffeffion of it, on the fame conditions which had been granted to Jeremie. This propofition was accepted, and Cape Nicholas Mole was alfo received into the protection of the British crown. Before we return to the affairs of Europe, it will be neceffary to mention the fuccefs of the British arms in the Eaft Indies, by the capture of all the French fettlements in that part of the globe. Advice having been received at Fort Saint George, on the 2d, and at Fort William on the 11th of June, from Mr. Baldwin, his majefty's conful at Alexandria, that France had declared war against Great in Great Britain and Holland, all the fmall factories belonging to the French on the continent of India, as well as the fhips of that nation any of the ports, were immediately feized, while the government of Fort St. George made inftant preparations to attack the important fortrefs of Pondicherry. Marquis Cornwallis alfo declared his intention to undertake the conduct of the fiege; but by the activity of colonel Braithwaite, and the troops under his command, the place was furrendered before he could arrive. This was a molt important conqueft, and gave complete fecurity to the oriental poffeflions of Great Britain. The French fettlements on the coaft of Malabar, as well as thofe which were in the vicinity of Bengal furrendered to the British arms: fo that the colours of France were no longer feen to wave on the continent of india. CHAP. VIII. Occurrences in the Low Countries. Action at Lincelles. Expedition against Dunkirk. Surrender of Quesnoy. The French attack the Frontier Pofis of the Allies. Prince de Cobourg is forced to repafs the Sambre. The Arrival of Sir Charles Grey, and a British Armament, at Oftend. French Armies augmented. State of the revolted Parts. An Army ordered against Marfeilles, which furrenders. Toulon yielded to Lord Hood. Lyons besieged and taken by the Republican Army. Enormities practifed on its inhabitants. Cuftine recalled and beheaded. Cruelties exercifed on the Queen--Her Trial and Murder. The New Calendar. Trial and Execution of Briffot, and Several Members of his Party. Execution of the Duke of Orleans and Madame Roland. Bibops and Priefs refign their Functions, and difclaim the Chriftian Religion before, the Convention. Lines of Weiffemburg forced by General Wurmfer. The Allies defeated at Hagenau. Weiffembourg retaken. Siege of Landau raifed. Toulon given up to the French. The French Fleet, Arfenals, and Store-houses, destroyed. Occurrences on the Side of Spain and Italy. Affiftance given to Corfica. Lord Moira's Expedition to the Coast of France. WE E muft now return to the tries; and the most prominent circumstance to be obferved there, is the attempt of the duke of York to reftore Dunkirk to the British Empire. On the 18th of Auguft his royal highness marched from Turcoin to a camp near Menin. The Dutch, who were ftationed there, after fome advantages gained over the French, were fo preffed by them in their turn, that the here ditary prince of Orange requested from the British forces; and they were immediately ordered to march under the command of general Lake. The enemy occupied a redoubt of uncommon fize and ftrength, upon an height adjoining the high road in front of the village of Lincelles. The road itfelf was defended by other works, which were ftrongly pallifadoed, while woods and ditches covered |