The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-10-17 00:00:00, page 2

313 The tenth persecution ends by anedi&
of Constantine, who favours the Chrtflians,
and gives full liberty to their religion.
314. Three bishops or fathers, are sent
from Britain to assist at the council of Arles.
325 The firft general council at Nice when
318 fathers attended, against Arius, where
was composed the famous Nice Creed, which
we attribute to them.
Ferone—" I have beheld, with a
certain degree of astonishment, min
gled with horror, in the lift of the
members presen ted, in order to com
pole the revolutionary tribunal, the
names of men who deserve the pub
lic execration. All Paris demands of
you the justly merited punishment of
Fouquer Tunville—[Plaudits.] —You
have sent to the revolutionary tribunal
the infamous Dumas & the jurymen,
who with him participated in the
crimes of Robespierre. I shall prove
to you that Fouquer was equally guil
ty ; for if the president and the jury
men were influenced by the tyrant,
the public accuser must also have been
his creature, since he drew up the ads
of accusation. 1 demand, then, that
Fouquer Tunville may be sent to ex
piate in hell, the torrents of blood he
has shed. —[Plaudit#.]
Brioni and Bourdon mentioned fev
era! anecdotes relative to the bloody
monster Robespierre. The firft Bated
that he had threatened to discharge
the jurymen of the revolutionary tri
bunal, because they had not put every
one to death that was sent by him be
fore the tribunal ; and the second af
firmed, that four of them, at the trial
of Goffin, were menaced with affaffia
avion because they resisted the tyrant's
orders.
Barrere observed, that in the course
of the three left days, a great change
had been produced, “ The political
horizon of France, (fays he) has been
Suddenly enlightened. The puniffi.
mens of the tyrant hath fully difcov
cred to us that infernal confpiiacy he
meditated against the representatives
of the people?'
he decree warinftantly and Unan
imoudy repealed, amidst the plaudits
of the Convention.
PARIS, AUG. I.
THE Convention this day nomin
ated a new committee of Pub
lic Safety. It now consists of Legen
dre, Goupilleau, Merlin, Andrew Du
mont, Bernard, and Jean Debrie.—
They are of the party which Robes
pierre called Moderate#, or Indulgent!.
National Convention —Leointre said
" I demand the repeal of the law of
the loth of June, relative to the new
organization of the revolutionary tri.
bunal, as it it tantamount to Martial
law."
[On Saturday last arrived at Boflon, tbefeip Mi
nerva, Capt. Scott, in 6 weeks from London —
Tbe papers received, are to tbe 22d of duguft—
tbe most material contents of wbicb follow : —
328 Constantine removes the feat of em
pire from Rome to Byzantium, which is
thence-forwards called Constantinople.
331 He orders all the heathen temples to
be destroyed.
363 The Roman emperor Julian, furham
ed the Apostate, endeavours in vain to re
build the temple of Jerusalem.
364 The Roman empire is divided into the
eanern (Constantinople the capital) & weft
ern (of which Rome continued to be the
capital) each being now under the govern
went of different emperors.
400 Bells invented by bishop Paulinus, of
'Campagnia.
404 The Kingdom of Caledonia, or Scot
land, revives under Fergus.
406 The Vandals, Alans, and Suevi, spread
into France and Spain, by a concession of
Honorius emperor of the Weft.
410 Rome taken and plundered by Alaric,
king of the Vifi-Goths.
420 The kingdom of France begins upon
the Lower'Rhine, under Pharamond.
New Order of things in France.
412 The Vandals begin their kingdom in
Spain.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
(To be continued.)
Lebon mounted the tribune.
Bourdon—" There is the hangmin
Robespierre made use of."
Andrew Dumont— 0 Citizeni, we
have heard unp'eafant truths. Jufa
has a long time been outraged in the
department of the North, and Pas de
Calais. The hangman, chosen by Ro
befpierte, has made rivers of blood.
Lebon, this sanguinary monster, drunk
with blood and covered with crimes
and curses, has dared to contaminate
the tribune with his presence, that he
might exhale the venom of hit infer
nal foul. Not a minute passes but he
meditates some new crime, and pre
pares a new assassin. Away, to hell,
thou monfterl Thisvile wretch will
doubtlefi soon expiate hit crim,, by
being cut off from society. The uie
is come, when his associates will re*
ceive the just wages of their iniquity.
The reign of traitors and blood-fuck
ers is no more. I demand the report
of the decree by which you parted
to the order of the day upon the ac°
cufation of Lebon. I demand his ar
left and speedy punishment.
Lebon was heard in hisjuftification
and laid all the blame on the bloody
tyrant Robespierre.
The fedion des Champs Ely fees,
came to demand the liberty of seven
patriots, whom Lubin one of Robes
pierre's accomplices, had incarcerated.
Merlin of Thionville——" Your
committees labour night and day to
fepirate the patriots from the aristo
crats, that they may finite the latter
with a rod of iron, and restore the
oppressed to freedom & their duties."
To other solicitations for enlarging
persons detained, Barrere thus replied,
" The two committees of General
Safety and Public Welfare, are occu
pied incessantly with restoring free
dom to the patriots, and great num
bers have liberty. But the aristocracy
must not be (offered to turn to its ad
vantage the revolution which is now
operating; the law of Sept. 17, will
be rigidly executed."
AUG, 3. We traversed, fay the
committee who went in Search of
Robespierre, the great Hall, whence
the confpiratoti were fled. Upon en
tering that of the secretaries, the elder
Robespierre (hot himfelf in the mouth
with a pistol; at the fame instant he
received a ball from aGens d'Armes.
The tyrant fell bathed in his blood.
A Sans Culotte approached him, and
with great coolness said, There is a
Supreme Being.
All the other conspirators had hid
themfelvei in the moil secret places.
One was dragged from a chimney,
another from a press. Lebas, stabbed
in several places was in a wood hole.
Conthon, also wounded, was behind
a desk. They were all arrested, with
the utmost quiet. Humanity has no
thing to mourn for in the execution
of this national justice. \
Citizen Abarede, member of the
deputation. During this bufinefi, a
man entered, having the watch word
at the gate. I demanded to know
what he wanted—He replied "Read
this paper, and you will know my bu
siness." I read as follows:
Permanent Sitting of Jacobins, gib
" The Popular Society decrees,
that twelve members taken from a
mong them, & pointed out by name,
shall go immediately to the commune
and take part in their proceedings.
Signed, " Vivier, President."
A person present foatched the pa
per from me, and laid he should take
it to the popular representative Leon
ard Bourdon. As since then, I have
heard nothing more of it, I mention
it, for fear the designing should have
suppressed the circumstance from the
knowledge of the Convention.
Tbermidor.
AUGUST 4.
The new revolutionary Tribunal.
Merrill of Dcuay, proposed a decree upon
the organization of the Revolutionary Tri
bunal.—The plan presented by Merrin, is
divided into 17 heads, which regulate the
competence of the Revolutionary Tribunal,
their fittings, the arraignment, procedure,
and forms of judgment. One President, 4
vice presidents, 24 judges, 1 public accuser,
4 substitutes, 1 register, and 60 jurors, re
newed half of them every three months. —
Such should be the composition of thrifty,
bunal. Four fe&ions, each of 6 jud&
None can be taken before the Tmnal,
but in virtue of a decree of the Conv&ion,
or an order of the Committee of Gem^
Safety, or a mandate of arrest from the puT
lie accuser, in these cases fpecifying the cause.
The accuser flhall have counsel, and may
challenge the jury upon fufficient grounds.
The question to thejurors, if their conscienc
es are fatisfied, shall not be put until three
days have passed in debate.
august 5. Bourdon of I'Oife, demand
ed the reform of an abuse. 'A croud of ex
cellent citizens, said he, groan yet in thedun
geons of guilt, and the Convention will draw
down the benedictions of the people by re
storing them to their distressed families. He
propefed, to expedite this happy moment, —
I. That the Committee of General Safety
(hall liberate those imprisoned as fufpeded,
whose detention has not been ordered by
the law of September 17.
z. That all the Revolutionary Commit
tees ffiall communicate to those detained, to
their relatives or friends, the motives of their
arrest.—Adopted.
A member demanded th? extension of this
obligation upon the Representatives of the
People in employment, and upon the Com
mittee of General Safety. Decreed.
Legendre said, as I went from the Tribune
I took with me ten resolute patriots. My
intention was to go and blow out the brains
of the man who presided yesterday and to
day in the Jacobin Club. With a double
pistol in my hand I entered the Hall, but the
wretch, whose name was Vivier, had mixed
with the croud. I said to the women in the
galleries, " you are milled ; begone ! the
Convention punilhes guilt, not error." I
shut the gates of the Hall ; here are the keys.
As the Convention in amass has laved the
country, to morrow the Convention in amass
will be Jacobines. It will be virtue that will
go to open the gates of that society.
On the motion of Thirion, Vivier was
outlawed.
The trials before the Revolutionary Tri
bunal were summary. As most of the trai
tors had been outlawed, it wasonly necessary
to indentify their performs-—they were in
stantly condemned, and the fame evening
(the 28th,) the following were guillotined,
amid the acclamations of an immerife con
course of people ; the two Roberfpierres,
Couthon, Lavalette, St. Just, L. Pavan,
Bernard, F. Henriot, commandant of the
armed force ; L. F. Dumas, President of the
Revolutionary Tribunal ; N. Nivier, Presi
dent of the Jacobin Club ; Simon, the pre
ceptor of young Capet, cidevant Dauphin,
NA. Corabeaux, Fleuroit, L'Efcos, Mayor
of Paris ; Delauny, Warmes, Guennet, N.
J. Guinn, Cochefor, Deurgon, and d'Haz
"on the 29th the municipal officers, 68 in
number, who had colleded themselves in the
Hall of the Commune, and declared for Rob
erfpierre, having all been found guilty, were
executed ; as was also a Deputy, who had
been a commissioner with the army, and was
conviaed of being acceffary to the plots of
Roberfpierre. A General officer was also
guillotined at the fame time. , ,
During these movements,this city for some
time seemed threatened with complete rum ;
and at one moment it was doubtful which
D arty would prevail. The storm, however,
has somewhat subsided, but few lives have
been loft, and these chiefly such as shewed
any iodination to resist, or who did not at
the moment heartily support the Deputies of
the Convention, who were di(patched to the
different quarters of the capital, to fee the
orders of the Convention carried into effe&.
In proportion to the fear with which the
sanguinary proceedings of Roberfpierre filled
the minds of all men, so are the execrations
with which his memory is now loaded. It is
impossible to perceive the general indigna
tion now expressed against him, without won
dering at the address and policy of a man
who could contrive to keep a whole people
in fear, and make them not only subservient
to, but in appearance to approve of, meas
ures diaated by one whom each individual
execrated in his heart.
We hope soon to fee peace and order per
feaiy restored, but many among us ate ap
prehensive that what has happened is but the
prelude of a tragedy, which, before many
months, will deluge France with blood.
LONDON, AUG. 22.
By the Paris papers which have now come
to hand down to the date of the 7th inst. it
PARIS, JULY „.
66 The Ch&lleurs qf Mount de Caf
fe), and the carbineer of the 14th re
giment of light infantry, made the
fame mar,oeuvre. It appeared so des
perate to the enemy,that panic struck,
they flew towards Yfendick, aban
doning guns, tents, baggage, and am
munition of all kinds.
“ One of the boats was filled with
cannoneers, who, upon the opposite
bank, instantly found cannon co fire
at the fugitives, who had abandoned
them.
“ Oar loss has not been commen
surate with the boldness of the enter
prift.
“ I transit you the names of those
who most signalized themselves in
the adion: < ~.
“ Citizens Bernard; a corporal,
Beugny, a fargeant, and Ventre, ser
geant-major of the battalion of Chaf
ieure of Mont Caffel, coqduded nine
or ten boats by swimming. ,
"Citizen Laris, Capt. of Grautiiers
of the 16th regiment, was the firft
who leaped into the boats. ,„-
" Citizen Bonnot, aid-de-camp of
General Moreau, was the min who
swam across guiding the firft boat.^
“ Citizen Bouilly, capt. of Carbin
eers of the i,th battalion of Chaf
feurs, kept himfelf difeovered upon
the bank of the canal, firing his car
bine upon the cannoneers of a battery
which kept up a constant fire until
the moment of his being able to pak,
which he did one of the firft.
" Eight companies of grenadiers
ad,arced to the Canal, and gained
the boats, precipitating themselves
into them, amid the dreadful fire
from the dyke on the opposite bank.
Several of these not finding room in
the boats, plunged into the water,
and, swimming, aided to guide them
forward.
" All our soldiers employed in this
expedition, figralized themselves with
zealous competition.
“ The passage of Cacyfhe furnifh
ed them a glorious occasion. This
strait is meas 100 feet wide, and 9 or
10 feet deep; our only means of
crossing it were a few boats, and the
bravery of Republicans which Appli
ed the rest.
lic welfare
" You are, without doubt, already
informed, Citizen Representatives,
that General Moreau the day before
yefterday,took pofft flion of the isle of
Cadfand. He teck there 70 pieces
cannon, a third of them braft, tenti,
waggons, &c.
" The possession of this idand will
make it impradicable for the enemy
to evacuate S^yt, and I hope soon
that fortrefs, and all that it contains
will fall into the power of the Repub
lic. According to reports, there is a
numerous artillery there, many troops
and ammunition of all kinds
Gen. Picbegru to the committee of pub-
Frrm the above collt&ion of faas, tbefituation
cf Paris, during the new Revolution, as well as
tbe 'ffia it has bad on th public mind, and the
armies may be ascertained. Tbs particulars, both
in the Erghjh and Frereb papers, are voluminous.
Appears, that since the execution of Rober
fpierre,and his more immediate accomplices,
not less than seventy attached to the cause
have been brought to the guillotine—the
week before, near an hundred fuffered.
Some particulars not yet published, are,
that when Roberfpierre was denounced by
Taliien, and ordered to be arrested, the
younger Roberfpierre said, " I am guilty as
my brother—l partake of his virtues. I
therefore desire to be included in the decree
of arrest." He was so, and was executed, as
was Couthon, and St. Just, who also wilhed
to be thus included.
When Chaumette was guillotined, he laid
down his head, and only said, Cbacun a jon
for—" Every one has his turn."
NATIONAL CONVENTION, AUG. 2.
Success of tbe French.
OBSERVAT ION.