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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
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Lmarkabb Events, Inventions, &c. [continued.]
'Tqm RAFTER CHRIST, f & <fQ.
CWEEN Aooe dies, at the
' ' age * fifty# and is fucceed
by George 1.
Interest reduced to five per cent.
1715 Lewis XIV. dies, and is suc
ceeded by his great graodfon Lewis
XV. the late king of France.
The rebellion in Scotifedbegins
in Sept under the Earl of fa
vour of the Pretender. The a&ion
of Sheriffmnir, and furreoder of Pref
ton, both in November, when the re
bels disperse.
1716 The Prerender married the
Princefi Sobiejki, grand daughter to
John Sobieski, late king of Poland.
An aft pissed for Septennial par
liaments.
Privileges of the two House, of
Convocation taken away.
1719 The Miffifippi scheme at its
full heightin Frances -.
Lombe's silk throwing machine,
containing 26586 wheels, ereded at
Derbey, takes up one eighth of a
mile ; one water wheel moves the
rest; and, in twenty four hours, it
, works 318,504,960 yards of organ
zine silk-thread. \
The South-tea Scheme in England
begins April 7, was at its height at
the end of June, and quite funk about
Septembers
1,27 King George dies, in the 68th
year of his age, and is succeeded by
bis only lon George 11.
Inoculation for the small pox firft
tried on criminals with success,
Russia, formerly a dukedom is now
established as an empire.
1732 Kouli Khan usurps the Per
. fian throve, conquers the Mogul em
pire, and returns with two hundred
and thirty one million, sterling.
Several public spirited gentlemen
begin the fettlemcnts, of Georgia in
X America,
1736 Captain Porteous, having
ordered his foidiers to fire upon the
populace, at an execution of a smug
gler, is himself hanged by the mob
at Edinburgh.
1738 Westminster Bridge, consist
ing of 15 arches, begun ; finifhed in
1750, at the expence of 389,0001.
defrayed by parliament.
1739 Letters of marque issued out
in Britain against Spain Jqly 11, and
war declared Oa. 23, 1
1740 The sea of the Methodists
firft appears in England.
1743 Battle of Dettingen, won by
the English and Allies, in favour of
the Queen of Hungary. *~
'1744 War declared against France.
Commodore Anson returns from bis
voyage round the world.'
1745 The Allies tofe the battle of
Rmtency. . 4
The rebellion breaks out in Scot
land, and the Pretender's army (Je
feared by the Duke of Cumberland at
Culloden, April 16, 1746.
1746 British Line-Company ere#-
QfcTbe-peace olAix-teChapel
le, by which a reftitutiog of all placet,
taken during the war wag made off all
fide,.'
• 4749 The interest on the Width
funds reduced to three per cenf.w
nnm^qtfaEWra/m MqiisCTmtyff^^
British herring finery incorporated.
1751 Frederic, Prince of Wate,,|
father to his preferit Majesty, died.
Antiquarian Society at London in
corporated.
x 752 Journals of the House of
Commons firft ordered to be printed.
The new Style introduced into
Greatbritain, the 3! of Sept, being
counted the 14^
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State of French Politicks,
From the fall of Robespierre, to the 7th
. {November.
Written ir. France, and communicated by Ca,t.
Bradford,juft arrivedfrom L'Orient.
THE denouncing of Robespierre was an
event that riffled the French nation
as much as the deftruftion of the Baftile, or
the deposing their King—and the 28th July
1794, was as great a revolution at Paris as
the 14th of July 1789, or the 10th August ,
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The Convention were at their fitting fix
and thirty hours, ahd the night between the
27th and 28th, the city of Paris few two hun
dred thousand men in arms, ready to fall up
on they did not know who.
Robespierre, with his accomplices, Cou^
thon and St. Just, had been sent from the
National Convention under arrest ; but the
keepers of the prisons, were all so much in
their interest, that they would not receive
them, and during the confufion they escaped
their guards, and fought a fan&uzry with
the Municipality of tint city who were at/
fembled and ready to receive and protest
them. In the midst of thig Assembly, all
their friends, they were again arrested, at
42 o'clock at night, by two resolute members
of the Convention, accompanied by 0017 a
few gem <Parotf, er national guarded —
intrepid band rushed into the hall where the
Commune were assembled, discharged their
pistols at, and wounded the traitor. The
boldness of this attack, together with the fall
of their leader, so intimidated the rest, that
they made no resistance, but as faft as possi
ble dispersed. A few hours more brought
these principal traitors to the fcaffold—and
the day after Caffinal the Mayor, Henriot
the commander of the armed force of Paris,
and the greatest part of the Municipality fol-,
lowed, to lay their heads at the fame shrine.
Thus the storm which had gathered with
the suddenness, and threatened to be follow
ed with th^deftruaion of the most violent
tornado,foon happily abated, and a calm and
peaceful feene ensued.
After the deftru&ionof this new tyrant,,
the National Convention assumed a milder
plan of government. Le Glaive de la Loi
found some respite from its before continual
labours—The people trembled that they had
so long blessed the hand that oppressed them ;
and their execrations of this Nero were eve
ry where equal to the blind adoration which
they had before paid him ; but the general
horror which had pervaded all ranks, as
well in the Convention, as without, from
the continual adion of the guillotine, begun
now to subside— liberty of opinion and speech
were renewed, and that confidence between
man and man, the basis of. social happiness,
which had been destroyed by a long train of
bloody proceedings, revived as this system
of terror abated.
After the Convention had cleared away
-the rubbish of this conspiracy with the heads
Os the tyrant and hi, accomplices, they be
gan to purge their committees.
The Committee of Public Safety
was new organized, several of its former
members excluded, and a decree passed to
have their members renewed, a quarter part,
0 monthly, and some of their powers were a
bridged, the decree annulled which authorif
ed them to arrest deputies. The bloody de
cree of the zzd Prarial was revoked —this de
cree refpeaed principally the Revolutionary
Tribunal, and was passed by the influence of
Robefoierre, whose sway was abfolute=-by
J tedeam was to be the punilhment of every
crime, and the accused to be allowed no
counsel or attorney ,but a public Accuser was
leftablifhed to convi&, so that few or none
mfoo were brought to this bar, ever returned
their families or friends acaiq. This tri
-1 bunal the tyrant had composed of juries and
j judges, either in his interest, or that dare
1 not aft against it, and thus, whoever he tfa,
— FRID AY, January 16, 1795.
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fit to destroy, were only accused before this
tribunal, and the guillotine dispatched them
; tfnot lets than thirty or forty victims to this
machine of death, bled upon the stage daily
at Paris, andihe tyrant's bloody mandates
produced like feenes in different parts of the
fepeblic. This tribunal was now dissolved,
fed a new one created,upon a more humane
fad just establishment, the accused were to
be allowed counsel, and thejudges were held,
dfter they had found a perlon guilty, to de
#,re with what intention the crime had been
committed as it was foppofed many well rf
felted persons had been led by the intrigue
of parties to ad unknowingly against the
principles of the Revolution, between such,
and the real enemies of the Republic, it was
the wish of the Convention to diferiminate.
The armed force of Paris, which had hither
to been under the command of one person,
and which at this crisis had nearly proved fa
tal to the Convention, by the commander,
Henriot, being of Robefpier's party, was
now thought too dangerous to be guided by
a fingleindividual—this command therefore
wa% by a decree of the Convention, to be iri
vefted in a commission of five members.:
The 2&h Aug. Barrier, in the name of the
i comiriiflipn, createdthe I 2th, to new organ
ife the: committed of the Convention, made
a report, which was adapted, " That there
/hall be fixtec^Qranrittees oflhe National
Convention .
About ibis ^mei qti^fel began between
the National Conation and ihe Jacobins.
This society, foprouf arid powerful, receiv
ed an humiliating stroke in the overthrow of
Robespierre, whom they, or at least a part of
them, endeavoured tri the hit to support.—
Their meetings tcafed for several dafe—they
at last came together, and with but an ill
grace, felicitated the Convention upon the
difeovery of the conspiracy, and fate of<he
Traitors—and declared themselves ever de
voted to the principles of the Revolution, and
ready at all times, to support the Convention,
who, upon this trying occasion, had proved
themselves the guardians and faviours of the
- JUpahlic. Tms Atow of friendfl#p#l
er, had but a ihort duration=-they had loft
their popularity, and the Convention had
gained it—this was fufficient to give place to
envy—and they took the firft opportunity to
find fault with the proceedings of that body,
which they wished to rival. The Conven
tion, among many other ads to foften the ri
gours which had marked the proceedings of
the late faction, had opened the prison doors,
and set at liberty great nufobers of the pet
fons whom Robespierre had caused to be ar
rested ; and who only waited their turn to
bleed at 'the guillotine. At this aft of lenity
the Jacobins began bitterly to complain——
they declared that the enemies of the Repub
lic were restored to liberty—that aristocracy
and moderatifm began every where to ihow
their audacious heads, and inveighed against
the Convention for difeontinuing those severe
but salutary measures, which had conducted
the revolution thus far, which kept its ene
mies in due fubjeaion, and which alone could
save the Republic. They addressed the oth
er Popular Societies in and about Paris, and
"called upon them to be upon their guard a
gainst these moderate measures, and pretty
boldly intimated, that there was a new fac
tion forming in the Convention, which, un
der the-pretence of rooting up the feeds of
the old, were in fa& endeavouring toeftablifh
a worse upon its ruins—and that they had a
dopted this mild plan, as the most likely to
serve their ends, whilst the passions of the
people were warm against that party who had
movedin the opposite extreme. They receiv
ed, or pretended to receive, and published ad
dresses from a great number of societies, in
different parts of the. Republic, which declar
ed themselves devoted to the? Jacobins, and
joined with them in protesting that the new
proceedings only favoured the aristocrats,
and that these even began to oppress the pat
riots—they were however accused of framing
these addresses themselves. On the other
hand, the Convention were daily receiving
the thanks of the people, from dpi parts, in
addresses for their vigilance, in difeovering,
and activity, in fupprelhng, the monstrous
conspiracy ; and highly approving of the jus
tice, and humanity, of the new plan of pro
ceedings they had adopted, particularly com
mending their prompt attention to the fuf
ferings of those of their fellow citizens, whom
the tyranny of the jate coiifpirators had drag
ged to prison—and declaring themselves ever
devoted to the Representatives of the nation
4-that the Convention was their only point
of railiment, and desiring them to remain at
their pofa during the revolution. ~
I.'lt must be noted that a bomber gs
the Member# of the Convention were
also Members of this society of Jaco
bins, and these forming a party in the
Convention, had denominated them
selves the Mountain. Robefpierte
was the head of this party, and the
Jacobin society iti fopporterfy and b, r
way of derifon they called the rest of
the Convention, the trogs of the mud
puddle, or of the morals ; so much
were they below the Mountain. The
fall of Robespierre had reversed the
feeoe, and this oppressed part of the
National Assembly, became the most
powerful—and in order to harmonize
(he members among themselves, the
Convention decreed there should be
no diftindtion of parties in their body,
and that the name of Mountain should
not hereafter be mentioned. The \
Jacobin# however begin to rally
round the Mountain, which they were
determined should not so be crushed
I —and still ridiculed the other party
under the name of rhe frogs, who
they said were railing their heads a
bove the mud ; but it was only that
they might be the easier cut off, —
Barrere, and Collot D'Herbois, were
fufpeded of being parties of the late
conspiracy, and several hints had been
thrown out against them in the Con
vention-at Taft La Cointre, de Ver
sailles, publickly accused them, and
brought forward an act of denuncia
tion against them, with four other
member# of the Convention, Billed,
=Vmara, VadLer,Amax^ go David
I —his accusation contained 27 arti-
Icles; none of which the Convention
i thought were fupporced, and these
members were acquitted, and the ac
cusation decreed calumnious.
About the firft of September, the
Jacobins expelled Tallinn, (one of the
National Assembly. and the principal ,
one in denouncing Robespierre) from
their society, and a night or two after,
this member was assaulted in the ftrset
by an assassin, who difeharged a pistol
at and wounded him in the shoulder;
the wound proved not desperate, and
it was not long before he was able to
take his feat in the Convention again.
The Jacobins were accused of being
at the bottom of this, and they did
not fee fit to deny it ; but rather made
sport of the event, and cast several oc
casional sarcasms on the wounded
member. ; These two bodies now?
came to open war. The Jacobins,
declared that the Convention favour
ed and protested Aristocrats and Roy
alists, and feftred these to opprefr the
true Patriots ; they invited the other
Popular Societies to protest against
these proceedings, and to withdraw
their confidence from all who blindly
acquiefeed in them. And they re
solved to hold no farther correspond
ence with any society, whole cry was
Vtot la Convention. This produced a
new movemenrin the National As
sembly :—Merlin, de Thionville, de
nounced the society of Jacobins as a
dangerous and turbulent body, accom
plices of Robespierre, who though^
they had assisted in overturning the
throne, now when there was no throne
to destroy, were Endeavouring to de
stroy the Reprefeatative body of the
n^roprf He denofed them as reek
ing with the blood of innocent vie- ^
tims which had been factificed under^
[number 117.]
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