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■ denouncing of Robes-
I pierre was an evedt that
effected the French natiob as much
as the deftr d&ion of the Baftile,or
the deposing their King—and the
28th July 1794, was as great 4 re
volution at Paris as the 14th of
July 1789,0 r cheiOth Aug. 1792.
The Convention were at their
fitting fix and thirty hours, and the
night between the 27th and 28th,
the city of Paris ftw two hundred
thousand men in arms, ready to
fall upon they did not know who.
Robespierre, w ith his accom
plices^CouTHON &St. Just, had
‘ been sent from the National Con
tention 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 faught a fanduary
with the Municipality of the city,
who were assembled and ready to
receive and protect them. In the
midst Os this Aflembly, all their
friends, they were again arrested,
at 12 o'clock at night, by two re
solute members of che Convention
accompanied by Only a few gens
Carmes, or national guards. This
intripid band rushed into the hall*
where the Commune were affem
bled* difeharged their pistols
at, and wounded the traitor. The
boldness of this attack, together
with the fall of their leader* so in
timidated the left* that they made
no resistance, but as faft as possible
1 difperfedi A few hours more
brought these principal traitors to
the fdaffbld—and the day after,
Caffinal the Mayor* Herriot
the commander of the armed force
of Paris, and the greatest part of
the Municipality followed, to lay
their heads at the fame Thrice.
Thus theftorni which had gath
ered with the suddenness, and
threatened to be followed with the
deftrudion of the nwft violent
tornado, soon happily abated, and
a calm and peaceful feene ensued;
Afc^r the deftruftion of this new
tyrant* the National Convention
assumed a milder plan of govern
ment. Le Glaive de la Lei found
foihe respite from its before con
tinual labours—The peofMfrem*
bled that they had so loa»^kfled
the hand that oppressed them ; &
their execrations of this Hero were
every where equal to the blind
adoration which they had before
paidbim j but the general horror
which had pervaded all ranks, as
well in |he Convention, as withQjjt t
from the continual adion of the
guillotine,, began peiw jo [ubdue,
liberty of opinion and speech were
renewed, ^nd that confidence be- j
tween man and man, the baus pf
asocial happiness, ^hieft Ud b^nr
deftroyedby alqqgua^WwJ 1
State of Frertcb Port ticks,
From the fall of Robxspierre, to
the 7th November.
Written in France, anti communicated by Cap t.
BRADFORD, just arrived front L'Qrient.
SATU R D A Y, January 17, 1795,
After the Convention had clear
ed away the rubbish of this edn
fpiracy with the heads of the ty
rant and his accomplices; they be
gin to purgetfieir committees—
The Committee of Public Safety
was new Organised; several of its
; former members excluded; and a
decree palled co have their- mem
bers rene wfed,a quarter partmdnth
ly, and feme of their powers were
abridged, the decree anulled which
aUthorifed them co arrest deputies.
The bloody decree of the 22 d
Pretrial was revoked—This de
cree refpeded principally the* Re
volutionary Triburial,and was pas
sed by the influence of Robespi
erre, whose sway was abfolute—
by it, death was co be the punilh*-
ment of every crime, and the ac
culed co be allowed no council or
attorney,but a public Accuser was
eftabiilhed co convidt, so that few
or none who were brought to this
bar; ever returned to their fami
lies or friends again. This tribu
nal the tyrant had composed of
juries and judges, either in his in-
Vcefti orthat dare not ad against
it, and thus, whoever he thought
fit to destroy, were only accdfed
before this tribunal, and che guil
lotine dispatched them—not less
than thirty or forty vidima to this
machine of death; bled upon the
stage daily at Paris and the tyrants
bloody mandates produced like
feenes in different parts of the Re
publLC' This tribunal was dow
diflblved, and a new one ereded
upon a more humane and just ef
tablilhmenc, the accused were to
be allowed council, and che judg
es were held, after they had found
a perlon guilty* to declare wkh
what intention che crime had been
committed as it was supposed ma
ny well effeded persons had been
led by the intrigue of parties co
ad unknowingly against che prin
ciples of the revolution—between
such and che real enemies of che
Republic, it was the with of the
Cdnvention, to diferiminate. The
armed force of Paris which had
hitherto been under the command
of one person, and which at this
crisis had nfearly proved fatal co
the Convention, by the Comman
der* Herriot being of Robespc
t rrre’s party, was now thought
too dangerous to be guided by a
Angle individual—this command
was therefore, by a decree of che
Convention, to be invested in a
commission of fi#e Members.
The 28th Aug; BaArier, in
rhe name of the Commission, cre
ated the iith, to new organize
the Committees of the Convention
made a report, which was adopt
ed. w That there shall be sixteen
Committees of the National Con- i
vention.”
; About this time, a quarrel b$- j
gan between the National Con
ventioa and the Jacobins^ This
fotiecy, so pfoud and powerful,
received a humiliating stroke in,
' A > . 'f i ' i’ i < , Vj l *
proceedings, revived As this system
of terror abated.
mate^that there was a new fadion
forming in the Convention, which
under the pretence of rooting up
the feeds of the old, were in fad
endeavouring to establish a worse
upon itS ruins—and that they had
adopted this mild plan, as the
most likely to serve their ends,,
whilst the paHions of the people
were warm against that party who \
had moved in theoppohte extreme.
They received, or pretended to^re
ceive, and publilhed addrefles
from a great number of fociedes,
in different parts of the Republican,
which declared themselves devot
ed to the Jacobins, and joined with
them in protefti’ng that the new
proceeding; only favoured the
Aridocrats, and that these even
began to oppress the Patriots—
they were however accused of fra- ,
ming these /addrefles themselves.
Oh the other Hand, the Convent
tioq were daily receiving the thanks
of the people, from all parts, in .
addrefles, for their vigilance, in
difeovering, and activity, in fup
preffingthe monstrous conspiracy j
and highly approving of the ju§
the Overthrow of Robespierre;
whom they, or at least a part of
them, endeavoured co the ialh tb
support. Their meetings ceased
for several days—they at last came
together, and with but an ill grace;
felicitated the Cbnventkjh upon
the fortunate difeovery of the con
fpiracy^nd face of che Traitors—-
and declared themfeives ever de
voted co che principles of the Re
volution, and ready at all times,
to fupporc the Convention* who,
upon this trying occasion, had
proved chemklves the guardians
and favidrs of the Republic. This
Ihow of friendfhip, however, had
but a fliorc duration—they had
loft their popularity, and the Con
vention had gained it—this was
fuflicient to give place co envy—
and they took the firft opportuni
ty to find fault With the proceed
ings of that body, which they
wilhed to rival. The Coriven*
cion, among many other ads to
foften che rigors which had mark
ed the proceedings of the lace fac
tion; had opened the prison doors,
and let at liberty great numbers
of persons whom Robespierre
had caused to be arrested ; and
who Ohly waited their turn to bleed
at the guillotine. Ac this aft of
lenity, che Jacobins began bitter
ly to complain—they declared
chat the enemies of the Republic,
were restored to liberty—that A-:
riftocracy and Moderatiffh| began
every where to raise their audaci
ous heads; and inveighed against
the Convention, for dilcontinuing
those severe, but falucary measures
which had coriduded the revolu
tion thus far, which kept its ene
mies in due fubjedion, and which
alone could faVe the Republic.—
They add re fled the other Popu
lar Societies in, and about Paris,
and called upon them to be upon
their guard against these moderate
measures, and ptetty boldly inti-
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