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5795 1791 Decree of the National Assembly for the entire sup-
pression of tells, Feb. 29.
Disturbances near Vannes in Brittany, excited by aRoman Catholic priest, Feb. 23.
At Nismes, a person of the name of Fremont, raised agreat disliubanee against the new French Govern-ment ; but soon after Fremont and the whole ofbis party are entirely cut to pieces; not oneescaped.
Decree of the National Assembly that the silver plateof churches unnecessary to public worship shall betransferred to the mint, March 3.
Decree of the National Assembly revoking the ces-sion given to the house ot Conde of the Cler-montois in A. D. 1648, March 15.
Insurrection at Toulouse in which a great number ofcitizens were slain, March 17.
The pope burned in effigy in the Palace Royal atPari:, amidst the acclamations of an immense mul-titude, May 4.
The punishment of death by the rack abolished inFrance, June 1.
Decree of the National Assembly that no briefs, bills,receipts, or mandates, of the court of Rome shallhave any authority without first receiving thesanction of the legislative body, June 10.
The French king escapes from Paris with all his fa-mily, intending to go to Montmedv, a strongfortified town in the province of Luxembourg,June 21.
He is arrested the follow ing 'day at Varennes, andbrought back to Paris.
Suppression of the exchequer in France, July 4.
In consequence of some gentlemen meeting to com-memorate the French revolution in Birmingham,on the 14th of July, the mob arose and commit-ted the most daring outrages for some days on thepersons and properties of many of the inhabitantsof the town and neighbourhood ; burning and de-stroying the meeting-houses and private dwellingsof the Dissenters, with Dr. Priestley’s valuablechemical laboratory, &c.
Tw o men were hung in the Champ de Mars, July 17;the people were assembled there to petition forthe king to be dethroned ; Robespierre was at thehead of that party ; the martial law was pro-claimed ; the red flag was displayed; 4,000 armedmen, with eight pieces of cannon, were sent thi-ther, some magistrates were at the head of thearmed force; one of them carried the reel flag ;as soon as a few had entered the Champ de Mars,they fire upon the people, without orders of thegeneral; many hundreds were killed and wounded.
Extraordinary convention took place at Pilnitz be-tween the emperor Leopold, and the present kingof Prussia, July.
The new French constitution being completed, a de-putation of sixty members present it to the kingon Sept. 3. The king informs the National As-sembly on the 15th that he has accepted it.
Decree of the National Assembly that the territoryof Avignon, with the adjacent country of Ve-necssin, shall be considered a part of the Frenchempire, and that a compensation in lieu of thesecountries shall be offered to the Pope, Sept. 14.
The French king repairs to the assembly to sign thenew constitution. This act of the king causedsuch great rejoicings in France, that at live o’clocka festival took place at the Champs Elisees in me-morial of it; all ranks joined in the festivity ;■100,000. persons were at one and in the same mo-ment dancing ; between every tree the lampswere suspended in festoons by means of cords fromall the trees, and at every hundred yards was ahighly illuminated orchestra, where the musicians
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played; 150 pieces of cannon, placed on thebanks of the river, were discharged every half-hour, Sept. 4.
The tribunal of Orleans abolished, Sept. 20.
Jourdan’s banditti seize at Avignon many men, wo-men, and children, whom they confined, andwhen night came on butchered all they had con-fined during tlje day, Oct. 16 and 17.
Three hundred houses w ere burned at Port au Princein St. Domingo; the fire was maliciously occa-sioned by the mulattoes, Nov. 22.
5796 1792 The emperor and the king of Prussia agree solemnly
to restore the French king to his ancient rights,Feb. 28.
The king of Sweden, Gustavus III. was shot in hispalace when enjoying the festivity of a masque-rade, March 16 ; ’ the regicide was a native ofSweden and an officer in the army.
The definitive treaty of peace signed between theBritish and their allies, the Nizam and Mahratlas,on the one part, and Tippoo Sultan on the other,March 19. by which the latter ceded one-half ofhis territories, and delivered up two of his sons tolord Cornwallis as hostages for the fulfilment ofthe treaty.
French decree abolishing all monastic orders and alldistinctions of dress, both ecclesiastical and monk-ish, except in the actual celebration of divine ser-vice, April 6.
The revolutionary tribunal of Paris commenced itsadministration, April 15.
Ankerstroom, who assassinated the king of Sweden,executed, April 18.
The National Assembly declares war against the em-peror, April 20.
The high National Court of France pass a decreewhich declares the two brothers of the Frenchking, and the Prince de Cond6, deprived of thetitle of French citizens, and confiscates their ef-fects to the nation, June 17.
The archives of the order of St. Esprit, and the titlesof nobility, enrolled in the convent of the GrandAugustins, Paris, with all the registered proofs ofnobilitv, were publicly burnt in the Place Ven-ddme.—They amounted to nearly 600 immensefolios. June 25.
The French evacuate Courtray, July 3.
The president of the National Assembly received thedeclaration of his Serene Highness the reigningduke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, commanderof the combined armies of their majesties the em-peror and the king of Prussia, addressed to theinhabitants of France, threatening to lay Paris inashes, July 27.
French decree for the removal of the Swiss guardsfrom the capital, July 30.
A body of emigrants, and some [lulans entered asmall village between Phillipeville and Maubcugc,where they cut off the ears and noses of the menwho fell fnlo their hands, ravished the women,and cut otf their breasts, not sparing even childrenof either sex. These murderers are in their turnsurrounded in the village, and put to death by theFrench military without the least display of mercyto anv single individual of them, Aug. 3.
A tumultuous crowd of both sexes came from theChamp de Mars to the Assembly in order^ to pe-tition for the suspension of the king. The As*sembly answered that they would lake their peti-tion into consideration, Aug. 7.
The French revolution breaks cm with greater ven-geance than ever at Paris, on the 10th of August.At nine in the morning, a crowd of armed citi-zens, the battalion of Marseillois, and the Fede-rates of the departments, occupied the avenues
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