The French, who had taken Menin, Courtray, Furnes,
who besieged Nieuport, and threatened Ostend, are
obliged to retire, and evacuate all they had got in
Brabant.
The commissioners at Lyons write, that 800 workmen
are labouring to demolish the city, pursuant to an
order of the convention. Lyons was the second city
of France.
30. The Duke of York retakes Marchiennes, and makes
1629 prisoners.
31. Twenty-one members of the convention guillotined in
37 minutes, viz. Brissot, Verniaud, Duprat, Valaze,
Gensonnet, Le Hardy, Ducos, Boyer, Fonfrede,
Boileau, Gardier, Du Chastel, Sillery, Fauchet,
Duperret, La Source, Carra, Beauvais, Mainville,
Antiboul, Vegee, and La Case.
The royalists of La Vendee take the island of
Noirmoutier.
_Nov_. 1. Egalite conveyed from Marseilles to the prison of
the Conciergerie in Paris.
A column of Vendeans passes the Loire at Ancenis.
Two actions between the Spaniards and French; the
latter lose between five and six thousand men.
A member proposes to guillotine all farmers and
labourers that monopolize.
Decreed, that all lead, iron, copper, and bells of
churches, shall be applied to the use of the war.
The British ambassador presses the Grand Duke of
Tuscany to join the allies.
Decreed, that natural children shall share
inheritances equally with legitimate; provided the
parents have no other husband or wife.
Spoils and plunder of the churches are daily sent
to the convention.
The grand master of Malta takes part with the
allies against France.
Philip Egalite (formerly Duke of Orleans) is
guillotined upon the scaffold to which he brought
his unfortunate King.
Lidon, a member of the convention, shoots himself.
Complaints from all parts of want of bread. The
inhabitants dec