s to Marshal
Broglio for the use of emigrants.
Motion by Rhul against the Elector of Bavaria.
A deputation of Americans demand the release of
their countryman Thomas Payne. The president
replies that he is an Englishman.
27. Decreed, that all castles in conquered countries
which cannot be used as hospitals shall be burned.
Decreed, that sixty-two millions of assignats shall
be at the disposition of the war-minister
29. every month. And that 95,000 cavalry be raised for
the next spring.
30. Upwards of three thousand peasants, prisoners from
La Vendee, are guillotined or shot at Nantes.
31 Perigord Tayleyrand, bishop of Autun, ordered to
leave England.
_Feb_. 1. Mons. La Borde, the former court banker, and father
of La Borde de Merville, an ex-constituent, is
forced to purchase his liberty with a large sum of
money.
The opera of "Toute la Grece" is in great
vogue--the story of it is, that Philip, seeing all
Greece rising in a mass, begs for peace; Greece
refuses to make peace with a King.
Report to the convention, that excellent soap is
made of potatoes.
4. Slavery abolished in all the colonies.
Pichegru appointed commander of the army of the
North in the room of Jourdan.
The treasurer Cambon states to the convention that
last year 4,885,764 livres were coined of copper
and bell-metal.
A deputation of blacks appears at the bar to be
received as brethren.
Decreed, that every officer and soldier, of
whatever rank, shall have an equal quantity of
provisions, a man having but one stomach.
7. The 48 sections of Paris appear at the bar to
protest against any suspension of arms.
All mints for coining money suppressed, except that
of Paris.
The commune of Chamberry sends to the convention
twelve thousand marks [F