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ootnote: Eight ounces each.] of silver, together with the sword of Prince Eugene, five feet long. Manifesto of the Germanic body to justify the war with France. The Prince of Talmond and fourteen priests guillotined. One of the two brothers, of La Vendee, from whom the Chouans took their name, is killed by the republicans. A bloody quarrel between the republican and revolutionary soldiers of the French army. The Vendeans obtain advantages at Cholet. The Duke and Duchess of Luynes, and Mons de Montmorency, an ex-constituent, imprisoned. A work is published under the sanction of the convention, proving that the national domains, that is, the estates of the king (sic), the nobles, the clergy, and the emigrants, are worth twenty milliards of livres. Deputies from the county of Mot Belliard demand its union with France. The old name of Marseilles is restored; it had been forfeited by a decree, and was called "Sans-nom." 18. The Abbe Maury is promoted to the dignity of cardinal. Troops sent from Paris to La Vendee receive orders to travel fourteen leagues a day. 20. Thomas Payne claims protection of the club of Cordeliers, who return for answer the vote he gave on the King's trial. Mons. du Chaffault, lieut.-general of marines, an officer of great services and high estimation, is massacred in Poitou at the age of eighty-five years. The convention, on the motion of Barrere, decree a political lent, in order to leave the more animal food for the sick and aged. A petition from Burgundy demands the death of young Capet. Death of Cardinal de Lomenie du Brienne, one of the earliest promoters of the revolution. St. Just makes a motion, the object of which is, to excite the pe
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