, and
sent to the revolutionary tribunals,
The town of Sargio and Piedmontese camp taken by
the French.
11. Seventy-one persons, among whom are 27
farmers-general, are guillotined.
Madame Elizabeth, sister of the late King, is
carried before the revolutionary tribunal and
interrogated, " What is your name?" "Elizabeth
"Philippine Marie Helene de France."
"Your quality?" "Aunt of the King." These last
words are scarcely pronounced, when the tribunal
condemns her to death.
12. The next day she is conducted to the scaffold, with
25 persons who were guillotined in her presence; it
being directed that she should suffer the last.
She died at the age of thirty years, and left a
character of unblemished purity.
Decreed, that all aged and infirm priests be kept
in houses belonging to the republic.
Report upon mendacity. Decreed, that the
convention will efface the name of beggary and
poverty from the annals of the republic.
The town and citadel of Bastia taken by the
English.
The commune of Sens writes to the convention, that
it has dug up all the bodies of the Capets that
were interred in their cathedral, in order to bury
them in ordinary ground.
An address to the French nation is prepared by
Barrere, and published by the convention,
concluding with these words: "Let the English
"slaves perish, and let Europe be free."
13. Revolutionary tribunals suppressed, except that of
Paris.
14. L'Huillier kills himself in prison, and Rebecqui
drowns himself--both active agents in the massacres
of Avignon, and of the 2d of September.
15. Kaunitz forces the French to repass the Sambre with
the loss of 5000 men.
18. The Duke of York, with 3500 men, is attacked by
15000 French, and forced to retreat.
General Beaulieu,