10. General Clairfait is obliged to retreat.
The French take Port-Vendre, Collieure, and St.
Elme.
13. A festival to the Eternal. Robespierre acts the
part of Pontiff. The ceremony is designed to
satisfy the people, by putting an end to atheism.
The members of the convention assume the
distinction of a plume of feathers in the hat, and
a three-coloured scarf.
The French army in Maritime Flanders amounts to
170,000 men.
The inviolability of the members of the convention
is renewed.
A large convoy from America with corn arrives in
France.
16. The French lose 7,000 men in an action near
Charleroy.
Ypres surrenders to the French--this conquest opens
all Brabant.
The numerous forces opposed to the allies oblige
them to retreat.
20. One milliard two hundred and five millions of
livres in assignats issued.
Port-au-Prince taken by the English.
The dread of the guillotine causes fifty thousand
persons to emigrate.
21. Commencement of a quarrel between Robespierre and
Bourdon de l'Oise, and another between Tallien and
Robespierre.
Ninety-four nuns transported to Africa.
Twenty-one members of the parliament of Toulouze
(sic) guillotined at Paris.
26. Every thing in France is put in requisition, men,
horses, provisions, and all sorts of property.
28. Some terrible conspiracy is supposed, and announced
to the public in order to authorise new massacres.
"Paris," says Barrere, "shall be henceforth the
"city with a hundred gates; each gate shall
"announce some triumph, or some revolutionary,
"epoch".
29. The French besiege Charleroy.
The number of persons guillotined this month is as
follows. From the first to the ninth of June, 100
On the 9th, 22