en passed by the three legislatures.
The members who compose the committee of public
safety, at this time of havoc and universal terror,
are Robespierre, Couthon, Billaud Varennes,
Barrere, Collot d'Herbois, Lindet, Prieur, Carnot,
and St. Just.
26. Robespierre denounces to the convention one hundred
of its members. A party instantly rises against
him. He is attacked by Billaud Varennes and
Tallien, and thunderstruck with the accusations
against him.
27. Robespierre endeavours to kill himself; the wound
not mortal.
28. All the following persons are guillotined this day:
Robespierre the elder and the younger, Couthon and
St. Just, members of the convention; Henriot,
commander in chief of the Parisian guard; La
Vallette, another commander; Dumas, president of
the revolutionary tribunal; Lescott Fleuriot, mayor
of Paris; Payan, chief agent of the commune;
Viviers, a criminal judge, and president of the
jacobin club; Simon, preceptor of the young Prince;
upwards of eighty municipal officers; one Deputy, a
commissioner with the army, and one general
officer, all partizans of Robespierre.
Tallien proclaims in the convention, that the day
of the tyrant's death is a festival for universal
fraternity.
From the 1st to the 19th of July were guillotined
in Paris, in all 406 persons.
On the 20th, 34
21st, 29
22d, 46
24th, 30
From 25th to 27th 135
28th, 22
29th, 70
Total guillotined in July 772

_Aug_. 1. At this time the guillotine remains unemployed.
The convention charges sixteen committees with the
management of public affairs.
2. The Spaniards are defeated--The French take