for the observance of the
days called "Sans-culottides," which are the
supplementary days of the republican calendar.
General Clairfait marches towards Cologn (sic), and
passes the Roar (sic).
The French invest Maestricht, and take possession
of Aix-la-Chapelle, Malmedi, and Spa.
Balloons are used by the French to make
observations of their enemy's proceedings.
Twenty-nine waggons loaded with gold and silver, to
the value of 18,359,404 livres are brought to Paris
from Belgium.
The throne of the Elector of Treves is among the
spoils.
25. A national festival is celebrated at Paris on
account of the evacuation of the French territory
by the enemy.
27. Crevecoeur surrenders by capitulation to the
French.
30. The allies still continue to retreat.
Decreed, that all directories and all municipal
bodies of the republic shall be purified; and all
revolutionary committees reorganized.
_Oct_. 1. General Clairfait passes the Rhine.
Keyserslautern taken by the Prussians.
3. The French enter Juliers. The body of Rousseau
transferred to the Pantheon.
4. Bommel and Bois-le-Duc surrender to the French.
The garrison of Nimeguen sallies, and kills 2000
French.
Proclamation of the Prince of Orange, exhorting the
Dutch to resist the enemy in a body (en masse.)
5. Lyons permitted to resume its name--confiscation,
and massacres are suspended there.
6. The convention addresses the French people to
acquaint them that henceforward the order of the
day shall be "severe, but not atrocious or
"sanguinary justice."
Pichegru makes himself master of Cologne, Gueldres,
and Cleves.
French soldiers who died this campaign in the
hospitals at Lisle, amount to 47,000.
The English pass the Rhine. The French enter
Bonne (sic