Among the papers of the jacobins is found an order
of the old committee of public safety to pay
100,000 livres for printing the correspondence of
that society.
A journalist in Paris ventures to write thus:
"Legislators, do not exhaust your strength and
"genius in discovering that which has been done
"before your time; give us the best government you
"can; consider that the people of France were the
"happiest and the longest so of any people; give us
"the laws we have been used to."
_June_ 1. The commune of Valenciennes deliberates in a full
assembly whether it should continue to acknowledge
the convention; or whether it should not arrest the
representative Lamar.
5. Dutch ambassadors are received in the convention,
and the treaty of alliance between the republics
ratified.
6. The Vendeans declare that the treaty with them is
shamefully evaded; and they again take up arms.
Their brave leader Charette publishes a manifesto.
Decreed, that the property of those condemned or
executed since the establishment of the
revolutionary tribunals shall be restored to their
families; except those of Louis Capet, and his
wife, of Philip Egalite, and Madame du Barre (sic).
Decree to apply the palace of Versailles to
national uses.
Assignats burned to this month amount to
2,623,680,000 livres.
7. The fortress of Luxemburg, almost impregnable,
surrenders to the French from want of provisions.
8. Louis Charles, the descendant of 60 Kings, the son
of Louis XVI. whom the royalists acknowledged as
King since the 21st of Jan. 1793, under the name of
Louis XVII. in the eleventh year of his age,
finished his unhappy life and vain reign in the
prison of the Temple, where he had been confined
near three years without communication with any
friend. History alone will he