army and falls into the
hands of the Austrians, by whom he is detained a
prisoner.
20. Montmorin, ex-minister of foreign affairs,
imprisoned.
22. M. D'Angremont guillotined at the Carouzel (sic).
23. Longwy taken by the Prussians.
24. M. de la Porte, comptroller of the civil list,
guillotined.
25. M. Durozoi, author of the gazette of Paris,
guillotined.
26. A civic festival, in honour of the sans-culottes
who were killed in the affair of the 10th of
August.
Decreed, that all ecclesiastics who have not taken
the national oath, shall be transported. In the
number of these victims were 138 archbishops and
bishops, and sixty-four thousand priests of the
second order.
General Kellerman commands the army of Marshal
Luckner, and Dumourier that of General la Fayette.
27. In a sitting of the jacobins, Manuel causes an oath
to be taken, that every exertion will be used to
purge the earth of the pest of royalty.
30. Domiciliary visits, that is, nightly searches
in the citizens houses, for obnoxious persons.
_Sept_. 1. Letter of the minister Roland, to all the
municipalities, to induce them to agree in finding
the King guilty.
M. Montmorin, governor of Fontainbleau,
although acquitted by the tribunal, is conveyed
back to prison by the people.
2. The city of Verdun is taken by the Prussians.
From the 2d (sic) to the 9th of this month, the
most horrid outrages perpetrated without ceasing,
7605 prisoners, &c. inhumanly murdered, and the
assassins publicly demand their wages. Every house
is a scene of dismay. Massacres and butcheries are
committed in all the prisons and religious houses.
These horrors drive a great number of inhabitants
from Paris.
The Duke de la Rochefoucault, ex-constituent and
president of the department of Par