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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . PARIS , August r , GN the 27 th ult . Robespierre was openly declared a Tyrant . The storm had been gathering for some time : he appears to have filled all the municipal offices of Paris with his own creatures , and to have secured a great majority in the Jacobme Club . He had also tampered with the armed force of Paris . On ¦ : ihe 25 th he made a long speech in the Convention public affairsand in
on , defence of himself . He attempted to speak on the 27 th , but was obliged to desist , in consequence of loud vociferous exclamations , " Down ivith the Tyrant ! Down with the Tyrant ! " Tallien , a leading and now prevailing member of the Convention , charged him with having formed a list of proscriptions , in order to further his ambitious views , and with aiming at the office of Dictator . After several members had spoken , the Convention unanimously decreed the arrest of Robespierre the elder
, Robespierre junior , St . Just , Couthon , and Le Bas . During these proceedings in the Convention , an insurrection was stirring un in Paris by Henriot , Commandant of the National- Guard , and other partisans of Robespierre . One time it became a doubtful point which party would prevail ; for whilst Henriot was at the head of 4000 men in the Place de Carousal , Robespierre , St . Just , and Couthon , with the Commune , formed themselves into a National Convention
, declared the other Representatives of the people traitors to their country , and outlawed them . The Jacobine ' Club also declared for Robespierre ' s party . In a word , all Paris was in motion , and a civil war on the point of breaking out . The scale was however turned by the Convention getting possession of and surrounding the Hall of the Commune . In the confusion Robespierre was wounded on the chin ; his brother jumped out of a window , and broke his leg and armCouthon stabbed himself twice and Coffintal
; ; one , a member of the Commune , enraged that Henriot ( who had declared , upon forfeiture of his head , that all Paris was in their favour ) had deceived them , absolutely threw Henriot out of a window , who , thus bruised and wounded , found means to hidehimself in a sewer , from whence he was dragged all over blood and mud .
After Robespierre ' s part }' , in the Hall of the Commune , had been subdued he was brought on a litter to ( he Convention . The President asked , " Is ii your pleasure he should be brought in ? " No I no ! resounded from all parts , and it was decreed that he should , with the others , be executed in the Square of theRevolulion .- Le Bas killed himself . Barrere , Billaud , Collot d'Herbols , and some others , foreseeing the downfall of Robespierre , had the address to join the ruling faction , and save their ' necks . On the 28 that night guillotined here the following —Maxi
, , were persons : - millian Robespierre , 35 years old , a native of Arras ; George Couthon , 3 8 years old , born at Orsay ; A . St . Just , z 6 years of age , a native of Lisere ; A . Robespierre , a younger brother of the aboye Maximilian ; F . Henriot , Commander in chief of the armed force at Paris ; L . Lavaletie , ex-noble , born at Paris , commander of a battalion of National Guards , late a Brigadier-General in the Northern army ; R . Dumas , 37 years old , born at Lussy , formerly a lawyer ' at Lyon-le-Saumierand late president of the Revolutionary TribunalJR
, ; . . Lescot Fleuriot , 39 years old , mayor of Paris ; C . F . Payan , 27 years of age , a juryman of the Revolutionary Tribunal , and National Guard of Paris ; Nj < Viviers , 50 years old , Judge of the Criminal Tribunal of the department , ancl president of the Society called Jacobins in the night of the 27 th and 28 th of July ; C . Bernard , 34 years old , an ex-priest ; Geney , aged 33 years , a vint-Ber ; 'Gobeau , 26 years old , a substitute at the Criminal Tribunal ; A . Simon ,
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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . PARIS , August r , GN the 27 th ult . Robespierre was openly declared a Tyrant . The storm had been gathering for some time : he appears to have filled all the municipal offices of Paris with his own creatures , and to have secured a great majority in the Jacobme Club . He had also tampered with the armed force of Paris . On ¦ : ihe 25 th he made a long speech in the Convention public affairsand in
on , defence of himself . He attempted to speak on the 27 th , but was obliged to desist , in consequence of loud vociferous exclamations , " Down ivith the Tyrant ! Down with the Tyrant ! " Tallien , a leading and now prevailing member of the Convention , charged him with having formed a list of proscriptions , in order to further his ambitious views , and with aiming at the office of Dictator . After several members had spoken , the Convention unanimously decreed the arrest of Robespierre the elder
, Robespierre junior , St . Just , Couthon , and Le Bas . During these proceedings in the Convention , an insurrection was stirring un in Paris by Henriot , Commandant of the National- Guard , and other partisans of Robespierre . One time it became a doubtful point which party would prevail ; for whilst Henriot was at the head of 4000 men in the Place de Carousal , Robespierre , St . Just , and Couthon , with the Commune , formed themselves into a National Convention
, declared the other Representatives of the people traitors to their country , and outlawed them . The Jacobine ' Club also declared for Robespierre ' s party . In a word , all Paris was in motion , and a civil war on the point of breaking out . The scale was however turned by the Convention getting possession of and surrounding the Hall of the Commune . In the confusion Robespierre was wounded on the chin ; his brother jumped out of a window , and broke his leg and armCouthon stabbed himself twice and Coffintal
; ; one , a member of the Commune , enraged that Henriot ( who had declared , upon forfeiture of his head , that all Paris was in their favour ) had deceived them , absolutely threw Henriot out of a window , who , thus bruised and wounded , found means to hidehimself in a sewer , from whence he was dragged all over blood and mud .
After Robespierre ' s part }' , in the Hall of the Commune , had been subdued he was brought on a litter to ( he Convention . The President asked , " Is ii your pleasure he should be brought in ? " No I no ! resounded from all parts , and it was decreed that he should , with the others , be executed in the Square of theRevolulion .- Le Bas killed himself . Barrere , Billaud , Collot d'Herbols , and some others , foreseeing the downfall of Robespierre , had the address to join the ruling faction , and save their ' necks . On the 28 that night guillotined here the following —Maxi
, , were persons : - millian Robespierre , 35 years old , a native of Arras ; George Couthon , 3 8 years old , born at Orsay ; A . St . Just , z 6 years of age , a native of Lisere ; A . Robespierre , a younger brother of the aboye Maximilian ; F . Henriot , Commander in chief of the armed force at Paris ; L . Lavaletie , ex-noble , born at Paris , commander of a battalion of National Guards , late a Brigadier-General in the Northern army ; R . Dumas , 37 years old , born at Lussy , formerly a lawyer ' at Lyon-le-Saumierand late president of the Revolutionary TribunalJR
, ; . . Lescot Fleuriot , 39 years old , mayor of Paris ; C . F . Payan , 27 years of age , a juryman of the Revolutionary Tribunal , and National Guard of Paris ; Nj < Viviers , 50 years old , Judge of the Criminal Tribunal of the department , ancl president of the Society called Jacobins in the night of the 27 th and 28 th of July ; C . Bernard , 34 years old , an ex-priest ; Geney , aged 33 years , a vint-Ber ; 'Gobeau , 26 years old , a substitute at the Criminal Tribunal ; A . Simon ,