THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 
 FROM THE LIBRARY OF 
 FRANK J. KLINGBERG
 
 T H ,E 
 
 FIRST FRUITS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FRENCH REVOLUTION.
 
 1 HE following facts are recommended to the 
 ferious confideration of the people of Scotland : 
 as, by means of them, they may be enabled to 
 iudge of the miferable confequences, which the re- 
 volution in France has produced on the morals of 
 the inhabitants of that great kingdom. The arti- 
 cles which have been chofen for that purpofe, arc 
 thofe of Religion and Humanity ; or, ia other words 
 thole of duty to GOD, and to one's fellow crea- 
 ture. It was once intended to make the like felec- 
 tion relative to the articles of property, freedom of 
 conduct, andfecunty of perfon. But, in purfuing 
 this plan through its details, the materials were 
 found to fwell ib much beyond the due and con- 
 venient fize, that it was at lafl judged better to 
 defill. It is indeed well known to every perfon 
 who reads a newipaper, that for many months 
 pad, all protection in any of thefe points has been 
 unknown in France, for any rank or delcription 
 of people, high or low. 
 
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 The reader will obferve, that the following pa- 
 ragraphs are taken from the common Englifh newf- 
 papers ; and as thefe have extracted them from the 
 public papers, publifhed in the city of Paris, there 
 can be no doubt of the truth of their contents, as 
 the French certainly would not invent fuch things 
 againft themfelves. A few fafts are thrown toge- 
 ther towards the conclufion, in a fhorter form than 
 that in which they appeared in the newfpapers. 
 
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 THE 
 
 FIRST FRUITS, &c. 
 
 RELIGION. 
 
 IN Thurfday the 7th of November, Gobei, the 
 Archbifhop of Paris, appeared in the Hall 
 of the Convention, while they were fitting, at- 
 tended by his vicar, and abjured the Epifcopal 
 functions, and the religion ofChrift. Loud cries of 
 Long live the Republic ! refounded at this moment 
 through the Hail. 
 
 The Archbifhop was followed by the Rector 
 Vaugirard, and feveral other priefts ; among others 
 by a Prcteftant minifter, named Julien of Thou- 
 ioufe, a member of the Convention, and many o- 
 ther Bifhops, who imitated the apoftacy of the 
 Archbilhop of Paris, and were received with no 
 lefs applaufe, and with the civic kifs on the pan of 
 the Prefident. In the fame fitting, David propo- 
 fed, That a ColofTal monument be raifed in the 
 hail of the commonalty of Paris, to manifeft the 
 Jupprtffien of all religiowtvorfljip. The Coloflus is 
 to bear, upon its front, the word Light, upon the 
 breaft, Nature and Truth , and upon the arms, 
 Strength and Courage. According to David's mo- 
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 tion, rtie Convention decreed the whole ; referving, 
 however, to its ^wn difcredon, die digeii of ihe 
 aforefaid motion. 
 
 On Saturday the gth of November 1793, the 
 Convention decreed, That all the petitions which 
 mall be ftnt, tending to abolijb all ecclefiaftical func- 
 tions (that is, all worship and miniftry of religion;, 
 fhall be deponted amoni- the records of the com- 
 mittee of public inftruflion. 
 
 In the lame fitting, letters from feveral priefts 
 were read, in which they declared their repent- 
 ance, that is, renounced the Chriflian religion. 
 Alto the commune of Seve prefented to the Con- 
 vention the filver.plate of iheir church : " Human 
 " victims," faid the fpokefman, " will no longer 
 **' be fl'.ughtered in the name of -an imaginary God : 
 " The Gods of a Republican are Nature, Liberty ? 
 ' and Equal it y " 
 
 On Thuifday the 7th of November 1793, a let- 
 ter was read in the Convention, figned Parent^ 
 reflcro Boiflue la Bertrande, and dated Novem- 
 ber 4th. The writer of this letter owns, that re* 
 hgion is a mere itr^f.i'iLn ; and that, renouncing his 
 tenets, he only means to Breach henceforth the 
 principles of Republican morality. The Conveiition, 
 after a mort debate, decreed honourable mention, of 
 Parent's letter. 
 
 In the f.tting of Sunday the icth of November, 
 the Abbe de Sieze, in a long fpeech, made an apo- 
 /> to the Conv-einionfor his having formerly beer* 
 an Abbe, that is, a clergyman with a living. 
 
 In the fitting of the 6th of November, a depu- 
 tation from the popular focieties of Marfeilles wa* 
 admitted to the bar ; and their fpeakt.r among q. 
 ther things, exprefied himfclf thus : " The citizen 
 - and the Icgillijtor ought to acknowletige no other
 
 * war/hip but that of libsrty* no other altars than 
 " thole of their country, and no other prieiU 
 " than the maturates." 
 
 In the fiiting of Saturday the foth November, 
 the feclion of Sans-Culottes declared, that they 
 would no longer have clergy among them. In 
 this fitting, a woman was alfo brought into the 
 Hall, whom they called the Goddefs of Liberty, 
 and who was followed by a great proceffion of 
 people, who paid her honours. The fpokefmau 
 faid on this occafion, " The people have but one 
 '* cry -No more altars, no more priefts, no other 
 " God but the God of Nature" He fmifoed with 
 requefting, that the church of Notre Dame mould 
 be changed into a temple, eonfecrated to Rtafon 
 and Truth ; which the Convention immediately 
 decreed. During the ceremony, certain children, 
 fung a hymn to Reafon, compofed by Citizen Mo- 
 line. The national mufic afterwards played Gpt- 
 fee's hymn to Liberty. The Convention then mix* 
 ed with the populace, to celebrate the feafl of Rea- 
 
 i in her new tempk. 
 
 On the 1 2th of November, a grand feftival, de- 
 dicated to Reafon and Truth, was celebrated ia 
 the cathedral church of Paris. In the middle of 
 he church was erected a mount. The torch of 
 Truth was on the fummit of the mount, on the #/- 
 'ar of Reafan- fpreadin^ lio-ht. The Cenventim 
 
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 nd all the conftituted authorities aiMed at the 
 oeremony*. 
 
 Same day, in the Jacobin Club, Bourdon, in a 
 
 fpeech, 
 
 * Oa the ijth of November, on the motion of Cambm, de- 
 reed, that, thtogphout the kinodora, thofe buildings which ferved 
 ie purpofe of rck^iout <-aorfn'ip, or as the .abodes of priefts, 
 .all be converted into an atylum for the poor, and into 
 tools.
 
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 fpeech. eftablifhed this great principle, that all re- 
 Unions .worjhip is equal, fmce, out of regard to pre- 
 judice, it is neceflary that it mould exift. He has, 
 in confequence, propofed to discontinue the falaries 
 of all the priefts, who continue to deceive the peo- 
 ple with their dogmas and myileries, as if it were 
 pofiible to honour the Supreme Being more, than 
 by being good republicans. 
 
 On the 23d of October, Merlin of Thionville 
 writes to the Convention, That the Biihop of Mou- 
 lines has officiated with a pike in his hand, and a 
 red cap on his head. 
 
 The popular focieties of Annecy requefted leave 
 tb'clifmifs their rector, and convert their church 
 into a chtb-rocm, where they might put up the bulls 
 of Marat* and Pelletier. 
 
 On the 24th of November, the council of the 
 commons of Paris formally decreed, on the motion 
 of Chaumette ; i/#, That all churches or temples, 
 of wbatfocver religion or ivor/hip, exifting in Paris, 
 Jhall beiiiflantly flmt : idly. That every individual 
 who mall feek_/or the opening of a church or temple, 
 fhall be arrefted as a fufpklous perfon: $d/y, That 
 the priefls or mmtfters of any religion (hall be per- 
 fonally anfwerable for every tumult that mail take 
 place in Paris on account of that religion. 
 
 Such are the worfhip and religion of the French 
 in their enlightened ftate ; of which the teftimo- 
 nies could eafily be multiplied to the length of 
 many pages. To crown all ; what the word of 
 God had ordained, the act of man has undone : 
 They have abolifhed Sunday, and, inflead of the 
 feventh, have ordered that the tenth mail be the 
 day of reft. On the firfl day of October the Con- 
 vention folemnly decreed, That every month fhall 
 
 in 
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 m future he divided into three parts, or 
 confifling of ten days each. 
 
 And on the i3th of October the Convention 
 again decreed, That the adminhtrators, tribunals, 
 agents' and public functionaries, (hall-Ks/ take va- 
 cation or reft, except upon the Joth, 2Oth, and 
 ?oth of each month, or en the laft day cf each 
 decade. 
 
 The Convention accordingly meet on Sunday as 
 .on any other day. 
 
 . In purfuance of this decree, in the fitting of the 
 24th of October, a letter is read to the Convention 
 from Andre Dumont, one of their own members, 
 in which he wrr.es thefe words : " I have ordered 
 " the arreft of fuch prieiis as celebrate religious 
 " feafts en Sundays : I have made crones and cru- 
 " cinxes to difappsar ; and foon will be comprifed 
 " in thofe proscriptions thefe black animals called 
 " priefts." 
 
 In like manner, in the fitting of the 21 ft Odober, 
 the fyndic of the diftrict of Tonnerre writes to ihe 
 Convention, that many of the communities of that 
 di drift had refolved that no more religious cere- 
 monies or offices fhould be celebrated on Sunday, 
 which they no longer acknowledged ; and that they ha-ce 
 fubjhtuted as a clay of reft the J cth da*; cfeach decade* 
 
 Of a piece with thefe, is their regulation concern- 
 ing burials, which teitifies their diibtlief of a refur- 
 reclion or future flate. They have ordeiedthis in- 
 fcription to be put on the gate of every burial place : 
 
 DEATH IS AN ETERNAL SLFEP. 
 
 The abhorrence of the Clergy of Scotland at thefe 
 Impieties has been made public, in many excel- 
 lent difcourfes from the pulpit, and has excited their 
 attention when affembled in their Prefbyteries. We
 
 have fele&ed the following Refolutions of the T*re 
 bytery of Dalkeith,as forming a linking con'raft to 
 the preceding, by the genuine fentirnents qf Christi- 
 anity they contain, and the becoming language in 
 which they are expreffcd : 
 
 D&lkeitb) Dec. 10. 179^. 
 
 ** The PRESBYTERY of DALKEITH having feen^ 
 with amazement and horror, certain proceedings 
 of the French nation, by which, in a delirium of 
 impious rage, they not only renounce the Chriftian 
 Faith, but abjure all belief in a Supreme Deity,/ 
 and prohibit his \vorfhip, reject: the doctrines of Im- 
 mortality and a Future State, and, that there may- 
 remain no veftige of Religion among them, abolifh 
 the Sabbath, or the Lord's Day : and having, at 
 the fame time, oHerved, with forrow and indigna- 
 tion, that there is an Aifociation among ourfelves, 
 vho tirft ca'led themfclves the Friends of the Peop's, 
 and now affume the title of the Briiijh Convention, 
 fchofe open and profcffed def.gn leads diredly to 
 the overthrow of the prdent happy Government, 
 and to the introduction of a Democratical lyranny 
 fimilar to that of the French, with all its dreadful 
 confeqiiences, the Preibytery do therefore una- 
 ftimoufly refolve, that they will take the earlieft 
 opportvinity of warning the People under their 
 care, againfh the falfe arts of deceivers, of raifmg in 
 their minds a juft abhorrence of that enthufiaftical 
 zeal for impiety and ii religion, and of that favage 
 cruelty and injuAice \virh which the annlls of that, 
 guilty nation are ftained , and, at the fame time, to 
 draw their attention to the great and undeniable 
 bleilings that proceed from our Free Conflituticn, 
 and to their own prefect happy and profpercus: 
 flate, under the rnild and aufpicious Government 
 , adiniiii(lere.U by our moft juft and graci- 
 ous
 
 ous Sovereign ; to revive in their minds a juft 
 fenfe of our Moft Holy Chriftian Religion, and in 
 particular to intreat their reverence for that facred 
 Pay, which in its origin is Divine, and venerable 
 for its antiquity ; which is fo beneficial to man, as a 
 day of reft arid contemplation, and of all thole re- 
 ligious exerciies, by which an intercourfe between 
 heaven and earth is preferred, the moral duties 
 of man to man pointed out and enforced, and the 
 Great Pillars of Society eftablimed and confirmed, 
 by a conftant reference to the fan&ions of futu- 
 rity. And the Prefbytery ordains this refolution 
 to be primed in the newfpapers, and enjoin their 
 clerk to inform the abfent members of it. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN PATON, Modr." 
 
 HUMANITY AND MERCY. 
 
 We do not attempt fo arduous, and, indeed, 
 impracticable a talk, as to enumerate and detail 
 the whole, nay, nor the hundredth part, of the 
 butcheries and wanton cruelties, the aflaiUnations, 
 maflacres, and bloody executions, which have ta* 
 ken place in this unhappy country, under the or- 
 ders of its prefent matters the Convention. Biu 
 we call a few things to the remembrance of the 
 reader, and lay before him fome fliort extia&s 
 from the letters and fpeeches of the deputies, and 
 the proceedings of the Convention, from which he 
 may judge of the favage fpirit which dwells in their 
 hearts, and how familiar to them the notion is cf 
 death and blood, aad the raofl extenfive deftnic- 
 00.
 
 In the fitting of Convention of Friday, 
 September, Ghabot, one of the leading members, 
 expreficd himfelf thus: " 1 move, that you ap- 
 " point a commifliori, compofed of fix members, 
 44 to digeft a frefh code of laws againft emigrants ; 
 " but let this code be fo fimple, fo explicit, that 
 t; even a child may fend an emigrant fo the guillotine , 
 " without having recourfe to the lawyers." A 
 commiffion of fix was named accordingly. 
 
 On the 8th of November, Merlin of 1 hionville, 
 slfo a leading man,- writes to the Convention, 
 *' that the province of La Vendee exhibits nothing 
 <c to the view of travellers but the ajhes of dead 
 " bodies" This province of La Vendee is one of 
 their own provinces, which they have burned and 
 laid wafte in this manner, in orcfer to reduce it to 
 obedience. 
 
 On the 2 ^d of October the coramifiioners of 
 the Convention, in the fame country, write in thefe 
 terms : " The countries lately occupied by the 
 <{ banditti prefent nothing but a profound Jolitude. 
 " We go a great diitance without meeting a cottvge. 
 " For, except at Cholet, St Florent, and ibme 
 " other patriotic towns, ive leave behind us only 
 " ftjhcs and carcafes" , 
 
 On the 24th of September the Convention gives 
 orders to its commifiioners at Lyons thus : " Be- 
 " gin the bombardment of Lyons. Mild meafures 
 41 uill not do. Let domefHc traitors, as well as 
 " foreign enemies, tremble at the fight of the fate 
 " ot Lyons. With flaming torches and fixed bayonets 
 " you muft enter it." 
 
 On the ^d October the committee of public 
 welfare again writes to them : " Should the reduc- 
 
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 .** tion of Lyons not yet be accompiithed, then y-ju 
 .-" mufl fall upon the banditti with all your might, 
 " and blot them from the face of t'.ie earth. 1 * 
 
 When the news of the reduction of Lyons reach- 
 ed the Convention, on the i2th of O&ober, the/ 
 patted a decree, " That the city of Lyons Jhall bs 
 *' deftroyed and demolijhed, its name rafed from the 
 " liit of towns, and a pillar raifed on its ruins, bear- 
 " ing this infcriptiqn, Lyons warred againft liberty; 
 " Lyons is no more." 
 
 It is to be remarked, that Lyons was one of the 
 moil wealthy and induflrious towns in the king- 
 dom, the largeft city after Paris, and contained 
 upwards of two hundered thouiand inhabitants, 
 that is more than three times as many as the city 
 of Edinburgh. 
 
 How the inhabitants were treated, may appear 
 from the following letters : 
 
 On the 2 zd October, Coutbon, commiilioner of 
 the Convention at Lyons, writes, 4t We have efla- 
 " blimed a military commiffion, which, every day 
 " fmce we entered Lyons, has pajfcd fentence on 
 ci nuny guilty heads ; and we have framed a tribu- 
 ': nal for all criminal politicians. Not more than 
 44 ten have efcaped. Virieux and Prefly have pe- 
 ^ ri/hed. Vicky, Schmidt, and others, have been 
 "Jhot. Normani is to fujfer the fame fate to-day ; 
 " andfo itjhatt continue, till all tyrants are purged 
 " from the face of the earth. We mall keep Lyons 
 ' as in aftate of war, and under military jurifdic- 
 i tion for the prefent." In the fame letter he fays, 
 This city mitft be deftroyed. We wifh for a to- 
 " /a/deftrudionof this city.'* And he concludes 
 thus, " The municipality and committee of vigi- 
 ic lance are making out a lift of all the houfes 
 
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 ** which belong to the rich ; and of the property (/ 
 " theje gentlemen, which ive jhall take good care of." 
 Another letter from Lyons, of date November 
 the 3d, fays, " The arrefts have multiplied to an 
 <5 infinite number. There are already twelve or 
 "fourteen thouj'and prifoners ; the majfacre of -wnom 
 " is apprehended every moment : Some of them are 
 " every day foot ^ and their gooes confiscated." 
 
 Again, the commiflioners of the Convention 
 
 write on the i2th of November, " We fwear to 
 
 * rale all the buildings of that luberb city ; and 
 
 " the traveller will foon fee nothing left of it but a 
 
 "few humble cots." 
 
 And. lajtly, on the i6th November, they write 
 in thefe terms : "Being convinced, that there is 
 " no perfon innocent in this famous citv, but thofe 
 " \vho were loaded with, or put in irons by the 
 " affaffins, we dijlruft the tears of repentance No- 
 " thing can difarm our feverity" And they con- 
 clude with complaining, that the way of pulling 
 down the city is tedious. " Demolitions" (fay they) 
 " are too flow : Republican impatience requires 
 " more rapid means. The explofwn of a mine, and 
 " the devouring adivity of flames, can alone exprefs 
 " the omnipotence of the people : Their will can- 
 *' not be checked like that of tyrants j it ought t& 
 " have the effects of lightening." 
 
 PiOceccings of the lame fort are going on at 
 Bourdeaux, which is the greateft commercial and 
 trading town in I 1 ranee. A letter from thence fays, 
 *' The Mayor of Pourdeaux, whofe brilliant for- 
 " tune of ten thoufand millions enabled him to at- 
 " tempt keeping in with both parties, while he ex- 
 " ecuied the refolutions of the popu larjoriety, has 
 *' been beheaded." It appears, by their own ac- 
 count,
 
 count, that this man had been guilty of no offence 
 but the pofleflion of a great fortune. 
 
 The lateft accounts, too, from Marfeilles Hate, 
 " The arrefts continue to multiply as ufual, and 
 " the guillotine does wonders. The prilbns are quite 
 " crammed with fufptded perfons." 
 
 On the 22d of October the Convention paffed 
 a decree, which " orders the deftruftion ef any 
 " town which mall furrender to the enemy with- 
 61 out (landing an aflault." This decree does not 
 diftinguifh whether the place is in condition to re- 
 fifl or not. When a town is taken by aflault, the 
 lives both of the garrifon and the inhabitants arc 
 at the mercy of the conqueror. 
 
 In a meeting of tl.e Convention on the of 
 .September, Collet d'Herbois, a deputy, made this 
 propofal. " We muft not tranfport the couiiter- 
 revolutionifls we mutt bury them alive in the 
 _*' land of liberty. Let them all be apprehended 
 " let the places of their confinement be undermined^ 
 *' and matches kept constantly light 'ed, ready to blow 
 " them fill up, it they or their partisans mail dare 
 * c to make any new attempt againlt liberty." Ap- 
 plauded by the meeting. 
 
 It would be tirefome to fet down ar length all 
 the decrees which their tyranny has fallen upon. 
 A revolutionary army (as it is called) of fix thou- 
 fand men, completely armed, and canying with it 
 a guillotine and executioner, marches through the 
 country, in the neighbourhood of Paris, and com- 
 pels the miferable inhabitants to furrender their 
 j^rovifions. One of the officers who attends this 
 dreadful engine writes to the Convention, '" That 
 \" ihe guillotine had done wonders in bringing in pro-
 
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 44 vifioxs" thus making a jeft of the death of the 
 people. 
 
 In Paris, to fave trouble, two of thefe inftru- 
 ments are kept conftantly {landing. The fame is 
 the cafe at Marseilles, and many other places. One 
 deputy of the Convention writes, that he had fent 
 a prifoner to Lifle to be put to death there, that the 
 guillotine might not be idle. It is computed, that iu 
 Paris alone upwards of fix thoufand perfons had pe- 
 rifhed by that inftrument, after fome pretence of 
 trial, as far back as the month of Auguft laft ; and 
 executions have been more frequent fince. 
 
 Many of thefe unhappy perfons too have been 
 women fome of them young girls, convicled of 
 aflifting or concealing their near relations others 
 the mothers of large families, and others old wo- 
 men on the verge of the grave. The mother-in- 
 law of Petion, the wife of Roland, and the widow 
 of Koly the farmer-general, may be mentioned, in 
 parting, as of the number. 
 
 With refpecl to the mock trial, it may be judged 
 of from the following proceedings : Julien of Thou- 
 ioufe laid in the Convention on the 22d of Au- 
 guft, " What need the revolutionary tribunal ftand 
 " on formalities : If it has no material proofs, it 
 " .ought to deem moral proofs or probabilities fuf- 
 " ficient." 
 
 A member, however, complained in the Con- 
 vention on the 26th September, that the proceed- 
 ings of this court were/oo^ow; andfaid, he would 
 prefent a mode of trial, by which the mod compli- 
 cated cafe might be determined in twenty-four 
 hours. 
 
 In the fitting of the 2pth of Oftober, the prefi* 
 dent of this court alfo complained, that the loqua- 
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 dty of the prifoners wafted much time. Why (fays 
 he) have recourfe to evidence, where the nation is 
 attacked. The Convention accordingly, on the 
 motion of Roberfpierre, decreed, that where a trial 
 has lafted three days, the prefident (hall open the 
 next fitting by aking the jury if they are f.it ; 
 If they fay No, the examination (hall continue ; if 
 i hey fay Yes, the evidence jhall be c'ofed andjudg:i;nt 
 given; and no perfon mall be allowed to object to 
 the decifion of the jury. 
 
 They have ufed the guillotine too as freely 
 a^ainft each other, as againfl the friends of the 
 King. All the perfons who began the revolution, 
 and were for fome time at the head of affairs, and 
 highly popular, fuch'as the Duke of Rochefou- 
 cault, Bailly the Mayor of Paris, Roland the 
 jacobin minifter, Briflbt the head of the Repu- 
 blicans, who contrived the attack of the King's pa- 
 lace on the loth of Auguft, Vergniaud, Guadet, 
 and Genibnne, his chofen aifociafes, and the Duke 
 of Orleans, who even changed his name for that 
 of Equality (to mew his zeal), Cuftine too, their 
 favourite General, have all periihed, one way or 
 other, under the hands of the Convention. On the 
 3. i ft of Odobcr no fewer than twenty -ons mem- 
 bers of the Convention, and the very perfons who % 
 about fix month's ago, difpofed of every thing at 
 their pleafure, were publicly guillotined in the fpace 
 of thirty-fix minutes, amidthe applaufes of the people. 
 
 Yet, after all, they have not been fatisfitd with 
 jlood. On the loth of November, Bazire, think- 
 ing they had enough, had faid in the Convention,' 
 \V,h:n Jhall this butchering of the deputies ceafe ? And, 
 [on the next day, (the i ith). Bazire hhnfelr, on ac- 
 wi'fh, was denounced as afufpefteJ-, 
 II perfon,
 
 per/on, and is to be expelled the club of Jacobins. 
 -As to the number who have fallen by maflfacre 
 and murder, without any retence of trial, it is be- 
 yond all computation in the city of Paris alone, to 
 lay nothing of all the reil of France, where the 
 fame thing is going on. From the 2d to the jib. 
 of September 1792, a fpace of five days only, up- 
 wards of eight thoufand perfons, many of them old 
 men, women of all ages, infirm perfons, and cler- 
 gymen, and all of them abfolutely helplefs, were 
 butchered in the prifons in open day- light, without 
 a foul (lirring to hinder it, though there was an 
 armed force of a hundred thoufand men in Paris 
 at the time. This is the account of the number 
 flaughtered, which a member gave in the Conven- 
 tion, and no one difputed the truth of it. The 
 Convention afterwards refolved that no inquiry 
 fhculd be made about the guilty perfons. 
 
 Multitudes are flill in the prifons waiting the 
 fame fate. Upwards of feventy members of the; 
 Convention are lying in arreft for trial ; among 
 whom is Petion, the fecond Mayor of Paris, who, 
 not a twelvemonth ago, was carried through the 
 flreets on the peoples fnoulders like an idol, and 
 was one of the chief inftruments in deftroying the 
 King. Many of their Generals too are in the fame 
 ftate ; Brunet (who is under fentence of death) Mi- 
 randa, Kellerman, Vandamme, and Houchard, tho' 
 it was he who faved Dunkirk*. The total amount of 
 prifoners in the different gaols of Paris on the i4th 
 November, was no lefs than three tboufand one hun- 
 dr?d and ninety. 
 
 So : 
 
 * Brunei and Houchard have both been put to death fince 
 this paper went to prefs.
 
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 So much, indeed, are they familiarifed with exe- 
 cutions, as even to make them the fubjeft of jeffo 
 and jokes. To cut a perfon in pieces, is to Sep- 
 iemberifc him (alluding to the maflacre of Septem- 
 ber 1792); and to behead him by the guillotine, 
 Is to make him put his head out at the little window 
 ( the opening of the inftrument which takes in the 
 neck), and play at hot cockles ; alluding to the ago- 
 nies and convulfions of death. 
 
 There is even a competition for the office of 
 executioner ; for, in a letter which was read to the 
 Convention as late as the i2th November, their 
 commiffioners, named Lequinio and Laignelot, 
 write from Rochefort, " That Citizen Anfe hav- 
 *' ing folicited the honour, and many ethers having 
 " rijen after him for the fame objecl, the prefer- 
 " ence was given to the patriot Anfe, whom they 
 " proclaimed Guillotiner, and invited him to 
 '* come and dine *ivith them." 
 
 November 24th, the fec~lion of the Thuilleries 
 appeared at the bar, manifefting their regret at the 
 cowardly conduct of the young men of that fection, 
 who being ordered from Cherbourg to engage the 
 rebels, refufed, and fung the infamous air, Ri- 
 chard! my King! which is the parole of rallie- 
 ment of the Royaiifls. 
 
 Baudoin, the orator of the feclion, exprefled it 
 as the general wifh, that all the young men be Jhot 9 
 and that two commiffioners repair to Cherbourg 
 to fignify to them their doom. 
 
 This petition was received with the loudeft ap~ 
 plaufe, and honourable mention and infertion in the 
 minutes, &c. &c. Decreed. 
 
 The fubfcribers to the petition are upwards of 
 B 2 four
 
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 ur thoufand citizens, who vote for the death of their 
 o\.i'n children, brothers, and relatives ! 
 
 The feclion of the Champs Klyfees came with a 
 fimilar petition, which, with the former, was re- 
 ferred to the committee of public welfare. 
 
 November i4th, one of the fecretaries read a let- 
 ter from Aubry, a French officer, and fun to 
 Olympia Degouges, lately guillotined, in which lie 
 fpeaks with great difrefpect of his lais mvther, and 
 complains of having been cafhiered only becaufe 
 that woman had been his mother. He attefted hja 
 civjfm and bravery, on all occafions, in the field. 
 
 On the motion of Merlin, this letter was refer- 
 red to the minifter at war. 
 
 Add to this, that they erected an altar, and paid 
 worjhip to the heart of Marat, a deceafed deputy, 
 who was the notorious captain and fetter-on of the 
 murderers in the month of September. 
 
 The following is a paragraph copied from a Pa- 
 ris newfpaper, called Lc Pere Duchejne : 
 
 " Brave Sans -culottes ! intrepid Jacobins ! 
 t: watch, watch more than ever. New dogs' tricks 
 " are plotting. If the traitors are not all guillo- 
 " tined, you mufl expect that it will be your own 
 " fnte. ^Demand damn it! that all that is of 
 " Capet's race be immolated ; and, above all, that 
 " Fat Befs be immediately fent to join her bridc- 
 " groom Manuel. Let not your hold go //'// the Jaft 
 " of the BriJ/otmes Jhall have had his head chopped 
 " ff~ Damnation /" 
 
 Lail of all, what tnngue can fpeak the miferies 
 which they have infiicled on the Royal Family ! 
 
 They (lied his blood on a fcaffold, who was the 
 kindeft Sovereign that ever fat on their throne, 
 and v.hofe own plan and project air this new free- 
 dom
 
 dom of their country was, and to 'which he had 
 furrendered ail the rights and honours of his 
 Crown. They refufed him livo days to prepare 
 himftlf for death ; they refufed him the laft mifer- 
 able confolarion of fpeaking to the people on the 
 fcaffold ; they fhouted and rejoiced at the fight of 
 his headlefs body ; and they threw it into a hole, 
 without fheet or coffin, or any form of common 
 decency. 
 
 After a fifteen months imprifonment, prolonged 
 for no purpofe but to infult and torment her, they 
 brought his wretched and helplefs widow to the 
 fame end. They had long feparated her from her 
 children, her laft and only confolation. No crea- 
 ture whom me knew was allowed to wait upon, or 
 come in fight of her. She was expofed to the in- 
 fults and reproaches of all her enemies, and of the 
 vileft of the people, to whom (he was mown for 
 money. The mangled head of her deareft friend * 
 was laid before her, for a fpeclacle. She was con- 
 fined to a wet and unwholefome cell, in a com- 
 mon prifon, under ground ; and here me was 
 continually guarded by four men centinels, in 
 whofe prefence fhe was conftrained to undergo the 
 mod fecret offices of nature. After a mock trial, 
 fhe was carried to the fcaffold in a dung cart, her 
 arms tied behind her, and her face turned to the 
 tail of the cart. The favage people applauded as 
 fhe went along, as for a jubilee, and loaded her 
 with curfes. She was denied the fatisfa&ion of 
 dying in mourning for her hufband. Her body, 
 like his, was tumbled into a hole, and quick-lime 
 was ftrewed on both, the fooner to confume 
 them, 
 
 * Madame Lambaile, murdered September 1792.
 
 The King's only fitter, the Princefs Elifabeth, 
 a beautiful, accomplifhed, and virtuous woman, 
 has fince been fent to the Anne revolutionary 
 court, where to be called, is the fignal of death. 
 
 There will then remain in their hands, of the 
 whole Royal blood, only the two innocent and 
 helplefs orphans, the King's children, a boy of 
 nine years old, and a girl of fifteen ; WHOM MAY 
 ALMIGHTY GOD PITY AND PROTECT !