. Thomas Payne and Anacharsis Cloots imprisoned in
the Luxemburg.
Ordered by the jacobin club of Paris, that all
sarcasms and philippics, uttered in their tribune
against the government and constitution of England,
be printed and sent to the patriots in the three
kingdoms.
The convention decrees, that all inscriptions on
monuments shall be in the French language.
Decreed, that all property real and personal of the
farmers-general shall belong to the nation.
Pondicherry surrenders to the British.
The president of the convention reads a letter from
Vitre. "The souls of most of the royalists have
"been sent to the Eternal Father; we are every day
"destroying the Chouans, those infernal banditti."
The French are active in restoring the lines of
Weissembourg to cover the siege of Fort-Louis.
The Baron Latude guillotined; he had lived many
years in the Bastille, and was called the proof and
victim of despotism.
The committee of public safety remove Simon, the
shoemaker, from the office of tutor and preceptor
to the son of Louis XVI. confined in the Temple;
and resolve that there is no need of any other in
his place.
A manufacture is offered to the convention of
cloth made of two-thirds hair.
19. The chimney-sweepers request of the convention the
release of Abbe Fenelon, who had been a father to
them during 60 years.
21. The anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. is
declared in the convention a day of glory.
Between the 13th of December and the 24th of
January, 325 persons were guillotined at Lyons, and
330 shot.
Generals Wurmser and the Duke of Brunswick are
succeeded by Generals Braun and Moellendorff.
The female citizen Chapuis, daughter of the
general, demands to serve as a dragoon.
The Count d'Artois sends his diamond