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buds of rebellion in America. Assignats burned to the 30th of September last, amounted to 2,367,000,000 livres. All public ordinances by the representatives of the people begin in this form, "The thunder of God: in "the name of the representatives of the people, it "is commanded under pain of death, &c." Address from the court of Madrid to stimulate the Spanish nation against the French. Motion by Baraillon to imprison all those who have had national property conveyed to them under its value, and those who have laid waste the lands and houses of emigrants and of condemned persons; and all those who have misapplied public money. Decree to abolish the jacobin club. _Nov_. 4. Rhinfeld surrenders at discretion; Maestricht by capitulation. Nimeguen surrenders. French commissaries proclaim liberty at Martinico. Billaud Varennes endeavours in vain to revive the jacobins. The convention offers full pardon to the rebels of La Vendee who will lay down their arms and serve the republic. Guadaloupe is retaken by the French. Cambon reports that assignats in circulation amount to 6,400,000,000 of livres, and the expence of the present year to 2,200,000,000 livres. Addresses of congratulation from all parts on the overthrow of the jacobins. 17. The Spaniards defeated by the French. Republican General Dugommier killed. 20. The Spaniards again defeated--three generals taken. St. Fernard, Figueras, and Aspaetta, surrender. 30. Grave surrenders to the French. Carrier and his bloody accomplices decreed to be in a state of accusation. Decreed, that all emigrants be for ever banished from the republic, their property confiscated, and their return punished with death. _Dec_. 1. The French make several unsuccessful attempts on the sid
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