laid upon Liege, and a thousand livres a day for
every day's delay.
Hostages are sent from Liege to Paris.
Utrecht summoned and taken without opposition.
Wurcum, Dorcum, and Dort, taken.
18. Pichegru sends detachments to take possession of
Leyden, Amsterdam, and the Hague.
The Princess of Orange and her daughter-in-law
depart for England.
Tallien moves in the convention to put to death all
the partizans of the system of terror which covered
France with bastilles and scaffolds.
Breda, Bergen-op-Zoom, Gertruydenberg, and
Williamstadt, open their gates to the French, upon
hearing that Holland was given up.
The French generals require that within the space
of one month Holland shall supply them with 200,000
quintals [Footnote: 100lbs. each.] of flour,
1,000,000 of rations of hay, 200,000 rations of
straw, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, 150,000 pair of
shoes, 200,000 shirts, 20,000 pair of boots, 20,000
coats and waistcoats, 30,000 pair of breeches,
150,000 pantaloons, 50,000 hats, and 12,000 oxen.
28. Duhem is ordered to the Abbaye prison, for saying
that aristocracy and royalism were triumphant. He
is refused admittance, there being no room.
31. Report on the finances states that the expences of
the last month exceeded the receipt by 218,779,475
livres.
Dubois Crance, on the state of the republic,
reports, that eleven hundred thousand men are under
arms.
_Feb_. 2. A ship is laid on the stocks at Brest called "the
"Avenger of the Country," intended to carry 136
guns; 24 feet longer, and 3 feet wider, than any
ever built.
The assembly of the provisionary representatives of
the United Provinces acknowledges the rights of man
and the sovereignty of the people, dismisses the
states-general, abolishes the office of
stadthol