over
"the tomb of any one of them."
Sylverster, from the tribune, assures the French
people that notwithstanding the scarcity there is
no danger of starving.
Cambon, who had been treasurer three years and a
half, arrested.
The convention grants to the Duchess of Bourbon
relief to the amount of 18,000 livres; about 70l.
according to the value of assignats.
Credit appears to revive; 270 livres in assignats
for the louis.
Patroles (sic) are doubled in Paris; much
apprehension is entertained.
19. The convention announces peace with the Chouans.
_May_ 1. Decrees severe against emigrants.
Preliminary articles signed between France and
Holland.
Seventy persons massacred in a tumult at Lyons.
On the motion of Dubois Crance, decreed, that three
milliards of assignats be issued.
S. The Spaniards defeated near Figueras.
Motion to permit a loss of two per cent. a month on
assignats.
Vernier, successor to Cambon, states the expence of
the last campaign at 3,000,000,000 in assignats;
and the last month at 738 millions.
15. An alliance offensive and defensive concluded at
the Hague between France and Holland; the first
article excludes the Stadtholder for ever; the
second assures to France one million of livres for
the expence of the war.
A vigorous action near Mayence.
Great agitation at Naples; several disturbers of
the peace imprisoned.
A deputy complains earnestly against the facility
with which divorces are obtained.
The Sardinians defeated near Mount St. Bernard.
Decreed, that Le Bon be brought to trial charged
with cruelties equal to Carrier's.
Twenty members of the revolutionary tribunal
guillotined.
20. An alarming insurrection of the people of Paris
against the convention; Ferrand, a