forebode an explosion.
31. The constitution is laid before the people for
their acceptance, and approved of in general; but
the election of two-thirds disliked
_Sept_. 1. Decreed, that the property of transported priests,
which had been confiscated by former laws, shall be
restored to their families.
Decreed, that no minister may officiate in public
or private without having submitted to the laws of
the republic.
Decreed, that Louise Marie Adelaide de Bourbon
Penthievre, wife of Philip Egalite, be restored to
liberty.
6. Dusseldorff taken by the French; the army of the
Sambre and the Meuse passes the Rhine under General
Jourdan.
The section of the French theatre denounces the
members of the deputation of Paris to the
convention, as authors of the crimes of the 2d of
Sept. 1792, and 31st May 1794.
Decreed, that the relations of emigrants be
excluded from every employment administrative or
judiciary.
Of six thousand three hundred and thirty-seven
primary assemblies, containing 958,226 persons,
914,800 voted for accepting the constitution,
41,892 rejected it, (so the convention reports);
consequently it was decreed that the new
constitution is become a fundamental law of the
state.
As to the re-election of the two-thirds--of 270,338
voters, 167,757 voted for the re-election and
95,373 against it.
The convention declares the enlargement from prison
of all terrorists who had been imprisoned since the
death of Robespierre.
The committee of marine writes thus to the
convention: "We are going to prepare arms in our
"arsenals and forges against the most perfidious of
"our enemies, against the haughty England, which
"must fall under the efforts of a nation which has
"subdued the rest of Europe."
20. The