2. The decree which forbids the Commiffioners of the National Treafury, and and all debtors in France to make any payments to nations with whom the Republic is at war, fhall not be applicable to the Genoefe.

3. The commercial connections between France and the Republic of Genoa shall be maintained and protec

tcd.

4. The Genoefe fhall be paid as the inhabitants of the countries and states with which France is not at war.

5. To enable the Genoefe to comply with the rules prescribed to the creditors of the Republic, and to enter their claims in the Great Book, the period allowed by law for this purpofe, and which would expire on the first of January, is prolonged to the fourth.

He ftated that the army of the Pyrenees had received a check, it was decreed that the commiffioners there fhould be recalled, and General Delatre and D'Aoust be removed, and the command of the army of the Alps given to General Dumes, in the room of Carteaux, put under arreft.

23. The famous cathedral of Rheims was declared to be now purified by a fete of Reason, which had been celebrated there. This information received loud applaufe. This day the club of Cordeliers, demanding admiffion to the bar, after fome debate, gave origin to the following decree: That there fhall be only fix days in the month deftined to hear petitions.' The Committee of Vigilance informed the Convention of the difcovery of very confiderable treasures in the cellars, and other fubterraneous places in Paris, and that fresh fearches were to be made.

24. In this day's fitting the attention of the Convention was called to the difpatches which they had received from the reprefentatives of the people, and the commander in chief at Toulon. At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 19th, the army of the Republic entered that city, after a bombardment of 12 hours, the enemy having retreated with the utmoft precipitation, after fetting fire to the town in feveral places, to the arfe

nal and public buildings, and to the fhipping which remained in the harbour. Barrere prefaced the reading of the let ters which announced thefe news, by obferving, that the genius of liberty had at one blow removed all obfcure enemies and vile intriguers who dealt in false news. The arms of the Republic are triumphant, while the Convention were decreeing national rewards for the army at Toulon, they did not think that it had already deferved them. The victorious cannon discharged upon the fugitive Spaniards, and the deftructive Englifh, have already refounded in the Dardanelles, and throughout Italy. Corfica fhall be delivered, and that energy restored to the South it ought never to have loft.

The Commiffioners Ricord, Freron, and Roberfpierre junior, informed the Convention that the victory of the 30th ult. had been the prelude to greater glory. On the 18th December, not a moment was loft in directing the operations against the rebellious city. The English redoubt, defended by above 3000 men, 20 cannon, and mortars, and where "the enemy had exhausted all the resources of art, could not refift the ardour and impetuous courage of the brave defenders of their country. The whole rifon was loft, 500 were taken prifoners. On the wings of victory they attacked and carried the forts of Aiguilette and Baloguier. This fuccefs ftruck

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the confederates with terror. night they abandoned the forts of Malboufquet and Pomet, and alfo evacuated the red and white redoubts, and that of fort Pharon. The enemy left troops at fort Malgue, and in the city to cover their retreat. They embarked a great number of Toulonefe, and the greatest part of their forces. Their provifions, tents, and baggage, which were in the redoubts, fell into our hands, with upwards of 100 large pieces of ordnance.

On the 19th the city exhibited a tremenduous fpectacle, the fquadron un fire; the arfenal in flames; the city deferted: From the explosions that were heard the Republican troops dreaded an ambush, and deferred entering the

city, though the fcaling ladders were applied to the walls, till the powder magazines were examined. The embarkation was made in the utmost confufion, and two floops laden with fugitives were funk by the batteries. The contrary winds afforded fome hopes that the enemy's fhips might be forced back within reach of the guns. Never did an army behave fo heroically; the commiffioners, with drawn fwords, pointed out the way to victory, and gave the example of the moft undaunted courage. You will therefore decree unanimoufly, faid Barrere, that the army of Toulon has deferved well of its country. Yes! Yes! exclaimed the whole affembly, and the decree paffed amidst univerfal plaudits.

What finer circumstance ever prefented itself to celebrate a national feaft. Let civic crowns be given to the brave foldiers who have atchieved fuch heroic deeds. In doing their duty the reprefentatives of the people have earned their reward. But we ought alfo to infit punishments while we decree rewards; the national thunder must lay Toulon in ruins, and the name of that rebellious city, with the vile traitors, vanish like the duft.

The following is the plan of a decree prefented by the Committee of Public Safety, against Toulon :

Itt, That the army of the Republic directed against Toulon has deferved well of their country.

zdly, A national fete fhall be celebrated throughout the Republic on the 30th of December, on which the publication of this decree shall follow in every commenalty. The whole Convention fhall be present in a body at this civic ceremony.

3dly, The reprefentatives of the people with the victorious army at Toulon, are charged to collect the inftances of heroifm which illuftrated the re-capture of that rebellious city.

4thly, They fhall give rewards, in the name of the Republic, to thofe citizens who fignalized themselves by great ac tions.

5thly, The name of Toulon fhali be fuppreffed. That commonalty fhall from

henceforth be called Port de la Montagne' (Port of the Mountain.)

6thly, The houfes within that rebellious city fhall be levelled with the ground, and nothing preferved but the cftablishments neceffary for the fervice of the war, and the marine, and for fubfiftence and fupplies.

7ly, The news of the capture of Toulon fhall be carried to the armies, and to the departments, by extraordinary couriers.

The following addrefs was read and decreed to be fent :

The arms of the republic triumph once more. Toulon, which had fold itfelf in a daftardly manner to the English, has been just taken from them by an army which re-conquered that rebellious city with the point of the bayonet, and fupplied by its bravery the want of numbers. Soldiers of the Republic! fuch is the example which your brothers in arms offer to you. Will you fuffer the fatellites of the tyrants to polute any longer the foil of equality? Is not victory the reward of your courage? Strike then, exterminate thofe vile flaves who always took flight when the children of liberty wanted to measure themselves with them. Already are the English defeated under the walls of Dunkirk, and driven from Toulon, difcomfited for ever. The banditti of La Vendee, thrice cut down in a fortnight, are furrounded on all fides. On the Rhine, fome recent advantages gained have in fome measure compenfated for the refult of former treasons, which only leave us to relieve Landau. In the north, Maubeuge is delivered. Soldiers of the country! fo many fucceffes have been your work in three months. Why do you stop to terminate the campaign of liberty by the utter de-. ftruction of the tyrants? Seize that weapon, fo terrible to them: let them, with the bayonets in their backs, run and hide their fhame in their dens; and France, delivered from her enemies, will owe you at once that happiness promised by the confolidation of freedom, and the glory of having triumphed over all Europe.'

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Cambon denounced a fresh plot concerted by Pitt, to destroy the national credit by forged affignats.

25. It is not alone, faid Bouchotte, minister at war, in a letter to the Convention, that on the fhores of the Mediterranean, the arms of the Republic are triumphant; in a line from General Hoche, commander of the army on the Mozelle, dated Head-quarters at Werth, December 22, he informs me, that he hath time to fight, but not to write; that with fixed bayonet the enemy's redoubts were carried, 16 pieces of cannon and 18 tumbrels were taken.

The letters of the commissioners with the army, ftate that their lofs was but trifling, the details of the prodegies of the valour of their foldiers, who forced entrenchments as formidable as those of Jemappe, were too numerous to relate: the reading of these letters was interrupted by the loudest applause.

The letter from Dugomier, commander in chief, announced the restoration of Toulon to the Republic. The triumph of our arms, faith he, is complete; the ftorming of the English redoubt, which, from the heights, refembled an inacceffible volcano, ftruck their army with terror; the carrying of the pofts took all hopes from Toulon, which was evacuated in its turn. The enemy had the address to cover their flight by barricading the gates of the city. The fire at the head of the harbour was the fig nal of their departure. Their precipitate retreat has left the whole of the property, and greatest part of the fhipping fafe. Thus Toulon reftores to us by force, what its treafon had wrefted from us. Thus, faith Dugomier, is terminated the counter-revolution of the South. The loudeft applaufes accompanied the reading of this account. It was decreed, that the recompenfes to the defenders of their country who were wounded in her caufe, or to their wives and children, should be augmented

one third.'

That Thomas Paine and all foreigners be expelled from the Convention.' From Angers it was announced, that the rebels, unable to pafs the Loire,

had filed off along the Villaine; the army lately arrived from the North, with the ancient army, had hemmed in 6000 of them, whofe deftruction was daily expected.

26. The armics of the Mozelle and the Rhine, faid Bouchotte, want only new enterprifes for the triumph of liberty, the Generals Pichegru and Hoche announced their fucceffes over the allied armies; by their letters, Dec. 23. the enemy were compelled to abandon the pofts of Bifchoillers, Dufchem, and Haguenau, 1000 prifoners, with their cannon, ammunition, and baggage were taken. General Hoche had iffued out the orders for the grand developement of the army. It only remains, faith he, for me to lead on the army of the Rhine; if the right fecond me I will proceed.

The Convention were informed, that no fooner was the decree paffed by them, That the army of the West had deferved well of their country,' than a new ardour feemed to be infufed into the foldiers of the Republic to exterminate the banditti, and extinguish every remain of the rebel army. Forgetting their fatigues, it increased an hundred-fold their force and courage. The brigade no longer marched, fay the reprefentatives Preuir and Tureau, but flew to battle and to victory for two days, especially in the vicinity of Blair, and on the banks of the Loire, the flaughter and defeat of the rebels was great. The republican force was commanded by Wefterman, the enemy fought with defperate valour, but were overpowered by the intrepid ardour and activity of the republican foldiers. The cannon, caiffons, and baggage of the enemy were taken, and many were drowned in the marshes, and in their attempts to pafs the Loire. The generals were afterwards employed in forming their troops into cantonments that, furrounded on all fides, there might be no room for the rebel army to escape. At Nantes and Ancines various parties of the rebels were brought in, those who threw down their arms were refused quarter and put to death, those who are with us, fay the reprefentatives of the people, fhall be thrown into the Loire,

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January 1. Accounts were received by the Convention of raifing of the fiege of Landau, by General Hoche. The fhouts of victory, faid Barrere, have refounded from the Var, to the banks of the Rhine. The reprefentatives of the people, with the general, have entered Landau, at the head of the republican columns in triumph; thus the triumphs of liberty, are at once difplayed at the gates of Italy and in Germany. On the fame day we tranfmit to the north, from this tribune, the victories of the fouth; and to the defenders of the Pyrenees, the conquefts on the banks of the Mozelle and the Rhine: Incredible interchange, wonderful circulations of victories! The ardour of battle hath been difplayed, amidst the fnows and rigour of the frozen north; in the fouth, like the productions of the clime, it hath overwhelmed the English and the Spaniards as a thunderbolt levels in the duft useless and haughty palaces. Freach republicans, who, in the opinion of their enemies, poffeffed only a momentary impetuofity; have, by their unremitted cfforts of courage and conftancy, difplayed through the courfe of the campaign, vindicated to themfelves, that great military perfeverance which hath been confidered as the exclufive privilege of Pruffian automatons.

The letters dated from Landau, from the reprefentatives of the people, and from the General, are full of this fuccefs, The French Republic, fay they, is rapidly rifing to the zenith of its glories; the fattellites of defpots fly on every fide,

terror and confternation, are the order of the day on the Rhine, and the Da nube, The emigrants are struck, as with a thunderbolt, to the ground; if the Convention wills it that a grand ftroke fhould be given, the last hour of the feeble frogeater, now feated on the throne of the Cæfars, is come.

Such, faid Barrere, is the fruit of your labour; fuch the refult of the courage of your armies. What remains to be done for the Republic. To enfranchife the Pyrences; then to chafe away the difcreet Cobourg from Conde, Valenciennes, and Quefnoy, and to give him a Belgic leflon. In fine, to ftrike and punish London, that haughty, banking, minifterial, royal city, that de vours the earth, tyranizes over the feas, plunders Europe, and debafes the morals of every people. On the garrifon of Landau your regards ought to be fixed; locked within the enemy's country, and ignorant of what French valour was meditating for their deliverance, they refist. ed every means of corruption. The enemy wifhed to make the foldiers defpife their General. The letters which paffed between the Pruffian and Auftrian Generals, and Laubodere commander, and the republican defenders of Landau, are worthy of your attention, faid he, and reflect the higheft honour on their patriotifm and valour. Ceafe to speak to me faid Laubodere of capitulation and treaty, there can exift no treaty between duty and difhonour; I defend the cause of all human kind, you that of kings only; my caufe procures the happiness of the earth, yours hath ever been its torment; which of us two has the greater right of fuccefs? Ceafe, faid the foldiers, in their anfwer to the Pruffian General Knoblef dorf, to defire to hold with the defenders of Landau, a correfpondence which ought not to take place. For their country and liberty they are always ready to facrifice their deareft interefts, and their chiefs fhall not have the forrow to find them deaf, when they talk to them of their laws, their country, of freedom and glory. Landau received 25,000 bombs; for three weeks, the garrifon lived on horfe-flesh and cats-flesh; but Landau