T. HE MONTHLY REGISTER FOR JANUARY 1794. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Proceedings of the National Convention of France. PARIS, December 9. the Republicans in four or five different points on the banks of the river. The NE of the Secretaries read the fol- Republicans, who were flated to confift ONE lowing letter: "Citizen Prefident, "I have the honour to inform the National Convention, that Stephen Claviere, the Ex-Minifter of Public Contributions, upon whom sentence would have been pronounced this day, ftabbed himself when the act of accufation, and the number of witneffes who were to depofe against him, were made known to him, according to law. The property of the Suicide Claviere has been confifcated for the benefit of the Republic. "In order to prevent forthwith the confpirators from making away with themselves, at the period when I fhall notify to them the decree of accufation, I will have them guarded by Gendarmes, and fearched. (Signed)." Fouquier." Pari:, Dec. 9. 1793. . Barrere read a letter from the Reprefentatives of the people at Angers, dated Dec. 6. announcing that the rebels advanced againft Saumur, after being defeated under the walls of Angers; that the army of the Rennes was on the point of overtaking the Royalifts; that the lat ter loft 1500 men in the last action, and had many armed prifoners taken, particularly the Abbefs de Siverac, M. Ma combe, fon of the Lieutenant-General Senechal of Angers, M. Jourdeil, com mandant of cavalry, and a prieft in the difguife of a miller, who were immediately guillotined or fhot. The Reprefentatives farther ftated, that Antichamp, the Royalift chief, had been wounded in the thigh. Garnier de Sointes, in a letter dated Foultorte, Dec. 7, at midnight, ftated, that, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the Royalift Infantry, to the number of 20,000 men, with a formidable artillery, advanced in three columns, and attacked of no more than 600 men, fought valiantly, and fuftained the enemy's fire till fix o'clock at night. The Royalifts found a place which the Republicans did. not think fordable, and croffed the Loire. The patriots, for fear of being furrounded, made their retreat in good order towards Fonton, 10. A letter of a Reprefentative of the people, dated from Saumur, ftates, that upon a fuppofition that the Banditti (the Royalifts), would attack that Commune, after having raifed the fiege of Angers, he had gone to put it into defence. The Banditti were three quarters of a league diftant; all the difpofitions were made; the banditti feeing, however, what they had to expect, changed their route, and marched to la Fleche. Our cavalry, purfued them while the infantry took them in another direction, killed a great number of them, and the road from Baugers to la Fleche was firewed with their dead bodies. The Minifter at War tranfmitted a let ter from General Maffena, giving an account of an advantage gained on the 4th of the month by the army of the Alps over the Piedmontefe. "After a fatiguing and dangerous march, during which our foldiers carried a piece of cannon in their arms for the space of two miles, the flaves were forced in their camp of Caftel Giver, and put in complete diforder. A quantity of their baggage was taken, and a great number of them made prifoners. II. A letter from Garnier de Saintes announced fome advantages gained by our troops over the rebels on the left bank of the Loire. "On the 4th of December they entirely defeated the army of Charette, near Beauvoir, and, obtained poffeffion of that Commune. On the 6th, they attacked the Ifle Bouin, where the remains of that army had ta ken refuge. The rebels in two columns could not withftand the impetuofity of our foldiers. They were routed, and would have been cut in peices, if the nature of the ground had not prevented a purfuit. They fled into the woods, where they were purfued for a confiderable time by 200 of our foldiers, who, notwithstanding the inferiority of their number, killed many of them. 12. A great number of Female Citizens demanded the speedy trial of their incarcerated parents and relatives. Prefident" The welfare of the people is the fupreme law. It is the law which dictated the arreft of fufpected perfons. The Convention will weigh your claims. The law fhall punish the guilty, and abfolve the innocent. The Convention invites you to wait with confidence the decifion of the law. You are admitted to the fitting."-Applause. December 15. Letter from Carrier, Reprefentative of the Letter from the Reprefentatives of the Mans, Dec. 12-ten at night. "By forced marches we yefterday came up with the banditti at Mans, which they had entered the night before. The cavalry that purfued them, and the fmall advanced guard that fupported the caval ry, preffed them fo close that a warm ation began. We were at firft repulfed owing to their fuperiority of numbers and advantage of pofition. Elated by their victory, they advanced, and forced the column that fupported the advanced guard; to fall back. But the column from the coafts of Cherbourg, commanded by General Tilly, was at hand; and far from being intimidated by the repulfe of the other column, fell furioufly upon the rebels; broke them by the firft fire, rushed in among them with fixed bay onets, and killed a great number. The rebels fought fhelter in the entrenchments and redoubts they had raised to prevent the paffage of Pont-Lieu; but in an inftant, notwithstanding their terrible fire, the bridge, the entrenchments, the redoubts, and fortifications were all carried, and the rebels put to flight. "We came up with them again in the Grand Square, and a very hot fire commenced. It was then nine at night, and the battle lafted till two in the morning, after which both parties ftood on their arms. The rebels availed themfelves of the darkness to evacuate the town, leaving a rear guard to deceive us. At daybreak we attacked them, and all that remained in the town were cut to pieces. Their cannon, their ammunition, and baggage, to a very confiderable amount, fell into our hands. The houfes, the ftreets, and the fquares are filled with their dead, and the flaughter, which hegan fifteen hours fince, is not yet at an end. "Our troops purfued the enemy beyond the walls of Mans, Their route was complete, and we have taken their treasure.-Effects, trunks-every thing is taken." [The Convention rofe with a general burft of applaufe, and shouts of Vive la Republique ![ 21. The following letter was read from Lequinio, Reprefentative of the people at Rochefort : "Dec. 14. I have juft given orders which the moderates will perhaps think barbarous. I ought to give you an account of them. Between four and five thousand banditti taken prifoners, cram the prifons of Fontenay le Peuple. I just learn by an extraordinary courier whom the adminiftrators difpatched, that a part of the army of Charette, confifting of between 10 and 12,000 men, and which forced fome of our advanced pofts, was advancing againft this canton, and that they (the adminiftrators) were afraid left the rebels fhould make a fecond attack upon their town. I gave orders that all the banditti prifoners be fhot without any form of trial, as foon as the enemy fhail make their appearance!" north; we have every reafon to hope that within a fortnight, we fhall be entirely freed from this execrable horde of banditti. "Our victory cost them at least 18,000 men; for of the 14 leagues, over which we have purfued them, not a toife (fathom) is without a dead body. Prifoners are brought in here by thirties at a time; in three hours they are tried, and in one more fhot, for fear that these pefts (if fuffered to accumulate in the city,) fhould leave the feeds of their epidemic malady. "I have charged my colleague Biffi, who has rendered me important fervices, to eftablish at Lava a Revolutionary Commiffion, to try all the rebels taken in the Department of Mayenne. "In the fecond advantage which we obtained near Craon, we took from them all the cannon they had left: and if we had once cut off their cavalry, which we fhall foon do, the reft will eafily fall a facrifice to national vengeance. "Bourborte has applied to me for 2000 pair of fhoes. I instantly put all thofe in the town in a state of requifition, and hope I fhall be able to comply with his demand this day. "I am going to do the fame in all the other diftricts, for I prefume that our brothers from the army of the North, will be in great want of fhoes. (Signed) GARNIER." Letter from Prieur and Turreau, Repre. fentatives of the People with the army on the coaft of Braft. "Chateau-Briant, Dec. 19. "Since our departure from Laval, we have not ceafed to purfue the rebels, who have directed their courfe to Ancenis, there to attempt paffing the Loire. Bad roads, rain, the want of fhoes, nothing could stop our brave foldiers. We arrived yesterday at St Julien, a day's journey from Ancenis, Every man was congratulating himself on having an opportunity next day, of throwing the banditti into the Loire, when we were informed that they had quitted Ancenis, in order to march for Nort. The advanced guard returned this morning with us to Chateau Briant, to be ready to fall upon the enemy from a nearer point of attack. Republic have again been triumphant. The foreign combined intriguers are expelled; the leagued domeftic intriguers are conquered. The coalition of the crowned banditti meditated upon paralyzing the national power on the feas-The fhameful fale of Tou lop, corruption diffeminated at Breft, and the feizure of Dunkirk, were their prop of fupport. But the Reprefentatives of the People have prefer ved Breft to the Republic, The English retired from Dunkirk. The People of France, fired with indignation at fo many treafons, tried a laft effort againft the infamous Toulonefe. Thus have the English failed at Dunkirk, at St Maloes, Granville, Cherbourg, Breft, Bourdeaux, Marfeilles, and Toulon : thus has the Mediterranean been re-conquered, and the channel of French Commercial Navigation is at laft free, The victorious cannon difcharged upon the fugutive Spaniard and the deftructive English man, has already refounded in the Dardanelles, and throughout Italy: Corfica fhall be delivered from the venal ambi tion of the Paolifts; and the provifions fecured will reftore to the South the energy which ought never to have been loft. Thus vanish, all at once, famine and calumny, intriguers and calumnies. The Reprefentatives of the People with the army directed against Toulon, to the Committee of Public Welfare. Head Quarters at Ollioules, Dec. 18. "We had announced to you, Citizens Colleagues, that the refult of the action of the 30th of November would only be a forerunner of ftill greater fucceffes. The event has justified our prediction. "In conformity to your refolution, all the measures were taken, that the banditti, who had feized upon Toulon in a cowardly manner, be speedily and ignominioufly driven from it. "We have not loft a fingle inftant; and even before all the expected troops were collected, we began our attack, which was chiefly directed against the English redoubt which commanded the forts of Aiguillette and Balaguier, defended by upwards of 3000 men, 20 pieces of cannon and several mor tars. "We are informed, that Roffignol has "The enemy had exhausted all the refent troops to guard that poft; and to-mor- fources of art to render that redoubt impregrow, the whole army will follow them. It nable; and we affure you that few forts will direct all its forces against that ferocious prefent fo impofing a defence; but it could government, to avenge France and all free not hold out against the ardour and courage nations. of the brave defenders of the country. The forces of that divifion under the command of General Laborde, and at whose head Ger neral Dugommier has honourably distinguifhed himself, attacked the redoubt at five o'clock in the morning, and at fix o'clock the flag of the Republic was floating upon it. If this first success cofts the country a12 "That the people of Genoa not having violated their neutrality towards France, fhall not be treated as enemies of of the Republic, December. 24. Report of the Committee of Public Welfare, on the Re-capture of Toulon. Barrere. Citizens, the arms of the bout bout 200 men killed, and upwards of 500 wounded, the enemy loft in it the whole of the garrifon, 500 of whom are made prifoners, among whom there are eight Officers, and a Neapolitan petty Prince. "The capture of this redoubt, in which the enemy had placed all their hopes, and which was, properly fpeaking, the bulwark of all the Confederate Powers, aftonished them. Frightened at this fuccefs, they eva'cuated, during night, the forts of Malbofquet and Fomet, the latter of which they blew up in defpair. They alfo evacuated the red and white redoubts, and the redoubt of fort Pharon. They have taken measures to fhelter their fleet from our bombs and cannon, which have not ceased to difconcert them. "The fleet is at this moment without the Great Road. The enemy have embarked a great number of Toulonefe, and the greateft part of their forces; they have however left troops at fort La Malgue, and in the city, to protect their retreat. Upwards of 400 oxen, fheep, and hogs, the only troops which the Pope had fent hither, be fides fome monks, furage, all kinds of provifions, tents, and all the baggage that the enemy had in their forts and redoubts, and upwards of 100 large pieces of ordnance, are in our power. Our next letter fhall be dated from the ruins of Toulon. The Reprefentatives of the People fent by the Convention to the Army directed against Toulon. "Head Quarters, Ollioules, Dec. 19. "The infamous city offers at this moment the most dreadful fpectacle. The ferocious enemies of liberty have fet fire to the fquadron before they fied: the arfenal is in flames; the city is almoft deferted; we only find in it galley flaves, who have broken their chains in the fubverfion of the reign of Louis XVII The troops of the Republic occupy now all the pofts. The enemy's fquadron is not yet free from anxiety: the winds are contrary, and they may be forced to put back within reach of our batteries. The place has been bombarded from yefter day at noon till ten o'clock, which accelerated the flight of the enemy and of the criminal inhabitants. We found 200 Spanish hor The National Convention decrees, Ift, That the army of the Republic directed gainst Toulon has well deferved of the country. 2dly, A National Fete shall be celebrated throughout the Republic on the 30th of December. The whole Convention fhall be prefent 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 themfelves by great actions. 5thly, The name of Toulon fhall 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 eftablishments neceffary for the fervice of the war and the marine, and for fubfiftence and fupplies." The Minifer at War, to the Prefident of the Convention. Dec. 25. "It is not alone on the fhores of the Mediterranean that the arms of the Republic are triumphant. The National Convention will hear with pleasure the following line fram General Hoche : General Hoche, Commander of the Army of the Mozelle, to the Minifter at War. "Head-Quarters at Worth, Doc. 22, "2d Year of the Republic, One and Indivifible "I ordered to attack at eleven o'clock. At noon the enemy's redoubts were carried they felt fome cannon and tumbrils in them. I am in pursuit of them.-It is with the bayonet and 3d regiment of Huffars that we drove the enemy from their entrenchments. I will continue to morrow. HOCHE. P. S. We have begun afrefh-taken cannon and tumbrils. This day would be the fineft of my life, had I not to regret the intrepid Dubois, General of Brigade; he has received a ball in his leg. One capture from the enemy confifts of between fifteen and fixteen pieces of cannon, and eighteen tumbrils. 7. B. Lacoste and Baudot, Reprefenta- of that infamous city, the pofitions which tives of the People with the Army of it prefents being to render certain the the Rhine and Mozelle, to the National retreat of the enemies, or the burning of Couvention. their fhips by the effect of our bombs, all poffible means were combined, on the 16th inft. to conquer that pofition. The weather was against us, and made us fuffer till about one o'clock in the morning; but nothing could quell the ardour of free men combating tyrants. Thus, notwithstanding all the obftacles of the weather, our brothers rushed into the path of glory as foon as the word of command had been given. Head-Quarters at Niederbrunn, Dec. 22. "The defenders of the Republic, Citizens Colleagues, have juft obtained a fignal victory over the Auftrians. You know that the fatellites of the Kings, relying more upon the ftrengh of their cannon than their own courage, had en trenched themfelves upon the heights of Reichfhofen, Genderfhofen, Dechevillers, and Werth, before Haguenau, and formed redoubts of three ftories, not lefs for"The Representatives of the people, midable than thofe of Jemappe. The Roberfpierre, Salicetti, Ricord, and Frefront of their entrenchments was attack-ron, were with us. They fet to our broed this morning with the greatest fuccefs. thers an example of their most signal deThe foldiers of the Republic took 26 votion. This fraternal and heroic union pieces of cannon from the enemy, 20 being well calculated to merit victory, it tumbrils, and made upwards of 500 pri- did not tarry long to declare itself in our foners; among whom is the Colonel of favour; and foon, by a prodigy fit to be the first regiment of the Emperor, be- quoted in history, put in our hands the decked and covered with croffes and rib. English redoubt, defended by a double inbands, and eight other officers. The clofure; a camp entrenched with hedges, number of their killed is very confidera confifting of chevaux de friefe, abbattis, ble; we would not make any prifoners bridges, 13 pieces of cannon, 36 and 24 till we were tired of killing!Our loffes pounders, &c. 5 mortars, and 5000 chohave been but trifling. It would be too fen troops; it was farther supported by the crofs fires of three other redoubts, long to give the details of all the prodiThe Regies of valour on the part of our brave which contained 3000 men. foldiers; their fucceffes reprefent them publican impetuofity, and the fudden better than all we might fay. We have capture of this terrible redoubt, which been all day long in the field of battle from thofe heights resembled an inaccefwith our brothers in arms. We ourfelves fible volcano, terrified the enemy in fuch difcharged the cannon upon the enemy; a manner, that they foon abandoned to us the rest of the promontory, and spread and it shall not be our fault if this victothe higheft pitch when it was known that in Toulon a panic, which was raised to the fquadrons had evacuated the road. I ordered, on the fame day, the attacks upon Malbofquet, and the other posts, to be continued. Then Toulon loft all hopes; and the red redoubts, that of Pomet and Pharon, and feveral others, were evacuated the following night. At laft Toulon was alfo evacuated in its turn. But the enemy, when withdrawing, had the address of covering their flight, and we could not purfue them. It was rendered fafe by the ramparts of the city, the gates of which being fhut with the utmolt care, it was impoffible to obtain the leaft information. The fire which was at the head of the harbour was the only fignal of their departure. We immediately advanced clofer to Toulon; and it was not till after midnight that we became fure of its having been abandoned by its vile inhabitants, and by that infamous coalition which foolishly pretended to fubject us to its ry is not followed up without refting, and with the greatest ardour.-Greeting and Fraternity. (Signed) 7. B. Lacoste. M. A. Baudot." Oficial Details refpelling the Capture of Toulon, fent by the French Commander in Chief. Barrere, in the name of the Committee of Public Welfare-" I come to communicate to you fresh particulars refpecting the capture of Toulon, which have been tranfmitted to us by the Commander in Chief Dugommier." To the Minifter at War, by the Command er in Chief of the Army in Italy. Head-quarters at Ollioules, Dec. 19. 2d year of the Republ. one and indivisible. "Citizen Minifter, "Toulon is restored to the Republic, and the fucefs of our arms is complete. The promotory of L'Aiguiliete being the place which was to decide the tate controul, |