conspirator, or such-like names, shall be expelled
the convention. Marat instantly violates this law.
Great tumults.
26. All printing-offices and presses, not in the
interest of the jacobins, such as those of Brissot,
Condorcet, Pru de l'Homme, Rabaut, &c. are
destroyed.
27. The elector of Bavaria, after receiving the
Emperor's note, becomes active; a part of his army
marches to Mayence.
30. Hebert is set at liberty. The French from Landau
make an effort to deliver Mayence.
A bold sally is made from Mayence. Prince Louis,
son of Prince Ferdinand, makes a vigorous
resistance. The jacobins are victorious in Paris.
100,000 citizens are under arms all night. The
tocsin (alarm bell) is ringing all day.
The forty-eight sections of Paris demand an act of
accusation against twenty members; among whom are,
Pethion, Brissot, Barbaroux, Chambon, Gorsas,
Guadet, Lanjuinais, Verniaud, &c. Six escape, and
among them is Brissot. Madame Roland is arrested;
her husband not to be found.
The convention in horrible tumult; and the
president (Isnard) unable to calm it, breaks up the
sitting. The result of this famous day was to
devote twenty-two members to the guillotine, to
declare forty-one out of the protection of the law,
and to imprison seventy-one.
_June_. A legion of French gentlemen sails from England to