against Wurmser, and a second against the
Prussians.
The royalists of La Vendée compleatly (sic) defeat
the French republicans.
The French, who had taken Menin, Courtray, Furnes,
who besieged Nieuport, and threatened Ostend, are
obliged to retire, and evacuate all they had got in
Brabant.
The commissioners at Lyons write, that 800 workmen
are labouring to demolish the city, pursuant to an
order of the convention. Lyons was the second city
of France.
30. The Duke of York retakes Marchiennes, and makes
1629 prisoners.
31. Twenty-one members of the convention guillotined in
37 minutes, viz. Brissot, Verniaud, Duprat, Valaze,
Gensonnet, Le Hardy, Ducos, Boyer, Fonfrede,
Boileau, Gardier, Du Chastel, Sillery, Fauchet,
Duperret, La Source, Carra, Beauvais, Mainville,
Antiboul, Végée, and La Case.
The royalists of La Vendée take the island of
Noirmoutier.
_Nov_. 1. Egalité conveyed from Marseilles to the prison of
the Conciergerie in Paris.
A column of Vendeans passes the Loire at Ancenis.
Two actions between the Spaniards and French; the
latter lose between five and six thousand men.
A member proposes to guillotine all farmers and
labourers that monopolize.
Decreed, that all lead, iron, copper, and bells of