Latest London Intelligence, i&ou pAf&HS BV THE saksou. r ■ A 11 t i j 4 FRANCE. N AT lONAL CONVENTION. in a lata number we gave the proceeding! of the Gun-vention of A"£ufl 29, in which Lpcoinise of Versailles, in conceM with Talli *», Dubois C»a-ts were made to represent the above decree as an artifice of the majority 10 get rid of an •ccul'auon which they were afraid to meet. 13 FRUCTIDOR, AVOUST 30* MERMW, OF THIONVILLI, riEIIBf VT. The decree above-mentioned being read, Roux—" Citizens, the tempest which yesterday agitated the Convention did hot permit u* te come to any resolution that r.otitd fin the opinion-os the peo ple, i*-uh respect to the accufatlon agatnft the Com mittee of Public and Genera) Safery. A genera! lcntimentof indignation it hearing charges without fitt'ng. But thai which was fuffici?nt to convince ;mpie'i:ons u'hich evil-disposed prrfofts are endea vouring to make upon the minds of the people, and in which they are afTrfted by fomc of the jomrilils. A new reading of the pretended aecufatica. a folemti discussion of rhe charges and the proofs, if there b< a r '>;> afld aft opportunity aiven to every Member tr deliver h:» opinion, can alone fatisfv the people, (ha the parties accused are n-n afraid of accounting t< the nation for their conduct. They call for thci discussion; and you are bound in '"JUtice to hear them as you have heard their accuser." Duhtrr.—" The only motion that can be now math is, that we hear both the accusers and the accused I move that the fitting do not terminate till we havt foleinn determination, I move also, tha tiePrefident call upon those who mean to fuppor t'-e accusation to speak out ; for, be aflured, that Le e »intre. has not undertaken this builnefs v.ithou til iporters. Ther r:re other persons to whom h only as a blind." Tin- f. cjiJeui— '< My duty is fn Ml th whether or not the Convention adheres tc pal'Vd yefterdav | }': Il'.i.rJvi of Oifc.—" I del! re to be heard ugainft th Prcfidenr, with refpeti to his condurt both vefterday and to-day. I blame not his intentions : an emotion of ft nlibifity may have induced him to terminate the fitting veflerday as the only means of putting an end to the disorder that p evailed; but, on his clonduct to day 1 must remark, that no Preiident has a right to deliver his opinion while in the Chair. The decree of yefterdav w; ; > an aft of sentiment rather than of ir.fticc. The A.Tembly, .indignant at feeing, that, under pretext of acciriing seven of its Members, the N'ation i! Reprefentatien itfelf was attacked (Mnr imirsV—Yes, Citizens, the accnfation against fevert Members for 110; ha\ ing sooner d. Iroyed the tyrant i a dircrt attack upon th Convution.' Now that we are recovered from our firft emotions, let us aitend i" : ijuftiee. 1 support the proportions of Du Lecointrt—" Citizen Colleagues, yon vefterday pa i'cd to the uixlerjl the day, on charged mace again,! several Representatives of the People. The man wha made those charges submitted to your decree, and was silent. lam now called upon to read the' charges and the proofs. 1 have left them at home : 1 will go rind fetch them. Citizens, 1 am, if I may be allowed to fay so, one of the fathers ot the Revo lution—(Murmurs)—l beg pardon: I was going to speak of myfelf." Tali it*—" I aid not expert that the debate of ve fterday would be resumed. I was in hopes that the division attempted to He t>wn among us had been fupprclFed." A Member.—" It is you that sow division." TaHUn—" 1 will firft speak to principles, and then tn palfions. If there are men who wish to ruin the public interest by personalities and reproaches, I wajn them that they will find those here who will combat •htm, even to death. It is rime for us to know whatj we are: whether we are worthy to re pre fern the peo ple > whether we arc sent hither to labour for tfcefP good, or to fight with one another, like gladiators in an amphitheatre? You yesterday passed a decree which you are now called 'HW rejrr-rf.—trtrpi^- pol'ed that the Convention ffeould transform itfelf in to a Court of Justice. It was yesterday said, that Lc coinrre ought to be obliged to name the persons who had put him upon that buiinefs; and fevernl of the Journals held the fame language. Such language can only serve to revive personal animosities, and to sharpen the daggers of Aristocracy. We now declare, that we expert with calmness every thing that caii be done agaimt us ; but we declare also, that we will combat all thole who attach themselves to men in-" ft.-ad of principles. You passed yesterday to the or der of the day, on the deminciation that was mad'- to you; you might then extinguish this dilptite, and futfer your country to respire. But, if the difputc must be renewed—if difiord uncealing must rein here, we ftiall inlift upon reading the papers and ex amining witnesses; we lhall infill: upon a full expla nation of every thing, and the people will fee who are the true friends of Ljberty, and who would sub stitute terror tor justice. I conjure you to forget this dispute, and to bury all the documents of it in obli vion— (Murmurs).—! move, that the decree of ye sterday be maintained; or, if the debate must be re newed, that it be continued solemnly. W<- will ap pear at the Tribune; and, though in a minority, we will contend for principles. W« stall, perhaps, en danger our country tor a moment.' —He was inter rupted by the cries of" No! No!" from all parts of the hall. r Lto -NDRE.—' The nation which afttr having made a revolution has looked back, has never attained its object. After the fall of the Baftile the people (lumbered for ao in ftaut, and the revolution was retarded. But since the loth of Angull the people have not heen retrogade. They have imitated their ilcf i.ders, who have carried death anww their enemies. When will the Convention cease to paf t decrees one n is againftus all, and mud be answered by us all. Vudi*r.—A meant not to make any exception of myfelf. If those who are fcccufed with mc be guilty, so am I. 1 declare I disavow ail *ith David, bu; with none of the reft. If reprallng the decree of yesterday will be injurious to our country. I am willing to be the facrifice. " ho, no," exclaimed a number of members,* 4 you tpuft be allowed to clear you Helves from this unworthy charge." Turreau said he also h d requeued Lecointre not to make the charge; but beiiig made, it must be examined- Bill aud Varenncs.—The grand argument relied upon yes terday, was that our a-cuier was n,t permitted to prodttce his proofs. 1 move that all he has may be produced and read. Goujon.—Before readiog the papers let us fee whether this be really an accusation. It is said, for inftancc, that the parries accused terrified the Convention. How is this to be proved ? .Are we now to be told that we never voted but as we were bid?—-The third charge is equally fa He ; for wi o will prove to us that the committee of public lafety never proposed cha- gingthe members of it ? J Bar re re.—-I appeal to every man who hears mc whether ! did not propose every month changing th« members of the c >mmittee. A Member.—T have often heard Barrere fay, after an nouncing victories that he had forgotten to propose re newing the powers of the committee of public (afety. I have Ten him mount the tribune to repair this omiflion, but never in an imj>crative manner, as Lecointre as serts. Thuriot.—Do you not perceive that the system of calum ny agbict with the proportion for convoking the primary uud ele&oral aflemblies. Lecointre calls himselF the Fa ther of the Revolution; but he is an unnatural father who would poignard his child. What are the heads of thp ac cusation ? Things done in execution of the laws; and even if there had been some departure from Ariel law for the public good, would you fend men to the fcafiold for facing their country ? Mat Lieu propoied appointing a cornraiflion to examine political questions, and to adjourn all difcuilions refpedUng individuals. Thibaucbt said it was necessary, it was essential to the I character of the national reptefentation, that the charge fhotild be fully and publicly examined. Breard.— 44 The parties accused wish to juftify them selves. I hope they will succeed. But they ought not to content themselves with an oral defence: their defence ought to be printed. Already the ariltocrats arc rejoicing. 1 have seen mixing among good citizen®, the very men who formerly diforgariized our armien; Counts, Marquii es, and people who idolized Robespierre the day before hit, fali, and the day after came to congratulate you upon it as a glorious event. I have seen tbefe men busy in'the Se&ions; and I know that at fonie veryexpenfive dinners, they £hid we had facrificed Robefperre, The people wHr loon be informed of their intrigues; and although nations have some times adored idofo, th y have always concluded by breaking!them. The Convention decided that the accusation and the proofs (hould be read. Billaud'Varetwes.— we have to defend ourselves agairtft those who are attempting a counter-revolution we mutt rot put into theii u.vrfd* the means of butchering the Convention. Yesterday in the groups that fuflounded this place, men who are out-lawed, ci-devant Marqufes and were preaching up royalty.—[This is true, cried Several Members.]-*-! shall prove that 1 do not speak vaguely, for at the door of the hali. was the ci-devant Marquis de 'Filly, a known conspirator and an out law* 3u6arntm,—l)c Tilly obtained his liberty a few days age by an §rder of the Committee t»f General Safety. BjUazJ-yatenrfh.—De Tilly is convi&edof having head ed ;l:e knights of the Poignard. Robespierre had brought hither ten thoufund of these ruflians. and at the moment when our armies are in fight of the enemy, when a decree forbids military men to be abfen? from their posts, there arc more than 4000 officers- at Paris. These proceedings are so openly Counter-revolutionary, that royalty has been preached aloud in one ©f tho galleries of the Journal ills. £ v ' <)o«ftion 3 he decree Moifebayle moved, that aftei* reading the charge# and the proofs, the partk* accused (hould be heard, and that the Convention fhouid not adjourn without coming to a de cilion.— Dtfcrecd. Lrcuttrt.—-W4>at I have said i> a simple czpoCtien of by proofi. I have f*id only, tat UI Y colleagues rcpreticrifihle, and thi« it still TT_ .v 1 .i _ r* n _• « f • t>p»fcion. He th*n read the firft arricle of chafgt Nf L.„ __ i a.* g'. Of having put under conliraintldgxerror all the Citi sos the Rcpuhlie, hy signing andTßßflftg to be eiecufrc llrary orders of imprifonmcnt witffinit *BJ information inft the part id, any motive of fufpicioa, or any proof the offencesfet for;h in the Uw of the 17th September, caJletl upon 'jar the proofs in iiipport of this charge. Cambon asked, the seven member* attofed thw article app ied ? HeWaa&fitous to fey whether h&Jttd any proofs or not ? _ Lxointre.—When 1 wilhed to enlighten the confcicnce of the Convention with the torch that enlightened my own, I thought the fa Members us the National Convention mark ed out tor execution. The proofs were called for. Lnimtrt—« Tins is the proof: Lacofte declared hete that there \\as such a lift. The proof is in your ears, your hearts, is your ~ u T h j Pre4ldint o ca,le ' 3 on Leeointre to fav whether he had a*y j>roof or not ojwhe second article } V^OfOifc—" I *ill fnrtiift him with one: it is St. Just's plan of a decree, in which he demanded the head* of three of his colleagues in the Committee of Public Safety, and they are the three wnum Le cointre' now accufts." „ 111. Of having never proposed filling up the va cancies in the Committee of Public Safety ; of hav ing perpetuated themselves exclulivcly in the exen* cife of their functions by the ccrnftraint in which they held the Convention—Barrere, the reporter, never failing, after announcing /ome victory or success, to propose imperatively the continuation of the powers of the Committees. . . Several Members cried out that thu wasfalft, and called for the process. Uct*ntrt.—>« 1 taVe the proof from th- words ot those who said that they did not propose lling up the vacancies in the Committee, becauie tfity, dreaded the introduction of new conspirators into it. ' IV. Of having, in concert with Kobefplerre, an nihilated the freedom of opinion, even in the con vention, by not permitting any of the laws presented by the committee of public fafety to be difcufied. Several members —'• the proofs !" ' Ltcomtre.—" The proofs ? they are in your own pro ceedings, in the constraint in which you were held— (Murmurs.) —Citizens, the greater you think you.-1 means against me, the more patiently oughi you to, hear me. 1 have laid that you were not mailers of] your opinions, and that these committees, to whom you had given a right of life and death over you."— (Interrupted by murmurs.) Camb-M—« They would make the people believe thai every- thing done: the nomination of the two committees has been the effect of terror. I again aik Lecointre for what reason he lias brought his tharges against seven members only, instead of all the members of those committees. I move that the convention declare every article on Which he brings no proof fall'e and calumnious." ■A member.—'' As all France was in a ftateof op prehion, as well as the convention, JLecointre ought to accuse the whole people for not having declared themselves in ailate of ini'urreCtion." Tallitn delired to be heard. Duhem.—" Hear Tallieu, who, four days ago, ©r ganiafcd a ioth Fruetidor at the Jacobin club." V. Of having obtained the repeal of all the laws favoarable to liberty j and repressive of the arbitrary acts exercised in the name of the committees, with as much injustice as inhumanity. Lectintib.— a lei'ted word for word in one of the London papers. 1 have rcsd it riiyfelf." ~ T —~ 1 IX. Of having milled their colleagues by circulat ing i! rumour after the eruel law of the 22 l'rairial that this law was the word of Robespierre alone, who had communicated it only to Couthon, although they had been informed by members of the revolutionary tribnnal, even before it paifed, of the ineonvenien cies that would result from it. Leeointre offered to support this by a declaration of rouquier Tainville, formerly public accuser be fore the revolutionary tribunal. several members affirmed, that tn their knowledge there Was a private between Lecointre and rouquier, and that any declaration of the latter a man covered with guilt and obloquy, deter ved no' X.Of having opposed printing this law and ad jounung the difcuflion when it was prefenied to the convention ; of having some of them ftvon«!v fuo ported it, andothcrs given reason to believe, from their hit.ice, that it was the wor!: of the two cora mittees : what proves itill more dearly that the law of the 22d Prainal was the work of the whole com mittee of public fafety : s , that an order of that com mittee, containing all the articles c£ that law, was lent to one of the departments a month before -n , — da y s after law was palled I met Bayle and Amar : we talked of Robefmerre: I laid, that if there were fifty men like myi'elf in the convents, (he toraw ,vouJd be no more; and I tlulT A l "' 7 ? ° c Ck L l th s P a P er ■ vl,ich 1 ha ve since pnbhlhed. One of them said the committee of Ge neral fafety was against this law, because it was Ty rannical : they added that the committee had propof rr^ r ° rS . f0 , r li ; e evolutionary tribunal, and that Robeip.erre had rejected them all, admiuin only his own creatures. I then said alltw o >e £ mount the tribune to-morrow, and declare that this law is the work of Kobefpierre alone : they laid the time was not yet come: I answered that thef- delavs would serve only to bring a greater number of citizens to the guillotine. Bwrdtn of Oife.—f You call an aft of prudence a crime." If Robespierre had been attacked fifteen days sooner, liberty and the convention would have been butchered together," *-vwuiirw 5 Owl| Confcienr^ if he thinks that Robespierre could have been attarkA with advantage before that fitting of the Jacobin cluh which afforded evidence of his deiigns > I aik Le • tre where he was on the critical night when ill h J!£ were scarcely fufficient to overthrow the tvrant >» Lecointn.—" I admit that we were in a ftcteofe ftraint; but let ten or twenty of my coli ca2UP ,r* alked whether I did not make to them the prooofitin I have just mentioned ; and whether their answer » not that it was ill-timed ?" 34 A member—" 1 am just come from dinin- at fh« bouse of Venua. I saw there two aristocratic ?ook>- men, whom I had seen the day before. 1 meruit*.- the capture of Conde. Every body was delist* ' with the news except those two men, who Cll £ c y~- to me, and laid, " How goes Lecointre's bnlmels' that is much more important?" "Very ill f O . Lecoin tre," said 1. " Xefterdayhe promised material proofs" whole truth, ordered him to produce them to-dav He is now at his tenth charge, and has not produced a lingle proof." They told me this could not be true A for they had seen his proofs. They then asked if T vi ("even members accused were put under arrest > concluded With telling me, that the convention m'uft take cars not to meddle with Lecointre. for thev were sure that he was in the right.' 1 Dtthein. — u This is the loth Fru&idor, which was promised by Dubols-Crance, Tallien, and Freron Carter.— <■< This agrees well with the io,ojo nisa ns brought hither by Robejjyerre, with the 4,000 officers now in Paris, and with the notice given the other dav at the Jacobin club, of a 10th Fruftidor, which as* - faflius would be employed to effect. Let these uflafl lins come : if they have none but Tallien at their head, he will do as he did at La Vendee, where he iemain'ed eonftantly at Tours." LrvaJJeur of La Sarthe.—" I was not here on the memorableday of the 10th Thernrd'or, but I remem ber being at the committee of public fafetv a month before : I was a witness that those who are now ac cused were charging Robespierre with illuming the tone of a dictator. He put himfelf into a prodigious fury, which the other members of the committee treated With contempt. St. Just went out with him • and with relpeft to him, Imuft tell you that he came to the army, trying by all means to bring on a battle from the issue of which, whether fuecefsfu! or other wise, he would have found a pretext to accuse the committee of public fafety. I disconcerted Uis.plans and difmifled the four generals on whom he depended! I ask then if it is credible, that the members of that committee, qow accused, were the partiiaus of Ro bespierre ?" A member.—" Freron has said, that if it was ne ceilliry to draw his sword in the hall of the conven tion, he would do it." Frercn.—" I know very well I said at the Jacobin club, not publicly, but in converlation with Tallica, and Dubois-Crance, that if there existed a party in the conventioniioftile to liberty, that would raise the lword of death over the reprefentatiyes of the peu ple, and revive the system of Robespierre ; I would devote myft-lf for the people and my country." Several members.—" You are that party." XI. Of having in the affair of Hebert, and others, flopped an order of arrest, ifl'ued again® Pache, who was to have been appointed grand judge by thai faction; of having intimated to Foutpiier the public r.ccuier, not only not to'cxecute the order of arrest, but not to fuller Pache ta be spoken the confequencc ps whic'i that witneU'cs wha attempted to speak of Pache •bits stopped, and per sons on their trial, when they committee." Legendre.—" Fouquier, was connected with the keeper of the Concierm;ric, and was removed to another prison, at a measure of precaution." , ' f.icointrt" The following is Fouquier's evidence. lam reproached with tire prosecution ;.f Danton, Lacroiii and _ others. I wrote to inform tiw Convention, thut the accused desired, that lixreen of their Colleagues ihould be examin ed, asd in cafe of refufal that they appealed to the .people. I could not t'orefee that by ai. unfaithful report the werd« and the meaning of my letter would be changed, and that St. Just would declare to the Convention, that the accused were in a state of open rebellion. A Member.—You only repeat what Fouquier has said in his own defence. ' Lecointre.—St. Just's report was made in the name of the committee of public fafety, and never diiavovred by ths committee. XIV. Of having [Amarand Vouland] en bringing the abovemcntioned decree, and delivering it to Fouquier, said, here is wherewithal to put you at your eafc, and bring all thole mutineers to reason. Lecointre—The paper which proves this it not figned-- I Ceneril murmurs.] —I am going to tell yea the wiu>efl» itneffe* tempt-