Aug. 26, it was decreed, that all Ecclefiaftics, who had not taken the national oath, fhould be tranfported. The number of these victims were, 138 bishops, and 64,000 priests of the fecond order.

The month of September was difgraced by a far more fanguinary fcene than that which had happened in August. In confequence of a preconcerted plan, a band of affaffins, compofed of Federés and Marfeillois, violated the asylum of the prifons of Paris, made a mockery of the forms of law and justice; and three fucceffive nights and days scarcely measured their affaffinations of prepared victims, who had been, from motives of private hatred and revenge, imprisoned. Seven thousand fix hundred and five perfons were inhumanly murdered, and the affaffins publickly demanded their wages. Maffacres

and butcheries were committed in all the prifons and religious houses. "During the fhort interval between thefe bloody fcenes, the paffions of the populace were fired—The relentless Roland had the care of the general police, the bloody Danton was the minister of justice, the infidious Petion was Mayor of

• Hift. Epochs.

Paris, and the treacherous Manuel was procurator of the common hall P. Thefe magiftrates were evidently either the authors, or the acceffaries of the maffacres of September 9.'

After General Kellerman had given the firft check to the Pruffians, on the twentieth of September, 1792, he wrote to Servan, the war-minister, for liberty to celebrate a Te Deum in his camp, on account of that important affair. The Song of the Marfeillois," replied the minifter, "is the Te Deum of the French Republic; let it be performed by the music of your army, and by the foldiers 1.

6.6

A Difcourfe upon Atheism was pronounced by Dupont, Nov. 6, 1792, and applauded by the Conventions.

› Preface to Briffot's Addrefs, p. 12.

"The most shocking crimes are at this moment per petrating at the prison of the Abbaye, hard by the hotel, in which I now write-a thing unequalled in the annals of wickedness! The mob-they call them the people here; but they deserve no name, which has the least relation to human nature-a set of monfters have broken into the Abbaye, and are maffacreing the prifoners." Moore, vol. i. p. 481.

Moore, vol. ii. p. 56.

• Hift. Epochs, p. 34.

Jan.

Jan, 21, 1793. The King of Francet, after having fuffered every indignity and hardship which the ingenious malice of his enemies could devife, was tried, condemned, and murdered upon the fcaffold, in a manner that was an outrage to all humanity, justice and law-for the imputation of offences and crimes, which his accufers had committed, and for the exercise of that prerogative which the new constitution had given him. "The French nation, who had endured the cruelties. of Lewis XI, the treachery of Charles IX, and the tyranny of Lewis XIV, condemn and execute, for the pretended crimes of cruelty, treachery, and tyranny, the mildest, most just, and least tyrannical prince, that ever fat on their throne."

Oct. 16. The Queen of France", after having been expofed to every hardship and diftrefs, that could give torment to a perfon of her rank and fex, fhared the fate of the King, May 12, 1794. The Princefs Elizabeth likewise, a lady of the most unblemifhed purity of character, whofe only crime

See Hift. Epochs. Ann. Reg. and Moore, vol. ii. p. 566, to the end of the volume. New Ann. Reg. p. 136.

Ann. Reg. p. 272. Moore's Journal, vol. ii. p. 449.

it was to be Sifter to the King, by a refinement of cruelty peculiar to the French RevoJution, was executed the last of twenty-fix perfons, who were carried to the scaffold in one day *.

It was announced to the Convention, Oct. 17, 1793, that the Bishop of Moulins had officiated in a red bonnet and with a pike, instead of a cross and mitre. Every external fign of Religion was abolished. The inscription on burying grounds was, that Death is only an eternal sleep."

Oct. 25, a new Calendar was propofed and adopted by the Convention, with a view to obliterate the remembrance, as well as the obfervance of that holy day, which has been from the earliest times confecrated to the ex

ercife of public devotion. Feftivals were appointed at stated periods, fimilar to those which were established in times of idolatryto the Virtues-to Genius-to Labour—to . Opinion-to Rewards a.

* New. Ann. Reg. p. 364.

y Gent. Mag. Oct. 1794. p. 367.

z Annual Reg. p. 279.

The

2 In November "a deputation from the focieties of

Versailles

The plunder of the Churches produced near 1,350,000 fterling; and through the whole extent of France there no longer remained

Versailles was admitted to the bar, loaded with chalices, croffes, and other ornaments, from their Churches. The Prieft of the Roman Church,' faid they, the Bishop of the department of Seine and Oife, is dead. Will you fuffer a new one to be elected? Will you, who have overturned the Throne, fuffer the Pontifical Canopy to remain? Will you, who have broken Crowns and Sceptres, preferve their proud rivals, the Mitre and the Crofs? The law does not prefcribe, that the Jews fhall have Levites, or the Proteftants Minifters--why then fhould it give chiefs to a fet who have fo long tormented mankind? The citizen and the legislator ought to acknowledge no other worship than that of Liberty, no other Altars than thofe of the Country, and no other Priests than the Magistrates. Do you, Legislators, like that ‘of the Hebrews, come down from the mountain, break in pieces the Golden Calf, and let the Ark of the Conftitution be the only idol of the French.'-Inferted in the Bulletin."

"Chaumette moved the council to declare, that if any commotion is ftirred up in favour of fanaticism, all the Clergy fhall be imprisoned. (Applauded.) And confidering that the people of Paris have declared, that they acknowledge no other worship than that of Reason and Truth-the council refolves:

1. That all the Churches and Temples of different religions and worship which are known to be in Paris, fhall be inftantly shut.

2. That