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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 05, 1793
Page
3
A fragmentary poem portrays a private theatre scene with revelry over ale. The speaker toasts the monarch, country, and armed forces while lamenting poverty. It ends with wishes for royal longevity, loyal soldiers, and Queen Charlotte at the king’s side.
Intelligence from The Hague and Ofen passes along Dumourier's daring plan to crown the Dauphin as king and dissolve the Convention. Arrests of four commissioners and War Minister Bourdonville are ordered, with a rapid trial to follow. Dumourier rallies 18 to 20 thousand troops, tears a tri colour cockade for a white one, and heads toward Paris to set peace and restore the Royal Family, while reports of Custine’s defeat near Mainz and a widening Breton revolt reach London. General Damberre is named commander in chief of the Republican army, replacing Dumourier.
Supple ment to the Extraordinary Gazette reports the French National Convention sending ministers and four commissioners to arrest General Dumourier, who captured them and sent them to Mons. It notes his army’s move to interior France, lists prisoners of war, and includes dispatches from General Cratz-Fayt and Dusneurter on battles, desertion, and the Convention’s order to investigate the flight of Dumourier’s left wing.
The Assembly and Convention impose harsh penalties for royalist writings and seditious material. A new law requires all property holders to post full resident lists, including names ages and professions, on buildings within three days. Provisions cover enforcement, transmission to local committees, and penalties for negligence or noncompliance.
On March 30 Camus acting for the Committee of Public Safety moved to present a decree. It orders General Dumourier to appear at the Bar and requires the War Minister to depart at once to learn the fate of the Army of the North. Four Convention commissioners will accompany the army with power to act.
On Monday afternoon at eleven o'clock the India Stock market showed figures with 3 per cent Consol at 73 3 fourths, 4 per cent and 3 per cent annuities at 92, with Scrip at 79 3 fourths and other listed securities around 209 for India stock and Consoa?
Dumourier reports sealing papers and transmitting a prisoner list as he prepares to move with a loyal force to destroy all who oppose the public good of France, aiming to secure permanent peace and stability for the distracted kingdom.
On Thursday March 21 the National Convention decreed a twelve member watch committee for every section of each commune to oversee foreigners. A letter from the National Commissioners reported insurgents in the Lower Loire attacked General Marcé with 1300 troops and seven cannons on the 18th, were repulsed with 100 dead, and he then prepared to pursue with 1000 reinforcements arriving on the 16th.
A series of dispatches from March recount French authorities bending to civil conflict. Bourdeaux sent two battalions to quell the revolt while Marcé faced court martial after defeats near Chantenay. Mirando and a 73d regiment officer were suspended as other leaders were captured or killed. Rumors of 40,000 insurgents linger amid open routes and blunted entrenchments.
The Ainiser at War notes Du moutier retreating to the French Frontier with details not to be published. A murmuring reception follows. It mentions a Prussian advantage by General Custine and a position before la Naire. Garnier reports Paris conspiracy information, referred to the Committee of General Safety.
A Rennes letter from March 23 reports five departments under insurgent control and calls for more troops. The Executive Council outlines revolt press coverage, noting insurgents defeated in some areas yet peasants near Breft have joined them.
The Convention moved to banish all relations of the late King except his son within eight days and to try the late Queen for her life before the Revolutionary Tribunal. The Convention passed the order unanimously and the Executive Council reported defeats of insurgents elsewhere.
A letter from Eure and Loire officials reports rebels defeated near Saumur and Angers with 1200 captured. Another dispatch from the Belgic army commissioners dated Lisle March 27 says their mission concluded due to Belgium’s evacuation, but they remain with the army awaiting orders.
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