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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 27, 1792
Page
2
Despatch from Paris dated August 23 reports violent public ferment over La Fayette’s escape. Jacobins and Etat-major split, generals and ministers toppled, trials accelerate under new tribunals while executions, riots, and passport crackdowns reshape life. Citizens fear for security.
Letters from the Camp at Foursy describe a night attack on August 76 at the camp by about 8000 Austrian troops. After a severe engagement the French reportedly left 600 men. More details were promised. The piece also covers the swift trial and execution of M. de la Porte for alleged treasonous actions.
The August sessions reveal decrees on officers and emigres, the suspension of Ardennes Directors, and Dillon’s oath at Valenciennes. Prussian advances threaten frontiers while France readies troops, with debates on loyalty, emigration, and civic oaths shaping the political crisis.
On August 22 the Department of Paris administrators resolved to rule themselves as Commissioners of Public Contributions. A Commons deputation led by M. Raderpierre asked the August Diet to ratify the designation by decree but was refused. Military Knights of St Louis and August Diet members gifted their Crofes to the Diet. Mesfis Dumas Calon and Crablier d Obterre instructed that the value of their holdings be used to aid widows and orphans of those who died in the massacre on the 10th in the Thuilleries.
On August 23 the citizens of St. Germaine en Laye call for an increase in Representatives in the National Convention. The Order of the Day notes Mezieres Municipality aimed to aid the escape of M. Alexandre de Lameth and has arrested the pursuing gendarmes.
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