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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 15, 1793
Page
2
The court resumed after a long adjournment with Hastings brought to the bar. The defendant delivered a three hour and forty minute reply to each charge, challenging the managers' arguments and seeking judgment on the evidence presented. The session adjourned as the Lords prepared to reconvene.
The article describes General Demeekier and General Aéfranda maneuvering toward Holland via Gueders and Gorkums, with armies uniting to attack Holland from Utrecht. Havre reports cannon supply and naval readiness while Airex and Riach depart Nice for Sardinia. Ratified dispatches note mass executions and political strife as the Convention debates accountability for September massacres and calls for investigations.
February 7 report describes a four million tax on real and personal property of Paris to keep bread prices low. Dubois Crance proposed nationalizing the army by merging line troops with volunteers. After sharp debate the report was postponed to Saturday. A 14 article decree on replacing Marine officers was issued. Breard named President.
A Federates of the Republic deputy protests a decree to prosecute authors of September massacres, while a February 2 suspension aims to gather evidence for Beaumachats. Commissioners move to defend borders as Liege reports Belgian forces capturing vessels. A general amnesty follows for past uprisings, excluding murder or treason, with insurgents warned and held.
A dated Tiurekheim letter counters the commissioners on the Rhine frontier, stating over 60 000 troops occupy Upper and Lower Rhine departments and 149 cannon on Landau ramparts. It notes powder and saltpetre decrees, a Pyrenean legion proposal, and talks of redress over an insult to a French ship in Pernando Nortexa.
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