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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 13, 1793
Page
3
An extract from a private letter describes Paris facing a mob and martial call ups as Orleans faction seeks dictatorship. Proclamations urge citizens to the front, Notre Dame fly banners warn invasion, and Dumourier advances while Lyons reports artillery volleys.
The National Convention debates war against Spain and orders to raise the army to 100000, appoints commissioners for southern departments, and seeks rapid mobilization. Delegates discuss suppression of aristocratic testament rules and the dispersal of disaffected editors as troops move to relieve Maestricht and Liège.
Reports from yesterday’s commissioners detail pressure for enrolment and public ardor in defense of the republic. Conventions decree an extraordinary tribunal to try conspirators, while war updates note Austrian retreats and Franco Belgian cooperation. Martinique inhabitants accept the Republic’s Constitution and await decrees.
The Section des Gravilliers demanded the Decree report and a wartime tax on residents earning over 1500 livres. A letter from March 9, 1793 described an assault on Citizen Gorfas’s house where presses were demolished and Gorfas fled armed. Delegates debated plunder and affray before ordering the letter read again and referred to the Mayor of Paris.
A Madrid dispatch reports 30,000 allied troops threatening St Jean Pied de Port and nearby ports while France fields only 3,000 at those locations. The Republican Society of Huningue warns of imminent danger due to lack of arms and cannon. General Miranda states he has rallied dispersed troops after Aix-la-Chapelle and aims to regain a favorable position before Louvain to protect Brussels until further orders. Dispatches from Belgium relay letters from Dumourier dated March 3 and 4.
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