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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 27, 1793
Page
3
Reports from Marseille and Paris describe arrests of prominent figures including Lan gier and Malferbes, measures against suspected royalists, and new calamitous talk of famine. Soldiers in Brittany and Avignon clash with British forces as the Revolution tightens security including forced cockades for women and rapid tribunals. The latest dispatches warn of ongoing sieges and mounting rebel actions while the Front braces for broader conflicts.
The convention ordered a fresh report on the Sept decree affecting foreigners. Jacobins urged immediate action fearing it would ruin English commerce and provoke unrest in England. The petition shifted to a motion, committing the committee to propose new means to enforce the decree.
From Poitiers to Arras reports of arrests by Richard and Choudreu and Dumont, with 42 detainees in La Somme and searches at the Duke of Birot’s castle. A decree binds all men 18 to 25 to join the army. Dispatches note Lyon, St Etienne, Montbriffon, and Cambray garrisons as Republican gains, and Paris moves to suppress colleges and divinity schools.
General Santerre's forces at Douay describe a five o'clock attack with the left wing surrounded initially. The fifth Battalion reinforced with Orlenzis troops restored order and safety. All soldiers and contingents acted heroically, with pursuit ongoing and roads littered with enemy dead as Mentz's garrison is praised for spirit and zeal.
The document reports that Citizens of Sections pledged themselves to freedom and allegiance, while labourers petitioned to leave a boy with each plough until sowing ends. Bourdeaux is cited in revolutionary terms, with suspicions about Bourdeloi factions and calls to confine town girls for patriotic labor. A report on emigrant wives was ordered.
Tuesday reports show the Convention urged crackdown on royalist sympathizers with many nobles and children named among suspicious persons. Sections offered armed youths ready to march on frontiers while others petitioned to limit assemblies. A deputy blamed Robespierre’s faction for unrest as the penal code was discussed before adjournment.
The session reveals bread shortages as bakers’ shops are besieged. L Huillier demands 100000 troops to the English coast with ships burned on return. Decree to confiscate English and Dutch property discussed. Audgwin cites 900 ci devants and nobles in the army and urges action against conspirators and mobilization of old men.
In a heated session the club denounces Du Plain for freeing a woman aged eighty, Ofelin and the Committee of General Safety for freeing forty people, including Boune Carrere. The Society resolves to march to the Convention to demand enforcement of the Decree of the 7th confiscating foreign property and to press denouncements against certain Convention Members.
A Marseille commissioner letter dated Sept 10 predicts Provence and Dauphine may fall to the King of Sardinia or English allied forces. It laments Toulon’s ten day control by the enemy, famine looming, and calls Paris for support with favorable papers, journals, and bulletins.
On a complaint that stage coachmen took passengers without passports, a registration system was ordered requiring all passengers to be registered with copies of their passports. The Unity section complained the police were too lenient in accepting petitions for released detainees, and it was ordered no one be released without the Attorney General of the Commons consent.
Letters from Europe report Lyons under siege on September 14 but differ on outcome. Some say Lyons defenses forced patriots to abandon, others claim siege suspended or ongoing. Emigrants flee toward Lyons via Switzerland with aid. a high ranking officer and a notable personage are expected to follow.
In Guildhall on Saturday a Common Hall convened to elect the Lord Mayor for the year. Sir William Plomer, the locum tenens, oversaw proceedings as Brook Watson, Paul Le Mesurier, and T Skinner were nominated. Le Mesurier was chosen. The late sheriffs were thanked for their conduct, then adjournment followed. Jamaica fleet value placed at 2,493,980l with 517,000l duties. Quebec letters dated Aug 5 report utmost tranquillity in that province.
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