NOTE: As Madame Campan has stated in the foregoing pages that the money to foment sedition was furnished from English sources, the decree of the Convention of August, 1793, maybe quoted as illustrative of the entente cordiale alleged to exist between the insurrectionary Government and its friends across the Channel! The endeavours made by the English Government to save the unfortunate King are well known. The motives prompting the conduct of the Duc d'Orleans are equally well known. Art. i. The National Convention denounces the British Government to Europe and the English nation. Art. ii. Every Frenchman that shall place his money in the English funds shall be declared a traitor to his country. Art. iii. Every Frenchman who has money in the English funds or those of any other Power with whom France is at war shall be obliged to declare the same. Art. iv. All foreigners, subjects of the Powers now at war with France, particularly the English, shall be arrested, and seals put upon their papers. Art. v. The barriers of Paris shall be instantly shut. Art. vi. All good citizens shall be required in the name of the country to search for the foreigners concerned in any plot denounced. Art. vii. Three millions shall be at the disposal of the Minister at War to facilitate the march of the garrison of Mentz to La Vendee. Art. viii. The Minister at War shall send to the army on the coast of Rochelle all the combustible materials necessary to set fire to the forests and underwood of La Vendee. Art. ix. The women, the children, and old men shall be conducted to the interior parts of the country. Art. x. The property of the rebels shall be confiscated for the benefit of the Republic. Art. xi. A camp shall be formed without delay between Paris and the Northern army. Art. xii. All the family of the Capets shall be banished from the French territory, those excepted who are under the sword of the law, and the offspring of Louis Capet, who shall both remain in the Temple. Art. xiii. Marie Antoinette shall be delivered over to the Revolutionary Tribunal, and shall be immediately conducted to the prison of the Conciergerie. Louise Elisabeth shall remain in the Temple till after the judgment of Marie Antoinette. Art. xiv. All the tombs of the Kings which are at St. Denis and in the departments shall be destroyed on August the 10th. Art. xv. The present decree shall be despatched by extraordinary couriers to all the departments. ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: Customs are nearly equal to laws Displaying her acquirements with rather too much confidence I do not like these rhapsodies Indulge in the pleasure of vice and assume the credit of virtue No accounting for the caprices of a woman None but little minds dreaded little books Shun all kinds of confidence The author (Beaumarchais) was sent to prison soon afterwards Those muskets were immediately embarked and sold to the Americans Young Prince suffered from the rickets