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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The French Convention ended its sittings on October 5, 1795, decreeing the future abolition of the death penalty upon general peace, substituting 25 years in irons for guillotine. It granted amnesty for revolutionary events from October 27, 1795, freeing related prisoners except those in the October 6 conspiracy. Paris papers confirm massacres instigated by former royalist prisoners released after Robespierre's fall.
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The Convention terminated its sittings as a constituting power on the 5th of Oct. by decreeing on the proposition of the Committee of Eleven, that from the epoch of a general peace, the pain of death shall be abolished in the whole extent of the Republic.
The punishment to twenty five years in irons shall be provisionally substituted for the punishment of the guillotine.
All decrees of accusation, all prosecutions and judgments for facts merely relative to events of the revolution, cease from the 5th Brumaire, fourth year of the Republic (from Oct. 27, 1795.) All those arrested in consequence of the same events shall be immediately set free, unless they have been concerned in the conspiracy of Oct. 6.
The French papers put it beyond a doubt that the instigators of the late massacres at Paris were almost to a man of that class of citizens, who June 1794, were arrested as abettors of Royalty, kept in prison to the 27th of July, 1794, and afterwards released and treated as peaceable, innocent citizens, victims of Robespierre's tyranny.
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Paris
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5th Of Oct. 1795
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death penalty to be abolished upon general peace; 25 years in irons substituted for guillotine; amnesty for revolutionary events from oct. 27, 1795, with release of prisoners except those in oct. 6 conspiracy; instigators of paris massacres identified as former royalist prisoners released after robespierre.
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The Convention terminated its sittings as a constituting power on the 5th of Oct. by decreeing on the proposition of the Committee of Eleven that from the epoch of a general peace, the pain of death shall be abolished in the whole extent of the Republic. The punishment to twenty five years in irons shall be provisionally substituted for the punishment of the guillotine. All decrees of accusation, all prosecutions and judgments for facts merely relative to events of the revolution, cease from the 5th Brumaire, fourth year of the Republic (from Oct. 27, 1795.) All those arrested in consequence of the same events shall be immediately set free, unless they have been concerned in the conspiracy of Oct. 6. The French papers put it beyond a doubt that the instigators of the late massacres at Paris were almost to a man of that class of citizens who in June 1794 were arrested as abettors of Royalty, kept in prison to the 27th of July, 1794, and afterwards released and treated as peaceable, innocent citizens, victims of Robespierre's tyranny.