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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Proceedings of the French National Convention on February 2-3, including committee transfers, trial of General Laroque, health report proposal, denunciation of a woman, marine decrees, release of Generals Rossignol and Vincent, and report on capturing a rebel in Chateaugueraye.
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NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Sunday February 2.
On account of the great influx of business pressing on the committee of General Safety, the care to watch over the fabrication of false Assignats was transferred to the Committee of Assignats and Money, this Committee empowered to issue mandates of arrest.
General Laroque, on trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal, desired that the whole army in which he served, might be examined as witnesses. The Convention considering this as an artifice to evade justice, ordered that the Tribunal should pay no attention to it.
Ordered that the Council of Health prepare a report, on a plan discovered by Guiton Morvaux, for purifying the air of hospitals at a small expense.
The Committee of Vigilance of the department of Paris denounced a woman who had sold her daughter to prostitution. Referred to the Committee of General Safety.
The Committee of Public Safety proposed a decree on the Marine, which was adopted. The same Committee proposed, that the Capt. and officers of any ship of the line that should strike to less than double her own force, should be punished with death, as traitors to their country; and that the mariners who should take a ship one third stronger than their own, should be rewarded and promoted.
The Committee of General Safety proposed to release Generals Rossignol and Vincent, against whom no charge had been preferred.
Leonard Bourdon said, the Committee of Contracts had heavy charges against them both.
Danton said, there was reason to fear that these charges, made by Philippeaux, were the offspring of malice; that the indecorations of Rossignol and Vincent were the effect of patriotism too ardent to be prudent—and the Convention decreed their release.
Monday, February 3.
The National agent writes from Chateaugueraye that the National Guards of the free Communes of that district are employed night and day in hunting the Rebels like beasts of prey. They had just brought in an ex-noble of the name of Marais, late president of the Revolutionary Committee at Bretigny. He owned that he had lived for six weeks in the woods. He had a quantity of assignats upon him.
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France
Event Date
Sunday February 2; Monday, February 3
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release of generals rossignol and vincent; capture of rebel marais; adoption of marine decree punishing captains who surrender and rewarding successful mariners.
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The National Convention transferred oversight of false Assignats to another committee, rejected General Laroque's witness request in his trial, ordered a health report on hospital air purification, referred a denunciation of a woman to the Committee of General Safety, adopted a marine decree, and released Generals Rossignol and Vincent despite charges. On February 3, the National agent reported National Guards capturing ex-noble rebel Marais in Chateaugueraye after he hid in woods for six weeks.