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Foreign
Intelligence.

FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION,
13th Thermidor, July 31.

On the motion of Andre Dumont, Hermann and Lhane, two public officers, were ordered to be arrested; as accomplices with Robespierre.

On the motion of Tallien & Dumont Macadret, one of the teachers at the school of Mars, was ordered to be arrested; and the committee of general safety was ordered to make a general examination of the persons employed in that institution.

Barras, representative of the people, Commandant General of the armed force of Paris, to the National Convention.

"The more important the powers intrusted to me by the Convention, the more eager I am to resign them, since the danger which occasioned my nomination is totally dispelled. I have traversed Paris, have visited all the principal posts, and I find the duty done with an exactness truly Republican, I assure the Convention that all is calm; that Paris is in perfect tranquility. The people saw the deepness of the abyss dug under French liberty; the people applauded the punishment of the hypocritical conspirators who had usurped their confidence. For to the people the republic is every thing; individuals are nothing; and the Convention is their watch word.

"Accept, then, Citizen Colleagues, my resignation of the office of Commandant General of the armed force of Paris. I shall forever retain a profound sense of gratitude for the confidence which the National Convention reposed in the hour of peril; and I shall never forget the energy and the zeal with which the brave National Guard seconded my efforts. I propose that you decree, that the National Guards of Paris have deserved well of their country."

Health and Fraternity.
(Signed)
"BARRAS."

Referred to the committee of public safety.

Goupilleau of Fontenay proposed that the chiefs of legions, who are in future to command the armed force of Paris in rotation, should be attended by two members of the Convention, with the same powers as the commissioners with the armies.

This was referred to the committee of public safety, and the sitting was suspended.

Peyard wrote to refute an assertion that there was a magazine of arms, unused and badly guarded at the military school—none are there but such as are necessary for the instruction of youth: [Danton seems to have quickened suspicion beyond bounds]

The commune of Blois, and the department of Loire and Cher address their felicitations upon the late occurrences.

JACOBIN CLUB, July 31.

Collot d'Herbois, President.

Every day furnishes fresh proofs of the acts of despotism exercised by the fallen tyrants. Couthon had in his neighborhood some lodgers he did not like, and sent an order with his own hand to quit in twenty four hours, under pain of incurring his displeasure. Four or five fathers of families, among whom was a poor fruiterer, were obliged to obey this mandate, and thus make room for three or four ladies of His Holiness's acquaintance. The Convention annulled this order, and referred the petition of the injured parties to the Committee of Domains, to frame a report upon it.

Amongst the victims to the momentary power of the rebellious Commune, the Convention has discovered the good citizen Mathis, Commandant of the 3d legion. As soon as this patriot was informed of the decree of the Convention, he hastened to traverse the places occupied by his legion, from les Invalides to Pont-au-Change. In the last place he met with a number of persons who did not belong to his legion, but who declared their respect for the National Representation, and, in proof of their sincerity, they told him that in the Mayor's court were some people they did not know, and of whose fidelity they were suspicious. Mathis in the instant saw and addressed himself to the traitors, who answered him with twenty cuts of their sabres, and threw him into a dungeon, where he lay weltering in his blood till five in the morning, when he was relieved by the patrol of Gens d'Armes, who sent him home to have his wounds dressed.

The Convention ordered honorable mention to be made of the gallant conduct of citizen Mathis, and charged the Committee of General Safety to bring in a report upon what was expedient to be done in his favor.