Monthly Chronicle.

bins . AU communication was still cut off between the Commissioners and the Army . —Baptiste , the valet of Dumourier , entered the room , quite out of breath . " Whilst you deliberate , " cried he , " the enemy is advancing in three columns . " The Commissioners ordered this man to be arrested . " What , " said Bournonville , " it is six o ' clock in the evening , and yet you say that the enemy is advancing ? " " Go , " said Dumourier , to an old officer who could scarcely move , " and see what is going forsvard . " The Commissioners returned lo the charge . They attacked Dumourier on the

"round of his principles . They told him , that it was not the oifice of a General to judge of the law—that the army belonged to the Republic , and he could issue . no order contrary to its laws . They placed before him the example of La Fayette , & c . —Dumourier replied , that France was advancing to her ruin , and that it svas his wish to save her . He asked , svho could save his army from the peril which threatened its being attacked by an immense cavalry ? " I svill , " said Bournonville . " That is to say . " rejoined Dumourier , "that you evince him to stifle my command . " of his lainthosvever that it intended to have him assassi

The burden p , , was , svas - nated in Paris . —p _ uinet ' te and La Marque offered to accompany him . He gave to both the epithet of assassins . He concluded , by recommending it to the Commissioners to withdraw to Valenciennes . It svas nosv eight o ' clock . The Commissioners repaired to a closet , where they framed a decree , suspending Dumourier from his function as a General , and naming in his place . Valence , whose perfidy svas not then suspected . —They entered the hallwhich was filled with the officers of the staffhaving Dumourier at their head .

, , The Commissioners sent for Valence ; the Officers kept a profound silence . — Camus addressed himself to Dumourier . " You knosv of the decree by which you are ordered to the bar ?" ¦ Dumourier . " No . " : Com . . " You then disown the law ?" Bum . " I am necessary ( o the army . " ¦ Com . " We order the seals to be put upon your papers . " ¦ Dum . " Let them be placed in a state of security . "

COM . " Considering your disobedience to the law , ' we declare you to he stts-i ponded . Officers . " So are we all . You take from us onr General , our Father . - Dum . " It is time this scene should end . — Officers do your duty . " At that instant the hussars approached . The representatives of the people were surrounded , and made prisoners . " Come , my dear Bournonville , " said Dumourier , taking him by the hand , " you are also arrested . " The CommisEoners were conducted into a cabinet . Our first reflection was

completely satisfactory—for we thought , that as Dumourier was found out , he would be no longer dangerous . " The army will abandon him , as it abandoned La Fayette . Dumourier was a "knave ; he is nosv a villain . The Republic is out of danger . Fis-e individuals are but too happy to be arrested for the safety of twenty-five millions of men . They seized our effects , our port-folios , and those of the ministry . They endeavoured to seduce one and then the other ; they offered us security from all dangers , and advised us to distrust the disorganizes , as they called them . Bournonville replied , " I knosv what is to be apprehended in all

revolutions ; I ss-ill die at my post , but I never will desert it . Tell Dumourier that I will never speak more to a traitor . " An Officer came forsvard . " You remember , said he , that we leaped together into the lines of Jemappe ? " " Yes , " replied Bournonville , " and I never thought that the troops which fought under my orders against the Austrians , would have surrounded me this day as a prisoner , and that you would be at their head . The order was , however , given to depart . We desired a written copy . "Go , " said Dumourier to his guardsif they refuse to obeyforce must be employed

; , . We departed in three carriages , full of the people of our suite , who would not abandon us . In each carriage was an Adjutant of Dumourier . The night svas dark , and they took a circuitous route . "Whither are sve going ? " said Bournonville . ' To Valenciennes , " said an Adjutant , named RainviUe . i' Take care j if you tell me a falsehood , I shall kill vou on the spot . "