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Article MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF ROBERSPIERRE. ← Page 4 of 10 →
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Memoirs Of The Life Of Roberspierre.
Many others Were implicated in this plot . —According to the report of Lacoste in the National Convention on the 14 th of June , " The conspirators were accustomed to assemble in a pleasure-house at Charunne ; they had apartments at Paris , and agents Who brought up the money and assignats with the royal impression on them : corrupt municipal officers and commissioners delivered them passports and certificates of residenceunder colour of which the
emi-, grants were enabled to re-enter France , and take possession of their property . —Their first plan was to deliver Marie-Antoinette ( the late queen ) from the Temple ; they carried on a correspondence with her , and were connected with Danton , Chabot , Fab ' re d'Eglantine , and Juh ' en de Toulouse , who had entered into the plot . They kept up a correspondence with the prisoners confined in the various houses
of arrest , whom they were to enable to escape at the time when Hebert and Danton were punished . They introduced false assignats , and had considerable sums at their disposal . As these projects proved abortive , they had recourse to assassination : — Ronsel was connected with Amiral , ; and several others . You will undoubtedly deliver up ( continued Lacoste ) all these ruffians to the sword of the law : they alone directed the poignards against the representatives of the people ; they are at once the authors and the agents of the foreign faction . "
Fhe National Convention immediately decreed , That the revolutionary tribunal shall immediately try Amiral . and the young woman Regnault , assassins of the representatives of the people , Ronsel , Cardinal , & c . & c . all accomplices in the foreign conspiracy , ' abettors of assassination , and wishing , by means of famine , false assignats , ' & c . to restore royalty . ; A few days afterAmiral and Aimee Cecile Regnaultfor
attemp-, , ting to assassinate Roberspierre and Collot d'Herbois , together with fifty-two others ,, accused of being concerned . in that conspiracy , were condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal . It is hardly necessary for us to add , that execution followed very soon after sentence . Mad ; . Regnault died like one who had acted from principle . On the 1 st of July , Roberspierre delivered at the sittings of the
Jacobins a speech full of that cool ferocious eloquence which characterized all his harangues against those whom he called Moderates . He complained of several members of the committee of public welfare ,, who reproached him with being a tyrant and a blood-thirty despot . His declamation did not seem to make the least impression upon his audiencehe threatened to quit the committee of public
; welfare , and to abandon the helm of government ; and no voice was heard soliciting his remaining in his post . The above speech was indeed as matchless a piece of impudence as ever was delivered from the mouth cf man . He dictated with all
the haug-. ity insolence of a master , while he requested he might be considered merely as a fellow-servant . He knew that his principles had been unmasked , and that the party against him was strong ; and as the loss of power must be to him the immediate forerunner of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Memoirs Of The Life Of Roberspierre.
Many others Were implicated in this plot . —According to the report of Lacoste in the National Convention on the 14 th of June , " The conspirators were accustomed to assemble in a pleasure-house at Charunne ; they had apartments at Paris , and agents Who brought up the money and assignats with the royal impression on them : corrupt municipal officers and commissioners delivered them passports and certificates of residenceunder colour of which the
emi-, grants were enabled to re-enter France , and take possession of their property . —Their first plan was to deliver Marie-Antoinette ( the late queen ) from the Temple ; they carried on a correspondence with her , and were connected with Danton , Chabot , Fab ' re d'Eglantine , and Juh ' en de Toulouse , who had entered into the plot . They kept up a correspondence with the prisoners confined in the various houses
of arrest , whom they were to enable to escape at the time when Hebert and Danton were punished . They introduced false assignats , and had considerable sums at their disposal . As these projects proved abortive , they had recourse to assassination : — Ronsel was connected with Amiral , ; and several others . You will undoubtedly deliver up ( continued Lacoste ) all these ruffians to the sword of the law : they alone directed the poignards against the representatives of the people ; they are at once the authors and the agents of the foreign faction . "
Fhe National Convention immediately decreed , That the revolutionary tribunal shall immediately try Amiral . and the young woman Regnault , assassins of the representatives of the people , Ronsel , Cardinal , & c . & c . all accomplices in the foreign conspiracy , ' abettors of assassination , and wishing , by means of famine , false assignats , ' & c . to restore royalty . ; A few days afterAmiral and Aimee Cecile Regnaultfor
attemp-, , ting to assassinate Roberspierre and Collot d'Herbois , together with fifty-two others ,, accused of being concerned . in that conspiracy , were condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal . It is hardly necessary for us to add , that execution followed very soon after sentence . Mad ; . Regnault died like one who had acted from principle . On the 1 st of July , Roberspierre delivered at the sittings of the
Jacobins a speech full of that cool ferocious eloquence which characterized all his harangues against those whom he called Moderates . He complained of several members of the committee of public welfare ,, who reproached him with being a tyrant and a blood-thirty despot . His declamation did not seem to make the least impression upon his audiencehe threatened to quit the committee of public
; welfare , and to abandon the helm of government ; and no voice was heard soliciting his remaining in his post . The above speech was indeed as matchless a piece of impudence as ever was delivered from the mouth cf man . He dictated with all
the haug-. ity insolence of a master , while he requested he might be considered merely as a fellow-servant . He knew that his principles had been unmasked , and that the party against him was strong ; and as the loss of power must be to him the immediate forerunner of