23.  Mayence surrenders to the Prussians. 
D’Arnaud-Baculard, an eminent writer, is
guillotined for having lodged an emigrant in his
house. 
Decreed, that every soldier shall suffer death who
shall throw away his arms to fly from an enemy. 
Decree of accusation against Gen. Custine.
27.  General D’Oyre, the commandant of Mayence during
the siege, and all his staff, put under arrest by
the convention. 
Valenciennes surrenders to the Duke of York.  The
Prince of Cobourg takes possession of it for the
Emperor.
29.  Tremendous hail-storms at Paris. 
General Custine is sent to the Abbaye. 
Decreed, that every 10th of August shall be
celebrated as the festival of the unity and
indivisibility of the republic. 
Ordered, that every knight of St. Louis shall
deposit his cross in his municipality. 
Decreed, that no assignats, with the late King’s
effigy, under the value of 100 livres, shall have
in future any value, but be received only at
present in payment of taxes. 
Decreed, that all strangers in France, especially
English, be committed to prison. 
Decreed, that all forests and all crops of corn in
La Vendee be burnt. 
Decreed, that every vestige of royalty be
destroyed. 
Decreed, that the trial of the Queen be commenced. 
Decreed, that a camp of 300,000 men be formed
between Valenciennes and Paris. 
The invention of the telegraph laid before the
convention. 
The effects of the India company seized and sealed. 
The members of the revolutionary tribunal doubled,
in order that they may be able to go through
business more expeditiously.
31.  Engagement between the republicans and Sardinians. 
Motion by Danton, to pass a national sponge over
the enormous number of assignats.
Aug. 1.  The convention regulates an uniformity of weights
and measures in the republic. 
It denounces to all Europe the government of
England. 
Ordered, that the Queen be sent to the ordinary
prison of the Conciergerie, and given up to the
revolutionary tribunal. 
Chambon moves, that all castles be erased from the
face of the republic.
2.  A fire in the arsenal of Huningen.
7.  Decreed, that Pitt is the enemy of the human race.
8.  All academics and literary societies, which had
been established by letters patent, suppressed by
decree. 
A colossal statue of liberty is erected in the
place of that of Louis XV.
14.  The new constitution accepted by the federes. 
Decreed, upon the motion of Barrere, that the
nation will repair in mass to the frontiers; this
was the origin of requisitions.
18.  The battle of Lincelles in favour of the allies. 
The army of the convention enters Marseilles, after
dispersing the few troops which that city had
raised to oppose it. 
Decree for a plan of education purely republican.