to death.
              8.  The Austrians quit Brussels; the French enter it,
                  and retake Landrecy. 
                  Spires, Mechlin, and Louvain, abandoned by the
                  allies. 
                  Sixty persons guillotined at Brest. 
                  Robespierre, in an address to the convention, is
                  heard for the first time with coolness. 
                  The plunder of the churches of Brabant is sent to
                  the convention, together with two millions of
                  livres in specie from Mons.
             18.  Namur opens its gates to the French.
             19.  Revolution at Geneva. 
                  The convention is charged in its accounts with 150
                  reams of paper a day;—­each of its decrees costs
                  83,000 livres; on the first of April last, 6800
                  decrees had been passed by the three legislatures. 
                  The members who compose the committee of public
                  safety, at this time of havoc and universal terror,
                  are Robespierre, Couthon, Billaud Varennes,
                  Barrere, Collot d’Herbois, Lindet, Prieur, Carnot,
                  and St. Just.
             26.  Robespierre denounces to the convention one hundred
                  of its members.  A party instantly rises against
                  him.  He is attacked by Billaud Varennes and
                  Tallien, and thunderstruck with the accusations
                  against him.
             27.  Robespierre endeavours to kill himself; the wound
                  not mortal.
             28.  All the following persons are guillotined this day: 
                  Robespierre the elder and the younger, Couthon and
                  St. Just, members of the convention; Henriot,
                  commander in chief of the Parisian guard; La
                  Vallette, another commander; Dumas, president of
                  the revolutionary tribunal; Lescott Fleuriot, mayor
                  of Paris; Payan, chief agent of the commune;
                  Viviers, a criminal judge, and president of the
                  jacobin club; Simon, preceptor of the young Prince;
                  upwards of eighty municipal officers; one Deputy, a
                  commissioner with the army, and one general
                  officer, all partizans of Robespierre. 
                  Tallien proclaims in the convention, that the day
                  of the tyrant’s death is a festival for universal
                  fraternity. 
                  From the 1st to the 19th of July were guillotined
                  in Paris, in all 406 persons. 
                              On the 20th, 34
                                     21st,