favour from the executive power for four
                  years. 
                  Several nuns in Paris and elsewhere were publicly
                  whipped for persisting to adhere to the old forms
                  of worship.
             10.  Insurrection at Cevennes. 
                  Report on the insurrection of a regiment in
                  Languedoc.
             13.  Engagement between the officers and garrison of
                  Weissembourg.
             14.  Riot at Nantz (sic) on account of the inauguration
                  of the three-coloured flag.
             17.  The sale of the property of the church is decreed.
             18.  The King proposes to go to St. Cloud; the people
                  oppose and stop him. 
                  The King complains of this violence to the
                  national assembly, but with little effect.
             20.  Report of massacres in the county of Venaissin. 
                  The King’s ministers, through the influence or fear
                  of the national assembly, write to all the foreign
                  courts, that the King had placed himself at the
                  head of the revolution—­from this epoch may be dated
                  the great emigrations of the nobility and other
                  considerable persons. 
                  The Abbe Maury, the most intrepid defender of the
                  cause of the church and the King, retires
                  precipitately to Rome.
             23.  Sad recital in the assembly of distresses in St.
                  Domingo.
             26.  Assignats of five livres are issued.
             27.  Massacres in the Limousin.
             28.  Decreed, that soldiers may frequent jacobin
                  societies.
May 1.  The barriers are thrown open—­all duties in the
                  interior parts of the kingdom abolished. 
                  Civil war in the Venaissin.
              3.  The effigy of the pope (sic) burnt in the
                  Palais-Royal.
              7.  Decree permitting priests, who have not conformed,
                  to officiate in private. 
                  Mons. de Massei massacred at Tulle. 
                  Decree upon the people of colour.
             19.  Massacre in the Vivarais.
             26.  Decreed, that the Louvre and the Tuilleries united
                  shall be the habitation of the King, and that all
                  monuments of science and art shall be collected and
                  kept there.
             31.  Decreed, that the punishment of death shall be
                  inflicted without torture.  From thence came the
                  use of the guillotine;-an instrument of death so
                  called