* Maignet’s order for the burning of Bedouin begins thus:  “Liberte, egalite, au nom du peuple Francais!” He then states the offence of the inhabitants in suffering the tree of liberty to be cut down, institutes a commission for trying them, and proceeds—­“It is hereby ordered, that as soon as the principal criminals are executed, the national agent shall notify to the remaining inhabitants not confined, that they are enjoined to evacuate their dwellings, and take out their effects in twenty-four hours; at the expiration of which he is to commit the town to the flames, and leave no vestige of a building standing.  Farther, it is forbidden to erect any building on the spot in future, or to cultivate the soil.”

     “Done at Avignon, the 17th Floreal.”

The decree of the Convention to the same effect passed about the 1st of Floreal.  Merlin de Douai, (Minister of Justice in 1796,) Legendre, and Bourdon de l’Oise, were the zealous defenders of Maignet on this occasion.

—­Since the Assembly have thought it expedient to disavow these revolutionary measures, the conduct of Maignet has been denounced, and the accusations against him sent to a commission to be examined.  For a long time no report was made, till the impatience of Rovere, who is Maignet’s personal enemy, rendered a publication of the result dispensable.  They declared they found no room for censure or farther proceedings.  This decision was at first strongly reprobated by the Moderates; but as it was proved, in the course of the debate, that Maignet was authorized, by an express decree of the Convention, to burn Bedouin, and guillotine its inhabitants, all parties soon agreed to consign the whole to oblivion.

Our clothes, &c. are at length entirely released from sequestration, and the seals taken off.  We are indebted for this act of justice to the intrigues of Tallien, whose belle Espagnole is considerably interested.  Tallien’s good fortune is so much envied, that some of the members were little enough to move, that the property of the Spanish Bank of St. Charles (in which Madame T——­’s is included) should be excepted from the decree in favour of foreigners.  The Convention were weak enough to accede; but the exception will, doubtless, be over-ruled.

The weather is severe beyond what it has been in my remembrance.  The thermometer was this morning at fourteen and a half.  It is, besides, potentially cold, and every particle of air is like a dart.—­I suppose you contrive to keep yourselves warm in England, though it is not possible to do so here.  The houses are neither furnished nor put together for the climate, and we are fanned by these congealing winds, as though the apertures which admit them were designed to alleviate the ardours of an Italian sun.