A specimen of the patriotism of the Jacobins in France, or, The trial of Jean Baptiste Lacombe, late president of the military commission at Bordeaux; condemned to death as an exacter, an extortioner, a prevaricator, a corruptor of morality and of the public mind, and, as such, a traitor to his country, on the 27th Thermidor, second year of the French Republic, one and indivisible. / Translated from the French.

A specimen of the patriotism of the Jacobins in France, or, The trial of Jean Baptiste Lacombe, late president of the military commission at Bordeaux; condemned to death as an exacter, an extortioner, a prevaricator, a corruptor of morality and of the public mind, and, as such, a traitor to his country, on the 27th Thermidor, second year of the French Republic, one and indivisible. / Translated from the French.

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THE TRIAL OF JEAN BAPTISTE LACOMBE. IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE.

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THE TRIAL OF JEAN BAPTISTE LACOMBE.
IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE.

The Special Military Commission, established at Bourdeaux, by a decision of the Representative of the People YSABEAU, bearing the date of yesterday, in order to try LACOMBE, and his Accomplices—has passed the following Sentence: to which have assisted, Citizens LATASTE, President; A. FRIGIERE, SEGUY, AZEVEDO, and CLOCHARD, members of the said Commission.

THEY brought to the bar, a man who called himself Jean Baptist Lacombe, a native of Toulouse, having his domicil in Bourdeaux, district of the same in the department of Bec d' Ambe's; the said man about 35 years old; formerly a school-master, and president to the late military commission at Bourdeaux.

[Page] Citizen DEREY, war commissary and public accuser, said:

CITIZENS,

Lacombe, is accused of having perpetrated the most horrid crimes, and that under the mask of all virtues. The papers of the process will prove, that nobody ever betrayed so boldly the confidence of the people, and of its representatives; that the discharge of judicial duty, was never so shamefully abused, these papers will prove that a greater criminal, did never fix upon himself the attention of Justice.

These papers are numerous; time has been short to read them, and to compare together the facts they contain. I could scarcely copy the result of them; but the public is consumed with the thirst of justice; it is important to yield to its impatience; this impatience is that of republican virtues: The people want a great example of severity, let this example be granted.

The papers were read, after which the public accuser spoke again as follows:

CITIZENS,

You have just heard the reading of the documents of the process; they exhibit to you the most hideous picture; you see thereby Lacombe, [Page] to be successively a shark, a prevaricating magistrate, a counter-revolutionist, and always a hypocrite.

Let us follow him in the three periods of his life, in order that we may form to ourselves a just idea of his baseness, and of the wickedness of his disposition.

What has been his conduct previous to the revolution? How did he behave himself since the revolution, and before his getting in the office of president of the military commission? How did he behave himself in the various emergencies of this duty?

What has been his conduct previous to the revolution? He himself informs us that he was born in Toulouse; he says that he followed there the line of a teacher, and that he came to settle in Bourdeaux, about ten years ago.

Lacombe a tutor! What man is this to teach youth the principles of morality, to unfold in their minds the seeds of the virtues therein sowed by nature!

He was twenty eight years old when he came to Bourdeaux: He was married. His wife declared [Page] that they were poor at Toulouse, and that, on their arriving at Bourdeaux, they had got but a little money along with their cloaths. What!—Lacombe who had been successful at Toulouse in the line of a teacher, was deprived of almost everything when he arrived at Bordeaux.

But, citizens, a fact which ought to have fixed your attention, inspires us with the most unfavorable suspicions concerning his fame in Toulouse. He left, doubtless, Toulouse on the only account of his being there too publicly known, and he came to Bourdeaux, because the population, commerce and opulency of this important city, unhappily warrant to an intriguing man more resources and more means to conceal the baseness of his actions, and to impose upon others: Recall to your minds the declaration of citizen Merzeau, one of the most ancient, of the most sincere and most virtuous republicans. You have seen Lacombe to partake of the theft of a carriage from Colineau, a coach-maker on Tourny-walks; you have seen him to partake of a theft of books 1800 livers worth from Ducot a bookseller; you have seen him accompanied by a fellow, who acted the part of an English Lord, in order to impose more easily both upon the coach-maker and bookseller; you have afterwards [Page] seen him stealing linens, worth 800 livres, from citizen Merzeau; and how did he steal these linens? In order to impose upon citizen Merzeau, he sent his wife, elegantly dressed in a coach, and she picked out and carried away these linens. It is thus that this tutor, who had obtained great successes in Toulouse, did ground his new successes in Bourdeaux; it is thus that he taught his family the art of craftiness and knavery; it is thus that, by misusing the weakness of his wife, he made her an accomplice of his criminal baseness! These facts, and a thousand others, with which the public voice reproaches him, show clearly enough what man Lacombe was, previous to the revolution. Let us see what he has been since that epoch.

Every one is sensible that there are every where intriguers, imposters and atrocious men, who took up the revolutionary mask to veil their plots, to deceive the people and its representatives, to get in the public offices, and to crush liberty to pieces.

There is no liberty without virtue; there is no liberty where licentiousness is; but alas! How shall we have this republican principle adopted by men, whose whole country's love consists but [Page] in the violence of their declamations! By men who cry aloud for the only purpose of imposing upon the candour and credulity of a generous and trustful public; by men who are always speaking about republicanism, and who shelter in their hearts all the furies of despotism; by men who speak of virtue, and have their hearts stained by the most hideous vices; by men who talk of liberty, to fetter and slave their fellow-citizens?

In the year 1790, Lacombe kept a boarding-school, in a house rented to him by citizen Lisleferme; he bought from a widow woman, six or seven tuns of wine, for the use, said he, of his boarders. That wine had not been paid for, and it became necessary for Lacombe, to draw both his wine and himself from the prosecutions of the widow. He contrived to suppose a sale of the wine, to a man by the name of Poireau, a writing master, and to declare that Poireau had paid for it beforehand; this wine was carried away, and Lacombe removed to another house; insomuch that the widow, who had a claim to make for the price of her wine, was, for a while, at a loss to know what had become both of her wine and Lacombe.

[Page] Luckily for her, Poireau pretended that the sale agreed upon between Lacombe and him was sincere. Lacombe behaved himself violently towards Poireau; this was the motive which carried the two knaves before the municipal officer; they were giving to one another the name of rogue, when they arrived before him; they were both put under arrest, but as they were together in a room, these honest people adjusted their differences.

The municipal officer repealed the order of their arrest; but, as he suspected that their reconcilement had been made at the expence of the widow, he caused her to be informed of it; and she seized upon her wine in the dwelling house of Poireau. This seizing of the wine, gave place to a suit before the justice of St. Seurin, who compelled both Lacombe and Poireau to pay for the wine; thus the shame of this robbery remained alone with these two men.

Lacombe has therefore given himself up to the excesses of the basest cupidity, as well since, as before the revolution.

Endowed with some talents, but rather a prattler than a thinker, Lacombe seemed to [Page] throw himself headlong in the revolution; he was, according to himself, the scourge of aristocracy; he succeeded effectively in dazzling patriots.

He went to St. Foi, and opened a school there; but it is probable that neither his behaviour nor his manners could obtain him the good will of the inhabitants; his undertaking proved abortive.

He has been bold enough to say that he had left St. Foi, on account of that place abounding with aristocrats and moderates. Citizens, this is a forgery which he has contrived to veil the true motives of his coming back to Bourdeaux. St. Foi, is classed among the towns which have constantly proved patriots; we have seen, and we even now behold, very worthy citizens from that community, trusted with public offices, and justifying more and more by their equity, humanity and other republican virtues, the choice made of them by the representatives of the people.

The ill fate of Bourdeaux, raised up in its bosom some wicked men who, in concert with the intriguing deputies from the Gironde, abused even the deluded patriotism of the citizens of [Page] this large city, in order to hurry them into liberticide measures. These traitors aimed at federalism, and they cloaked their plots under their oaths of the unity and indivisibility of the republic, and of their attachment to the National Convention.

The National Convention, justly irritated, proposed to employ no means, but the justice which they are indebted for to the French people, as well as to their own dignity; the National revenge threatened then a multitude of citizens.

It was at that time that Lacombe left St. Foi, and reassumed his residence at Bourdeaux; as bold and apt to all that could forward his fortune as he was, he joined with those he had before dazzled by his speeches about his own virtues and patriotism. The citizens whose testimony he might have dreaded, were struck with sorrow and terror; they did no more show themselves. Lacombe profited by this instant of terror; he dreads no more the language of truth; he well knew how to imitate both the discourses and manners of patriotism; they proclaim him the most inexorable enemy to aristocracy and federalism; his supporters praise his talents and virtues; they are nearly supposing him to be endowed with the manners of a Spartan; [Page] both people and their representatives are imposed upon, he is trusted with the office of president to the military commission.

Such a man was Lacombe from the epoch of the revolution, to the unlucky instant when by his intrigues he got in the station of president to the military commission; he was alternatively contemptible and impudent; he was never a patriot; is it possible to be so with a corrupted heart? He returned to Bourdeaux, only when he had a certainty to profit by the terror and silence of patriots, and to be at liberty of speaking here about his virtues and patriotism, without the least fear of being contradicted.

Let us now follow him into the discharge of his duty, as president to the military commission.

It is here that he entirely pulls off his mask; he appears fierce and humane successively: The rich counter revolutionist may be certain to secure his life by giving up his purse to him; the guiltless, if he wishes to be discharged, shall be obliged to put his money by his innocence; the papers of the process have exhibited to us the proofs of these odious bargains! It is thus that Lacombe, by prostituting the sacred duty of a [Page] judge to his cupidity, hastened the steps of the counter-revolution; by plundering together the counter-revolutionist, and the patriots, he strengthened the tyrannical hopes of the former and reduced the latter to dispair.

Let us fix our attention upon some of the facts, which are proved by the papers of the process.

We have seen the relations of Journu-Aubert, determined to do all in their power to save their relative who was out-lawed; they went so far as to offer 300,000 livres: Bizat, formerly a lawyer, was charged to make the same offer to Rey, a baker, the friend of Lacombe and the manager of the pecuniary proposals made to him, and of the out-bidding of the discharge of his duty. Rey asked for a delay of two days after which he answered to Bizat that his offer had been accepted; assignats to the amount of 205,000 livres were therefore delivered, and they deposited bills for the residue of 95,000 livres.

Mean while Journu-Aubert, who was ignorant of the steps made in his behalf by his relations, having proved with the representative of the people, both his innocence and patriotism, was restored to law. Such an event was calculated to disappoint our intriguers. The relations [Page] of Journu claimed again the 205,000 livres they had paid; it was impossible to detain this money; the justice just done by the representative Ysabeau, to a well known patriot, stopped that of Lacombe; he felt therefore himself driven to the necessity of repairing the money; but he delayed more and more; he gave it back again by little and little; and as if he had supposed that the relations of Journu ought to be grateful for his having been kind enough to accept a sum of one hundred thousand crowns, he has kept for himself a sum of about 70 or 75000 livres.

The very declaration of Bizat informs us that Bory, a brother-in-law of Journu, had agreed to give up 55,000 livres, as a reward for the pains which had been taken.

But remark the cunning of Lacombe and his associates; they masked this shameful extortion under the name of a fine, to which, said they, Journu could possibly be condemned; as if a fine was to be deposited with the president of the tribunal, as if a fine was to be paid beforehand, as if Journu was to be condemned before being heard and before the reading of his justification; as if the judges forming the tribunal together with Lacombe, ought not to perceive and judge but by his eyes.

[Page] Almost every day is marked out by some new prevarication.—He extorted 7200 livres from citizen Chappel.

He extorted 48,000 livres for his releasing citizen Beaux.—32,000 livres from citizen Perayre, viz.—20,000 livres before the arrestation of his brother, by promising that none of the two brothers should be arrested, and 12,000 livres after the one being arrested. Citizens, perfidy and a wanton outrage to the liberty of citizens, are found here by the most impudent concussion.

He extorted 160,000 livres from citizen Lechangeur, and as the emissary of Lechangeur, cried out upon so excessive an extortion, (for Lacombe would at first have 200,000 livres,) Lacombe answered to him, ‘who wouldst thou have to pay, if monied people do not! I have got children, I must secure them a fortune.’ Wicked man! didst thou not perceive that the most precious inheritance to be left to our children, is the remembrance of their father dying in a state of indigence; they then have, at least, the certainty of their property being not stained by any crime.

[Page] He extorted 58,000 livres from John Tarteyron.

He had extorted 60,000 livres from citizen Castarede, and 13,200 livres from the female citizen Dubergier. Lacombe, whom remorse had not been able to attain, was afraid some days since to be discovered; he caused therefore the sum of 13,200 livres to be returned to citizen Dubergier, as well as that of 60,000 livres to citizen Castarede, some days previous to his being arrested.

The cupidity of Lacombe and his associates, acted upon trifling sums, as well as upon considerable ones. The wife of Bujac, having but an indifferent estate, gave 1200 livres with the hope of saving her husband: And notwithstanding that, Buzac was condemned to death.

The brothers Pimentel, gave some laces to the wife of Lacombe; some days after, Lacombe supposing to be in want of 6,000 livres, addressed himself to citizen Beraud, that he should borrow for him this sum from these merchants. The money was accordingly borrowed by Beraud; but Lacombe who, without doubt, wished to appropriate the sum to himself without being exposed to any prosecution on that account, [Page] urged citizen Beraud to bind himself towards Pimentel; Beraud refused and Lacombe did not receive the money.

Lacombe was possessed of considerable sums; he would lodge that of 52,000 livres with citizen Perayre; on his refusal, this sum was lodged with citizen Aequart.

Lebrun, a director to the National Custom-House, was arrested; his friends offered to give 100,000 livres, but it was too late; Lebrun had now been brought before the military commission. Lacombe fearing therefore to be suspected, answered the offers by saying that they had been delayed too long, and Rey added, that Lebrun would otherwise have been saved; it is thus that the lives of citizens became, with Lacombe, an object of speculation without troubling himself about distinguishing republicans from aristocrats.

Citizens, I hurry this recital, unsufferable for righteous men.

You have seen the female citizen Bujac, giving 1200 livres as the price of saving her husband, Bujac, who was condemned.

[Page] Another deed of the same kind, but more important, another crime more deliberately atrocious has been perpetrated.

The wife of Dudon, as did that of Bujac, wished to buy the life of her husband; she gave one hundred louis' in specie: By receiving them Lacombe exclaimed against the smallness of the sum, saying that he wanted at least one thousand louis'; Rey reported these words to the wife of Dudon, she objected her impossibility of procuring so large a sum; her answer was related by Rey to Lacombe, and this odious judge cried out, "she will repent of it;" he then charged Rey, to tell the woman that she must find out this sum in three days; she could not, Dudon was sentenced, and Lacombe kept up the one hundred louis' he had received. What a horrid prostitution of his duty, of the life of men and of the laws!

But the mind is overwhelmed, at the recital of such horrors! do I want, citizens, to retrace here all the crimes which Lacombe has perpetrated? Is it not enough of what I said, to raise up your indignation, and to arm you with the sword of the laws?

[Page] He denied these facts at first in the examination he underwent; but as he found himself urged on account of the assignats discovered in some tin boxes, which he had hidden in the garret of his house, he said that some aristocrats, the enemies which his faithful discharge of his duty bad raised up against him, had probably and wickedly brought these assignats into his garret; such a ridiculous evasion would betray sufficiently his crime, but his brother and Rey, who were his agents, have asserted that the assignats, this shameful offspring of his extortions, had been brought into the garret but in compliance of his directions.

But he has afterwards confessed several of his exactions; he declared that he had given to Ducasse, another of his agents, a sum of 3,000 livres out of that he had received from the female citizen Dubergier.

He has confessed that Rey had delivered to him a sum of 6,000 livres out of the 48,000 livres exacted from citizen Beaux.

Should we be reduced to these two confessions, they would be a full proof of his concussion.

[Page] But he made other avowals, which justice ought to preserve carefully; he said in a letter to citizen Plenaud, that he had been misled by a desire to have his family rich; to which he added that he had denied every thing in his examination on account of two very natural motives; the one a desire to conceal his weakness, the other on account of the indignation he felt, at the odious and artful calumnies of the infamous Rey.

He had therefore denied every thing, and this avowal from his own, is a proof of the sincerity of Rey's declaration.

He says that he had denied every thing, in order to conceal his weakness; he therefore confesses to have perpetrated those concussions of which he is accused: We differ, he and I, but about words; he calls weakness, what I call a horrid crime. A judge trusted with the most rigorous duty, that of punishing the enemies of the republic, and, with the utmost impartiality, of discerning them from its sincere friends, such a judge trading about justice, is a monster whom the world ought to get rid of! Such a judge is a declared enemy to the republic, for we now are in a state of revolution, and it is only by his fully executing the revolutionary [Page] laws and by his practising the virtues which are the order of the day, that a judge can manifest himself a true friend to the revolution.

He denied the facts too, said he, because he wished to conceal the indignation he felt, at the odious and artful calumnies of the infamous Rey.

The infamous Rey! But, since Rey is an infamous man, what epithet shall we affix upon Lacombe? Is it not manifest, that it is he who has employed Rey, as his agent?

Recall again, citizens, to your minds the odious ascendency he had assumed upon Rey. Sometimes he threatened him with the guillotine, in case he should dare to unveil his mysteries, adding that he had power enough to cause citizens to be imprisoned, without imparting it to the committee of surveillance, to cause them to be sentenced, and to pull off the head of whomsoever would be daring enough to inspire him with any fears. When Rey communicated to him his apprehension for their common fate, No, no, said Lacombe, no punishment will reach me in the station I am in; thou wouldst certainly be exposed, if it were not for thy complying with what I prescribe to thee. Thou art the master [Page] of my secret, said he once to Rey, but I am the master of thy life.

Lacombe, however confesses himself guilty, but of weakness only; he likewise calls Rey an infamous man; we must suppose him to be very familiar with crimes, and his mind to be strongly subjected to his heart, to a heart essentially vicious, as well as to that egotism which compelled him to trample upon the most sacred duty; which, before his eyes, gives to his crimes the physiognomy of weakness only, and that of crime to the condescensions, to which he was artful enough, to drive a man who has, at least, the merit of sincerity.

Citizens, facts numerous enough, have convinced you, and the denials of Lacombe will not shake your conviction; but he shall be compelled himself to give up that crafty justification. He has been examined by the committee of surveillance; he has been confronted with Rey and Bizot, who had before given their evidences and declarations. Rey and Bizot have maintained to him, before the committee, the truth of all the facts they had declared, and no one of those who have witnessed those debates, in which Lacombe unfolded the [Page] whole art of falsehood and hypocrisy, entertains no doubt of his being guilty.

What is the consequence of these facts?

Lacombe, at the happy epoch of the revolution, behaved himself, as did many others whose element was corruption. Recall again, citizens, to your minds the theft, of about six or seven tuns of wine, and how he was reprimanded on that account by the municipal, who discharged then the duty of policy. Lacombe had before vehemently talked about liberty! Virtue and a regeneration of manners; but he uttered a language, which was a strange one to his heart; he pretended himself to be at the height of liberty, and he was in reality creeping in the mire of corruption.

That spirit, with which he was inspired did not fail him, when he was promoted to the office of president to the military commission. Behold his crimes, they all partake of his propensity to the most infamous cupidity; it was that cupidity which, almost always, put his passions into movement, which prompted him into the most odious bargains, which induced him to weigh in the same scale with gold, the lives of [Page] citizens. It was that cupidity, which induced him to place in the same scale the aristocrat and patriot, which pursuaded him to spare the enemy of the revolution, provided he would pay the money exacted from him, and to keep fainting in the anguish of terror the patriot, who has no money to give, or who would blush in giving it as a price for his innocence and patriotism.

We are sensible that those who have been sentenced to death, did, generally speaking, merit it; either they were aristocrats, or they had a share in tyrannical measures; but by entering into bargains with them, by his striving to save them for money, he plainly partakes of the crime of counter-revolution, concealed in the hearts of such men; it mattered him but very little whether liberty should be destroyed, provided he could acquire riches.

But a thing which makes humanity tremble, is, to behold Lacombe, entering into contracts with the enemies to the revolution, sentencing them to death, and notwithstanding keeping their money from them. What a speculation! What a horrid and cool-blood temper!

[Page] Let us observe, citizens, that the revolutionary circumstances we are now under, want on behalf of every public officer, a revolutionary behaviour; let us particularly observe that Lacombe was a president to a military commission, specially calculated to guide, and to hasten the steps of the revolution. The crime of a prevaricator, ought, therefore, to be looked upon as a crime of counter-revolution; the public functioner who contrives means to save a counter-revolutionist should be looked upon as a counter-revolutionist himself, and must undergo the punishment which the law directs against the declared enemies of the republic.

Citizens, the public opinion was some time since rising against Lacombe; the representative of the people Ysabeau, was on the point to order his being arrested, when his powers were repealed by the committee of public safety.

Lacombe himself was affrighted, there is the motive for his, on one side, informing the representative Ysabeau, that it would be imprudent for him to stay any longer at Bourdeaux, and, on the other side, for his delivering back, [Page] to those who had given them to him, the sums and jewels he had received.

The representative Garnier of Xaintes, was not long before he became acquainted with the disposition of Lacombe, the report of his prevarications reached him, and Lacombe was arrested.

Citizens, I saw you trembling at the recital of so many crimes; You have asked yourselves, how such a man could have been committed to discharge the duty of a revolutionary justice.

It is to your misfortunes, to your errors, to that unlawful federalism, to which Bourdeaux was driven, that you are indebted for such a scourge, the representatives of the people sent to restore this important city to the principle of the unity and indivisibility of the republic, could find any where, but men branded with federalism. Lacombe artfully profited by this emergency. Generous people are trustful; the representatives were imposed upon and Lacombe was chosen. The wicked and counter-revolutionary designs of Lacombe succeeded the righteous and benevolent designs of the representatives. The terror with which he inspired every one, unhappily constrained [Page] for a long time, the complaints of citizens. But truth has reached the representatives of the people; justice and humanity will be triumphant, both the republic and citizens, will be revenged.

In consequence of the proofs resulting from the papers of the process, I demand that Jean Baptiste Lacombe, lately a school-master and the president of the military commission established in Bourdeaux; be condemned to death, and that in conformity to the law passed on the 27th of March 1793; that he in consequence be given up to the executioner, and carried to the national square, in order to undergo the said punishment; I likewise demand, that his estate be declared forfeited to the benefit of the republic, and that the sentence passed upon him be printed, published and posted up every where it shall be requisite.

(SIGNED) DEREY.

The military commission, after hearing the public accuser, and the reading of the papers of the process, as well as the replies of the party accused; the judges having given in their votes aloud, the president has delivered the sentence as follows:

[Page] THE MILITARY COMMISSION, Convinced that Jean Baptiste Lacombe, lately a school-master and the president to the former revolutionary commission, has been guilty of sundry exactions, concussions, prevarications, as well as of the most odious corruption of manners and the public mind, declares him to be a traitor to his country, and an enemy to the people; in consequence of which it condemns him to the punishment of death, agreeably to the law, bearing date the 27th of March 1793, (old stile) and from which the following is an extract:

‘The National Convention, on the proposal of one of its members, declares its firm resolution to give no quarter, or peace to aristocrats, or any other persons who are the enemies of the revolution, and it decrees that they are out-lawed.’

(First article of the decision above mentioned.)

‘There shall be established in Bourdeaux, a new military commission, specially and singularly charged with trying the offences said to have been perpetrated by the late president of the tribunal, which existed under the same denomination, as well as by his accomplices:’

[Page] Directs further the said commission, that this present sentence, shall be directly put into execution in the national square; that it shall be printed and posted up every where it will be requisite; declares the estate of the said Lacombe forfeited to the benefit of the republic.

Done at Bourdeaux, in sitting on the 27th Thermidor, the second year of the French republic, one and indivisible.

(SIGNED ON THE RECORD,)

LATASTE, PRESIDENT,

Members of the Commission.

FRIGIERE,

SEGUY,

AZEVEDO,

CLOCHARD,

SICARD, SECRETARY.

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SPECIMEN OF THE PATRIOTISM OF THE JACOBINS IN FRANCE OR, THE TRIAL OF JEAN BAPTISTE LACOMBE, LATE PRESIDENT OF THE MILITARY COMMISSION AT BOURDEAUX; CONDEMNED TO DEATH AS AN EXACTER, AN EXTORTIONER, A PREVARICATOR, A CORRUPTER OF MORALITY AND OF THE PUBLIC MIND, AND, AS SUCH, A TRAITOR to his COUNTRY. ON THE 27th THERMIDOR, SECOND YEAR OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE.

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PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR THE TRANSLATOR, BY ORMROD & CONRAD, at the Old FRANKLIN's HEAD, No. 41, CHESNUT-STREET. 1795.

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THIS TRANSLATION IS MOST SINCERELY AND MOST THANKFULLY DEDICATED TO CITIZEN GENET, THE FOREMOST JACOBIN IN THE NEW WORLD, BY A FRENCHMAN, INDEBTED TO JACOBINS, (AS SO MANY THOUSANDS ARE) FOR HIS DISTRESS AND THAT OF HIS FAMILY.

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A specimen of the patriotism of the Jacobins in France, or, The trial of Jean Baptiste Lacombe, late president of the military commission at Bordeaux; condemned to death as an exacter, an extortioner, a prevaricator, a corruptor of morality and of the public mind, and, as such, a traitor to his country, on the 27th Thermidor, second year of the French Republic, one and indivisible. / Translated from the French.

Lacombe, Jean Baptiste, 1760-1794.

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— A specimen of the patriotism of the Jacobins in France, or, The trial of Jean Baptiste Lacombe, late president of the military commission at Bordeaux; condemned to death as an exacter, an extortioner, a prevaricator, a corruptor of morality and of the public mind, and, as such, a traitor to his country, on the 27th Thermidor, second year of the French Republic, one and indivisible. / Translated from the French., Lacombe, Jean Baptiste, 1760-1794., Genet, Edmond Charles, 1763-1834, dedicatee..

Extent

31, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Printed for the translator, by Ormrod & Conrad, at the old Franklin's Head, no. 41, Chesnut-Street.,. Philadelphia: :: 1795.. (The translation dedicated to Citizen Genet.) (Printers' advertisement, p. [32].)

Creation

Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.

Editorial practices

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EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

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Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

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The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

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