Paris. The Constituent Assembly annuls the decrees of the colonial assembly.

The National Assembly summoned the 85 deputies of Saint-Marc to its bar. Valentin de Cullion, their advocate, sought in a long speech to prove that the colonial assembly had never had any idea of proclaiming the independence of Saint-Domingue, and that it had ceaselessly fought the counter-revolutionaries. He could not, however, carry the vote of the assembly for his party; and at the same session (12 October 1790) the Constituent Assembly declared the decrees of the colonial assembly null and void, and an attack on the legislative power and on national sovereignty; it declared besides that de Peinier, Mauduit and Vincent had deserved well of the country and had saved Saint-Domingue. The 85, who had come to France with so much solemnity and hope, were condemned by the very men from whom they had expected help and protection.