Marie Antoinette the king denouncing the queen's role in these matters, urged by the queen, Louis XVI disbanded the government, thus losing his majority in the Assembly. Dumouriez resigned and refused a post in any new government. At this point, the tide against royal authority intensified in the population and political parties, while Marie Antoinette encouraged the king to veto the new laws voted by the Legislative Assembly in 1792. In August 1791, the Declaration of Pillnitz threatened an invasion of France. This led in turn to a French declaration of war in April 1792, which led to the French Revolutionary Wars
HMS Marie Antoinette (1793) the French Navy as the 20-gun corvette, "Convention Nationale". In September 1793, at the request of French Royalists, Commodore Ford's squadron attacked Saint-Domingue and Jérémie in the Caribbean. On 23 September 1793, the British captured four merchant vessels at L'Islet, and on 29 September, seven at Flamande Bay. At Môle-Saint-Nicolas, on 23 September, , HMS "Goelan", and had captured the schooner "Convention Nationale", which was under the command of Mons. Anquetin. She was registered on 12 May 1794. Ford gave command of the renamed "Marie Antoinette" to Lieutenant John Perkins "an Officer of Zeal, Vigilance and Activity." In 1794 "Marie