French Revolution their altars". In October the Convention troops captured Lyon and reinstated a Montagnard government there. Criteria for bringing someone before the Revolutionary Tribunal, created March 1793, had always been vast and vague. By August, political disagreement seemed enough to be summoned before the Tribunal; appeal against a Tribunal verdict was impossible. Late August 1793, an army general had been guillotined on the accusation of choosing too timid strategies on the battlefield. Mid-October, the widowed former queen Marie Antoinette was on trial for a long list of charges such as "teaching [her husband] Louis Capet the art of dissimulation" and incest
Crown (1793 ship) Crown (1793 ship) Crown was launched at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1793. She essentially sailed as a West Indiaman, but between 1797 and 1799 she made one voyage as an "extra ship", i.e., under charter, for the British East India Company (EIC). She foundered in 1810 on a voyage to Canada. "Crown" does not actually appear in "Lloyd's Register" until 1795. At that time her master is Stranach, her owner Lyall, and her trade London–Jamaica. On 1 March 1796 "Lloyd's List" reported that "Crown", Stranack, master, and "Susannah", Skelton, master, both bound for the West Indies, had had to return