Marie Antoinette undermining the First French Republic, Louis XVI was separated from his family and tried in December. He was found guilty by the Convention, led by the Jacobins who rejected the idea of keeping him as a hostage. On 15 January 1793, by a majority of one vote, that of Philippe Égalité, he was condemned to death by guillotine and executed on 21 January 1793. The queen, now called "Widow Capet", plunged into deep mourning. She still hoped her son Louis-Charles, whom the exiled "Comte de Provence", Louis XVI's brother, had recognised as Louis XVI's successor, would one day rule France.
HMS Berbice (1793) HMS Berbice (1793) HMS "Berbice" was the French privateer "Berbice" that the British Royal Navy captured in 1793 and took into service under her existing name. She foundered in 1796. The Navy commissioned her in October 1793 under Lieutenant Thomas Oliver, for the Leeward Islands station. There is some ambiguity about the which officers commanded her and when. At one point Midshipman John F. Devonshire (eventually Admiral Sir John Devenshire) took command on the death of "Berbice"s commander. Devonshire then patrolled the coasts of Puerto Rico where he, with the Spaniards, suppressed the French privateers that not only impeded the