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Monthly Chronicle.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . DEVOLUTION OF THE FOURTH OV SEPTEMBER . " " PA SIS , SEPTEMBER 10 , 1797-THE disputes between Ihe different factions in Paris , which hare for some time past kept the minds of men throughout Europe in suspence , are brought to an
issue . The Directory has at last drawn the sword , and ventured to pass the Rubicon . While the friend to order and justice must lament the irregularities committed , every candid enquirer will be careful not to form a hasty ' conclusion . If these decisive measures be the mere effect of party violence and jealousy—if so many members of the legislative body have been arrested , according to the old formality of Robespierre , because they ase suspected of being suspicious persons , the Directory have been guilty of an act ofthe grosest tyranny , and have produced an exact counterpart to the proceedings of the Mountain party on the famous 31 st
of May . But if the proofs they have adduced , of a Royal Conspiracy , be authentic , they have only done their duly to Republican France . The violent opposition in the Council of Five Hundred , ever since the election of Barthelemy to be one of the Directors , to every plan for restoring the crippled state of the finances r—to the vigorous prosecution of the war—to supplying the pressing wa : its of those armies who had raised France to its present greatness , warrant the suspicion ofthe existence of a Royal Conspiracy in the Councils , whose attention seemed wholly directed to the repeal of all the laws passed against the Eirigaants , many
of whom had notoriously conspired against the state , and who , it is imagined , were only recalled to act as tools in their intended desperate revolt against the republican form of government . But still the decree which , without the colour of law or the substance of a trial , condemns a number of the most distinguished characters in France to be transported , like convicted felons , on a foreign shore , can hardly be justified by the most urgent state necessity . The 4 th of September will form another remarkable day in the Republican Calendar of France : about three o ' clock in the morning , the Directory ordered the
cannon of alarm to be fired , and directed the halls ofthe two Councils to be surrounded , in order to arrest certain conspirators , whose aim , they alledged , was to assassinate three of the Directors , in order to create a new Directory , that should open the gates to the emigrants and the Pretender . General Aiigereau , charged with the execution of this arret , marched to the spot where the sittings ufre held , and summoned the guard of the legislative ' body , who replied to the summons by shouts of ' . Live the Republic and the Constitution ofthe third year ! General , you have only to command ; we are ready
to obey . ' He then entered the Th . uilleri . es , in perfect order , and arrested twentyfour of the royal conspirators . Ravnel was deprived of his commission , and his rank , at the bead of his regiment of guards , whom , it is said , he had endeavoured to corrupt . Carnot , ( who as well as Barthelemy was involved in the accusation ) , had contrived to escape the day before . The two Councils were then invited to assemble : that of Five Hundred at the Odeon ( the Theatre in the Fauxbourg Germain ) that pf the Ancients at the Surgical School . The members who composed the administration of the
department of the Seine , and ofthe twelve municipalities , were provisionally suspended : The celebrated General Pichegru , who had so often led the armies of the Republic to victory , was in the list of the accused . The following were also included : The directors Carnot and Barthelemy . Bourdon de l' -Oise , Dumclavd , Viilau , Dumas , Piette , Rambault , Desbaunieres , Phillippe Delleville , Giibert-Desmolieres , Camille-Jourdan , Boisset , Cadray , Bavere , Masset , Pastore , Vaublanc , & c . About nine in the evening the Council of Five Hundred assembled at the Odeon
; Lamarque president . A message was sent to the Directory , requesting them to inform the Council of their reasons for shutting up the hall -where ihe Council had been accustomed to sit . A Committee of five were appointed to consider of the measures necessary to be adopted for the public security . This Committee VOL . IX . YV
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . DEVOLUTION OF THE FOURTH OV SEPTEMBER . " " PA SIS , SEPTEMBER 10 , 1797-THE disputes between Ihe different factions in Paris , which hare for some time past kept the minds of men throughout Europe in suspence , are brought to an
issue . The Directory has at last drawn the sword , and ventured to pass the Rubicon . While the friend to order and justice must lament the irregularities committed , every candid enquirer will be careful not to form a hasty ' conclusion . If these decisive measures be the mere effect of party violence and jealousy—if so many members of the legislative body have been arrested , according to the old formality of Robespierre , because they ase suspected of being suspicious persons , the Directory have been guilty of an act ofthe grosest tyranny , and have produced an exact counterpart to the proceedings of the Mountain party on the famous 31 st
of May . But if the proofs they have adduced , of a Royal Conspiracy , be authentic , they have only done their duly to Republican France . The violent opposition in the Council of Five Hundred , ever since the election of Barthelemy to be one of the Directors , to every plan for restoring the crippled state of the finances r—to the vigorous prosecution of the war—to supplying the pressing wa : its of those armies who had raised France to its present greatness , warrant the suspicion ofthe existence of a Royal Conspiracy in the Councils , whose attention seemed wholly directed to the repeal of all the laws passed against the Eirigaants , many
of whom had notoriously conspired against the state , and who , it is imagined , were only recalled to act as tools in their intended desperate revolt against the republican form of government . But still the decree which , without the colour of law or the substance of a trial , condemns a number of the most distinguished characters in France to be transported , like convicted felons , on a foreign shore , can hardly be justified by the most urgent state necessity . The 4 th of September will form another remarkable day in the Republican Calendar of France : about three o ' clock in the morning , the Directory ordered the
cannon of alarm to be fired , and directed the halls ofthe two Councils to be surrounded , in order to arrest certain conspirators , whose aim , they alledged , was to assassinate three of the Directors , in order to create a new Directory , that should open the gates to the emigrants and the Pretender . General Aiigereau , charged with the execution of this arret , marched to the spot where the sittings ufre held , and summoned the guard of the legislative ' body , who replied to the summons by shouts of ' . Live the Republic and the Constitution ofthe third year ! General , you have only to command ; we are ready
to obey . ' He then entered the Th . uilleri . es , in perfect order , and arrested twentyfour of the royal conspirators . Ravnel was deprived of his commission , and his rank , at the bead of his regiment of guards , whom , it is said , he had endeavoured to corrupt . Carnot , ( who as well as Barthelemy was involved in the accusation ) , had contrived to escape the day before . The two Councils were then invited to assemble : that of Five Hundred at the Odeon ( the Theatre in the Fauxbourg Germain ) that pf the Ancients at the Surgical School . The members who composed the administration of the
department of the Seine , and ofthe twelve municipalities , were provisionally suspended : The celebrated General Pichegru , who had so often led the armies of the Republic to victory , was in the list of the accused . The following were also included : The directors Carnot and Barthelemy . Bourdon de l' -Oise , Dumclavd , Viilau , Dumas , Piette , Rambault , Desbaunieres , Phillippe Delleville , Giibert-Desmolieres , Camille-Jourdan , Boisset , Cadray , Bavere , Masset , Pastore , Vaublanc , & c . About nine in the evening the Council of Five Hundred assembled at the Odeon
; Lamarque president . A message was sent to the Directory , requesting them to inform the Council of their reasons for shutting up the hall -where ihe Council had been accustomed to sit . A Committee of five were appointed to consider of the measures necessary to be adopted for the public security . This Committee VOL . IX . YV