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consisted of Poulain , Grandprey , Chazal , Hardy , Syeyes , and Boulay . de la Meurthe . The Council next proceeded to pass a resolution , authorizing the Executive Directory to march a sufficient . number of troops to Paris , for the protection ofthe Legislative Body and the Constitution ofthe third year . The Council declared their sitting permanent . In the evening of the same day ( September 4 ) the president announced , that the Directory had replied to the message which had been addressed to them . He informed the Council that one day was still added to the number of those to

which ihe country was indebted for its deliverance . The place of the sitting of the Legislative Body was that of the conspirators ; they had already delivered certificates and notes , and established a correspondence with their accomplices . To the reply was annexed a paper , shewing that the deputy Imbert Colonies was the principal agent of the pre ended Louis XVIII . ' The message was also accompanied by a proclamation of the Directory to the French people . Bouiay , in the name of the Committee of Public Safety , which had been appointedobservedthat ' great measures were because the nation

, , necessary , was in a itate of war , and its enemies might snatch from it the victory which had been gained over them . ' But he added , that humanity and policy were also to . be considered . ' Your Committee ( said he ) impressed with this gran' : truth , commissions me to proclaim to you this consolatory fact , that the triumph of the Republicans shall not be sullied with one drop of blood . The great movement , which must be executed with precision , must end in the same manner . So that we think banishment should be the punishment inflicted on those concerned in the conspiracywhich was on the point of breaking out . Our colleague Villers

, will present you a project grounded on this opinion . ' Villers then read to the Council a resolution , declaring void the acts of the Electoral Assemblies of several of the departments specifisd , and the dismissing the individuals elected to public offices by them . The law which repeals the former laws against priests and ] emigrants , ^ nd those which relate to the Vendeans , or the chiefs ofthe Chouans , were annulled . The seventh article doomed 6 . 1 deputies to be banished ; but upon a revision of the list , several of them were

afterwards erazed , and some permitted to resume their seats . ' The journals ( or newspapers ) were placed under the superintendance ofthe police . The law suppressing clubs on political subjects was repealed . The law ordering the expulsion of the Bourbons , and the confiscation of their property , including that of the House of Orleans , was ordered to be executed , notwithstanding any counter orders . The right of putting places in a state of siege was vested in the Directory . The law creating the national guard was repealed . In the sitting ofthe next day ( 5 th September ) Raifleui reminded the Council

of the milliard of livres promised long since to the armies ; and moved that a special Committee be appointed for the purpose of considering how this milliard was to be raised ; and that the same Committee should make a report as to the monut ment to be erected to the defenders of their country . The triumvirate , who took this desperate step , certainly warrantable upon no ground but that of the most imperious necessity , published an address to the French people , stating the nature ofthe conspiracy , and the imminent danger in which the Republic was involved , by the wicked arts of the conspirators . This

remnant of the Directory tell the people—that while the dissolution of the National Convention was plotting in Paris , and the faction endeavouring to seize on the supreme authority , Pichegru , stationed at the Bank of the Rhine , received the proposals of Conde , and replied to them by plans of invasion and royalism . ' If the white flag was not displayed in the Freuch camp , ' say the Directory ; ' if theRhine -was not crossed by the hostile army ; if the strong holds of the Republic were not given up , and taken possession of in the king ' s name , by imperial troops ; if Pichegru did not march to Parisit was through Condewho refused to put

Pich-, , egnt ' s plans into execution . These plans , however , ' they add , ' would not have succeeded ; the hrave soldiers would not have permitted it . ' The principal proof which the Directory brought to prove fhis heavy accusation against this celebrated General , is a paper found at Venice , in the pori-folioof -the Count d'Anlraigues , written wholly in his own hand , and certifieri to be found 311 the Count ' s port-folio , opened in the presence of the General-111-chief Buonaparte , and General Clark , by fiertfifer , chief of ( fie staff , and decypiie ' red by him ,