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handed fold. (is, flock to it, and tfir laws arc
Mifu:'., icnt to reach them. The Direftory dc-
Miands ol the 1 egiflatiw Body a law cnafting
that every Ex-Ninventionalift, every dil'milß-d
lunTionat y, every*foldicr not employed, cvci y
person convifted of emigration, anct every in
dividual not born in France, uni el's he be at
ttclicd to the Diplomatic Body, fliall he oblig
ed to quit Paris in tlneedays, and to withdraw
him felt ten league, from thence on penalty of
tranlportation. The accused to be tri< and ac
cording to the form prefenbed by the iaw ol
27 Germinal.”
A Commiilion, composed of Trielltard, Ma
tlnen, Camus, Cambaceres, and M.idier, was
charg'd to prclent as fpcedily as pollible apian
of a resolution on that head.
After an hour’s lulpenfion, tint is tc fay, at
five o’clock, the fitting w*as opened.
Camus, the reporter of the Commiilion,
charged to examine the rm*(lagr of the Direc
tory, declared the urgency of adopting the
proposed mcafure, to defeat the plot which
was lead / to explode, and difpcrfe the ring
leaders of the anarchists, become more daring
than ever “ Mifcreanti,” said he, “ covered
•with blood and rapine, conspire together. They
v. ifh to seize again on the victims who have
eleaped then rage. The accomplices of Rob
espierre declare thrmfelves in open war againlt
the Conftitutiou and against the MagiUrates,
who are retolved to maintain it. Let ushaften
to put ourfelvrs in a Rate of defence. The
meiTage of the Directory has (hewn youali the
event of the dang-r. Let us furniih it with
the means of preventing the explofton.” Cam
us now read a plan, tending to expel from
Fans, within three days, and t 6 drive ten
leagues at least from thence, all the Ex-Con
ve.ntionalifts not rc-elefted, and non invested
with Dublic funflions; all the public tunttion
aries at (miffed (inr.e the qth Thermidor ; all
the Generals or loldiers, dtfmiired or dilband
cd ; all those to whom amneftiet were granted
for the crimes of 41b Brumuire; all thole who
‘were apprehended of inaccufation, or con
demned, and who owe their liberty entirely
to that amnesty ; all foreigners not fettled in
France prior 17&9, *nd who are not attached
to the Mini Iters of the Neutral or Allied Pow
ers now m Paris ; and all thole convifted of
emigration, whole names have not been de
ffmtively erafrd from the lilts. Those who
-hall be found in Paris, or within the distance
ol ten leagues, after the time pointed out, shall
be feme need to tranlportation, the Direftory
being at the fame time authorifed to retain
those whole presence it may think necessary
for the public service.
The urgency was decreed, and the plan put
*o vote, article by article.
Chazal proposed an amendment., viz that,
together with the Ex-Convrntionalifts, all the
old members of the Conilituent and Legifla
tivc AiTemblies should be alio expelled from
•^’aris.—Violent murmurs.
He was desired to put his absurd proposi
tion to the vote.
Chazal. in reply— “ Two Constitutions were
made before the one we now have. The
members of the Conftit.uent Alfembly are the
authors of the firlt, those of the Convention the
authors of that of 1793 : both of them are e
qually hoilile to ours.—(Murmurs.) —Thefe
are rny motives.
Guyoniard, Dubois Cranee, Talbot, and
fcvernl other members, declared that they
would support them.
Ifnard was of opinio*', that the mode in
which Chazal supported his amendment ren
dered it unnreedary to refufe it. “ Opinions,”
said he, “ are not the qurition here : neither
are we to pay attention to errors : we are now
to Rrike at conspirators. What would be the
fate of a great number of members fitting here,
if it were criminal to have had a fharr in fram
ing .1 bad Conflitution ? What would become
of Chazal hirnfelf ? Was he not in the Conven
tion in those days of mourning, when he was
made to content to the Conflitution of 1793 ?”
Here Chazel became violently agitated. He
exclaimed, that he had proteltrd against the
3ill of May and the ad of June, and that he
was known for his abhorrence of the dece na
tural tyranny.
Hoard—” So milch the better. It is with
out doubt glorious to have been then preferib
ed, but I ant far from thinking that it was
eruninal to have had the misfortune to b* seat
ed by the lidcvof our tyrants. It is Hill less
so to have contented to a Conllitution which
carried the Itamp of the prejudices that flill
cxifled at the time it was made, and for hav
mg merely laid the foundations of the liberty
which others afterwards fixed on more Ruble
kafes and more solid foundations. I demand
the previous queflion on Chazal’s amendment,
aud the adoption of the article.
Hemi Larier, who had been reproached for
having preserved so long a silence, not having
as yet spoken in the Council, at length afeended
the tribune. ‘ What then,’ exclaimed he* ‘is
this madness of taking opinions of plots ? Why
this confound men, for the greater part enlight
ened by the very experience they have had on
the eiFctls of an eiTay, badly conceived, badly
executed, but., perhaps, commanded by the er
rors whieh then prevailed in Fiance ? Why
confound these men with the monßers who
have covered this wretched country with dead
bodies and ruins, who thirst for the blood of
the French, who are emboldened by-our pufil
lahimity, and to whom a fatal indulgence and
a long candour on our tide, have given as much
audacity as the men of worth, too long calum
niated, and too long persecuted, have of timi
dity and weakness ? What connexion Is there
between the political errors of the Conßituent
Assembly and the attempts which the Directo
ry announces to you, ana the crimes which are
preparing around us, and the plans of affilia
tion and revolt which are now hatching ?
What ! are we to be butchered this night ! the
Chiefs of the Government are to be murdered !
■* vaR pillage, commenced in this tribun", was
to extend throughout all France ! on our pal
pitating bodies the anarchical code of 1793 was
to be reared, and the third of booty was to col
tetl, round the greateß mifereants, all the abo-
Tnmations-of France 1 The authors of the plot
“as taken in the very commiflion of their
crime It is impoflible to inißake them : the
Directory has their names, and by the Direfto
ry they have been apprehended. The Execu
tive Government dreads, with reason, tha,
their numerous compliances will renew their
plo s, disconcerted tor a moment, but which
tney may refume 4 to save their chiefs, and to
Columbian jWufeum, &c.
prevent their confdlions. And it is at this mo
ment that an endeavour is made to change the
couifc of your indignation—tkturn your view
iroin the enemies who are arranged in battle
array before you —to carry your attention to
peaceable liven, for the greater part resigned :
and who are resolved to maintain with us the
Couftitution of 1795, to which many of them
have heartily conlented. We have too long
been the dupes of this manoeuvre. We have
too.long had rung in our ears the never-ending
plots of the paracidal horde, which, like birds
of prey, seems to be incaggblc of fubflßing
unless on deftruftion If on the iff Prairial
of the lalt year, less induig-ncc had been shewn
to the ringleaders, they would not at this day
have drawn their f words agaiiul us. It would
indeed appear, that the fame epochs are each
year to bring round the fame attempts on their
part —the lame faults on ours ; that we, who
were so long proferibed by them, and whose
only asylums were the woods and tomos,
were villi ms devoted to their fury : but no
they will not triumph ! by wearying our pa
tience, they will perhaps render us wife and
(harp lighted. The Executive Direftory fur
nidles a great example. Deceived itfelfalfo
by those who devoted it to immediate dellruc
tion, it replies in a manner worthy of itielf, to
the moR dangerous enemies of the Republic,
by denouncing them courageously and frankly,
and by demanding against them the measures
which the urgency of the danger renders necef
iary. It is truly this day that all inquietudes
vanish, and that the Directory enters into the
poilellioii of the National confidence. And at
this time when it di(plays the purell intentions,
and aims at deserving the homage of every good
citizen, it is to be denied the m-ans of force
and reprefikm which it needs ? No, let us fe
cund the Direftory ; let us aifiit in chaining
ihofe who conspire for ma (Tiers a.id plunder,
F-t us, like the Direftory, fee but two dalles
Os citizens—those who are for a Conflitution,
and thole who arc against it. This our rally
ing point! This is our signal of recognition.
Let the past vanish with regard to those who
are now fmeereobierversot the laws, and who,
whatever their errors may have been formerly,
refpeftfully fubmu to’ the will of the French
Nation, cxprelted in the conflitution of 1795.
Let us take care lell by confounding the inno
cent with the guilty, we should weaken the
just horror which belongs to those who, having
been the opprelfors aud executioners of France,
wish to become so again. These arc culpabie,
and they have been apprehended 111 the Com
mittee of revolt. In so dear a case how can
you hesitate ?”
The previous queflion on Chazal’s amend
ment was called for on both sides. The a
mendment was almost unanimously rejefted.
Andre Dumont proposed another amend
ment He thought that there would be danger
in furfforing to remain in Paris, three days, the
men who might to-morrow butcher the greater
part, of the National representatives, and the
Direftory. “ If Cicero,” said he, “ had al
lowed three days to the accomplices of Cata
ime to quit Rome, the Republic would have
been loft. In three days the mifereants, juil
discovered by the Direftory, may'raliy, break
the chains of their accomplices, seduce a part of
the citizens, and put themselves 111 a Rate to
refill yonr laws. It is fufficient to due them
24 hours to quit Paris.—(Murimirlf-Cki
zens, let us no longer ileep in a bapeful lecuri
[y—has well nigh been fatal to us. During
three months we have been on the brink ot the
precipice—during three months those have been
deferibed to us as the only good citizens, who
to-morrow, fattened with bldbd and pillage,
were to ereft the fcatiolds, and to recommence
the reign of terror. Not content with having
granted them the pardon, which they now em
ploy to conspire alrefh againll th° Conßitu-
Lion, it is to them alone that the moll impor
tant fmillions have been entrufied. It is at
their call, for their advantage, that the chosen
of the people have been with too much facility
deprived of their functions. But let us banish
these fad remembrances. Wc will pass over
■die inevitable, errors, perhaps, committed by
those who in the mid(l of so many Rorins held
the rudder of Rate. Ihe Direftory has made
the Conllitution triumph. It has by its cou
lageous developemcnls acquired anew right to
public confidence. Let us fccond it in the war
it wages ngainil the moR dangerous enemies of
the Republic. Disconcerted for a moment,
they will soon revive their plots if we ce.ife to
watch them. Call to your recollection, that
subdued on the 12th Germinal of the laR year ;
they rallied their forces silently, and returned
more formidable Rill on the “iR Prairail, to.
bathe in the blood ot our unfortunate colleague
Ferraud.—lf (nice that period, less indulgence
had been shewn them—it we had been less
blind to their plans, they would not be now
teen calling aloud for the heads of the National
Representatives and of the Members of the Di
r story. In dclpair at having loR the power
to do mifchief, they are resolved to recover it
again at any price. They do not adjourn their
fury ; and let us, on our fide, not adjourn the
nieafures called for by prudence, at the mo
ment when they are caught in the fall. I de
mand as an amendment, that they shall be
obliged to quit Paris within 24 hours.”
1 his amendment was combated by Doulcet,
who commenced its rejeftion.
A tumultuous difcuHion ensued on thd cx
pullionof the Conventional!fts, not re-cleftcd,
from Paris. Lehardr Tallien, Dubois Cranee,
Guyoanard, Talbot, and several others, made
fruitlels eßorts in their favor. They said that
tuch ameafure would tend to throw an odium
on the Convention. In spite of their argu
ments, however, the plan preferred by Camus,
was adopted without any alteration.
May. 11.
In this fitting, nothing intereßing occurred.
COUNCIL OF ELDERS.
May 10.
The Council approved the measures adopted
by thatof five hundred.
Legendre iniinuated that th p eonfpiracy was
■ of the Royaiifis. While fome of the
Members replied by a (mile of pity, others
were enraged at feeing him thus palliate the
crimes of the Anarchißs.
PARIS, May 1 j
Before the palling over of a fortnight, a se
cond eonfpiracy has been formed by terrofiim,
notwithilanding its existence has been obltin
ately denied by the half-accomplice* and I^^*
ling wTiters, who have endeavoured to change
its complexion, to prevent its being recogniz
ed, and to thwart the efficacious measures it
was necelfary to adopt againß their defatigable
accomplices Great pralfe is due to the Direc
tory. Clear-fighted,notwithßauding the great
er part of those by whom it is surrounded seem
to be paid to mi (lead its members, it has heiJ
out to public indignation, it has courageously
brought forward to notice the nroß dangerous
enemies in France—the external enemies of the
good citizens, those who are in a permanent
eonfpiracy againß every established Govern
ment, because disorder is their element, pillage
their hope, and maflicres their means and their
pleasures.
We shall now content ourselves with adding
a few details, in addition to the particulars al
ready given in the proceedings of the Council,
relative to the new eonfpiracy from which we
-re jull extricated. Its a-un was to overthrow
the Conflitution of 1790. The conspirators
spoke of re-eftablifiling the anarchical code of
‘793’ km they would soon have done what
they have already twite lucceeded in doing.
1 heir cherished conßitution would have been
placed among the sacred arcfiives, and we
should soon have had a second edition of revo
lutiorrary tyranny. The Conv-ntion would
have been recreated, and th- D-putieS not re
elected, would have taken the place of the n *w
third. In consequence, almoit ali of the De
pu..i"s of the new third, the greater part of the
seventy-three those outlawed, and those of
the otli-r Deputies diitiognifh'’d bv their prr
bity, their energy, ana their deteßalion of the
anarchists toget-her with the Members of the
Direftory, several Mtnifters, and the Com
manders of the armed force, w -re to have been
appro.lended early this morn ng. and after
wards butchered. Ten m’ n were for this
purpo'.e to have proceed’d to each of their
h'Hifes—a part of the gunners had been brought
over, and it is said tha. th” conspirators had at
thftr command thirty field-pieces. At day
break the barriers were to have been filut, the
apprehensions were to take place, and the toc
sin to be founded. The plunder of all the
houses was to have been permitted, on pretext
of supplying the wants of the people. The
conspirators d,d our brethren in arms the fn
jufli.ee to think, that the temptation Os this
plunder would have to their
cause. 5
The plot was denounced to tK= Direftory by
fome of the conspirators themselves, who ap
peared to tremble at the moment of the ap.
proach for its execution. The Direftory im
mediately brought up the armed force which
furr.outid’d the Committee ot revolt : at the
head of this committee was Drouet, a mem
ber of the Council of five hundred. He had
with him iixty of the principal terrorifls when
his house was surrounded". Several of his col
leagues Rate, that since his return from Außria,
they have heard him openly speak of the plan
of overthrowing the conßitution and the di
rftlory. Prior to his detention in the prisons
Oi Germany, he was one of the mofi serious
mountaineers. On the 31R of May, he played
a moßdiftinguifhed part —he was more efpe
ciaily defirous,he said, to revenge the death of
Romme, Soubraav,Bouchotte, and other moun
taineers executed last year, for having been im
plicated in the revolt of the ill Prairial.
The hiflory and the papers which prove the
eonfpiracy, will without doubt be published
by the direftory. Thirty-five of the principal
conspirators are apprehended. Babceuf’s in
terrogatory is particularly intereßing. We are
allured that his confeliions are very important,
and well calculated to throw a light on this
horrible plot. He was taken ill at the mini-
Rer’s heufe, but was recovered by a glass of
water. Among thole apprehended, we have
collefted the following names : Bafofue, Edi
tor ot the 1 nbune of the people ; i.aignelct, Ex-
Conventionalist-, who was apprehendedlafl year
as an accomplice of the infurreftion of the iR
Prairial ; Ricors, Ex-Conventioi.ialiil, former
ly imoriloned in the Chateau of Ham ; Dar
thes. Bouc°ottc’s Secretary ; the Secretary of
Joseph Lebon ; Germain, Coqimiilloners of
me Direftory at Vcrfailes; Roflignol, Ex-Gen
eral in La Vendee ; and Antannellc, a writer
in the Journal des Hommes Libres.
Four hundred thousand iivres in fpreie had
been expended in maturing the eonfpiracy.
We arc allured that the agents of the prelent
minister of Police receiy-d 200,000 livres of
this money, which they have faithfully depo
sited in the office of Police. Several proofs
are eflablifhed that the assassins of the Lyon’s
Courier, who are apprehended, were sent on
that buimefs by the conspirators. They killed
him for the pttrpofe of getting into their hands
confiderablc (urns of fpecic he had about him,
with which they were to pay their partizans.
Avery numerous force has been on foot in
this capital fifice yeßerday morning ; and guns
are placed at the principal gates and round
two Councils. The utmoll tranquility pre
vails, in conleqticncc of the vigilance of thear
med force and police. The conspirators and
their partizans are confounded and abashed.
Several of them have fled. Among these arc
Vadier and Ainar. Enquiries arc m.iking on
all Tides who were and who were not concern
ed in the plot. Those who three days ago pro
nounced Soldi v against the Conflitution of 1795,
and boldly in favor of thatof 1793, have now
a real palfion for the frrft, and curse the second
bitterly. If effi ;acious RepS, however, are not
taken to dfmifs from public employments the
nmn who ar-a f indal to them, the Anarchißs,
will in the course of a fortnight, be as daring
asever, will d-ny the cxiß-nce of the conspi
racy, and will accu-fe the direftory of having
dev 1 fed it to cut oR the remains of th” Patriots.
The interrogatories of the conspirators are
now taking. It is said, that befidcj Drouet,
another Deputy, known to have been a great
frrend of Aural, is implicated in the plot. It
is worthy of otice, that the trials of the Sep
temltertzevs b gan yeßerday. It was a ques
tion to hutch them from the death which awaits
them.
At Drouet’s house was found a proclama
tion, in which the conipirators announced to
the people the conllitution 0(1793. To this
paper was annexed a leal, with the words
“ public fafety .” *
Three waggons full of conspirators have pro
ceeded to Plcflis. * *
May 12.
Paris is Rill tranquil. Three hundred thou
sand copies of an address, deilined by the con
fptrators fur the departments aud the armies,
have been seized. The following , s the only
paper which has as yet been officially given tl
the public on the fubjeft of the eonfpiracy
Ihe Executive direftory to the Citizens of Paris
%sjl Floreaf fourth year. ‘
“ Citizens, a terrible plot was to have ex
piodcd this night, or to-morrow at day-break’
A horde of robbers and assassins had formed
the plan ol alTaffinating the Legiffiuive
all the members of the government, the .Staff
of the army of the interior, and all the Conft,
tuted Btxlies in Paris. The proclamation of
tne conspirators was to be the signal of a gene,
ral pillage in l aris, as well of the houses, as of
the magazines and (hops, and the massacre of
a great number of citizens was to take place it
the fame time. 1
44 But be comforted, good Citizms ; the
government watches ; it knows the ringleaders
ot the conspirators and their means.
■ * ‘ he llm P le publicity which the Executive
Direftory gives to their plans, will without
duutu furfice to pr *vent any movement on their
part.—Bm, in every case, be tranquil and pur
(ue your ordinary avocations. Abandon th*
brigands to themselves r. I'he Government has
taken certain measures to defeut their plot*
and to deliver up them and their partizans to
the vengeance of the laws.
(Signed) “Carnot, Frcfident.”
LONDON, May : 7 .
French papers Rate, that hoftilltiea
had not, according to their latcft advi
ces, recommenced on the Rhine, though
the preparations for such an event were
carried on with great activity. On the
contrary, a report prevails at Parts that
the negociations for peace, had been re
famed between the emperor and the
french. Such an event is extremely
probable, for there hardly seems any*
other means left to him to save his do
minions in Italy, which to him are oi‘
much greater importance than the Neth
erlands.
Sailed the Dolly armed cutter, of ej-vhc
guns, A. Watson, mailer, with rhecap
•uin of la Virginte, who is to be exchang
ed lor Sir Sidney Smith.
C O V/ E S, May 2.
Our road at this time exhibits more
the appearance of an American part
than an English harbour, as no less than
twenty flags of that nation are now fly
ing on board velfels, which are arrived
within this lalt week, with cargoes ot
wheat, flour, Indian meal, &c. to fell in
this country.
Unfortunately for our fpecuiators,
their arrival is too late, by fix months
at lead ; for none of them with the ben
efit of the extravagant bounty offered,
can fell, but with the certainty of a con
siderable loss, as every builicl of wheat
now on board, cost the purchaser in A
merica i is-6d. iterling.
Capt. Copperthwait, of the brig
belonging to Philadelphia, laden with
flour, is this morning come in from Ha
vre, to which place he run to dispose of
his cargo ; but could not even get £
price named, so glutted is that market
with every species of grain from neu
tral ports.
FALMOUTH, (Jam.) June 22.
On Wcdnefday lalt, arrived here, the
American ship Augulia, Captain Calla
han, from Charieiton, lalt from Cape
Nicholas Mole. By this (hip
informed, that on the 1 tth inflant, 4a
transports, a sloop of war, two Ir.dia
men of 50 guns each, having on board
6700 Britiih troops, arrived iafeat Cape.
Nicholas Mole from Sr. Lucia and De~
merara. The troops were ail landed ia
good health, under the command of gen
erals White and Churchill.
During the time Captain Callahat*
was at the Mole, the British with 2000
infantry, and 500 horse, made an attack
upon Bombarde, a itrong French polt
about twelve miles from the Platform.
From the inhuman conduct of the French
at this post to the Englilh prisoners,
which the fortune of w ar threw in their
hands, it was thought proper by the
British commanders, prior to their at
tack, to call a council of war, to know if
such men were entitled to mercy lhould
the poll be carried; at this council of
there was a majority of only one tc
save the lives of the prisoners. The
attack being made by the British, the
French beat a parley, and hauled down
their colours —The British, fuppofng
the poll carried, and the French prison
ers of war, were marching into the fort,
and a soldier hoisting the Engiiih co
lours,, when, horrid to relate, the
were shut- upon them, and tne man hoiit
ing the colours was ripped up, the
French colours again hoi lied, and a tre
mendous fire of linall arms from large
bod ins ot concealed French soldiers ujx>n
the Britiih ; the unfortunate offices and
soldiers which had got into the fort
w’crc inflantly put to death, and great
slaughter among them that were cutfide
then marching up. We have nnt been
able to learn the number of officers an
men that fell in this treacherous action*
but we arc ferry to add, that Generr
No, 44,