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174 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,