‘during his own Reign. 
eonvey of ammunition’; a boat was waft- 
ing for them in Hyeres roads, where they 
embarked and were thus saved. 
Napoleon, then’ twénty-five years of 
age, was entered on the ‘list of géencrals 
of infantry, to be employed in thie artil- 
Jéry when’ there’ should be inspections 
vacant.’ He was to’ quit the Army of 
Ttaly,of which Kellerman had jast taken 
the command. fe conferred with that 
general at’ Marseilles, gave him all the 
inforitiation he could want, and set out 
for Paris, ‘At Chatillon-sur-Seiic, he 
Visited: the father-of his aidc-cic-camp 
Marmont, where he heard the news of 
the events of ‘the first of Prairial, which 
induced him to remain there a few days 
until tranquillity should be restored in 
the “capitul. On reaching Paris he 
waited on Aubry, a member of the 
Committee of Public Safety, who had 
made the report on the military service ; 
observed to him that he had commanded 
the artillery at the siege of Toulon, and 
that! of the Army-of Italy for two years; 
that Ae had fortified the coasts of the 
Mediterratiéan,’ and that it was painful 
to him 6 leave a corps in which he had 
served’ from childhood. The represen- 
tative objected ‘that ‘there were many 
fenerals’ of artillery, and that he was 
the youngest, and that when tlicre should 
he a vacati¢y he shonid be employed. 
But Aubry himself had heen a captain of 
artillery six’mionths before; he had not 
served in the ficld since the Revolution, 
and yet he had placed himsclf on the 
Vist as a general of division and inspector 
of artillery. “A few days after, the Com- 
mittce “of Public Safety despatched 
ders to Napoleon to proceed to the 
rniy of La Vendée to command a 
brigade of infantry; in answer to which 
he gave in his resignation, 
=U I ATALIAN COMMAND. 
Bight days after Nupoleon had given 
in ‘his resigwAtion, and whilst he was 
Waiting for the answer of the Committee 
of Public Safety, Kellérman got defeated, 
lost his positions at Saint’ Jacques, and 
wrote that unless he received reinforce- 
ments speedily, he should even be ob- 
liged 10 qait Nice. "This excited great 
‘alarm; the Committee of Pablic Safety 
ssembled all the deputies who liad been 
with the Army of Italy, in order to ob- 
tain ‘ifurmation. The latter unani- 
‘mously nominated Napoleon iis the per- 
sun best’ acquainted with the positions 
oocupied by the army, and most capable 
of pomting out the measnres proper to 
‘be adoptod; he received a requisition (0 
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attend the Conimitice, did had several 
conferences with Sicycs, Douleet, Ponte- 
conlant, Letourneur, and Jean de Brie. 
’ . ; eit a 
He drew up the instructions which the 
Committee adopted. He was then by 
a special decree appointed’ brigadier- 
general “of artillery, to’ be specially at- 
tached, until farther order, to the direc- 
tion of the military operations. In, this 
situation he passed the two or three 
mouths previous to the thirteenth of 
Vendeininire. 
When Kellerman took the command 
of the Army of Haly, on the 19h of 
May, 1796, the army was in the positions 
in which Napoleon bad placed it in, the 
month of October in the preceding year, 
after the action of Cairo. It consisted 
of 25,000 men, commanded by the ge- 
nerals of division Serruricr, Laharpe, and 
Massena. 
Kellerman was a brave soldier, ‘ex- 
tremely active, and possessed of miuny 
good qualities; but he was wholly des- 
titute of the talents necessary ‘for’ the 
chief command of an army. Through- 
out the conduct of this war he was con- 
stantly committing errors. eas 
The Goverument considered tlie com- 
mand of the Army of Italy beyond the 
abilities of Kellerman, and in September 
placed him at the head of the Army of 
the Alps, intrasting the Army 6f Italy 
to General Scherer, who commanded 
the Army of the Eastern Pyrchees, 
which had become nseless through the 
peace with Spain. Scherer conducted 
a reinforcement of two divisious of good 
troops into Italy. 
BARRAS. 
Barras was officer ip the reziment of 
the Isle of France when the Revolution 
broke out; he was elected ‘a deputy to 
the National Convention hy his depart- 
ment, that of the Var. After the 31st 
of May, he and ’reron were nominated 
commissioners to Provence, the seat of 
the civil war. On his return to Paris, 
he joined the Therinidorian party. Be- 
ing menaced, as well as ‘Tallien, by Ro- 
bespierre, they united with the remainder 
of Danton’s friends, and brouzht about 
the events of the 91h of Thermidor. At 
the critical moment, the Convention ap- 
pointed Barras to march to the commune 
which had risen in favour of Rubespierre ; 
he succecded, and acquired great cele- 
brity by this eveut, After the fall of Ro- 
bespierre, (he Thermidorians became the 
men of France. On the 12th of Vende- 
miaire, at the time of Metion’s arrest, the 
committees, in order ‘to get rid of the 
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