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HISTORY OF EUROPE, [13 
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Fe Vik: 
Baie made by the French privileged orders, for procuriag re- 
fi or fuccour from the neighbouring continental powers. 
<s airs im Europe, which, with ether caufes, tended to produce that indiffer- 
Baenis refpe? to France whith now 5 i Courts of Madrid and 
i Wace. Rafh and impetuons proceedings, along with the contemptuous lar- 
re ufed by the national affembly, ferves continually to create new enzinies 
broad as =well as at home. Ws rong offered to the German princes with 
rope v0 their poffeffions and rights in Alface, embitters the whole empire 
ainft the new government, and implants deeply the feeds of Suture conten 
Weft India colonies thrown into a fiate of the. simofe dif- 
inde and confufton, and at length precipitated into the moft dteadful jcenes 
(elation, conflagration, and maffacre, auhich terninate in final deftrucn, 
by a feries of ill- yudged and precipitate meajurss, of impolitic, jnpratit 
sétory decrees. Great diferders in the army. Soldiers throws. 
State of political 
The people being now in poleffion of 
ct sake a defire of uncontrelled rule and fovcreignty becomes the leading and 
paffion, a circumftance which Serves greatly to unite them, and to 
Sieeagtben the new fftem. The weak attempts of the royalifts; and the con-, 
iaual reports of plots, confpiracics, and invafions, caufe fuch a general 
rm, that the provinces affociate and arm; fa that France feems covered. 
th camps and armies. 
ment . 
wry 
_ 3 the Parifians. 
Corfica annexed to France as part of the kingdom. 
o sy the court of Spain relative to the difpute with England, brings oz 
bate an the queftion, in whofe hands the right of peace and war fomld 
State of the-arifiocrates aud parties adverf ta, 
Applica-, 
Be lodged. Sccond applisation from Spain brings on a change of the minifiry. 
Mutin of the feet at Breft.' Anacharis Clogtz, introduces to the "inkl 
bis ambaffadors from all mankind. Decree for abslifbing all, titles, and be 
terating all memorials of nobility and family diftinZion, for ever in France, 
Grand rational confederation at Paris. 
Bloody conteft at Naxcy. Mr. 
tar guits the kingdom, a ge: various difgraces, and narrowly ofeaping 
chifm of the French clergy; the greater part of 
it to the lofs of their penftons, and to cxpulfion from their paftoral 
, hh fs rather than to take the nezely-preferibed oaths, 
P. 
7C TWITHST ANDING the 
| immediate difmay produced 
Tate att of the king, in ap- 
ing of all the roceedings of 
ae nbly, and difclaiming 
d rt probating the meafures 
sd in his favour, the ruined 
ile2 zed orders foon recolleéted 
felves, and inftead of finking 
er tay unexpected blow, feem- 
ed in a little time to acquire freth 
ectivity and new vigour, from a 
check which had at firft imprefied 
them with fuch vifible coniternation, ’ 
For though, in order to itrength- 
en both, they wifhed to make 
their own caufe common with that 
of the crown, in every attempt for 
the recovery of the loit, or the pres; 
fervation of what remained of their, 
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