64] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
“eH A Pp. TV. 
- Pacification between the Convention and the Insurgentsin La Vendée.— 
On Terms very favourable to the latter.—Yet they again risein Arms.— 
Aétion letween the Repullicans and Emigrants, with other Loyalists, 
near Quiler.—Defeat and Disasters of the Loyalists.--Their Capture or 
total Excision.—ad British Squadron reduces and fortifies L'Isle Dieu. 
— New Arrangements in Holland.— Enormous Contrilutions.— The Con- 
vention highly elated with the Successes of their Armies.— Distribution 
of these.—Distresses of the French People.—And those of the Conquered 
Countries. —Reduétion of the Fortress of Luxembourg.— And Ment ine 
vested by the French.—Who cross the Rhine.—Compaign on that River. 
— Successes of the French.—And Losses.—Tide of Success ‘turned in 
favour of the Austrians.— A Junétion between the French Armies, under 
Jourdan and Pichegru, checks the Viétorious Career of the Austrians.— 
Manheim retaken from the French.—Campaign on the Italian Frontiers 
of France.—Situation of the Interior of France.—And general Temper 
of the French Nation.—Extreme Animosity and Licentiousness of abusive 
Language.— Measure of Convention for Restraining this.— And securing 
the Lilerty of Religious Worship. 
AN event of greater importance 
than any treaty of peace with 
a foreign enemy, had, in the mean- 
while, taken place in France. This 
was the pacification of those inter- 
nal troubles that had occasioned so 
much effusion of blood, and laid 
waste some of the finest provinces of 
thekingdom. The proclamation of 
amnesty to all those who would lay 
down their arms, and submit to the 
republic, had wrought every effect 
that could have been desired. The 
insurgents in La Vendée and the 
neighbouring provinces, who had 
till then looked upon themselves ag 
devoted to destruction by the repub- 
licans, and had continued in arms 
for their preservation, were gradu- 
ally prevailed upon to confide in 
. the promises of government. Since 
the fall of Roberspierre, conciliation 
had succeeded to terror, and ex- 
amples had been publicly made of 
the principal perpetrators of the 
cruelties in La Vendée; and of the 
barbarities exercised on the un- 
happy royalists at Nantes and other 
places. This, together with that pro- 
clamation, which was issuéd on the 
first of December, in the preceding 
year, had prepared the minds of the 
insurgents to receive amicably the 
vatious offers of amity and pro- 
tection which were held out to 
them by the moderate party, that, 
happily for France, had now the di- 
rection of affairs. 
The majority of the insurgenta 
had availed themselves of these of- 
fers ; but numbers still adhered to 
their chiefs. Accustomed to the 
predatory 
