HISTORY “OF EUROPE. 
which, for the purposes of the day, 
have been thought sufficient. 
Through the insinuations of 
Vendean chiefs above mentioned, 
a secret dissatisfaction was spread 
among the royalists, who had sub- 
mitted, and a great majority of 
whom seemed well-disposed to rest 
contented with that situation of 
safety and tranquillity they had ob- 
tained; that they harboured no 
intentions to rise any more against 
the government, was apparent from 
their behaviour subsequently to the 
treaty, which was pacific, and con- 
formable, in every respec, to the 
articles agreed on. Both the Ven- 
deans and Chouans conducted them- 
selves in the most satisfactory man- 
ner; the chiefs of the latter depo- 
sited in the hands of Ruelle, a mem- 
ber of the convention deputed to 
treat with them, neatly a million of 
forged assignats, which had been dis- 
tributed among them, as they said, 
from a squadron of British men of 
war on the coast of Brittany. Nor 
had the insurgents any real cause to 
be dissatisfied with the conditions 
of that treaty. It was stipulated, 
that eighty millions should be given 
to the peaple of La Vendée, to in- 
demnify them for their losses, and > 
the devastation of their country ; 
that ten millions should be granted 
to the chiefs of the insurgents, to 
enable them to pay debts ‘they had 
contra¢ted, and take up the bonds 
issued in their name during the ine 
surrection ; that a body of two thou. 
sand men, in the pay of govern- 
ment, should be placed under the 
command of Charette; that no re- 
quisitions should take place in La 
Vendée for the space of five years ; 
that the Roman Catholic religion 
should be publicly exercised; and 
that nonjuring clergymen should be 
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permitted to return, and resume the 
possession of their family estates. 
But notwithstanding these conces- 
sions, on the part of government, 
the attachment of the Vendeans to 
the royal cause led them into so in- 
timate and continual a correspond- 
ence with the principal of the French 
emigrants in England, that it was at 
dase discovered. Comartin, and 
others of the Chouan chiefs, were 
taken into custody, on the evidence 
of some letters that had been inter. 
cepted. About the close of May, 
the designs of the Chouans became 
manifest ; they rose in arms, invested 
the town of Grandchamp with six 
thousand men ; but a strong body of 
republicans came upon them by sur- 
prise at break of day, on the twen. 
ty-eighth, took several of their 
chiefs, and put the rest to flight. 
In the mean time an armament 
was preparing in England to second 
the intended insurre¢tion of the roy- 
alists in France.. In the beginning, 
of June it sailed to the southern coast 
of Brittany, under the command of 
sir John Borlase Warren. The insur- 
gents were at that time assembled in 
great force in La Vendée; but, as 
they were not masters of any seaports 
where to make alanding, the squa- 
dron proceeded to the bay of Quibe- 
ron, Here a body of about three 
thousand men landed on the twenty- 
seventh, and dispersed a small num- 
ber of republicans that had made a 
shew of opposing them. They be- 
sieged and took a fort garrisoned by 
six hundred men, and prepared to 
march farther into the country. 
Multitudes flocked in from all parts, 
to whom vast quantities ofarms were 
distributed ; and it was expected, 
that an army might be formed, ina 
short time, capable of facing the re- 
publican troops in the neighbourhood. 
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