100] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
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Regulations respecting the Election of Deputies to the New National Assem= 
bly.—Considered by many as Infringements on the Privileges of the Peo- 
ple—Contentions on this Sulject, between the Convention on the one 
part, and the Citizens of Paris, and other Cities, on the other,-—Am- 
bitious Views of the Leaders of the Convention A gloom cast on the 
'Expetations that had been formed from the New Constitution.— Allege- 
_tions in favour of the Convention. — Aétion hetween the Parisians and the 
Regular Troops, who took Part with the Convention.—Complete Defeat 
of the Parisians.— Artifices of the Convention in order to gloss this In- 
surrettion.— Resentment against the Parisians severely exercised by the 
Convention.—Now released from all Restraint.—Disappointment and 
Suspicions of neighbouring Nations, concerning the New Constitution, © 
and Regulation of Eleétions in France.—Plans of the Convention, for 
strengthening and perpetuating its Authority.—A Commission of Five 
appointed to consult on Measures for Saving the Country.—A Vote for 
the Annullment of the Commission of Five confirming the Constitution 
agreed on, and the Dissolution of the Assemlbly.—The Moderates pre- 
vail,— Refleétions on the Temper and Conduét of the Convention. 
T cannot be denied, however, 
that if ambition did not plan 
the present system, it prompted the 
convention tovestablish it in such a 
manner as suited the views of the 
most ambitious among them. Pre. 
viously to the ostensible deposition 
of theirauthority in the hands of the 
nation, they resolyed to provide for 
the renewal ofit by a measure which, 
to the generality of men, appeared 
highly unjustifiable. Thev passed a 
decree, enjoining theelectoral bodies 
to choose two-thirds of the deputies 
of the nation that were to be ele€ted 
on this occasion, out of the members 
of the present convention, and or- 
daining that in default of an eleétion 
of those two-thirds, in the manner 
prescribed, the convention should fill 
up the vacancies themselves. . The 
constitution, together with. these 
two decrees, was formally trans- 
mitted to the primary assemblies, 
and every species of intrigue’ was 
set on foot to procure thema favour. 
able reception. 
So singular a stretch of power, 
from a body that professed so warm 
and patriotic an adherence to the, 
interest of the nation, and so much 
respect for the rights of the people, 
did not fail to strike the public with. 
the greatest astonishment. In Paris, © 
the complaints against the convens 
tion were loud and vehement. They | 
were explicitly accused of a heinous 
violation of the undoubted privi- 
leges of the people, and of a mani« 
fest design, under the spécious pre- 
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