HISTORY OF EUROPE.’ 
Aljarmed at the manifest danger 
that was threatened by this combi. 
nation of the mountain. party and 
the terrorists or jacobins, for their 
principles were tie same, the di. 
rectory was much perplexed in 
what manner to a&t. The council 
of juniors, or five hundred, patro- 
‘nized this party too strongly to dis 
oblige it: and the majority of the 
directors owed their seats to its+ 
friends in the legislature. They 
thought it, for these reasons, the sur- 
st policy to conciliate the terrorist 
faktion, by placing its favourites and 
chief adherents in the principal em- 
ployments. . It was not, however, 
without dread of the consequences, 
that the public now saw the release, 
from their imprisonment, of those 
members of the convention who had 
sided with the insurgents, in’ the © 
-month of May, and their promotion 
to places of trust. It wasscill with 
more terror they beheld the mem. 
bers of the revolutionary commit. 
tees throughout France not only de. 
liyered from confinement, but dis- 
tinguishedby preterments. Those, 
however, who coolly investigated 
the proceedings of the direttory, 
thought they perceived in them true 
and sound policy. It was their bu- 
siness to keep all parties in‘a due 
equipoise, and, at the same time, 
to obviate a!l suspicion that they in- 
clined toroyalism. The royalists had 
cerainly formed sanguine hopes, 
that the i!l treatment of the Parisi- 
ans would induce these to make a 
common cause with them. In this 
expectation they were secretly en- 
deavouring to rally their scattered 
force, in order to makea fresh at- 
tempt in that quarter, which now 
seemed the best calculated for such 
an intent. ‘This was evidently the 
Metropolis, where the resentments 
<ptay 
of the most reputable: part of the 
inhabitants Hamed:high, on, account 
of the severity they had, and still 
experienced from the legislature, 
and the subjectioa they felt theme 
selves under to the ignobler classes, 
from whose licentiousness they had 
so lately proteéted the convention. 
They were equally indignant at the 
ingratitude of the one, and the in- 
solence of the others, and doubte 
less wouid have embraced the océa- 
sion of testifying their antipathy to 
both. But the royalists were un- 
founded, in presuming that they 
would have gratified their revenge 
at the expence of their principles. 
The Parisians were in general the 
most attached, of any of the French, 
to a commonwealth, and, from 
that very principle, had so violent. 
ly opposed the power usurped by 
the convention, 2gainst the spirit 
of the constitution they had adopt. 
ed. The dire€tory, conscious of 
the dissatisfaction of the capital at 
the new legislature, determined, 
for that reason, to trust only tothat 
portion of the inhabitants which 
had latterly stood by the convey. 
tion; and those were the terrorists. 
They were now taken into favour 
by the governing party, as the only 
men that would boldly push for- 
ward every measure taken up by 
their friends in the legislature, and 
who might, through this favourable 
usage of them, be prevailed upon 
to drop their own designs, and ac. 
quiesee in the present settlement of 
affairs. 
But the terrorists were so violent-: 
ly attached to their persecuting 
maxims, that no consideration could 
reclaim them. Nay, proud of the 
superiority they now possessed over 
their disarmed antagonists, they pa. 
raded the places of public resort, and 
lorded 
