HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
rious terrorist, whose conda@ was 
so violent, and who shewed him. 
self so inexorable to tnose whom he 
Jooked upon as enemies to the re. 
public, that the inhabitants, fear. 
ing for their safety, abandoned the 
City; as they were chiefly persons 
engaged in business and manufac- 
“tures, the injury sustained by their 
desertion was heavily feit, and oc. 
casioned such complaints, that the, 
directory, to prevent farther mis= 
chief, immediately recalled him. 
The other was the celebrated 
Freron, a man of ietters and cone 
siderable parts, but of a turbulent 
and wavering disposition, He be. 
gan his career by acting a resolute 
and open part for the jacobin fac- 
tion, of which he continued a 
noted favourite, until the destruc. 
tion of Roberspierre ; in which, trom 
motives common to others beside 
himself, that of sclf-preservation, 
he found it expedient to concur. 
He now changed his principles, 
and in a periodical publication, 
which had a great run, attacked 
the terrorists so effectually, that, for 
a time, they hardly durst appear in 
Paris, where all the young men 
of reputable condition, in the vari- 
ous seCtions, made it their business 
to Joad them with scorn and deri- 
sion, and. to point them out as 
wbjeéts of execration. His ambi- 
tion, nevertheless, was such, - that 
finding no other means to gratity 
it, after the terrorists hadagain ob. 
tained the superiority, than by res 
turning to that party, he joined it; 
and, in consideration of his abili. 
ties, was appointed by the conven- 
tion, which now was wholly guid- 
ed by its influence, a delegate to 
the departments situated ‘in the 
_ gountry formerly called Provence. 
Here he assumed so much state, 
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and exercised such improper autho- 
rity, that he soon. became extreme- 
ly odious; he dismissed from the'r 
official employments those who held 
them by popuiar eleCion, and filled 
them with individuals of the ter- 
rorist party, whom he delivered from 
prison tor the very purpose of do- 
mineering over those who detested 
them. It has been alleged, in vin. 
dication of his conduct, that the 
departments, over which he had 
been sent to preside, were so much 
under the influence of the royalists 
and ecclesiasties, who had insinus 
ated themselves clandestinély inte 
those -parts, that they could no 
longer be considered as taithful sub. 
jects to the state, and were almost oe 
in a state of rebeilion; but his pros 
ceedings were so vidlent, and tend- 
ed so little to reconcile them, that 
the dife&ory recalled him, and 
sharply reprimanded him for the ilf 
use he had made of the power with 
which he had been invested. 
Ta order, at thesametime, to con» 
vince the public, that they were 
averse to unnecessary severities, they 
sent an address to, the departments 
which had been aggrieved, with 
solemn assurances of impartial jus- 
tice in the administration of their 
concerns. ‘This public aét of con- 
ciliarion’ removed in a great mea~ 
sure the apprehensions that had 
been emtertained from the direc= 
tory. ‘The enemies to the new 
constitution had given out, that it 
would prove as despotic and op-« 
pressive a tribunal as any that had 
preceded it, in the very worst pe« 
riods of the revolution: this sur. 
mise originated principally from= 
the royal party. ThedireGtory saw 
the necessity of counteracting ig, 
not only by words, but by deeds, 
and resolved, that henceforth no 
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