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lishmg the national credit,’ and 
there is reason to hope, that by 
means of the resources now at» the’ 
disposal of the government, we ap- : 
proach to the end of our evils,” 
The executive directory will em- 
ploy all its efforts to second them, 
and: give them efficacy. Abuses 
shall’ be extirpated ; the most rigid 
reform shall be made in every part 
of the administration: the consti- 
tution shall be maintained with ° 
firmness; the enemy shall be pur- 
sued without ceasing; anarchy 
shall be crushed, and all faétions 
shall be destroyed with equal vi- 
gour. 
information, shall in all parts of the 
republic” actively execute the laws 
and the measures of government ; 
and, if in the multitude, which 
the executive direCtory has at once 
been obliged tochoose, it has named 
intriguers or evil-disposed per- 
sons, it will be anxious to reform 
its errors when they have been de- 
monstrated by experience. 
It is with this vigilance that the 
state will be enabled to supply all 
its wants; that the price of goods 
will be brought within the power 
of the consumer; that we shall be 
enabled to provide every thing’ ne- 
- eessary for those brave armies, who 
have shewn an heroic perseverance 
in the midst of the most pressing 
wants, and have invariably forgot 
their own sufferings in their anxi- 
ety for the safety and glory of the. 
_ will redouble your energy and your 
sepublic. 
_ We find it our duty, however, 
to advise you, that expiring royalty 
and stock-jobbing unite all their 
efforts against a plan, of which the 
success will’ be their ruin: we are 
assured, that England has poured: 
in her treasures to raise the price’ 
Patriotic agents, of probity and 
ANNUAL°REGISTER, “1795. 
of money ; that the stock-jobbers 
have made great sacrifices to obtain 
that end, and’ to prevent the suc- 
cess of the measures: about to be 
adoptéd*by the legislative body ; 
but itis easy to perceive that this 
undue lowering of the assignats, if 
it takes place, can only prolong 
itself till the term of the first pay~ 
ment of the forced loan ; for then 
the guineas of England, already 
exhausted, will fail in opposing the 
genius of liberty! and the ruin of 
those atrocious men, whose avarice 
devours us, will be the consequence 
of their own manceuvres. 
‘Frenchmen! instruéted by six 
years of revolution, you will not 
abandon to avarice’ the fruit that 
you’ ought to gather yourselves! 
you shall not be reduced bythe. 
tricks of stock-jobbing, which, to” 
lower, the publie credit, and to” 
raise the “price of goods on which® 
it speculates, one-time makes ane 
insidious safe ‘of-mioney; and anos” 
ther cireulates the nvost alarming” 
news by the mouths of ‘the*false, 
and by theirperfidfous journals one 
time it is ‘Tepbrred 5 that the exe.” 
cutive diretoty ‘refuses all propos 
sitions of peace, Wheti,‘on thecons, 
trary, it is “tHe object of alle its® 
wishes, and that our enemies only” 
keep péacé at’ a distance, in the 
chimerical’ ‘hope “ of - 'destroying® 
France, and ‘reducing it to thé fate’ 
of Poland. «~ (aan Cee 
A generous indignation against. 
so many base and criminal projects’ 
courage : all-of you should unite’ 
yourselves "to give- success to the 
measures which can alone’secure to” 
the indigent his bread, and to the- 
opulent :his life and fortune. 8 
As-for us! who, always guided: 
by the desire of saving the republic, - 
we 
