CONTENTS. 
CHAP, VII. 
Meeting of the New Legislature.—Strength of the predominant Party.— 
New and great Object of Ambition among the Leaders.—Characters of the 
Members of the newly-established Directory.—Pomp and Parade of the 
Directory.—Policy of keeping up a Taste for external Splendour and Dise 
tinction.—These hateful to the rigid Republicans.—The Terrorists, called 
mow the Society of the Pantheon, resume their primary Designs. —The Di- 
rectory alarmed, yet judge it expedient to court the Favour of the Terro- 
rists.—Regulations of the Directory, and Contests respecting the public 
Songs of Paris.—The Spirit and Temper of the Parisians indicated by these 
Contests : a seasonable Admonition to the Directery.— Decline of Terror- 
asm.— The Terrorists, or Society of the Pantheon suppressed, and the House 
itself shut up.—The Terrorists continue to assembic, and give vent to their 
Rage, in small Parties.—A new Opposition to the Directory, more formid= 
able than the Society uf the Pantheon had been.—Reduction of the Galleries 
mm the Hall of the Convention, to a Space not containing more than three 
Hundred Spectators.—Utility of dividing the Legislature into two inde- 
pendant Bodies.—Remarkable Artifice of the Junior Cauncil for command. 
ang the Appointment of all the Members of the Directory.—Establishment 
of an Institution in France for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences.— 
And of Central Schools for Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, in all 
the Departments.—Perfect Enjoyment of Religious Toleration.— Bigotry 
and Presumption of the Roman Catholics.—Checked with Moderation by 
the Directory.—Treaties of Peace between the French Republie and other 
Governments.—Public Mention of them by different States 115 
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Incorporation of the Austrian Netherlands with the French Republic.—An 
Object of Alarm to the Neighbouring Nations.—Debility of the French 
Marine.— Naval Exertions of France confined to Depredations on the Bria 
tish Trade.—Revolt under the Auspices and Conduct of Victor Hughes of 
the French West-India Islands, that had been reduced by the English.— 
Superior Skill, Bravery, and Success, of the British Officers and Seamen. 
-—The Dutch Colony at the Cape of Good Hope taken by the English.—Suc-. 
cess of the French in Piratical Warfare.—Bold and masterly Retreat of 
Admiral Cornwallis.—Prosperous State of French Affairs on the Continent. 
Interference of the French in the Government of the small Stare of Gene 
va.— This new-modelled after the Fashion of the French Republic.—Insur- 
rections.—V iolence.—A Revolutionary 7 ribunal.—Intrigues of the French, 
' for bringing the City of Geneva under Subjection to the French Republic. 
—The Influence of the New Principles of the French extends across the 
Atlantic.—and excites dangerous Commotions in America.—The Authority 
&f Government maintained in the United States of America, by the Mo- 
deration, Prudence, and Vigour of General Washington.—Insurrection 
of Emigrants from Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland, in the West- 
ern Parts of Pensylcania,—Quelled by the Approach of a great and a 
sistible 
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