HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
all the assertions contained in this 
address. It was received by their 
‘enemies with applause, as expres- 
sing bold truths, which no other 
_description of men wou!d have 
dared to mention. Though im- 
. aay belief might not be paid to 
» the whole of its contents, by that 
G: a the public which did not 
_ hastily give countenance to reports 
_ of the day, yet the multitude tas 
_ 80 prepossessed in favour of the ad- 
is dressers, that their asseverations, and 
Opinions, quickly obtained a de- 
_ cidéd popularity. 
_ Inthe mean time, the directory 
_ feeling itself superior to all appre- 
_ hensions, resolyed to make the oppo- 
sition sensible how little govern- 
“ment was intimidated by the ob- 
_ stacles thrown in its way, and 
détermined to prosecute its own 
_ Measures in defiance of the dis- 
approbation, and implied menaces, 
of the council of five hundred. 
‘With this view they began by.'an- 
‘swering that message of the council, 
“which ‘had peremptorily required: an 
4 ‘explanation, respecting the’ march 
; GF those ‘troops that had arrived in 
, the vicinity of the capital. “In this 
“answer a circumstantial detail was 
given of the whole transaction, by 
| which’ it ‘appeared that “the com- 
) “manding- yee who had’ traced 
_ the line of ‘march, to ‘bé ‘observed 
__ by those’ troops,’ had déclaréd him- 
“self ‘totally ignorant of’ the law that 
prohibited any armed force coming 
“within twelve leagues of Paris. 
ast bis answer also denied the ‘ trath 
of the jmformation: received: by the 
eomncil, that arms had been put 
» ifito the hands of five hundred -raf- 
ans, at Chartres, for the parpose 
of committing ‘violence’ Upon the 
wo councils of the legislature. — fn 
swer to the complaint of -the 
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council, that‘ the military had en- 
tered into ‘deliberations, which they 
were é€xpressly forbidden to do by 
the constitution, the directory in- 
sinuated that the sense and meaning 
of the expression to deliberate, had 
not been” so accurately defined, as 
to be clearly applicable to the ad- 
dresses presented to the executive 
government by the armies. In these 
addresses, as well asin those to 
their brethren in arms, they had 
done no more than express’ the 
wishes they had formed, and the 
sentiments that animated them. 
After premising these particulars, 
the directory informed the council; 
that they thought ‘it a duty to go 
back to the causes that had pro- 
duced those addresses, and to point 
them out to the council for their 
serious consideration, ‘The. causes 
from which they proceeded were 
the general alarm and inquietude 
that had for. some months past taken 
possession of the public, and banish- 
ed ‘that tranquillity and confidence 
which had before so diffusively pre- 
vailed. * They were caused: by the 
defalcation in the revenue, through 
which’ all parts of the administration 
suffered’ so déplorably, and the ar- 
mies’ weré deprived of their pay 
and subsistence. ‘They were caused 
_by the péfsecution ‘and assassination 
of the purchasers of nationa) pro- 
perty, of the public functionaries, 
of the’ defenders of the countryy'ef 
all who dared to shew 
the friends of the republic.’ Lhey 
were caused’ by the waht of’ firm-, 
ness and vigour in the punishment 
of criminals, aud. the? partiality of 
the public tribunals. “They were 
caused by” the insolence of the emi- 
grants and the refractory . priests; 
who, recalled:and openly: favoured, 
appeared ‘boldly every where; kepe 
ie Beg alive 
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