76] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
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, Arrestation of national Representatives. — Message from the Directory to the 
two Councils, on this Subject.—An Address on the same, to the People of 
Franee.—Lorty Resolutions, adapted to the present Juncture, proposed bya — 
Committee of pubic Sajety.— Adopted ly the Council, and passed into 
Laws.—Transactions of the primary Communes and eiectoral Assemblies, 
an fifty Departments, declared illegal.— Upwards of sixty Persons, Mem- 
ters of the Directory and Councils, and others, sentenced to Transportation, 
— Address from the Council of Five Hundred to the Departments and the 
Armies.—Imputing the most iniquitous and atrocious Designs to the 
Royalists. —Proclamation ly the French Government, announcing a sez 
cond Expedition against Ireland.—Singuler Expedition of a Body of 
French Troops into Wales.—These surrendered themselves, without Re- 
sistance, Prisoners of War to a Force, raised and headed, on the Emer- 
gency, ly Lord Cawdor.—The Spanish Island of Trinidad taken by the 
English, 
ROM the day whereon Thi- 
baudeau made his report to the 
councils, it was obvious to the pub- 
lic, that strong measures were in 
agitation on both sides. ‘Ihe legis- 
Fature was convinced, that the di- 
rectory and its adherents intended 
some deeds of violence. Buona. 
parte, whose decisive character was 
well known, and who was closely 
connected with the directory, had 
provided them with a man to exe- 
cute their designs, in whom beth 
he and they could place confidence, 
on account of his principles -and 
abilities. This was general Auge- 
reau, whom he dispatched to Paris, 
on plausible pretexts, but to the real 
intent of his being at hand for their 
purposes. . 
_ Relying on the force they had 
taken previous care to holdin readi- 
ness,, and on the popularity which 
Augereau was known to possess 
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among the soldiery, as well as the 
people of Paris, dreading, at the 
same time, to be anticipated by the 
opposition, the directors came to a 
determination to execute, without 
delay, the plan they had adopted, 
Qn the eighteenth of Fructidor, ” 
September the fourth, at three 
o’clock in the morning, an order 
was signed by Barras, Reubel, and 
Lareveillere, empowering general 
Augereau to arrest a specified num- 
ber of the national representatives. | 
In the mean time, the alarm bells 
were rung in the different sections, 
the citizens informed, that a conspis 
racy was on the point of breaking 
out, and called upon to stand by the 
government, which was in immedi- 
ate danger from the royalists. Au- 
gereau made use of.the same lan-. 
guage in addressing. himself to the 
military guard of the councils, and- 
they immediately placed themselves 
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