- HISTORY OF EUROPE, 
cunder his command, in. spite of the 
remonstrances of Ramel, their prin- 
cipal officer, whom. they ignomi- 
niously degraded. ‘This proved a 
Deere biaw. as the councils had 
" Mot entertained any suspicion they 
would haye been thus deserted. 
_ Augereau found no difficulty in ex- 
ion. . He entered the assembly, at 
KA e head of his men,, and) arrested 
"general Pichegru and Willot, with 
“sixty other members, as guilty of 
sason. . They were imprisoned ja 
gts Temple, the doors, of the, hall 
» were shut, and the two councils) di- 
~ rected tor meet in other separate 
places. Carnot and. Barthelemi 
~ had received timely notice of what 
was passing: the former had the 
| good fortune to make his escape ; 
» but the latter, whatever his motive 
"was, remained, and shared the same 
d treatment as the rest ‘of his party. 
Having so far succeeded in their 
. plan, the directory immediately dis- 
_ patched a message to the two coun- 
% cils, informing them, that they had 
_ been constrained to act in the man- 
ner they had done, in order to save, 
Stitution. It transmitted to-them, 
at the’same time, all the documents 
; relating to the present transaction : 
_ assuring them, that had they delayed 
it one day longer, the republic must 
have been overthrown. The halls, 
wherein the councils met, were, 
they asserted, the points of re-union 
for the. conspirators, It was from 
thence, that these had, on the pre- 
‘seding day, issued cards and ‘certi- 
ficates, for the delivery of arms to 
their partisans, and had, in the 
‘course of the night, carried on a 
: respondence with their accom- 
_ plices ; and it was in the neighbour- 
ood of these, that their adherents 
_ ecuting the residue of his.commis- - 
| the country, and maintain the con- 
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were endeavouring clandestinely to 
assemble. The conduet of the di- 
rectory, It,was asserted, had been 
dictated by.the instant necessity of 
being beforehand with the conspi- 
rators. In affairs of state, extreme 
measures could only, be estimated 
by circumstances, and the. couucils 
would, from those that were laid 
before them, form a proper judge= 
ment of the motives that had de- 
' termined the directory to adopt such 
measures. The eighteenth Fructi- 
dor, they said, would be'a celebra- 
ted day in the annals of France. It 
would enable the faithful represen- 
tatives of the nation to fix, for ever, 
the; destinies of the republic. After 
warmly exhorting the councils to 
improve the present occasion, by 
re-animating the spirit of patriotism, 
they concluded by informing them, 
that Imbert Colomes, one of the 
new third of the council of five hun- 
dred, was, by authentic:documents, 
to be transmitted to them, the prin- 
cipal agent of Lewis, styling himself 
the XVIII. e 
In the mean time, a proclamation 
Had been issued by the directory, by 
which, whoever should propose the 
restoration of royalty, the resesta- 
blishment of the constitution of 
1793, or to place any of the family 
of Orleans upon the throne, was in- 
stantly to be shot, Apprehensive 
also that the partisans of the oppo- 
sition, who were numerotis in the 
capital, might attempt to assemble in 
force, they provisionally suspended 
from their functions the administra- 
tions of the department of the Seine, 
and of the twelve circles into which 
.Paris had been divided, ahapecting 
many of them to be connected wit 
the opposition. They ordered, at 
the same time, the editors aud prin- 
ters of thirty-two journals, the titles 
of 
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