296 ANNUAL REGISTER, 
and rent-charges not feudal, are 
itill entire. 
The utility and the neceffity alfo 
of thefe objets have been long ac- 
knowledged: fince it has been pro- 
pofed to fubmit them to your deli- 
berations, the hopes conceived from 
them had fuftained the fervice ; that 
refource does no more exift; other 
means are become indifpenfable ; 
without authorifing them, the fer- 
vice of the next decade will be im- 
poffible. 
dt is the duty of the Executive 
Diretory to-declare to you that it 
has arrived to the'point of that crifis 
which it announced a long time 
ago, and that it has retarded it, by 
all the means in its power to ufe. 
You will find in'your wifdom the 
imeans of obviating the incalculable: 
evils that mutt refult, if the public 
treafury does not receive prompt 
and efficacious fuccours.  ' 
The Executive Direétory invites 
you, Citizens Reprefentatives, to 
take into confideration the requeft 
that it'‘has made to you. «> ° 
The following faéts prove how 
urgent it iss— = 7 > ES 
We learn that the 
my isin arrear. ~ 
There are only 234 thoufand 
francs for urgent purpofes, which 
require ten millions.* °: 54 
There is more than five due to 
perfon in employment, the major 
part of whom have not yet received 
the whole of what was due to them 
in the menth of Germinal. 
The repairs of roads and public 
monuments are about to be fuf- 
pended. : I ihanibhe 0" AE 
The providers of bread to the 
prifons muft ftopi:) eas nots tes 
The fervice of the hofpitals is 
expofed to the fame danger.» 
- There is no effeCtive referve. 
pay of the ar- 
179%: 
There remains nothing difpof- 
able. 
It is to you, Citizens Reprefenta- 
tives alone that it belongs to finda 
remedy. SAP" Bru 
(Signed) ety 
Carnot, Prefident. 
Lacarbe, Secretary General, 
Meffage from the Executive Diregtory to 
the Council of Five Hundred, of the 
14h Thermidor (Aug. 1.) 0) 
Citizens Reprefentatives, 
THE Executive Directory hag 
juft given the feconu decifion on 
the urgent payments to be made in 
the fecond decade of Thermidor ; 
the demands, originating from the 
moft prefling wants, amounted to 
about twenty millions. In order to 
maintain the public fervice, it was 
neceflary to confider the prefump- 
tive receipt of the departments dur- 
ing the laft decade, and that of the 
national treafury during the prefent, 
as funds actually to be difpofed of. 
The fum total of thefe funds it has 
not been poffible to rate higher 
than at 6,620,000 livres, which have 
been’ diftributed in fuch manner as 
appeared moft conformable to the 
fubfifting laws, and the fupport of 
the public fervice, under the difficult 
circumftances wherein weare placed. 
There remains a deficit of about 
fourteen millions for the next de- 
cade, to which is to be added the 
expence of the ten following days. 
Whatever calculations may be made, 
Citizens Reprefentatives, it muft 
be evident to you, that our prefent 
-micans are not fufficient.. From the 
ftatement tranfmitted to youa few 
days fince by the national treafury, 
it is clear that we cannot expect to 
receive twenty-three millions in 
{pecie during the month of ‘Ther- 
~ midor, 
