CONTENTS. 
Favour of Peace, encourages Attempts in Favour of Peaceable Loyalists 
—Sevére Decrees against this Class of Loyalists, new-modelled and miti- 
gated. < my ‘ : 48 
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CAB. 4 We 
Political Parties in France.—Decree against Cluls.—Buonaparte declares 
his Attachment and Resolution to abide by the Republican Party.—Ad- . 
dresses to the Directory'from the Armies.—The Directory split into twe 
Parties.—The one violently Republican, the other inclined to moderate 
and conciliatory Measures.—Feuds between the Directory and the Coun- 
cils.—A large Body of Troops, in Violation of the Constitution, called 
to Paris.— Remarkable Address to the Directory, by the Army of the 
Sambre and Meuse.—Effect of this on the Councils. —Causes assigned, 
the Directory, for Fermentations that had taken place in the Army.— 
oncert between the Directory and the Army —The Councils alarmed, 
—Resolutions of the Councils for the Purpose of restraining within 
due Bounds the Authority of the Directory. ‘ 61 
CHAP. VI. 
Arrestation of national Representatives — Message from the Directory to the 
two Councils, on this Sulject.—An Address on the same, to the People of 
France.— Forty Resolutions, adapted to the present Juncture, proposed by a 
Committee of public Safety —Adopted Ly the Council, and passed into 
Laws.—Transactions of the primary Communes and eiectoral Assemblies, 
in fifty Departments, declared illegal.— Upwards 0 ‘staty Persons, Mem- 
bers of the Directory and Counci's, 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 se= 
cond Expedition against Ireland —Singular Expedition of a Body of 
french Troops’ into Wiles, —These surrendered themselves, ‘without Re- 
sistance, Prisoners of War toa Force, rais:d and headed, on the Emer- 
gency, by Lord Cawdor,—Tie Spanish Island of Trinidad taken by the 
English. : a . . 76 | 
C HAP Vil, ) 
Ineffectual Expedition of the English against the Spanish Island of Porto- 
Hico.—Transactions in the West Indies. —Favourable to the English, both 
Bie and Land —Great Preparations against England, in the Ports of 
olland and Spain —Spanish Fleet defeated by an English Squadron 
greatly inferior in Strength and Numbers, under the Command of Ad- 
miral Sir John Jervis.—Other gallant Exploits of this Squadron.—Un- 
__forbunate Attempt of’ the English on the Island of Tenerifj.—Dutch Ar- 
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