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TISTORY. OF EUROPE. {7 
CHAP. V. 
rst Cares and Employment of the French Directory.—Determination to 
keep alive the Martiat Spirit of the French Nation.—And to extend their 
Victories as far as possible —But, at the same Time, to make a Shew of 
Pacific Inclivations.—Preparations for War on the Part of the Allies— 
.| Attempt towards Negociation between the French and the Allies at Basle, 
_ Switzerland.—Rupture tkreatened between the French and Swiss Can- 
_tons.—Prevented.—Plan of Directory for Military Operations.—Mani- 
_ festo of Charette.—Revival of the War in La Vendée.—New Complexion. 
of this.— Total Defeat of the Insurgents —Capture and Execution of Cha- 
URING the first months that 
followed the constitution set- 
ent was to render it respectable, 
ud to impress the minds of men with 
@ persuasion, that this great change 
as calculated for the benefit of 
the nation. It was not difficult, 
indeed, to persuade the public that 
any system was preferable to that 
uncertainty which bad occasioned 
many confusions. Prom this con- 
sideration, people at large willingly 
acquiesced in the new arrange~ 
tients, especially as they promised 
to restore internal peace, by arming 
vernment with such © extensive 
Bas, to prevent the breaking out 
of disturbances. But the means to 
ote. chiefly the directory trusted 
‘the stability of their power was, 
to keep alive that martial spirit 
which had pervaded, with so ama- 
zing an efficacy, the whale mass of 
the French nation, and evabled it 
to perform feats of arms, of which 
ed inFrance towards the conclusion: 
£1795, the chief care of the govern-' 
rette and Stoflet.— Manifesto of the hpi Sor restraining the Cruel~ 
ties of their Soldiers.—Lenient Measures.—G 
vod Effects of these. 
no records afforded any precedent 
in their history. As these successes 
were attributed to that enthusiasm 
which animated them in the cause 
of their country, and to the hatred 
which they professed for monarchy, 
it was the business of their rulers 
to perpetuate such a disposition, by 
affording it support and aliment 5 
and this they saw would most ef- 
fectually be done, by representing 
the enmity borne to France as un- 
extinguished, and that notwith- 
standing several of its enemies had 
openly laid down their arms, and 
agreed to conditions of peace, their 
rancour was still the same. They 
had desisted from hostilities, it was 
said, only from compulsion, after 
repeated defeats, and from the dread 
which they felt, that unless they 
complied with the requisitions pre-~ 
scribed by a victorous and invincible 
enemy, justly exasperated at their 
unprovoked aggression, he might 
give the fuller loose to a revenge, 
which they were not able to resist. 
In 
