. jeished @ spirit of revenge which 
i prompted them to endless efforts to 
regain the mastery. In the mean 
while, their expulsion had not been 
hk complete. Many of their parti- 
iy 
yjzans still remained in places of | 
trust : the legislature counted many 
among its members, and the di- 
reCtory itself had one of thetr well- 
wishers. 
Emboldened by these circumstan- 
ces, and unintimidated by the dis- 
covery and suppression of the dread- 
,|ful conspiracy, headed by Babeuf, 
.| they had the audacity to frame ano- 
ther, at a distance from the capital, 
.| hoping, if successful, to rally around 
the insurgents, the numerous jaco- 
| bins still remaining in those parts, 
| The place where the insurreétion 
broke out was Marseilles, a city 
famous, in the annals of the revolu- 
tion, for tumults and disturbances. 
On the nineteenth of July, while 
the citizens were occupied in the 
annual election of their magistrates, 
| the jacobinsassembled in multitudes, 
| armed with a variety of weapons. 
They ran through the streets, ex- 
| claiming live the mountain and the 
| constitution of ninety-three. A 
| party of them rushed into the hall of 
eleétion, from whence they drove 
the citizens, and murdered all who 
opposed them. 
_ As the plan of this hasty insur- 
reétion was ill contrived, it had no 
other consequence than to throw 
the city of Marseilles into a tempo- 
rary confusion. It appeared, how- 
ever, that the interest of the jaco- 
bins, inthat place,had more strength 
and patronage than had been ima- 
gined. The commissary of the di« 
re¢tory, in his dispatches to govern- 
ment, instead of laying before it 
the criminal behaviour of the jaco- 
bins, represented the whole as an 
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affray between the royalists and the 
republicans. But the council of 
five hundred ordered an inquiry to 
be made, which deteéted the per- 
fidy of the commissary, in conse- 
quence of which, the forced 
eleétions of magistrates, that had 
been made by the jacobin party, 
were annulled, and proper measures 
taken to prevent them from dis 
turbing the peace of that municipa- 
lity. 
But the jacobins were not theonly 
disturbers of the public tranquillity. 
The royalists, however just their 
cause, frequently disgraced it by 
the ridiculous zeal which they 
manifested in its support. Actuated 
by those illiterate and bigoted priests, 
that swarm in France, they formed 
themselves into bands that assumed 
the appellation of companions of 
Jesus and the king. They fell upon 
those, who. during the reign of 
terrorism,had persecuted and treated 
them with barbarity, on whom 
they exercised the most unmerciful 
retaliation. Affrays of this nature 
often happened, especially in the 
south of France, where the vin- 
diétive disposition of the inhabi- 
tants is apt to lead them into ex- 
cesses of a fatal tendency, from the 
duration and obstinacy of their re- 
sentment. 
It was easier, however, to crush 
both the spirit and the insurreétions 
of the royalists, than of the jaco- 
bins. The former were usually ex- 
cited to aétion through their im-. 
plicit submission to the advice and 
exhortation of the refraétory eccle- 
siastics: but the latter aéted from 
the unsubdued and incessant impulse 
of their own principles, the very 
nature of which rendered them in- 
dependent of the opinion of others, 
and perpetually excited them to 
action. 
