was a heavy blow on that sanguina- 
ry faétion, which had ruled by 
terror. It lost thereby a multitude 
of its agents, whose crimes now ren- 
dered them ineligible to public em- 
‘ployments, and many were, on the 
Same account, obliged to vacate 
those which they possessed. 
The discerning part of the public 
looked upon this event as a species 
of revolution, and formed the 
Strongest hope that it would -pro- 
mote a reconciliation between the 
friends to a republican government, 
and those to a limited monarchy. 
Liberty being equally the aim of 
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both, it appeared not improbable 
that, if the latter could be satisfied 
of an earnest determination in the 
Tuling powers to put an end to ops 
pressive measures, the little prospeét 
that now remained of subverting the 
established government, would in- 
duce them to submit to it, rather 
than renew those attempts to restore 
their own system, which had so re 
peatedly failed, not more through 
the rashness or incapacity of those 
who had conduéted them, than the 
general repugnance of the nation 
to join them upon those occasions. 
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