HISTORY OF EUROPE. [175 
CHAP. XII. 
The Haughtiness of the Directory towards different Nations.—Particularly 
towards the Dutch, whom they consider, not as Confederates, but a con« 
quered People.—Moderation of the Republic and preponderating Party in 
the United Provinces.—Batavian Convention,—Its Proceedings.—Affurs 
of Geneva.— Meeting of the National Institute of France.—Considered as 
an auspicious Omen of the Return of Peace and Reign of the Arts.—And 
Liberty of thinking and publishing on all Subjects.—The Alliance between 
the Church and Monarchy of France, in the End, ruinous to both.—The 
new, or constitutional, Clergy avow their Assent to the Separation of the 
Church from the State.—Yet venture to condemn some Things settled, or 
approved, by the republican Government.—But which they considered as ad- 
verse to the Dignity and Interests of the ecclesiastical Order.—The Settle- 
ment of ecclesiastical Affairs considered by the Generality of the French as 
a Matter of great Importance. 
Shean irritable temper of the di- 
rectory was experienced by 
other governments beside the Ame- 
rican. The court of Stockholm, 
which had, since the death of the 
late king Gustavus, explicitly re- 
nounced his projects against the 
French republic, and manifested fa- 
yourable dispositions toit, had lately 
undergone an evident alteration. 
Some attributed this to the intrigues 
of Russia; others to the resentment 
of the Swedish government at the 
duplicity of the French, who had 
paid the subsidy they owed to Swe- 
den, indrafts upon the Dutch re- 
public, which they were conscious 
would not be honoured. Another 
MO6tive of dissatisfaction to the di- 
rectory was, the recall of baron 
Stael, the Swedish ambassador, a 
friend to the republic, and the re- 
placing him by Mr. Renhausen, a 
gentleman noted for his attachment 
to the politics of Russia. The court 
of Sweden gave the directory to un- 
derstand, that were he to be refused 
admission, the French envoy at 
Stockholm would be treated pre- 
cisely in the same manner. But the 
direétory ordered him, nevertheless, 
to quit Paris; not, however, without 
expressing thevhighest respect for the 
Swedish nation, the good-will of 
which it still sought to retain, not- 
withstanding this variance with its 
government. ‘The French envoy at 
that court’ was, at the same time, 
directed to leave it; his residence 
there being nolonger consistent with 
the honour of France, to the interest 
of which that court was become 
manifestly inimical, by its subser- 
viency to Russia, the declared enemy 
to the French republic. 
The king of Sardinia’s ambassa~ 
dor had, in like manner, experienced 
the displeasure of the directory, for 
expressing 
