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fied for their painful labours, the 
long sufferings of the creditors and 
pensioners of the state will be at 
an end, the melancholy lot of our 
intrepid brethren in arms will be 
ameliorated, and the national fe. 
licity, which a diabolical spirit had 
thought to be able to separate from 
public probity and the social vir- 
tues, will revive and afsume new 
life in those immortal and fruitful 
sources of all prosperity. 
(Signed) 
LeTrourNneEuR, President. 
The Executive Dire&ory to the Citi- 
xeus of Paris. 
ROYALISM, at Iength despair- 
ing of being able to seduce you in 
its own colours, now takes to bring 
you under its odious ycke, a way, 
‘perhaps, more winding, but far 
more ferfidious and less dangerous, 
For several days incendiary papers 
and placards have been profusely 
distributed. Seditious prepositions 
and menacing discourses are heard, 
and groups are formed in the public 
squares, The heads of the party 
no longer conceal their object; 
they audacionsly declare it. They 
-wish to overturn the republican 
constitution, to de: troy the national 
representation and the government ; 
10/ put i force the atrocious and 
mmpraGticable code, of 1793; and 
to efieét the pretended equal di- 
vision of all property, even in the 
most inconsiderable nature, such 
as little shops, &c. They are de- 
sirous of plunder. 
They are, in a word, desirous to 
re-elect scaffolds, and to bathe as 
Sormetly in your blood, gorging 
themselves with your riches. and 
the smuallest produce of your la. 
bours. The foreigner who pays 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
them knows very well that the pre» 
sent government. being once de- 
stroyed, the multitude wearied at 
length with. various agitutions, 
which must tend to augment their 
sufferings, will throw themselves 
into the arms of a king, ‘The mi- 
serabie agitators, whom he makes 
his instruments, must themselves 
desire this, to place their »lunders 
under the safeguard of an authority 
which would be their work, and 
to secure the means of committing 
fresh ones with impunity, by 
sharing in all employments. Who 
can indeed doubt but that they are 
in agreement with foreigners to roy 
alise France, or to reduce it toa 
state of debility and confusion, the 
inevitable consequence of which 
wou'd be its dismemberment? Do 
our most declared enemies hold 
another language and another con- 
duét? They say openly, that they 
will carry revenge and fire every 
where, rather than allow peace to 
be made; and at the same time 
they circulate a thousand lying re. 
ports to. discredit the national 
money, and thus deprive the go- 
vernment of the means of securing 
to our armies the faculty of hasten- 
ing, by new trials, a glorious and 
durable peace, which is the con-_ 
stant object of the views of the di- 
rectory, and the aim of all its 
labours.. To these odious ma- 
neeuvres they add atrocious calum- 
nies, to deprive the government. 
of the force it needs; they even 
assert that the executive directory 
has done nothing towards the con-— 
solidation of the republic. Well- 
intentioned men! go back to the 
moment of the installation of the 
diretory, and judge whether in a 
few months it could have done 
more., La Vendée has been dis- 
armed 
