HISTORY OF EUROPE. 



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sion of Evreux, at Pacy, near 

 Evreux, stopped the dispatclies for 

 government, from Brest; and, on 

 the seventeenth of November, Mr. 

 Ingaut, of St. Maure, a chevalier 

 of St. Louis, and commandant of 

 the division at Evreux, had publish- 

 ed a proclamation in the name of 

 king Louis XVI II. invitingthe loyal 

 French to rally around the standards 

 of their defenders against the new 

 usurpers of the monarchy, adding 

 these words : " Whether these am- 

 bitious men assume the title of di- 

 rectors or of consuls, or substitute, 

 in room of the old institutions, a 

 new code, be assured that you will 

 have only one tyrant instead of ano- 

 ther. Remember our oath, never to 

 sheath our swords till we have de- 

 stroyed the enemies of our august 

 sovereign." The other chiefs of the 

 loyalists of Normandy and Britanny 

 published like proclamations. By 

 letters from the department of La 

 Manche, (thechanncl,) bearingdate 

 the twenty-fourth of November, 

 that a body of loyalists, who had 

 been defeated at La Foxe, where 

 they had lost two thousand men, had 

 rallied in the forest of St. Lever, 

 and that general count de Buais, 

 with his division, had not quitted 

 the cantons "which border on the 

 Ome and the Mans ; and, on the 

 Ville and Villaine, Fronca, with his 

 division, had overrun all Britanny, 

 and seemed to direct their march to 

 Avranehes, in the neighbourhood 

 of which place were spread detach- 

 ments of one, two, and three hun- 

 dred men, who levied contributions, 

 arms, and provisions. It was be- 

 lieved that the Russian troops, who 

 had come to pass the winter in the 

 isles of Jersey and Guernsey, were 

 destined to favour the movements 



of the loyalists, and even to join 

 them. 



Towards the end of November, 

 1799j Buonaparte and all the mem- 

 bers of the new government ex- 

 pressed a desire of peace, not only 

 with the royalist armies in France, 

 but even a great number of the emi- 

 grants. On the twenty-ninth of 

 December, the duke of Liancourt, 

 whose name had been struck off 

 from the list of emigrants, Septem- 

 ber, 1797, was appointed superin- 

 tendant of the police ; and the mi- 

 nister of police wrote letters to the 

 commissioners of the armies of the 

 North, censuring the harsh and in- 

 human behaviour of the men who 

 had conducted, from Calais to Ham, 

 the unfortunate emigrants who had 

 been driven aground on the coast of 

 France ; the dukes of Choiseul, Vi- 

 braye, and Montmorency, and twen- 

 ty-seven others. Thisspiritof mo- 

 deration, on the part of the new 

 chief of France, did not yet rest on 

 sure foundations. His authority, 

 newly established by revolutionists, 

 was not sufficient for the exercise of 

 all that humanity and justice, which 

 it was equally his interest and dis- 

 position to display ; still less had he 

 the power of restoring their posses- 

 sions to the emigrants. Unhappily 

 a great number of these, as well as 

 of priests, fondly trusting in the first 

 appearances of moderation, return- 

 ed, but were repelled from France ; 

 subjected to additional inconvenien- 

 ces and miseries. 



An armistice was agreed to on the 

 twenty-third of November, between 

 general Hedoville and the counts 

 de Chatillon, Bourmont, and Auti- 

 cliamp, the principal leaders of the 

 insurgents iu the western depart- 

 ments. 



