160] ANNUAL REGISTER, ISOO. 



CHAP. IX. 



The Cessation of Arms in the discontented Provinces of France not 

 Universal. — Correspondence between Loyalist Chiefs and the English 

 Fleet. — Supplies Received by the Chouatis from England. — Concilia- 

 tory Measures persevered in by Buonaparte. — Determination to use 

 force where these fail — Part of the Royalists agree to Terms 

 of Peace.— Part remains in Arms and Hostility to the Repub- 

 lic. Laws of the Royalists among themselves. — Proclamations of 



General Brune, Cmnmander-in-Chief of the French Army of Eng- 

 land. — Various Skirmishes. — The Chiefs of the Royalists, one after 

 the other, lay down their Arms. — General Pacification between 

 the Republicajis and the Inhabitants of the Western Departments. — 

 Caption and Death of the heroic Count Lewis de Frotte. 



NOTWITHSTANDING the Fourmont, and de Chatillon, that 



anxious endeavours of Buo- agreed to a cessation of arms. The 



napar te to impress the whole French other insurgent chiefs persevered in 



nation with a conviction of his mo- hostile acts and designs, and kept 



deration, humanity, and love of up a correspondence with the Eng- 



justice and peace,* and all that had lish fleet on the coast of Brittany. — 



"been proclaimed by the new go- Three English frigateshadsucceed- 



vernment, in order to restore peace ed in landing four field-pieces, a 



inthewestjitwasonlyd'Autichamp, large quantity of ammunition, and 



• Great numbers of the loyalists, on the faith of government, had returned, and 

 were daily returning to France : among which some of these were not only restored 

 to their country, but were again put in possession of their estates, or as much of 

 them as it was at all practicable by any means to restore, without violating the 

 new tenures of landed property. Among this number was the marquis de la 

 Fayette, and the companions of his flight and exile ; Alexander la Math, the mar- 

 quis du Puzey, the chevalier de Grave, minister-at-war, during the first year of 

 1791. La Fayette, with his family, returned in December to his castle of Fonte- 

 noy, near Chaume, in the department of Seine and Marne. The duchess of A ren- 

 berg too, and other Flemish emigrants returned to France and the enjoyment of 

 their property there. All those who quitted France in 1792, at the same time that 

 they did, also returned : nor was there any doubt entertained but all the emigrants, 

 known by the name of Constitutionalists, would be permitted to return. A number 

 of those who had been exiled by the directory, without any previous trial, being 

 also recalled, as above observed, returned to France, in which number was Carnot, 

 Barrere, Barthelem\, Boissy d'Anglas, and Dumolard. Pichegru was not per- 

 mitted to return. Even the persons just mentioned were restricted to certain 

 limits, on the pain of being held as emigrants. Sir Robert Barclay, an English 

 gentleman, who had been closely confined in the tower of the Temple, for more 

 than a year, by orders of the directory, was sent for by Buonaparte, who, after a 

 civil conversation, set him at complete liberty, without any condition or restriction. 



