162] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



On the same day the consuls de- 

 creed, 



1st. That no general, or public 

 functionary should correspond, in 

 any shape or under any pretext 

 whatever with the leaders of the 

 rebels. 



2d. That the national guards of 

 all the communes should take up 

 arms and expel the brigands from 

 their territories. 



3d. That the communes, whose 

 population exceeded five thousand 

 inhabitants should furnish moveable 

 columns in order to assist other 

 communes of a less numerous po- 

 pulation. 



4th. That whatever commune 

 should afford an asylum, or protec- 

 tion to the brigands, should be 

 treated as rebels ; and that such in- 

 habitants as should be taken with 

 arms in their hands, sliould be in- 

 stantly put to the sword. 



5th. That every individual, who 

 instigated rebellion and armed re- 

 sistance, should instantly be shot. 



6th. That the general who com- 

 manded the army of the west should 

 put in force all the necessary regula- 

 tions for organizing the national 

 guards, as well as for prescribing 

 the districts which these communes 

 were to watch over and protect : 

 and, that he should issue orders for 

 all the troops, the free companies, 

 and the moveable columns in the 

 pay of the republic, to be exclusively 

 employed in clearing the country, 

 and in pursuing the rebels. Buo- 

 naparte, on the day after that in 

 which he sent the proclamation to 

 the inhabitants, sent one also to 

 the army of the west ; in which he 

 told them that the mass of the well- 

 disposed inhabitants had laid down 

 their arms, and that there now re- 

 mained only robbers, emigrants. 



and hirelings of Britain, " French- 

 men hired by Britain ! This could 

 not be done but by men without 

 foresight, without heart, and with- 

 out honour. March against them, 

 you will not be called on to shew 

 any great exertion of valour. The 

 army is composed of more than sixty 

 thousand brave men. Let me learn 

 shortly that the chiefs of the rebels 

 have lived. Let the generals shew 

 the example of their activity. Glory 

 is to be acquired only by fatigues. 

 If it could be acquired by a resi- 

 dence in great towns, or in good 

 quarters, every man would be in 

 possession of it, You must brave 

 the intemperance of the seasons, the 

 frost, the snow, the excessive cold 

 of the nights : you must surprize 

 your enemy at the break of day, 

 and exterminate those wretches 

 who are a dishonour to the French 

 name. ISlake a bi-ief but brilliant 

 campaign. Be inexorable to bri- 

 gands, but observe a severe disci- 

 pline." 



The expiration of the armistice, 

 between the Chouans and general 

 Hedoville, was fixed at the se- 

 venth of January, 1800, but it was 

 afterwards prolonged. A short 

 time before the period just men- 

 tioned, the division of the royalists, 

 under Chatillon, accepted and 

 signed the conditions of peace. — 

 And as other divisions were confi- 

 dently expected in like manner to 

 do the same, it was decreed by ge- 

 neral Brune, who had been ap- 

 pointed to the chief command of 

 the army in the discontented pro- 

 vinces, that it should no longer be 

 called by the name of the army of 

 the west, but by that of , the army of 

 England ; an insinuation that all 

 Frenchmen were soon to be united, 

 and to fall on England. When 



