S82 FRANCE. 



peace signed at Basle, on the 5th of April, 1795, by which his Prus- 

 sian majesty entirely abandoned the coalition. 



The Prussian negotiation was followed by the treaty made between 

 the French republic and Spain, in which country the arms of France 

 had made a progress equally Successful and rapid. Fontarabia, which 

 guards the entrance of Spain, and which had cost the duke of Ber- 

 wick 8000 men, had been taken, almost immediately, by a detach- 

 ment from the French army ; Rosas was likewise taken ; and the 

 troops of the republic had made themselves masters of the greater 

 part of the rich provinces of Biscay and Catalonia, and were, in fact, 

 ih full march for the capital of the kingdom. Orders were therefore 

 dispatched to M. D'Yriarte, at Basle, immediately to conclude a 

 treaty ; which was accordingly signed by the Spanish minister and 

 M. Barthelemi, at Basle, on the 22d of July. 



About the middle"of this year, died the infant son of the unfortunate 

 Lewis XVI. An unjust and close imprisonment, if it did not pro- 

 duce, at least, it is probable, hastened his fate. He had always been ' 

 an unhealthy child, and subject to a scrofulous complaint ; a disorder 

 in which confinement and inactivity are frequently fatal. For some 

 time previous to his decease, he had been afflicted with a swelling in 

 his knee, and another in his wrist. His appetite failed, and he was 

 at length attacked with a fever. It does not appear that medical 

 aid was denied him, or neglected. The disease, however, continued 

 to increase; and on the morning of the 9th of June, he expired in the 

 prison of the Temple, where he had been confined from the fatal 

 autumn of 1792. 



Moved perhaps by this event, or influenced by the general sympa- 

 thy of the people of France, the committee of public safety, in the 

 beginning of July, proposed the exchange of the princess, sister of 

 the dauphin (who was likewise a prisoner in the temple) for the de- 

 puties delivered up to Austria by the treachery of Dumouriez; and 

 for the two ambassadors Semonville and Maret, who had been seized 

 contrary to the law of nations, on a neutral territory, by an Austrian 

 corps. The emperor, after some hesitation, acceded to the propo- 

 sal , and before the conclusion of the year, the princess was deliver- 

 ed to the Austrian envoy, at Basle in Switzerland, and the deputies 

 were restored to their country. 



In the course of this year, an expedition was planned by the Eng- 

 lish ministry, to invade the coast of France, in that pai't where the 

 royalists (known by the name of Chouans) were in arms against the 

 republicans. The force employed consisted chiefly of emigrants ; 

 under the command of M. Puisaye, M. d'Hervilly, and the count de 

 Sombreuil. They landed in the bay of Quiberon, and took the fort of 

 the same name ; but soon afcer experienced a sad reverse : the fort 

 being surprised by the republican troops, under the command cf ge- 

 neral Hoche ; who killed or made prisoners the greater part of the 

 emigrants, Chouans, and English, in the fort, amounting nearly to 

 10,000 men. The count de Sombreuil, the bishop of Dol, (with his 

 clergy who accompanied him,) and most of the emigrant officers, 

 who were made prisoners, were tried by a military tribunal, and put 

 to death. Before the month of April, in the ensuing year (1796) the 

 force of the insurgents in this part of France was entirely broken ; 

 and their chiefs, Charette and Stofflet, taken prisoners and put to 

 death. 



In Germany, the French army had crossed the Rhine near Man- 



