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was made in the valley of I.oano on the 13d of Odtober : 
and, after a conted which laded from fix in the morning till 
five in the evening, the Andrians were compelled to retreat 
upon Gave.fio, with the lofsof 8000 men killed and prifoners. 
The next day the adtion was renewed, and the Andrians 
were driven towards Savona and Bagniano : Dewins en¬ 
deavoured to prevail on the fenate of Genoa to deliver 
into his hands the fortrefs of Savona ; but on their refu¬ 
sal, he was obliged to pafs the draits of la Bochetta, to 
eftedt his retreat on the fide of Acqui. The French thus 
obtained podedion of La Pietra, Loano, Finale, Vado, 
and confiderable magazines which the Andrians had 
a mailed in Savona ; but their wants impelled them to the 
mod wanton and diforderly acts of rapacity and plunder, 
which difgraced both the French name, and their victory. 
The emperor now fent a reinforcement of twenty-five 
thoufand men, and the court of Turin fix thoufand, under 
General Colli, to defend the Appennitifcs. 
After many difficulties, an armidice for three months 
was agreed to on the banks of the Rhine, 1796, and, 
thougli the dipulatiOns were not exprefsly extended to 
Italy, the feafon compelled the obfervance of a truce in 
that quarter. Sanguine hopes were entertained that a 
general pacification was on foot ; but the French had only 
a temporary fcheme in view, which was dill more to 
weaken the alliance formed againd them, by detaching the 
king of Sardinia from the common caufe. 
In the mean while vigorous exertions were adopted by 
tlie government to keep the armies on the alert, and to 
Rimulute the people to furnifiv cheerfully the fupplies. 
On the 23d of June 1795 Boilfy d’Anglas brought up the 
report of the committee, containing the plan of a new 
conditution. It began, like the former, with a declara¬ 
tion of the rights of man ; and, enadted laws to regulate 
the territorial podefiions of the republic ; the political 
Rate of its citizens; the primary adembliesthe electoral 
ademblies; the legidative, the executive powers; the 
municipal bodies; the judicial authority; the public 
forces; public inftrudtion ; thednances; foreign treaties ; 
the mode of revifing or amending the conditution ; and, 
ladly, an enadtment that no rank or fupeiiority fhould 
exid among citizens, but fuch as might arife from the 
exeicife of public fundtions. 
Every man born and reddent, who, after the age of 
twenty-one, fhould have infcribed his name in a civic re- 
gider, and afterwards lived a year on the territory of the 
republic, and paid a direct contribution, or who had made 
a campaign in the fervice of the republic, without paying 
any contribution, was declared a citizen. Foreigners ac¬ 
quired the fame rights by redding in France feven years 
after making a declaration of an intention to fettle there, 
provided they paid a diredt contribution, podeded a real 
property or agricultural or commercial edablifhment, or 
married a French woman. The rights of citizenlhip, on 
the contrary, were lod by naturalization in a foreign coun¬ 
try ; affiliation with any foreign corporation which l'up- 
pofed diftindtion of birth, or required religious vows ; by 
accepting functions or pendons from a foreign govern¬ 
ment; or by condemnation to corporal punidixnent. Thefe 
rights-were fufpended in the perfons of madmen, bank¬ 
rupts, and their heirs who retained their property, hired 
fervant's, thofe under accufation, or under lenience of 
contumacy ; and a citizen redding feven fuecedive years 
out of the territory of the republic without niidion or 
leave, was to be reputed a foreigner. No man'could be 
infcribed on the civic regider fo as to obtain the title of 
citizen , unlefs he could read, write, and exercife a mecha¬ 
nical or agricultural profeflion ; bu', in favour .of the 
prefent generation, a provifo was added, that this article 
fhould not operate till after the twelfth year of the 
republic. 
Primary ajjemblies were to be compofedof citizens domi¬ 
ciliated in the fame canton, in number four hundred at 
caR, and nine hundred at molt; no one was to appear in 
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arms, and the validity of their operations was to be re 
ferred to the legidative body alone. Thefe ademblies 
were to accept or reiedt the conditution propofed to 
them, and to make the eledtions which belonged to them 
in virtue of its decrees. They were to meet in full right 
on the 21 d of March in every year, to eledt, as occalion 
might require, members of eledtoral ademblies, a judice 
of peace and adedors, and a prefident of the municipal ad- 
minidration of cantons. Immediately after thefe eledtions, 
communal ademblies were to be held in communes of lefs 
than dve thoiVfand inhabitants, to choofe agents and adift- 
ants : all eledtions were to be made by fecret ballot. 
Each primary afienibly was to nominate one eledtor from 
every two hundred citizens to vote in the elcEloral ajfemblics, 
to which no man was competent who, befides, the quali¬ 
fications necedary to a French citizen, did not podefs 
property or a valuable leafe, equivalent to the produce of 
a hundred and fifty, or in fome cafes two hundred, days' 
labour., Thefe ademblies were to meet on the 9th of April 
in each year, to terminate in ten days, and in that time to 
eledt members of the legidative body, the court of an¬ 
nulment, high jurors, adminidrators of departments, offi¬ 
cers of the criminal and judges of the civil tribunal. 
The legidative body was to be compofed of a council of 
elders and a council of fve hundred , the members of which 
could hold no public fundtion, fave that of archivid of 
the republic. They were not reprefentatives of the body 
which nominated them, but of the whole nation, and fub- 
jedt to no injunctions : they were to be annually renewed 
by thirds ; but members who had gone out were re-eligi¬ 
ble, unlefs they had retained their feats dx years, in which 
cafe they could not be re-eledted for the fpace of two 
years. Each body had a right of police over its own 
members, but could not pronounce a more fevere fentence 
than cenfure, arreft for eight days, or imprifonment for 
three. The dttings were to be public; the votes gene¬ 
rally taken by fitting and rifing up 3 but in cafes of 
appel nominal, the votes of individuals were to be fecret. 
Each member of either council w.as allowed an annual 
dipend of the value of dx hundred and thirteen quintals 
and thirty-two pounds of wheat; the executive power was 
not to caufe any body of troops to pafs or dop within' 
twelve leagues of the commune where the councils were 
fitting, and the legidative body was to be guarded by at 
lead fifteen hundred men from the national guard. 
The members of the council of five hundred were, for the 
prefent, to be admitted at twenty-five years of age, but 
after the year feven of the republic, they could not fit un¬ 
lefs they were thirty. They were to propofe laws, which 
were to be read three times at intervals of ten days, and 
printed and didributed two days before the fecond read¬ 
ing ; thofe which were rejected could not be re-propofed 
in lefs than a year, but propofitions recognifed as urgent 
were exempt from thefe regulations. Propofitions ap¬ 
proved by the council of five hundred were to be tranf- 
mitted to the elders, under the title of “ refolutions.’’ 
The council of elders, or ancients , was compofed of two 
hundred and fifty men, aged at lead forty, married or 
widowers, and domiciliated in the republic during the 
preceding fifteen years. They were to approve or reject 
the refolutions of the council of five hundred, and, like 
them, to read the laws three times, at intervals of five 
days; and refolutions rejedted by them could not be re¬ 
introduced till after the expiration of a year. They were 
prohibited from partial rejedtions ; they mud either {auc¬ 
tion or rejedt refolutions in toto. In them was veiled the 
power of changing the place of fitting of the legidative 
body. The members of both councils were guaranteed 
from examination, accufation, or trial, at any time, for 
what they might have faid or written in the exercife of 
their fundtions; nor could they be brought to any trial 
from the moment of their nomination till thirty days after 
the expiration of their fundtions. They might, however, 
for criminal adts, be feized, fagrante delitto ; but notice 
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