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and (hey had managed to bring over to their intereft the 
foldiers compofing the guard of the two councils. Before 
day-break, on the morning of the 4th, Augereau fur- 
rounded the Thuilleries with a divifion of the troops. 
The guard of the councils refufed to refill, and their 
commander, Ramel, waytaken prifoner. Having entered 
the hall, he found Pichegrit and other twelve of the 
chiefs of the oppofite party fitting in confutation, and 
immediately feat them prifohers to the Temple. Some 
other obnoxious members of the councils were alfo put 
under arreft. 
All this was accomplifhcd without noife, and in an in- 
ftant. Many members of tlie councils, when they came 
to the'hall at the ufual hour, were furprifed to find that 
feals were put upon the doors, and that they could not 
obtain admittance. They were invited, however, to go 
to the furgeons’ hall and the theatre of the Odeon, where 
they were told the directory had appointed the councils 
-to affemble. At thefe places, about forty of the council 
of ancients, and double that number of the other coun¬ 
cil, affembled about noon, and fent to demand from the 
directory an account of the proceedings of the morning. 
T hey received an anfwer, declaring, that what had been 
done was necelfary to the falvation of the republic, and 
congratulating the councils on their efcape from the ma¬ 
chinations of royalifts. 
This party had, previoufly to the explofion of their 
mine, prepared proclamations to the people of Paris, de¬ 
claring the exiftence of a plot to re-eftablifti royalty, and 
directing that every individual who (hould be found de¬ 
manding a king, the conftitution of 1793, or proclaiming 
the duke of Orleans, fliould be inftantly (hot, according 
to law. The minority of the council of five hundred 
fitting on the ftage at the Odeon, while the boxes were 
filled with people infracted to applaud their proceedings, 
formed a committeeof five, confiding of Syeyes, Poulain- 
Grandpre, Villiers, Chazal, and Boulay de la Meurthe ; 
voted thanks to the directory for faving the country ; and 
empowered them to permit the entrance within the confti- 
tutional circle of as many troops as they (hould judge ne- 
celfary for the defence of the confiitution and the republic 
againfl royalifm and anarchy : they then declared the fit¬ 
ting permanent, but fufpended further proceedings till 
fix in the evening. 
While the fittings were fufpended, the three triumphant 
members of the directory proceeded in arrefting thofe 
whom they conlidered dangerous to their authority, or 
whom,in compliance with the feelingsof either individual, 
the other two concurred in declaring enemies to the fate. 
In the evening Boulay de la Meurthe, from the com¬ 
mittee of five, prefented a report on the late events j in 
which, after all’uming the old revolutionary principle, 
that the fate of the times forbade methodical and pro¬ 
found difcuflions, blit required vigorous and prompt exer¬ 
tion, he imputed to the two directors and the mbmbers 
of the late oppofition a long feries of political crimes, 
beginning with that of impeding the conclufion of peace, 
and terminating with that of intending to convert all 
France into an extenlive La Vendee. He then detailed 
the patriotic views of the triumphant faction ; declared 
fheir averfion to blood (bed ; obferved that deportation 
mud in future be the great meansof falvation to the date, 
and the penalty to be incurred by all the irrecotvcileable 
enemies of liberty and the republic.; and intimated that 
fuch mu ft be the punifhment inflicted on the prefent 
confpirators, but the place of their deftination muft be 
left to the diferetion of the directory. 
Poulain-Grandpre and Villiers next occupied the tri¬ 
bune, and.read drafts of laws annulling the election's in 
forty-nine departments, and ordering the deportation of 
forty members of the council,of five hundred, including 
generals Pichegruand Willot,Du.mGlard, Boiffy d’Anglas, 
Henry Lariviere, Camille Jourdan, and Paftoret ; eleven 
n{ the council of ancients, among whom were Barhe 
Marbois, Lafond-Ladebat, and Tronyon du Coudray.’ 
N C E. 
Carnot and Barthelemy were included in the lift, as vers 
Brothier, Lavilleheurnois, and Duverne de Prefle, 
though condemned by one tribunal to a lefs (evere puhiftt- 
ment, and waiting for trial before another; generals 
Miranda and Morgan, whofe crimes no one could con¬ 
jecture ; and Ramel, of the nature of whofe offence no 
man entertained a doubt. The fate of all thefe .victims 
was rendered additionally cruel by the fequeftration qf 
their property, till accounts (hould be received of their 
arrival at a place to be .appointed by the directory ; the 
council boafted of this proceeding as an aCt of mercy, 
though it prevented the pvifoners from procuring even 
the moft common neceffaries for tJaeir comfort and accom¬ 
modation in the voyage they were afterwards doortied to 
make. During the enfuing days the private vengeance of 
the diredtors added confiderable numbers to the lift of 
facrifices. Barthelemy, and the imprifoned deputies, 
were removed from the Temple in cages of iron, mount¬ 
ed on carriages ufed for the conveyance of wild beafts, 
and began their journey to the coaft of Guiana, without 
time or means to make the'flighteft preparation for their 
removal. 
Merlin and Franyois de Neufchateau were eledted in 
lieu of the expelled directors, and government prepared 
to exercife their new powers with revolutionary vigour, 
and apparent hopes of fuccefs. Asa proof how highly 
they eftimated their triumph, they decreed that it fliould 
be annually obferved asafeftival ; they repealed the laws 
lately enadted in favour of the difaffected clergy and the 
relations of emigrants; and even fo far abolifhcd the li¬ 
berty of the prefs, as to put all periodical publications 
under the infpeCtion of the police for one year. New 
taxes were voted without hefitation ; and affairs were 
endeavoured to be conducted in their ordinary train. All 
this time the city of Paris remained tranquil. That tur¬ 
bulent fpirit which had made fo many fanguinary efforts 
in favour of what is accounted the caufe of freedom, had 
been fo completely fubdued fince its unfortunate druggie 
on the 5th of October, that it now permitted the national 
reprefentation to be violated, and the moft obvious rules 
of practical liberty to be, infringed, without one effort in 
their defence. 
The directory, in the mean time, attempted to juftify 
their conduCt to the nation at Urge, by publifliing various 
documents intended to prove the exiftence of a royalift 
confpiracy. The moft remarkable of thefe was a paper, 
faid to be written by M. d’Antraigues, and found by 
Bonaparte at Venice ; in which a detail was given of a 
correfpondence between Pichegru and the prince of Conde 
in 1795. correfpondence itfelf was alfo, at the fame 
time, faid to be found by Moreau, among papers taken 
by him at the late paffage of the Rhine. It (fated, that 
Pichegru had offered to the prince of Conde, to crofs the 
Rhine with his army, and having joined the Auftrians 
under Wurmfer, and the emigrants under the prince of 
Conde, to return with the united armies and march to 
Paris, where they were to re-eftablidi royalty. The prince 
is -faid to have ryfufed fo accept of the offer, from jealoufy 
of the participation of the Auftrians in the honour of the 
tranfaCtion,. He therefore inlifted that it (hould be con¬ 
ducted without their aid ; but Pichegru thought the at¬ 
tempt too hazardous in this form, and being foon after 
removed from his command, the projeCt failed. At the 
time of its publication, the genuinenefs of this correfpon¬ 
dence, and alio of the paper found by Bonaparte, was 
denied ; and nothing has appeared (ince to induce an un¬ 
prejudiced man to think otherwife at prefent. This feries 
of trarifaCiions, is called from the day on which the prin¬ 
cipal events occurred, la revolutiun du 18 Fruclidor, (4th 
September.) 
The .war between France and Great Britain was now 
totally unconnected with the military operations on the 
continent of Europe. The French government envious 
of the commercial profperity of her rival, and delirousto 
deftroy her naval ftiperiority and annihilate her political 
exiftence. 
