504. 
completely routed ; 1100 Were made pri- 
onbEs: Their lofs in killed and wounded 
was enormous. - 
in the mean time, General Defaix, 
with the left wing of the French army, 
was obftinately engaged with the Auf- 
trians, from nine in the morning till ten 
at night. The Aufirians were, 
driven from their pofitions by General 
Defaix with great lofs; five hundred 
Ape were taken prifoners. The whole 
fs of the Auftrians on the gth, is fated 
“i Moreau, at 1600 men taken prifon- 
ers, and, at leaft, as many killed and 
wounded. 
fc was the intention of the Auftrians, 
tc have attacked the French on the mee, 
aud to take them in the rear by Baden, 
and the valley of Capel; this intention, 
however, was abandoned, and General 
St. Cyr, with a divifien of the French 
army, advancing to Newenburg on the 
Ems, on the roth, the Auftrians re- 
treated. precipitately from Ettingen, 
Durlach, and Carlfruhe, and retired be- 
hind Pfortzheim, towards the Nec- 
ker. 
The Archduke feems to have weak- 
ened the army on the Lower Rhine, for 
the exprefs purpofe of defeating Moreau 
or the Upper Rhine. The confequences 
were, that the Auftrians have been de- 
feated both’ at theswpper and lower part 
of that river. While Géneral Moreau 
engaged the whele attention of’ the 
Archduke, General Jourdan proceeded 
to Frankfort, which furrendered to the 
French by capitulation 
We fhall now proceed to the civil 
tranfaétions of France. 
‘The oe M. Drouet was brought 
e Council of Five Jiundred, on 
of June, to make his oo 
fie {poke fe three hours, and was heard 
-avith the moft perfeét filence, and the 
deepeft attention. He dented ali the 
facts imsputed to him; and he endea- 
voured to throw fome doubts on the ex- 
iitence of the confpiracy. He declared, 
hehad no hand in any con! piracy ; and epee 
in his connection with Babceuf, and ne 
other confpirators, there had never bec: 
entertained a plan againft the Gorn 
ment. The whole cf their conver(rtion re- 
fated either to affairs that were indiffe- 
rent, or that regarded the public wed). 
He did not affeé to conceal his averfion 
to the exifting form of government. He 
declared, that he faw in the conftitutiow 
a {pecies ‘of Enghth arifiocracy ; that he 
withed to reform it, but without any 
wiolent means. He fpoke with applaufe 
a 
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at length, 
of Robefpieme, Goujan, Soubrary, 
&e. After he had been heard, the 
Council refclved, that the papers fhould 
be printed ; that Prouet fhould be fent 
‘to ie Tem ole under a ftrong guard, and 
that the definitive difcuffion fhould take 
place in a few days. Accordingly, on 
the 8th of July, the council met, and 
pee to the appel nominal, for the 
purpofe of voting by private ballet on 
the impeachment of Drouet. The moft 
profound. filence 
there hy red, for the accufation’ 140, 
againft it 58. 
Babeeuf, another of the con{pirators 
for over throwing the prefent form of 
government, and eftablifhing the confti- 
tution of 1703, behaved with the moft 
daring infolence when he was interro- 
gated. He declared, that they had done 
him too much honour in decorating him 
with the title of chief of the conipiracy ; 
he affirmed, that he aéted buta fecondary 
part; he approved the confpiracy be- 
aufe he thought i: legitimate ; becaufe 
he believed, and did then feltae that the 
the prefent g government was ina fovereien 
degree cr iminal ; an ufurper of authority 
in aviolation of the rights of people, whom 
it had reduced to the ‘extremeft privation, 
and to the moft deplorable flavery. 
He therefore thought it arigorousduty, 
incumbent on all men, to confpire againft 
fuch a government. Hence he ccniented 
wi illing! y to aid, with ail the means in his 
power, the chiefs and leaders of the con- 
ipivacy. He owned, that, in intention, no 
perfon couid con{pire more ftronely a-~ 
gainft the prefent government than he 
did. He was convinced, that it was a 
crime common to all Frenchmen, at leaf - 
to all the virtuous part, to all who did 
not wifh for the frightful fyitem of pro- 
ducing the happinefs of a very {mall 
num ber, founded upon the oppredfion 
and extreme mifery of the mafs of the 
people. 
The reprefentative of the people Bou- 
toux, and member of the couneil of five 
hundred, declared his thoughts on the fub- 
ject of durving the dead, w hich had already 
ocenpied the attention of the French le- 
giflature. ‘¢ Does that facved refpeé& for 
the dead” faid he, which has prevailed at - 
every period, and in every punta origi- 
nate in.our pride, or in that natural de- 
fire of furviving after we are no more; of 
occupying a place in the remembrance 
of men, when our frail remains compofe 
only a heap of cold and lifelefs duft? In 
France, upon the entrance of church- 
vards 
[Juty 
prevailed during the. 
fiting, and, on cafting up the votes, 
