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of the 28th Ventofe, and in the other 
laws which followed it. The fegiila- 
ture thought that the regulation made 
in favour of mandats, would have affured 
them the nominal value; but they were 
difappointed. They then faw the ne- 
ceffity of’ raifing contributions, accor- 
ding to.the relative, and not the nominal 
value of mandats. They took the wife 
precaution of not leaving mandats to the 
mercy of ftock-jobbing; and in taking 
the common price as the regulation of 
their value, they rendered their condi- 
tion interefting to all Frenchmen. Havy- 
ing eftablifhed this rule for the pay- 
“ment of contributions, “‘ why,” faid he, 
- « fhould not the legiflat. re extend it to 
call other tranfaétions, as weil between 
citizen and. citizen, as between citi- 
_ zens and the government ?”’ 
- He then recommends the modification 
of the laws refpecting mandats, and to 
' Keep to their engagement of giving the 
- national domains to the holders of them. 
He remarks, that all the enemies of li- 
_berty were anxious to prevent the fale of 
the national domains.—‘ They delude, ”’ 


to be depended upon till peace fhall have 
- reftored confidence, and confolidated pub- 
| liceredit.”’ He adds, that it was, no doubt, 
. defirable that the credit of the mandats 
bore a fairer proportion to the value of 
their pledge ; but as long as venders 
are obliged to fell, and he that purchafes 
is fubjeét to fufpicion and uneafinefs, the 
difcredit of the object for fale is an un- 
avoidable confequence. When uneafine{s 
_ and diftruft are removed, mandats will 
| fpeedily rife in their credit. ‘That man- 
dats had and did ferve for the exchange 
of affignats, and that large quantities of 
' the latter were kept in the departments, 
| by citizens who intended to employ them 
in purchafes, and who then reckoned 
-on employing the produce of their ex- 
change; it would be unjuft to deprive 
them of purchafing on the terms of 
the law of the 28th Ventofe. He then 
exhorted the council of five hundred to 
maintain that law in ail the difpofitions 
made for the alienation of the national 
/ domains, but to reform it in fome other 
| refpeéts, and alfo thofe which followed 
it, refpecting the difpofitions that refer 
to the nominal value of mandats. He 
) wifhed them to announce to the whole 
| Republic immediately, that the law of 
the isth Germinal was no longer per- 
mitted to be abufed; and that in all 
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tranfagtions between | individuals, the 
mandats were not allowed to be refufed, 
nor could they be enforced for more 
than their relative value, according to 
\ 
~the law upon the landed contribution. 
_ At the clofe of this important report, 
the council of five hundred ordered it to 
be printed, and refolved itfelf into a 
general committee. 
On the 28th of July, the inhabitants 
of the communes of Marfeilles denounc- 
ed to the council of five hunded the 
affaffinations committed by the anarchifts 
during the laft election. It was adopt- 
ed updn the motion of Dumolard, that, 
before a2 commiffion fhould be named, 
ameflage be fent to the directory, to 
know, firft,, what paffed at Marfeilles 
during the laf eleétion ? fecondly, what 
was done to prevent the effufion of hu- 
man blood ? vy 
In the beginning of Auguft, Thibau- 
deau made a report to the council of five 
hundred, upon the infurreétions which 
had taken place in the commune of Mar- 
feilles. Ehibaudeau concluded by pro- 
pofing, to declare null the eleétions made 
at Marfeilies by the primary affemblies, 
and to charge the direétory to provide, 
againft the enfuing eleétions, for the rein- 
flatement of the municipal officers, juf= 
tices of the peace, and affeffors who 
ought to have been nominated. The 
council adopted the plan of the refolu- 
tion, and the report was ordered to be 
printed. . 
In the council of five hundred, on the 
26th of July, Chenier made his report 
refpecting the feftivals of the 14th of 
July, and ioth of Auguft; and the 
council refolved, ‘* that the feftivals of 
the 14th of July, and the roth of Au- 
guft, fhall be celebrated on thofe days 
throughout all the communes of the re- 
public from this time forward.” 
\ GERMANY. 
The progre(s of the arms of the French 
republic has either compelled or perfuaded 
feveral princes of the empire, with the 
duke of Wurtemberg at their head, to 
fhake off all dependance upon their trem- 
bling chief. He has the additional mor- 
tification of deploring in fecret his weak 
compliance with the requefts of the Britifh 
minifter, in recommencing hoftilities, 
which in a few weeks have deprived him 
of the “ garden of Europe,” his poffet- 
fions in Ttaly, deftroyed or difperted his 
brave troops, and brought the avenging 
arms of his enemies upon the borders of 
thofe territories which have long been 
the refidence of his family. 
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