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of the interior, and that of the coafts of 
the ocean, who had been ‘deprived of 
their pay for feveral months, owing to 
the exhaufted ftate of the treafury ; all 
bargains with contraétors were alfo fuf- 
pended; the proviftons nearly exhaufted ; 
the fervice of the magazines interrupted ; 
even the fick in the hofpitals had been 
denied articles the moft neceffary for 
- their recovery ; and requifition feemed to 
be but a precarious and dangerous re- 
fource, efpecially in the departments of 
the weft, whofe inhabitants had but 
lately fubmitted to the laws of the re- 
public. The diforganization occafioned 
by this diftrefs was fo great, that the of- 
ficers were obliged torun from their pofts, 
to avoid the complaints of the foldiers, 
‘which they knew not how to anfwer. 
The diretory concluded their addrefs, by 
advifing the legiflators to turn their whole 
attention cowards replenifhing the empty 
treafury, and fupplying the troops in the 
interior ; adding, that the armies abroad 
cof the government nothing, as they en- 
tirely fubfifted on the fpoils of conqueft. 
Whether the council took any meafures 
to relieve the army, remains unknown ; 
but on the third day after the meflage was 
aifpatched,; Auguit the 25th, the direc- 
tory, by a refolution, fuppreffed the ar- 
mies of the coafts of the ocean, and the 
mterior, except the 12th, 13th, 14th, 
and 22d divifions of the army of the 
“ocean, which were to remain embodied 
under the command of general Hoche, 
and three generals of brigade. “The re- 
mainder of the ftanding armies of the 
Anterior and the coaft, were to be com- 
pletely difbanded before the 22d of Sep- 
tember. 
- Onthe 8th of September, Fabre an- 
nounced to the council of five hundred, 
that a flate of the expences would {peedily 
be prefented to the council. _ He alfo de- 
clared, that the penfionaries fhould foon 
be paid, one half in real value, and the 
agonitants one fourth of what was due to 
them. 
The direftory, on the 6th of Septem- 
ber, difpatched a letter to the minifter at 
war, upon the refources to be introduced 
f 
into the military adminifiration. ‘They — 
aflured him, that from that day it was 
their intention to place all the territory 
ef the repwblic, comprifing all the coun- 
tries united to it, upon the footing of the 
reoft profound peace ; that the number of 
troops in the republic thould be reduced 
toche fimple garrifons of the fortreffes ; 
that' che fervice of the interior thould be 
selely difcharged by the national gendar- 
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merie, and the fedentary national guards; 
that the whole furplus of force thould be 
fent beyond the frontiers, or united ta 
the triumphantarmies. They will, they 
add, defeat the enemies of the republic, 
deaf to the voice of humanity and their 
own intereft. ‘* A]l the troops of France,’” 
faid the dire€tory, ‘* fhall live at their ex- 
pence ; all the calamities ef war fhall be 
transferred to their territories, until they 
pleafe, at laft, to accept the jufl and mo- 
derate cond.tions which we have not ceajed, 
and which we will net ceafe te offer them." 
In the fitting of the 31f of Auguft, 
“ the councibor ancients approved of the 
treaty of peace made between the French 
republic and the margrave of Baden. 
In this treaty, the margrave revokes-all 
‘adherence, confent, and accefs by him 
given to the armed coalition againft the 
French republic, and every contingent or 
fuccour in men qr horfes, under any pre- 
tence whatfoever.” | He farther agrees, 
‘“‘ that the troops of the French republie 
fhall pafs freely through his deminions,. 
and cccupy all military pofts neceffiary 
for their operations.” He ftipulates for 
himfelf and his fucceffors, “to deliver up 
to the French -republic, all the rights 
that may belong to him in feveral {peci- . 
fied |erdfhips, and places upon the left 
bank of the Khine, andall the iflands of 
the Rhine which may belong to him,” His. 
ferene highnefs engages ‘* not to permit 
the emigrants and the priefts traniported 
from the French republic, to refide in 
his territories ;”’ and, laftly, this treaty is 
declared common with the Batavian re- 
public. 
General Hoche, on the 24th or Augutft, 
iffued a proclamation from his head 
quarters at Rennes, importing, “ That 
becaufe the majority of the rebels have 
given up their arms to the republicans, 
fome places thought themfelves in the 
utmoft fecurity. They forget that vigi- 
lence which is neceflary after a civil war 
the moft difaftrous; as the men whe 
waged it were impelled by fanatici{m, and 
directed by the greateft intriguers in Eu- 
rope; that the torpor and inattention was 
fuch, that fome agents of England had 
lately landed on the French coaft.’’ The 
commander in chief, therefore, who re- 
colleéted with emotion the energy which 
his brothers in. arms had difplayed, ever 
fince he had the honour of commanding 
them, hoped that it would not be in vain 
that they had willed peace, but that 
they would -confolidate their work, by 
boundiefs vigilance and activity. Hevre- - 
commended to their care the. mterior 
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