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fecure it the neceffary funds, the execu- 
tive direétory ordered the minifter of ihe 
interior to furnifh this indpenfable fup- 
ply, until the council fhould afford the 
commune of Paris legal means of defray- 
ing the expence 
“ The fupply of meat to the civil hof- 
pitals, and to the, houtes of arreft, pro- 
duces alfo an expenditure of 100,000 
livres per month, which the executive 
directory ordered the minifter of the in- 
terior to pay, till the council fhall appro- 
priate the neceflary funds for that pur- 
pofe.” 
Rron, on the 25th of September, in 
the name of a particular commiffion, 
charged to examine the law of the 3d 
Bruimaire, addrefled the council of five 
hundred, and, after fome pertinent ob- 
fervations on the caufe of thofe exceffes 
in which France, under the revolution- 
«ry government, had been involved, he 
proceeded to an inveltigation of the law 
of 3d Brumaire. He obferved, ‘‘ that to 
fay a law is revolutionary, is not to fay 
tiat itis unjuft. Willit be faid that ir 
ts revolutionary, becaufe it has a rela- 
tion to the revolution? Unfortunately, - 
Frenchmen will ftill have need to frame 
Jaws relative ta the revolution, for par- 
ties are ftillcontending. ‘The revolution 
was finifhed on the day when the conGi- 
tution was put in activity, but the revo- 
lutionary laws muft ftill continue, as the 
waves are ftill feen agitated, when the 
sempeft has fubfided. Indulgence is afked 
for the relations of emigrants; thefe 
citizens are deprived of one of their 
rights only, that of being chofen for pub- 
lic functions. Let us not ftifle the con- 
ftiturion under the pretext of re-animat- 
ing it. You have not prorefted againtt 
the revolutionary meature, by which the 
government put in a ftate of fiege the 
Vcitern departments; you felt that the 
fafety of the people demanded that mea- 
fure. The fneft period of the Roman 
republic affords but one Yumus Brutus, 
but one Afunlius Turquatus, who facrificed 
to his country the aftcétions of nature !”" 
He then {poke of the amnefty, and pro- 
pofed, “that the firft article of the 3d 
Brumaire, concerning liberticidal figners 
of revolutions, be refcinded. — 
“¢ Secondly, that there is no room for 
deliberation on other propofitions, made 
relative to this law.’ His report was 
ordered to be printed. 
On the 27th of September, BAILEUL, 
in the council of five hundted, cn a mo- 
tion of order, called the ferious attention 
of the council to the reiterated attempts 
ef the confpirators. Their boldnefs, 
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their impunity, every thing feemed cal- 
culated to alarm the good and peaceable 
citizens. He urged the necetlity of re- 
prefling fa¢tion inftantly. He therefore 
propofed to forma commiffion of five 
members, to revife the laws relative to 
the fuppreffion of feditious affemblages, 
and the mode of profecuting and trying 
all thofe who attack the conftitution and 
government. This propofal was adopt- 
ed. 
On the fucceeding day, BouseT, on 
a motion of order, demanded that the 
council fhould proceed without delay to 
the difcuffion of the civil code. 
CAMBARENES obferved, that this 
difcuffion was not fimilar to that of a 
common plan. The whole of the taik 
was here to be confidered, and the mode 
in which the difculfion was to proceed 
was the firft object of deliberation. The 
commiffion prepofed on the latter head a 
plan of refolution; it was therefore 
proper to adjourn the queftion until that 
plan thould be fubmitted to the council. 
Tt is only neceflary to add, that this opi- 
nion was adopted by the majority of 
yotes. 
On the 23d of September the anniver- 
fary féte of the foundation of the repub- 
lic, was celebrated in Paris, in the Champ 
de Mars, with much appropriate fcenery 
and magnificence. 
In our laft review of military affairs, 
we left the army of Italy, under the 
command of general BUONAPARTE, in 
poficilion of Trente. General WuURM- 
sER, obliged to abandon Baffano, fled 
in perfon, with the wrecks of two batta- 
lions of grenadiers of Montebello, be- 
tween Vicenza and Verona, where he 
rejoined the divifion he had ordered to 
march to Verona, confifting of 4,500 
cavalry, and. so00 infantry, at the mo- 
ment he heard that the French were 
prefling on to Trente. 
On the 9th of Septembegy General 
NVoRMSER learnt the arrival of the 
French general MassENa, at Vicenza. 
He felt that he had not a moment more 
toilofe, he defiled along the Adige, 
which he croffed at Porto Legnago, 
The roth of September, in the evening, 
the general of divifon, MassENA, 
pafled the Adige, at Roncon, while ge- 
neral ANGEREAU marched from Padua 
to Porto Legnage, being under a necef- 
fity of informing his left, that the Auf- 
trians might not attempt to fave them- 
felves by Caftel Baldo. Qn the 11th 
General BUONAPARTE made difpofi- 
tions to cut off the retreat of General 
WuraMser. For that purpofe a Ma | 
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