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A BRIEF ACCOUNT 
: OF THE 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 
: IN 
Beer ae Ow P. B 

w4s {till appears to be the great ob- 
jeét of fome of the principal powers 
of Europe; nor are there, at prefent, 
any appearances] of an accommodation. 
We fhall make fome general remarks 
relative to the political fituation of the 
feveral contending nations. 
FRANCE. 
The Executive Direétory have iffued 
orders for fhutting up feveral political 
clubs and affociations,; founding their 
right to do fo upon an article of the New 
Conftitution; which decrees fome re- 
ftriétions oppreffive on the freedom of 
the prefs; mot very confiftent with re- 
publican Sie ah It is, however, 
an evidence of increafing moderation 
in the French adminiftration, that the 
Executive Direétory has pronounced a 
very mild fentenee on the Duke de Choi- 
feul, the Baron de Montmorenci, and 
other emigrants, who were, fome time 
fince, wrecked on the French coaft. 
‘They were only fentenced to be fent out 
of the territories of the republic. 
Vigorous meafures have been adopted 
to compel thé payment of the foreed 
Joan ; and a decfee has been paffed by the 
National Convention, forbidding all pub- 
lic officers from entering upon the ex- 
_ercife of their funétions, till they have 
taken the oath of hatred to royalty. 
~The plan of a national bank is given up. 
_ It is an event favourable to the French 
-Tepublic, that Stofflet, a very formidable 
‘chief of the Vendeans, has been feized, 
and was fhot on the 25th of February 
daft. But the war in Vendée is faid to be 
yet far from being extinguifhed; though 
the Executive Direétory are taking the 
_ Moft active meafures for that purpofe*. 


* ® Names of the chiefs of the rebels known 
to have been killed, taken, or laid down their 
arms, within the last two months, publifbed 
- by the Directory. | 
Vendeans. — 
» Gueron, the elder, killed Guillard, killed 
Robrie, the elder, ditto © Dunbe, shot 
» Coetus, fhot Stofflet, ditto 
Dubois, ditto Gaichard, ditto 
Charette the elder, killed Nudus, ditto 
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GERMANY. 
Aufiria. The accounts from Germany, 
in general, announce the fpeedy re- 
commencement of hoftilities. General 
Jourdan has returned to the army; and 
the arch-duke Charles, who has been 
appointed commander im chief of the 
army on the Lower Rhine, has fet out 
from Vienna, in order to take upon him 
that command. It feems to be fuppofed, 
on both fides, that the enfuing campaign 
will be the laft of the war; and, there- 
fore, the preparations are the more vi- 
gorous; and, in order to carry on the 
war the more effectually againft France, 
a new plan of recruiting has been adopt- 
ed in the Auftrian dominions. It is fup- 
pofed, that nearly one hundred thoufand 
recruits are fent to the Auftrianm army ; 

Chouans. 
Sol de Griffot, killed Dauphenet, fhot 
Denis, ditto Momille Muce, do 
Dumouttier, 3 brothers, do. Lacrochais, ditto 
Menard, ditto Appleynac, ditto 
Nantais, ditto Rallais to 25 years 
Garnier, ditto imprifonment 
Eftevon, ditto Lermdel, killed. 
Several emigrants killed, names unknown. 
Vendeans fubmitted. 
Savin, Robrie, Guerin, Lecouvieur, Bef 
fary, Uffault, Bounet, Concife. 
From the fentence of Stofflet, it appears 
that he was in his 44th year, that he was born 
at Luneville, in the department of La Marthe. 
~---Stoflet was the hope of his party---the man 
on whom foreigners, as well as the Wendeans 
placed the greateft confidence. He, with the 
Sexton Catherineau, gave the firft fignal for 
that war.---The following portrait (fays a Paris 
Paper) is drawn by a man, who, from a con- 
currence of dreadful circumftances, was a long 
time near his perfon:---In ftature, he was 
about § feet 4 inch. (French) ftrongly built 3 
his fhape vulgar and brutal; his mind had ne- 
ver received any {pecies of cultivation. He im- 
bibed the education, and retained the temper 
and manners of a German game-keeper. He. 
led his men to battle, as his dogs to the chafe 
of the boar. He was rather brutal than fero~ 
cious. He always preferved his ancient habits, 
Kis old connections; he did not love, he dei- 
plied the nobility. He was looked up'to with 
the utmoft reverence by the pealants. 
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