1796.) 
the accomplices of Babocuf and the reft 
of the confpirators now in prifon, feem 
for fome time to have, in a confider- 
able degree, difturbed the tranquillity 
of Paris; groups of conipirators have 
been frequently difperfed, and have as 
frequently reaflembled, but the popula- 
rity which the directory have gained from 
the fuccels of their meafures will proba- 
bly enable them foon to crufh the re- 
vivers of anarchy and terror. A decree 
of accufation was nafled againft Drouet, 
by aconfiderable majority, in the council 
of five hundred,and meaiures of the fame 
tendency were preparing againft the other 
perfons concerned in the confpiracy. 
While the council of five hundred 
were engaged in palling the denunciation 
againft Drouet, they received farther 
accounts of the victorious progrefs of the 
republican armies. On the 1ft of June, 
the French were in pofieffion of Pefchi- 
era and Verona, towns belonging to the 
Venetian republic. As foon as general 
Buonaparte entered the Venetian terri- 
tories, he tranfmitted a letter to the 
fenate of Venice, in which he affured 
them, that he fhould pay the utmoft re- 
fpect to the government, religion, cuf- 
toms, and property of the Venetians. 
The king of Naples, in the mean time, 
terrified by the progrefs of the French 
arms, folicited an armiftice, which, it is 
faid, he has obtained, on condition of 
paying thirty millions of livres, and of 
fending a minifter to Paris to negociate 
a peace with the republic. 
On the rft of June, Buonaparte in- 
formed the executive dire€tory of the 
fuppreffion of a confpiracy which had 
broken out at Pavia. 
He left Milan on the 24th of May, to 
repair to Lodi, leaving behind him only 
fuch troops as were necelfary for the 
blockade of the citadel. He left the city 
of Pavia amidft the applaufe and appa- 
rent joy of the people, but he had no 
fooner arrived at Lodi, than he received 
intelligence, that three hours after his de- 
parture, the alarm bell. had been rung in 
feveral parts of Lombardy, that a report 
had been fpreadthat Nice was taken by 
the Englith; that the army of Condé 
had arrived through Switzerland; and 
that Beaulieu, reinforced with 60,000 
men, was advancing to Milan. ‘The 
priefts and monks, with a poniard in 
one hand and a crucifix in the other, ex- 
cited the people to revolt, apd urged 
them. to affaifinate. 
The people of Pavia, reinforced with 
6coo peafants, invefted the 300 men 
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whom the French commander had left 
in the caftle. At Milan, the populace 
attempted to pull down the tree of li- 
berty, and trod underfoot the tri-colour- 
ed cockade. General Buonaparte firk 
reftored tranquility to Milan; he then 
proceeded to Pavia, drove in the advanc- 
ed pofts of the rebels; the town ap- 
peared to be full of people, and in a 
ftate of defence; the caftle had been 
taken, and his troops made prifoners. 
He drew up his forces ina clofe co- 
lumn, and after fome tumultuous re- 
fiftance, difperfed the crowd. This un- 
expected refiftance appears to have preatly 
provoked the ardent {pirit of the young 
general. ‘Thrice the order to burn the 
town (to ufe his own expreffion) had ex- 
pired on his lips, when the garrifon in 
the caftle, having effected their efcape, 
came toembrace their deliverers: He 
ordered their names to be called over, 
and found them fafe. “* If the blood of 
a fingle Frenchman, ” faid he, “ had 
been fhed, I was determined to lay 
Pavia in ruins, and to erect on the 
fpot, a column, with this infcription :— 
‘ Here was the city of Pavia.” He 
ordered all the municipality to be thot, 
and feized 20 hoftages, whom he*dif- 
patched to France. . 
At no period of hiftory, perhaps, the 
military charaéter of France has been 
higher than at the prefent moment; and 
the direétory feem determined to prot 
by the advantages they poffefs, to compet 
their vanquifhed enemies to accept a 
peace equally honourable ‘to themfelves, 
and degrading to thofe who most unjufti- 
fiably have interfered in their iternal 
government. 
On the 9th of June, General Moreau 
wrote to the executive directory, from, 
his head-quarters ac Artzheim, and in- 
formed them, that the Auftrians had 
evacuated, during the night, Tripfiadt, 
Nieuftadt, and Spires, and retreated to 
the environs of Manheim ; that he pur- 
fued them and took many prifoners ; 
that he had not been able for three days 
to quit his horfe; and that the French 
affairs on the Rhine were never in fuch 
a profperous ftate. 
According to the diurnal prints of 
Paris, of the sth, 16th, aid: 27th. of 
June, the Auftrians have met with the 
moft fevere defeats. both on the left and 
on the right hanks of the Rhine: On 
the left bank, itis faid, that on the sth 
inftant, the French ‘attacked the Auftri- 
ans, took 5000 prifoners, and 23 piéces 
of cannon. On the 6th, General Kieber 
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