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mode of drawing for a fucceflor to the 
memiber of the direCtory, who goes out 
annually. The nomination of the fuc- 
ceeding member, as the law now ftands, 
is vetted in the legiflative body, which 
commences its fitting after the new third 
are chofen; but GUILLEMARDET pro- 
ofed that it fhould be vefted, in future, 
in the legiflative’ body, before that third 
is changed. 3 
‘General ANGEREAY wrote a letter to 
the Diretory, dated Head Quarters at 
Strafburgh, 3d February, wherem he ac- 
kmowledged the receipt of the arrét¢ 
which fupprefles the army of the Rhine, 
and acquainted the Directory that he in- 
tended to fet out for his new deftmation 
on the sth. ** This new pledge of conii- 
dence,” he fays, ‘* refutes in a manner 
extremely Aattering to me, the abfurd 
calummnies which the enemies of the Re- 
public have fpread at Paris on my ac- 
count. F requeft you, Citizen Directors, 
to reft affured, that I fhali ever confpire 
with you againft our common enemies ; 
we have no other but thofe who hate the 
Republic and the conftitutional govern- 
ment.” 
In the fitting of the Council of Five 
Hundred, on the 28th of fan. Coupes, 
amember for the coafts of the north, read 
a letter from THoMAS PaINE, purport- 
ing; that though it was not convenient 
for him, in the prefent fituation of his 
affairs, to fubfcribe to the loan towards 
the defcent upon England, his economy 
permitted him to make the fmall patriotic 
donation of one hundred livres, and with 
it all the wifhes of his heart for the fuc- 
cefs of the defcent, and a voluntary offer 
of any fervice he could render to promote 
it. He ftated it, as his opinion, that 
there would be no lafting peace for Eu- 
rope, nor fer the world, until the tyranny 
and corruption of the Englifh government 
be “abolithed, and England, like Italy, 
become a fifter Republic. 
On the 29th of January, the Executive 
Gécreed as follow: 
> Gitifien. - 
‘Tl: printed. 
1.. That the army of the Rhine be fuprefied 
and the Etat Major diffolved. 
2. That the fifth military diyifton, com- 
prenended in the circle of the faid army, thall 
~ be commanged by General of Divifion Br'v- 
“NEPEAU Sante SuZaune. 
_4. The fort of Kell thall form:part of this 
The prefent, decree thall not be 
With its executions 5 
a4,General ANGEREAU Is appointed Com- 
4. 
mancan 
Be {hall repair without delay to Per- 
in order to take the coinraand of this 
The mimifter of war is entrufted. 
Public Affairs...Switzerland. 
divifion.. He thalf receive particular inftrués 
tions to this effect. aise 
This inftru€tion refers to a higher mif= 
fion with which General ANGEREAU i8 
intrufted ; its importance may he colle&ted 
from the following phrafe, with which it 
concludes: ‘The Executive Dire€tory - 
relies with ful] confidence on the refult of 
the operations of General ANGEREAU, iN 
his new and important miffion.’: When 
men have ferved the Republic with that 
glory and fuccefs which he has hitherte 
reaped, they mutt daily acquire new titles 
to the gratitude of the nation.” x 
On the 5th of February, the central 
adminiftration of the Départment of the 
Seine, at Paris, publifhed on the 3d of 
February, with the greateit folemnity, in 
all the flreets of the commiurie, the pro- 
clamation refpeCting the lean of 80 mil- 
lions, for the Expedition againf? England. 
The members of the department, with 
thofe of the different municipalities, juf- 
tices of the peace, &c. clad in tri-coloured 
robes, formed a numerous and auguft 
proceffion. A black ftandard, of immenfe 
fize, borne by the mariners drefled in 
black, prefented this infeription in black 
letters, ** Defcent upon England,” 
SWITZERLAND. 
Thofe modern principles of govern- 
ment, which the crowned heads of 
Europe united their forces’ to deftroy, 
have at length reached the mountains of 
ancient Helvetia. When the Duke of 
Savoy, by the treaty of 1564, ‘renounced 
his claims on the Pays de Vaud he ftipu- 
lated that the ancient conftitution of the 
country fhould be preferved. The French 
Government guaranteed the provifions of 
that treaty by another in 1565. The 
ariftocratical Canton of Berne and Fri- 
bourg have conftantly vielated the focial 
compact between them and the mhabi- 
tants of the Pays de Vaud, without at- 
tending to the remonftrances and com- 
plaints of the opprefled,” The partizans 
of liberty in the Pays de Vaud, having 
lately renewed thofe remonftrances and’ 
complaints, thofe periodical prints, whofe 
practice is to caft an’ odium upon the 
French Republic, have fated, that the 
Pays de Vaud was to be fetzed upon-and 
joined to France. “Phe Fretich Direftory 
haftened to renhite this perfidious ftate- 
ment, and has nce orderéd ‘it to be inti- 
mated to the’ Cantons ‘of Berne arid Fri- 
bourg, that the members of government 
fheuld be perfonally anfwerable for the 
fafety and property of thofe inhabitants 
of the Pays de Vaud, who thoulé addrefs © 
it for the purpole of belie reinflated in 
