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of feven was appointed to put the plan 
into execution. 
The Miniter of General Police, on the 
29th of November, made a report to the 
Confuls, relative to the banifhed prieits. 
This report ftated. ** that undoubtedly 
there was a great ni:mber of prie#s, dan- 
gerous difturbers, whom authori: ‘y moi 
watch with unceafing vigilance, and fome- 
times punifh; but there were alfo among 
them men of peaceable difpofitions, aa 
obedient to the laws, who would have 
ferved the republic if they had not by 
forme opprefiive meafures, been compelled 
to emigrate.” Inconlcquence of this re- 
port, the Confuls patted t! ie following de- 
cree. ‘** Thofe who’ have taken all the 
oaths preferibed by the law for minifters 
pf werfhip, and at the periods of time 
which the laws require, and alfo thofe 
who have martied, and are now actually 
detained, whether at the Ifle of Rhé or 
Oleron, fhall be fet at li herty, after prov- 
ing their right to one of the above excep- 
tions before the municipal admintitratioa 
in the diftri& from whence they come. 
Thole who feek to deliver themfclves 
fiom deportation fhall juftify their claims 
to this difpenfation, before the central ad- 
miniftration of their peparonet eae 
This decree repeals all the arréts of the 
Executive Directory, fingular and collec- 
tive, relative to tve 24t» article of the 
Jaw of the 1gth Fiuctidor of the 5:h 
rear. 
The commiffion of the Council of Five 
Hundred, on the 5th of December,received 
a metlage from the Confuls, propofing to 
open a credit of fifteen miilions to the 
Minifter at War for the pay of the army 
of the Eaft, which was fanétioned. 
On the next day Jacquemenor intro- 
duced a motion to fanction the a&s of the 
provifienal board, during the fufoenfion 
of the municipalities of the canton of Pa- 
ris. Ihe reporter ftated how neceflary it 
was, in Pariselpecially, totake away from 
the factious any organ by which they 
could act ; of courfe how advantageous it 
had been to jufpend the municipalities of 
Paris, while the fa&tious were thus derzer- 
red from the profecution of ablurd p:eten- 
fions which could not be realized. Thia 
motion was aifo fan&toned, 
On the sih of December the Confuls 
noufied to the E:el.ih Governmenr, 
‘¢ that from the 22d of December all! che 
expences neceffary ta the mainienance of 
the French prifoners 1 in England, fhalt be 
at the charge of the Britifh Gov ernment.” 
On the report of the Minifter at War, 
the Confuls,confidering that the eommand- 
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dants of the Fortrefs of Pefchiera, of the 
Cafile of Brefcia, Pizzighitone, the Caitle 
of Milan, and the Citadel of Turin, fur- 
rendered before the enemy bad ceftroyed 
the counter{carp for paffing the ditch, and 
without waiting till the breach was made, 
at leaft till it was practicable; confider- 
ing likewife that the Commander in Chief . 
having left gavrifons in thofe places, they 
mint have been fuppli ed with artillery and 
provifions; and if they have not been pro- 
perly fopplied, the fauit mut have been 
with the Commiffary or Officer of Artillery 
— They therefore decreed, that an extras 
ordinary military committee fhould be ap- 
pointed to inquire into the fituation of 
the places above mentioned, at the time. 
of their being inve#ed by the enemy 3 and 
that this inquiry fhall ferve as the ground 
of accufation again thofe who may be 
fent for trial beiore a council of war. 
In the firting of the Commiffion of the 
Council of Five Handred on the 4th of 
December, it was ftated, that, when Ge- 
neral Duphot was aff, inated at Nome, tt 
was decreed, that an indenmification of 
550,000 res, taken from the gontribu- 
tion on the Compagna di Rema, fhould 
be paid to his family. The wants of the 
army did not permit more than 8000 li- 
vies of that fum to be paid. The family 
of the General now demanded the remain - 
ing 142,000 livres to be paid in national 
domains. ‘This demand was fupported by 
the Confuls. 
In the law juft pafied, allowing a fur- 
ther delay to the purchaters of national 
domains, it was enacted that they might 
pay in fpecie, according tu the current 
reprefentative valueof mandats on the day 
of fale. The Minifter of Finances repre- 
fented to the Confuls in a report, that he 
fuppofed that the legiflature meant to fay, 
‘© on the day of fubferibing their offer.” 
The Minifter confequently propofed a mo- 
dification, which the Cunfuls agreed to 
by a meffaze. 
General Moreau in the beginning, of 
December lefi Paris, to take the command 
of the army. of the Rhine; and General 
Maffena was on the point of leaving Zu- 
ticn, to fucceed to the command in Traly. 
The Republican arms have been at- 
tended with great fuccefs againft the Roy- 
ajitts in the Weflern departments. On 
the 19th of November a corps of Repub- 
licans fet out to attack the band of Grig- 
non,"9s0 firong. ‘They found them at 
Chambertau, and beat them completely. 
Among the dead was found the Count de 
Grignon. General Travor, on the fame 
day v went to La Vendée, where he received 
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