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and added, with much -generofity, “ the 
moment you attack any one member of 
the direétory, i fhall inftantly Join my- 
felf to him.’ 
In the mean time, notice was brought 
to the infpeétors of the two councils, that 
the Directory was preparing to feize 
them. On this, Bourdon de l’Oife, who 
had formerly been a decided republican, 
and was well acquainted with revolution- 
ary movements, exclaimed, with indigna- 
tion, ‘ You will never be able to repel 
bayonets. with a cuirafs of paper! I 
know but one way that promifes fuccefs, 
and that is, to march ftraight to the 
Luxembourg, and bring away the heads of 
the confpirators.” 
© Heis drunk !” cried a member, ve- 
ry cooly : and inftantly refumed.a differ-" 
tation on the merits and efficacy of the 
conftitutional a&. 
At ten o'clock at might, a deputy of 
the Council of Five Hundred went to 
confult Barthelemy. “I am certain,” 
obferved he, ‘ that three of my colleagues 
are preparing a plot; but they are not 
yet ready, and will be unable to do any 
thing for four or five days to come.”’ 
This affurance completed the triumph 
of the party of the endormeurs, and they 
inftantly retired to their beds. 
Before the alarm: gun was fired, , the 
triumvirate gave orders to arreft the two 
directors, Barthelemy and Carnot: this 
critical and delicate bufinefs was not con- 
fided to any Frenchman, but to a Ger- 
man, who held the rank of adjutant-ge- 
neral inthe fervice of the republic. The 
firft of thefe, who had retired +o reft after 
playing a gamé at cards, was feized with- 
out any difficulty.; but the latter was more 
fortunute ; for he efcaped through the fi- 
‘delity of a fervant ; and, notwithftanding 
the reports tothe contrary, is fuppofed 
to be ftill alive. | 
The fortunate efcape of feveral of 
the prifoners 
nan has becn ftated above. No fooner 
was this event Known to the command- 
aut of Sinamaray than he ~ treated the 
exiles who remained with ftill greater 
rigour than- before. It happened, how- 
ever, ‘very fortunately for them, that 
Jeannet, the governor of Cayenne, had 
about this tame received infructions to be- 
have to them with more humanity, &c. ; 
he accurdingly-complied, iz part, with the 
orders of the directory. Their fituation, 
‘indeed, although far trom being comfort- 
able, was much better than that of one 
hundred and ninety-three frefh exiles, 
who arrived in the Decade. — Among 
from Guiana to Suri-° 
pobrEr 
thefe were feveral noted thievés, who had 
been allowed to mingle with men whofe 
moral charaéters were unimpeachable, 
and who only differed in refpect to poli- 
tical tenets with their oppreffors. Here 
follows a lift of the deaths, occafioned by” 
tranfportation to the unhealthy climate 
of Guiana: | 
‘‘Ofthofe fent to Apronayac - - 2 
to Cayenne, and the 
+ “neighbourhodd f ? 
toConanama - - 145 
to Simamaray - - 
: ) ¥ 
Died within the fpace of 25 days za 
Sick Lif. 
At Conanama . - = - 
Simamaray ~ - - 
Other parts of Guiana 20° 
° 85 9 Bn 
Of the fixteen tranfported by the cor- 
vette da Vaillanic, the particulars of 
whofe treatment are to be found in the 
former work publif{hed by Ramel, eight 
remained at Sinamary, of whom the ax 
following ended their days there : 
“ Murinais, 27 Frumairg, 6th year. 
Troncon de Coudray, 4th Meffidor. 
Bourdon de ’Oife, 4th Mefidor. 
La Villeheurnois, soth Phermedor. 
- Rouere, 25th Frué?idor ; and 
‘Brothier, 26th Fru&sdor.”’ ‘ 
Of thofe that fill furvive, viz. IMar- 
60° 
bois.and Laffond Ladebat, the former~ 
was lately attacked with a fever, which 
lafted eighteen days. Thus, the morta- 
lity among the exiles, in the courfe of ote 
year, is totheir number as-74 to 8, or as 
72 to 80; in other words, according to 
this reckoning, a fingle perfon will aot 
-have remained alive inthe courfe of four- 
teen mouths. 
It muft afford great fatisfaction to eve- 
ry humane mind, that, the furyiving ex- 
ilés. are to be permitted to retura to 
France ;: andit is to be heped, that, after 
fuffering {ucha variety of hardthips, they 
will be allowed to end their days m peace. 
* Edfai fur 1 Huitioire, Geographigue, 
Politique, et Naturelle,” &c. “An Effay 
on the Geographical, Natural, and Poli- 
tical Hiftory ot the Kingdom of Sardinia, 
by D. A. AzuNni; 1vel. 8vo. Second Edi- 
tion.——-M. Azuni, who is himtelf 4 native 
of Sardinia, jeems particularly anxious to 
make the importance of his native ifland 
Known tothe public. He accordingly di- 
vides his work into five chapters, under 
the following heads : 
it. Geographical defcription of Sar- 
dinia. | 
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