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the fpot where the fittings were held, 
and fummoned the guard of the legi- 
flative body, who replied to the fum- 
‘mons by fhouts of “ Live the Republic 
and the Conflitution of the third year ! 
Generai, you have only to command ; 
We are ready to obey.’ He then enter- 
ed the Thuilleries, in perfect order, and 
arrefted twenty-four of the royal con- 
{piracors. ; 
Ramel was deprived of his commif- 
fion, and his rank, at the head of his re- 
giment of guards, whom, it is faid, he had 
endeavoured to corrupt. Carnot (who as 
well as Barthelemy was involved in the 
accufation) had contrived to efcape, the 
day before. 
The two councils were then invited to 
affemble : that of five htindred at the 
Odecn (the Theatre in the Fauxbourg 
Germain) that of the ancients at the fur- 
gical fchool. 
The members who compofed. the ad- 
miniftration of the department of the 
Seine, and of the twelve municipalities, 
were provifionally fufpended. 
The celebrated general Pichegru, who 
had fo often led the armies of the Re- 
public to yiétory, was in the lift of the 
accufed. The following were alfo in- 
cluded : 
_ The dire€tors Carnot and Barthe- 
Jemy. Bourdon de !’Oife, Dumolard, 
Villau, Dumas, Piette, Rambault, Def- 
baunieres, Philippe Delleville, Gilbert- 
Defmolieres; Ramel, Boiffy-D’Angias, 
general Willot, Camille- Jourdan, Boiffet, 
Cadray, Bavere, Maffet, Paftoret, Vau- 
blanc,’ Sst = 
About nine’in the evening, the coun- 
cil of Five Hundred affembled at the 
‘Odeon, Lamarque prefident. A mef- 
fage was fent to the Directory, requelt- 
ing.them to inform the Council of their 
reafons for thutting up the hall where 
the Council had been accuftomed to fit. 
A commitice of five was appointed to 
confiderof the meafures neceflary to be- 
“adopted for the public fecurity. This 
‘ cominittee confifted of Poulain Grand- 
preys Chazal, Hardy, Syeyes, and Bou- 
ay de la Meurthe. 
The Council next proceeded to pafs a 
refolution authorizing the Executive Di- 
rectory to march a fufficient number of 
_.troops to Paris, for the prote€étion of the 
legiflative body, and the conficution of 
the third year. The Council declared 
its fitting permanent. : . 
In the evening of the fame day (Sep- 
tember 4) the prefident announced, that 
the Direétory had replied to the meflage 
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which had been addrefled to them. He 
informed the Council that one day was 
ftill added to the number. of thofe to 
which the country was indebted for its 
deliverance. The place of the fitting of 
the Legiflative Body was that of the con- 
{pirators ; they had already delivered cer- 
tificates and-notes, and eltablifhed a cor- 
re{pondence with their accomplices. To 
the reply was annexed a paper, fhowing 
that the deputy Imbert Colomes was the 
principal agent of the pretended Louis 
XVIII. The meflage was alfo accom- 
panied by a proclamation of the Direc 
tory to the French people. 
BouLay, in the name ‘of the Com« 
mittee of Public Safety which had been 
appointed, obferved, that ‘‘ great mea- 
fures were neceflary, becaufe the nation 
Was In a ftate of war, and its enemies 
might {natch from it the viétory which 
had been gained over them.” But he 
added, that humanity and policy were 
alfo to be confidered—* Your Commit- 
tee (faid he) impreffed with this grand 
truth, commiffions me to proclaim to you 
this confolatory faét, that the triumph of 
the Republicans. fhall not be fullied by 
one drop of blood. The great move- 
ment, which muft be executed with pre- 
cifion, muft end in the fame manner. So 
that we think banifhment fhould be the 
punifhment infliéted on thofe concerned 
in the confpiracy, which was on the 
point of breaking out. Our colleague 
Villers will prefent you a projeét ground- 
ed onthis opinion.” —_ 
ViLLeERS then read to the Council a 
refolution, declaring void the aéts of the 
Eleétoral Affemblies of feveral of the 
departments fpecified, and the difmiffing 
the individuals eleéted to public offices by 
them. ‘The law which repeals the for- 
mer laws againft. priefts and emigrants ; 
and thofe which relate tothe Vendéans, 
or the chiefs of the Chouans, were an- 
nulled. The feventh article doomed 64 
deputies to be banifhed, but upon a re- 
vifion of the lift, feveral of them were 
afterwards erazed, and fome permitted 
to refume their feats. 
The journals (or newfpapers) were 
placed under the fuperintendence of the 
police. ‘The law fuppretling clubs on 
political fubjeéts was repealed. The law 
ordering the expulfion of the Bourbons, 
and the confifcation of their property, 
including that of the Houfe of Orleans, 
was ordered to be executed, notwithe 
ftanding any counter orders. The right 
of putting places in a ftate of fiege was 
vefted .in the Direétory. The law 
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