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creating the fiational guard was re- 
pealed. 
In the fitting of the next day (sth Sep- 
tember) BAIL“EUL reminded the Coun- 
cil of the millard of livres, promifed long 
fince to the armies; and moved thata 
‘{pecial committee be appointed for the 
purpofe of coniidering how this milltard 
was to be ratfed; and that the fame 
committee fhould make a report as to the 
Monument fo be erected to the defenders 
of their coulitry. 
The triumvirate, who took this defpe- 
rate ftep, certainly warrantable upon no 
ground bur that of the moft zuperious 
neccfity, pavliined- an addrefs to the 

French people, flating the nature of the 
con{fpiracy, and the imminent’ danger in 
which the Republic was involved, by the 
wicked arts ofthe confpirators. This 

remnant of the Directory, tell 
—that while the diffolution 
tional Convention was plotting in Paris, 
and the faétion endeavouring to feize on 
the fupreme authority, fzchegruv, fta- 
tioned on the Bank of the Rhine, re- 
ceived the propofals of Covd¢, and replied 
to them by plans of invafion and roy- 
alifm. ‘* Ifthe white flag was not dif- 
played in the French camp,”’ fay the di- 
rectory ; * if the Rhine was not croffed by 
the hoftile army ; if the ftrong holds of 
the republic were not given up, and taken 
poffefiion of in the king’s name, by Em- 
perial troops; if Pichegrz did not march 
to Paris, it was through Cowd4, who re- 
fufed to put Pichegru’s plans into exe- 
cution. ‘Thefe plans, however,” they 
the people 
of the Na- 
add, ‘© would not have fucceeded; the 
brave foldiers would not have permitted it.” 
The principal proof which the Direc- 
tory brought to prove this heavy accufa- 
tion againft this celebiated general, is a 
pePer found at Venice, in the port-fo- 
io of the Count d’Antraigues, written 
wholly in his own hand, and certified to 
be found in the Count’s port-folia, open- 
ed in the prefence of the general-in-chief 
Buonaparte, and general Clark, by Ber- 
thier, chief of the faff, and decy phered 
by him, and figned at Montebello, fifth 
year; neither fpecifying the month, the 
day, nor the manner in which it was dif- 
covered. 
The Direétory alfo publithed, in jufti- 
fication of the frong meafures they had 
purfued, the declaration of Duvere De- 
prefle, or Dunant. He having been at- 
tached to royalty, was one of the confe- 
deracy for its reftoration; but pretend- 
ing to be influenced by the futility of the 
attempt, he betrayed his aflociates. Af- 
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ter pretending that the Englifh govern- 
mént were implicated in the plan for 
ruining the Republic, he ftates, that the 
Pretender and his Council had never 
céafed to think, that she fervices of ibe 
Englifh were perfidious fervices, tending to 
uo other oijeé but the total ruin of France ! 
In all probability, a confiderable time 
will elapfe before the real eaufes and true 
movements of this extraordinary ftep of 
three of tHe direétors will be developed ; 
there is a ftrong prefumption, that a/f 
the members mentioned in the long lift 
of tranfportation are not royalifts—have 
not been intentionally criminal ; it may 
therefore be hoped, that this proferiptive _ 
eatalogue will again be revifed ; and that 
the innocent will be cautioufly feparated 
from the guilty. Juftice, humanity, and 
found policy reider this meafure indif- 
penfably neceffary. Surely Lareveilliere 
Lepaux, or Frangois de Neufchateau will 
not fanction injuftice or inhumanity. 
The two new Directors which the 
councils have eleéted in the room of Car-— 
not and Barthelemy, are Merl of Douai, 
late minifter of juftice, and Francois de 
Neufehateau, late minifter of the inte- 
rior. : 
On the 10th of September, the Exe- 
cutive Directory tranimitted frefh docw- 
ments relative to the confpiracy. The 
principal paper was a letter, written by 
general MorEAU to citizen BARTHE- 
LEMY, dated the sth of September, from 
Strafburgh. In this letter, the General 
reminds Barthelemy of alarge packet of 
papers which he had taken, in the paflage 
of the Rhine, belonging to general Kling- 
lin, containing two or three hundred let- 
ters of his correfpondents. Moreau fays, 
e was refolved not to publith this cor- 
refpondence, becaufe the conclufion of 
peace was very probable, and the repub- 
lic ran no rifk, and efpecially as no names 
were mentioned. But perceiving, at the 
head of the parties who were doing fe 
much mifchief to his country, a man 
deeply involved in this correfpondence, 
and deflined to perform an important 
part inthe recal of the Pretender, he 
thought it his duty to apprize the direc- 
tor of this circumftance, left he might 
become a dupe to his famed republican- 
iim, and that he might be able to ex- 
pofe his conduét. Here Moreau alluded 
to his late fellow-foldier, general Piche- 
gru. He was prudent enough to com- 
mit nothing to writing. He enly com- 
municated verbally with thofe who were 
entrufted with the correfpondence, who 
apprifed him of the projects ott 
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