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war. is reftcred to pesee and tranquility. Tina
vnacefol charge is attributed in a great meafure to
the proclamation circulated by Gen. Huche, grant
ing an amnefiy to the defcrters who were in La Ven
der, and of which almoft every one has profited.
They have prefented themfelves at the diffcient
ran^otirrients, and taken charge of the route tor
mining i tie armies on the frontiers.
The Emigrants, thus abandon^, have pafsed the
Loire, and united themfelves to theCbouans.
The Chiefs of La Vendee, in deJpair, have fub
mitted fo the laws ol the Republic. Meleu.xde Ja
le.'s Chetoux, and many others, have juft laid down
their arms.
Remarks on Occurrences in Italy.
From the Telloraphe.
May I4-.
By the Hambro* mail which arrived y-Tterday
wc: have received the A ’:'iian accvun's ot their de
feats in Italy. The Vienna Gazette mentions the
actions which had '.her. reached rhem, in t .nts Iff
oi.ee vague and prurLut. Jnnlatir.i* tbs action
■which e-.detl in the Ihrrender of Gen. Provera with
13 o men, it Crates, with true German gravity,
that tiie french had made iheniftives mailer* of the
pofe. * *
O'her Gazettes, which rot being publiihed from
authority, approach fometimes nearer to the truth,
ftace the Aufirian lofs on the 12'. hand 14th of April
ar 4000 men. The panic of the King < 1 Sardinia is
funk ienr, however, 10 Ihow how remote this ftate
nu-nt is from the real facts 1
In It?.'y, the triumph of t'he Republican caufe is,
as we predicted, complete! ant; what will gratify
the utmdft hope of humanity, without foiling one
drop of hood I The ftrong fonrefses of Alii, Alel
jandria, Tc.rtoni, and Coni, are all in pofstflion
of the French ! each of thcle regular, modern for
tifications, deemed altnoft impregnable ! and ex
cept by famine, not in the tompafs of any rational
expectation to attack and take : — Coni, indeed ne
ver war. taken, except in the two inltances, when it
gave itleif up to the prince of Piedmont, and (in
the year 1741) to Comte dTIarcouri! Coni really
was 1, it available, like the other dependent lortrcls
Le Cole cie Tende, tenable but on the fide of Turin.
.— Cord, befrdes ail flic molt multiplied involutions
of concurring angles, lias all local advantages from
the cot d.ience ot two rivers /and hence from the 1
t Aian word Cuneo is the name) the Store and the
G’/zo.
Tortona, another very ftrong hold, is the key
to tile Mil .ntfe, and, indeed, the only fortification
berw-ern the victorious army of the French and Mi
lan !—The road is plain, open, ami well gravelled
Long before this time, therefore, the French ave
5n the pofsefiion of Milan, and the whole fertile
province of ire Mib neie ; and have 1 id the people
there of the opprtflions arid impofttions of a foreign
government (lor it was all a Gnaian government) !
which they had lo much reafon ar once to ridicule
and abhor.
Such ; re the admirable efforts of the French Gen.
Buonaparte, during t3 days! far fur pa (Ting even
toe atchtiv c merits ot Duniourier's famed fix weeks
victories which in their turn furpafsed romance it
fejf.
The French Gen. Buonaparte is a Corfican. His
fervices were cff\red of ccur/e, without his know
ledge by an infatuated friend, to our precious ofii
cer Sir G. Elliot, and like the reft of his enligh
tened conduct, that officer was refuted !
So much for the litunnon of Italy, and of the
French there, whom Mr. Fiit, with his nlual Hea
ven-born talents, told the loan hucklters, “ were
fo exhaufted, that they could not l'frikc a ftroke !"
LONDON, Mcy s 7.
French papers lute, that hoiciiilies had not, ac
cording to the, ir iatei’r advices, re-commenced on the
Rhine, though the preparations fer inch an event
■were carried on with great activity. On the con
trary, a report prevailed at Paris that the negotiati
ons for reace had been renewed between the Empe
ror anc the French. Such an event is extremely
probable, for there hardly feems any other means
left ro h:m to fave his dominions in Italy, which to
h»m are or much greatar importance than the Ne
Sailed the Dolly, armed cutter, of 3 guns, A
Watfon, mafter, with the captain of La Varginie,
NA'ho i"> ro be exchanged for Sir Sidney Smith.
Old Sly - Hodge illuft rates rhe jultneis of his max
im, by contraltirg German talking with Britiih do
ing- There lavs lie, is your 3Cmg of Prulsia, and
your Duke of Bruniwick, who talked big and loud
before all Europe, of marching to Paris, four years
ago, 2nd neither cfihete great talkers, d’ye fee. is
one ftcp nearer to it now than he was then. But
here is your General O’Hara, and your Sydney
Smith, who never talked about the matter; and
both thefe gallant commanders, d ye fee, have al
ready marched to Paris !!!
Brajph, 4th Flcreal. Holtilities will commence
here m a lew days. The French and Aultrian ar
mies are in movement in all parts, and formidable
camps cover both lides of the Rhine.
Farit, May 1. A letter from gen. Bounapsrte,
of the ryth Fioreal, addrefsed to the Executive di
rectory, mentioning that the army of Italy had ta
ken poisefsion of the town of Tortone, in which
they found n very fine fort refs, which coft the king
©f Sardinia more than i^- millions. We have found
•herein ico pieces of b: a Is cannon, and cafements
for 3000 men.
He adds, that the dey after the fufper.fion of
the army was put in movement. Ecaulieu
lias evacuated all his portions, and has paiscd the
Fo at Valence, with ali his uoops.
Upon the iovi tat ion of ihc King of Sardinia, the
Neapolitans have luirendered Valence tc Fiedaion
tefe garrilon.
The Convention of Holland has formally declar
ed war agsinlt Great-britain.
IMPORTANT!
From London papers to May 17.
CONSPIRACY AT PARIS.
COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED.
* ^ «Af 10.
GGRAFD, in the name of a eommiflios, prcpo
fed to the council to authorize the numbers <1 ilie
central bureau of ea-h of the cantons ol Rat is, Hour
dcaux, Lyons, & Merlcilles, to decree mat.date* of
•irr'ii, and to interrogate perions under atculaiicn
in 24. hours. This examination to be afterwards
trammitted, togeiner with me a-ccuitd to the iua
gii'traies.
hatard conhdered t^il plan as unconlmutional,
acc:%dR'gly demanded the order ot the day.
Poylcet luj ported the plan. He ipoke of i lie ne
Cffi'ny of con prtfT.ig the laciicus. and ot giving
to tlie police the means of apprehending them. Tit.
profited by this occafion to Ipeak with wanmh a
gaimt the ntw plots let on loot by the anarchilts,
at the moment w hen an endeavour was made to lull
the public opinion with relptct to the perils with
which rraiue was menaced. He pointed out the
pariizai.s of Robetpieire railing ibcii heads wiili
more audacity than ever, and piopufing murder,
pillage, and fire. He called on the couniei to pro.
; nounce loudly agamic every description ol conlpi
rators, and not ioffer the conltitution to be over
1 turned, under the niaik ol pairiotiim.
Royer proceeded to la) before the council a de.
tail of the crimes of the month ol Prairicl. He pro
poled to the council to augment the armed force a
tioned without the hall, and to con.pole it ot out
; battalion of grenadiers, one battalion of iniai ir%
, two tquadrons of cavalry, and a company of gun
[ nets. This force to receive its orders from tin
! Prefident of the council. This propefitiou txciud
murmurs. Wrjen
A mejwge from the Directory informed the council f the
dijeonjerj of
A NEW CONSPIRACY.
“Citizen L‘giflators—A horrible plot was in
tended to be txecuted tomorrow, at doy break.
Its object was to overturn the Trench conimufion
to murder the Legifiafive body, all the nu*mb*rs oi
the government, the officers con puling the tuii cl
the army oti.be interior}, and the conltituted sc
1 ritifs at Peri.'. That great commune v as to be de
, livered up to a general pillage, and to the iiiult hor
; rid mafsacre.
“ The executive directory, informed of die place
w-here the chiefs of this horrible conspiracy were ai
| fembled, and where they held rheir censmittce ol
revolt, gave orders for their apprehenfion. Seve
ral oi them have been taken up, and it i? with pain
1 we apprife yon, that among!: them was found ore
of our colleagues, citizen jDrouet, taken in the act
of cor.fpiracy.
“ The executive directory calls upon you, citizen
j legifiators, to have the goodrefs to point cut the
plan of conduct it ought to follow on t his occ* lion.
I if you judge that the executive directory ought to
put seals on Drouet’s papers, it prays you to de
clare your intention on that point.
(Signed) CARNOT, Pre^ident.,,
Treiihard demanded 11',ac the council ihould, by
a refolution, authorife the patting of itah on Diou
et’s papers.
Dcfc-rmont ohferved, that this mode of procedure
would be two flow. Imperious circumftarices com
mand that meal’ure Ihould be iniiantly executed.
He demanded, therefore, that the council Ihould
pals to the order of the day on this ground, that
tile mandate of arreft jufiifl?d in itfelt the placing
of feals on the papers. Adopted.
One of the fecretaiies then read another mefsage
from the directory.
“ It cannot be aifsembUd that the coirmun* of
Paris is the refort of all the immoral beings of the
Republic. A fwarm of diimifsed functionaries and
diloarided folditrs flock to it, and the laws are in
lt ffleient to reach them. The directory demands
01 the legifiative body a law, enacted that every a
| conventionalift, every diimifsed functionary, every
loldicr not employed, eveiy perion convicted ci
emigration, and every individual not bo» n in
r France, unlefs he be attached to the diplomatic bo
dy, lhall be obliged to quit Paris in three day s, era
to withdraw hitnielf ten leagues from thence on pe
nalty of tranfponation. The accufca to be tried ac
cording to the form preferibed by the law of 27 Ger
minal.
A c# mmiffioner compofed ofTreilhard. Mathieu,
Camus, Cambacercs, and readier, was charged to
prelent as Ipeedily as ppfliblc, a plan of a rcioluti
on on that head.
After an hour’s fufpenficn, that is to fay at 5
o’clock, the fitting was opened.
Camus, the reporter of the con'mifsion, charged
to examine the mefsage of the directory, declared
the urgency of adopting the propofed meaiure, to
deieat the plot which was ready to txplrde, and to
difperfe the ring leaders of the acarchifis, become
more darirg than ever.
A tumultuous difeufsion on the expulfion cf the
convcutionaliitJ, lcl re-elected, frem laris, eiilued.
Lecherdc, Tel iicn, Li ji.gm C.ante, Guyonard, T*! -
not, and ftvtral others, made fruitleis efforts hi
their tavor. 'i h y laid that loch a mealure would
tend to throw an odium on the cwnttm™. ju
<V"«of their aigutnenis, however, the plan pre.
itnttd bj Ct-tituS vtas aoopieai without aov akciaii
on.
May II.
In this fitting, nothin?, interesting occursetl.
COUNCIL OK ELDERS.
i-Uy ;o.
The council syproved ihc n calures adopted dt
th*t oi five hujjfi’-t'j. 3
Legendre irfinuaud thar th- crr/piracy was tits
work of ihe royal.n, ; while nme or the members
replied wuh % izxiiJc* ol pi ;., ofh?rs Were enragt-d
ai ieeii.g dini li.ui pi:.i:aie ihe crimes o.' uu&icii
ilis.
A number obtai-ned a heaiir.g cn motion of or-.
He denounces th" ym naiifts who inctisaat;/
j.iiuhed ihe legislative h.d), and aimed at depev
n g it tt the confidence it v as neccfsary to imp:/*
:o er.abic ;t to do good. Hrcbu-rves on that very
day 1 he/*. .viej ho.x the molt diiguiurg of tlu.t:
liDfiitrs, at'tiitd the n* w » rt iiacut ot tlu council of
fn e honoi f d. whom it 2uui; d oi having beer, ph
ted m the ihair by the uctit n. heme ci.nii.fion a
‘h<-i aii. i hc order of the day wls called for cn
all i.dcs.
“ L* the Cornell,” fa id fctcrsl numbers, " w«?r*
to pay amnion to the icw i on J-.ties with wH<h
ihej cobtMcal prir.;s t>re daily filhc, it would f.e
impoUihie for it to ; r.;. otter :< r to the great in
tcrclt of tl e cuuntiyi he ouur cfthe day wis
again adc pied.
Voulse;.:i prefented tl.e definitive pkn of a rel'c
lution, which admits into the legihatite bodv x.x
tx-members of the national u r. vcn; ion. it was a
..,p .0. ll.esncnbtis a:e. JVlcnnti, Legendre of
H’r-vrr, Mart in oi, Hcu'crt, Sevdire, ami
PARl 5, May 31.
Before the pa!s;no over c: a fortnight, a fetord
conlpiracy 1.^ bun loiirta l.y terror;,m, notwiih
Itanding 11 s ex.U emit has lei;; denied by the hi IF
accomplice s and hit eiir.g writer*!, v. ho have c; (:->
vourcdio chrnge its u.,i ph-xion, to prevent i s
ing recognized, and to thwart the «*1;.acious nu
lutes it was nc-tv.Jw.ry :oadopt agamic their i«ce
tangible accomplices. -Grrm nrait is cue to :h*
Duectory. Lleai.figiued, no’ wit Mia i.eirg • .e
£ttaier part of tho1 by whem it. is inn tended
Item to be paid ro n-'fi ^d its members., it h: 5 held
out ir ptii.lic indignation, it has cour.'geoif! iru >
•■ r'-vsiii to naias ii,t tt eft dangerous enemies rf
France—thtc >p<;!-mn it.3 of pood citizens, ihof*
who are in apetu.ai-riH contpiia.y agaii.’fr every
eltabliihtd gov < r1 n rnt, hrcuuft- <§ifnider is the,r
element, pillage their hope, and snai&aercs their
means end their oitar.ii es.
We ihall now - onrent ou;fe]vts with adding e.
few derail.-, in addition to the particulars xlr. K„y
given in the proceedings of the council, relative
ilie new confoiracy from which « r. ate extricated.
I■ s aim was to overthrow the conltiruiion of r?</c.
1 he conlp'rators fpi k? ot re-eftablilhiog the ai.ar
chichal code or 17931 hue ^5ty world loon have
done what they have twice fucceedtd in doing —
Their ckeriihed conltituiion would have been p.'j
ccd among the hatred architvts, and we fboulcifucn
have had a lecond edition of tevolutionaly tyran
ny. The convention would have been re erta: d,
ai'd the deputies not re-H«ectcd, would have taken
the place of the new thud. In confrtpu-nce ainuur
all cf tlie deputies of the new third, the greater
part of the liberty tkrse of thefe cutis wed, arro at!
t hole of the other deputies diftinguilhed by their
probity, their energy, 2nd their detehaticn 11 the
anarchifts, together with the members cl the direc
tory. ieveral niinilters. and the commanders ol the
armed force, were 10 have been apprehended early
this morning, and afterwards butchered. Ten men
were for this purpo'.c to have proceeded to each cf
their houfes. A parr or the gunners had been bro't
over, and it is fa id, that the confpirators had at
thair command thirty field pieces. At break of day
the barriers were to have bten fhut, the apprehen
Sons were to take place, and the todin to De found
ed. 1 he plunder of all the houfes was to have
been permitted on pretext cf fupplying the wants
or the people. The confpirators did our brethren
in arms the iujuftice to think, that the temptation
of t his plunder would have attached them to their
caufe.
The plot was denounced to the directory by feme
of the confpirators ihemfelves, who appeared to
tremble at the moment of the approach for its exe
cution. The directory immediately brought up the
armed force, which Unround'd the comm i■ se of
revolt ; at the head of this committee was D ouer,
a member of the council of five hundred. He had
with him fixty of the principal terrorists when hi*
houfe was furrounded. Several of his colleague*
kite, that lince lbs return from Auftria, they have
heard him openly fpeak of the plan of overthrow
ing the conititutiou and the directory. Pr»or to
his detention in the prifons of Germany, hewn*
one of the molt ferious mountaineers. On the 31k
of May, he played a very diitii guilhed pari—he
was more elpecially defirous, he laid, to revenge the
death of R.onime, Sourbrany Bouchotte, and other
mountaineers executed lai« year, for having be til
implicated in the revolt of the 1 ft of Prairial.
The hiliory, and the papers which prove the con