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DISSOLUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
BY BONAPARTE.

I confess that I was not myself quite assured of the
result of the following day. All that I heard, and all
the advices which reached me accorded on this point—
that the contrivers of the intended movement could no
,longer reckon upon a majority among the Members of
the Two Councils, because the latter were neatly all
smitten with the idea that it was designed to destroy
the Constitution. in order to establish military power._
.Even
a great portion of the affiliated still resisted the
Dictatot ship. But Bonaparte exercised an immense in-
'fluence both without aad within the sphere of these tot-
tering authorities : Versailtes, Paris, St. Cloud, and St.
!Germain; all adhered to his tetolution, and his name
,operated like a talisman among the soldiers.
The Privy Council had designated Regnier, Cornu-
det, Lemercier, and Faymes, to manage the Council of
Ancients; while Lucien Bonaparte, Barclay de la Meurthe,
'Emile Gaudin, Chazal, and Cabanis, all devoted to his
cause, were selected to direct the Cotnicil di Five Hun-
dred. On the other side, however, the Opposition De-
pudes in both Councils, united with the leaders in in-
trigue, spent the whole of the night in tonventicle. The
next morning, at an early hour, the entire road from
Paris to St. Cloud was covered with troops, officers on
horseback, persons drawn thither by curiosity, carriages
filled with Deputies, Functionatie:, and Journalists.'
The Halls for the reception of the Two Councils were
prepared with the utmost speed. It soon appeared that
the military party in both the Councils was reduced to
a very small number of Deputies, more of less ardent
for the new order of things. t remained at Paris, seated
,in my cabinet, with all my police on permanent duty,
having an eye upon the whole, receiving and examining
for myself all the reports that reached me. I had de-
tached a certain number of adroit and intelligent emis-
saries to St. Cloud, to get themselves in contact With
persons who were pointed out beforehand to them;
while other agents, who were relieved at every hall
hour, came to inform me of the actual state of things.
I was thus apprised, on the instant, of the least incident
or the most trivial circumstance that might influence
the foreseen denouement: I was fixed in the persuasion
that nothing but the sword itself could cut the knot.
The Sitting of the Council of Five Hundred was
opened under the Presidency of Lucien Bonaparte, when
an insidious speech was delivered by Emile Gaudin,
who proposed the nomination of a Committee to inquire
into the situation of the Republic, and report the same.
Emile Gaudin, in his concerted motion, demanded in
addition that no determination of any kind should be
taken by the Council till the report of the proposed
Committee had been received. 13ou1ay de la Mem the
had the report read at the time.
But scarcely had the proposal of Emile Gaudin been
heard, when a terrible tempest agitated the whole Hall.
Cries of " Live the Constitution !" " No Dictator!"
" Down with the Dictator!" were heard from all sides.
Upon the motion of De Delbuel, which was supported
and developed by Grandmaison, the whole assembly
rose amidst shouts of " Live the Republic r determining
'to renew individually the oath of fidelity to the Coo-
stitutieft. Even those Deputies who had come ptepared
with a project to destroy the Constitution took them-
selves the same-oath.

The Hall of the Council of Ancients was almost as

much agitated ; but there a party of Sieyes and Bona-
parte, who wished to hasten the formation of a Provi-
sionary Government, assumed as truth a false declara-
tion of Stem- Lagarde, Secretary-General to the Direr-
tory,
who stated that all the Directors had given in
their resignation. It was immediately proposed, by
,heir opponents, that, the Assembly should proceed to
,apply their places in the prescribed forms.
Bonapaite, informed of this double tempest, now
jud,ted it the fittest time to diew himself. He traversed
the Salon of Mars, and entered the Council of Ancients.
There, in an harangue most verbose and much inter-
' opted, he declared that there existed no longer a Go-
veinment, and that therefore the Constitution could
no longer serve the Republic. Conjuring the Council
to hasten to adopt a new order of things, he protested,
with regard to the Magistracy they should appoint, he
would .only he the arm charged to maintain.and exe-
cute the orders of the Council.
This harangue, of which only the substance Is given
by me, was uttered without connection or finish ;• it at-
tested the agitation of the General, who sometimes ad-
dressed himself to the Deputies, then turning to the sol-
diers who remained at the entrance of the Hall. Cries
of " Live Bonaparte!" and the feeling of assent on the
part of the majority of the Council of Ancients now re.
assuring him, he quitted the Assembly in hopes of mak-
ing a similar impression upon the Council of Five Hun-
dred. He was not without some apprehension, knowing
that should the attempt pass off even with some enthu-
siasm, they had already sworn anew their fidelity to
the Republican Constitution. A message was decreeing
to the Directory. A motion was also made for demand-
ing of the Council of Ancients a communication of the
motives which had caused the removal of the Councils
to St. Cloud, where the act of resignation of the Di-
rector Banes was transmitted by Council. •
This resignation, of which nothing had-hitherto been
known, caused great astonishment in the assembly. It
was considered as the result of some profound intrigue.
Precisely at the moment when the question of.the
legality and formalitrof this resignation was discussing,
Bonaparte arrived, followed by a platoon of grenadiers.
He advanced with four of them, and left the remainder
at the entrance of the Hall. Emboldened by the re-
ception which the Council of Ancients had given him,
he flattered himself with being able to assuage the re-
publican fever that agitated the Five Hundred; but he
scarcely had penetrated this Hall, when the greatest
trouble seized the majority of the assembly. All the
Members,, by their exclamations, made loudly known
the profound impression which the appearance of the
General and his bayonets in the Temple of the Legis-
lature had caused them.

" You violate the sanctuary of the laws Retire,"
said several Deputies to him. " What are you doing,
rash one?" exclaimed Bigonnet. "Is it for this, then,
you conquered?" cried Destrem to him. It was in vain
that Bonaparte, though arrived at the tribune, tried to
stammer out some sentences. From all pat ts nothing
was heard repeated hut exclamations of " Live the Con-
stitution 1"—" Live the Republic r From all sides was
he apostrophised with—" Down with Cromwell !'*—
" Down with the Dictator !"—o Down with the tyrant r
" The Dictator is an outlaw r exclaimed the inure en-
raged of the Deputies. Some flew upon hint, and re-
pulsed him. " You make war against the country,
then ?" exclaimed Atena, while sheaving him the point
of his poniard.
The grenadiers seeing their General pale and trem-
bling, marched into the Hall, and formed a rampart
round him. Bonaparte threw himself at once into their
'arms, and was borne away.
•, Thus redeemed, and light in head, he remounted kit
'horse, began to gallop, and directing his course towards
the Bridge of St. Cloud, cried to the soldiers—" They
would have killed me! They would put me out of the
protection of the law! They know not, then, that I am
itivulnerable—that I am the god of the Thun-e bolt !"
Murat having joined him upon the bridge, observed—
" It is not reasonable that he who has triumphed over
so many powerful enemies, should be reduced by bab-
blers. Have courage, General, and the victory is ours!"
Bonaparte then turned his bridle, and piesenting
himself again to his soldiers, tiled to excite the Gene-
rals to finish by a coup-de-main; but Lannes, Serrurier,
and Murat himself, were little disposed at present to
turn the bayonets against the Legislature.
During these occurrences the most frightful tumult
reigned in the Hall. Firm to the President's chair, Lu-
cien in vain endeavoured to restore calm, and requested
that his brother might be called back, and heard ; he
obtained no other answer than cries of—" Out of the
law ! Submit the question, that General Bonaparte be
'outlawed r It was about to be proposed that his bro-
ther should be outlawed too. Lucien now indignantly
left the chair, and abdicated the Presidency. He had
scarcely left the tribune, when some grenadiers arrived
and took him out. Lucien found that he was inter-
dicted, by an order from his brother, who invited him
to assist, being determined to employ force in dissolving
the Legislature.
Such was the advice of Sieyes, who, furnished with a
chariot drawn by six post-horses, was waiting the issue
of this event at the gate of St. Cloud. There was ba-
lancing of ills. Pallid and trembling, the most zealous
partisans were petrified; while the more timid of his
adherents had already declared against the enterprise.
It was observed that Jourdan and Aupereau kept aloof,
both watching for an opportunity to induce the Grena-
diers to enlist on the popular side; but Sieyes,"Bona-
parte, and Talleyrand, were at St. Cloud, with Roe-
dere:, they judging, as I did, that the party had neither
arm nor head. Lucien, inspiring his brother with all
his energy, mounted on horseback, and, in his capacity
of President, requested the assistance of the military for
dissolving the Assembly. He won over the Grenadiers,
who marched in close columns, under Murat, into the
Hall of the Five Hundred ; while Colonel Moulins or-
dered the beating of the charge. Finding the Hall in-
vaded, and hearing the sounding of drums and thecries
of the soldiers, the Deputies made their escape by the
windows, and, throwing off their togas, dispersed.
Such was the denouement of the journey to St. Cloud (Brumaire
19h, or 12th of November), in which Ronal arte particularly availed
hlM.eff of the energy of his brother Lucien, the tit elsion of Murat,
and perhaps the weakness of Generals Who, while opposed to him,
dared not chew themselves with au open face....—Ailicars of