Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-02-03
observations on the late Extraordinary
Revolution in France.

Frem TIE SUN q xsondos Taper, y Nov 10.
Having prelented the f2ets which have come
to our know edge reipetfing the nsw revolution
10 France, the details of which we have pubhfh.
ed at length in our paper, it remains for US to
make (ome obfervatons Oh them. Every cir
cumllance induces us to believe that the conipi
racy, for by no oher name can We cali 1t, which
has again changed the. politeal Ease OF France
is an event which has occupic 4much more time
intbe deliberations that preceded it, than wa.
employed in carving il into execution, Com
bining the embany of Sieyes to the court Of
Berlin The fuppofsd plans OF that court; The.
accepssnce of the direeforal Office, at the mott
diiaarous moment, by Sieyes, who in the mol
prolperous period had refufed ii the work
publilhed by Boulay de Meu:ibe, three months
ago, the fam of which was, that the Republic
was, a beautiful theory, bur impoilible to be
realized the part which that deputy has taken
in this revolution; combining, we lay, theie
circumstances and others, which it would oc-
eupy too much fpace,t enumerate, with the
events which have taken place, we ihould be
led to believe that they have been msditated,
and in progrefs towards maturity for feyeral
months. sieyes was capable Of eonceiviog the
plar, but not of executing il; that could only
be done by man who had great perional in.
hpence with the army ;--it is rot improbable
tl,at Sieyes found means to invite and deter
mine Buonaparte to return; to Europe and
that in the mean time he confined himielf to
preisrving fuch degree Of authority as he then
stioyed until be could acquire greater. The
executive Joy which be teili6ed to Baudin des
Ardennes, when he learnt the arrival Of Buo-
nap arte in France, fhews that he attached an
extraotdinary degree of importance to this
event., The dazzling pfofpects of ambition
and of power which me director opered to the
general. made him the more readily enter into
Bis views and his determination was probably
ind eneed in no fmall degree by rhe hatred
which what hes come to his knowlsdge dnee
his return from Egypt has exci,ed in him'to-
wards Barras. The perufal Of CarnoSs book,
| IN which he reveals the fecret enmity Of Bafras
to Buonapartc, made, it is iaid, great i'm
| prefiion on the latter.
We have given an aceonnr ofthe fAas which
have reiu'tei from this coalition. from the he dd
of Sieje s and from the arm of Buonaparte =
| from the deep combinations of the former, and
| from the rapid execution Of thesiatter, II ~
hardly neceiIary to infft on the nature Of tliefe
events. We Zee thatths contribution made IN
i7os, and groisly violatedoin 1897, has been
| entirely dearoyed that France after having
| been governed for ten years without interrupt
| ton by National Representation, has no ION
ger any representatives that after. having
| been, fince the abolition of royalty ia 't79z.
governed fra by committee Of, ten perions
| IS now under the dominion Of triumvirs. f'l
the revolutionary fhocks have gradually
concentrated the powers, and this Is probably
| the lat but one of thole which mutt take place
| before the fate Of France will be fixed. The
government Of the Convention forms BATS Of
| the pyramid; we are now come nearer to that
politiealunity which will form the apes OF it. .
What are likely TO be the confsquences Of
this new revolution, iimilar to all Others in its
fobiea, that of feizing the fupreme power, but
different in its means, as il is the Fl, Il IN which
the National Representation has been interrupts.
ed. 1t would be difficult to decide what coarfe
tor emit would take, the fprings of which are
| iu(t beginning to break forth, or what fuper-
lruefure is intened to be RATED on the iuins Of
an edifioe which is hardly leveled to the ground.
All the oitenGble faAs of the days Of the 9th
| and 10th init. have been executed IN the name
| Of the Republic, and cries of 8 ViVe Ia Repsb-
Hoae" have uniformly terminated them all. AT
a fra view, therefore, we ihould be tempted to
| coniider them merely as new revolutionary
IpboE5 but in reHceing on the cauies which
mutt have produced It, on the iituaton inwhich
IthoCe lfand who have made it, and on its effects
on the public mind in France, it will be feen
that il contains chances more or lels
remote in favor Of royalty. Tbs men who
fhave dearoyed the principal BATS Of the repub-
lie, and the only great consequences yet remain
ling of the revolution, the Representative form
OF government, have removed the greateR Oh.
| aacle to the establishment of King they
/ have materially implied the quefion, and the
con,e(l will henceforth be, not between one
man and fcvsn hundred and Fifty, but between
one man and three. The latter, in the aboli-
,;oc re ,hr Nat;onal Rem e(enf Atom the l1lt