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HISTORY OF EUROPE.

CHAP. I.

Return of Buonaparte from Egypt to France.-His Letter to the Army of
Egypt.-The Companions of his Voyage.-Arrives at Corfica.-And at
Frejus in Provence.-Enthuhafic Joy with which he was every where re-
ceived.-Proceeds by Lyons to Paris.-Hopes and Confidence of the Pa-
rifians, and in general all the French centered on this, military Chief.-
Situation of the French Republic at this Period, external and internal.-
State of Parties.-War in the Weflern Departments.-Weakness and Half-
measures of Government.-New political Changes meditated by Abbé Sieycs.
-Perfonal Interview between the Abbé and Buonaparte.-Buonaparte ca-
reffed and courted by all Parties.-The Army alone courted by him.-He
favours and joins the moderate Party.-Character of Abbé Sieyes. —And
of Buonaparte.-Splendid Feaft giv n in Honour of Buonaparte.-Project
for a Change in the Government and Confitution.-Neceffarily communi-
cated to confiderable Numbers of the Members of both Councils.-Yet kept
Secret till the Moment of Explofion.-The Council of Elders empowered by
the Conftitution of 1795 to tranfport the Legislature whenever it should
-Cour-
think Proper to any Commune within a certain Distance of Paris
mand of the French Troops in and near Paris, vefted, by the,Council of El
ders, in Buonaparte.-Tranflation of the Legislative Bodies and the Di-
reclory to St. Cloud

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The Village of St. Cloud filled with Troops, and Spectators from Paris.-The
Two Councils conflituted there.-Refignations of the Directorial Office.--
Motion in the Council of Elders for inquiring into the Reasons jør
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Tranflation to St. Cloud.-A Debate on this Subje& fufpended, by a Motion
for Meffages to the Council of Five Hundred and the Directory, which was
agreed to.-Buonaparte comes into the Hall and addresses a Specch to the
Council of Elders, in which he fates the Danger of the Country, and invites
them to affociate their Wisdom with the Force they had placed under his
Command for its Salvation.-Oppofition to Buonaparte, and a Change in
the Conflitution.-Buonaparte goes out and harangues the Soldiers and the
People.-Returns, and infifts on the Neteffity of taking Meafures for the
Realization of facred Principles that had hitherto been only chimerical.-
Motion by Dalphonfe for renewing the Oath of Fidelity to the Confiitution.
-This Motion oppofed, and the Defects of the Confiitution briefly flated.-
The Council of Elders adjourned till nine o'clock in the Evening.-Pro-
ceedings in the Council of Five Hundred.-Motion for a Committee for mak-

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ing a Report on the actual State of the Nation. And propofing Measures
for the public Intereft.-Sufpicions expreffed of an intended Dictatofhrip,
and Cries for maintaining the Conflitution.The actual Conftitution of
France diftinguished from certain Republics.-Motion for renewing the
Oath of Fidelity to the Conflitution.-Agreed to. And the Ceremony per-
formed with the greatest lang froid, even by the moderate Party.-Mef-
fage from the Elders.-Buonaparte appears in the Council of Five Hun-
dred.-Uproar and Violence.-Lucian Buonaparte, together with his Robes,
lays, afide the Office of Prefident.-Threatened by the adverfe Party.-Car-
ried out of the Hall by a Party of Grenadiers.-The Soldiers harangued
by both the Buonapartes.-The Council of Five Hundred difperfed, and the
Legislature thus diffolved by a military Force

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Siege of Genoa, -Arrival of Massena there. Situation of the French Troops,
and of the Inhabitants of Genoa.—Changes in the Army, and in the civil
Adminiftration of the Genoefe Republic.The English Fleet blockades Ge-
noa, while the Auftrian Army, under General Melas, bejeges it by Land.
-State of the Auftrian Army; and Military Skill and Addrefs of Melas in
opening the Campaign-Compofition and Pofition of the Army of Genoa,
or the right wing of the French Army of Italy.-Succeffes of the Auftrians.
-Revolution of Vado.-Viciffitudes and Progress of the Siege of Genoa.-

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Articles of the Capitulation of the Ifles of Malta and Goza to the English
Report of the felect Committee of the House of Commons, on the Expense and
Mode of obtaining Bills of Enclosure

85

92

Table of Fees payable in the treo Houfes, on Bills of Enclosure
Account of Fees received in the House of Commons, on Bills of Enclofure, for
fourteen Years, ending 1799

93

An Eftimate of the Expenfes of Housekeeping, between the Years 1773 and

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Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, refpeding Bread, Corn,

ibid.

&c.

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Second Report from the fame Committee
First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Reports of the felect Committee
of the House of Commons, on the prefent Scarcity of Corn
First and fecond Reports of the Lords' Committees, on the Scarcity of
Corn

128

Annual Amount of Wheat imported to London, from 1781 to 1800 139
Refolutions of the Grand Jury of the County of York, refpecting the Scar-
city

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Official Letter from the Duke of Portland to the Lord-Lieutenant of the County
of Oxford

141

Copy of a Letter from the Duke of Portland to the Town-Clerk of Notting-

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Returns of the Number of Men who have been raised, difcharged, or killed,
in the Service of the Army, fince the Commencement of the War, to
Dec. 24, 1800
144
Return of the total Number of effective Rank and File actually ferving, in the
Pay of Great Britain, to Dec. 24, 1800

ibid.

145

Lift of Irish Parliament Annuitants
An Account of the Gold coined at his Majesty's Mint, from Sept. 1796 to

Nor. 1800

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Account of the Amount of the Public funded Debt of this Kingdom, at the be-
ginning of the Years 1730, 1740, 1750, 1760, 1765, 1770, 1775,
1780, 1785, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797,
1798, 1799, and 1800

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Account of the Amount of Bank of England Notes in Circulation, in the
Years 1797, 1798, 1799, and 1800
Financial Refolutions moved by Mr. Pitt, and carried by a large Majority in
the House of Commons, July 28, 1800

149

An Account of the total Produce of the Tax upon Income, for the Year ending
April 5, 1800

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An Account of the total net Produce of the permanent Taxes, for the Year end-
ing April 5, 1800

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Public Acts paffed in the Fourth and Fifth Seffions of the Eighteenth Parliament

Average Prices of Corn for 1800

160, 500

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170, 497

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