An Impartial and Concise History of the French Revolution; From Its First Causes and Commencement in 1789 to the Conclusion, and Coronation of Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, on the 2D Dec. 1804. from the Most Authentic Sources (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...the power of dismissing from their ossices, without a cause being assigned, any of the public functions aries whom they might account dangerous to the slate. Sieyes having refused to accept the ossice of director, Carnot was elected in his stead. But on this occasion the Council of Ancients was treated with a little more decency than formerly; as the name of Cambaceres, a man of eminence, appeared along with that of Carnot in the list of candidate voted by the Council of Five Hundred. CHAPTER XXIII. From the New Legislature's first sitting, till the overthrow of the Jacobin Anarchists. THE republican government that was now attempted to be established promised little tranquillity to the nation. This great misfortune attended it, that the chief ossices in the state were intrusted to men who were not popular. 1 he members of the Executive Directory, with the exception of Reveillere Lepaux, had always belonged to the most violent Jacobin party. As they now owt-d their power to that party, they employed its members in almost every ossicial department. The government was theresore necissaiily unpopular. Things might have been gradually altered, indeed, by successive elections bringing other men into pow er: But by the forms of the constitution, the executive power was more permanent than the legislative'body, without possessing any influence over it. Hence it. was to be seared that a contest for power might speedily occur, between the Directory nominated by the Jacobin party and the new legislators appointed by the people, in which the constitution might susfer shipwreck; an event which actu. ally occurred. While the possession of power continued to fluctuate in the manner above stated, between the Moderate and the Mountain parties, the armies of the state were ...