The Miscellaneous Works (Volume 9) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XV. Views of Parties in Britain relative to the Revolution?Af, jiliaied Societiet? Counterpoised by Aristocratic Associations.?Aristocratic Party eager for War with France.? The French proclaim the Navigation of the Scheldt? British Ambassador recalled from Paris, and French Envoy no longer accredited in London.?France declares War against England.?British Army sent to Holland, under the Duke of York?State of the Army.? View iff the Military Positions of France?in Flanders?on the Shine ?in Piedmont?Savoy?on the Pyrenees.?State of the War in La Vendee?Detcription of the Country?Le Bocage?Le Louroux? Close Union betwixt the Nobles and Peaiardry?Both strongly attached to Royalty, and abhorrent of the Revolution.? The Priests.? The Religion of the Vendeans outraged l/y the Convention.?A general Insurrection takes place m 1793.?Military Organization and Habits of the Vendeans.?Division in the British Cabinet on the Mode of conducting the War.? Pitt?Windham.?Reasoning upon the Subject.? Vendeans defeated? They defeat, in their turn, the French Troops at Laval?But are ultimately destroyed and dispersed,? Unfortunate Expedition to Quiberon.?La Charette defeated and executed, and the War of La Vendee finally terminated.? Unsuccessful Resistance of Bour- deaux, Marseilles, and Lyons, to the Convention.?Siege of Lyons?Its Surrender and dreadful Punishment Siege of Toulon. The Jacobins, by their successive victories on the 31st May and 2d June, 1793, had vanquishedand driven from the field their adversaries; and we have already seen with what fury they had ursued their scattered enemies, and dealt among them vengeance and death. But the situation of the country, both in regard to external and internal relations, was so precarious, that it required the exertion of men as b...