Having  given  a  pretty  ample  detail  of  the  campaign,
fo  full  of  great  events,  and  fo  fatal  to  the  French,  we
luight  naturally  be  led  from  the  hiftory  of  the  internal
affairs  of  the  republic,  to  a  furvey  of  its  domeftic  fitua-
tion,  which',  at  the  period  to  which  we  have  brought
its  armies,  feeking  refuge  in  the  mountains,  from  the
purfuits  of  the  conquerors,  had  undergone  a  confider-
able  change.  But  as  this  might  too  juflly  be  accounted
a  deviation  from  our  fubjeft,  we  fhall  refer  our  readers
for  information  on  that  head  to  the  full  and  accurate  ac*
counts  given  by  the  journalifls  of  that  eventful  period

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488  HISTORY  OF  THE  WAR.
in  the  French  hiftory.  We  fliall  juft  remark,  that
blame  is  generally  attached  to  want  of  fuccefs :  and  as
almo(\  the  flower  of  the  French  armies  having  been  cut
to  pieces,  their  brave  and  Ikilful  officers  being  obliged
to  quit  many  a  well  fought  field,  the  indignation  of  the
French  citizens  knew  no  bounds;  and  they  wilhed  for
another  Robefpierre  and  another  reign  of  terror  to  take
fummery  vengeance  on  the  criminal  authors  of  the
ruinous  condition  of  their  affairs  at  home  and  abroad.
Sufficient  is  it  for  us  to  add«  that,  however  unwilling,
the  diredors  were  obliged  to  refign  their  authority.
