"[50] - Appointed by such electors, we
can divine what the new Third will be. "Of the 250 Conventionalists
excluded by the draw scarcely five or six have been re-elected; there
are but eight departments in which the Jacobins have had any success.
"-Immediately after the arrival of the new representatives, the roll
of the Legislative Corps having been checked off, it is found that
"the Government has 70 out of 250 votes among the Ancients, and 200
out of 500 among the Council of the Young," and soon less than 200 in
this Council,[51] 130 at the most, who will certainly be excluded at
the coming renewal of the chambers in elections which are becoming
more and more anti-Jacobin. One year more, as the rulers themselves
admit, and not one Conventionalist, not one pure Jacobin, will sit in
the Legislative Corps. Consequently, according to the
revolutionaries, the counter-revolution will have taken place in the
year VI.
This means that the Revolution is to end in the year VI., and that the
pacific reign of law will be substituted for the brutal reign of
force. In fact, the great majority of the representatives and almost
the entire French nation have no other end in view: they wish to rid
themselves of the social and civil r?gime to which they have been
subject since the 10th of August, 1792, and which, relaxed after
Thermidor 9, but renewed by the 13th of Vend?miaire, has lasted up to
the present time, through the enforcement of its most odious laws and
the maintenance of its most disreputable agents.
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