" - "The opening of the clubs
must, in every relation, be deemed a disastrous circumstance. . . .
All classes of society are panic-stricken at the faintest probability
of the re-establishment of a republican government copied after that
of 1793" . . . . The party of political incendiaries in France is
the only one which carries out such designs energetically and
directly."
[142] Leouzon-Leduc, ibid, 328, 329. (Dispatches of September 19 and
23.) - Mallet-Dupan, "Mercure Britannique." (No. for October 25,
1799. Letter from Paris. September 15. Exposition of the situation
and tableau of the parties.) "I will add that the war waged with
success by the Directory against the Jacobins, (for, although the
Directory is itself a Jacobin production, it wants no more of its
masters), that this war, I say, has rallied people somewhat to the
government without having converted anyone to the Revolution or really
frightened the Jacobins who will pay them back if they have time to do
it."
[143] Gohier, "M?moires," conversation with Siey?s on his entry into
the Directory. "Here we are," says Siey?s to him, "members of a
government which, as we cannot conceal from ourselves, is threatened
with a coming fall.
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