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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Camille Jourdan, a French legislator sentenced to banishment and in hiding, issues a spirited address condemning the Directory's triumvirate for using armed forces to surround the legislative council, prevent assembly, banish 51 members, and pass laws illegitimately. He denounces accusations against Carnot, Pichegru, and the republic's defender as forgeries.
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One of the members sentenced to be banished, but who has concealed himself in an obscure retreat, has sent a very spirited address to his constituents. He says, a horrible crime has been committed:—That the triumvirate of the directory, aided by the armed force, had surrounded the halls of the legislative council, prevented their assembling; and had banished fifty-one of its members:—That a few slaves of the directory, deliberating with bayonets at their breasts, had dared to assume the name of the legislature; and to pass laws:—That a greater stretch of military tyranny never disgraced the annals of history—and of all contemptible forgeries, that was the most contemptible, which charged the immortal defender of the republic, as being at the head of a conspiracy in favor of royalism.
It is known that all the accusations against Carnot, Pichegru, &c. are mere forgeries. But when you want to beat a dog, it is easy to find a stick.
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fifty-one members banished
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One of the members sentenced to banishment concealed himself and sent a spirited address to constituents, denouncing the Directory's triumvirate for using armed force to surround the legislative council, prevent assembly, banish fifty-one members, and allow slaves of the Directory to assume the legislature's name and pass laws under bayonet threat; described as military tyranny and accusations against Carnot, Pichegru, and the immortal defender of the republic as forgeries.