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By a careful perusal of the following extracts the public will see that the views of the directory were foretold a month previous to the 4th Sept. but no means sufficiently forceful were used to repel them, and as has usually been the case in France, since the condemnation of the king, the most abandoned triumphed.

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AFFAIRS IN PARIS,

(According to different Paris papers to the 7th of August.)

"There is not one representative of the people who does not receive daily letters, by which he is informed that terrorists, sent from Paris for an important expedition, have set out on their journey for that capital—and that it may not be said the arrival of these dangerous men is the mere effect of chance, it is of importance to make known to France the circumstance of this assemblage.

"The same invitations to come to Paris have been sent at one and the same time to every part of the republic, and to known terrorists. The jacobins flatter themselves with a speedy explosion, with an attack against the legislative body, and the massacre of several deputies, viz. Dumolard, Vaublanc, Pichegru, Villaret Joyeuse, Willot, Boissy d'Anglas, Camille Jordan, Henri Lariviere, &c.—(From the Invariable.)
we Dalilot of the Memorial.

"The following is what I have just learnt, and I hasten to communicate it to you.—The directory, or rather the directorial triumvirate, project a terrible blow, the execution of which would complete the ruin of our unfortunate country: We must hasten to announce in order to avert it. In about four or five days the jacobins in their pay will be sent to the houses of the energetic deputies of the new third, and will surround them, to prevent their going out and repairing to the councils. The directory will address a message announcing a royalist conspiracy, discovered during the night; and among the authors and accomplices will name all the deputies whose talents, virtue and courage are so great an obstacle to the perfidy of their liberticidal designs. They will demand their trial before the high court. All the mountaineers will receive, with a transport of rage, this denunciation. A great part, of the Ventre (the belly) will join them." The decree will be carried, and the accused deputies will soon be sent under a strong escort to Vendome, and the reign of terror will be re-established. The conspiracy will be founded upon pretended papers, supposed to have been found in the Portefeuille of M. d'Entraigues, or some other; and the names of all the deputies to be destroyed will be inserted in it.

"There are in Paris 4000 men dressed like citizens, who are not so: The terrorists abound at Paris; and in a few days there will be a movement.

"Among the warnings which the members of the legislative body are continually receiving, the following expression has been remarked: The dyke of the legislative body is behind them; if they have the misfortune to retreat, they will fall in it and be forever lost. It is said that the directory had a stormy sitting last night; that the triumvirate persist in their fatal designs.—The tempest, and the fearful calm that precedes it, infuses horror and dread into the hearts of all.—(By a deputy, in the memorial.)

"It is no longer possible to doubt. Not only does a conspiracy exist, but it is carrying into execution. Paris is enveloped at a distance beyond the constitutional circle. The danger is imminent. The National Representation is on the point of being struck at. Men who are to be assassinated are mentioned by name; the places of abode of the Deputies are known. For some time men have been sent into the Tribunes and environs of the Assembly, who examine us, recognize us, and mark out their victims The most pressing and alarming warnings are addressed either to the members of the Councils or the commission of inspectors. It is not possible for us longer to shut our eyes to the danger that surrounds us—we must speak—we must act. Detachments without arms are introduced daily into Paris, and the number is already considerable. The minister of Police says nothing. The parts are disturbed, and in a few days the blow is to be struck. Yesterday in the Councils and in the Assembly, men were seen, who came to ascertain the disposition of the different places. The day before yesterday, two soldiers being in an Inn near the Hotel of the Minister of War, one of them, whom too much wine had rendered indiscreet, said to his comrade; that he was well paid; and that for his part, he reckoned upon killing ten or twelve of those Deputies. The speeches which, the soldiers make from the Army of the Sambre and Meuse are nearly of the same kind; and yet the Legislative Body do nothing to open the eyes of the men who are misled; they do nothing to make use of a force to protect themselves. The hall of the Assembly is to be immediately occupied by armed men, who will get possession of it during the night. Deputies a list of whom is made out. will be massacred, or taken up in their houses; a certain number of Deputies will alone have the faculty of making a sitting; and this number, which the conspirators are sure · of beforehand, or who will be repressed by fear, will form the Directorial Majority. A 31st of May is immediately to burst forth; and we cannot foresee all the frightful effects of it.

"If the inhabitants of Paris do not get arms for themselves, if they do not evince vigor, if they do not range round the National Representation, if fear keeps them shut up in their houses, the city will be lost! What curb can keep in soldiers drawn by the hope of pillage, and who are to pay themselves with their own hands?—(By a Deputy—Memorial.)

"The recruiting goes on by the party that meditates a speedy insurrection. The letters from Beauvais inform us, that 150 soldiers from one of the regiments there have set out for Paris.

"Paris is at this moment a real Tower of Babel, where all languages are heard in perfect confusion. One is frightened with the quantity of patois, jargon, accents, gutturalisms, noise, &c. &c. heard on all sides.—(Memorial of the 6th.)