BOOK assurance general Wayne, with equal moderation, drew off his troops. XX. 1794. Mr. Monroe nominated to France. In the southern colonies also the American government had strong ground to suspect that the Creek and Seneca Indians had been tampered with by the British agents, to engage in a war against the Americans; but all these causes of difference were referred to the wellknown address and management of Mr. Jay. Nearly at the same time the president nomiambassador nated, as minister plenipotentiary to the French government, Mr. James Monroe, a man of a cool and dispassionate temper, of excellent parts, and a sincere friend to the cause of Gallic as well as of American liberty. He arrived at His cordial Paris immediately after the fall of the Robespierthat country rian faction, and at his first audience (August reception in 15, 1794) he was received with the most cordial tokens of esteem and affection. "The French people," said the president of the Convention, in his answer to the speech of Mr, Monroe, "have not forgotten, that it is to the Americans they owe the beginning of liberty. It was by admiring the sublime insurrection of the American people against Albion, once so proud, now so degraded, it was by taking arms themselves to second the courageous efforts of that insurrection,-it was by cement XX. ing the independence of America with the blood BOOK of their bravest warriors, that the French people learned to break the sceptre of tyranny in their 1794. turn, and to erect the statue of Liberty on the ruins of a throne founded on fourteen centuries of corruption and crimes." BOOK XXI. Wonderful Acquisitions of France during the War. Session of Parliament, 1795. King's Speech holds out bold and fallacious Hopes of Success. Defection of Mr. Wilberforce, and other Purtisans of the Ministry, from the System of the Court. Causes of the National Delusion. Suspension of the HabeasCorpus Act renewed. Loan granted to the Emperor. Statement of the National Finances. Motion of Mr. Grey respecting Peace-insidiously counteracted by Mr. Pitt. Similar Motion of the Duke of Bedford-rejected by the Peers. Resolutions moved by Mr. Grey and the Duke of Bedford also negatived. Motion by Mr. Fox to inquire into the State of the Nation-evaded. Motions respecting the Recal of Lord Fitzwilliam from Ireland---negatived. Pacific Motion by Mr. Wilberforce negatived. Marriage-Establishment of the Prince of Wales. Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade rejected. Acquittal of Mr. Hastings. Termination of the Session. Proceedings of the Irish Parliament-Appointment of Earl Camden to the Government-Catholic-Emancipation Bill rejected-Distracted State of the Country. Military Transactions. Shattered Remains of the Duke of York's Army embarked for England. Peace between France and Tuscany-Also between France and Prussia, Hesse-Cassel, and Hanover. Treaty between France and Spain. Surrender of Luxemburg. Indecisive Operations on the Rhine. Naval Engagement off the Coast of Corsica. Skilful Retreat of Admiral Cornwallis. French Squadron defeated by Lord Bridport. The Islands of Eustatius and St. Lucia recovered by the French. War against the Maroons BOOK XXI. 1794. Gironde Faction. in Jamaica. Cape of Good Hope captured by the English. State of Affairs in France. Revengeful Proceedings of the Disastrous Expedition to La Vendée. Death of the Dauphin. New Constitution of France. Dissolution of the Convention. Treaty of Commerce signed between Great Britain and America. Defensive Treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Session of Parliament held in Corsica. Petitions from the Cities of London, York, Norwich, &c. against the War. Disturbances in the City of Westminster. Pop-Gun Plot revived. Popular Meetings attended by vast Multitudes at Chalk-Farm, &c. At the conclusion of the year 1794, the French, after repelling with heroic courage the early attack of the allied powers upon their northern Wonderful frontier, found themselves in possession of acquisitions of France the whole of Flanders and Brabant. The during the war. Austrians were driven by them, with dreadful slaughter, across the Meuse, and the English and Dutch beyond the Waal; and they only waited for the setting-in of the frost to pass the great rivers into the territory of the United Provinces. On the side of Germany they had conquered the three ecclesiastical electorates of Mentz, Treves and Cologne; the principality of Liege; the duchies of Cleves, Juliers, and Deux-Ponts; the bishoprics of Spires and Worms; the far greater part of the dominions of the elector-palatine; and, in general, all the Hither Germany bounded by the Rhine. On the side of Italy they occupied the duchy of Savoy and a great |