You have been informed of the horrid attempt made against our brave and worthy friend Dartigoite, at the tribune of the popular society of Auch; you know that a guilty hand had almost robbed the Republic of one of its worthiest champions at the moment when, addressing the people, he thundered against the evil-intentioned. Filled with horror and indignation, and anxious to avenge the national representation thus outthe extraordinary commission to transport itself thither instantly. Ten villains have laid their heads on the scaffold; and the principal author of Dartigoite's attempted assassination, with his last breath, repeated the infamous name of Louis XVII.! The monsters! they shall perish, every one, and the land of liberty shall soon be purged of the slaves who long for kings. We have discovered in our army a brother of that Hébert the impostor who sold stoves and impudently blew counter-revolution through their pipes. We have secured him, and will keep him here till your will respecting his person be made known to us.

The extraordinary commission, by which we were powerfully seconded, has performed severe acts of justice and national vengeance; but, citizen colleagues, there are yet great criminals to be punished, and chiefly within the walls of the town of Bayonne. You must have noticed in the letter of the villain Dumartin that the conspirators, doubtless keeping up correspondence with this commune, appeared sure of its sympathy, and seemed merely to desire that Spaniards and emi-raged, we issued at once a decree, commanding grants should arrive under the walls of Bayonne, of which the gates would have been opened to them by their accomplices. We will make it our business to track these criminal intelligences, and you may rest assured that the blood of all the traitors shall flow on the scaffold. Speaking of the guilty, we must not forget those whose civic conduct has never failed. If in the department of the Landes there existed a focus of counterrevolution; if several communes, chiefly those of the district of St. Sever, have merited the anger, the indignation, the hatred of the friends of liberty; there are many worthy your esteem and friendship.

In the first place, the feeling of the countrypeople is good throughout the greater part of the departmeut; they detest priests, fanatics, and nobles; love the Republic; cherish the defenders of their country, for which they make, and with joy, the greatest sacrifices. The towns of J. J. Rousseau (the Saint Esprit, old style,) and of Mont de Marson, must be particularly designated; the best principles reign there,-love of country, Republicanism, warm all hearts; and the first

named of these two towns has so much the more

merit in its opinions, that it forms in a manner one and the same city with Bayonne; where there reigns, and will long reign, with the exception of the few patriots belonging to popular societies, the most inveterate aristocracy, the love of kings and Spaniards, the hatred of liberty and equality. The town of Dax also seems, since our salutary visit made there some time since, anxious to atone for its delinquencies. Patriotism has regained its vigor; the evil-intentioned are struck dumb and impotent, or are fettered; and the Sans-culottes develop an energy of which the commune did not seem, a short time since, susceptible.

Salut et Fraternité.

(Signed) CAVAIGNAC and PINET the elder Séance du 6 Floréal.

Pinet et Cavaignac à la Convention Nationale. Bayonne, le 30 Germinal, l'an 2 de la République une et indivisible, (19 April, 1794, old style.) Citizen Colleagues,-Our last to you is of the 28th of this same month, wherein we informed you of the happy success of our measures taken in the department of the Landes to stifle, outwit, and crush a plot formed there by our everlasting enemies, the priests and nobles. Everything around us, citizen colleagues, takes the happiest aspect; all is being organized, difficulties and obstacles are smoothed, and we dare to assure you that the machine will roll on to the army of the western Pyrenees.

P.S. As proofs against Hébert's brother may exist at the Revolutionary Tribunal, we determine on sending him to Paris.

Salut et Fraternité.

PINET and CAVAIGNAC. Read at the sitting of the 9th Floréal, year 2, (28th of April, 1783.)

In September, 1794, after an absence of a year, Jean Baptiste Cavaignac was restored to his legislative labors in the National Convention. According to the note in Michaud's Biographie Universelle, if Boissy d'Anglas defended him when he was denounced by the inhabitants of Bayonne after the fall of Robespierre, it is not to be supposed that he was, therefore, necessarily innocent; but he had contributed to the overthrow of Robespierre, and belonging thus to the strongest party at the time, the Convention was willing to absolve him of many crimes.

There exists a strange coincidence between the functions of Jean Baptiste Cavaignac and his son the general, during two days of insurrection under two French Republics, separated by fifty-five years. On the 13th of Vindémiaire, year 4, when the sections of Paris rose against the Convention, Barras, who commanded the troops, had Cavaignac for his adjutant; while Napoleon Bonaparte, at that time général de brigade, was intrusted with all military dispositions which might become necessary. Having borne an active part in the repression of the popular movement, Jean Baptiste, like his son in June, came to announce to the Assembly the success obtained by his comrades and himself, and the restoration of order. It was aptly remarked in the National Assembly a few days since, that "Our Republics have

At a quarter after six.

Some citizens, placed in the tribunes, began to applaud Merlin's report. Hold your tongues!' exclaimed all the members; 'hold your tongues!' and silence was restored.

leaned as yet on a musket or a paving-stone." | commenced. The general-in-chief has just inAt least a sure road to military distinction formed the committees that everywhere the rebels under a Republican form of government are repulsed, everywhere the Republic triumphs. appears to be over the bodies of the sovereign people. If the 13th Vindémiaire caused Napoleon's promotion to the rank of general of division, now, in June, 1848, Generals Lamoricière and Cavaignac have won a fame, the acquisition of which would have cost a price far heavier had the foe continued to be merely the wild Arab. If Louis Philippe was monarch of the barricades, are not these their marshals?

On the 13th Vindémiaire the sections of Paris, displeased with the article of the new constitution which prohibited their naming afresh two thirds of the former members to the new corps législatif, rose in arms, avowedly to restore the constitution of 1793. On the other hand, detachments of regular troops and artillery occupied various quarters of Paris, and surrounded the Convention. At five o'clock in the afternoon the first shot was fired, and the battle lasted till night.

Legendre. I see in the tribunes, by the side of several unarmed citizens, a defender of the country. I invite him to return to his post.

The Soldier. If I am here it is because my horse has been taken from me.

A Citizen. Representatives, the citizens you see are devoted to the Republic, but they have not arms for her defence.

N. I observe to these citizens that they will find arms.

Murmurs interrupt him. This explanation is carried no further, and silence being restored, a single report of cannon is heard in the distance.

The President. The National Convention will

hear, no doubt with interest, that the assistance the most immediately necessary has been carried to the wounded by our colleagues themselves. The Baron de Staël, the Swedish ambassador, takes his accustomed place at this moment. He is armed, wearing a sabre, as do the representatives themselves, and the greater part of the citiAnother person accompanies him. At seven o'clock the firing has altogether ceased. Tridi, 13 Vindémiaire, an 4 de la République une Cavaignac, one of the representatives who et indivisible, (5 Oct., 1795, old style.)

We give a closing extract from the Moni

teur :

(Extract from the Moniteur.)

Suite de la séance permanente du 13 au soir.
A moment after Merlin de Douai ascended the

tribune.

The President. Citizen colleagues, I think it right to remind you that, whatever be the report you are about to hear, it will be your duty to forbear applause.

zens.

marched along with the Republicans, enters at this moment and ascends the tribune.

Caraignac. Citizens, I think it my duty to obtained by the soldiers, defending the Republic inform the National Convention of the advantage in one of the most important posts. It is at the Dauphin, and which, as you are aware, faces the corner of the Rue de la Convention, ci-devant Church of St. Roch, that the combat commenced Merlin de Douai commenced speaking, but the by a Royalist aggression. The Republican solextreme fatigue of his voice prevented our hear-diers, attacked there by a considerable mass of ing his first words. We give below all we conld energy. Supported by two pieces of cannon adthe rebels, returned the fire steadily, and with gather:-into the church, where they shut themselves in. mirably served, we drove back the enemy even We had then the greatest trouble in repressing the ardor of our soldiers, anxious to force them in their last refuge; but as we did not know the strength of the force opposed to ours, and might have fallen into some ambuscade, we arrested the

Merlin de Douai. I come to announce to you the success of the defenders of the Republic against the rebels. It is not without sorrow that I speak of it, since it has cost French blood; but at least the friends of their country cannot reproach themselves with commencing the battle. The general-in-chief, Barras, had received, on the part of your committees, the positive order to forbear attack; to hold himself on the defensive, even, as far as possible, to avoid provocation. The combat began by a piece of infamous treaSeveral rebels, one bearer of a flag, advanced towards the committee for general safety [section of police ?]; arrived there, some among them laying aside their arms and quitting their drapeau, embraced a captain of grenadiers of the National Convention, shouting Vive la Republique! Vive la Convention! At the very same moment several shots were fired by the rebels who had remained behind these, and several of the military were wounded. It was thus the attack

march of our men here.

cans have signalized their valor once more. GeneThroughout this action, citizens, the Republiral Berruyer had a horse killed under him; four chot and the Adjutant-general Mutelė, behaved other general officers, of whom I recognized Vawith remarkable gallantry. The names of the others will be made known to you. At this present moment our men are still in pursuit of the rebels, and a cannon-shot is now and then fired merely to give them chase. Nothing stirs, nothing will stir. I answer to you for your safety.

We have no motive for lingering over the

varied fortunes of Cavaignac, after this date of the 13th Vindémiaire. He belonged to the Conseil des Cinq Cents, but not later than 1797; he filled afterwards an humble post at the barrier, and another equally so in the administration of the lottery. Neglected and forgotten upon the fall of Barras, he got himself, after the peace of Amiens, named commissary for commercial affairs to Maskate in Arabia, where arriving when the war had broken out once more with England, her influence prevented his reception. Employed by Joseph Bonaparte at Naples; by his successor Murat; recalled by Napoleon in common with all French subjects abroad when the brothers-in-law quarrelled; he spent his time in obscurity, and sometimes in distress. His fortunes seemed to rise a little when Napoleon returned from Elba, for he was nominated to the post of préfet of the Somme: but his adherence to Napoleon's cause being proved, it is said by more than words, he was unable to profit by it. Louis XVIII.'s return prevented his taking possession of his préfecture. The law which exiled the Regicides obliged him to quit France in 1816, and he retired to Brussels, where he died in 1829. His son, Godefroy Cavaignac, when accused of joining in the conspiracy of 1831, in the course of his defence spoke of his father's banishment as a harsh measure; but he did not express himself proud of being the banished man's son. We would not be thought to cavil at the head of the executive without just cause; we are not of the temper nor belong to the country which finds theme for opposition in the one salutary word, "authority" but we see reason for alarm should the chief of the Government temporize with men more dangerous as friends than as adversaries. We, in common with all persons to whom the three words Law, Order, Honesty, sound to the full as well as Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, hailed his coming in June. It startles us to hear even a whisper that the project, too unpopular for performance, of sending representatives into the departments as spies on the words and thoughts of their inhabit-talk of the vaisseau de l'état, and the wisest ants, was entertained in order to satisfy him, mode of manning her; we wish her an expeabove all things, of his own chance of being rienced commander, and a pilot who knows elected President of the Republic. He dis- the shoals for, at the present moment, havtrusts, it is said, the feeling of the south, and ing thrown charts and compass overboard as reposes no steady confidence in any one. things out of date and beneath their sagacity, Had he not taken, a few days since, a step in all the crew are helping to steer, while they the way of law and order, by the appoint- quarrel as to which shall be captain, and the ment of Dufaure, and other moderate men, wreckers on the shore rub their hands and to seats in the Cabinet, we would not have value the cargo.

given much for either his own chance of safety or for that of the Republic.

General Cavaignac's career, with a good deal to admire and approve in it, has yet been full of inconsistences. His conduct in regard to M. Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc and Caussidière, is not to be accounted for. His reception of the first as a guest at his own table, after all that had occurred at the Home Department and in the provinces, excited as much painful surprise among the best of his own friends as congratulating the accused on a defence which did not exculpate him. In like manner, his policy was false aud pusillanimous, which, after the arrest of the two last had been determined upon, suffered them to profit by the pretended ignorance of the sharpest police-agents in Europe, although the delinquency of both was fully proved. They departed, the latter with menace on his lips such as suited well the coarse, untaught conspirator, who convoked market-porters to be his body-guard. Let General Cavaignac remember that the support of the Mountain can be secured only by the ascendency of principles which he has himself denounced, and the triumph of the very faction which he crushed behind the barricades. Hence the extreme peril of France; for while moderate men repose on the sense of their numbers-of little importance while they remain passive— the clubs of Paris, and Rouen, and Lyons, outdo their former violence; and the Socialists, voting as one man, elect their leader, Raspail, to the National Assembly, while he is yet prisoner at Vincennes on the charge of having aided to do it violence. Nor will it do to be led away from a contemplation of these things by the boasts of designing or deceived men in regard to the revival of trade. There is no revival of trade, except in the case of articles which the people cannot exist without; while the amount of misery is everywhere on the increase. Six millions of francs have been voted for relief in the last three months, and the necessitous of the department of the Seine alone amount to two hundred and sixty-nine thousand souls.

Men

From Bentley's Miscellany.

MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N., C. B.