. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. eland, in order to assist the United Irishmen, whowere discontented with the conduct of the British fleet escaped from Brest, without being discovered by theEnglish squadron, but a violent storm dispersed the ships, andprevented those which reached Bantry-bay from effecting alanding. As many of the soldiers that had been sent on thisexpedition were criminals taken from the galleys, the Frenchgovernment did not know how to treat them on their length they determined to send them against
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. eland, in order to assist the United Irishmen, whowere discontented with the conduct of the British fleet escaped from Brest, without being discovered by theEnglish squadron, but a violent storm dispersed the ships, andprevented those which reached Bantry-bay from effecting alanding. As many of the soldiers that had been sent on thisexpedition were criminals taken from the galleys, the Frenchgovernment did not know how to treat them on their length they determined to send them against Great Britainitself. They effected a landing at Fishguard in Wales, on the23d of February 1797, and surrendered themselves prisonersthe same evening without making any resistance. 17. Mantua, the last strong hold of the Austrians in A. D. f Italy, having surrendered, Buonaparte advanced along the shores of the Adriatic, and passing through the Alpine defiles which separate Italy from Germany, threatened Vienna. The emperor, terrified at the dangers by which he KlfeTORY OF FRANCE,. THE REPUBLIC 365 Was threatened, hastened to make a peace. A treaty wasconcluded at Campo Formio, by which the Austrian Nether-lands were given up to France, and the north of Italy, nomi-nally formed into an independent state, under the name of theCisalpine republic, was virtually subjected to the same The constitution of France was gradually assuming amonarchical form, two councils, that of the ancients, and thatof the five hundred, had succeeded the convention, and theexecutive power was entrusted to a directory that held theregal authority in commission. 19. England alone now opposed the republic, andby its naval superiority sustained the contest with i^q^vigour. The French marine had never recovered the ■blow inflicted by lord Howe on the 1st of June 1794; theSpanish fleet had been signally defeated off Cape St. Vincentin 1797, and in the latter end of the. same year, the Dutchnavy had
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