A Short Account of the Late Revolution in Geneva, and of the Conduct of France Towards That Republic, From October 1792, to October 1794

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Excerpt from A Short Account of the Late Revolution in Geneva, and of the Conduct of France Towards That Republic, From October 1792, to October 1794: In a Series of Letters to an American It is a certain fact, that this faction did not then amount to a fourth part of the inhabitants of Geneva and our M agiftrates have, more than once, been feverely blamed, by thofe who either do n0t know, or do nor: advert to, all the circumf'tances of the cafe, for not, immediately difperfing it by force. The truth is, that nothing but the fear of the probable confeqnenees, prevented their doing foz for, ever fince the French had taken poltehion of Savoy, we had been completely furrounded by the territory of France, her armies, in direct violation, even of the laf't two treaties, were {till 21: our g'ates: the decree of the Convention, which ordered all the French Generals to relieve the people of every country from the tyranny qf their opprc¿orr, had iuf't been received, and proclaimed, by the troops in our neighbourhood the more violent of the Natives Openly avowed their intention to take advantage of it, if nece¿'ary and the French army only waited for the ¿ightef't appearance of commotion, to enter the City, where it was fure of finding many friends, and where, by its intrigues, it had in fact already efia blithed a fort of advanced guard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.