ss, and their
battering train, with most of their field-pieces, were captured.
About the same time Wurmser gained the bridge of the Necker, and drove
Pichegru within the walls of Manheim. Pichegru, having strengthened the
garrison, soon after quitted Manheim, re-crossed the Rhine, and effected
a junction with jourdan. During the month of November, Manheim, with a
garrison of 9000 men, capitulated to Wurmser, who then formed a
junction with Clairfait, and the two quickly recovered the whole of the
Palatinate, and of the country between the Rhine and the Moselle.
The Austrian generals formed a project of penetrating once more into
Luxembourg; but their movements were slow, and Jourdan and Pichegru
advanced along the Rhine by forced marches, and kept them in check.
Several obstinate encounters took place; but the winter was fast
approaching, and as both imperialists and republicans were exhausted by
the campaign, it was deemed expedient to agree to an armistice, which
was not to be broken on either side without ten days' notice, and
during which, each were to remain in the same position they then
occupied.

AFFAIRS AT PARIS.

This year witnessed the close of the empire of the Jacobins. When the
reign of terror was overthrown, there still remained two parties in
Paris to contend for superiority; that of the committees of Jacobins,
which endeavoured to retain the remnant of their power, and that of the
Thermidorians. The Jacobins were still formidable enemies: for four days
after the death of Robespierre they resumed the sittings of their club;
and as they possessed a strong hold on the feelings of the populace, the
Thermidorians saw that it was necessary to rouse themselves into action.
For a long time, however, they found themselves compelled to proceed
with great caution against their antagonists; and had they not been
supported by the _Jeunesse Doree_, it is probable that the Jacobins
would have been more than a match for them. These young men, after
several encounters, attacked the club at one of its sittings and
dispersed them; and then the commissioners of the convention put a seal
on its papers, by which its existence, and with it the union of the
democratic party, was destroyed. It was immediately after this victory
over the club of Jacobins that the monster Carrier was executed; and the
convention was soon able to effect more humane designs, and to abridge
the power of the revolutionary tribunals. Gradually