MARCEAU, GENERAL MERLIN (OF DOUAY) MERLIN (OF THEONVILLE) MIRABEAU, JUN. MIRABEAU-MIRANDA-WILKES MIRANDA, GENERAL MONGE MOREAU, GENERAL NECKER PASTORET PETION 34 123 146 ib. 222 247 333 231 Of all Bookfellers may be had, with a good allowance to Schools, The BRITISH NEPOSs, or Youths' Biographical Mirror, confifting of lives of illufirious Britons, written purposely for the use of Schools and of British Youth, by WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D. Vicar of Hurley, in Berkshire, price 4s. 6d. bound. FOUNDERS FOUNDERS OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE DIRECTORY. No fooner had the French overturned the Monarchy, than a grand object prefented itself to their confideration: this was the formation of a different fpecies of government. A model entirely new, in name, and form, but not in principle, was then recurred to for the management of the Executive Power, and termed the DIRECTORY. It confifts of five. It is the chief, and fuperintendent of all the other conftituted authorities; it poffeffes the initiative, or decifion in the first instance, refpecting treaties of peace, or declarations of war; the management of the armies, and the nomination to a variety of important public employments, are alfo within its sphere of action. The members, one of whom is chofen annually by the legislature, live in great ftate at the Luxembourg, now called the DIRECTORIAL PALACE; receive military honours after the manner of the VOL. I. ancient B |