CHAP. XIV.--Dumouriez--His displeasure at the Treatment of the Flemish Provinces by the Convention--His projects in consequence--Gains the ill-will of his Army--and is forced to fly to the Austrian Camp--Lives many years in retreat, and finally dies in England--Struggles betwixt the Girondists and Jacobins--Robespierre impeaches the Leaders of the Girondists, and is denounced by them--Decree of Accusation against Marat--Commission of Twelve--Marat acquitted--Terror of the Girondists--Jacobins prepare to attack the Palais Royal, but are repulsed--Repair to the Convention, who recall the Commission of Twelve--Louvet and other Girondist Leaders Fly from Paris--Convention go forth in procession to expostulate with the People--Forced back to their Hall, and compelled to Decree the Accusation of Thirty of their Body--Girondists finally ruined--and their principal Leaders perish--Close of their History, 258 CHAP. XV.--Views of Parties in Britain relative to the Revolution--Affiliated Societies--Counterpoised by Aristocratic Associations--Aristocratic Party eager for War with France--The French proclaim the Navigation of the Scheldt--British Ambassador recalled from Paris, and French Envoy no longer accredited in London--France declares War against England--British Army sent to Holland, under the Duke of York--State of the Army--View of the Military Positions of France--in Flanders--on the Rhine--in Piedmont--Savoy--on the Pyrenees--State of the War in La Vendée--Description of the Country--Le Bocage--Le Louroux--Close Union betwixt the Nobles and Peasantry--Both strongly attached to Royalty, and abhorrent of the Revolution--The Priests--The Religion of the Vendéans outraged by the Convention--A general Insurrection takes place in 1793--Military Organisation and Habits of the Vendéans--Division in the British Cabinet on the Mode of conducting the War--Pitt--Wyndham--Reasoning upon the subject--Vendéans defeated--They defeat, in their turn, the French Troops at Laval--But are ultimately destroyed and dispersed--Unfortunate Expedition to Quiberon--La Charette defeated and executed, and the War of La Vendée finally terminated--Unsuccessful Resistance of Bourdeaux, Marseilles, and Lyons, to the Convention--Siege of Lyons--Its Surrender and dreadful Punishment--Siege of Toulon, 274 CHAP. XVI.--Views of the British Cabinet regarding the French Revolution--Extraordinary Situation of France--Explanation of the Anomaly which it exhibited--System of Terror--Committee of Public Safety--Of Public Security--David the Painter--Law against Suspected Persons--Revolutionary Tribunal--Effects of the Emigration of the Princes and Nobles--Causes of the Passiveness of the French People under the Tyranny of the Jacobins--Singular Address of the Committee of Public Safety--General Reflections, 307