General History.—January 4th.—Confiscation of all English merchandise in France. Commencement of Continental system.
January 5th.—Directory fail to float a loan of 80 millions (francs), and
January 28th.—Forthwith invade Switzerland, ostensibly to defend the Vaudois, under a sixteenth-century treaty, really to revolutionise the country, and seize upon the treasure of Berne.
February 15th.—Republic proclaimed at Rome. French occupy the Vatican, and
February 20th.—Drive Pope Pius VI. into exile to the convent of Sienna.
March 5th.—Capture of Berne by General Brune.
April 13th.—Bernadotte, ambassador, attacked at the French Embassy in Vienna.
May 19th.—Fitzgerald, a leader in the Irish rebellion, arrested.
August 22nd.—General Humbert and 1100 French troops land at Killala, County Mayo.
September 8th.—Humbert and 800 men taken by Lord Cornwallis at Ballinamack.