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modation; nothing was heard on any fide but fongs which founded the praises of the French heroes; every heart feemed to be united in the bonds of fraternity! So flattering a reception, fo real an attachment, fhould prove to you, citizens directors, how much the twig of Geneva figures in the fafces of the great republic:

Proclamation of the Sardinian Infurgents.

ITALY, my friends, Italy herfelf depends upon you for her freedom; the expects at your hands the neceffary increase of power which is to recall her to her original greatnefs, and to render her worthy of that exalted destiny which the great nation, the delivering nation, referves for her-the genius of the heroes of old hovers over Italy, and their blood flows in the veins of all true Italians.

Choose then between glory and infamy. Glory confifts in being free, infamy confifts in being enflaved. Will you prefer the fictitious friendship of a tyrant to the friendship of your country? Reflect that her vengeance is terrible! Think of your wives, your fathers, your children! No, fly into our arms, fly-our arms are open to embrace you, our hearts pant to receive you..

And you, ye warlike inhabitants of the cloudy fummits of the frozen Alps, you whom an infamous oligarchy has long condemned to the humiliating trade of being executioners for tyrants, are ye ftill ignorant that your country is free-that Switzerland, your native country, is delivered, and recalls you into her bofom? What people will condefcend to look on you, what nations will be able to refpect you, what country will be inclined to fupport you, if, when become freemen, you ftill fubmit to be the voluntary fatellites and the mercenary foldiers of kings?

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Order of the Executive Directory of the French Republic in confe quence of the Refufal of the Council of Elders of the Cifalpine Republic, on the 5th March, 1798, to accede to the Treaty of Aliance and Commerce between the French and Cifalpine Republics. THE Directory, confidering that their refufal is the effect of

the manoeuvres of the enemies of the two countries, and that it gives the French republic a title to refume all thofe rights which it was before willing to wave, have ordered-Firft, that a contribution fhall be raifed to defray the expenfes of maintaining the troops of the French republic in Italy; and fecond, that twentyone citizens, named by the commander in chief, members of the council of elders of the Cifalpine republic, thall be fuperfeded and arrefted.

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Proclamation of General Berthier to the People of the Cifalpine Republic, 18th March.

ATREATY of alliance with the French republic can alone fecure your liberty, and therefore it will be the death-blow to tyranny.

A great plot has been formed against your happiness-an attempt was made to deftroy the difcipline of the French army, and to excite disturbances in your departments. Journalists have been paid to mislead you, and to infult the French nation and you: she is not infulted with impunity. Thefe counter-revolutionists wifhed to affaffinate Frenchmen and Cifalpins.

A deputy of the council of elders (but I fay it with pleasure, not a native of the Cifalpine territory) formed a plot to deliyer up Mantua to the enemies of the Cifalpine republic-Traitors, paid by the princes who furround you, are perhaps concealed in fome of the moft refpectable pofts in your government: other men, whofe intentions ought to be pure, ferve your enemies without intention, either by a falfe enthufiafm, or through ignorance. Cifalpine people! can you forget that you owe your li berty to the blood of Frenchmen, which has moistened your country, and to the facrifices of that great country which is the admiration of the univerfe }

Yes, the French are your friends; they always will be fo, and will complete the work they have begun.

In the orders which I have given for the punishment of fome impudent and counter-revolutionary journalists, in the accufation which I have demanded againft a reprefentative of the people who is a traitor to his country and the French army, I have refpected the principles of liberty which we have given you when I might have employed military force. Cifalpine people! be calm and tranquil; let thofe alone create difturbances who wish to plunge the country in the horrors of anarchy, and to destroy your liberty. May the most intimate friendship fubfilt between the French republic and you!

As for me, I have never ceafed to give the strongest proofs of my attachment to your country. I would lay down my life to fecure your happiness and liberty; but I declare, that I will use with firmnefs and courage the authority which is entrusted to me, in order to fecure refpect for the French republic, your liberty, and happiness, and to preferve your places from treafon and the attacks of your enemies.

Form of the Oath ordered to be taken by the Swifs refident in Ruffia. A. B. do declare by the prefent oath, before the Almighty God, and upon his holy gofpel, that I have never acceded, in will or in deed, to the wicked and revolutionary principles which

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prevail in France, and which at prefent are propagated through other countries, particularly through Switzerland; that I hold the government there eftablished to be illegal; that I am convinced in my confcience of the fanctity of the Chriftian religion as profeffed by my ancestors, and of the duty I am bounden under to be faithful and obedient to the ancient form of government.

I accordingly do promife and bind myself, under the gracious protection of his Majefty the Emperor, &c. of all the Ruffias, to comport myfelf in his dominions agreeably to the principles of the Chriftian religion, in which I was born; to pay the moft punctual and rigorous obedience to the laws and adminiftration eftablished by his Majefty; and, in fhort, to break off all correfpondence with them, until, after the re-establishment of legal order in Switzerland, I fhall have obtained that permiffion from his Majesty.

In cafe of prevarication, I refign myfelf to all the rigour of the laws of this fublunary life, as alfo to God's laft judgment; and, as a confummation and feal of the prefent oath, I kifs the words and the crofs of our Saviour Jefus Chrift. SO BE IT.

The Minifler of the War and Marine Department of the Ligurian Republic to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and of Justice, June 21. THE minifter of war and marine, in answer to the note of

this day from the minifter of foreign affairs, by which he charged him, in the name of the Directory, to write the proper circular letters, to the end that the law, ordained the 11th of September 1796, of the former government, which prescribes that the ports of the republic thould remain fhut against all British veffels, fhould be fully carried into effect, has the honour to inform him, that ports are not to be thut up by letters, but secured by bombs and red-hot bullets; that to effect this, there must be well pofted batteries, cannon and mortars properly appointed; brave and fpirited foldiers to ferve them as circumstances may require; that batteries, ammunition-carts, and every article neceffary for this purpofe, are not to be procured by mere words, but by money, that courage and difcipline are not promoted nor attained by a diforganization of the armed force, fuch as is dictated by the unconftitutional law of the 18th and 19th current, which carries into effect that of the 16th of May, and the fubfequent decree of the Executive Directory of the 19th, which prefcribes to me its being carried into execution; neither in obftructing every road to preferment to the perfon who has gained it by his blood, at a moment too when the most vile betrayers of their country are feen to be declared innocent. The minister of war informs you that, in order to its being defenfive and offenfive,

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he must have men and money. Every one is acquainted with the ftate of our arfenal and fortifications. Health and fraternity. FREDERICI.

(Signed)

Citizen Minifter,

ANSWER.

I HOPE, that with an honeft fatisfaction you will perufe a republican reply to your letter, read over by me on the evening of the 21ft inft. In good truth I do not comprehend, that becaufe the refolutions of the Executive Directory have been communicated to you through the channel of the minifter of external relations, you should apply to him as a more ready and immediate communication with the Directory. Every honest citizen is of opinion with you, that fea-ports are fecured by batteries well placed, with cannon and mortars properly appointed, with bombs, red-hot balls, &c. and that money is neceffary to carry this into effect. But you will agree with the honeft citizens, that the national cheft is oppreffed by the expenfes occafioned by the war juft terminated; that its refources are exhaufted, and the finances, particularly in this diftrict, diforganized. The honeft citizens. agree with you, that circumftances imperiously demand the moft efficacious meafures of defence; but, with them, you, who are an honeft man, will allow that it was neceffary to fecure the Ligurian territory from an hoftile attack, previously to the embarking in an offenfive war. You will agree, that it was neceffary to examine whether the. Ligurian territory could fupply the means of obtaining it, and whether our republicans were fufficiently inftructed in the ufe of arms, and in military evolutións, to face battalions long fince difciplined, and accustomed to military operations. You will allow, that, under these circumftances, the law which fufpends the further affemblage of troops, was a juft measure of neceflary economy. You will allow, that the law of the 19th current was a prudent and neceffary precaution, which is framed with a view of organizing a provifional guard to the legiflative body, in order to protect them from certain threats and murmurings of the fpurious children of the country, who fometimes have been heard in circles about the place of affembly, endeavouring to wreft from it laws in counterpoife for the public welfare. You will agree, that a law fufpending military promotion does not ftop up the road, but is only a fhort delay in it, fuggefted by neceffary precaution, in order to examine who has justly deserved it. The military commiffion now elected will point out the traitors of the country. You will allow, that a momentary ebullition has dictated the tenour of your letter; but no honeft citizen can be induced to believe that you will give your affent, upon reflection, to its appearing in print. It might

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be the part of a news-writer, or other private fcribbler, but furely not of a public functionary, to publifh fentiments calculated to create in the public mind a want of esteem and respect for the legislative body. You will allow, that difunion among the governing powers induces a fpirit of party, and paves the way to total ruin. You will finally agree, that the obfervations of your fellow-citizen are juft-are upright. He fincerely, in the fulness of his heart, wishes you health, fraternity, and confideration. MASSONE.

(Signed)

Subftance of the Report of the Secretary of State to the Prefident of the United States, of the Proceedings of the Officers of his Catholic" Majefty, in relation to the Pefis occupied by his Troops within the Limits of the United States.

UPON a view of the whole correfpondence now and before

fubmitted to the Prefident, it appears, that the governors of his Catholic Majefty on the Mililippi have, on various pretences, poftponed the running the boundary line, and the withdrawing of his troops from the pofts they occupied within the territory of the United States: that after repeated overtures, promifes, and appearances of commencing the execution of the treaty between the two nations, in both thefe refpects their conduct demonftrates, that for an indefinite period they mean to avoid doing either that there is but too much reafon to believe Mr.Ellicott's fupicions well founded, that an undue influence has been exercifed over the Indians by the officers of his Catholic Majefty, to prepare them for a rupture with the United States: thefe fufpicions correspond with other intelligence recently received by the fecretary at war, and by me-mine is by a private letter from Colonel Sargent, the fecretary of the territory north-weft of the river Ohio, of which an extract is annexed.

Whether this plan of exciting the Indians to direct hoftilities against the United States has been contemplated and promoted by any of our own citizens, it may be difficult to fay; but that one or more of thofe citizens have propofed and taken measures to detach the fouthern Indians from the interefts of the United States, and to deftroy the influence of the public agents over thofe nations, and thus to defeat the great objects of their appointments, the chief of which is to preferve peace, is certain. The evidence of this important fact will be laid before you by the fecretary at war. That evidence having a reference to the British minifter, and his government, I took the liberty of addreffing to him a letter, dated the ft inft, to which I received the answer. As clofely connected with this bufinefs, I lay before you the copy of my letter, dated the 27th of April laft, to Charles Jack

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