Decree appointing a new Government in Piedmont. Liberty. Equality Arreté of General Jourdan, Minifter Extraordinary of the French Government in Piedmont. Turin, October 4. THE 'HE Minifter Extraordinary having confidered the letter from the General in Chief, Brune, in which he points out fuch changes as ought to be effected both in the form of the Piedmontefe provifional government, and in the members who compose it; brdains 1. Citizens Galli and Braida, now members of the commiffion of government; Botta, now member of the Confulta; Boffi, envoy from the commiffion to the Ligurian government; Debernardi, a lawyer, and late member of the central adminiftration of the department of La Sefia; Coffa, chief officer of police, and Guilio, a profeffor in the univerfity, are appointed members of the provifional government of Piedmont. 2. Citizens Boffi, Botta, and Debernardi are specially intrufted with the direction of the affairs of government, under the denomination of the executive committee. Citizens Galli, Braida, Cofta, and Guilio fhall be called to affift at the deliberation of the executive committee, as often as fhall be deemed neceffary by the committee or by the minister extraordinary of the French government in Piedmont, Each of them shall be fpecially charged with the fuperintend ence of fome branch of the administration. 3. Citizens Boffi and Debernardi being abfent, they shall be provifionally reprefented in the executive committee by Citizens Cofta and Guilio. 4. The new committee of government, appointed by this arreté, fhall enter on their functions this day. Immediately after their inftallation, fuch of the members of the exifting committee. as are not comprifed in the prefent arrangement, fhall cease to perform their functions. They fhall be immediately employed in the Confulta, fenate, chamber of accounts, or in fome other public department. A copy of this arreté fhall be tranfmitted to the exifting committee, and the original fhall be fent to that now appointed *. JOURDAN. The The Minifter Jourdan, accompanied by Lieutenant-general Soult, Ge. nerals Lacombe-Saint-Michel, Kifter, Seras, the other fuperior officers at Turin, and the whole of the staff officers, was prefent at the installation of the The following ftification of the Invafion of Tuscany by the French has appeared in the Moniteur, the official Paper of the French Conful te. THE Publicifte of this day, 13 Brumaire (October 4), afferts, that at the moment of writing that statement, Tuscany is evacuated. It fays mote. It pretends that the invasion of that country was never authorized by the government. It might be afked from what fource the Publicifte has drawn intelligence fo false, and affertions fo unfounded; and if it confine itself to replying, that another journal (the Citoyen Français) has published the same statements, we would ask the editors of both thofe periodical papers, by what combination they have believed that generals would permit military operations of fuch vast importance to be undertaken without the orders of government? The motives which have determined and authorized the occupation of Tufcany are to be found in documents and tranfactions which are fufficiently public. 1. In the preliminaries figned by Count St. Julien, the Emperor was engaged to canfe the difarming of the Tufcan levy en maffe. 2. By the additional convention made at Caftiglione, between General Marmont and General Hohenzollern, General Brune confented to wait for an answer from Vienna relative to the evacuation of the Ferrarese by the Auftrians, who were to evacuate that country in execution of the convention of Marengo: but in return for this condefcenfion, no question was made with respect to Tuscany in the convention of Caftiglione. 3. The Auftrians have failed effentially in the convention of Marengo, fince it fpecified that they were to occupy only the town and citadel of Ferrara, which certainly does not mean forty leagues of country. This fundamental convention, which formed the basis of every other, and was ratified by both governments, being incapable of alteration in confequence of any convention made by general officers, the government inftantly disavowed every modification. 4. The levy en masse was paid by the English, and partly directed by Willot. A Neapolitan corps had arrived to reinforce it. The French army, however, had concluded no armistice with the Neapolitans. the new government; and he delivered a fpeech upon the occafion, which was loudly applauded. He diftinctly stated that it was neceffary that the Piedmontese government, repofing unlimited confidence in Bonaparte, fhould endeavour to merit the protection of that of France, "Whilff the French," said he, “are shedding their blood in defence of your liberty, can you object to making a few facrifices}" 5. A few days after the occupation of Leghorn by the French, an English fleet prefented itself before the port, having on board 12,000 troops for landing, but the republic has concluded no armistice with the English. Forefight is the first duty in war; when once a government is deficient in that, victory wavers, and defeats fucceed. 6. General Sommariva, commanding the Auftrian troops, withdrew, without offering any afliftance to the levy en maffe, which ought to have been difarmed. These 20,000 brigands had proceeded to every excefs, and refpected no convention whatever. While General Dupont commanded, and took by affault the town of Arezzo, the Auftrian troops ought not to have taken, and did not take, any part in the action. General Sommariva, with the troops under his command, ob tained permiffion to crofs the French army, and to rejoin the Auftrian army at Ferrara.` If, throughout all this expedition, any reproach can be made to the French, it is that of not having fufficiently punished he town of Arezzo, which was the centre of the infurrection, and which allowed itself to be taken by affault. The criminal conduct of this city on the retreat of the army of Naples may be recollected. The national glory did not permit that fuch exceffes, again renewed, fhould remain unpunished. It is evident that the Auftrian general did not conceive that an invafion, rendered neceffary by fo many motives, was a rupture of the armistice, fince nothing prevented him from proceeding against Brescia or Bologna until General Dupont was in Tufcany. Tufcany was fo oppreffed by the levy en maffe, that the perfons most attached to the Grand Duke faw with pleasure the arrival of the French, whofe conduct has been that of well-regulated troops, delivering a country from the yoke of undifciplined hordes. Befides, the government has been preferved as it was established by the authority of the Grand Duke, Imperial Notification of the Removal of Baron Thugut; Vienna, October 5, 1800. AT T the request of my conference-minifter, Baron Thugut, I have accepted his refignation of the direction of the department of foreign affairs, and bestowed the administration of the court and state chancery, in conjunction with my cabinet, on Louis Count Cobentzel, late envoy to the Imperial court of Ruffia, whom I likewife appoint, pro tempore, my conference-minister, and vice-ftate-chancellor. FRANCIS. Note Note tranfmitted upon the above Occafion by Baron Thugut to all the Members of the diplomatic Body. HIS Majefty the Emperor, in compliance with the earnest folicitations of the underligned, having generously condescended to difpenfe with his adminiftration of foreign affairs, has thought proper to charge Count Louis de Cobentzel with that department, and has at the fame time appointed him minifter of conferences, and vice-chancellor of the court of state, The underfigned lofes no time in acquainting Mr. with this arrangement, that he may henceforward apply to Count Cobentzel in all affairs that fhall be intrufted to him on the part of the court, and refpecting which Count Cobentzel will take care to inform him of his Imperial Majefty's determinations. The undersigned has the honour of affuring Mr. ——— of his very high confideration. Vienna, Oct. 7, 1800. (Signed) Baron DE THUGUT. Copy of a Note fent round by Count Cobentzel to all the foreign Minifters. THE Emperor has been conftrained to yield to the repeated applications of his minifter of conferences, Baron Thugut, for leave to refign his direction of the department of foreign affairs; in confequence of which the latter has received the poft of commiffary-general and minifter extraordinary for the government of the Imperial states in Italy, Iftria, and Dalmatia. Ar the fame time his Majefty has been pleased to confer upon the undersigned the tation of minister of conferences, and appoint him vice court and state chancellor, and in that capacity to conduct the department which Baron Thugut has refigned, which, in future, will be united with the department of the cabinet under the direction of the lord chamberlain and minifter of conferences, Count Colloredo As this arrangement produces official arrangements, in which the underfigned may have bufinefs to tranfact with A. B. he has the honour to inform him of it. At the fame time he haftens to exprefs to A. B. how defirous he is to obtain his confidence, agreeably to the relations of friendship which prevail between the two courts. He avails himfelf of this opportunity with pleasure to affure A. B. of his higheft confideration. (Signed) LOUIS, Count VON COBENTZEL Operations Operations in Italy. THE Tufcan levy en maffe, directed by Auftrian officers, and commanded by M. Sommariva, was to have poffeffed itself of Lucca and a part of the Bolognefe territory. Gen. Brune having concentrated his forces on the left bank of the Po, Gen. Dupont marched from Bologna with a divifion, diffipated the rifing en maffe, and fignified to M. Sommariva that if the armed peasants did not return to their homes, he would enter Tuscany, in order to difarm and punish them for the outrages which they daily committed on the territory occupied by the French army. The anfwer not being fatisfactory, General Dupont entered Tufcany. He was on the 14th of October within a day's march of Florence. Dupont, Lieutenant-general, commanding the right Wing, to Monfieur the General commanding in Tufcany for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke. Monfieur General, Head quarters at Planoro, Ott. 12. THE time allowed you by the General in Chief, Brune, for difbanding and difarming the extraordinary Tufcan levics has expired, and you have not yielded to his demand. The levies are not difbanded, they occupy even till Saint Leo, Caftiglione, and feveral other points of the Cifalpine territory. The horrors committed in the Romagna by the Tufcan infurgents have been followed by aggreflions which have been renewed the moment after they have been refented. They have recently engaged in arms at Saint Pelegrino and Caftel Nuovo, and raifed contributions within the circle limited for the army. This ftate of things is become at once too alarming and too outrageous for the French army. A decifive meafure is neceffary. Even the intereft of peace is attached to it. The General in Chief has ordered me to effect the difarming of this misled multitude, and to take pofleflion of Tufcany. I announce to you in confequence, Monfieur General, that I am marching to execute this order. (Signed) DUPONT. Capture of Florence and Leghorn by the French.-(From the official GENERAL Brune, by a difpatch of the 19th of October, in forms government, that in purfuance of the 2d article of the preliminaries and particular convention of Caftiglione, he fummoned the general commanding in Tufcany for the Grand |
