to acknowledge the Republic, and menace the army that has triumphed over fo many kings. This infanity is deferving of pity. It will conduct the people to their destruction. The general in chief, faithful to the principles of the French nation, which makes not war upon the people, is ftill defirous of leaving a door open to repentance. But thofe who, after a delay of twenty-four hours, do not lay down their arms, and take a new oath of fidelity to the French Republic, fhall be treated as rebels, and their villages fhall be burnt. The terrible example of Binafco ought to open their eyes. The fame fate threatens every village and every town that shall remain obftinately rebellious. Extract of a Letter from the Commiffioner of Government with the Army of Italy, to the Executive Directory, dated 10th Prairial (May 3), fourth Year of the Republic. CITIZENS DIRECTORS, THE army in entering Lombardy, by the defeat of the Aufrians, had no reason to expect to be obliged to reprefs the people themselves; the testimonies of joy which it met with must have made it conceive other hopes: fuch, however, has been its difagreeable fituation. We have, however, fortunately to announce. to you a refult no lefs prompt than favourable. I was informed, on the 5th, by General Despinoy, who.commanded in the town, that in the fuburbs of Milan, towards Pavia, fome commotions began to appear; that the people were gathering, and that forces were fent to difperfe them. The rebels made an attempt to difarm thefe troops; many in this attempt were killed or wounded, the rest fled, and order was restored. In the night I was informed, that fimilar difturbances had taken place at Vareza, as well as at Pavia and Lodi: that in fome parts of the country the alarm bell was founded, to excite the people to arms: that this revolt, which feemed to have combinations, was fomented by the priests and nobles, who roufed the people to rebellions, in order to affaflinate the French: that the garrifon, which was stationed in Pavia, had been difarmed; and that on the road fome armed peasants had murdered paffengers and perfons employed by the administration. had no hesitation in judging, that it was neceffary inftantly to reprefs this effervefcence; I gave orders for the arreft of fome perfons fufpected by their principles, and their attachment to the Grand Duke. These measures, feconded by the active exertions of General Defpinoy, fecured the tranquillity of Milan. I haftened to inform General Buonaparte of what was paffing. He immediately came to Milan, and we repaired together to Pa via, which was the chief seat of the rebellion. When we had reached Binasco, the general of brigade, Lafue, who commanded the advanced guard, perceived an affemblage of about feven or eight hundred armed men. He attacked the rebels; more than one hundred of them were killed, and the reft put to flight. The foldiers, justly irritated, fet fire to the village. Next day we continued our march to Pavia. We found the gates fhut, and the inhabitants armed. We learned, that the French garrifon had been made prisoners of war. General Buonaparte fummoned the rebels, and upon their refufal to furrender, he attacked the town. It was cannonaded during some time; the grenadiers afterwards forced the gates with hatchets. The rebels were killed or difperfed. The town may be faid, on account of the refiftance which it made, to have been taken by affault. The garrifon was delivered. I have removed the municipality, and replaced them. I have arrested a number of the rebels and fufpected perfons who participated in the revolt. Some of the ring-leaders, after being tried by a military commiffion, and found guilty, were shot. Tranquillity is completely re-established. The contributions are received with activity. SALICETTI. (Signed) PROCLAMATION Iffued by the Municipality of Milan, for abolishing the Nobility. Art. I. THE order of nobility is abolished for ever. II. No one shall bear any title of nobility, but shall be defigned by the appellation of citizen, adding thereto the name of his employment or profeffion. III. All the nobles fhall, within the space of eight days, bring their patents of nobility to the commune, where they shall be burnt. IV. Every feudal authority, and all game laws, are henceforth abolished. V. All armorial bearings, liveries, and every diftinction of nobility, fhall likewife be fuppreffed within eight days. VI. Every corporation which exacts a proof of nobility as a qualification is abolished. VII. Those who fhall contravene the prefent proclamation, will be regarded as convicted of ariftocracy, and as enemies to the people. June 12. 4 Milan, Milan, June 13. THE Commiffioner Pierot has published a decree, that every debtor to the government of Lombardy, or the Archduke, as well as every depository of fums belonging to the emigrants, fhall lodge thefe fums in the common bank of the Republic. General Epinoy, commander in Lombardy, has ordered a general inventory to be made of all the effects in gold and filver belonging to the churches. Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy, to the Inhabitants of Tyrol. Head-Quarters at Tortona, 26 Prairial, (June 14,) 4th Year. BRAVE Tyrolians, I am about to pass through your territory, to force the court of Vienna to a peace, as neceffary to Europe, as it is to the fubjects of the Emperor. The caufe I am about to defend is your own. You have been long vexed and fatigued by the horrors of a war, undertaken not for the interest of the people of Germany, but for that of a single family. The French army refpects and loves all nations, more efpecially the fimple and virtuous inhabitants of the mountains. Your religion, your customs will be every where refpected. Our troops will maintain a fevere difcipline; and nothing will be taken in the country without being paid for in money. You will receive us with hofpitality, and we will treat you with fraternity and friendship. But should there be any fo little acquainted with their true interests as to take up arms, and treat us as enemies, we will be as terrible as the fire from heaven: we will burn the houses, and lay waste the territories of the villages which fhall take a part in a war which is foreign to them. Do not fuffer yourfelves to be led into an error by the agents of Auftria. Secure your country, already haraffed by five years of war, from new miferies. In a little time the court of Vienna, forced to a peace, will restore to the nations their privileges which it has ufurped, and to Europe the tranquillity it has dif turbed. THE Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy. Head Quarters at Tortona, 26th Prairial, (June 14) 4th Year. HE inhabitants of the Imperial fiefs, at the inftigation of feveral of their lords, and of the Emperor's agents at Genoa, have violated the oath of obedience they had taken to the French Republic: they have aflaffinated several French detachments, and have befieged at Arquata the republican troops ftationed there. There are no crimes of which they have not been guilty; no horrors which they have not committed. They were enough to flatter themselves with impunity; they thought the army at a diftance; they did not know that the bands of the army of Italy are in every place where there are enemies. Their inftigators do not yet know that there is no refuge which can fhelter them from the rage of Frenchmen: let them learn by the terrible fpectacle of Arquata, the fate which awaits them, unless they change their conduct, and profit by the door which national clemency ftill leaves open to repentance. In confequence, the commander in chief orders : Art. I. Each of the communes of the Imperial fiefs in Italy fhall immediately fend three deputies to the head-quarters at Tortona, with the procefs-verbaux of the taking of the oath of obedience to the French Republic, and of the arms they have in their communes. II. Each of the communes fhall fend two hostages, as a pledge of their fidelity. III. All the lords poffeffing Imperial fiefs fhall repair in perfon to Tortona, there to take the oath of obedience to the Republic. If within five days after the promulgation of the prefent order they fhall have neglected to do so, their property will be confifcated. IV. Within twenty-four hours after the promulgation of the prefent order, the communes fhall carry to the military agents at Tortona the amount of the military contribution, which fhall be augmented one-tenth for each day's delay of payment. V. Thofe who, forty-eight hours after the publication of the prefent order, fhall be found with arms or ammunition, fhall be fhot. VI. All the bells which have been employed to found the tocfin fhall be taken down from the fteeples, and broken, within twenty-four hours of the receipt of the prefent order. The inhabitants who fhall neglect to do this, fhall be confidered as rebels, VOL. V. F and and their villages fhall be burned. The municipal officers and rectors fhall be refponfible for the execution of this article. (Signed) BUONAPARTE, (A true copy.) The commander of the staff. Proclamation of the Military Commiffion of the Province of Mondovi, to the Inhabitants of the Province. THE French army which is victoriously overunning Piedmont and the Milanefe, has been no less zealous to foften the evils infeparable from war, than to give peace to Europe. The nation of which it is a part, is the friend of the arts, the fciences, and commerce, and charges it to cherish in its paffage every thing which has elevated fo highly the glory of the French name. Honoured with the confidence of both the army and the nation, we invite you, in their name, to refume with fecurity the operations of agriculture, manufactures, and commercial fpeculations. The entrance of conquerors who have, for a long time, fuffered hardships of every kind, must be accompanied with extraordinary events; but the first movements are paffed, never to return. The difcipline of the army augments in proportion to its victories; and they must be confidered as the enemies of general and individual peace, who would infpire you with fentiments of diftruft or fear with refpect to the republicans, who are as zealous as yourfelves for your profperity. The season is arrived, in which the people of Piedmont annually devote themselves to the breeding of their wonderful infects, whofe fine and brilliant produce bears, the fame of the filks of Piedmont through every country, where the arts and a refined tafte have multiplied human enjoyments. Virtuous inhabitants of the cities and fields, occupy yourselves peaceably in that attention which you are pleafed to give to the filk-worm. The republicans who are among you, in admiring your induftry, will protect your labours; and they will rejoice to fee in your productions, the reparation which the fpindle will make for the fword. Let every branch of culture and commerce refume its accuftomed activity. While the French army goes in purfuit of their enemies, fecond the operations of nature, as victory feconds those of the Republic. Heaven, which fo conftantly favours us, will pour its beneficence on the agriculturist and the artizans, at the fame time with the warrior. The French, in re-entering their country, will fay, we have left Piedmont flourishing; and you, in the enjoyment of domestic tranquillity, will fay to yourselves, the |