inceffantly exclaims, that it is time to dry up the ftreams of blood which inundate your fields, have not yet moved the hearts of your fovereigns to folicit a peace which may restore tranquillity and happiness to Europe. Since, then, blood muft continue to flow, the French armies muft carry the war into the heart of Germany. But fear not, peaceable inhabitants of thefe unhappy countries, we are not your enemies, we mean not to destroy your laws or your religion, as fome falfely endeavour to perfuade you. The prefence of the armies will undoubtedly caufe you to fuffer fome inconveniences; but imagine not that we mean to avenge upon you the cruelties which the people of France fuffered when that country was made the theatre of war. Your property fhall not be plundered, nor your houfes reduced to afhes. Take no part in the conteft, remain peaceably in your houses, and you and your property fhall be protected by the generals of the Republic. But hould you take arms, you must expect the fevereft punishment, and to be made a terrible example. A regulation, confifting of feven articles, is annexed, which orders the French troops to obferve the ftricteft difcipline. Every foldier who fhall plunder any of the inhabitants inall be put to death. The inhabitants, however, muft remain quiet in their houses, and deliver up their arms: if they are taken flying with their effects or cattle, they will be arrested, and their property confifcated for the ufe of the Republic. The inhabitants of the villages, who fhall take arms against the French, fhall be shot, and their houses burnt, as (hall likewife all who bear arms without permiffion from the French generals. Cologne, July 4. Nuremburg, July 5. STATE PAPER. THE His Majefty the King of Pruffia, our moft gracious Lord, makes known by this public notice to all magifterial perfons, burghers and fubjects, and moft gracioufly declares, that in taking poffeffion, by virtue of the judgments of the Aulic council of the empire, given in the years, 1583 and 1587, refpecting his territorial fovereignty, as far as the gates of the imperial city of Nuremburg-all private property fhall remain inviolate: no perfon be oppofed in the exercife of his well-acquired rights and privileges, but that he rather fhall be protected therein by his Majefty; and every poffeffion fhall quietly remain in the enjoyment of all territorial and feudal impofts and duties.. HE following declaration has been put up at our city gates: His Majefty will only exercife the rights of fovereignty to him belonging, and grant farther to the inhabitants of the fuburbs of Nuremburg, his fovereign affurance, that they and those who belong to them, fhall be exempted from all military duty and levy. In other refpects, every one is hereby cautioned to demean himfelf quietly and calmly, and to fhew the more refpect to the military, as they will obferve the beft difcipline on their part, and avoid every excefs. By his Majesty's moft gracious and fpecial command. HARDENBERG. Letter of Madame de la Fayette to the Emperor. THE commandant of Olmutz informed me yesterday, that, in anfwer to my requeft of being allowed to go for eight days to Vienna, for the purpofe of confulting the faculty, his Imperial Majefty fignified, that on no confideration whatever I am to be permitted to vifit that capital, and that he will confent to my quitting this prifon only on condition of never entering it more. I have the honour to reiterate the answer which I made to the commandant. To folicit the affiftance which the ftate of my health requires, is a duty which I owed my family and my friends; but they are fenfible that it is not poffible for me to purchase it at the price at which it is offered. I cannot forget, that while we were both on the point of perithing-me, by the tyranny of Robefpierre-M. de la Fayette, by the moral and phyfical fufferings of his captivity, that I was not allowed to obtain any account of him, or to inform him that his children and myself were yet in existence; and nothing fhall tempt me to expofe myself a fecond. time to the horrors of fuch a feparation. Whatever then may be the flate of my health, or the inconveniencies which may refult to myself and my daughters from this habitation, we will all three avail ourselves, with gratitude, of the goodness of his Imperial Majefty, who permits us to fhare this captivity in all its details. July, 6. Official Meffage to the Council of Five Hundred from the Directory, relative to La Vendee. 28 Meffidor, (16 July.) FOR OR this long time an inteftine war, foftered by fanaticifm, has defolated one of the finest regions of the Republic; we had even to dread, left it fhould make progrefs, and expofe France to the brink of her ruin; gold and provifions have been furnished by the English. But thanks to the brave army of the ocean and its general, all is returned to good order. The inhabitants have delivered delivered up their arms, and were they even difinclined to preferve the tranquillity which has been reftored to them, they would find it impollible forthwith to excite a commotion. At prefent we may travel in fafety through the feveral departments of the west. If we have not always fpoken of the heroic feats which have fignalized our gallant foldiers, compofing the army of the coafts of the ocean it was done in order not to disclose to our enemies, all the inveteracy of the evil we had to cure; but at prefent, while there is no danger in promulgating their exploits, we are eager to declare, that no army has more well-deferved of its country than that of the ocean. No doubt, citizens legiflators, you will haften to make this declaration in a folemn manner. The council immediately decreed that the army of the coafts of the ocean had deferved well of their country. ROYAL PRUSSIAN EDICT. Frederick William, by the Grace of God, Sc. WE have fignified to the ambassador of the French Republic, Caillard, by a note from our cabinet miniftry, that we will permit fuch national Frenchmen, who refide in our dominions as our temporary fubjects, (Subditi temporarii) and who have real right to the protection of the French nation, and wifh to preferve thofe rights, to get their names infcribed in a register which will he opened for that purpofe by the faid ambaffador, but in fuch a manner, that all thofe fubjects fhall, the fame as before, remain our temporary fubjects, (Subditi temporarii) that they likewife fhall fubmit to our laws, ordinances, and jurifdiction, and not make the leaft pretenfions to any immunities granted by the law of nations only to ambafadors, and the perfons actually belonging 10 embaflies. We have farther given orders to inform the faid Caillard, that the national Frenchmen, qualified as above, are at liberty to wear the French national cockade in our dominions, but the wearing of the faid cockade is hereby rigidly forbidden to all other perfons. It therefore refults from thefe premifes: 1. That the wearing of the cockade fhall be confined to Frenchmen of the afore-mentioned defcription, together with the amballador, and the perfons belonging to the embaffy. 2. That national Frenchmen thall alone be entitled to have their names registered, the regiftering to relate only to their connection with France, and to leave them fubject, as before, to our laws, ordinances, and jurifdiction, as our temporary fubjects. 3. That all perfons belonging to the French colonies established in our dominions; farther, all Frenchmen in our fervice, by outh of allegiance and duty, even if they do not belong to the 5 above above-mentioned colonies; as likewife all thofe in general who are defcribed by this article as our perpetual fubjects, (Subditi perpetui) fhall not have a right to have their names infcribed in that register, or to wear the French national cockade. Berlin, 16 July. The Executive Directory to the Defenders of the Country, who compose the Army of the Interior. BRAVE WARRIORS, 30 Meidor, July 18. FRANKFORT has experienced the fate of every place which the republican arms attack. That important garrison is now in poffeffion of the French. The courage of your brethren in arms keeps pace with the rapidity of their march. Their triumphs become daily of greater importance, because in them are established the happy genius, who directs their operations, their discipline, their obfervance of order, and obedience to the laws. By fimilar achievements, brave warriors, you could and would undoubtedly merit the gratitude of your country. Continue to defend your country from her internal enemies, who, under various masks, fometimes even under the fpecious pretext of furthering the interefts of the public, attempt to feduce you from your duty. Co-operate with us, and march with a firm and manly ftep against anarchy and royalifm. You will thereby be on a footing with those irrefiftible phalanxes, who have almost annihilated our external enemies, and confolidated the Republic. The fuppreffion of rebellion, and the restoration of domestic tranquillity, give you a claim to the fame portion of glory with your brethren, who have dealt terror, defeat, and destruction, among the armies of our external enemies. (Signed) CARNOT, prefident. LAGARDE, fec. general. Bannard, General of the Divifion of Referve of the Army of the Sambre and Meufe, to the Magiftrates of the City of Frankfort. Head Quarters, Frankfort, July 9. IGIVE you advice, gentlemen, that in confequence of the will of the general in chief Jourdan, you will have no requifitions to fulfil beyond thofe figned by the commiffary in chief of the faid army. I inform you also, that nobody will force you to receive mandats-good will thall be the rule of our operations. (Signed) H BONNARD. A Magiftrate of the City of Frankfort to his Fellow Citizens. THE commandant of our city, M. Darnaud, has tranfmitted to us feveral papers, of which we have thought proper to communicate to you the following: 1. Gentlemen, you will have the complaifance not to deliver any billet for lodging without a fpecial order being prefented to you, figned by me or my fecretary, citizen Mulfchot, whofe fignature in my abfence will be valid. 2. You are requested to publish and to flick up, chiefly in the public fquares, coffee-houfes, and taverns, the order not to receive, after the retreat, any perfons either foldiers or belonging to the army, under any pretence whatever; you will be refponfible for the diforders committed after this hour. 3. No inhabitant of the city, whoever he be, can, under any pretence, keep one or more foldier in his houfe. 4. You will be careful to fend me all perfons who have com plaints to make, or who have received the leaft infult from a foldier, or any perfon belonging to the army: juftice and fatis. faction fhall be done to them immediately. Orders addreffed to the Burghers of Frankfort. 1. THE ftreets fhall be cleaned of the ftraw and dung which till remain, owing to the unfortunate bombardment, &c. every thing that obftructs a free paffage fhall be removed. 2. All affemblages in the ftreets, both by night and day, are forbidden, under heavy penalties. 3. After the retreat is beaten, no publicans fhall give the foldiers any drink; he in whofe houfe French foldiers Thall be found after the above-mentioned time, fhall be mulcted in a fine of thirty rix dollars, and twenty-four hours imprisonment for the first offence; in cafe of being found guilty again, the punishment fhall be doubled. 4. No perfon fhall purchase, or otherwife appropriate to him felf, any part of the accoutrements, arms, or cloathing of the French foldiers. The ufual courfe of the pofts from this city to the north of Germany will not be interrupted. 19 July. Subftance |