Inftruction addressed by General Buonaparte to the Commissaire Ordonnateur in Chief of the Army of Italy, dated the 11th of August.

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AS S the Cifalpine republic pays to the army of the French republic one million per month, all parts of the territory of that republic are confequently exempted from every kind of requi

fition.

2. The actual limits of that republic are, ft. the countries fituated between the Tefie and the Oglio; 2d. all the territory that formerly compofed the Modene fe, Bolognefe, and Ferrarefe.

3. When the troops of the Cifalpine republic fhall be stationed on its own territory, they fhall be furnished from the magazines of that republic.

4. When the troops of the Cifalpine republic fhall be with the French army, or any other territory than that of the republic, they fhall be furnished from the magazine of the French.

Proclamation published at Venice on the 16th Auguft (29 Thermidory

1797.

THE general in chief of the army of Italy withing to give, in the name of the French republic, a proof of its efteem and friendship for the Sublime Porte, orders, 1ft. The generals commanding the different places of commerce occupied by the French in Italy, fhall afford fpecial protection to Ottoman fubjects, Greeks, and particularly to Albanians. 2d. The Ottoman fubjects fhall be at liberty to hire lodgings where they think proper, without being obliged to live all in the fame houfe, and be at home at an appointed hour. 3d. The French fhips in the Adriatic fea, fhall afford protection and fuccour to vessels bearing the Ottoman flag, and particularly to Greeks and Albanians.

(Signed)

BUONAPARTE.

Liberty, Equality.-In the Name of the Cifalpine Republic, One and

Indivifible.

Tefti, Minifter for Foreign Affairs, to the Prefident of the Batavian

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National Convention.

Milan, the 22d Thermidor (9th Aug.), the

Fifth Year of the French Republic.

HE beftowing of freedom on the Cifalpine nation has crowned the long series of victories of the French republic. This fair country is at length delivered from our and your enemies; the time is arrived when the political confequence of Italy fhall be restored and confirmed. The wish of the Cifalpine people for their

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independence, and the exertion of their rights, cannot be more ardent or more ftrongly expreffed. Their motto of union is the fame with that of your nation-Liberty: a Republic. What a fortunate omen for the fulfilment of a wifh fo dear to our hearts! It is doubtless the duty of the Cifalpine government, on its first beginning, to inake known to the brave Batavian nation, the commencement of a period which must ever be recorded in the annals of history; to that nation, which, from the fimilarity of its fituation, has the fame enemies to oppofe and conquer. The mutual interefts of the two republics cannot but unite them, and induce them mutually to support each other. The Cifalpine people, rendered free by the power and generous fupport of the French republic, our ally and friend, has opened new channels for the reciprocal trade and activity of the three nations, and will shortly become the firmeft bulwark of general freedom and happiness. Let us haften, therefore, to connect ourselves together by the bands of the ftrictest friendship; bands which must be indiffoluble between two nations, which fo cordially love and efteem, each other. It is impoffible that a nation which has once tafted the fweets of liberty, fhould willingly put on again the chains of flavery. The uniformity of our fentiments, our confidence in each other, and our ardent wish for the general happiness, are reciprocal bands by which we are connected. The fame fentiments are a pledge of the heartfelt fatisfaction I perfonally feel on this occafion, and the delight I feel in the fulfilment of my duty, in communicating to you the joyful intelligence, that the independence of the Cifalpine republic is acknowledged, and that the Directory began to enter on its functions on the 11th of Meffidor. The members of it are the Citizens Giovanni, Galeazze Serbelloni, Pietro Mofcati, Giovanni Paridifi, Marco Alaffandri, and Giovanni Conftabili Contadini. Receive then, with the fame fentiments with which it is tranfmitted, this firft proof of friendship and alliance which the Directory, through me, confiders as a duty and a pleasure to communicate on the part of the Cifalpine people. The fentiments which I have had the honour to exprefs, I feel with the warmest fraternal esteem. Permit me to add the fincere with of my nation for your individual happiness and welfare; and to affure you of the esteem which I fhall ever feel towards you. Health and fraternity!

Extract of a Letter from Citizen Noel, Minifter Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Batavian Republic, addressed to the Minifter General of Police, and dated Hague, September 2.

LEARNT a very fingular thing from Marthal Broglio, and which was confirmed to me afterwards, at Brunswick, by above twenty different perfons of credibility, viz. that Louis XVIII. had fent to Gotha for his field equipage, and that every exertion was making to prepare it. The Marshal thinks that the King's hopes wer never better founded. He believes that he will be recalled. You have no idea of the language of the emigrants at Brunfwick. There are fo many, that I am fure Louis XVIII. carries on a correfpondence in France, and that it is neceffary to watch carefully.

Auguft 28.-I ought to tell you, that the intrigues I fee car. rying on here give me much uneasiness; there is not fufficient attention paid to them. Many people are led to believe that Louis XVIII. has a strong party in the Council of Five Hundred, and that he will speedily be recalled through their means. The major of Mirabeau's corps, M. Juguier, concerning whom I spoke to you about four months ago, and of whom I alfo gave notice to Caillard, has at length obtained paffports. I believe they came from the manufactory of the Count de Harcourt and Colonel Donn, at Bremen, upon which I gave you a note. He is at Paris, and has written feveral letters to Mad. de Nadaillac here, and alfo to the Count d'Efcars and St. Maixant, in which he draws a picture of Paris, of the Directory, and of the Councils, which contributes very much to elevate the hopes of the emigrants and of the priefts. Nadaillac fent the letters to Madame Reitze, and they were read to the King; they were shown to me, and the Abbé de exhibits them like relics.-This has a great effect upon the counter-revolutionifts, except Haugwitz, who only fhrugs his fhoulders at them. The Prince of Heffe Caffel, to whom a copy was fhown at Pyrmont, faid, that it was written by fome rafcally emigrant, who deferved the baftinado. It would be well if the police at Paris would watch thefe gentlemen who arrive a little more closely. They are paid by the English to go and intrigue at Paris. I know that Madame Nefbeth is gone into Switzerland to feek for perfons to fend into Paris. She asked me for addreffes and defcriptions for that purpose at Pyrmont. By the way in which the proceeds, there is money to be made with her. Since the minifters Caillard and d'Anadice have heard of the peace with Portugal, Anadice predicts that the first courier will bring an account of a peace with England; but, from what I hear from the Bishop of Derry, Mrs. Nefbeth, Lord Elgin, and others, I entertain no fuch hopes: I am convinced that the VOL. VII. negotia

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negotiation is only a farce. Upon that fubject I have fome proofs, which I fhould have wifhed to communicate verbally to you, if they would have fuffered me to come.

The English do not want an immediate peace; they look with too much certainty for the speedy diffolution of the French government, and are making great facrifices for that object.

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Manifefto of the Governor of Turin, Sept. 20, 1798.

IS Majefty, defiring nothing fo much as the maintenance of public peace and tranquillity, has taken all the measures and precautions judged expedient for that purpose, and has charged us, at the fame time, to announce, by a manifefto, to all the inhabitants of this capital, its fuburbs and territory, that they muft pofitively abstain from all provocation or infult whatever, which might tend to difturb the public tranquillity; to invite all good and faithful citizens not to frequent any of those places where they might be expofed to the like; and particularly, not to give ear to the reports which evil-defigning men, fome of whom abuse the national cockade, propagate, for the purpose of alarming the public mind. His Majesty expects alfo from the loyalty of the French government, that it will contribute to maintain and confirm, more and more, the good harmony which ought to fubfift between the two allied governments.

Admiral Morard de Galles to the Citizens compofing the naval Army. Breft, 26 Fructidor (September 12, 1797).

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N tranfmitting to you, upon the 24th, the proclamation of the Executive Directory to the citizens of Paris, and, the following day, that to all France, I infpired your republican hearts with joy on the affurance that liberty had triumphed over the fatellites of royalty, who had flattered themselves with the hopes of restoring your chains. Now, citizens, I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint you with the details which have officially been tranfmitted to me relative to this great event, which will reftore the republic to all its fplendour, and give to its children peace and happinefs. These details will inform you, that if hitherto the paternal folicitude of the government has vainly exerted itfelf to meliorate your fituation; if, in fpite of its inceffant application to the legiflative body to obtain funds neceffary for the payment of your falaries and the comfort of your families, you remained naked and deftitute, it was because the royalist confpirators who

fat in the legislative body had laboured induftrioufly to dry up the fources of the public treafury, in order to difcourage the repub. lican armies by the excefs of their fufferings, and to render the republic odious. Now, citizens, thefe wretches are under the avenging fword of the laws which they have outraged. They are difabled from confummating their horrible confpiracies; and the first exertions of the government, after having difconcerted their defigns, have been directed to the land and naval force. Already measures have been taken by it for the payment of your arrear, and the improvement of your fituation. Be calm and firm at your pofts, as your brethren of the immortal armies have been on the news of this memorable event; and be affured that your chiefs, always emulous to give you the example of patriotifm and devotion to the caufe of liberty, will not lofe fight of the success of the republicans, in order to make you participate with the whole nation in the advantages which this triumph over our enemies will procure.

(Signed)

MORAND DE GALLES.

Addrefs to General Augereau, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the Sambre and the Meufe, and Rhine and Mofelle, to the Troops compofing thofe Armies.

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Fellow-Soldiers,

F Death were to choose her own victims, guilt alone would be banished from the world; but he strikes without distinction an Achilles and a Therfites, a hero and the child of vice and of effeminacy. His fcythe cuts down indifferently every thing that prefents itfelf to his blow. Vice and virtue, it is all one, Cato, unable to furvive the liberty of his country, tore out his own bowels, and on his fmoking corpfe, Cæfar reared a throne. Hoche died in the flower of his age, and in the height of his glory, and Pichegru outlived his crimes. Such are the decrees of blind deftiny. Soldiers, drop a tear on the bier of the hero, and let a cry of indignation anathematise the traitor! Long deceived, often neglected, fometimes betrayed, what force of arm, what fentiment of glory, what robuft patriotifm and courageous conftancy, did you not require to refift at once confpiracies, fufferings, internal disgust, and the efforts of Austria from without? Doubtless, it is when, with pure intentions and tried republicanism, a chief is appointed to the command of men like you, that victory is rendered fubject to his will. Penetrated with this truth, my fellow-foldiers, it is, that I have not hesitated to accept the vast charge which the government has impofed upon me in placing me at your head. I know the extent of the charge, and I am not difmayed: is not this a fufficient declaration of the esteem