VIII. The national treasury fhall be invited to receive the value at par. IX. The commiffioners chofen from among the bankers called to this fitting, being affembled, it is agreed that the commiffioners of their body fhall be the citizens Pache, Perregeaux, Fulchiron, Baguenhault, and Enfantin. They have mentioned the commiflioners to act as brokers, who are the citizens Page, Huppair, Du Columbier, Rogue, and Pillot, who have accepted the office. CIT Mr. Pitt likewife read another Paper, as follows: "Paris, 13 Nivose (Jan. 3.) NITIZENS! the wants of the Republic demand, that, conformable to the refolutions of the united committees of finances, general fafety, and public welfare, on the 7th inft. and agreeable to that of the commiffion of this day, you deliver to the commiffioners, as foon as poffible, an account of the exact state of your property in merchandize, bills of exchange, or credit, in foreign countries; and you are required, within two days, to lodge the faid bills of exchange in the public treafury, which, after it fhall have received the amount, will remit you the value in affignats, at par.-We expect frankness and expedition on your part; and delay or fraud fhall be denounced with severity. "We inform you, that government will take all poffible fteps to discharge at par the lawful debts which the Republic or the citizens may have due in foreign countries, other than thofe with which the Republic is at war. In confequence, you are exprefsly forbidden to take any more paper upon foreign countries, or to allow foreigners to draw upon you, without having certified to the commiffion as to the employment of thefe funds. "The Prefident of the Commiffion, In confequence of the foregoing Proceedings in France, the British Legislature paffed the following Act on the 1st of March, 1794. WHE THEREAS the perfons exercifing the powers of government in France have iffued an order, compelling all merchants, bankers, and other persons, who are poffeffed of any money, funded property, or effects, in the different parts of Europe, to declare all fuch money, funded property, and effects, in order that the fame, by violence, may be taken, and ap-VOL. II. F plied plied for the purpofe of maintaining and carrying on the un juft war in which the perfons fo exercifing the powers of government in France are engaged against the greater part of Europe and whereas the direct and violent feizure, under the faid order, of the property of perfons fecured to them by the laws of the country in which it is placed, is in itself deftructive of all commercial credit, and is accompanied by a declaration, that no debts due to the fubjects of any of the belligerent powers fhall be paid. In order therefore to prevent the effect intended to be produced by these unjust and violent measures, and to protect the property of individuals, as far as circumftances will admit, may it pleafe your Majesty that it may be enacted and declared, and be it enacted and declared by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, that if any perfon refiding or being in Great Britain fhall, after the first day of March one thousand feven hundred and ninety-four, and during the faid war, knowingly and wilfully pay, fend, fupply, or deliver, or cause to be paid, fent, fupplied, or delivered, either in Great Britain or France, or in any other country, either by payment or remittance of any bill of exchange, note, draught, obligation or order for money, or in any other manner whatsoever, any money to or for the ufe of the perfons exercifing, or who thall exercife the powers of government in France, or to or for the use of any perfons or perfon who on the first day of January one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, were or was, or at any time fince have or has been, or who, at the time of fuch act done, fhall be within any of the dominions of France, or any country, territory, or place, which was on the faid first day of January one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four; or which fhall be during the faid war, and at the time of fuch act done, under the government of the perfons exercifing, or who fhall hereafter exercife the powers of government in France, every perfon fo offending, being thereof Jawfully convicted or attainted, fhall be deemed, declared, and adjudged to be a traitor, and shall fuffer pains of death, and alfo lofe and forfeit as in cafes of High Treafon. The following is an Abstract of the Claufes. II. If any fuch refident fhall fend or deliver for the use of the perfons before mentioned, any goods or effects whatever, he hall incur the penalties of 16 Ric. II. cap. 5. 2 III. IF III. If any fuch refident fhall accept, indorfe, or undertake for the payment of any bill, note, &c. for the use of the faid perfons, he fhall forfeit double the value. IV. As he fhall likewife if he fhall pay any order for money drawn, &c. fince Jan. 1, 1794, in the limits or on account of any of the perfons aforefaid. And the payment of fuch order fhall not bar the claim of the perfan who might otherwife have demanded it. V. If any fuch refident, who had on Jan. 1, 1794, or fince, or fhall have money, notes, or any effects belonging to the perfons aforefaid, fhall pay fuch money, or part with fuch notes or effects, except for converting them into money for retaining it, he fhall forfeit double the value; and the payment of fuch money, or parting with fuch notes or effects, except for the purpose aforefaid, thall not bar the claim of any perfon who might have demanded the fame; except where fuch money, &c. has been received, or effects purchased bona fide, with notice of their being paid or difpofed of contrary to this act. VI. This act not to extend to any thing done by authority of His Majefty, or in his fervice. VII. If any action fhall be commenced for any demand contrary to this act, the court may difcharge the defendant, and ftay further proceedings. VIII. No perfon fhall be fubject to any penalty, or answer for any damage, for not paying money or delivering notes or effects after Feb. 1, the payment or delivery whereof after March 1, is prohibited. IX. This act fhall not affect the right to any property, &c. further than herein expreffed. X. All fines fhall be to His Majefty, and may be recovered in any court of Record in Westminster, or the court of Exchequer in Scotland. XI, Perfons committed for offences againft this act may be admitted to bail. XII. Where offences may be tried. Perfons indicted to be entitled to the benefit of 7 Gul. III. cap. 3. and 7 Anna cap. 21. XIII. Nothing in this act fhall alter 33 Geo. III. cap. 27. On the 7th of July, 1794, another Act was paffed, which more fully provides for the objects of the preceding. T Dutch Placard. HE ftates of Holland and Weft Friefeland published a placard, in exact conformity to the bill introduced into the British Parliament, relative to bills of exchange, and drawn by, or in favour of perfons refident in France fince Jan. 1, 1794By this placard it is commanded, 1. That no native or foreigner, after its publication, and during the continuance of the prefent war, fhall send into France, or deliver, or caufe to be delivered, directly or indirectly, either money, bills of exchange, affignations, &c. &c. to any fubjects of France, now refiding in France, or any other country, on pain of forfeiting double the value, with an exception, however, in favour of fuch as may have accepted bills of exchange, provided they declare the fame to certain perfons nominated by the magistrates within the space of eight days. 2. That no perfon whatever fhall indorse any bills of exchange, &c. within the time indicated. 3. That no perfon in poffeffion of merchandize, &c. appertain ing to the fubjects of France, fhall difpofe of, alienate, or ! deliver, the fame to any person refiding in France, &c. And, 4. That all fuch goods, bills, &c. fhall be entered to the credit of the merchants of France to whom they belong. Thofe tranfgreffing the above regulation, and unable to pay the penalties annexed, fhall fuffer corporal punishment. The Imperial Court of Exchange and Commerce at Vienna, on the 10th of February, 1794, iffued a Declaration to the following Effect. HE Imperial directors of exchange and commerce, having received intelligence from Paris, that all bills of exchange, and other debts due to French merchants, and inhabitants of France, by German, and other European merchants and correfpondents, were to be delivered up, and conveyed to, and for the benefit of the prefent French government, who is to pay the proprietors in affignats, manifeft a wish that a general meeting of fuch merchants and others, poffeffed of French pro perty, would take into confideration how far that measure adopted in France might injure the intereft of the fubjects of his Imperial majefty; and at the same time, to propofe to the Imperial court fuch measures as might prevent that mischief, which is apprehended from the French drawing fuch a quantity of of fpecie from the hereditary dominions of his Imperial majesty. In confequence of the above declaration, a meeting was held amongst several of the bankers and merchants of Vienna, who unanimously agreed, that there was no neceflity for any measure being taken relative to that declaration, for two reafons: First, on account of the debts due from the fubjects of his Imperial majesty to those of France, being but inconfiderable. Secondly, from an apprehenfion that the credit of the Auftrian nation might be endangered by taking measures of fimilar violence with thofe adopted by a nation, which have proved the very ruin of their credit. Report prefented to the National Convention by Barrere, on Jan. 3d, 1794, in the Name of the Committee of Public Safety, relative to the Situation of Toulon. CIT NITIZENS, after having celebrated the triumph of the arm of the Republic over the infamous city of Toulon, it becomes the representatives of the people to fix their attention upon Port de la Montagne.-A wife decree ought to crown the civic feast. Let us leave to hiftory the tafk of recounting the fimple yet dignified pomp of that feaft, celebrated by the conquerorsof relating how the triumphal cars have been for the first time employed in celebrating the patriotic deeds of the foldiers inftead of thofe of the generals-let us leave to philofophy the tafk of recollecting that the honours of victory have for the first time been decreed to the foldiers wounded in defence of the Republic, and that the representatives of the people have known how to honour at the fame time bravery and misfortune. Among the ancients, trees which had been ftruck by thunderbolts were confidered to be facred-among the French Republicans, the public gratitude confecrates thofe foldiers who have been wounded by the arms of the defpots. From those citizens' whom the chance of war has fpared, new traits of military civism are apparent every day: even yesterday, in going out of the convention, an old invalid, exulting at the news received from the armies of the Rhine and the Mofelle, exclaimed-It is a glorious circumftance to be an invalid in that campaign in which the Pruffians were repulfed from Landay. To artifts and hiftorians must be configned the task of tranfmitting to pofterity thofe traits of Republican, courage which have appeared at Toulon. They will afford a brilliant and magnificent fubject to thofe poets who are enthusiastically attached to liberty. On our national theatres, Oh men of France! will be repeated thofe deeds of heroifm which have been |