whether they are worthy to be confidered as belonging to a nation armed to curb oppreffion.

It will be feen if, at a time when noble and ignoble Genoese are ferving the coalefced powers, in military and other capacities, the French Republic will look calmly on the imprisonment of certain Genoese, fome of them for being the friends of the French republicans, and for rendering them the fervices which humanity, independently of any other confideration, called on them to perform. It will be feen, whether at a time when a villain clad in the livery of a nobleman can affaffinate with impunity an honest man, acknowledged by the Chargé d'Affaires, and admitted into the fervice of his nation, is to be imprisoned with impunity.

If at Genoa there are thofe who confpire against the tranquillity of the ftate, it is not Bononi, Morando, or Frederici; it is thofe who, having at their command fpies, whom they convert at will either into denunciators or witneffes, have led the Government to adopt oppreffive measures towards the above individuals to meafures injurious to the French nation: it is those who favour the confederacy against France, which will entail on their country the miferies they alone deserve.

They confpire against Bononi, Morando, Frederici and others, because they are ferviceable to the Chargé d'Affaires. They confpire against the French nation, because it had made the virtue they hate the order of the day. The Chargé d'Affaires, by remaining at his poft, notwithstanding all their efforts to oblige him to abandon it, has preferved the Genoese Republic from more mischiefs than the faid Republic will ever be able to bring on France. So long as he fhall remain here, he will continue to oppofe franknefs and candour to the cowardice and perfidy of the confpirators who accuse him of conspiring.

The Governn nt of Genoa received a Declaration, dated from St. Fiorenzo the 26th of August, 1794, figned by Lord Hood, and Sir Gilbert Elliot, by which they announce the raifing the Blockade of the Port of Genoa. The following is the Conclufion of the Note.

FOR these reasons his Majefty defers to thofe fentiments of peace and good will which he has never ceafed profeffing, and has refolved not only to put an end to all hoftilities, but to forget all the fubjects of difcontent which he has hitherto experienced, and to put an end to thofe differences which have árifen between his Majesty and the moft Serene Republic, referving to himself the reclamations which the interefts of his fubjects, and thofe of his allies, which confift of the greater part

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of Europe, and of the human race, render indifpenfably neceffary, refpecting the future conduct of the Republic.

It is with extreme fatisfaction that the under figned have the honour to announce to the Government, as the effect of his Majefty's generous fentiments, the raifing the blockade, and the ceffation of hoftilities on the part of his Britannic Majefty. Mr. Drake, Minifter Plenipotentiary from his Majefty, will foon refume his functions, well affured, that they will not, in future, be interrupted by any complaints; and that good intelligence and friendship, which are fo agreeable to his Majesty, and which, in the prefent crifis, are fo neceffary, and perhaps indifpenfable, to the fafety of the Serene Republic, will exift hereafter between the two powers.

The Government of Genoa anfwered the above Note by another to the following purport.

THE Government of Genoa confiders the raifing of the blockade of the harbour of this capital, and the ceffation of all hoftilities, as an act of the infallible rectitude of his Britannic Majefty; in confequence of which, while this Government does not doubt that proper inftructions will be given for that purpose to the commanders of the British fhips and veffels, to regulate their conduct towards the Republic, the said Government cannot but infift again upon the reftitution and indemnification which form the object of feveral notes formerly prefented by the minifters of Genoa to the court of London. And as the favourable expreffions, by which the British commiffaries and Mr. Drake accompany this communication, tend to affure the most Serene Republic of the pacific intentions of his Britannic Majefty, the Genoefe Government answers the fame by evincing its true and genuine acknowledgment. In confequence of these affurances, which he values highly, the Republic of Genoa, neutral fince the commencement of this war, and always firm to fupport the fame fyftem, even at the fight of the approach of the armies of the belligerent powers, against her territories, has no reafon to forefee, from the conduct fhe obferved, any remonftrances on the part of the British fubjects, or of the allies of England, nor to fear an interruption of her good understanding with the court of London, which fhe was always defirous of maintaining, and which, in cafe of any event of war, fhe must always more and more defire, without prejudice to the good harmony with all the other belligerent powers. The loyalty with which the most Serene Republic expreffes thefe juft fentiments, from which it cannot depart without putting the Republic into danger, fhall be, on all occafions, a fure pledge of her conduct; juft at this moment

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it cannot but be the most authentic token of her constant fentiments towards the British court, with which he has never ceafed, during the prefent war, to preferve, on her part, the moft perfect harmony, till fuch time as the hoftilities which took place on the part of the English agents neceffarily reftricted their full display.

The Armies of the Belligerent Powers being in the Neighbourhood of Genca, the Doge iffued the following Manifefio to the Governors, c. of the Republic, on the 3d of September, 1794.

ALWAYS faithful to the falutary fyftem which we have adopted, of a perfect neutrality during the prefent war, we think it proper that all the inhabitants of the Serene Republic fhould abitain from taking any part in the operations of the belligerent powers or their armies. Be cautious, therefore, that they render them no perfonal fervices; that they do not labour for, or affift them, at the requifition of the commanders of either army, in transporting arms, artillery, or ammunition, or in the repairing or conftructing roads; as a violation of this order will incur the indignation of the public.

Genoa, October 19, 1794,

Admiral Lord Hood, during his fhort flay at Genoa, prefented to the Government a note, which fet forth that he feized the occafion of his arrival in the port of Genoa, to prefent his refpects to the Doge and the Senate, and to affure them of the regard and good-will of his Britannic Majefty. It enlarged on the dangers that threatened Genoa in particular, and Italy in general, from the ferocious and barbarous French. It invited the Republic to make common cause with the allies, and affured the government that his lordship was ready to employ all the British force, under his command, in concert with the Genoefe. It concluded with reprefenting that bad weather and the wants of his fleet might make it neceffary for him to enter the port with a greater number of fhips than the decree of neutrality allowed. On this point his lordship requested a precife and favourable answer.

The Government returned for anfwer, that the Republic would always endeavour to deferve the regard and good-will of his Britannic Majefty; that the Republic would ftrictly obferve the nettrality it had profeffed, had no enemies, and confequently no need of affiftance; and that a greater number of ships of war, than that fpecified in the decree of neutrality, could not be admitted into the port without hazarding the repofe and the dignity of the Republic. After long expecting the recal of the French minifter Tilli, we are glad to fee his fucceffor at length arrived. Tilli, by affecting

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a cynical Jacobinism, did not serve the cause of his country; he obtained no partizans, but among perfons of no account, Villiars, who fucceeds him, fhews even by his exterior that he means to follow a different courfe; he has begun his miffion by obtaining the arrest of his predeceffor, who will be conveyed to the nearest French poft, and thence to Paris.

A courier with difpatches was fent about this time to Vienna from the archduke Ferdinand of Milan; the contents of which are faid to have related to the arrival of Mr. Drake, the British envoy, at Allessandria, where he demanded from the Austrian generals, in the name of Admiral Lord Hood, a categorical anfwer, in writing, whether there was an intention on the part of the Auftrian generals to attempt, before the winter, a ferious expedition, in order to drive the French out of the Genoe fe territories; adding, that in cafe fuch an expedition fhould not be determined on, his Excellency Admiral Lord Hood will think it useless to remain any longer with his fquadron in thofe feas, and will therefore endeavour to put in with his fleet into the ports of Corfica.

Mr. Drake further declared, that in the latter cafe his Excellency the British Admiral will render public his correspondence with the Auftrian generals upon this fubject, in order publicly to manifeft that it had not been his fault that fo little had been done during this laft fummer; and that, on his part, for the last three months, he had conftantly made offers to fupport the operations of the war at land with his naval forces.

Speech of Citizen Dorothee Villiars, Envoy Extraordinary from the French Republic to the Republic of Genoa, at his first Audience of the Doge, U. 19th, 1794.

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the bonds of union with the Republic of Genoa. The neutrality which the Genoefe Government has obferved, and the efforts to make it adopt a different line of conduct, is a new proof that the fpirit of juftice which directs it is never loft fight of, and that its true interefts are fo many barriers for keeping it diftinct from its neighbours, and preventing it from mixing with them. In fome ftates there are men, who, feeling themfelves compelled to refort to calumny, have painted the French in the several periods of their revolution, as bursting all the bands of political and focial connexion, and refembling rather a horde of cannibals than a civilized people. Wife and juft men have rejected thefe perfidious infinuations, and feen in the unfaithful picture only the tempests infeparable from the conqueft of liberty, and the neceffity of annihilating, in regenerated France, the ambitious, the traitors, and the pretended

tended patriots diffeminated over her vaft territory, for the purpose of introducing into it diforder, ravage, and death. A monster generated from a political embrio, and by means of a counterfeit popularity, become the idol and the chief of a party, too long protected the odious machinations of that party. He rent at will the bofom of his country, which he had abufed by his bafe hypocrify. What has been the confequence? The execration of his name, and the glory of the French people. Let your Serenity vouchsafe to caft your eyes over the annals of revolutionary France. You will fee, on the one hand, all the tyrants of Europe united to combat us; employing all the means of corruption that perverseness gives birth to; working upon all the paffions that divide men, and fometimes mislead the wife; attempting treason, calumny, impofture, and civil war.-On the other, a nation brave, powerful, generous, fixing the attention of the aftonished univerfe; founding its liberty amid these very tempefts; repelling Machiavelanism, and protecting virtue; encouraging agriculture, commerce, fciences, the arts; drawing after it, in every quarter, the chariot of victory, and standing erect on the ruins of guilt and of tyranny.

The French are not ignorant that their intentions were calumniated when they took poft on the Genoese territory; but I declare, in the name of the French, whose organ I am, that the apparent invafion had no object but that of defending the moft Serene Republic against infringements of its liberty, which dangerous neighbours, inftigated by a formidable naval power, meant to attempt.

I know that, about the middle of the century, the Genoefe people defeated by their courage the infenfate plans of their oppref. fors; but permit me to remind them, that there are circumstances under which it is better to anticipate aggreffions, and endeavour to render them impoffible, than to wait for, even with the certainty of repelling them.

I conclude with repeating the folemn wish of the French Republic, to maintain with the moft Serene Republic of Genoa, that community of interefts, that sweet fraternity which unites the people of both; and I proteft to your Serenity, whofe illuftrious anceftor deferved well of his country by establishing liberty in it, that in my political labours with the Genoefe Government, I fhall always take for my guide the candour which is the infeparable companion of virtue, and the franknefs which is one of the fairest rights of liberty.

DEN