Proclamation by Order of their Excellencies, General Sir Charles Grej, and Admiral Sir John Jervis, Commanders in Chief of his Britannic Majefty's Fleets and Armies in the Weft-Indies.

N°

O attention having been paid to the proclamation of the 10th inftant, iffued by his Excellency General Prefcott, defiring all the good people of this colony to affemble in their refpective parishes and quarters, for the purpofe of choofing perfons of known intelligence, and approved integrity, to reprefent them in an affembly, which, according to the faid proclamation, was to be held at Fort Royal, Sunday the 18th inftant, to meet the commiffioners appointed and duly authorifed by the commanders in chief, and to confer with them on the most equitable and moft expeditious way and means to raise a sum of money adequate to the value of the conqueft, deftined to reward the valour, to compenfate the exceffive fatigues, and their confequences, fickness and mortality, and to make good the heavy expenfe incurred by the British officers, foldiers, and failors, who, with unfhaken firmness, and matchlefs perfeverance, have achieved the conqueft of this ifland, fubjected it to the British government, refcued from a wretched exile the greatest number of its inhabitants, and restored them to the quiet poffeffion of their property, the confifcation of which had already been decreed:

And the procraftination of this general arrangement being the caufe which prevents many well-difpofed inhabitants from carrying their commodities to market, and procuring themfelves what is neceffary for their habitations, to the obvious prejudice of the whole colony:

The commanders in chief, in order to remove an evil of fuch importance, and which is daily increafing, enact and ordain as follows:

I. The civil commiffaries, each in his refpective parifh, are to draw up and deliver, as foon as poffible, exact lifts of the Habitations fituated in the faid parishes, containing the number of flaves, cattle, acres of land, buildings, and plantations, an eftimate of each of thofe objects, and a fpecification of all forts of productions made and gathered on each eftate, where ought to be diftinguished thofe, that, bona fide, had been made and collected before the 23d of laft March.

II. The civil commiffaries in the parishes of the different towns and boroughs are likewife to draw up and deliver a lift of the houses, flaves, and fervants, to be found in the faid towns and boroughs, ftating the proprietors thereof, the yearly rent of each house, and enumerating all forts of property,

3

perty, comprised under the denomination of goods, commodities, or merchandise, in the faid towns and boroughs.

III. The civil commiffaries are alfo ordered, in their refpective quarters, to demand the ledgers, and all account books, notes, and deeds, belonging to captains or agents of the French trade, as well as an exact account of all forts of property, falling under the defcription of vacant fucceffion in each quarter of the colony, with a correct inventory of all the goods, effects, and chattels, belonging to fuch perfons as have been taken, arms in hand, or killed during the fiege, or banished the island; and further, a fpecification of all property be longing to perfons of any defcription whatever, refiding in France.

IV. The civil commiffaries are to name in their reports all perfons, without exception, that fhould delay giving in the different fpecifications required, or be fufpected of making a falfe declaration, or fail to give the ufual affiftance, neceffary for the exactnefs and impartiality of reports of that kind; it being the intention and wifh, that the intended levy be made in the most equitable manner, and in exact proportion with the means of each individual.

V. The faid reports are to be made with all poffible expedi tion, fo that on Saturday, the 31ft inftant, or fooner, they may be delivered by the civil commiffaries to the commiffioners appointed to receive them, and' who, for this purpofe, will repair either to the intendant's hotel at St. Pierre, or to the go vernor's house at Fort Royal: the commanders in chief having, on their part, manifested their ardent wish to adopt the mildest measures, declare herewith, that it is their firm refolution to have this prefent measure fully executed; or, on the failure of it, to avail themselves of the power with which they are invefted, to order and enforce a general confifcation.

Given under our fignature, on board the Boyne, Fort Royal bay, on the 21st of May, the year of our Saviour, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, and the thirty-fourth year of his Majefty's reign.

(Signed)

CHARLES GREY,
JOHN JERVIS.

H

General Orders at Tournay by the Emperor.

Head-Quarters, Tournay, May 26.

TIS Imperial Majefty has heard, with the greateft difplea fure, that a report has been fpread of the British troops having allowed themselves to be surprised on the 18th instant. He haftens, therefore, to make it publicly known, that he is perfectly convinced of the untruth of this report, and of their having behaved on that day with their accustomed refolution and courage; that they only retired from the too great fuperiority of the enemy's numbers, being attacked in front, flank, and rear, at the fame time; and that their retreat was performed with the utmoft fteadiness and order. His Imperial Majefty takes this opportunity of informing the troops of the Combined Powers, that fince he has taken the command of the army, he has almost every day had proofs of their ardour and courage, and cannot too ftrongly exprefs his fatisfaction and gratitude to them for their conduct.

R

Addrefs to the Inhabitants of the Netherlands.

THE EMPEROR AND KING,

EVERED Fathers in God, Nobles, dear and liege vaffals, dear and well beloved: by our Royal difpatch of the 30th of April laft, we announced to you the motives which induced us to have recourse to your zeal; the motives which our commiffioners have fince difclofed to you, concern yourfelves as much as they concern us.-Since that period the mafs of the enemy, which has precipitated itfelf on Belgium, rendering your danger more preffing, it becomes more neceffary to employ all the means in your power, and to check the operation of that mafs all the force which it is poffible to collect and combine.

Our armies have fuffered, and ftand in need of a large number of recruits; and although: we have feen with as much fatisfaction as gratitude, the facrifices which you have evinced a wifh to make, in order to excite our fubjects to enter into voluntary engagements, we cannot conceal from you that, as this refource has been hitherto unproductive and unavailing, our army will perhaps be no longer in a condition to employ, against an enemy who makes fuch efforts to invade these provinces, that refiftance and those offenfive measures which have hitherto preserved. them.

It would be fuperfluous to recal to your recollection that his therto our Hereditary States have furnished the major part of thofe who have defended you, and undoubtedly our Belgic provinces, fo flourishing, fo populous, and fo interested in the fuc cefs of the war, which unhappily may be attended with their annihilation and total ruin, will not be backward in furnishing men to affift in the defence of those provinces.

It is at the prefent moment, while the period is not yet elapfed, that we addrefs ourselves to you for an object more important even than that contained in our dispatch of the 30th April; we demand for our army, from all the provinces, a levy of men, and we are perfuaded that, penetrated with the neceffity of fatisfying fo juft a demand, you will only paufe on the mode of carrying it into execution. We do not hesitate to propose to you that which is moft conformable to reafon, to juftice, and to the general interests and exigencies of the moment, viz. An equitable affeffment on all the diftricts, each of which fhall be directed to furnish one man in every hundred, as far as regards its general population, and five men in every hundred capable of bearing arms.

It is to this demand that we immediately expect your confent, and your most efficacious concurrence, leaving, however, to your choice the beft means of fatisfying it, at the fame time informing you that this extraordinary levy is fo neceffary and fo preffing, that if in the execution of it you ftand in need of our fovereign authority, we are difpofed to grant it to you in the moft extenfive manner.

You have, it is true, offered feveral times to raise fome new corps, but we have confidered that it would take too much time to organize them, and to train them to the military exercife and evolutions; while, on the other hand, men mingled among foldiers will immediately render us that fervice which we expect from them.

You cannot diffemble-your future exiftence depends perhaps on the fpeedy execution of fuch an increase of force-you fee your enemies multiply at all points of your frontiers, while our armies moulder away by our victories, and by thofe glorious contests which they are forced fo frequently to maintain.-Befides, the efforts that you will make in this respect, cannot be a grievous burthen on a country fo populous, and on a nation formerly recognized as brave and warlike.

Given at our Head-quarters at Tournay, 26th May, 1794.
To our reverend Fathers, &c.
(Signed)

FRANCIS.

The

The following Manifefto was presented by Barrere, from the Committee of Public Safety, to the National Convention of France, on the 30th of May.

HALL the French Republic be always forced to derive her

France been concentered on the confpiracies of Danton and Hebert. It is time that fhe fhould know, that if the traitors were allowed to carry on their criminal projects with impunity but for a few days, France, furrendered to England and Auftria, would be nothing more than a pile of cinders.

At the period when the confpirators first took the veil of pátriotifm, a system of calumny was adopted at London—a fystem that has fince been rendered permanent. From that period, too, projects have been continually formed against the lives of certain members of the National Convention of France.

A few days only have elapfed fince the journals of foreign powers afferted, that the poignards of affaffins had stabbed all the members of the committees of Public and General Safety, and that a revolution had taken place at Paris. A few days only have elapfed fince the English newspapers prophefied that Robefpierre would foon be no more. Robefpierre has escaped the poignards of the ; but thefe minifters ftill think, that, at leaft, he cannot exist under their calumnies, and that, by afferting that his intentions are to make himself the dictator of France, they fhall be able to concenter on his head the combined deteftation of the people of the French Republic.

In these despicable journals the Republican foldiers are invariably characterized as the földiers of Robespierre-the foldiers of Robespierre, it is faid, have attacked Menin-the foldiers of Robespierre have evacuated Arlon, the foldiers of Robespierre have advanced towards Furnes.

We fhould think that we were guilty of injuftice to the power of the people, to the authority of the National Convention, to the unremitted labours of the committee of Public Safety, to the patriotifin of Robespierre, and to the courage of the armies, if we were to condefcend to refute fuch calumnies, which, equally grofs and atrocious, are calculated only to amufe the English in their brothels or their taverns. We ftate them merely to prove the intimate relation that fubfifts between the calumniator of Robespierre and that English agent who fo lately fent a new Corday to Paris.

It is the fame English who, in fpeaking of the French armies, express themselves in the following manner :-That horde, the Convention, have adopted fuch a mode of conduct-the committee of Public Safety has iffued fuch orders, as if no national

repre