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The extraordinary funds for the fervice of the fifth year may amount to 650,000,000 (27,083,3331. fterling). They are compofed, firit, of 150,000,000, proceeding from the arrears of contributions; and, fecondly, of 500,000,000 (20,833,3331. fterling), refulting from the fale of the national property. 8. The ordinary expences will will amount to 520,000,com (21,666,6661. Sterling): they will be covered by the ordinary receipts of the fifth year, which will amount to that fum.

Copy of the Letter fent by the King of Naples to the Marquis del Vafto, who, after the Receipt of it, fet out for Rome as Ambassador Extraordinary, and concluded there the offenfive and defenfive Treaty between Naples and the Pope.

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IS Holinefs acquaints me by letter of his determination to reject the unjust and execrable conditions of the French, on' which account he demands of me, though rather late, fpeedy fuccour. Notwithftanding this is against my original plan, I hefitate not a moment to grant it to him, as it concerns our holy religion, to which I have conftantly been devoted. As his Holinefs demands of me, at the fame time, to fend fome perfon with whom he may confult on our common affairs, I have appointed you, the Marquis del Vafto, for this purpose, Depart immediately, and have at heart the honour of God and the holy church, the good of the ftate, and the tranquillity of my fubjects, who daily give fresh proofs of their attachment and fidelity to me. Done in the camp of St. Germano,

FERDINANDO REX.

Note, by which M: Galeppi, Plenipotentiary Minister of Pius VI. announced to the French Commiffioners, Garrau and Salicetti, the Determination of his Holiness not to accept the Conditions of Peace offered, or rather dictated by the French Directory.

THE underfigned plenipotentiary, minifter of his Holiness the

Pope Pius VI. has the honour to inform Meffrs. Garrau and Salicetti, commiffaries of the Executive Directory with the French armies of Italy and the Alps, that having laid before his. Holinefs the fixty-four articles propofed by their excellencies, under the condition that they muft all either be rejected or accepted to their full extent, his Holiness, after having examined them, and taken the advice of the holy college, declares, that heither religion nor good faith do any ways allow him to accept them.

it is with the utmost concern his Holinefs has found, that belides the article already propofed at Paris, tending to oblige him to difapprove, revoke, and annul, all the bulls, refcripts, briefs, and apoftolic mandats iffued under the authority of the holy fee, with refpect to the affairs of France, fince the year 1789, there were feveral others, which, being equally prejudicial to the catholic religion and the rights of the church, are confequently inadmiffible; without entering into any difcuffion concerning thofe which are deftructive both to his fovereignty and dominions; pernicious to the happiness and tranquillity of his fubjects, and evidently contrary to the rights of other nations and powers, towards whom the holy fee would not even be able to maintain itfelf neutral. His Holinefs hopes, therefore, that the Executive Directory, from its own fenfe of rectitude, as well as in confideration of the mediation of his majesty the King of Spain, will do juftice to the powerful motives which have deter mined his Holinefs to give this refufal, which he is obliged to enforce at the hazard of his life.

Given in Florence, the 15th of September, 1796. (Signed)

GALEPPI. Minifter Plenipotentiary to his Holiness the Pope Pius VI.

Decree published at Coblentz on the 28th of October. Article I. THE inhabitants of the houfes fituated on the quay of the Rhine thall pull down the gates which open towards the river, and fhall barricade the entrance with cafks or gabions full of mould or dung. The fhutters as well fhall be clofed, and the blinds pulled down, fo that nothing may be feen which paffes without.

Thofe who difobey this order fhall be punished by a fine, to be fixed by military authority, and imprifonment. The commandant of the place fhall fcrupulously attend to the execution of this order.

II. It is forbid to every burgher to walk out either by day or by night on the quay of the Rhine and Mofelle. The centinels who are ftationed there fhall feize and conduct to the commandant of the place whofoever fhall act contrary to this order. They thall be punished by a fine of 24 livres, to be appointed to the ufe of the centinel. The quay above the ftone bridge is excepted from the prefent order.

III. The centinels who fhall ftop the boats endeavouring to pafs from the Mofcile to the Rhine, or from one fide to another, thall be highly recompenfed. No boat fhall go down the Mofelle above the tone bridge, either by day or night.

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1V. The city fhall be conftantly well lighted from the evening till day-light; and, in cafe of alarm, lights fhall be placed in all the crofs-roads of the firft ftages, for the better difcerning objects.

V. The inhabitants are forbid to found the tocfin on any account. All ringing of bells is formally forbid. Convents and monafteries are not excepted from this regulation.

VI. In cafe of the alarm being beat, every inhabitant shall shut his fhutters and ftreet doors. Proprietors or houfe-keepers who do not conform to this order fhall be immediately arrested, conducted to prifon, and amerced.

VII. Every inhabitant, who; in cafe of alarm being beat, except for fire, fhall be found in the fireet, fhall be immediately arrefted. He fhall be immediately fired upon if he endeavours to efcape.

VIII. Every inhabitant, who, in cafe of the alarm being beat, fhall be found making figns or acclamations, fhall be immediately arrested as a spy, and punifhed accordingly after the retreat is beat. Every kind of affembling is forbid, and whenever the patroles fhall meet more than three perfons together in the streets, they fhall arreft them, and they fhall be detained in cuftody until they undergo an examination, and their difcharge pronounced by the commandant of the place.

IX. Every publican who fhall keep foldiers or fubalterns in his houfe, half an hour after the beating of the retreat, fhall be arrefted and fined fifty livres in money, for the ufe of the patrolewho fhall discover him breaking the law. The foldiers found in his houfe fhall be likewife arrefted and fent to prifon.

In cafe of fire the inhabitants fhall be at full liberty to act, and employ every means for putting it out. No foldier fhall interfere, in cafe of fire, but at the request of the magiftrates, or the perfon whofe houfe is on fire; a guard fhall be provided, and as the ringing of bells or the tocfin is forbid, the inhabitants fhall be allowed to call" fire," as ufual. When the fire is put out, the burghers fhall retire home.

The prefent regulations of police are enacted and decreed for the city of Coblentz.

Head Quarters at Coblentz, 7th Brumaire, fifth year:

(Signed)

KLEBER:

Refolution

Refolution of the Council of Five Hundred, of the 5th of November, refpecting the general Difcipline of the Armies.

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DESERTION to the enemy is punished with death; home desertion, with five years imprisonment.

Every foldier or perfon belonging to the train of the army convicted of treafon, thall fuffer death.

Every perfon that enlifts men for a power at war with the Republic hall fuffer deaths

Every individual, without regard to rank, quality or profeffion, convicted of being a fpy, fhall be punished with death.

Pillage, plundering with arms in hand, and fetting fire to property, fhall fuffer the fame punishment.

Marauding fhall be punished by expofing the offender at the head of the army, and by feveral days imprifonment, according to the nature of the offence. A fecond offence fhall be punished with five years imprisonment.

Revolt, fedition, or difobedience, on the part of the inhabitants of the hoftile countries, occupied by the troops of the Republic, fhall be punished with death; whether the difobedience shall have been manifefted against the military commanders, or the revolt or mutiny have been directed against the whole or part of the troops of the Republic.

Every inhabitant of an hoftile country, who fhall ftir up fuch a commotion or difobedience, thall fuffer the fame punishment. Every other military offence, against which this law does not provide, is to be punished agreeable to pre-existing laws.

Every military commander is authorised, by this law, to make fuch regulations of common correctional difcipline, to maintain order and military difcipline, as the prefent law may have left unexplained.

Copy of a Circular Letter to the Lieutenants of Counties on the Sea Coaft, dated Whitehall, November 5, 1796.

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MY LORD,

Sit would materially add to the difficulties which already oppose themselves to any attempts, which it is poffible the enemy may be induced to make upon our coaft, if the live and dead ftock of individuals refiding near the fea-coaft was capable of being inftantly removed and fecured, for the benefit of the proprietors, I am commanded to recommend it to your lordship to exert your influence in caufing to be made out, as fpeedily as poffible, an account of live and dead stock, in fuch of the parishes of the county of Suffex as are within ten or twelve miles of the Lea.

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With refpect to the mode of making out the account required, I take this opportunity of tranfmitting to your lordship the form in which it has been executed by the voluntary exertions of the gentlemen of the county of Dorfet; and fhall beg to submit it for your lordship's confideration and adoption, unless where it may be found necellary to deviate from it, in confequence of local circumstances and fituations.

With refpect to the mode in which it is proposed to remove fuch live and dead ftock, in cafe it fhould be neceffary, your lordship will communicate with the commander in chief of the district in which the county of Suffex lies, and will concert with him fuch previous meafures for this purpose as may be judged requifite.

The meeting which I have defired your lordship to call on the fubject of my circular letter of this day's date, will afford you an opportunity of fubmitting this letter to the confideration of the deputy-lieutenants and the magiftracy of the county of Sulfex, and will confequently lead to the immediate adoption of fuch measures as fhall be neceffary to enable the return to be made, which I am perfuaded your lordship will be of opinion is so much to be

wifhed for.

I am further to inform your lordship, that the lords commiffioners of the treafury have received his Majefty's pleasure, that they should take fuch previous measures as may be neceffary for defraying any expences which may arife, in confequence of fuch poffible removal of live and dead ftock as I have fuppofed, as well as of any particular loffes which may eventually be occafioned thereby.

Although this circumftance is fuch as muft obviate every poffible objection to the measure, I am nevertheless confident, that all thofe whom it may concern would, exclufively of every perfonal confideration or motive, join with the utmost alacrity in the execution of a measure which has for its object the general fafety of the country.

I have the honour to be, &c.

PORTLAND.

CAMDEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS we have received information, that divers illaffected perfons have entered into illegal and treasonable affociations, in feveral parts of the counties of Antrim, Down, Tyrone, Londonderry, and Armagh, to fubvert the established government of this kingdom; and for the effecting fuch their VOL. V.

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