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of Civitella and Cofercoli. Yefterday they attacked our advanced posts in front of Meldona, and obliged them to fall back upon that commune. Twelve of my people, among whom was an officer, were made prifoners, and inhumanly maffacred by that horde of furies.

I have given orders to repel force by force, and that these wretches fhould be deftroyed, in cafe they are overtaken; but as a faithful obferver of treaties, I fhall refpect the Tufcan territory, after having forced the infurgents to evacuate the foil of the Cifalpine republic.

I will not diffemble, M. Lieutenant-general, that I was much furprised the Auftrian general, commanding in Tuscany under your orders, did not prevent thofe hoftilities, which I confider as an open violation of the armiftice. He could not be ignorant that a confiderable body of troops was forming on the frontiers; he was already long informed of it, and might have difperfed them.

I fhall report this event to my General in Chief, perfuaded you will give more pofitive orders to avoid the renewal of hoftilities of that nature.

Receive, M. General, the affurances of my perfect esteem and confideration.

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Letter from Colaud, the French General of Divifion, to the Austrian General Simbfchen, dated Head-quarters, Frankfort, July 25. IT is unneceffary, General, to propofe to me arrangements, while you neglect to comply with the treaty concluded by the commanders in chief; neither you nor I can act contrary to the convention of thofe generals; they have treated for the Austrian army and the allies, and in thefe certainly is included the Auftrian general who commands the Mentz troops. I have fulfilled the treaty by withdrawing my troops: fince you refufe to withdraw yours, you must be anfwerable for the confequences.

The arrangements you propofe to me are entirely contrary to the convention concluded between the commanders in chief of the two armies. The open and fincere manner in which I have spoken, will, I hope, induce you to act with equal candour on your part, I haye the honour to be, &c.

COLAUD.

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Proclamation addreffed by Touffaint Louverture, General in Chief of the Army of Saint Domingo, to all the Citizens of the Department of the South of Saint Domingo.

Citizens,

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HE humanity and fenfibility which have always been the bafis of my conduct and of all my actions, oblige me again to apprize you of the evils which threaten you, although you have been always deaf to my proclamations and addreffes, by which invited you to refume your duty; to range yourfelves under the ftandard of the republic; finally, to abjure your error, and to fwear obedience and fubmiffion to the laws of the republic, and to your chiefs.

I have received orders from the French government, which prescribe to me to re-establish peace and tranquillity in this unhappy country, to put a stop to the civil war which defolates it, and to employ for that purpofe all the powers with which I am invefted. In confequence, wifhing to prove how defirous I am of being ufeful to you, in fpite of your perfeverance in your rebellion, I grant to all of you, even to thofe of the North and Weft, who have abandoned your families and property, because you were deceived, the pardon of your errors and an amnesty, if, immediately on the publication of this proclamation, you lay down your arms.

Avail yourselves, citizens, of this laft offer held forth to you; it will only be neceffary for you to facrifice a little of that pride which now keeps you back. Have not your friends, your relations, your mothers, and your fathers, influence enough to prevail over the deception which actuates you? Have your poffef fions, your property, no value in your eftimation? Is not your mother country, outraged as it is, ftill to be regarded as your benefactrefs, which ftretches out its protecting arms to fuccour you? Look with horror, my friends, at the mischiefs which you are about to effect. Open, at length, your eyes: behold, I conjure you, the abyfs before you, and furrender without delay-rely on my loyalty, As foon as you fhall have made this laudable effort, the department of the South fhall remain unmolested, and the people who inhabit it fhall enjoy perfect tranquillity after fo violent ftorm.

And you, mad and unnatural chiefs, do you feel no remorse at having armed the father against the fon, the fon against the father, and both against the republic Will you continue fanguinary fpec tators of the annihilation of the department of the South Will not confcience fuggeft to you, Let us take advantage of the indulgence offered to us, abjure our aggreffions, and think only of caufing them to reft in oblivion, by adopting a conduct worthy of

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the great nation to which we belong? May I open my heart to the hope-have you the courage to fubmit? I promise you fecurity and protection until the government fhall have decided refpecting you, I am certain it will approve of every thing I fhall do for you, from the confidence it repofes in me. Reflect, citizens, your fate is in your hands; if you ftill continue deaf to the voice of your friend, you will fall, and I fhall have nothing to reproach myfelf with.

The General of Divifion Michel, Citizen Raymond, ex-commiffioner, and Citizen Vincent, director of the fortifications of St. Domingo, are arrived from France; I have made them the witneffes of all my operations; they thall know, be affured, that I have done all in my power to bring you back to order, and reeftablish the tranquillity of the South, and your obstinacy, should you ftill refufe to submit.

The prefent proclamation fhall be printed, and fent to the ge nerals of the army of the republic, to be difperfed through the department of the South, that the citizens whom it concerns may immediately decide either for or against France. I order, for that purpose, the faid generals to treat as brothers all thofe citizens who furrender, even thofe among them who fhall be taken with arms in their hands.

Iffued at head-quarters at Petit-Goave, the 1ft Meffidor (June 20), the 8th year of the French republic, one and indivitible. (Signed) The General in Chief,

TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE.

Outline of the firft Propofitions alleged to have been made by Bonaparte to the Emperor, in the Beginning of July*.

THE Emperor fhall abandon all pretenfions to the Netherlands

and to the Milanefe, according to the articles of the treaty of Campo Formio. France fhall take upon itself all the debts contracted by Belgium. The Emperor fhall agree to acknowledge three Italian republics, viz. the Cifalpine, the Cifpadine, and the Piedmontese republics. The Cifalpine republic thall begin at Caffrano, extend to Idro, Salo, the Lake of Garda above Sermione and Rivalteta, follow the courfe of the Mincio to Monganbano and Goita, and from thence behind the Seriola to the

• Before the Count St. Julien fet out for Paris, the Chief Conful had difpatched a courier to Vienna, with his propofals for a peace. It was in confequence of this difpatch that the Count was fent to Paris. On the 29th of July preliminaries were figned, and the Count left Paris, as well as Citizen Duroc. We are unacquainted with the articles of thefe preliminaries; but the first propofitions made by Bonaparte, in the beginning of July, are faid to have been as aboye.

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confluence of the Mincio and the Po, from thence above Chiero, Porgo, to Cambellona, the river Tofa and Switzerland, and include the Valteline.

The Cifpadine republic fhall begin at Rimini, extend from thence to Forli, Imola, Lucca, Pifa, to Leghorn, and comprehend the Genoefe territory to the Bobbio, as far as Pomundung, and to Ravenna and Rimini.

The Piedmontefe republic fhall comprehend the former states of Piedmont.

The fortreifes in each of these republics fhall be demolished. All fhips which the Ligurian republic has taken from the Auftrians fhall be reftored. The Emperor fhall acknowledge that Nice and Savoy belong to France, according to the constitutional act. The Emperor fhall demolish the fortreffes of Peschiera and Lugano. The King of Sardinia fhall receive a yearly compenfation from the Cifalpine, Cifpadine, and Piedmontefe republics. The Duke of Modena fhall enjoy the country of the Brifgau until the extinction of his family. Should circumftances, or the with of the inhabitants, render the confolidation of the three Italian republics hereafter defirable, the Emperor fhall neither interfere nor object to it; and the three republics fhall be confidered as a state of the first rank. The French fhall not remain in these republics beyond one year. The Swifs fhall choose their own form of conftitution.

The Batavian republic fhall be included in the treaty.

The peace of the German Empire shall be settled at Augsburg. His Imperial Majesty, as chief, thall confent to yield the left bank of the Rhine and the city of Bafle to France. Should peace with the German Empire not be concluded, the Imperial contingent fhall be withdrawn, and a line of obfervation fhall be drawn behind the Inn. His Imperial Majefty thall consent to the fyftem of indemnity by fecularizations. In the event that a peace between the French republic and the Pope and King of Sardinia fhould meet with difficulties, the Emperor fhall not give them any affiftance. Both fhall, however, be affured of their independence of the French republic. Each party contracts to gua rantee each other's poffeffions against attack.

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Note delivered by Lord Grenville to Count Wedel Farifberg, his Danish Majefty's Minister, respecting the Capture of the Freya Frigate.

THE underfigned, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State

for foreign affairs, has had the honour to lay before the King the note which he received yesterday from Count Wedel Jarlsberg, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the King of Denmark.

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It was with the greatest surprise and concern that his Majesty received the first accounts of the tranfaction to which that note relates.. Studioufly defiring to maintain always with the court. of Copenhagen thofe relations of friendship and alliance which had fo long fubfifted between Great Britain and Denmark, his Majefty has, during the whole courfe of his reign, given repeated proofs of thefe difpofitions, which he had flattered himself were reciprocally entertained by the government of his Danish Majefty. And notwithstanding the expreffions made ufe of in Court Wedel's note, his Majefty cannot even yet perfuade himself that it is really by the orders of the King of Denmark, that this ftate of harmony and peace has been thus fuddenly difturbed, or that a Danish officer can have acted conformably to his inftructions, in actually commencing hoftilties against this country, by a wanton and unprovoked attack upon a Britifh fhip of war, bearing his Majefty's flag, and navigating the British feas.

The impreffions which fuch an event has naturally excited in his Majefty's breast have received additional force from the perufal of a note, in which fatisfaction and reparation are claimed as due to the aggreffors from those who have fustained this infult and injury.

His Majefty, allowing for the difficulty in which all neutral nations were placed by the unprecedented conduct and peculiar character of his enemy, has on many occafions, during the prefent war, forborne to affert his rights, and to claim from the Danith government the impartial difcharge of the duties of that neutrality which it profeffed a difpofition to maintain. But the deliberate and open aggreffion which he has now fuftained cannot be paffed over in a fimilar manner. The lives of his brave feamen have been facrificed, the honour of his flag has been infulted, almost in fight of his own coafts; and thefe proceedings are fupported by calling in queftion thofe indifputable rights founded on the cleareft principles of the law of nations, from which his Majefty never can depart, and the temperate exercife of which is indifpenfably neceffary to the maintenance of the deareft interests of his empire. The underligned has, in all his reports to his Majelly, rendered full juftice to the perfonal difpofitions which he has uniformly found on the part of Count Wedel, to remove all grounds of mifunderstanding between the two countries. He cannot, therefore, now forbear to urge him to reprefent this matter to his court in its true light, to do away thofe falfe impreflions, under which (if at all) a conduct fo injurious to his Majefty can have been authorized; and to confult the interefts of both countries, but efpecially thofe of Denmark, by bearing his teftimony to the difpofitions with which his Majesty's government is animated; and by recommending to his court, with all that carneftnefs which the importance of the occafion both juftifies and requires, that these

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