Extract of a Letter from Citizen Noel, Minifter Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Batavian Republic, addreffed to the Minifter General of Police, and dated Hague, September 2. I LEARNT a very fingular thing from Marfhal Broglio, and which was confirmed to me afterwards, at Brunfwick, by above twenty different perfons of credibility, viz. that Louis XVIIL had fent to Gotha for his field equipage, and that every exertion was making to prepare it. The Marthal thinks that the King's hopes were never better founded. He believes that he will be recalled. You have no idea of the language of the emigrants at Brunswick. There are fo many, that I am fure Louis XVIII. carries on a correspondence in France, and that it is necessary to watch carefully. Auguft 28.-I ought to tell you, that the intrigues I fee carrying on here give me much uneafinefs; there is not fufficient attention paid to them. Many people are led to believe that Louis XVIII. has a strong party in the Council of Five Hundred, and that he will speedily be recalled through their means. The major of Mirabeau's corps, M. Juguier, concerning whom I spoke to you about four months ago, and of whom I alfo gave notice to Caillard, has at length obtained paffports. I believe they came from the manufactory of the Count de Harcourt and Colonel Donn, at Bremen, upon which I gave you a note. He is at Paris, and has written several letters to Mad. de Nadaillac here, and alfo to the Count d'Escars and St. Maixant, in which he draws a picture of Paris, of the Directory, and of the Councils, which contributes very much to elevate the hopes of the emigrants and of the priefts. Nadaillac fent the letters to Madame Reitze, and they were read to the King; they were fhown to me, and the Abbé de exhibits them like relics.-This has a great effect upon the counter-revolutionifts, except Hangwitz, who only fhrugs his fhoulders at them. The Prince of Heffe Caffel, to whom a copy was shown at Pyrmont, faid, that it was written by fome rafcally emigrant, who deferved the baftinado. It would be well if the police at Paris would watch thefe gentlemen who arrive a little more clofely. They They are paid by the English to go and intrigue at Paris. I know that Madame Nefbeth is gone into Switzerland to feek for perfons to fend into Paris. She asked me for addreffes and defcriptions for that purpose at Pyrmont. By the way in which the proceeds, there is money to be made with her. Since the minifters Caillard and d'Anadice have heard of the peace with Portugal, Anadice predicts that the first courier will bring an account of a peace with England; but from what I hear from the Bishop of Derry, Mrs. Nefbeth, Lord Elgin, and others, I entertain no fuch hopes: I am convinced that the VOL. VII. negotia *C negotiation is only a farce. Upon that fubject I have fome proofs, which I fhould have wished to communicate verbally to you, if they would have fuffered me to come. The English do not want an immediate peace; they look with too much certainty for the fpeedy diffolution of the French government, and are making great facrifices for that object. HIS Manifefto of the Governor of Turin, Sept. 20, 1798. IS Majefty, defiring nothing so much as the maintenance of public peace and tranquillity, has taken all the measures and precautions judged expedient for that purpofe, and has charged us, at the fame time, to announce, by a manifefto, to all the inhabitants of this capital, its fuburbs and territory, that they muit pofitively abftain from all provocation or infult whatever, which might tend to disturb the public tranquillity; to invite all good and faithful citizens not to frequent any of thofe places. where they might be exposed to the like; and particularly, not to give ear to the reports which evil-defigning men, fome of whom abuse the national cockade, propagate, for the purpose of alarming the public mind. His Majelty expects alfo from the loyalty of the French government, that it will contribute to maintain and confirm, more and more, the good harmony which ought to fubfift between the two allied governments. Admiral Morard de Galles to the Citizens compofing the naval Army. Breft, 26 Fructidor (September 12, 1797). IN N tranfmitting to you, upon the 24th, the proclamation of the Executive Directory to the citizens of Paris, and, the following day, that to all France, I infpired your republican hearts with joy on the affurance that liberty had triumphed over the fatellites of royalty, who had flattered themfelves with the hopes of restoring your chains. Now, citizens, I take the earlieft opportunity to acquaint you with the details which have officially been tranfmitted to me relative to this great event, which will reftore the republic to all its fplendour, and give to its children peace and happinefs. Thefe details will inform you, that if hitherto the paternal folicitude of the government has vainly exerted itfelf to meliorate your fituation; if, in fpite of its inceffant application to the legiflative body to obtain funds neceflary for the payment of your falaries and the comfort of your families, you remained naked and deftitute, it was becaufe the royalift confpirators who fat in the legislative body had laboured induftriously to dry up the fources of the public treafury, in order to difcourage the repub. lican armies by the excefs of their fufferings, and to render the republic odious. Now, citizens, thefe wretches are under the avenging fword of the laws which they have outraged. They are difabled from confummating their horrible confpiracies; and the first exertions of the government, after having difconcerted their defigns, have been directed to the land and naval force. Already measures have been taken by it for the payment of your arrear, and the improvement of your fituation. Be calm and firm at your pofts, as your brethren of the immortal armies have been on the news of this memorable event; and be affured that your chiefs, always emulous to give you the example of patriotifm and devotion to the cause of liberty, will not lofe fight of the fuccefs of the republicans, in order to make you participate with the whole nation in the advantages which this triumph over our enemies will procure. (Signed) MORAND DE GALLES, Addrefs to General Augereau, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the Sambre and the Meufe, and Rhine and Mofelle, to the Troops compofing thofe Armies. IF Fellow-Soldiers, F Death were to choose her own victims, guilt alone would be banished from the world; but he ftrikes without distinction an Achilles and a Therfites, a hero and the child of vice and of effeminacy. His fcythe cuts down indifferently every thing that prefents itself to his blow. Vice and virtue, it is all one. Cato, unable to furvive the liberty of his country, tore out his own bowels, and on his fmoking corpfe, Cæfar reared a throne. Hoche died in the flower of his age, and in the height of his glory, and Pichegru outlived his crimes. Such are the decrees of blind deftiny. Soldiers, drop a tear on the bier of the hero, and let cry of indignation anathematise the traitor! Long deceived, often neglected, fometimes betrayed, what force of arm, what fentiment of glory, what robust patriotifin and courageous conftancy, did you not require to refift at once confpiracies, fufferings, internal disgust, and the efforts of Auftria from without? Doubtlefs, it is when, with pure intentions and tried republicanism, a chief is appointed to the command of inen like you, that victory is rendered fubject to his will. Penetrated with this truth, my fellow-foldiers, it is, that I have not hesitated to accept the vast charge which the government has impofed upon me in placing me at your head. I know the extent of the charge, and I am not difinayed: is not this a fufficient declaration of the esteem in which I hold you? Soldiers, the chiefs of the royalist confpiracy no longer fit in the fenate, and the cabinet of Vienna no longer has auxiliaries in the Luxembourg. The Executive Directory, long placed by the confpirators in the cruel impoffibility of putting a period to your fufferings, is now feconded by the reprefentatives of the people who remained faithful to the people. The eyes of the government are open to you and to your wants. Its power is far from keeping pace with its paternal intentions. Nevertheless, your fufferings thall be mitigated. It is in order to accelerate the attainment of this object that I remain at Paris. I fhall very speedily follow this addrefs, which I fend you. I hall bring funds along with me; clothing and fuel fhall be provided before the rigour of winter. Every part of the administration fhall be purified, and reduced to regularity; and henceforth nothing but unforeseen events can interrupt, and that only for a moment, the discharge of your pay, and condemn you to wants which it fhall be my chief care to abridge. Every moment of my life, all my faculties, my whole exiftence, fellowfoldiers, fhall be confecrated to your fervice. But, in proportion as you ought to expect every thing from my devotion to your caufe, I am entitled to require from you a difcipline, not trifling in its details, nor degrading, but juft, fevere, inflexible, and completely republican. Patriotifin and courage are virtues which it is eafy for you to practife. If, however, there are men among you to whom it is painful to exercise them, let them quit their ranks, let them withdraw. Thefe enemies of liberty ought to have no share in the glory of her children. Soldiers, let your bravery catch fire from the facred love of your country, and let the rife of your glowing energy ftrike terror into your enemies beyond the Rhine, and infpire with difmay, thofe whom you leave behind that river. The Emperor, it is faid, is raifing levies. Poor wretches, torn from the plough, and trained by violence, are coming to fwell the number of his fatellites. Vain precaution! France, reftored to the vigour of republican inftitutions, is at this moment one entire army, of which we are only the advanced guard. In a word, if our enemies remain obftinate; if, rejecting the pacific offers of our government, they ftill with for blood, why then let them be fatisfied. They are only fo extenfive in their demands, because we were fo generous, and let it one day be asked, if the people of Vienna ever had mafters ? (Signed) AUGEREAU. Proclamation Proclamation of the Executive Directory of the Cifalpine Republic on the 14th Sept. 1797. THE HE Executive Directory, confidering that it is neceffary to maintain public order against the efforts of the difaffected, who in the prefent circumftances endeavour to deceive the peeple, in order to re-establish the ancient government, or to diforganize that which exifts, ordains that any person who by word or deed thall endeavour to favour monarchy, the conftitution of 1793, or any other form of government different from that which exifts, fhall be confidered as a difturber of the public pesce, and inflantly punished on the fpot as fuch with death, agreeab to the law of the 5th of August last, enacted against the enemies of public tranquillity. (Signed) G. G. SERBELLONI, Prefident. Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy, to the Soldiers and Citizens of the eighth Military Divifion. Head Quarters, Pafferiano, 36 Fructidor. SOLDIERS and citizens of the eighth military divifion, the Executive Directory has put you under my military command. This tafk, painful to me, will be ufeful to your tranquillity. I know the patriotifm of the people of the fouthern departments. Men, enemies of liberty, have in vain fought to lead you aftray. I fhall make the neceffary difpofitions to restore to your delightful country, happiness and tranquillity. Patriots! republicans! return to your homes: evil to that commune, which fhall not protect you: evil to the constituted body which fhall thield crime and affaflination with indulgence! And you, generals, commanding the places; officers, foldiers; you are worthy of your brothers in arms! Protect the republicans, and fuffer not the men covered with crimes, who delivered Toulon to the English, which coft us a long and painful fiege, who in one day burnt thirteen fhips of war, to return and give us law ! Municipal administrators, juftices of the peace, act as your confcience directs. Are you friends of the republic, of the national glory? Are you worthy of being the magiftrates of a great nation? If you are, execute the laws with precifion, and know that you shall be responsible for the blood that may flow under your eyes. We shall be your friends, if you are attached to the conftitution and to liberty. We fhall be your enemies, if you are only the agents of Louis XVIII. and of the cruel plots fomented by foreign gold, (Signed) BUONAPARTE. Specch |