will not fuffer itself to be the caufe of injury to a ftate, which, on all occafions, and in moments of the greatest embarrassment, knew how to refift the intrigues and infinuations of its enemies. The ambaffador, fully convinced that fuch are the fentiments which guide the Executive Directory, expects shortly to see the happy effects of them: it will be to him the highest satisfaction to be able to tranfmit to the Sublime Porte affurances to that purpose. Proclamation of the Executive Directory to the French People, 5th Brumaire, 6th Year (26th October). Citizens, THE proclamation of the fourth complementary day, the fifth year, had for its object to pat the French armies in a condition to march on the 15th Vendemiaire. The defenders of the country have heard the voice of the Executive Directory; on all fides they rejoined their respective armies, and the minifter of war has given in on this head the most fatisfactory accounts. By this generous ardour, by this eagerness to maintain liberty, we have recognised the men of France. Their warlike countenance has already overthrown the obftacle which the cabinet of St. James's fo long oppofed to the conclufion of peace with the Emperor. At the fight of your attitude, Auftria returned to her real interefts, and on the 26th of last Vendemiaire the treaty, suspended for more than fix months, was figned at San Formio, near Udina, between the general in chief Buonaparte, plenipotentiary of the French republic, and four plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia. You will learn with pleasure, that feveral millions of men are restored to liberty, and that the French nation is the benefactress of the people. Yet this is not all. To fettle the peace of the Empire, a congrefs is to be affembled. Citizens, every thing prefages that you will in a little while gather the fruit of fo many facrifices. The peace of the continent will foon be fixed upon eternal bafes. It only remains for you to punith the perfidy of that cabinet of London, which ftill blinds courts in fuch a manner as to make them the flaves of her maritime tyranny, and which deceives the English themselves, by extorting from them the means of prolonging upon the ocean the calamities of war, the effufion of human blood, the destruction of commerce, and all the horrors that it trades in and pays, but which must foon fall alone upon her. It is at London that the miferies of Europe are fabricated: it is there that we must put an end to them. Citizens, Citizens, under thefe circumstances, you fee near at hand the period of thofe military efforts which the government expect still from French valour; but until the near approach of that moment in which this object may be fulfilled, take care not to lay down the arms which render you fo terrible to the enemies of your independence; take care not to liften to the perfidious machinations of thofe who would render the effects of your triumphs null. They will repeat to you, that peace being made, you ought to haften to return to your homes. Yes, without doubt the Directory have juft figned for you a peace; but to enjoy its bleffings we must complete our work, enfure the execution of the treaty concluded between France and the Emperor, decide fpeedily thofe to be concluded with the Empire, crown at length your exploits by an invafion of that ifland, whither your ancestors carried flavery under William the Conqueror, and bring back thither, on the contrary, the genius of liberty, which muft land there at the fame time with the French. Citizens, be affured that the government defire to accelerate the happy moment, in which, in concert with the legislative body, they fhall be able to reduce the armies to a peace establishment, reward the heroes who compose them; and, after having confecrated their valour by monuments and fêtes worthy of their triumphs, circulate throughout all their cantons the true republican fpirit, with which the armies have been conftantly animated, by fending back to their homes all fuch of the defenders as fhall have a right to return to them. But you fhall judge of it yourselves-the hour is not comeyet a few moments more, and the French republic, triumphant, confirmed, and every where recognised, fhall enjoy the repofe which he will procure for the world. Decree of the Executive Directory, 5th Brumaire (26th October), the 6th Year. THE Executive Directory refolves as follows: 1. There fhall be affembled, without delay, upon the coafts of the ocean, an army, which shall take the name of the Army of England. 2. Citizen general Buonaparte is appointed general in chief of that army. It fhall be provifionally commanded by citizen Defaix, general of divifion, who, for that purpose, fhall immediately repair to Rennes. 3. The minifter of war is charged with the execution of the prefent arret, which fhall be inferted in the Bulletin des Lois. (Signed) REVEILLIERE LEPAUX, Prefident. LAGARDE, Sec. Gen. Subftance Subftance of the Speech of Citizen Monge on prefenting the Treaty of Peace between the Emperor and the French Republic to the Diredory, on the 10th Brumaire (31st October). You 'OU have not yet arrived, Citizens Directors, at the conclufion of your labours. A new career, perhaps ftill more glorious, opens to your view. The liberty of Greece was unable to refift the treasures of the king of a petry nation, fcarcely emerged from her bafeness. The means of corruption poffeffed by the tyrants of India are much more extensive than thofe of the King of Macedon. For a much longer period has the government of England fuccessfully employed that inftrument which has fo much difgraced it; and what-ever be our virtues, it would be prefumptuous to believe that we are lefs corruptible than the citizens of Sparta or Athens. The English government and the French republic cannot therefore exist together! You have spoken, and already our terrible brigades begin to brandish their victorious fwords, and Scipio is at their head. Did I poffefs in my country that authority with which his fignal patriotic fervices and brilliant virtues invested Cato at Rome, I fhould, notwithstanding, fay to the first magiftrates of the republic Deftroy a government which has corrupted the morals of the whole world; but preferve a people to whom Europe is indebted for a great part of its knowledge. "Do not opprefs a people who have given Newton to the world-a people refpectable for their perhaps unparalleled patriotifm, and worthy of a better government. Elevate the government to the dignity of the people: perfect that liberty which they idolize, and restore them to the free exercife of their natural virtues. Let the English nation continue to exift with gloryLet it be the rival of the French nation; but let the emulation of the two countries be to contribute to the progrefs of knowledge, and to the perfection of the human mind; and may there be no other rivalship between us than for the happiness of the world!" Speech of Citizen Reveilliere Lepaux, Prefident of the Directory, to Citizens Berthier and Monge. GLORIOUS for the republic are thofe days whereon the cry of victory inceffantly refounds in this hall. Delightful is that moment when the voice of peace is heard, particularly when it is fucceeded by confequences equally beneficial and brilliant. What a concatenation of marvellous events have occurred fince the period when reafon firft called us to declare our independence, until the moment when peace is about to fix its feal to the revolution! Powerful Powerful genius of liberty, it is thou alone who canft bring to light fuch unheard-of events, fuch heroic deeds, and fuch extraordinary heroes. Thou alone canft create, as by enchantment, fo many philofophers, orators, legiflators, ftate finen, warriors, men of univerfal genius, triumphant armies, an army of Italy, a Buonaparte Happy France, forget paft woes which no longer exift, in order to occupy thyfelf with the future prospect of happiness and glory that awaits thee! enjoy the fruit of thy conquefts. Thou mayeft contemplate them with a legitimate pride. The effect of thofe conquefts will not only be that of preferving liberty to all who are free, but will alfo call vaft regions and numerous populations to liberty; and that liberty will not be fullied by the bloody hand of faction. Its birth will be affured by the reign of the laws, by wife and vigorous inftitutions. In the mean time, France, before thou abandonest thyfelf to repofe, turn thy attention towards England. There exifts there certainly a nation famed for its generous difpofition, but its government is odious. After ufurping the empire of the feas, it has covered the globe with its crimes. In Afia the thirst of gold has rendered its power more terrible than death itfelf. In Europe and America it has every where fpread venality. It has diffeminated corruption in torrents, and it overawes, with a haughtiness the most infulting, thofe governments which it has corrupted and degraded. In fine, it has been the artifan of our civil difcords. Unable to deftroy our liberty by the coalition, of which it was the author, it has contaminated it by horrible profcriptions. It has given birth to La Vendée. It is against that spot, republican foldiers, that your last blows are to be directed. But on this happy day let us think only of the repofe which France is about to give to the continent of Europe. Let us folely abandon ourselves to fentiments of joy and gratitude. Brave defenders of your coun-, try; and ye youthful heroes, who burn to fhow yourfelves equally worthy in martial deeds, politics, and philofophy, enjoy with delight the gratitude of the nation. I am tenacious of leffening the number and greatnefs of your fervices, by feeming to retrace It is hiftory to whom this glorious tafk belongs.-It is to the graver, the painter, the fculptor, the architect, to raise monuments confecrated to memory. To poctry it belongs to celebrate them by immortal fongs. In fine, thefe are the people to whom you have given liberty-the republics you have founded; the masterpieces of art with which you have ornamented your country; the animals, the ufeful plants, the inventions of every defeription with which you have enriched it; the precious collec tions of the productions of nature and art which furnish abundant fubjects of meditation to our philofophers, and freth models to our artists; thefe are, in a word, all the fruits of your victories, which will tranfmit to pofterity the remembrance of what you You, General Berthier, have been, and what you have done. and you, Citizen Monge, will receive monies of esteem which are due to you. finitely upon being the organ of them. hero of Italy has made of the two perfons charged to announce peace to us, is a trait characteristic of him. The one is in fact one of those generals who, by their talents, their activity, and their courage, have allied themselves to all his triumphs; the other is a member of that learned committee which, in the eyes of all Italy, made the French republic refpected by the virtues. of those who compofe it, and their ardent and animated love of liberty, as well as by the vaft extent of their knowledge and the purity of their tafte. Happy alliance of ftrength and wisdom, mayft thou, for the happiness of France, never be deftroyed! It is thou who affurest to nations the two moft defirable benefits-liberty and peace. Receive, citizens, in the name of all thofe who have ably ferved the republic, no matter in what capacity, our fraternal embraces; they are the affured prefages of that union which should ever reign among all Frenchmen. Vive la paix! Vive la republique! Report by Roffee, Deputy from the Department of the Upper Rhine, on the Treaty of Peace between the Emperor of Germany and the French Republic. Citizens Reprefentatives, SIX years have paffed away, during which the most undaunted' minds could not avoid feeling fome anxiety at feeing all Europe rife in a mass against France, while fhe was distracted by powerful parties, and more terribly agitated than the waves that dafh against her coaft. For fix years, France was armed, without auxiliaries, and without a government; but the ftill poffelfed a fertile foil, the courage of the men who inhabit it, and that creative genius which alone knew how to call forth, even in a ftate of financial diftrefs, thofe means and that energy which were capable of refifting the league of kings. Our enemies believed that liberty would annihilate our refources, and it increafed them a hundred fold. The republic, all in arms, ruthed forth into the invaded plains of Champagne; while the monarchy, difmayed by the project of the enemy, would have abjectly invoked the clemency of the conqueror. Political order has fucceeded to the revolution which our ancient inftitutions experienced. A new world prefents itfelf, and is expofed to the view of our contemporaries aftonifhed to behold us now the arbiters of the universe, and the regulators of the deftinies of Europe, the efforts of thought follow flowly 'the events of our revolution, VOL. VII. while F |