the midft of peace. Numerous and powerful motives will eafily re-animate against them your magnanimous refentment. And who among you has forgotten the calamities which France has been compelled to bear during a long and terrible war? It was not enough that an impious league was formed to annihilate the infant republic; it was not enough that the French territory was ftained with facrilegious ftandards. Our inteftine divifions, the crimes of rival factions, the civil war kindled in the western departments, fanaticifm inflaming the credulous populace, ruin and devaftation overfpreading our fertile fields; are not all these calamities the work of haughty England, and fome obedient kings who declared themfelves at once the agents and the penfionaries of the English government? Have we not feen their judges open up in our courts the arraignment of liberty? Have we not feen their reprefentatives within the facred walls where the majesty of the French people refides? And, ye unfortunate old men, ye plaintive mothers, if folitude reigns in your cottages; if, unbending under your ruftic roofs, you call in vain the fons who should have foothed your laft moments, and fhut your dying eyes; thofe fons, thofe heroes, efcaped from fo many battles, have fallen under the daggers of hired affaffins, and their unhonoured corpfes have dyed with blood our indignant rivers. Not even a grave have they found in this immenfe republic, founded, cemented, aggrandifed by themfelves. Royalifm cut them off in the midit of a people who had abolished royalty. Their laft fighs, their last looks, implored the abfent republic; and if the intereft of all Europe now folicits peace, their afhes and your folitary tears still cry for vengeance. The arms of the republic have overcome all obftacles, and proftrated all its enemies. At the beginning of the war the Stadtholderate had connected itfelf with the deftinies of England; the Roman theocracy launched against us the exhaufted thunders of the Vatican; the Helvetic confederacy protected all the confpirators banished from the French territory. Five years have fcarcely elapfed, and the Stadtholderate is overthrown, the Roman theocracy is humbled with the duft, and the Helvetic oligarchy annihilated. In the place of tyrants and adverfaries, we fee republicans and friends. Upon an element which fometimes baffles the moft fublime courage, fortune may for a moment have forfaken the defenders of their country! Glory has every where purfued them! The ocean has buried fome of our heroes, but not their never-dying renown. England, affrighted at her triumph, awaits with melancholy difmay the inevitable blow which is to stab her to the heart, and to revenge the two worlds!! Wee to the inconfiderate monarchs whom her corrupting gold fhall feduce into new wars! Let not the governments which yet are willing to tempt the dangers dangers of war, hope to weaken our efforts by fowing divifions among us. Long and cruel experience has taught us to despise thofe homicidal denominations which create and perpetuate factions. Vainly fhall they attempt to oppofe to each other the power which enacts and the power which executes the laws. They shall march closely knit, indiffolubly united. The fpirit by which they are equally animated is a fincere and conftant defire of peace. But it is of a peace glorious for France and her allies; it is at the fame time the invincible refolution of repelling by force every infult offered to the dignity of the republic. Fathers of families, blefs your children, whofe fervices our common mother requires; infpire them with your praises: the ef teem of age is flattering to courage, and their glory will be reflected upon your grey hairs. Mothers, wives, retain not their generous fteps; animate their heroifm by your commands; hurry them on to glory; let them haften to reap their fhare of that which is the inheritance of every Frenchman! And you, ye young defenders of your country, fly! your brothers in arms await you. You will find in the armies the example of living heroes, and the memory of the heroes who have fallen in the caufe of liberty. Hoche and Marceau, on the banks of the Rhine; Laharpe and Stengel, on the banks of the Hendan ; repofe amidst the glory of their exploits. On their tombs you will fhed the tears of gratitude and of religious refpect; and if the hour of battle arrives, you will fwear on their afhes to die victorious. EQUALITY, LIBERTY, FRATERNITY. THE Executive Directory of the Batavian republic hereby give notice, that the reprefentative body, as eftablished by the conftitution, having taken into their confideration, that the various laws and proclamations heretofore enacted and published againft the importation of British goods, have not been fufficiently clear and efficacious to caufe that interruption to the trade of England which the hoftile and infolent conduct of that country towards this republic at all times has merited; and confidering that it is abfolutely neceffary, in order to difappoint the avarice and humble the pride of Britain, as alfo for the encouragement of the manufactures of the Batavian republic, to enact more precife and rigorous reftrictions, and fuch as (hall admit of no evasion on the part of the merchants and dealers, nor be liable to be mifunderstood by the public officers, from a doubt what commodities and wares are to be understood by the term English goods: The reprefentative body having likewife confidered the danger ous ous and iujurious confequences of the trade carried on by neutral veffels, directly from England to the ports of this republic; and laftly, having taken into confideration that the intereft of commerce in general requires that the nature and extent of this reftriction fhould be fully known, decrees as follows: That from the 31st of October of the prefent year, all laws, proclamations, ordinances, and decrees, of the States General, the National Affembly, the Constituent Affembly, or the late unconstitutional reprefentative body, relative to the importation of British commodities, manufactures, and productions, fhall be repealed and cease; and that henceforth it fhall be decreed, as it hereby is de creed: That after the 3:ft of the prefent month, October, no British manufactures, commodities, or productions, by whatever name they may be called, fhall be imported into the Batavian republic, either by land or water, either directly from Great Britain, or by any circuitous route, under the penalty that fuch British manufactures, commodities, or productions, thall be declared forfeited and confifcated to the ufe of the state. That all fuch perfons as directly or indire&ly fhall have been concerned in the importation of fuch goods, or favoured the fame, or to whom they fhall have been configned, fhall not only be punished by the lofs of the goods, but if it fhall appear that they had knowledge of them, and after the time limited by this procla mation did not give notice to the custom-houfe, or the officers appointed for that purpose, they fhall be confidered as enemies to their country, and banished for ever from the Batavian territory. And in order to remove all doubts, either of the dealers or of ficers, with respect to what are to be confidered as British manufactures or productions, it is hereby declared, that the following articles fhall be fo deemed, whatever their origin. may be, or from whatever place they may have been configned or shipped: 1. All forts of what are called Manchester manufactures. 2. All cloths and ftuffs of wool cotton, cotton wool, linen, or thread. 3. All mixed ftuffs made of any of the above-mentioned articles. 4. All cottons, linens, muflins, dimities, and nankeens, whether wholly or in part printed or painted. 5. All woollen, cotton, or worsted waistcoats, breeches, and pantaloons, or stuff for these in the piece. 6. All English, Scotch, and Irifh ftockings. 7. All inillinery and manufactures of cotton, wool, and leather, whether plain, mixed, or coloured. 8. All forts of buttons. 9. All kinds of plated ware. 10. All 10. All forts of hardware, or manufactures of iron, fteel, tin, copper, and pewter, whether plain, lackered, or painted. 11. All forts of cutlery ware. 12. All kinds of cabinet-maker's work. 13. Watches, gold and filver clafps, watch-chains, rings, faus, and all kinds of jewellery. 14. All forts of leather, tanned, curried, or prepared in any manner; boot-legs, men or women's fhoe-leather, whether wholly or partly finished. 15. All forts of carriages, whether wholly or partly finished -new or fecond-hand faddles, and all kinds of faddlery. 16. All forts of filk waistcoats and ribands, whether wholly or partly filk, cotton, or thread. 17. All forts of men's and women's hats, whether of felt, ftraw, or any other material; filk handkerchiefs and fhawls known by the name of English. 18. All forts of fpun wool and hair, peruke-makers' work, floor-cloths, carpets, whether complete, or in pieces or rolls, from which they may be finished. 19. All forts of prepared leather, washed leather, skins for making of gloves, breeches, or waistcoats, whether painted, printed, or plain; as alfo all articles employed in the manufacture of thefe. 20. All forts of English glafs, except that which is used for the -making of optical inftruments and clock-work. 21. All forts of English taffeties, paper-hangings, and fur niture. 22. All forts of refined fugars, whether in loaves or powder, or loofe, which have been refined in Europe. 23. All forts of porcelain, earthen and pottery ware.. And it is likewife decreed, that after the 31ft of October of the prefent year 1798, no fhip coming from British ports, and having taken in her lading there, fhall enter any of the ports of this republic, under pain of confifcation of the faid lading to the ufe of the Batavian nation. This penalty of confifcation, however, thall not be enforced against neutral fhips laden with fuch goods, till after the 15th of 'November next enfuing. The Executive Directory is hereby charged with the publication of this decree, in the ufual manner; and the agent of finances with its ftrict enforcement. (Signed) Hague, O. 23, 1798, F. ERMERINS. S. DASSE VAAL, Loco-See, Proceedings Proceedings of the Congress at Raftadt, continued from Page 337. Subftance of the Note from the Pruffian Minifler to the Deputation of the Empire, on the 14th June. I. THE Rhine is to ferve for a boundary from a point to be aken near the Wezel, as far as the fpot where it feparates into different branches, and continues its courfe through Holland, under the name of the Waal. II. With refpect to the Wezel in particular, it will be proper for a boundary to fix on the canal concluded in 1784, across the ifland of Buderich. III. The Rhine toll is to be continued for the prefent; and as to the right of levying cuftoms, the propofitions made on this head cannot be acceded to; and at all events, the regulation of these objects ought to be deferred on account of there being matters to be fettled by a treaty of commerce after the conclufion of peace. Subftance of the Anfwer of the Deputation of the Empire to the Note of the French Minifters of the 4th Messidor (June 22). THE propofitions contained in the last note of the French minifters are to be confidered as appertaining only to the demand of the French government refpecting the forts of Kehl and Huninguen. The deputation fubfcribes to the article concerning the immediate nobles: but it demands that the fequeftration fhould be immediately taken off, and that they should be restored to the poffeffion of their properties, without waiting for the exchange of the ratifications of the treaties of peace. It infifts alfo that the principalities which poffefs mediate eftates, fhould not be comprised in the confifcations, and that their properties fhould be restored to them forthwith. With refpect to the property of the clergy, as the fubject is as yet untouched, any explanation upon it is referved for fome future opportunity. 9th July. Anfwer of the French Minifters to the Note of the Deputation of the Empire of the 9th July. THE underfigned minifters of the French republic for the negotiation with the German Empire, have received a note from the deputies of the Empire, bearing date the 21ft Meffidor laft (9th July), which has been communicated to them by M. de Metternich, minifter plenipotentiary from his Majesty the Emperor. It appears proper, in the outfet, to answer fome objections which the deputies have made in their note of the 29th Floreal, and VOL. VII. which 3 N |