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above all, I am under obligations of duty to France; and I can contract no engagements inconfiftent with thofe rights which my Country holds over me. With thefe exceptions, I can affure the General Marquis de Chafteller, that it is my invariable refolution never to fet foot on any territory fubject to his Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary; confequently I, the underligned, engage myfelf to his Majefty the Emperor and King, never at any time to enter into any of his hereditary dominions, without having firft obtained his fpecial permiffion, provided this engagement is not understood to contravene the right my country holds over me. (Signed) LA FAYETTE.

Declaration of the fecond State Prifoner, General Latour Maubourg, previously to his Release.

GFNERAL de Chafteller has informed me of the inclination of his Imperial Majefty to fet me at liberty, and added to this intimation, that he was charged to demand a written answer of me to the following points:

Ift. Whether it was true that my captivity has been rendered worfe by ill treatment, or whether I had only to complain of the inconveniences peculiar to ftate prifoners?

2d. Where I intended to go after my release?

3d. My affurance not to enter the dominions of his Imperial Majefty without his exprefs leave.

Without giving to the Auftrian government any right over my perfon, and without fubmitting to the right which it has arrogated to itself over unarmed Frenchmen, who had nothing to do with the provinces fubject to the Emperor's domination, I deem it incumbent on me to declare, and do declare,

That I have not been ill-treated, either by words or actions, by the perfons who were charged to guard me, nor would I have fuffered them to do it with impunity. Meanwhile I must add, that excepting the captain, who now has the infpection over the state prifons, moft of the officers who were his predeceffors in that fervice, performed it with peculiar rudeness and neglect, of which it was the natural confequence, that the prifoners were in want of every thing. Thofe officers, fince General Spleny paid very little attention, totally difregarded our wants (perhaps they followed in this refpect the orders which they had); whence it happened, that from October 1794, the epoch of the arrival of General D'Arco, till the month of January 1797, when that fervice was transferred to Count Machelicot, I was left utterly deftitute of all I wanted, and in general in fuch a condition as apparently furprifed that officer on his arrival, and which he has ameliorated as much as his inftructions would permit.

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Unacquainted as I am with the code of the state prifons, I do not know whether the freatment which I have borne for thefe three years paft tallies with that code; but what we have heard about the mode of treatment in the juftly abhorred Bastille, and what I have read during my imprisonment in Pruffia of the treatment in the French prifons, under the barbarous domination of Marat and Robespierre, even my captivity in Pruflia, all this had not prepared me for thofe rigours, which I would not deem poffible, efpecially under the fceptre of a prince whofe humanity and virtue I have so often heard praised, had I not had fo long and fo cruel experience of them.

2. I do further declare, That it is my intention, as foon as I fhall have my liberty, to go to Hamburgh, and to remain there till the news which I expect from my family thall have enabled me to take a farther refolution, and till my impaired health at least be fo far recovered, that I can put it into execution.

3. With pleafure I renew here the promife which I have fo often made to myfelf, never to travel in the hereditary dominions of his Imperial Majefty, ftill lefs to fettle in them. But as a thousand circumftances may difconcert the plan I have previously taken to go to North America, and to leave room for no pretext to treat me a fecond time as a state prifoner, for having fulfilled my duties to my country, I deem it neceflary to make an exception in this promife. I therefore except formally the cafe, little probable at the bottom, where the fervice of my country, which I was forced to quit, and which will ever be dear to me, or the fervice of the state where I might in future fix my abode, and which fhould have received me, fhould impofe on me the imperious law to pay no regard to that promife.

Olmutz, July 25th, 1797.

LATOUR MAUBOURG.

Declaration of the third State Prifoner, Bureau de Pufey, previously to his Releafe.

GENERAL the Marquis de Chatteler has fummoned me, in the name of his Majefly the Emperor and King of Bohemia and Hungary, to expofe the complaints which I might have to make, as well against the individuals appointed to guard me, as of the rigours of my captivity, with exception of the meafure which the duty of fecuring my perfon renders neceffary. I answer to this, as I do not know the meafure of the regulations of fecurity and rigour which the Court of Vienna thinks neceffary to keep in fafe cuftody its ftate prifoners, I cannot answer the question asked me otherwife than by a faithful narrative of the hard treatment which has fallen to my lot ever fince I have been here.

I declare, therefore, that from the 18th of May 1794, to this present day, I have not been permitted, for a fingle moment, to

quit the room in which I was shut up on my arrival; that I was confequently deprived of every other motion but that which I could make in that room; that I could breathe no other fresh air but what entered by the windows, doubly barred with iron; an air frequently fo infectious and unwholefome, that the evil exceeded by far the benefit of the enjoyment. I do further declare, that out of the fmall number of books which I brought with me, about twelve were taken from me, under the pretence of being fufpicious, the fame happened with as many maps, which chiefly reprefented America; farther, with all the letters from my family, which I had received in Pruffia by the channel of the government of that country, till now not a fingle one of thefe articles has been returned to me. I declare, that during the first fourteen weeks of my imprisonment at Olmutz, I was not allowed to receive intelligence from any of my relations, who were then all under the axe of the Jacobins in France, and were obliged the more to tremble as they had the misfortune to belong to me; I was not even allowed to fend them a proof of my still being in existence.

I declare, that a fervant who had been proposed to me, without my withing for him, at my departure from Luxemburg to Wefel, and who of courfe accompanied me, was feparated from me on my arrival at Olmutz; that fix weeks after I only could fee him, for a few moments, afterwards only every fortnight, each time for about an hour, then twice a week; at lait, during the laft twenty-one months, he was allowed to pass three hours every day in attending on my perfon.

I declare that I have been conftantly refufed the ufe of paper, pen and ink, pencils, compaffes, and other inftruments of that kind; nay, and whole months, from the end of November 1794, to the end of July 1795, a small flate was taken from me, which I ufed for calculations, and in my mathematical ftudies.

I declare, that I have been conftantly deprived of all fmal! articles of furniture, even of those most indifpenfable with regard to our common daily wants, fuch as watch, fciffars, knife, fork, and razor. Farther, that with regard to my wearing apparel, I was for several months in the most horrid ftate. To fpeak the truth, I afked for none; not that I suspected the government would refuse me what was most neceffary in that refpect; but in the first place, because my drefs fpoke for itfelf; and 2dly, becaufe I preferred this privation, to the humiliating difcuffion on which I fhould have been obliged to enter on that account. I only once touched flightly on this fubject, with regard to Major Chermack, an officer to whofe care the prifoners were then entrusted, a man of a savage and brutal character, and incapable of conceiving the most common duties towards prifoners, before whom men of that fort think they ought to show themselves the prouder the more unfertunate the former are. I farther declare, that, excepting the faid

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Major Chermack, I have no complaint to make against any of the officers who were by turns on duty with me, and it is with pleafure I feize this opportunity to return thanks to Count Mack Elliot, who is now charged with the police of the ftate prifons, for the polite and humane conduct which he has continually obferved towards me.

The Marquis de Chafteller having alfo informed me, that the end of my imprisonment depended also upon taking on myself the obligation not to return to the dominions of his Majefty the Emperor, without his leave; I hereby declare, that I joyfully bind myfelf never to enter the dominions of his Imperial Royal Majefty of Hungary and Bohemia, without having obtained his permiffion; nay, even never crave that permiflion; excepting however the cafe of military fervice, on the fuppofition of a war between his Imperial Majefty, and the power that will grant me an afylum; as no motive can or fhall force me to fubject myself to the difgraceful terms of a promife, which might prevent me from fulfilling the firft duty as a citizen, to the state that fhall grant me refuge. Olmutz, July 25, 1797. BUREAU DE PUSEY.

Letter from La Fayette, Latour Maubourg, and Bureau de Pufey, to General Buonaparte.

Citizen General, 15 Vendemiaire (O. 6), Year 6. THE HE prifoners of Olimutz, happy in being indebted for their deliverance to the benevolence of their country and to your invincible arms, had enjoyed, in their captivity, the idea, that their liberty and their life were attached to the triumphs of the republic, and to your perfonal glory. At prefent they rejoice to render homage to their deliverer. It would have been highly gratifying to us to have offered you in perfon the expreffion of thefe fentiments, and to have had an opportunity of taking a near view of the theatre of fo many victories, the army which gained them, and the hero who has added our refurrection to the number of his miracles; but you know that the journey to Hamburgh was not left to our choice. It is from the place where we bid the last adieu to our gaolers that we addrefs our thanks to their conqueror. In the folitary retreat, on the Danish territory of Holftein, where we are going to endeavour to eftablish that health which you have saved, we will join to the wishes infpired by our patriotism for the republic, the most lively fenfe of intereft for the illuftrious general, to whom we are more attached on account of the fervices which he has rendered to the caufe of liberty, and to our country, than of the perfonal obligations that we are proud to owe him, and which the moft lively gratitude has engraved on our hearts in characters the moft indelible.

Health and refpe&t!

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Inftruction addreffed by General Buonaparte to the Commissaire Ordonnateur in Chief of the Army of Italy, dated the 11th of Auguft.

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AS S the Cifalpine republic pays to the army of the French republic one million per month, all parts of the territory of that republic are confequently exempted from every kind of requifition.

2. The actual limits of that republic are, 1ft. the countries fituated between the Tefie and the Oglio; 2d. all the territory that formerly compofed the Modene fe, Bolognese, and Ferrarefe.

3. When the troops of the Cifalpine republic fhall be stationed on its own territory, they fhall be furnished from the magazines of that republic.

4. When the troops of the Cifalpine republic fhall be with the French army, or any other territory than that of the republic, they fhall be furnished from the magazine of the French.

Proclamation published at Venice on the 16th Auguft (29 Thermidor)

1797.

THE general in chief of the army of Italy wishing to give, in the name of the French republic, a proof of its efteem and friendship for the Sublime Porte, orders, 1ft. The generals commanding the different places of commerce occupied by the French in Italy, fhall afford fpecial protection to Ottoman fubjects, Greeks, and particularly to Albanians. 2d. The Ottoman fubjects shall be at liberty to hire lodgings where they think proper, without being obliged to live all in the fame houfe, and be at home at an appointed hour. 3d. The French fhips in the Adriatic fea, fhall afford protection and fuccour to veffels bearing the Ottoman flag, and particularly to Greeks and Albanians.

(Signed)

BUONAPARTE.

Liberty, Equality.-In the Name of the Cifalpine Republic, One and

Indivifible.

Tefti, Minifter for Foreign Affairs, to the President of the Batavian

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National Convention.

Milan, the 22d Thermidor (9th Aug.), the

Fifth Year of the French Republic.

HE bestowing of freedom on the Cifalpine nation has crowned the long series of victories of the French republic. This fair country is at length delivered from our and your enemies; the time is arrived when the political confequence of Italy shall be restored and confirmed. The wish of the Cifalpine people for their

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