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courage, exterminated the whole Spanish power, fhall they be intimidated by the vain measures of a band of tyrannical egotists? fhall they infamously hide themselves, when preparations are making to give a mortal ftab to liberty? And we, reprefentatives, obferving thefe odious enterprifes, how can we be juftified before you, before our children, if we were to remain longer unmoved? Should we not be worthy of being compared to thofe defpicable beings, who feek to raife their power on your ruin, and whom, by our vigorous measures, we have at length destroyed? Will not our memory ever flourish in the annals of time? No, no, Batavians; we will fwear upon the altar of liberty, upon which the people of the Low Countries have already made offerings, while others ftill continue flaves; we will fwear by our general intereft, by the profperity of our children, by the happiness of pofterity, that we will never fuffer either defpotifin or anarchy.

We will all fwear to fnatch the country from its state of oppreffion, and to fpare no facrifice to fucceed. We will proye, by our conduct, that we cherifh civil liberty as much as we abhor licentioufnefs.

Range yourselves around the general administration, to support it in every measure which may be judged neceffary to attain this grand object; thus we shall foon obtain a good conftitution, founded upon the eternal principles of nature, fufceptible of no change, and on which alone thall be built our political happiness.

Thus we will filence calumny, and make our adverfaries blufh; thus we will evidently prove to the greatest, the most courageous of all people, that it was not in vain they fuccoured us, in order to cafe us of the yoke by which we were curbed. We will prove that Batavia is worthy a fraternal alliance with this nation. Thus will Europe again know us the worthy defcendants of thofe Batavians who defended liberty, when the whole univerfe bent the knee to the power of domineering Rome. Soon will it acknowledge, in the prefent generation, the fame people who formerly fhook the throne of Philip; the fame people who, by their courage and valour, fo extended their poffeffions in other parts of the globe, that the fun, in its regular courfe, always fhone upon Batavia, in the one or the other hemifphere; a people who combated the most formidable powers in the world; who forced the commerce of the whole universe to unite in its ftates; who held in their hands the political balance, and bore their fceptre on the ocean. Batavians, it is to this degree of greatness that we muft return, by means of a good and wife conftitution. But never fhall we return to it, if the order of things, or rather that fyftematic diforder which for two years enfnared us, continues to exift. The monster federalism, little different from the hydra of the ancients, can only be conquered by an effort, which fhall destroy, at one blow, all its heads. This great blow is about to VOL. VII.

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be ftruck-already the monfter agonizes, but its laft convulfions may ftill be dangerous, and we must provide against them. No fociety can exift without order. It is above all important that there thould be no troubles during an intermediatory government. Let every one then fubmit to the orders prefcribed to the government. Let them be perfuaded that the momentary facrifice of fome part of our civil liberty has no other object than that of procuring us a good conftitution, and of affuring us the entire enjoyment of liberty.

All the conftituted authorities fhall continue their prefent operations, until the neceffary changes, in a manner regular, and conformable to the general good. The foi-difant provisional administrations, or conftituted authorities, in the different provinces, and the regencies in the different cities, diftricts, or villages, as well as the adminiftrations of dykes, rivers, and bridges, fhall be continued till this period, and shall be subject and responsible to the executive power.

The committee of justice fhall remain provifionally upon their prefent footing; and there fhall be no change. All officers, mayors, procurators of communes, and public accufers, fhall provifionally continue the exercife of their functions, and shall purfue, with redoubled activity, all difturbers of peace and order, whatever mask they may affume. Perfons and property fhall be protected from every infult. The law which exifts in this refpect fhall remain in force, and fhall be rigorously executed; commerce fhall be protected; and every one thall enjoy that fafety which is the foundation of all focial union. No inhabitant of provinces ftill exifting, no community, fociety, or corporation, fhall unite for the purpose of making, collectively, to this affembly, or to the executive power, any demand or petition; but every Batavian citizen fhall be permitted to propofe his opinions, and defend his interefts.

Thus this new order of things will be established without difficulty or confufion, and the object which has rendered it neceffary, will be completely fulfilled. Thus the ardent views of the true Batavians are about to be accomplished, and a good and wife conftitution will confolidate our happiness, fulfil the wishes of our allies, and render us formidable to our enemies.

Batavians, it is to arrive at this falutary object that the assembly of your reprefentatives have this day formed themselves into a conftituent body, reprefenting the Batavian nation, under the prefidency of citizen H. Midderich, and has named provifionally for its fecretarics citizens Adr. Ploos, Van Amftel, L. C. Vonk, N. F. Van Bennekom, and the fecretary of the ci-devant national affembly, citizen J. Van Haeften. We will order each of thefe to refpect the fignature of the temporary prefident, as well as that of one of his fecretaries, or his fucceffors; and to obey and follow all 4 orders

orders and commands fo figned, as emanating from us. All petitions, before they are addreffed to the conftituent affembly, reprefenting the Batavian nation, and all sentences of colleges, charged with the adminiftration of juftice throughout the Batavian republic, fhall be henceforth in the name of the Batavian nation.

This fhall be published and pofted up every where according to cuftom. We order and charge the conftituted authorities of the Batavian republic, who remain in their functions, to give the neceffary orders, that our intentions in this refpect may be executed.

Done and decreed by the faid affembly at the Hague, the 22d of January 1798, the 4th year of Batavian liberty.

H. MIDDERICH, Prefident.

Under is written, by order of the latter,

(Signed)

W. F. VAN BENNEKOM.

Proclamation published at Venice on the 19th Jan. 1798. Venetians,

AFTER fuch great agitations, your destiny is, at length,

fixed. It is with reafon you rejoice at this happy event. Under the dominion of our auguft fovereign, the Emperor, you will enjoy the felicity which your wife conduct has merited, and which your new form of government will fecure more and more. Meanwhile, General Count de Wallis, commander of his Majefty's army in Italy, has ordered that the prefent provifional government fhall remain in activity, and be composed of five members in addition to the committee of police. The civil and criminal authorities, and alfo those belonging to the finances, are to continue in the fame ftate. Matters are to continue on the fame footing until his Majefty fhall otherwife ordain.

Proclamation published at Verona on the 22d January, by Antoine Count Milfrowski, General of the Armies of his Imperial Majefty.

I HAVE learnt, with the most lively grief, that many perfons in the city were yesterday molefted and injured. I am more than affured of the affection and good difpofition of these countries; and I hope that the exceffes committed laft night will not again take place; and I wish to believe they have only been produced by a miftaken zeal. I defire the repofe, happiness, and fafety of every individual.

No one has a right to do himself juftice; it belongs to the government, and I fhall take care it fhall be exercifed. The end

of this proclamation is to invite, and to order, under the fe vereft pisins, all the inhabitants to abstain from infulting, in any fhape, by meetings or clamours, the true fubjects of his Majefty. Numerous patroles fhall be commanded to preserve publie order. I flatter myself that the people of Padua will refpect my orders, and will not force me to punish difturbers, and particularly the fecret inftigators of the troubles.

Proclamation publifhed on the 2d February, at Padua.

BY order of Generaliffimo Count de Wallis, the aulic department of juftice and general police of Padua.

The intention of his Imperial Majesty is to preserve the public tranquillity and the most perfect difcipline, in order to assure to his new fubjects the fafety of their perfons and enjoyment of their property. Confequently, he prohibits all meetings, all private injuries, libels, and provocations which may be made by his fubjects, of whatever religion or country.

He likewife prohibits every one from bearing fire-arms or fwords, under the accustomed penalties in his Majesty's states.

Whoever fhall dare to difobey the prefent order, fhall be immediately punished by the military commandant, who fhall equally watch over the difturbers of the public repose and secret inftigators, against whom the police fhall act vigorously.

Whoever shall refift the armed force fhall be punished with death.

Letter from the General in Chief Hatry, to M. de Bartels, Commander of Manheim, dated from Head Quarters at Mentz, Feb. 6.

THE Executive Directory have given me orders to declare to the Elector Palatine, and to you, Sir, who command the troops in Manheim, that they demand the moft fpeedy fatisfaction, as well on account of the refiftance which has been offered to us in attempting to take poffeffion of the Tête du Pont at Manheim, and the other pofts on the left bank of the Rhine, as on account of the confequences of that refiftance; and that they require that fatisfaction be made to the French foldiers who have been wounded, and to the relations of fuch as have been killed.

The Executive Directory, in the firm perfuafion that no delay will take place in making fuch fatisfaction, fufpend all hoftilities; but if the Elector Palatine fhall not explain his conduct

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Subftance of a Proclamation published at Ergoul on the 5th Feb. 1798, by General Shauenbourg, Commander in Chief of the Army on the Frontiers of Switzerland, to his Army.

THAT the troops are to make no more conquefts, but only to fupport the efforts of the friends of liberty against expiring ariftocracy, which, in a federative republic, affects the privileges of monarchy, and reviles the defcendants of William Tell, under the title of fubjects. To fulfil this object, he hopes that the defenders of the country will prove, by their conduct, that the French, terrible in battle, are humane and generous towards the people who unite with them in friend/hip; that disorder will be feverely punished, and that obedience to the chiefs, refpe& for the laws, and fentiments of humanity, will be inculcated.

LIBERTY-EQUALITY.

The French Republic, one and indivisible.

PROCLAMATION.

Anne Jofeph Hipolite Mallartie, General in Chief, Governor-General of the Ifle of France and of the Re-union, and CommandantGeneral of the French Establishments to the Eaft of the Cape of Good Hope.

Citizens,

KNOWING for many years your zeal and attachment for the

intereft and glory of our republic, we are very impatient, and confider it a duty to make known to you the propofitions that we have received from Tippoo Sultaun, by two ambaffadors which he had fent to us. This prince has written particular letters to the colonial affembly, and to all the generals employed in that government: he has likewise addressed to us a packet for the Executive Directory.

Firft. He demands to make an alliance, offenfive and defenfive, with the French, propofing to maintain at his charge, as long as the war fhall continue in India, the troops they can fend him.

Second. He promises to furnish every neceffary for that war, except wine and brandy, of which he finds himself abfolutely deftitute.

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