I now addrefs you, ye peaceable inabitants of Alfacia! You, my dear fellow-countrymen and friends, I cogratulate you on your deliverance from tyranny. Caft your eyes towards the other people of Germany-look how they rejoice at being able to renew the ties of ancient and happy relations, and being again enabled to call you their brethren! Rejoice with them. I know there is not one among you, who would refuse to himfelf the happiness of being a Gerinan. There is not one amongst you, who does not with to fee order and public fecurity re-eftablifhed in this country! and if this is the cafe, and if your fouls remain yet untainted by the poifon of the French revolution, employ means which will preferve you from it for ever; be obedient to your fovereigns established by the Almighty for your good; acquit yourfelves with good-will towards them and their friends, which they have a right to claim from you! Honour the clergy, from whom you receive the confolation of a future exiftence! Be aware of all party spirit-avoid all difputes with respect to religion, which are the fources of all evil. In fhort, remain faithful and juft; this will be your happiness, and for me the moft, the best, and moft grateful reward. Given at Head-quarters at Brumat, November 14, 1793. DAGOBERT SIGISMUND, Count WURMSER. (Signed) His Excellency Governor O'Hara's Speech to the Deputation of Inhabitants of Toulon on the 20th of November, 1793. Gentlemen, S foon as the King was informed of the events which had taken place at Toulon, his Majesty was defirous to give an authentic proof, not only of the fatisfaction which he had experienced from thefe events, but also of his entire approbation of the engagements which had been entered into, in his name, with the town of Toulon. His Majefty was alfo defirous to give you a pofitive affurance that he will punctually fulfil those engage. ments. His Majefty is fenfible that the poffeffion of this town, under all the circumstances in which it was accepted, prefents to his attention objects of the greatest importance, and lays him under the moft facred obligations. His Majefty has already taken, and will continue to take, every measure, which circumftances will permit, for the protection of the town and of its inhabitants. With a view of providing for these objects, and of fulfilling, as effectually as poffible, the other duties which arife from the prefent fituation of his Majefty with refpect to the town and inabitants of Toulon, Toulon, he has thought proper to confide to Lord Hood, Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart. and to myfelf, a commiffion, which was lately delivered to us, under the great feal of England. By this commiflion we are authorifed to act, in his Majefty's name, in the direction of the affairs and civil interefts of Toulon, as alfo of all other places and districts in France, which may be occupied by his Majefty's arms, or come into his poffeffion; and there to provide for the establishment of good order and of a regular government, for the impartial administration of justice, and the protection of perfons and property. Thefe, gentlemen, are the powers immediately relative to the affairs and concerns of Toulon, with which his Majefty has been pleased to intrust us, and which we have thought proper to impart to you. I will not add any thing refpecting the honourable intentions and generous difpofitions of his Majefty, because they will be more particularly and fatisfactorily explained to you by a Declaration, which, by his order, we fhall addrefs to the inhabitants of Toulon, and publish in his name. I fhall now conclude by reading it to you. Declaration of the King. WE, the undersigned, Commiffioners Plenipotentiary of his Majefty the King of Great Britain, do hereby publish, by his orders and in his name, the following declaration. His Britannic Majefty having been informed of the circumftances under which the town, harbour, and 'forts of Toulon, and the thips in the faid harbour, have been intrufted to Vice Admiral Lord Hood, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's fhips and veffels in the Mediterranean, and of the declaration and proclamations published by the faid Vice-Admiral, as well as of the declaration made to him on the part of the inhabitants and people of Toulon, has thought fit for the further fatisfaction of the faid inhabitants and people, and for the full explanation of his royal intentions, to declare as follows: I. When monarchy fhall be reftored in France, and a treaty of peace concluded, ftipulating, in favour of his Majefty and his allies, the reftitution of all conquefts made by France during the war, and a juft indemnification for the loffes and expences thereby incurred, and a proper fecurity for the future, his Majefty will caufe the town, forts, and harbour of Toulon, together with the ships and ftores therein, to be restored, according to the engagement entered into by the faid Vice-Admiral. His Majefty has given directions that the most effectual meafures fhall be taken for the protection of the perfons and property of the inhabitants of the faid town, and for procuring them the fupplies of provisions and other articles of which they may stand in need; and his Majefty is alfo gracioufly pleafed to approve of continuing continuing all perfons who held civil or military employments in their refpective places and occupations, as far as circumstances and the good of the common caufe will permit. III. His Majefty will do every thing in his power, and in concert with his Allies, to repel any attacks which may be made against Toulon, and to extend his protection to all those who may be defirable to have recourfe to it, under certain conditions. IV. His Majefty fincerely wishes the happiness of France, but by no means defires, on this account, to prefcribe any particular form of government. The King claims the right of taking a part, only becaufe the anarchy which now defolates that country threatens the tranquillity of his own fubjects and that of the other Powers of Europe, whofe fafety and peace materially depend on the re-establishment of order in France, and of a regular fyftem, which may hold out to them a fecure ground of negotiation and friendship: and his Majefty does not hesitate to declare, that the re-eftablishment of monarchy, in the person of Louis XVII. and the lawful heirs of the crown, appears to him the best mode of accomplishing these just and falutary views. This form of government has not only prevailed in France from the earliest times, but, being capable of fuch limitations as may fuit the refpective circumftances of different nations, has been proved by experience to be the best adapted, in great countries, to unite the advantages of fecurity and order with real liberty. Such a fyftem, fubject to fuch modifications as may hereafter be made therein in a regular and legal manner, when tranquillity fhall have been reftored in France, would afford to his Majefty the best and most pleasing profpect of terminating the evils and miferies now endured by the French nation, and of the renewal of a regular and amicable intercourfe between that country and other States. It is to thefe great ends that his Majefty's measures will be directed; and his protection and affiftance will be extended, as far as circumstances will admit, to all thofe who manifest their defire to concur in fo falutary a work. (Signed) HOOD, The Manifefto or Public Declaration of the Court of Spain, explanatory of its Sentiments towards the French Nation, published in November 1793. HiCatholic Louis XVI. King of France, which he IS Catholic Majefty, penetrated with grief at the death of fuffered on the fcaffold, on the part of a number of his fubjects, the deteftation of mankind; feized with juft indignation on account of fo dreadful a crime; conftrained to defend himself against those felf-fame Frenchmen, who, ufurping themselves the royal authority, and tyrannizing over the rest of the fubjects, declared war against him, has found it neceffary to refolve upon it on his own part, and to overcome the natural and decided repugnance which he felt against a rupture. Notwithstanding the vigorous meafures which the King took in the beginning, and which he will continue to take as the dignity of his crown and the fafety of his dominions may require, his Majesty knew well, and fill knows it, that, while he expofed the life of fo great a portion of his faithful fubjects, and facrificed enormous fums to fupport that war, and to punish its authors, it would be impoffible to avoid the effects and the ills which would refult from it, for the auguft perfons of the Royal Family of France fhut up in prifons, and for a great number of good and worthy Frenchmen whom he fhould wish to fave, by reftoring them to the quiet enjoyment of their property and houses. The ties of confanguinity, a friendship uninterrupted for almost a whole century, the intimate connexions and correfpondence between two neighbouring powers closely united, are as many motives which will make his Majefty more and more fenfible at being compelled to make war upon France, in which he knows there exifts a number of families, towns, and even whole provinces, which abominate the deteftable principles of other Frenchmen. Unfortunately there has been a great deal of derangement of ideas among fome, as much fear among others, and as much anxiety refpecting the fate which awaited them. Violence forced a confiderable number of them to take up arms, to enforce, against their own will, the execution of the decrees of thofe very men whose government they detefted and abhorred. But the vigour and conftancy with which others found means to shake of the yoke of their oppreffors, and to defend themselves against their efforts, have evinced how juft and worthy it is of the magnanimous heart of the King, to ufe all poffible means, not only to fupport the French faithful to their Sovereign, but alfo alfo to bring back to reafon and reconciliation, all those which his Majesty only confiders as milled by the brilliant appearance of Liberty, which does not exist in fact, by hopes which, far from being realized, dig their grave, or by threats, and the conftant exertion of rigours which they are obliged to fuffer, and which beraves them of the courage of taking the part of justice, loyalty, and their own prefervation. His Majefly believes, that one of thofe means would be that of uniting together the whole found part of the French Nation in the fame manner as the city of Toulon has done, to establish from the present moment a form of government in favour of hereditary monarchy, referving, till the ceffation of the present troubles, the modifications which might be deemed convenient for its moft folid eftablishment. His Majefty is perfuaded, that this is likewife the meaning of his Britannic Majefty, his ally; and he does not doubt but the other powers who have taken up arms to make one common cause against France, will contribute towards the fame end, by receiving and protecting thofe Frenchmen who fhall be ready to profit by thefe beneficial difpofitions. The Catholic King, for his part, announces those dispositions to them from the prefent moment in the moft fincere manner, and promises to hear peaceably every idea which may conciliate itfelf with the dignity of his refolutions, wifhing as foon as poffible to fee the moment when, after the deftruction of that anarchy which caufes fo many ills to France, there may be in that kingdom a body or clafs of men whom he may confider as having fufficient power and authority to deliberate upon an object fo important to France herself. Then will His Majefty confider her as a power which has recalled into her bofom the principles of religion, morality, and civil intercourfe, which thofe who have vefted themselves with fupreme power contributed to banish with so much violence; then the civilized nations may treat with her and renew the bonds of friendship and commerce which fubfifted till now; and then the horrors of war having entirely vanished, Spain may afford to France all thofe good offices which become a good neighbour, a generous nation, and a king of the fame family. The |