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treafonable purposes, have affaffinated divers of his Majefty's faithful and loyal fubjects, who have endeavoured, and threaten to affaffinate others who fhall endeavour, to detect or fupprefs their treafon; and in further profecution of their defigns, have endeavoured to deter his Majesty's loyal fubjects from enrolling themselves under officers commiffioned by his Majesty for the defence of this kingdom, during the prefent war, by maiming and deftroying their cattle, and by affaulting and wantonly wounding one perfon, avowedly because he had enrolled himself, and by threatening affaffination against all perfons who fhould fo enroll themselves; and in further profecution of fuch their purposes, have, by felonious and other illegal means, endeavoured fecretly to procure ammunition and other warlike ftores, and particularly, that feveral evil-difpofed perfons lately broke into one of his Majefty's ftores in the town of Belfaft, in the county of Antrim, and thereout took and carried away ten barrels of gunpowder.

And whereas we have alfo received information, that on Tuesday the 1ft of November inft. a confiderable number of armed men, affociated in the aforefaid treasonable confpiracies, entered the town of Stewartstown, in the county of Tyrone, and cut and maimed several of the peaceable inhabitants of the said town, who had refused to join in their affociations, and who had agreed to enroll themselves in the corps under officers to be commiffioned by his Majesty, for the prefervation of the public peace, and for the protection of the kingdom against foreign invasion.

And whereas we have alfo received information, that in further profecution of the faid treasonable purposes, many large bodies of men have affembled, and arrayed themselves, and marched in military order, and with military mufic, through feveral parts of the faid diftricts, under pretence of faving corn, and digging potatoes, (though they far exceeded the number neceffary to be employed in fuch fervice) to the very great terror of the loyal and faithful fubjects of his Majesty.

And whereas fuch treafonable outrages have caufed wellgrounded alarms in the minds of his Majesty's faithful subjects, and are of the most dangerous and pernicious tendency.

Now we, the Lord Lieutentant and Privy Council, being determined to maintain the public peace, and to afford protection to all his Majefly's loyal fubjects, and immediately and effectually to exercise all powers with which the conftitution has invested us for these purposes, do forewarn all perfons of the danger they may incur, and, on their allegiance, charge them to delift from fuch treasonable practices.

And we do hereby ftrictly charge and command all mayors, Theriffs, juftices of the peace, and other peace officers, and all officers civil and military in this kingdom, and all other his

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Majefty's loving fubjects, as they tender their allegiance to his Majefty, and their own fafety, to ufe their best endeavours to prevent, and where that cannot be done, to difcover and bring to juftice thofe concerned in the aforefaid practices; and to prevent and difperfe all treafonable, feditious, or unlawful affemblies; the neceffary orders having been already iffued to the feveral officers of his Majefty's forces in this kingdom, to be aiding and affifting to the civil magiftrates in the execution of their duties for that purpose.

Given at the council chamber in Dublin, the 6th day of November, 1796.

RECAPTURE OF CORSICA.

The Commiffioner of the Executive Power with the Army of Italy at the Alps to the Executive Directory.

Leghorn, Brumaire, (no date) 5th year.

CITIZENS DIRECTORS,

AS foon as the difpofitions which the English were making to

evacuate Corfica became known, General Gentili took the refolution to fend there the General of Brigade Cazatte, with the 28th divifion of the national Gend'armerie. He fet out on the 26th Vendemiaire, (October 17) in ftormy weather, and notwithstanding the very clofe cruize of the Englith near Leghorn, and on the coafts of Corfica, found means to throw himself into the island on the 27th Vendemiaire, (October 18,)

On the following day he was joined by a very confiderable number of native patriots, and with this force he rapidly marched against Baftia, where he arrived on the morning of the 29th, (Oct. 20.),

Mafter of the heights, and ftrongly fupported by the citizens of the town, he fummoned the English, who ftill occupied the fort, to furrender within an hour's delay. Their number confifted of three thoufand men. They had fome fhips in the road, which threatened to thunder upon the city, but the fear of having the paffage to the fea cut off, accelerated their flight. They rufhed in confufion on board their thips, when General Cazatte bore down upon them with the forces he had collected. He' fucceeded in taking between eight and nine hundred prifoners, among whom is almoft the whole regiment of Dillon, confifting of emigrants. He took from them a great part of their magazines, which they were not able to embark.

Master of Baftia, he marched the day after, with two pieces of cannon, against Fiorenzo, which the English likewife had poffeffion of then, They found the defiles of St. Germano

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guarded by the enemy, which, after a fmart refiftance, were forced, and in spite of the fire of two fhips directed upon the road which led to the city, the republicans fucceeded in feizing them, took part of the garrifon prifoners, and captured several mortars and pieces of cannon, which the enemy were not able to spike.

The fquadron, which is ftill in the gulph of St. Fiorenzo, retired out of the reach of cannon, and the viceroy, with troops whom he faved from Baftia, fought refuge at Porto Ferrajo.

The garrifon of Bonifacio were made prifoners by the Republicans.

I know that the chief of battalion, Bonelli, with a great number of patriots, marched against Ajaccio, but I have not as yet received the report of the events which may have taken place in that quarter.

General Gentilli, with all the Corfican refugees who still remained on the continent, failed laft night; and though the English have a great number of cruizers out to intercept our paffage, I hope he will be fo fortunate as to reach the place of his deftination.

I expect to fet out in three days for Baftia. As foon as I fhall have arrived, 1 fhall take care to give you a more circumftantial account of the fituation of the country, as well as of the measures I fhall deem it proper to adopt for the maintenance of good order.

It is certain, that the English are in want of provifions; that 'their fhips are not well manned, and that their whole army is in the most destitute condition.

Greeting and Fraternity!
(Signed)

Bulletin of the Army of Italy.

SALICETTI.

DEPUTIES from the department of Corfica have arrived at head quarters, and announce, that the patriots of that department, for a long time in a majority, after having driven away the English from the two departments, and particularly from that of -Seamore, have alfo rendered themselves mafters of Baftia and Ajaccio, which the English have evacuated.

The French General Cazatte, who had embarked at Leghorn, at the head of the gendarmerie of that department, and who had received orders from the general in chief to put himself at the head of the patriots, landed at Cape Corfica, and arrived at Baltia time enough to prevent the English from embarking their artillery..

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A warm firing took place at the embarkation of the English at Ajaccio, who, to revenge themfelves, fired cannon upon the

town.

The ifle of Caproga is again occupied by the Genoefe. General Gentili has alfo fent thither a French detachment to reinforce the garrifon.

General Maffena has made a reconnoitre in force upon the Peava, and has obliged the enemy to remove all their pofts beyond that river. He took fome huffars.

General Vaubois having perceived that the enemy had passed the Levis, proceeded with his infantry, diflodged the enemy from all their pofts, and forced them to repafs that river.

(Signed)

BERTHIER.

Extract of the Bulletin of the Army of Italy:

Head Quarters at Verona, Brumaire 23d, (Nov. 13.) fifth year.

THE general of divifion Gentili, commander for the Republic of Corfica, has made himself mafter, at the head of a column of light troops of that department, of the important height of La Mortela, which has obliged the English fleet to evacuate the gulph of St. Fiorenzo.

Three English fhips of war have been burnt in the harbour of Ajaccio.

(A true copy.) The general of divifion, chief of the general

ftaff.

(Signed)

ALEXANDER BERTHIER.

ENGLISH MERCHANDIZE.

Office of the Minifter of General Police.

The Minifter of the General Police of the Republic to the Commiffioners of the Executive Directory with the Central and Municipal Adminiftrations of the Departments of the Republic.

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Paris, 22 Brumaire, (Nov. 12,) 5th year. THE law of the 10th of Brumaire, which prohibits the importation of merchandize manufactured in England, or confined to the English trade, delivers, citizens, into the hands of the public functionaries charged with its execution a powerful weapon with which they may perfonally combat and force our foreign enemies to make a peace; if the fplendour of victory does not accompany their labours, they may at least fhare in the

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glory of the defenders of their country, and, like them, acquire the proud conviction of having contributed to confolidate liberty, and to lay the foundation of public happiness.

Such, citizens, are the ideas which ought to animate you in exercifing the fpecial functions which that law delegates to you; fuch are thofe you ought conftantly to prefent to the members of the administrations near which you are placed, so that the latter, eager themfelves to accomplish fo noble an object, may regulate their vigilance by that continual energy, and that unfhaken rigour, without which the will of the law cannot be fulfilled.

- Tell them, citizens, that even then, when they think they exercise a rigorous office over thofe unto whom they adminifter, they only exercise a paternal act; for it is not only in this inftance that the general interest exacts a facrifice from the private interest, but private intereft, well-guided and enlightened by wifdom, inpofes upon itfelf a momentary lofs, to fecure for the approaching regeneration of commerce, and its full developement, greater and lefs precarious refources of wealth and profperity.

Let the adminiftrations immediately charged with the interefts of the citizens, and, endowed with their confidence, render familiar all those truths which malevolence or error alone can conteft; let them roufe in every mind that patriotic pride which fcorns to be tributary, in any point, to an hoftile people; in fine, let them zealously profit by this extraordinary state of things, to emancipate entirely the national commerce from fuch a degrading flavery, which is lefs the refult of a real fuperiority on the part of our rivals than of daftardly indifference on our own parts. By thefe means they will difplay in our industry a falutary revolution, which our political change ought neceffarily to effect, but which depends on them to accelerate and to render complete; by fo doing they will also have fulfilled the principal object of adminiftrative police, by preventing tranfgreflions, because they will no longer have occafion to arraign before the tribunals any perfons but thofe in whom the voice of duty and that of interest hall not have been powerful enough to conquer a fentiment of enmity to their own country.

May thofe degraded Frenchmen engrofs all the vigilance of adminiftration, and its juft feverity! Without them, without their covetousness, it would have been fufficient to thut the channels of importation by a prohibition in general terms. But the legislative body forefaw, that there was no barrier, which the thirft after gain, and the defire of gratifying luxurious inclinations, which are the more violent in certain minds, because they militate against the laws and the welfare of the Republic, would not attempt to force. It is therefore neceffary, that thofe who may have eluded the vigilance of the cuftom-houfe officers, may not likewife efcape the eyes of thofe whom the law enjoins to watch,

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