via, which was the chief feat of the rebellion. When we had reached Binafco, the general of brigade, Lafne, who commanded the advanced guard, perceived an affemblage of about feven or eight hundred armed men. He attacked the rebels; more than one hundred of them were killed, and the reft put to flight. The foldiers, juftly irritated, fet fire to the village.

Next day we continued our march to Pavia. We found the gates fhut, and the inhabitants armed. We learned, that the French garrifon had been made prifoners of war.

General Buonaparte fummoned the rebels, and upon their refufal to furrender, he attacked the town. It was cannonaded during fome time; the grenadiers afterwards forced the gates with hatchets. The rebels were killed or difperfed. The town may be faid, on account of the refiftance which it made, to have been taken by affault. The garrifon was delivered.

I have removed the municipality, and replaced them. I have arrested a number of the rebels and fufpected perfons who participated in the revolt. Some of the ring-leaders, after being tried by a military commiffion, and found guilty, were fhot. Tranquillity is completely re-established. The contributions are received with activity.

fued by the Municipality of Milan, for abolishing the Nobility.

Art. I. THE order of nobility is abolished for ever.

JI. No one fhall bear any title of nobility, but shall be defigned by the appellation of citizen, adding thereto the name of his employment or profeffion.

III. All the nobles fhall, within the space of eight days, bring their patents of nobility to the commune, where they fhall be burnt.

IV. Every feudal authority, and all game laws, are henceforth abolished.

V. All armorial bearings, liveries, and every diftinction of nobility, fhall likewife be fuppreffed within eight days.

VI. Every corporation which exacts a proof of nobility as a qualification is abolished.

VII. Those who fhall contravene the prefent proclamation, will be regarded as convicted of ariftocracy, and as enemies to the people.

June 12.

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Milan,

Milan, June 13.

THE Commiffioner Pierot has published a decree, that every debtor to the government of Lombardy, or the Archduke, as well as every depofitory of fums belonging to the emigrants, fhall lodge thefe fums in the common bank of the Republic.

General Epinoy, commander in Lombardy, has ordered a general inventory to be made of all the effects in gold and filver belonging to the churches.

Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy, to the Inhabitants of Tyrol.

Head-Quarters at Tortona, 26 Prairial, (June 14,) 4th Year.

BRAVE Tyrolians, I am about to pafs through your territory,

to force the court of Vienna to a peace, as neceffary to Europe, as it is to the fubjects of the Emperor. The caufe I am about to defend is your own. You have been long vexed and fatigued by the horrors of a war, undertaken not for the intereft of the people of Germany, but for that of a single family.

The French army refpects and loves all nations, more efpecially the fimple and virtuous inhabitants of the mountains. Your religion, your customs will be every where refpected. Our troops will maintain a fevere difcipline; and nothing will be taken in the country without being paid for in money.

You will receive us with hofpitality, and we will treat you with fraternity and friendship.

But fhould there be any fo little acquainted with their true interefts as to take up arms, and treat us as enemies, we will be as terrible as the fire from heaven: we will burn the houses, and lay waste the territories of the villages which fhall take a part in a war which is foreign to them.

Do not fuffer yourselves to be led into an error by the agents of Auftria. Secure your country, already haraffed by five years of war, from new miferies. In a little time the court of Vienna, forced to a peace, will reftore to the nations their privileges which it has ufurped, and to Europe the tranquillity it has dif

turbed.

Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy.

Head Quarters at Tortona,

26th Prairial, (June 14) 4th Year.

THE inhabitants of the Imperial fiefs, at the inftigation of feveral of their lords, and of the Emperor's agents at Genoa, have violated the oath of obedience they had taken to the French Republic: they have affaffinated feveral French detachments, and have befieged at Arquata the republican troops ftationed there. There are no crimes of which they have not been guilty; no horrors which they have not committed. They were enough to flat, ter themselves with impunity; they thought the army at a dif tance; they did not know that the bands of the army of Italy are in every place where there are enemies. Their inftigators do not yet know that there is no refuge which can fhelter them from the rage of Frenchmen: let them learn by the terrible fpectacle of Arquata, the fate which awaits them, unlefs they change their conduct, and profit by the door which national clemency still leaves open to repentance.

In confequence, the commander in chief orders :

Art. I. Each of the communes of the Imperial fiefs in Italy fhall immediately fend three deputies to the head-quarters at Tortona, with the procefs-verbaux of the taking of the oath of obedience to the French Republic, and of the arms they have in their

communes.

II. Each of the communes fhall fend two hoftages, as a pledge of their fidelity.

III. All the lords poffeffing Imperial fiefs fhall repair in perfon to Tortona, there to take the oath of obedience to the Republic. If within five days after the promulgation of the prefent or der they fhall have neglected to do fo, their property will be confifcated.

IV. Within twenty-four hours after the promulgation of the prefent order, the communes fhall carry to the military agents at Tortona the amount of the military contribution, which fhall be augmented one-tenth for each day's delay of payment.

V. Thofe who, forty-eight hours after the publication of the prefent order, fhall be found with arms or ammunition, fhall be fhot.

VI. All the bells which have been employed to found the tocfin fhall be taken down from the fteeples, and broken, within twenty-four hours of the receipt of the prefent order. The inhabitants who fhall neglect to do this, fhall be confidered as rebels, VOL. V.

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and their villages fhall be burned. The municipal officers and rectors fhall be refponfible for the execution of this article.

(Signed)

BUONAPARTE,

(A true copy.)

The commander of the ftaff.
A. BERTHEIR.

Proclamation of the Military Commiffion of the Province of Mondovi, to the Inhabitants of the Province.

THE French army which is victorioufly overunning Piedmont and the Milanefe, has been no lefs zealous to foften the evils infeparable from war, than to give peace to Europe, The nation of which it is a part, is the friend of the arts, the fciences, and commerce, and charges it to cherish in its paffage every thing which has elevated fo highly the glory of the French name. Honoured with the confidence of both the army and the nation, we invite you, in their name, to refume with fecurity the operations of agriculture, manufactures, and commercial fpeculations.

The entrance of conquerors who have, for a long time, fuffered hardships of every kind, must be accompanied with extraordinary events; but the first movements are paffed, never to return. The difcipline of the army augments in proportion to its victories; and they must be confidered as the enemies of general and individual peace, who would infpire you with fentiments of distrust or fear with respect to the republicans, who are as zealous as yourfelves for your profperity. The feafon is arrived, in which the people of Piedmont annually devote themselves to the breeding of their wonderful infects, whofe fine and brilliant produce bears the fame of the filks of Piedmont through every country, where the arts and a refined tafte have multiplied human enjoyments. Virtuous inhabitants of the cities and fields, occupy yourselves peaceably in that attention which you are pleased to give to the filk-worm.

The republicans who are among you, in admiring your induftry, will protect your labours; and they will rejoice to fee in your productions, the reparation which the fpindle will make for the fword. Let every branch of culture and commerce refume its accuftomed activity. While the French army goes in purfuit of their enemies, fecond the operations of nature, as victory seconds thofe of the Republic. Heaven, which so constantly favours us, will pour its beneficence on the agriculturift and the artizans, at the fame time with the warrior. The French, in re-entering their country, will fay, we have left Piedmont flourishing; and you, in the enjoyment of domestic tranquillity, will fay to yourselves,

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the French have encouraged our arts, given activity to our com. merce, and augmented our happiness.

The municipalities and military agents will caufe this addrefs to be posted up.

Turin, June 20.

(Signed)

BERHEGEIN.

Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy, to the Muni. cipalities of Pavia and Milan.

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DESIRE, Gentlemen, that the university of Pavia, celebrated by fo many titles, fhould refume the courfe of its ftudies. Acquaint the learned profeffors and the numerous fcholars of that univerfity, that I invite them to repair forthwith to Pavia, to propose to me fuch measures as they think proper to be taken to increafe the activity, and give a more brilliant exiftence to that renowned univerfity. BUONAPARTE.

(Signed)

June 20.

Milan, 14th Prairial, (2 June.) Fourth Year of the French Republic, one and indivifible.

Arret of the Commiffary of the Government with the Armies of the Alps and Italy.

CONSIDERING that in conquered countries the laws of war, which impofe on the victorious army the arduous task of providing for the fafety of the conquered, at the fame time authorife the measures they may adopt to avoid danger:

Confidering, at the fame time, that these measures are so much the more legitimate, in confequence of their being rendered neceffary by the conduct of certain difaffected perfons, who correfpond with the Auftrian enemy blockaded up and befieged in the caftle of Milan:

Confidering that every affembly ought to be fufpended when the general fafety requires it,

Decrees, That the commandant of the place fhall take care that this fociety fhall be inftantly diffolved; and that he shall take away the keys of the place in which the fittings are held, and fhall make ufe of a fufficient armed force to prevent their being again convened.