to the National Assembly, on the their removal: there was but one 16th of January, 1792. A N extraordinary courier has been sent by M. Sainte-Croix, with the dispatches, which have been transmitted to him by the minister of the Elector of Treves. The King has ordered a communication of their principal contents to the National Assembly. M. Sainte-Croix has watched with the greatest attention over the efficacy of the dispositions, which had been made the subject of an ordipance for the dispersion of the meetings formed by the French emigrants. By this last dispatch he positively announces, that the dispersion is as real and as complete as the nation has desired and the King directed. The annihilation of every hope of receiving succours from the most considerable powers; the wisdom of the government of the Low Countries, and the more serious reflections of the Elector, are, according to M. Sainte-Croix, the causes which have accelerated the success of his negotiation. M. le Baron de Duminique, with whom he has had a long conference, has promised him to take measures still more severe and more extended than those which were announced by the first note of the Elector. He has announced to him the following arrangements:-All bodies of Frenchmen formed in the electorate, under whatever denomination, shall remove. Many of them are already removed; and at the moment of the departure of the courier, a void was perceivable in consequence of company regularly formed, which was named the body-guards. Many other small corps, for instance the company of French guards, composed of forty-six men, are dispersed. Uniforms have been proscribed by an order. Horses follow men; divisions of cavalry are departing every day: fourscore artillery horses departed on the same day with the courier; and, in consequence of an order of regency, carriages which were lodged in different places have been sent away, In a word, the emigrants are dispersed on all sides; they are all upon their route, by the most frightful roads, in spite of the snow, where scarcely twenty-five men can halt in one village for want of lodging. They march without any fixed destination, and receive no orders till they reach a considerable distance, It is probable that they will proceed to the country of Nassau and the neighhouring principalities; and many retern into France. He With respect to ammunition and arms, M. Duminique has assured M. Sainte-Croix that there remain none at the disposal of the emigrants, and that the Elector will cause the measures ordered by the Emperor to be exactly executed in his states. has farther assured him that the emigrants have no cannon, and that if they had any, they have been obliged to sell them. That all the contracts for furnishing them are broken; that the flour will be sold without delay, and that there will remain to them no magazines of any kind. This ordinance was communicated to the National Assembly on the 6th of January. The purport of it will appear sufficiently from the execution of it here related. There whom the states bordering on France cannot but consider as the friends of licentiousness, of disorder and of insurrection against the legitimate authorities. It is in this point of view that the governmentgeneral of the Low Countries has the honour to denounce to M. de la Graviere by the present official note, a seditious writing, entitled "The Discourse pronounced by S. J. F. Girard," &c. which has been profusely spread in print through the Belgic provinces. This writing, so contrary to the intentions manifested by the National Assembly and by the King, had been preceded by another piece, entitled There has also been transmitted "Friends of the Constitution," to M. Sainte-Croix a note touching the Cardinal de Rohan. The Emperor has caused the most lively remonstrances to be made to him by his vice-chancellor, stating, that he will not tolerate on his territories any hostile preparations; and that he forbids his subjects all enterprizes contrary to the laws of good neighbourhood, and which may give rise to an invasion on the part of the French. In fine, M. Dumninique has communicated to M. Sainte-Croix a note, by which the Emperor announces that he is ready to protect all the states of the empire, and, above all, such as have been injured; but forbidding, at the same time, that any one of them should disturb, by assemblings, or any act of their chief, the good harmony subsisting between the empire and France. Note from the Government General of the Netherlands to M. de la Graviere, Resident of France, at Brussels, dated January 15th, 1792. THE government-general of the Low Countries has already marked to M. de la Graviere the satisfaction which it received from the measures of reciprocity which the King has taken for preventing the assembling and arming of certain emigrants, calling themselves Brabanters, who have directed their inquietudes and sinister projects against their country, at Lisle, at Douay, and at Bethune and its environs, under the conduct of a Count de Bethune Charost, who does not take the trouble to conceal his foolish designs. The measures taken by the King are perverted by the societies calling themselves 66 Seraphin Joseph Girard, Elector of the Department of the North to his Fellow-Citizens," &c. The protection openly promised to the fac tious by the societies calling themselves constitutional, in France, emboldens them to that extreme, that they no longer observe measures in their conspiracies, or in publishing their projects of open plunder. The care which the governmentgeneral owes to the tranquillity of these provinces, requires that, in imparting these circumstances it should strongly insist that the execution of the dispositions ordered by the King and the French government, for securing the public repose, and preserving good neighbourhood on the frontiers, should answer without delay to the declarations made in that respect, and that those inquietudes be done away which create a necessity for measures of precaution. When proper means are employed on the part of France for dissipating the cause of such measures, it is to be hoped they will be found superfluous on our part. Extract Extract* fromthe Instructions of M. Delessart, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Paris, to M. Noailles, Ambassador from France to the Court of Vienna. I Paris, Jun. 21st, 1792. * HAVE already spoken to you concerning the official note which was transmitted to you by the Prince of Kaunitz on the 21st of December. I shall again speak to you concerning it. This unex pected declaration produced at first the greatest agitation, for it was conceived that the language of the court of Vienna conveyed a degree of menace in its tone. In order to justify this opinion, it will be necessary to enter into some details. It was in the month of November that you acquainted the Austrian minister with the formal invitation which the King had just renewed to the Elector of Treves, for the purpose of procuring a dispersion of those bodies which were collected in his dominions; and at the same time you demanded, in the name of the King, "the interposition of the good offices and authority of the Emperor, to induce the Elector to comply with this act of Justice." These bodies, the hostile preparations, the collection of military corps, were incontestibly notorious to every one. The measures of the emigrants to excite every where enemies against France, were not less notorious. The court of Vienna, more than any other court, perhaps, was furnished with proof. Neverthe less, instead of attempting to induce the Elector of Treves to put a period to this cause of fermentation and inquietude, the court of Vienna appeared indifferent to all these movements, and thereby added to them a greater degree of power and importance. It was impossible for the nation to view with the same indifference the aggression with which it was menaced. The National Assembly addressed itself to the King, disclosing to him a wish that had manifested itself in all parts of the kingdom, for the purpose of inviting him to take the necessary precautions which the safety of the state required. It was then that the Elector of Treves, terrified by this measure, requested the protection of the Emperor; and that, without any communication, or any preparatory elucidations, the Prince of Kaunitz declared to you, "that the Empe ror had given orders to the Marshal Bender to march to the assistance of the Elector of Treves, if he should be attacked." It is true, that this order appeared to relate to some violence and incursions committed by the municipalities, in disobedience of the intentions of the nation and of the King; but allowing even this supposition, acts of this nature should never have been considered but as private operations, against which the Elector might easily have defended himself by means of his own power, which were susceptible of an amicable arrangement, and which certainly did not require any movement on the part of Marshal Bender to repress them. We are not ignorant, in truth, that at the very time when the Emperor gave this order, he sent word to the Elector of Treves "to follow a fixed rule with respect * This paper is so called by the National Assembly, and is all that was published. ta There has also been transmitted "Friends of the Constitution," to M. Sainte-Croix a note touching the Cardinal de Rohan. The Emperor has caused the most lively remonstrances to be made to him by his vice-chancellor, stating, that he will not tolerate on his territories any hostile preparations; and that he forbids his subjects all enterprizes contrary to the laws of good neighbourhood, and which may give rise to an invasion on the part of the French. In fine, M. Dumninique has communicated to M. Sainte-Croix a note, by which the Emperor announces that he is ready to protect all the states of the empire, and, above all, such as have been injured; but forbidding, at the same time, that any one of them should disturb, by assemblings, or any act of their chief, the good harmony subsisting between the empire and France. Note from the Government General of the Netherlands to M. de la Graviere, Resident of France, at Brussels, dated January 15th, 1792. THE government-general of the Low Countries has already marked to M. de la Graviere the satisfaction which it received from the measures of reciprocity which the King has taken for preventing the assembling and arming of certain emigrants, calling themselves Brabanters, who have directed their inquietudes and sinister projects against their country, at Lisle, at Douay, and at Bethune and its environs, under the conduct of a Count de Bethune Charost, who does not take the trouble to conceal his foolish designs. The measures taken by the King are perverted by the societies calling themselves whom the states bordering on France cannot but consider as the friends of licentiousness, of disorder and of insurrection against the legitimate authorities. It is in this point of view that the governmentgeneral of the Low Countries has the honour to denounce to M. de la Graviere by the present official note, a seditious writing, entitled "The Discourse pronounced by S. J. F. Girard," &c. which has been profusely spread in print through the Belgic provinces. This writing, so contrary to the intentions manifested by the National Assembly and by the King, had been preceded by another piece, entitled "Seraphin Joseph Girard, Elector of the Department of the North to his Fellow-Citizens," &c. The protection openly promised to the factious by the societies calling themselves constitutional, in France, emboldens them to that extreme, that they no longer observe measures in their conspiracies, or in publishing their projects of open plunder. The care which the governmentgeneral owes to the tranquillity of these provinces, requires that, in imparting these circumstances it should strongly insist that the execution of the dispositions ordered by the King and the French government, for securing the public repose, and preserving good neighbourhood on the frontiers, should answer without delay to the declarations made in that respect, and that those inquietudes be done away which create a necessity for measures of precaution. When proper means are employed on the part of France for dissipating the cause of such measures, it is to be hoped they will be found superfluous on our part. Extract Extract fromthe Instructions of M. Delessart, Minister for Foreign Affairs at Paris, to M. Noailles, Ambassador from France to the Court of Vienna. I HAVE already spoken to you concerning the official note which was transmitted to you by the Prince of Kaunitz on the 21st of December. I shall again speak to you concerning it. This unex pected declaration produced at first the greatest agitation, for it was conceived that the language of the court of Vienna conveyed a degree of menace in its tone. In order to justify this opinion, it will be necessary to enter into some details. It was in the month of November that you acquainted the Austrian minister with the formal invitation which the King had just renewed to the Elector of Treves, for the purpose of procuring a dispersion of those bodies which were collected in his dominions; and at the same time you demanded, in the name of the King," the interposition of the good offices and authority of the Emperor, to induce the Elector to comply with this act of Justice." These bodies, the hostile preparations, the collection of military corps, were incontestibly notorious to every one. The measures of the emigrants to excite every where enemies against France, were not less notorious. The court of Vienna, more than any other court, perhaps, was furnished with proof. Nevertheless, instead of attempting to induce the Elector of Treves to put a period to this cause of fermentation and inquietude, the court of Vienna appeared indifferent to all these movements, and thereby added to them a greater degree of power and importance. It was impossible for the nation to view with the same indifference the aggression with which it was menaced. The National Assembly addressed itself to the King, disclosing to him a wish that had manifested itself in all parts of the kingdom, for the purpose of inviting him to take the necessary precautions which the safety of the state required. It was then that the Elector of Treves, terrified by this measure, requested the protection of the Emperor; and that, without any communication, or any preparatory elucidations, the Prince of Kaunitz declared to you, "that the Emperor had given orders to the Marshal Bender to march to the assistance of the Elector of Treves, if he should be attacked." It is true, that this order appeared to relate to some violence and incursions committed by the municipalities, in disobedience of the intentions of the nation and of the King; but allowing even this supposition, acts of this nature should never have been considered but as private operations, against which the Elector might easily have defended himself by means of his own power, which were susceptible of an amicable arrangement, and which certainly did not require any movement on the part of Marshal Bender to repress them. We are not ignorant, in truth, that at the very time when the Emperor gave this order, he sent word to the Elector of Treves "to follow a fixed rule with respect * This paper is so called by the National Assembly, and is all that was published. to |