blockade fhall ceafe; their effects, 2. All the inhabitants of the conquered Belgic provinces, under the fpecial protection of the French republic, are charged not to favour, directly or indirectly, the arms of the combined powers. 3. All thofe who fhall be convicted of correspondence with the enemy, either by act, confpiracy, or difcourfes, to the injury of the French people, fhall be given up to the revolutionary tribunal of France, and dealt with according to law. 4. Every individual, now domiciliated in the conquered countries, who has quitted France in confequence of the laws of the republic, is ordered to depart in twenty-four hours, under pain of being treated as a French emigrant. 5. The military commanders are enjoined to take rigorous meafures for the prefervation of order and tranquillity in the conquered places, and to prevent any violence to the fafety or property of the inhabitants, under any pretext whatfoever. The freedom of worship must be refpect ed. 6. The magiftrates of the conquered towns and cominunes are enjoined, on their refponfibility, to comply with the requifitions made by the commiffaries of war, for the fervice of the republic, within the time prefcribed. In cafe of difobedience, they will be treated as enemies to the republic. 7. All magiftrates that shall be found favouring, or exciting, by their private or public conduct, or by difcourfes against the French revolution, any commotions against the republic, fhall be given up to the revolutionary tribunals, and confidered as enemies to the French people. places fhall be administered by the 8. The police of the conquered military commandants, till it fhall be otherwife ordained; they must ufe the moft active vigilance to dif cover the plots, and to prevent the lic; they must be careful to predefigns of the enemies of the repubvent any public or private affembling of the inhabitants, and shall employ the military force to difperfe them. 9. The inhabitants of the conarms into the hands of the military quered countries fhall refign their commandants within the fpace of twenty-four hours after the publication of the prefent arret. Those convicted of fecreting them, fhall be given up to the military commission, and punished with death. all the public banks, and in all 10. Affignats fhall be received at commercial transactions: those who fhall refufe, deny, or forge, and those who fhall circulate falle ones, are to be given up to the criminal tribunal of the department of Pas de Calais, and punished conformathat head. bly to the laws of the republic upon from raifing the price of merchan- established in the conquered coun- Na 13. The 13. The foldiers of the republic fhall obferve the ftricteft difcipline in the conquered countries, and refute by their conduct the calumnies of their enemies. The commanders of corps and the generals fhall caufe to be given up all thofe who commit diforders, the effect of which would be to favour the defigns of the enemy. Done at Lifle, 4th Meflidor, (22d army of the north decrees, as follows: 1. The perfons and property of the inhabitants of the conquered countries, are put under the immediate protection of the French foldiers. 2. Every individual belonging to the army who fhall be found a quarter of a league from the pofts, camps, or cantonments occupied by the French troops, and who cannot juftify his conduct by the fanction or leave of abfence from his officers, fhall be confidered as a plunderer, and punished with death. 3. All the generals, captains, and fubordinate officers, are made refponfible for the rigid execution of Decree of the convention, on the 5th of this decree. 4. The French foldiers are required, in the name of their coun try, to denounce to their chiefs all thofe who may be found aiding, by excefles or acts of depredation, the caufe of the enemies of liberty, or by violating the principles upon which the French republic has been inftituted. read at the head of every corps, and 5. The prefent decree fhall be their officers fhall notify the fame to their generals by a certificate from their adminiftrative council. It fhall, befides, be printed, ftuck up, and publicly read three times every decade, until otherwise ordered. (Signed) RICHARD. And fealed with the feal of the representative of the French people. Certified according to the original, SOUHAM, The general of the divifion. Proclamation Proclamation, published in French and Flemish, relative to the circulation of affignats.-Liberty, equality. ΤΗ HE reprefentatives of the French people, fent to the armies of the North, the Sambre, and the Meufe, hereby decree: 1. That the aflignats of the French republic fhall be circulated in Bruffels and other conquered countries in the fame manner as metal money. 2. All the inhabitants, whether merchants or others, are hereby prohibited from fixing two prices for their commodities, and from refufing or difcrediting affignats, under the penalty of being regarded as the enemies of the republic, and fent to take their trials before the revolutionary tribunals of France. L. B. GUITTON, RICHARD. 23d Meidor, 11th July, 2d year of the republic, one and indivifible. Department of Guadaloupe.Liberty, equality. Addrefs to the republicans of the fea and land forces of the republic, now at Guadaloupe, from the commiffioner deputed by the national con vention to the windward ifles. Citizens, THE Romans, reduced to their capitol, emerged to liberty more terrible than before. Free men find refources in the most pref fing extremities. See, brave fans culottes and intrepid marines, what has been your fituation! few in number, and without generals, you have vanquished armies: you were referved to exhibit to the universe a fpectacle the moft aftonishing. Enjoy your triumph with exultation, even your enemies admire your virtue and your courage. ******, Pitt, and their flaves, had fent, at a vast expence, land and fea forces to effect the conquest of the French poffeffions, an enterprize of no difficulty, because they then contained none but mafters and their flaves. One republican battalion, two frigates, three tranfports, (a contraft how ftriking!) have de feated the favage Jervis, with fix fhips, twelve frigates, and eight fmall floops of war; and the hypocrite Grey, with twelve battalions and his horde of ariftocrats: you have made them bite the duft; great numbers have fallen into our power, while, during a combat of forty days, not a fingle republican has been made a prifoner. Your refolution in remaining at your poft, notwithstanding the fire of the enemy, in fpite of the bombs and red-hot balls which they incclfantly difcharged upon us for thirty days; your exemplary conduct has even excited their admiration; not a complaint has been raifed against you; you have refpected property, though you were in a country conquered and taken by aflault, and though immenfe wealth has been expofed to your view. You have thrown no perfon into mourning; you have caufed no tears to flow; no mother has demanded of you her flaughtered fon; no wife her butchered husband; no children their murdered father. But, can our barbarous enemies fay thus much? You have heard the cries of the wretched, from whom they have, by cruel maffacres, torn fathers, hulbands, and children, N 3 You You have treated your vanquished foes with generofity, even while the ferocious English generals have caufed your wounded brethren to be affaffinated on the field of battle, you have covered yourfelves with glory. Humanity fhall gratefully acknowledge, and tranfmit your names and actions to pofterity; your enemies have overwhelmed themfelves in infamy, and fhall remain an object of horror to future generations; fuch is the enthufiafm of liberty, which counts not her enemies, and which triumphs over numbers. Yes, citizens, fortune fmiles propitious on the daring, and victory rewards courage. Republicans, let the grandeur of thefe ideas inflame your valour ; they who have fought for liberty, "have ever been fuccefsful." Call to your recollection the Swifs and the Americans. Citizen colonists, who, ever firm in your principles, have been able to refift the perfidious infinuations of our enemies; and you, citizens of colour, who, enjoying the advantages of the French nation, have fhared our fucceffes, in combating for your liberty, imitate your bre, thren the fans culottes; they will always fhew you the road to victory, and confolidate with you your liberty, and that of your children. Republicans, the commiffioner feizes this opportunity to declare, in the name of the national convention, that you have deferved well of your country; and invites you to perfevere in the fentiments which have animated you to the prefent moment. For himfelf, he will continue to merit your efleem, by exhibiting to you an example of civifm and courage. At Port de la Liberté, ifland of Guadaloupe, heretofore Point miffion, and figned by the com- French proclamation to the army of the western Pyrenees and the Spaniards of the frontier, published in the end of July, 1794. Brave foldiers, HE moment of victory has at length arrived, which proves that this army is the worthy fifter of thofe of the north and fouth. That, by their example, you will alto avenge your country, overturn the defpots, and facrifice their fatellites; that, like them, after purify ing the land of liberty, fullied by the prefence of flaves, you will bear the triumphant arms of the republic into the territory of the enemy, and there difplay the tri-coloured ftandIn penetrating ard of freedom. into the enemy's territory, brave your foldiers, we need not fiimulate courage you are always eager to combat and to conquer; but we recommend to your confideration what the French people have proclaimed every where-war to the palace-peace to the cottage-war against tyrants and their fatellitespeace to the peaceable citizen-to the humble flied of the indigentto the abode of the useful labourer, and induftrious artifan. This conduct, as it arifes from our feelings, is alfo dictated by our intereft. The The Spanish territory, upon which we now enter, muft become part of the French republic. Let, therefore, devastation, pillage, and incendiary be far from us-let the fearful inhabitant behold his afylum refpected, and learn, at length, to efteem a people, the avengers of the violated rights of human nature, whom kings and priefts have reprefented to them as a people of Anthropophagi. And you, inhabitants of the Spanish fields and towns, feful labourers, induftrious artifans, fly not the republican legions.— Throw yourselves into our arms, without weapons, without defence, and you will find in them protection and fafety for yourfelves, your families, and your property. The French foldier has fworn to exterminate the men armed for tyrants; but the fword, fo dreadful to fuch, will refpect always him, who defenceless, fhall implore his affiftance and his clemency. He will equally refpect opinions, manners, cuftoms, and ufages. Remain, therefore, in your peaceful dwellings, cultivate your fields, gather in your harvefts, work at your occupations, and liberty, growing in the midst of Toon make you feel the immenfe you, will diftance between the avengers of the rights of men, and the flavos who move within the verge of defpotifm. The French foldier would conquer you to freedom, not by the terror of his arms, but by gaining your hearts and illuminating your minds. (Signed) PINET, the elder, GARRAU,CAVAIONAC, Equality, liberty, fraternity, or death! The general-verifier of affignats to his fellow-citizens. Republicans, Tvolution do not ceafe to attack nal methods. The coalefced defpots the war which they wage against Crimes coft nothing to tyrants in rights of man. a people who combats for the facred Thefe royal robbers (brigands) have eftablished fabrica tions of falle affignats; and in this emulation of turpitude, the English government fhews itfelf zealous of occupying the first rank. The proof of it refults from the most exact information, which has been taken on account of this falle paper, of which Liege, Flanders, Holland, and Germany, are like fo many magazines, poifon on the territories of the redefined at length to vomit the public. been baffled. Long fince, measures But their criminal attempts have with fuccefs; and ftill farther to exterminate the falfe affignats among us, the following ordinance is to be publifhed, and attended to, in all the conquered countries, as well as in France; and that no perfon may pretend ignorance thereof, it is to be publified in the two languages, and fiuck up confpicuously as ufual. (Signed) DEPEREZ. The general-verifier of affignats. have been taken which are crowned |