fhould fave their guilty accom; complices, who had all departed at this very moment to the place where the legislative body had convoked the high court of juftice; they were then to have indulged themselves in all the horrors which they had conceived in devising the confpiracy of Baboeuf.

But the people, acquainted with their true interefts, thewed only their attachment to the republic, and the conftitution by which it is fecured. They deftroyed all the badges of defpotifm, which the moft perfidious cunning had diffeminated. They beftowed upon the monsters, who again wifhed to open the career of guilt, all the horror and contempt which they deferved. Confiding in a government with the real and fincere intention of which they are acquainted, all the citizens remained in the moft profound tranquillity.

Thanks to the wildom of the people, and to the courage and good conduct of the troops, to the indefatigable zeal of the magiftrates appointed to watch over the public fecurity, and to that of the brave republican generals, the tranquillity of Paris was preferved, and the defigns of anarchy fuppreffed. They all have a right to the public gratitude.

Let the enemies of France at length discover the inutility of their efforts to mislead the mafs of the people. Let its friends rally round the conftitution, which fecures at once our repofe and our liberty, and let them fecond the efforts of a government refolved to maintain it with equal firmness against the attempts of all parties. (Signed)

REVELLIERE LEPAUX, prefi. By order of the Directory,

LAGARDE, fecretary.

General Buonaparte to the Executive Directory.

Head Quarters at Modena, 26 Vendemiare, (Oct. 17). YOU will find fubjoined, citizens directors, the letter I have received from General Gentili. According to it, the Mediterranean is now free.

Corfica, restored to the republic, will afford refources for our marine, and even the means of recruiting our light infantry. The commiffioner Salicetti departs this night for Leghorn, to fail from thence to Corfica. General Gentili is to command provifionally the troops. I have provifionally authorized him to put in reqfiuition feveral columns, in order to enable the government commiffioner to occupy the fortreffes till the arrival of French troops.

I fhall fend thither an officer of artillery, and one of engineers, for organizing affairs. The expulfion of the English from the Mediterranean will have great influence on the fuccefs of our military operations in Italy.

A.

(Signed) BUONAPARte.

Leghorn, 24th Vendemiare, (Oct.15.) Gentili, General of Divifion, commanding the Expedition, to Ge neral Buonaparte.

Long live the republic!-our country is rendered free!

THE Viceroy having announced that he was going to evacuate Corfica, the commune at Baftia formed in confequence a committee, which fet at liberty all the republican prifoners, and has formed a deputation, which has arrived. with that of Corfica, and other cantons, to renew, in the name of all the citizens, the oath of fidelity to the republic. I only wait a favourable wind to put to fea, and

fecure

Gentili to the French Commiffioners. Leghorn, 24 Vendemiaire,(O. 15). THE plan long ago fettled by our compatriots to deliver Corfica from the tyranny of the English, the movements of the interior prepared by the republicans, the difpofitions taken here by the patriots for fupporting them, the debarkation already effected on the island of a great many of our fellow citizens, and the numbers preparing here to follow them, have ftruck terror into the hearts of the English. They were fenfible that they could not long maintain themselves in a country conquered by treafon Elliot is therefore evacuating Corfica, and re-embarking all the English troops.

At this moment, when we are about to put to fea, a numerous deputation of the communes of Baftia, and other places, have arrived, and to give to us this happy news, which we are defirous of communicating to you.

The town of Baftia, faithful to its vows and attachment to France, has formed a provifional committee, which has named a deputation to come and offer the oath of fidelity to the French republic. Baftia, and its forts, as well as St. Fiorenzo, are guarded by the citizens. We are affured that in three days there will be no more English in the country. Haften to give the

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Citizen reprefentatives,

THE British cabinet, for the purpofe of inducing the parliament to grant the neceflary fupplies for the enfuing campaign, has adopted two meafures the one has for its object to open the way for an immediate and direct negociation with the republic; and the other, to reftore the courfe of exchange between Holland and London, and to authorize the exportation of English merchandize to the ports of the United Provinces, and the country which it still affects to defcribe as Auftrian Flanders.

The Batavian government, fenfible of its real interefts, has already

feen the latter measure in its true

light. It has rejected the pretended favour, and by an energetic proclamation has taken the neceffary precautions to prevent the introduction of English merchandize, and to look upon those who fhall purchase or use them as enemies to their country, a circumftance which has fpread confternation over the English commerce and manufactories.

The executive directory, on its part, has published in the nine united departments, the 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6th articles of the 18th of the 2d year, and has roused, by particular orders, the attention of the officers of the customs in every part of the republic, who have already made many feizures and con

fifcations,

fifcations. But it is in vain that every effort is made to hinder the introduction of English merchandize, if no steps are taken to prevent their confumption in the interior of the republic.

The fourth article of the abovementioned law fpecified, that every perfon who introduced or fold fuch merchandize, fhould be deemed suspected perfons, and punished accordingly, pursuant to the decree of the 17th September. This law can no longer be in force; it is for your wildom, citizens representatives, to fubftitute fome others in its ftead.

In England, the public execute fevere juice on thofe who affect to prefer the produce of foreign to their own national manufactories. Can there be found in France, men, who are fo far the enemies of their own country, as to oppofe a meafure fo effentially neceffary to the industry and profperity of the nation, and which tends to leifen thofe refources we furnish

our enemies for prolonging the war they have excited against us ? You have ftill, citizens reprefentatives, legiflative acts to form against thofe, who, in defpite of the law, have, by their fpeculation of mercantile avidity, obtained flores of English merchandize. If you do not think it proper they fhould incur the penalty of confifcation, and the other punishments preferibed by the law, you may at leaft appoint a fhort period for their reexporting the goods, which they ought not to have introduced, and that under fuch penalties as you may dictate. Yes, citizens reprefentatives, the fafety of the republic, perhaps, depends on the rigour

and promptitude of the measures you fhall take on this occafion. Do you defire to re-animate your commerce, to relieve your manufactories, and to re-establish your trade? Would you deprive our enemies of their great refources for carrying on war againft us? Would you force the British government to treat fincerely for peace, and would you have it brought to a conclufion? One of the moft powerful means of promoting this great end of public profperity, would be to take the moft efficacious meafures for prohibiting, until the return of peace, the fale or confumption of English merchandize in every part of the republic.

The executive directory invites you to take this object into immediate confideration.

(Signed) REVELLIERE LEPEAUX, prefident.

LAGARDE, fec. general.

On the 26th of October, the Executive Direitory of the French Republic prefented a fecond Mejjuge upon the Subject to the Council of Five Hun

dred.

acted, to extend the fame prohibition of Holland.

The executive directory ought to enable you to obferve at the fame time, that the uncertainty refpecting the refolution you will deem proper to take on that fubject, ftops the progrefs of the happy effects, which had been produced by the fole propofition of seconding the measures taken by the Dutch, by reducing a pound fterling to 21 livres, 10 fous, which had been raised at that epoch to 24 livres, 5 fous, by the exchange. They ought finally to remark, that if the prohibition they requeft is not decreed foon, if the delays on that point, or the modifications which deftroy the main end of the principal object, fhould occafion the revocation of the measures taken by the Dutch, England will foon fee vanish the embarraffment fhe feels to procure the fupplies fhe ftands in need of, if the withes to profecute the war, and that the British commerce would even then feel a mighty intereft to fee it prolonged.

The determination which you are about to take, citizens reprefentative, will thus have a moft Ariking influence on the fuccefs of the negociations which occupy that government at this moment for the reftoration of peace. (Signed) REVELLIERE LEPEAUX, prefident.

LAGARDE, fec. general.

On the 2d of November, the Council of Five Hundred paffed the following Refolutions.

ART. I. All articles manufactured in England, or in English eltablishments, fhall continue to be

prohibited throughout the whole of the republic. From the date of the publication of this law, all perfons are forbidden to expose fuch articles to fale, or to give notice that they are to be fold.

II. No article, containing articles of English manufacture, shall, under any pretext, enter the ports of the republic.

III. The neceffity of putting into a port fhall not furnish a plea for any deviation from the preceding article, where the veffels exceeds ten tons in burden.

IV. With respect to veffels above ten tons, proved to have been forced into port, the captain, on the moment of his arrival, fhall produce to the commiffioners of the cuftoms an exact statement of the quantity, quality, and value of English merchandize according to the inventory; it fhall be depofited in a magazine with three keys; one to be kept by the cap. tain, the other by the commiffioners, and the third by the mu nicipal agent of the commune; and the fhip fhall not depart till the captain has proved that they have been all re-embarked exactly as they were delivered.

V. Articles of English manufac ture in veffels taken from the enemy, or fhipwrecked, or those which arife from confifcation, fhall be depofited in magazines till they are again exported.

VI.. Every person who fhall have occafion to vifit a magazine where Englith manufactures are depofited, fhall, within three days after the publication of the law, give in to the municipal adminiftration of the canton a detailed account of their quantity, quality, and value.

VII. Within the extent of three

leagues

leagues from the frontiers, by land or fea, the preceding declaration to be made to the nearest office of customs, and the goods depofited in magazines appointed for the purpose.

VIII. After the expiration of the period fixed to make the declaration, the officers of the cufloms, accompanied by a municipal adminiftrator, may vifit the houfes fufpected to contain or conceal articles fabricated in England. Vifits during the day may also be made by the proper officers, to difcover whether any articles prohibited by this decree are concealed in magazines; and if any fuch are found, the whole houfe of the owner of the magazine may be fearched.

IX. All military corps ftationed on the frontiers, and all public functionaries, are enjoined to ftop any article of English manufacture found on the territory of the republic.

X. Violations of this decree to be punished with arreft (the criminal to be brought before the tribunal of correctional police) and confifcation of the goods, veffels, carriages, horfes, and beafts of burden; and the delinquent, befides, to be condemned to pay not less than double the value of the object feized; and imprifonment for a period not lefs than five days, nor more than three months. In cafe of a repetition of the offence the fine to be double, and the imprisonment for the space of fix months.

XI. The value of the goods confifcated fhall be given as a reward to the feizers, or to thofe who have affifted in the arreft.

A fixth of the confifcation is granted as an indemnity to the VOL. XXXVIII.

municipal adminiftrators and commiflioners of the executive directory, in all cafes where their prefence is appointed by the law.

XII. Of English manufacture are confidered all goods, whether directly brought from England, or coming indirectly from other

countries.

1. All kinds of cloth and ftuffs of wool and cotton, or mixtures of thefe materials; tamboured 'nankeens, muilins, ftriped woollen and cotton cloths, and English tapestry.

2. All kinds of cotton or woollen caps, fimple or mixed.

3. Buttons of every kind. 4. All kinds of metal all wrought iron, cutlery, clock-work, fteel, copper, tin, white iron, polifhed or rough, pure or mixed.

5. Tanned leather, dreffed hides, or plain for carriages or boots, harnefs, and all fadlery wares.

6. Riband, hats, gauzes, known as English wares.

7. All kinds of fkins for gloves or breeches, and these articles in a manufactured state.

8. All kinds of glafs and cryftal, except vafes of glafs ufed in chymiftry, and glaffes for fpectacles and watches.

9. Refined fugars.

10. All kinds of pottery known by the name of pipe-clay.

XIII. The refined fugars com prehended in the preceding article actually in the interior, are not fubject to these declarations, and to be lodged in the magazines according to the preceding articles.

XIV. All the objects of foreign manufacture different from those pointed out in Article XII. of which the import is not prohibited by former laws, thall not be S

admitted