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admitted unless accompanied with certificates, that they are the produce of countries, at peace with France.

XV. Certificates fhall be delivered by the French confuls, or by the public offices; they fhall contain a formal atteftation that the articles have been manufactured in the faid country, and shall mention the name of the artist.

XVI. In addition to the penal ties above pronounced, the names, firnames, ages, profeffions, and places of abode of the violators of the law and of their agents, fhall by the fpecial interference of the minifter of the interior, be ftuck up in all public places, and inferted in the periodical papers, under the general title of brokers of England, destroyers of French induftry. For this purpose the commiffioners of the executive directory, with the tribunals of correctional police, - fhall be bound to fend to the minifter of the interior the names, firnames, ages, profeflions, and places of abode, of all thofe againft whom they fhall have pronounced fentence in conformity to the prefent law.

XVII. All the regulations of the former laws, contrary to the prefent, are repealed..

The above refolutions were afterwards fanctioned by the council

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fervice experiences the utmoft dif trefs. The pay of the troops remains unfettled; the defenders of the country fuffer all the horrors of nakedness; their courage is decreafed by the painful fenfe of their wants; the difguft arifing from them naturally occafions defertion; the hofpitals are in want of fuel, medicines, and all other neceffaries; the public alms and workhoufes experience the fame want, and for this reafon they reject the needy and infirm citizens, who ufually found an asylum in them. The creditors of the state, the contractors, who daily fupply the wants of the armies, with great difficulty obtain only a finall part of the fums due to them, and the diftrefs which they experience on this account deters others who might fupply thefe wants with more exactness, and on terms more advantageous for the republic. The public roads are impaffable, and the communications interrupted. The falaries of the public functionaries remain unpaid. From one end of the republic to the other, the judges and adminiftrators are reduced to the dreadful dilemma, either to expose themfelves and their families to the utmoft mifery, or difgracefully to fell themfelves to intriguers. The difaffected agitate every part of the republic; murder and affaffination are organized in many

Meffage of the Executive Directory to places, and the adminiftration of the Council of Five Hundred.

20 Frimaire, Dec. 10. THE multiplied wants of the republic call imperiously upon you to difplay and employ all her refources. You are not ignorant, that every branch of the public

police, without activity and without force from want of provifionary means, is unable to check these diforders.

It is in your power to make this afflictive picture disappear; you can diffufe new life through all the parts of the public adminiftra

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tion, and re-establish the focial harmony, the fprings of which are impeded, but not destroyed.

An important work, a fimple work, but which tends directly to the end which you will with to propofe to yourselves, has already been prefented to you on this fubject, and you have adopted it. Wife principles, equitable bafes, have been fubmitted to you for the eftablishment of contributions, and means fufficient to provide for the ordinary and extraordinary expences, which the confolidation of the republic and the happiness of the people require.

But until the laws which you are to lay down on those bafes are enacted, until the reimbursements are in activity, until by a certainty of receipts the neceffary order can be eftablished for giving an invariable application to every branch of the public revenue; waiting the happy inftant which is near, if you choofe, you ought by a provifional refource to fofter and re-animate all; you must reftore motion to the divers departments of adminiftration, which all hold together, and fecond each other, and which it becomes indifpenfable to extricate from the dangerous ftate of decline in which they are plunged.

(Here the directory points out the employments of the arrears due upon the laft fourth part of the national domains fold by the law of the 28th ventofe, as the means of obtaining that defirable end every purchafer of national domains, by virtue of the faid law, who has not paid the whole amount of his purchase, is to pay the fame in bills payable to order, and in ready fpecie, ten days after the pro

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mulgation of a law to be paffed for the purpofe, in his department; those fums are to be paid at the expiration of each term of payment ftipulated, unless the purchafer will come forward fooner with his payments, and thus benefit his capital by receiving intereft. The bills or fecurities are to be mortgaged upon the property bought by the purchafer, who, in cafe of default, is to suffer forfeiture; the eftate is, of courfe, to be put up to fale by auction. If any adminiftration neglects to enforce this payment, by putting up the eftate to fale, its members are to be perfonally refponfible. The bills thus iffued by the purchasers of national domains as aforefaid, are not to have any forcible circulation, but they are to pafs by confidence, at the refponfibility of the drawers and endorfers, for metallic fpecie, their actual and natural value being mortgaged and fecured upon the value of the eftates in payment of which they were iffued.)

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It is by fubmiffion to the law that you are to find your liberty fecured, the deftruction of faction accomplished, and the conclufion of your miferies.

Profit at length by the leffons of experience; let the fources of divifion among you, which have been the fpring of all your miferies, be dried up; and the fpirit of party, which has been ever the forge in which your fetters have been formed, give place to the bonds of fraternity? and, above all things, let what has paffed teach you not to give credit to men, unless when they speak the language of princiciple; and let him, who would hereafter fubftitute his will for law, be confidered as a traitor, and abandoned to the vengeance of free

men.

It was a boundless confidence repofed in one of your fellow-citizens, who was far from deferving it, that mifled you fo much as to caufe you to betray your deareft interefts, to detach yourfelf from your mother-country, not only at the moment when he was heftowing on you the estimable boon of liberty, but while fhe was lavishing her treafures for the increase of your induftry, for the formation of your havens, and for the cultivation of your fields. It was a blind obedience to the will of a mean, ambitious man, that led you to the commiffion of the most atroci ous crime that republicans could commit, that of fubmitting to a king.

Citizens, you have great crimes, for which you fhould make reparation. The ftigma with which you are branded can only be done away by a conduct fuch as to justify the generofity with which the French

republic has treated you, in reftoring you to the plenitude of your rights. May you make fuch ufe of this indulgence, as is worthy of men who with for freedom, without acquiring it by the horrors of anarchy! who are difposed to fubmit, without meannels, to the laws, and to acknowledge no other authority than that which may emanate from the republic.

The fatal error, of which during three years you have been the victins, thould inftruct you how far you ought to give credit to the profeffion of thofe who are the enemies of the republic. The English could not prevail on you to betray your duty but by a promife to preferve your liberty; and yet, while they loaded you with contempt, they plunged you in flavery. They were bound to have prevented crimes by the punishment of those who committed them; yet they encouraged every wickedness, by giving impunity to affaffins. They had worn to defend you againít the French, whofe juft indignation you had provoked; yet, when their intereit called them elsewhere, they abandoned you to the mercy of the republic, which you had mistrusted.

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What a contraft does the generous conduct of republicans form to that of their enemies! They return to you with the olive-branch of peace in their hands-they for get the injuries which they have fuffered-and if ever the recollection of them croffes their minds, it is only when they are anxious to caution you against new errors, by which new attempts may be made to feduce you from your duty. Let not thofe days of horror and of calamity pafs from before your

fight, in which the general council of the department lighted the torch of civil war, and reared the ftandard of rebellion in the foi-difant affembly of Corfica. If you had then been commanded by energetic patriots, they would, by enlightening the people, have neutralized the influence of the traitor, who, while, preaching liberty, fought only the means of enflaving you; and, if the administrators had then done their duty, they would have prevented thofe evils which have been the neceffary refult of this first act of rebellion, and you would not now have had occafion to blush at thofe disastrous events which have been the confequence of the errors into which by degrees you were mifled.

The conftitution infured to you not only the free exercife of your civil and political rights, but alfo that of religion, which has been fo ftrangely abused for the purpose of deceiving you. The English had become the friends, the protectors of the pope; thus men without probity, and without virtue, deplored the decay of religion, and the cry of impiety was raised by thofe whose days were numbered only by the crimes they had committed, and by the immoral actions which difgraced them.

Ye minifters of religion! the conftitution fecures to you the freedom of worship; the government refpects those who profefs the doctrines of the gofpel; and the confciences of citizens are a facred afylum into which the eye of its agents does not penetrate: but those who would preach difcord in the name of the God of peace; thofe who would abuse the facred ministry which they are called to fill and

who would corrupt public opinion by the poifon of fanaticifm; fuch are men to whom the rigour of republican laws extends its feverest punishments-a rigour enjoined both by policy and by respect for religion.

Ye numerous patriots, who during three years have groaned under the rod of those proud mafters to whom you were fold, while you fighed for the moment in which you might take up arms to vindicate your rights; and above all, ye who, to fecure the happiness of your country, have preferred exile to the flame of obeying a king; whofe generous devotion to the service of your country has overcome all obftacles, has endured all wants, and has braved all dangers-it is your's to give the firft example of civic virtue.

At the approach of the arms of the republic, thofe traitors, who had been moft guilty, disappeared; no longer would they tread the ground they had fought to difhonour, without finding death at hand; and fhould any be found to remain in the country, the law will fpeedily overtake them; but in others it behoves you to see miftaken brethren, who, returning to their right reafon, will merit by republican conduct your virtue and your esteem. Be united; forget your divifions, and unanimoufly fwear on the altar of your country, and by the manes of your companions in danger and in glory, who died in battle in defence of the republic, eternal hatred to royalty.

Given at Baftia, the 24th of Nov. 5th year of the republic, one and indivifible.

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Treaty of Peace, concluded between the King of Sardinia and the French republic.

THE French republic and his majefty the king of Sardinia, equally animated by the defire of making a happy peace fucceed to the war which divides them, have appointed, viz. the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of foreign affairs, and his majefty the king of Sardinia, M. M. the Chevaliers de Revel and de Tonfo, to negotiate the claufes and conditions proper for re-establishing and confolidating good harmony between the two ftates, who, after having exchanged their full and refpective powers, have agreed to the following articles:

I. There fhall be peace and good neighbourhood between the French republic and the king of Sardinia. All hoftilities fhall ceafe between the two powers, reckoning from the time of figning the prefent treaty.

II. The king of Sardinia revokes all adhesion, confent, or acceffion, public or fecret, given by him to the armed coalition against the French republic; and all the treaties of alliance, offenfive and defen. five, which he may have concluded against the said republic with any power whatfoever. He fhall not furnish any contingent in men or money to any powers armed against France, upon any pretence, or under any authority whatsoever.

III. The king of Sardinia fairly and entirely renounces for ever, for himfelf or his fucceffors, in favour of the French republic, all the rights which he can pretend to have to Savoy, and the counties of Nice, Tenda, and Breuil.

IV. The limits between the ftates of the king of Sardinia and the departments of the, French republic fhall be marked by a line through the moft advanced points of the frontier of Piedmont, the fummits, plateaux (flat tops of hills) mountains, and other places hereafter defcribed, as well as the intermediate fummits and plateaux, viz. from the point where the frontiers of ci-devant Francigny, Duchy of Aofte and Valais, unite to the extremity of the Glaciers, or MontsMaudits.

ift. The fummits or plateaux of the Alps at the rifing of t Col mayor.

2d. Little Saint Bernard, and the hofpital fituated there.

3d. The fummits or plateaux of Mont-Alban, of the Col-de Crefance, and of Mont-Iferan.

4th. Turning a little toward the fouth, the fummits or plate ur of Cerat and of Gros-Caval.

5th. Great Mont-Cenis, and the hofpital which stands to the foutheaft of the lake of that mountain.

6th. Little Mont-Cenis,

7th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Bardonach from the Val-des-Pres.

8th. Mont-Genevre.

9th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Quires from that of Vaudois.

10th. Mont-de-Vaudois. 11th. Mont-de-Vifo. 12th. Mont-de-l'Argenterie. 13th. The fource of the Abayette and the Sture.

14th. The mountains between the vallies of Sture and Geffo, on one part; and thofe of Saint Etienne or Tinea, of Saint Martin or Vezubia, of Tenda, or of Roya, on the other.

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