to unite in a body to effect the annihilation of the factious in their dens, the Marfeillefe, who wish to terminate the revolution they be gun, and to propagate the example they gave, invite to them all citizens defirous of meriting well of mankind. They adopt this mode only on account of the urgency of the cafe, and fubmitting their measures to the examination and approbation of all the members of the fovereignty, and without pretending to fet bounds to the zeal of the generous defenders of their country, who with fpontaneously to reinforce the phalanx of liberty, they hope it will increafe in its paffage, and will be joined by all citizens defirous of doing good. That in the colours of this army the foldiers of their country will read the completion of every good law; the republic one and indivifible; refpect to perfons and property confoling words already engraven in their hearts. That we appeal to God and to our arms, on account of the crimes committed against the intregity of the national reprefentation; the infults offered to the individual liberty of our extraordinary deputies; the liberticide plots from which a miracle of Providence has faved us, and the accomplices of which, charged with executing the horrid deed within our walls, Marieilles is now profecuting. A popular tribunal, to which it owes its peaceful and awful exiftence, is trying the confpirators, notwithstanding the obftacles which have been thrown in the way. Invested with the confidence of the people, and defended by it, the molt imperious of laws, thofe of the pre fent circumftances, determine its activity, and the people of Marfeilles, inftead of being refractory to the law, by employing the sword of it to ftrike the guilty, difcharge the principal of focial duties, which is, the fpeedieft diftribution of juftice. Thus the city of Marseilles joins in the motives drawn from the common fafety of the republic, which legalizes its determination, a reprefentation of the peculiar grievances which afflict it, and the neceffity it is under of filencing its calumniators, who, defpairing of being able to kindle among us the torch of difcord, dare to prefent it to the national convention as the light of truth. Republicans, the fignal has been given the moments are precious, and decifive measures are neceffary. Let us march-let the law enter Paris along with us; and if you are not acquainted with the roads to it, follow the traces of the blood of your brethren; they will conduct you to the bottom of its walls, from which have proceeded those murderous fcourges, the fanguinary plots and deftructive manœuvres, the fources of all our misery. There you will restore liberty to good citizens, and dignity to the national reprefentation. The vilJains will difappear, and the republic will be faved. Deliberated in the general committee of the thirty-two fections of Marseilles, June 12, 1793, the fecond year of the French republic. (Signed) PELOUX, President. CASTELLANET,} Secretaries. PINATEL, Pre Preliminary Declaration by Admiral Lord Hood to the Inhabitants of Toulon. IF a candid and explicit declaration in favour of monarchy is made at Toulon and Marfeilles, and the standard of royalty hoifted, the ships in the harbour difmantled, and the port and forts provifionally at my difpofition, fo as to allow of the egrefs and regress with safety, the people of Provence fhall have all the affiftance and fupport his Britannic majefty's fleet under my command can give; and not an atom of private property of any individual thall be touched, but protected; having no other view than that of restoring peace to a great nation upon juft, liberal, and honourable, terms; this must be the ground-work of the treaty. And whenever peace takes place, which I hope and truft will be foon, the port, with all the hips in the harbour, and forts of Toulon, fhall be reftored to France, with the ftores of every kind, agreeable to the schedule that may be delivered. Given on-board his Britannic majefty's fhip Victory, off Toulon, the 23d of Auguft, 1793. pled under foot the laws, affaffinated the virtuous, and authorised the commiffion of crimes, they have endeavoured to propagate throughout Europe their deftructive fyftem of every focial order. They have conftantly held forth to you the idea of liberty, while they have been robbing you of it. Every where they have preached refpect to perfons and property, and every where in their name it has been violated; they have amufed you with the fovereignty of the people, which they have conftantly ufurped; they have declaimed against the abuses of royalty, in order to establish their tyranny upon the fragments of a throne ftill reeking with the blood of your legitimate sovereign. Frenchmen! you groan under the preffure of want, and the privation of all fpecie; your commerce and your industry are annihilated, your agriculture is checked, and the want of provifions threatens you with a horrible famine. Behold, then, the faithful picture of your wretched condition; a fituation fo dreadful fenfiblyafflicts the coalefced powers; they fee no other remedy but the re-establishment of the French monarchy. It is for this, and the acts of aggreffion com. mitted by the executive power of France, that we have armed in conjunction with the other coalefced powers. After mature reflection upon thefe leading objects, I come to offer you the force with which I am intrufted by my fovereign, in order to fpare the further effufion of human blood, to crush with prompitude the factious, to reestablish a regular government in France, and thereby maintain peace and tranquillity in Europe. Decide, therefore, definitively, and with precision. precifion. Truft your hopes to the Victory, off Toulon, the 23d day HOOD, By command of the admiral, deprived of all refourses to annihilate this coalition of the evil-difpofed: confidering, in fhort, that, determined not to fubmit to the tyranny of a convention that has fworn to ruin the nation, the people of Toulon, and thofe of Marseilles, would have recourfe to the generofity of a loyal people, who have manifefted the defire of protecting the true Frenchmen against the anarchists who wish to ruin them; Declare to Admiral Hood, 1. That the unanimous with of the inhabitants of Toulon is, to reject a conftitution which does not pro mote their happiness; to adopt a monarchic government, fuch as it was originally by the conftituent affembly of 1789: and, in confequence, they have proclaimed Louis XVII. fon of Louis XVI, king; and have fworn to acknowledge him, and no longer fuffer the defpotifm of the tyrants which Declaration made to Admiral Lord at this time govern France. Hood. THE general committee of the fections of Toulon, having read the proclamation of admiral Jord Hood, commander in chief of his Britannic majefty's fquadron, together with his preliminary declaration; and after having communicated thefe two papers to all the citizens of the town of Toulon, united in fections; confidering that France is torn by anarchy, and that it is impoffible to exift longer a prey to the factions with which the country is agitated, without its total deftruction; confidering that the fouthern departments, after having made long efforts to resist the oppreffion of a party of factious men, who have confpired to ruin them, find themselves drained and 2. That the white flag fhall be hoifted the inftant the English fquadron anchors in the road of Toulon, and it will there meet the moft friendly reception. 3. That the fhips of war now in the road will be difarmed according to admiral Hood's withes. 4. That the citadel and the forts of the coaft fhall be provifionally at the difpofal of the faid admiral; but, for the better establishing the union which ought to exist between the two people, it is requested that the garrifon fhall be compofed of an equal number of French and English, and that nevertheless the command fhall devolve to the English. 5. The people of Toulon truft the English nation will furnish speedily a force fufficient to aflift in repelling the attacks with which they are at this moment threatened by the army of Italy, which marches towards Toulon, and by that of general Carteau, who directs his forces against Marseilles. 5. That the people of Toulon, full of confidence in the generous offers of admiral Hood, truft that all those who hold civil and military employments fhall be continued in their places, and fhall not be annoyed in their respective occupations. 7. That the fubfiftence and fuc cours of every kind, of which Toulon ftands fo much in need, will be affured to the inhabitants by the combined fleet of the powers coalefced. 8. That, when peace fhall have been re-established in France, the fhips and forts which will be put into the hands the English fhall be restored to the French nation, in the same state they were in when the inventory was delivered. It is according to this declaration, if approved of by admiral Hood, that the Toulonefe will regard themselves, with good heart and will, as belonging to the English and the other powers coalefced, and by whofe fuccour will be brought about that peace after which they have panted fo long. (Signed) Beaudeal, prefident; Re houl, vice-prefident; Reynaud, fecretary; La Poype Vertrieux; Deydier Caden; Andraw; Vialis; Barthelemy, commiffary of the department; Poffele Fournier; Grival; Bre Devant; Antoine Gabert; Porte; Joffre, commiffary of the municipality; L. Cadiere, commiffary of the municipality; G. Garibow; Boullement; Fer rand; Chauffegros, commandant of arms; Burgues; Richaud, prefident of the municipality; Bertrand; Sicard. Proclamation by the Right Hon. Samuel Lord Hood, Vice Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Squadron in the Mediterranean, Sc. on taking pllion of Toulon, Aug. 2S, 1793. WH 7HEREAS the fections of Toulon have, by their commiffioners to me, made a folemn declaration in favour of monarchy, have proclaimed Louis XVII. fon of the late Louis XVI. their lawful king, and have fworn to acknowledge him, and no longer fuffer the defpotifm of the tyrants which at this time govern France, but will do their utmost to establish monarchy, as accepted by their late fovereign in 1789, and reftore peace to their diftracted and calamitous country. I do hereby repeat, what I have already declared to the people of the fouth of France, that I take poffeffion of Toulon, and hold it in truft only for Louis XVII. until peace fhall be re-eftablished in France, which I hope and truft will be foon. Given on board his Britannic Note delivered by Mr. Keene, Chargé d'Affaires from his Britannic Majefty, The minister of Sweden will no doubt obferve, that the rules prefcribed in thefe orders are more favourable to Sweden than thofe ftipulated in the treaty exifting between the two courts, as in the treaty all transports of provifions to an enemy are declared contraband, and fubject to confifcation. The exception in favour of Sweden, in the article of these regulations concerning blocked-up ports, is founded upon the fame treaty, the principles of which are perfectly confiftent with the prefcriptions given to the commanders of his majefty's armed veffels. It can certainly not be imagined that the object of this treaty has been to permit to the veffels belonging to neutral powers to renew their attempts of entering into blockedup ports as many times till they fucceed in throwing provifions into them; they have only been exempted from the punishment of confifcation upon the first attempt. His majefty does not doubt but that the court of Sweden will confider the particular attention which his Britannic majefty, on this occafion, paid to the interefts of Sweden, and of which this prefent communication is not lefs a proof. His majesty therefore expects, on the part of Sweden, the ftri&test obfervance of the faid treaty, and that, according to the conditions expreffed in the thirteenth article, orders will be given, that no vessels or goods, taken by the enemy from British subjects, fhould be permitted to enter into the Swedish ports; and to prevent, in cafe an enemy's veffel fhould carry any veffels or goods belonging to Britifh fubjects, that captured goods or veffels fhould be fold in the states of Sweden; and that all British failors, prifoners, &c. carried into the ports of Sweden, as well as the enemy's veffels themselves, shall not be permitted to make any ftay in thefe ports; and all the British failors, mafters of veffels, and all prifoners at their arrival in any Swedish port, fhall immediately be fet at liberty. The following is the Anfwer of M. Bergftedt, the Chargé d'Affaires from the Court of Stockholm to that of London, delivered to the Minifter of his Britannic Majefty. HIS royal highness the duke regent of Sweden, having been inftructed of the contents of the note which the chargé d'affaires of his Britannic majefty at Stockholm tranfmitted, by order of his Britannic majesty, on the 26th of laft month, to his excellency the great chancellor of the Swedith empire baron Von Sparre, has given orders to the undersigned chargé d'affaires of his Swedish majetty at the court of London, by means of this present official note, to the minifter of his Britannic majefty, to declare that his royal highness |