men who have never served, and who are in no other way to be dreaded, unless by the armies they surcharge and disorganize. The convention sacrifices every thing to these satellites of tyranny, to these cowardly head-loppers. The choice of officers, and that of administrators, are in every particular the same: we see throughout the tyranny which flatters the wicked, because the wicked alone can support tyranny: And, in its pride and its ignorance, this convention orders the conquest and disorganization of the whole universe: it says to one of its generals, Go and take Romeand to another, Sally forth and subdue Spain-to the end that despoiling commissioners, similiar to those horrid Roman proconsuls against whom Cicero declaimed, may be sent thither. In the worst season of the year it sends the only fleet it possesses into the Mediterranean to split and founder on the rocks of Sardinia, whilst it exposes the fleets of Brest to the fury of the storms, by sending them in quest of an English fleet that has not yet left its port.

In the mean time, a civil war spreads through all the departments. Some of the insurgents are excited by fanaticism, the necessary effect of persecution; others by an indignation at the tragical and fruitless end of Louis the sixteenth; and others, finally, by the natural principle of resisting persecution.

Arms are every where taken up; murders every where committed; and every where are pecuniary suplies and provisions intercepted. ne English foment these troubles, nd will, by their succours, supply el to them at their pleasure. Soon will every one of our corsairs

disappear on the ocean; soon will the southern department cease to receive supplies of corn from Italy and Africa; and already have those from the North and from America been intercepted by the squadrons of the enemies. Famine will annex itself to all our other scourges; and the ferocity of our cannibals will but increase with our calamities!

Frenchmen! we have a rallyingpoint which can stifle the monster of anarchy: 'tis the constitution we swore to maintain in 1789, 90, and 91: it is the work of a free people; and we shall remain free, and shall recover our glory, by resuming our constitution.

Let us display our virtues, more especially that of mildness: too much blood has already been spilled. If the monsters by whom we have been disorganized, choose to fly, let us leave them to meet their punishment elsewhere, if they do not find it in their own corrupted hearts; but if they wish to support anarchy by new crimes, then shall the army punish them.

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In the generosity of the enemies we have so grievously outraged, I have found the security of external peace. Not only do they treat humanely and attentively wounded, sick, and prisoners, who fall into their hands-and all this in despite of the calumnies spread by our agitators to render us ferocious-but they engage to suspend their march, not to pass our frontiers, and to leave to our brave army the termination of all our internal dissensions.

Let the sacred torch of the love of our country awaken in us our virtue and our courage! At the bare name of the constitution, civil war will cease, or can no longer

All the departments, but more especially the wretched city of Paris, were delivered up to pillage, to denunciations, proscriptions, and massacres. No Frenchman, the assassins and their accomplices excepted, had either his life or his property in security! The consternation of slavery was augmented by the clamorous orgies of villains: bands of pretended federates ran through and laid waste the departments; and of the seven hundred individuals who composed this despotic and anarchical body, four or five hundred groaned and decreed, and decreed and groaned, exposed to the exterminating sword of the Marats and Roberspierres. It was thus that the unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth perished, without a judicial trial, and without a tribunal; and it is thus that the decree of the 19th of November has provoked all nations, by holding out to them our aid, provided they will consent to disorganize themselves. It is thus that the unjust and impolitic decree of the 15th of December has alienated from us the hearts of the Belgians, has driven us from the Netherlands, and would have brought about the massacre of our whole army by this nation, provoked at our outrages and our crimes, if I had not saved that very army by my proclamations. It is thus that a decree established the bloody tribunal which places the lives of the citizens at the mercy of a small number of iniquitous judges, without recourse or appeal to any other tribunal. It is thus that during the last month all the decrees have been marked by the stamp of insatiable avarice, by the blindest pride, and more especially by the desire of maintaining power,

by calling to the most important posts of the state no other than daring, incapable and criminal men, by driving away or murdering men enlightened and of a high character, and by supporting a phantom of a republic, which their errors in administration and in policy, as well as their crimes, had rendered impracticable. These seven hundred individuals despise, detest, calumniate, and revile each other; and have already, and that frequently, thought of poignarding the one or the other. At this moment their blind ambition has impelled them to coalesce afresh; and bold criminalty allies itself to feeble virtue, to preserve a power as unjust as it is unsteady. In the mean time, their committees devour every thing, that of the national treasury absorbing the public funds, without being able to render any account of the expenditure.

What has this convention done to maintain the war it has provoked against all the powers of Europe?

It has disorganized the armies, instead of re-inforcing and recruiting the troops of the line, and the ancient battalions of national volunteers, which would have formed a respectable army. Instead of recompensing these brave warriors by promotion and praises, these legislators have left the battalions incomplete, naked, disarmed, and discontented. In the same way have they treated the excellent cavalry; and the brave French artillery is in the same manner exhausted, abandoned, an' in want of every necessary. They notwithstanding create new corps, composed of the satellites of the second of September, and commanded by

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men who have never served, and who are in no other way to be dreaded, unless by the armies they surcharge and disorganize. The convention sacrifices every thing to these satellites of tyranny, to these cowardly head-loppers. The choice of officers, and that of administrators, are in every particular the same: we see throughout the tyranny which flatters the wicked, because the wicked alone can support tyranny: And, in its pride and its ignorance, this convention orders the conquest and disorganization of the whole universe: it says to one of its generals, Go and take Romeand to another, Sally forth and subdue Spain-to the end that despoiling commissioners, similiar to those horrid Roman proconsuls against whom Cicero declaimed, may be sent thither. In the worst season of the year it sends the only fleet it possesses into the Mediterranean to split and founder on the rocks of Sardinia, whilst it exposes the fleets of Brest to the fury of the storms, by sending them in quest of an English fleet that has not yet left its port.

In the mean time, a civil war spreads through all the departments. Some of the insurgents are excited by fanaticism, the necessary effect of persecution; others by an indignation at the tragical and fruitless end of Louis the sixteenth; and others, finally, by the natural principle of resisting persecution.

Arms are every where taken up; murders every where committed; and every where are pecuniary supplies and provisions intercepted. The English foment these troubles, and will, by their succours, supply fuel to them at their pleasure. Soon will every one of our corsairs

disappear on the ocean; soon will the southern department cease to receive supplies of corn from Italy and Africa; and already have those from the North and from America been intercepted by the squadrons of the enemies. Famine will annex itself to all our other scourges; and the ferocity of our cannibals will but increase with our calamities!

Frenchmen! we have a rallyingpoint which can stifle the monster of anarchy: 'tis the constitution we swore to maintain in 1789, 90, and 91: it is the work of a free people; and we shall remain free, and shall recover our glory, by resuming our constitution.

Let us display our virtues, more especially that of mildness: too much blood has already been spilled. If the monsters by whom we have been disorganized, choose to fly, let us leave them to meet their punishment elsewhere, if they do not find it in their own corrupted hearts; but if they wish to support anarchy by new crimes, then shall the army punish them.

In the generosity of the enemies we have so grievously outraged, I have found the security of external peace. Not only do they treat humanely and attentively our wounded, sick, and prisoners, who fall into their hands-and all this in despite of the calumnies spread by our agitators to render us ferocious-but they engage to suspend their march, not to pass our frontiers, and to leave to our brave army the termination of all our internal dissensions.

Let the sacred torch of the love of our country awaken in us our virtue and our courage! At the bare name of the constitution, civil war will cease, or can no longer

exist unless against certain malevolent men who will no longer be supported by foreign powers. These have no hatred to any others among us, except our factious criminals, and desire nothing more fervently than to restore their esteem and friendship to a nation whose errors and anarchy disturb and trouble all Europe. Peace will be the fruit of this resolution; and the troops of the line, as well as the brave national volunteers, who, for the space of a year, have offered themselves as willing sacrifices to liberty, and who abhor anarchy, will repose in the bosom of their families, after having accomplished this

expresses his regret at the necessity of annulling the former declaration of an armistice, and announcing his attention of renewing the war with energy and vigour.]

Second Proclamation of General Dumourier to the French Nation.

proclamation, I had sounded T the time I published my first the sentiment of all the corps of the army under my command, and all of them seemed penetrated with the miseries which an anarchical tyranny, exercised in the name of the national convention, had entailed on our country.-All of them acknowledged unequivocally that we could not live without laws; and appeared to me to agree in opinion, that the re-establish

ment of the constitution would restore to us peace and good order, without which it was impossible for us longer to exist.

I had not as yet reason to expect, that there could be the least waverwell ing from an opinion so founded, and which also appeared unanimous; and, indeed, who could have conceived that the generals themselves would have sought, through their ambition, or by a spirit of infatuation, to alter the resolution of the army? Dampierre, Stetenhoff, La Morliere, Rosiere, Changel, Ferrand, have conspired against their country, against a good cause, against their companions in arms, and against me, to whom they made repeated assurances that they entertained the same principles with ourselves. I shall not reproach them with ingratitude. their consciences will one day punish them sufficiently;

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but shall confine myself to this observation, that not one of them esteems the miscreants whom they now serve. The Jacobins will, in their blind fury, exercise vengeance on them-for several of the number are of the persecuted sect; and the anarchists will impute to them the disasters that cannot fail to accompany the rash and sanguine plans which that assemblage of factious criminals will oppose to the regular plans of attack of the combined powers.

The revolt arranged by these traitors has for a moment changed the face of affairs. Whilst the commissioners of the convention assembled at Valenciennes and Lille have employed measures worthy of themselves to mislead the army, and stifle the pretended conspiracy which we all regard as a necessary act of virtue, since it is the only means of saving France, they have employed the arms of miscreants and cowards. On the third of this month, six fanatical volunteers came to St. Amand, to poignard me: I protected them from the fury of the soldiers, and sent them to keep company with the four commissioners they will augment the number of the hostages.

On the fourth three battallions of national volunteers deserted the camp, without orders, to throw themselves into Valenciennes. I -met them on the road between St. Amand and Condé, at the distance of about half a league from the latter place. I was then without escort, as a father in the midst of his children (for such was the tender name the whole army had bestowed on me). I had, at the most, fifteen or eighteen persons with me on horseback-when these batta

lions were so dastardly as to assail me with a discharge of musquetry. They killed several of my suite, as well as several horses.

They cut off the road to the camp, to which I wished to retreat ; and I was forced to save myself with a part of the officers who accompanied me, by crossing the Scheldt in a boat, to repair to the first Imperial post. As it was not our intention to emigrate, and as we were assured that the army expressed a strong indignation against these assassins, as well as an attachment to the re-establishment of peace and good order, we repaired at day-break to the camp. There, however, amidst the reiterated protestations of attachment to the principles that determined us, we remarked a mute and sullen agitation, which made us judge that strong dissentions in opinion prevailed. I addressed each corps, and from each corps received a reply tantamount to that made on the preceding days.

Wishing, however, after the remark we had made, to repair to the head-quarters at St. Amand, we learned that the corps of artillery had formed the design of conveying their great park to Valenciennes; and that the plot of the factious men who mislead them was, to seize on us, to convey us thither, and to make a merit of sacrificing us to the vengeance of our tyrants. We had then one expedient only left, that of repairing to the Imperial army, which we ought to regard as our ally, after the frank and noble proclamation of the general in chief by whom it is commanded.-Several corps of cavalry have already joined us; several bands of infantry have done the

same;