of our revolution-at the opening of the National Affembly, under the name of the States General, the intrigues of the Court of Vienna were multiplied to deceive the nation refpecting its real interests; to mislead an unfortunate King, furrounded by bad advisers, and laftly to reader him perjured. "It is the Court of Vienna that has occafioned the downfal of Louis XVI. What has been done by that court, the crooked politics of which are too fubtle to difplay a bold and open conduct? It reprefented the French as monsters, while it, and the criminal Emigrants, paid emiffaries and confpirators, and kept up by every poffible means the most frightful difcord. "This power, more formidable to its allies than its enemies, has engaged us in a war against a great King, whom we esteem; against a nation which we love and which loves us. This reverfion of all political and moral principles cannot long continue. "The King of Pruffia will know one day the crimes of Auftria, of which we have proofs, and will abandon it to our vengeance. I can declare to the whole world, that the armies united against the forces which now invade us cannot be induced to look upon the Pruffians as their enemies, nor the King of Pruffia as the inftrument of the perfidy and vengeance of the Auftrians and the Emigrants. They entertain a nobler idea of that courageous nation, and of a King whom they wish to confider a just and an honeft man. "The King, fay they, cannot abandon his allies-Are they worthy of him? Has a man who has affociated with robbers a right to say that he cannot quit that fociety? He cannot, it is faid, break his alliance-Upon what is it founded?-On perfidy and projects of invasion. "Such are the principles upon which the King of Pruffia and the French nation ought to reason, in order to understand each other. "The Pruffians love royalty, because, fince the great Elector, they have had good Kings, and because he who now conducts them is doubtlefs worthy of their affection. "The French have abolished royalty, becaufe, fince the immortal Henry IV. they have always had weak, proud, or timid Kings, governed by miftreffes, confeffors, infolent or ignorant minifters, bafe and abject courtiers, who have afflicted, with every kind of calamity, the most beautiful empire in the univerfe. "The King of Pruffia has too pure a foul not to be struck with these truths. I prefent them to him for the interest of his own glory, and above all for the interest of two magnanimous nations, the happiness or mifery of which he can fecure by one word; for, as it is certain that his arms will be refifted, and that no power can fubdue France, I fhudder when I think on the dread ful ful misfortune of fecing our plains ftrewed with the dead bodies of two refpectable nations, from a vain idea of a point of honour, for which the King himself will one day blush, when he fees his army and his treasure facrificed to a system of perfidy and ambition, in which he has no share, and to which he is rendered the dupe. "In the fame degree that the French nation, become a Republic, is violent and capable of making every effort against its enemies, in the fame degree it is generous and affectionate towards its friends. Incapable of bending its head before armed men, it will give every fuccour, and even expend its blood for a generous ally; and if ever there was an epoch when the affection of a nation could be depended on, it is that when the general will forms the invariable principles of a government: it is that when treaties are no longer fubjected to the infidious politics of ministers and courtiers. If the King of Pruffia will confent to treat with the French nation, it will become a generous, powerful, and unchangeable ally; but if the illufion of a point of honour prevails over his virtues, his humanity, and his real interefts, he will then find enemies worthy of him, who will combat him with regret, but to the utmoft, and who will be continually fucceeded by avengers, whofe number daily increases, and whom no human efforts will prevent from living or dying free. "Is it poffible that the King of Pruffia, contrary to the rules of true policy, immutable juftice, and humanity, fhould confent to be the inftrument of the will of the perfidious Court of Vienna; fhould facrifice his brave army and his treasures to the ambition of that court, which, in a war it has been directed to undertake, has the fineffe to expose its allies, and to furnish only a small contingency, while it alone, were it brave and generous, ought to fupport the whole burthen? The King of Pruffia at present can act the nobleft part that any King ever acted. His operations alone have been attended with fuccefs; he took two towns; but this fuccefs was owing to treachery and cowardice. Since that he has found free and brave men, from whom he cannot withhold his esteem. He will still find a greater number; for the army which stops his march increases every day; it is in excellent difcipline, and animated by the fame fpirit. It has been freed from traitors and cowards, who might have excited an idea that France could be eafily conquered; and instead of defending, it will foon attack, unlefs a reasonable negotiation make a diftinction between the King and his army, whom we esteem, and the Auftrians and the Emigrants, whom we defpife. It is time that an open and fincere explanation fhould terminate our difcuffions, or confirm them, and enable us to know our real enemies. We will combat them with courage; we are upon our own foil; we have to avenge the exceffes committed in our fields; and it may be readily believed L 2 that that a war against republicans proud of their liberty must be a bloody war, which can never end but with the entire deftruction of the oppreffors or the oppreffed. "This dreadful reflection ought to agitate the heart of a just and humane King. He ought to confider that inftead of protecting by his arms Louis XVI. and his family, the more he continues our enemy, the more he will aggravate their calamities. "I hope, for my part, that the King, whofe virtues I refpect, and who has fhewn me marks of efteem which do me honour, will be pleased to read with attention this note, dictated by the love of humanity and of my country. He will pardon the hurry and incorrectness of the style of these truths from an old foldier, occupied ftill more effentially with military operations, which muft decide the fate of the war. (Signed) fe DUMOURIER, "Commander of the Army of the North." Memorial of the Duke of Brunfwick. WHEN their Majefties, the Emperor and the King of Pruffia, in entrusting me with the command of the armies which these two allied fovereigns caufed to march into France, rendered me the agent of their intentions, published in the two declarations of the 25th and 27th of July, 1792, their Majefties were far from fuppofing that fuch fcenes of horror could take place, as thofe which preceded and paved the way for the impri fonment of their Majefties the King and Queen of France, and the royal family. Such crimes, an example of which can scarcely be found in the hiftory of lefs polifhed nations, were not the utmost boundary which the audacity of fome factious men, who had rendered the people of Paris the blind iuftruments of their wills, prefcribed to their criminal ambition. The fufpenfion of the King, and of all the functions which had been referved to him by that very conftitution which has fo long been declared to be the will of the whole nation, was the last crime of the National Affembly, which brought upon France the two terrible scourges of war and anarchy. There is one ftep more only to be taken, in order to perpetuate them; and the spirit of infatuation, the fatal forerunner of the fall of empires, will foon precipitate those who affume to themselves the title of Deputies chofen by the nation to fecure its rights and its happiness upon the most folid bafis. The firft decree which their affembly paffed was the abolition of royalty in France; and the voice of a small number of individuals, fome of whom even were foreigners, affumed to themfelves the right of balancing the opinion of fourteen generations, who have filled the fourteen centuries of the existence of the French monarchy. This ftep, at which the real enemies of France ought to rejoice, if they could fuppofe that it would have a lafting effect, is directly oppofite to the firm refolution which their Majefties the Emperor and the King of Pruffia have taken, and from which these two allied fovereigns will never depart, of reftoring to his moft Chriftian Majefty liberty, fafety, and royal dignity, or of exercising juft and exemplary. vengeance against thofe who fhall longer dare to infringe them. For these reasons the underfigned declares to the French nation in general, and to each individual in particular, that their Majefties the Emperor and the King of Pruffia, invariably attached to the principle of not intermeddling with the interior government of France, nevertheless perfift in requiring that his moft Chriftian Majefty, as well as the whole royal family, fhall be immediately fet at liberty by those who detain them prisoners. Their Majefties infift alfo, that the royal dignity in France. fhall be immediately re-established in the perfon of Louis XVI. and of his fucceffors; and that fuch measures may be pursued as may fecure that dignity from infults fimilar to thofe to which it has been lately expofed. If the French nation has not entirely loft fight of its true interefts, and, if free in its refolutions, it wishes to put a speedy end to the calamities of a war, which fubject fo many provinces to all the evils that follow in the train of armies, it will not delay a moment to declare its opinion in favour of the peremptory demand I now addrefs to it in the name of their Majefties the Emperor and the King of Pruffia; and which, if refused, will immediately bring upon a once flourishing kingdom new and more terrible difafters. The course which the French nation may adopt in confequence of this declaration, will either extend and perpetuate the fatal effects of an unhappy war, by deftroying, in the fuppreffion of royalty, the means of re-establishing and maintaining the ancient connections between France and the fovereigns of Europeor will open negotiations for the establishment of peace, order, and tranquillity, which those who affume to themselves the title of depofitories of the will of the nation are the most interested to reftore as speedily as they are neceffary to that kingdom. C. F. G. DUKE OF BRUNSWICK (Signed) Head Quarters-general, at Flans in LUNENBOURG. Proclamation Proclamation by the Emperor to the People of the Auftrian Netherlands. ONVINCED that our faithful fubjects of the Netherlands will not be happy unless they enjoy the rights and privileges granted to them by our ancestors, and wishing to reign over them only as a tender father reigns over his family, we publicly declare that our intention is, that they fhall enjoy these rights and privileges in their full extent: and that we will exert all our ftrength to prevent the least infringement of them, as well as to re-establish all things on the fame footing as that on which they were under our great grandfather Charles VI. It is agreeable to our way of thinking, to act with kindness and clemency even towards the enemies of the Belgic provinces, and others. For this reafon we grant a general amnefty, and without exception promifing that every thing which has hitherto paffed fhall be buried in the moft profound oblivion, and we defire that those who at prefent bear arms against their country, and who are comprehended under the name of Belgians, will peaceably return to their families, fince they are not excepted from the present general amnesty. As fome words liable to misconstruction may have flipped into this declaration, we promise to repair in perfon to the Netherlands, to deliberate jointly with the Three Estates united, on every thing that may remain to be fettled, in order to establish the repofe and tranquillity of thefe provinces, and to effect their happiness. Done at Vienna this 26th of January, 1793. (Signed) FRANCIS. Declaration of the Regent of France, &c. Louis Stanislaus Xavier, of France, Son of France, Uncle of the prefent King, and Regent of the Kingdom-To all those who may perufe thefe Prefents, Greeting: WHEREAS the moft criminal of men have, by the perpe tration of the most atrocious crimes, completed the weight of their iniquities: We, ftruck with horror on receiving the information, have invoked the Almighty to enable us, by his gracious affiftance, to fupprefs the emotion of our juft indignation caufed by the fentiments of the profound grief which had overwhelmed us; to the end, that we might the better fulfil those effential dutics that are, in circumftances fo weighty, the first in order among thofe obligations, which the unchangeable laws of the French monarchy impofe upon us. The |