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Monthly Chronicle.
which their brothers and children sacrifice their blood and repose ? The Executive Directory is of opinion , Citizen Representatives , that a fund of forly millions ( near two millions sterling ) available without delay , added to the other supplies of the year six , would be sufficient for the execution of the plan which has been formed . The Directory calls upon you for this sum . The possibility of raising this sum cannot be doubted by any one . Yon may arrange the payment of it in . such a manner as to assist public credit . The commercial men of Paris point out , as the means of repayment , an indirect contribution . The princip es which
recommend this mode of impost are now universally recognized . The advances may be pledged upon the success of the grand operation which the Executive Directory prepares . The army of England will keep its engagements , as the other armies of the Republic have done . ( Signed ) P . Barras , President . —Lagardp , Secretary . " In consequence of the preceding Message , contributions are pouring in from all parts of the kingdom . Jan . 4 . The following message was sent from the Directory to the Council of Five Hundred :
' CITIZENS REPRESENTATIVES , ' Upon this day , the 15 Nivose ( 4 th Jan . ) and at the very moment in ivhich the Executive Directory sends you the present message , the Municipal Adminis- ' trations , the Justices of Peace , the Commissioners of the Directory , and the Superintendants of the Customs , are employed in the principal towns of all the departments , in all the ports , and all the principal communes of the Republic , iri seizing Ihe English merchandize at present in France , or introduced into its territory , in contravention of the law of the 10 th Brumaire , year five .
' Such is the first act by which , now that peace is besiowed upon the continent , the war so long declared against England is at length about to assume the real character which becomes it . The French will not allow a power which endeavours 10 found its prosperity upon the misery of other nations , 10 rear its commerre upon the ruin of that of other states , and which aspiring to the dominion of the seas , attempts every where to introduce the articles of its manufacture , and to receive nothing from foreign industry , any longer to enjoy the fruits of its guilty speculations .
' The English Government , during the war , has paid with the produce of her manufactures , the powers of Ihe coalition . They have violated all the principles of the laws of nations by shackling the relations of neutral powers . They have seized the provisions , the grain , the articles of subsistence , which they conceived to be destined for France . They declared contraband whatever ihey thought might be useful to the Republic , and endeavoured to starve it . All the citizens of France now call for vengeance . 'When they apprehended the capture of vessels sailing under their colours ,
they bribed foreign Captains to take on board English merchandize , and introduce it thus by fraud and cunning , or otherwise , into oilier stales , and particularly , into the French Republic . ' The neutral powers must be aware that , by this conduct , their merchants look part in the war , and that they lent aid to one of the belligerent powers . ' One party likewise is as much served when the means of augmenting its forces are procured , as when another state joins iis forces with those of the powers at war . The neutral powers must have perceived that England ,
by stopping the vessel ' s of other powers , laden in their respective ports , and bound I ' orl- ' r .-mcc , by prohibiting the circulation of all goods of her own manufacture , aimed at exclusive commerce , and that reparation of such an attempt ought lo be insisted upon . ' Marine law , and the rule of 1700 , declare lawful prizes the vessels and cargoes in which are found English merchandize belonging to the enemy . These provisions ought to be extended . The interest of Europe requires it . ' The Directory is of opinion , that it is urgent and necessary to pass a law , declaring that the ' character of vessels , as far as regards their being neutral or
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Monthly Chronicle.
which their brothers and children sacrifice their blood and repose ? The Executive Directory is of opinion , Citizen Representatives , that a fund of forly millions ( near two millions sterling ) available without delay , added to the other supplies of the year six , would be sufficient for the execution of the plan which has been formed . The Directory calls upon you for this sum . The possibility of raising this sum cannot be doubted by any one . Yon may arrange the payment of it in . such a manner as to assist public credit . The commercial men of Paris point out , as the means of repayment , an indirect contribution . The princip es which
recommend this mode of impost are now universally recognized . The advances may be pledged upon the success of the grand operation which the Executive Directory prepares . The army of England will keep its engagements , as the other armies of the Republic have done . ( Signed ) P . Barras , President . —Lagardp , Secretary . " In consequence of the preceding Message , contributions are pouring in from all parts of the kingdom . Jan . 4 . The following message was sent from the Directory to the Council of Five Hundred :
' CITIZENS REPRESENTATIVES , ' Upon this day , the 15 Nivose ( 4 th Jan . ) and at the very moment in ivhich the Executive Directory sends you the present message , the Municipal Adminis- ' trations , the Justices of Peace , the Commissioners of the Directory , and the Superintendants of the Customs , are employed in the principal towns of all the departments , in all the ports , and all the principal communes of the Republic , iri seizing Ihe English merchandize at present in France , or introduced into its territory , in contravention of the law of the 10 th Brumaire , year five .
' Such is the first act by which , now that peace is besiowed upon the continent , the war so long declared against England is at length about to assume the real character which becomes it . The French will not allow a power which endeavours 10 found its prosperity upon the misery of other nations , 10 rear its commerre upon the ruin of that of other states , and which aspiring to the dominion of the seas , attempts every where to introduce the articles of its manufacture , and to receive nothing from foreign industry , any longer to enjoy the fruits of its guilty speculations .
' The English Government , during the war , has paid with the produce of her manufactures , the powers of Ihe coalition . They have violated all the principles of the laws of nations by shackling the relations of neutral powers . They have seized the provisions , the grain , the articles of subsistence , which they conceived to be destined for France . They declared contraband whatever ihey thought might be useful to the Republic , and endeavoured to starve it . All the citizens of France now call for vengeance . 'When they apprehended the capture of vessels sailing under their colours ,
they bribed foreign Captains to take on board English merchandize , and introduce it thus by fraud and cunning , or otherwise , into oilier stales , and particularly , into the French Republic . ' The neutral powers must be aware that , by this conduct , their merchants look part in the war , and that they lent aid to one of the belligerent powers . ' One party likewise is as much served when the means of augmenting its forces are procured , as when another state joins iis forces with those of the powers at war . The neutral powers must have perceived that England ,
by stopping the vessel ' s of other powers , laden in their respective ports , and bound I ' orl- ' r .-mcc , by prohibiting the circulation of all goods of her own manufacture , aimed at exclusive commerce , and that reparation of such an attempt ought lo be insisted upon . ' Marine law , and the rule of 1700 , declare lawful prizes the vessels and cargoes in which are found English merchandize belonging to the enemy . These provisions ought to be extended . The interest of Europe requires it . ' The Directory is of opinion , that it is urgent and necessary to pass a law , declaring that the ' character of vessels , as far as regards their being neutral or