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Monthly Chronicle.
Peace will be finally re-established between the French Republic and His Imperial Majesty . " ' I beg of you to give me credit for the sentiments of esteem and distinguished consideration with which I am , Gentlemen , your's , BUONAPARTE . ' . EXTRACT FROM TfJE -CONDITIONS OF THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES , ART . I . There shall be a Suspension of Arms between the French and Imperial Armies from this evening , the 7 th of April , till the evening of the 13 th of April .
ART . II The French Army shall keep the following line : the advanced posts of the right wing of this army shall remain in the position in which they at present are , between i ' 'iume and Trieste : the line shall be extended so as to comprehend Tratfen , Littai , Windescleistritz , Marburg , Chienhousen , the right bank of the Muhr , Leoban , Trasayak , Manlern , the road from Mantern as far as Rottmann , Irding , the Valley of Lems , as far as Restadt , St . Michel , Spital , the Valley of La Crave , and Lintz . TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY .
Head-quarters at Leoban , April iSlh , t ~ j <) 1 . ' Inconsequence of the Suspension of Arms , which I sent you word of by my iast Courier , the division of General Serrurier has occupied Gratz , a city containing 40 , 000 inhabitants , and esteemed to be one pf the most considerable of the estates of the Emperor . * Generals Joubert , Delmas , and Baraguey d'Hilliers , have had different engagements , at Bolzano and Muibach , from which they always came off victorious . They have been able to traverse all the Tyrol , to make , in different battles , eight thousand prisoners , and to join the main Army by the Valley of La Drave , by the side of Spita ) , to Rottman , along the Muhr , Brack , Gratz , and so far as Fiume . BUONAPARTE . "
BUONAPARTE TO THE DOGE OF VENICE , Bead-quarters , Jundenberg , 10 Germinal , ( April 9 . ) f In all the Venetian territories on Terra Firma , the subjects of your Government are under arms , and the rallying cry is Death ta the French ! The number of the soldiers of the Army of Italy who have been their victims amounts to several hundreds . In vain you affect to disavow those movements , which have been provoked by yourself . After I have carried our arms into the heart of Germany ,
do you believe that I shall not be able to make the first nation in the world be respected ? Do you imagine that the Legion of Italy will suffer tamely the massacres which you excite ? The blood of ourbrothers in arms shall be avenged ; and there is not a French battalion charged with this mission which does not feel three times the courage and strength necessary to punish you . The senate of Venice has returned the blackest perfidy for the generosity with which we have behaved towards it . —I send yon my propositions by one of my Aid-de-camps and Chief of Brigade—War or Peace . —If you do not immediately take every
measure necessary for dispersing the banditti—if you do not , as soon as possible , arrest and put inlo my hands the authors of the murders which have been committed , War is declared . The Turks are not on your frontiers ; 1 , 0 enemy menaces you ; yet you have sanctioned the premeditated design of the Priests to form an insurrection , and to direct it against the French Army . I give you twenty-four hours to disperse them . The days of Charles VIII . are past . If , notwithstanding the good will which the French Government has shewn towards you , I shall be compelled to attack you , do not imagine that the French Soldiers ,
like the Brigands you have armed , will ravage the fields of the innocent and unfortunate people of Terra Firma . No I I shall protect them ! and they will bless the cause which has obliged the French Army to deliver them from your tyrannical Government . BUONAPARTE . ' While these unexampled efforts were making by the French Army of Italy , the Armies of the Sambre and Mouse , and of the Rhine and Moselle , had given notice of recommencing- hoftiliiies , which accordingly took place on the 17 th of April , as the following letters from their respective Commanders will shew .
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Monthly Chronicle.
Peace will be finally re-established between the French Republic and His Imperial Majesty . " ' I beg of you to give me credit for the sentiments of esteem and distinguished consideration with which I am , Gentlemen , your's , BUONAPARTE . ' . EXTRACT FROM TfJE -CONDITIONS OF THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES , ART . I . There shall be a Suspension of Arms between the French and Imperial Armies from this evening , the 7 th of April , till the evening of the 13 th of April .
ART . II The French Army shall keep the following line : the advanced posts of the right wing of this army shall remain in the position in which they at present are , between i ' 'iume and Trieste : the line shall be extended so as to comprehend Tratfen , Littai , Windescleistritz , Marburg , Chienhousen , the right bank of the Muhr , Leoban , Trasayak , Manlern , the road from Mantern as far as Rottmann , Irding , the Valley of Lems , as far as Restadt , St . Michel , Spital , the Valley of La Crave , and Lintz . TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY .
Head-quarters at Leoban , April iSlh , t ~ j <) 1 . ' Inconsequence of the Suspension of Arms , which I sent you word of by my iast Courier , the division of General Serrurier has occupied Gratz , a city containing 40 , 000 inhabitants , and esteemed to be one pf the most considerable of the estates of the Emperor . * Generals Joubert , Delmas , and Baraguey d'Hilliers , have had different engagements , at Bolzano and Muibach , from which they always came off victorious . They have been able to traverse all the Tyrol , to make , in different battles , eight thousand prisoners , and to join the main Army by the Valley of La Drave , by the side of Spita ) , to Rottman , along the Muhr , Brack , Gratz , and so far as Fiume . BUONAPARTE . "
BUONAPARTE TO THE DOGE OF VENICE , Bead-quarters , Jundenberg , 10 Germinal , ( April 9 . ) f In all the Venetian territories on Terra Firma , the subjects of your Government are under arms , and the rallying cry is Death ta the French ! The number of the soldiers of the Army of Italy who have been their victims amounts to several hundreds . In vain you affect to disavow those movements , which have been provoked by yourself . After I have carried our arms into the heart of Germany ,
do you believe that I shall not be able to make the first nation in the world be respected ? Do you imagine that the Legion of Italy will suffer tamely the massacres which you excite ? The blood of ourbrothers in arms shall be avenged ; and there is not a French battalion charged with this mission which does not feel three times the courage and strength necessary to punish you . The senate of Venice has returned the blackest perfidy for the generosity with which we have behaved towards it . —I send yon my propositions by one of my Aid-de-camps and Chief of Brigade—War or Peace . —If you do not immediately take every
measure necessary for dispersing the banditti—if you do not , as soon as possible , arrest and put inlo my hands the authors of the murders which have been committed , War is declared . The Turks are not on your frontiers ; 1 , 0 enemy menaces you ; yet you have sanctioned the premeditated design of the Priests to form an insurrection , and to direct it against the French Army . I give you twenty-four hours to disperse them . The days of Charles VIII . are past . If , notwithstanding the good will which the French Government has shewn towards you , I shall be compelled to attack you , do not imagine that the French Soldiers ,
like the Brigands you have armed , will ravage the fields of the innocent and unfortunate people of Terra Firma . No I I shall protect them ! and they will bless the cause which has obliged the French Army to deliver them from your tyrannical Government . BUONAPARTE . ' While these unexampled efforts were making by the French Army of Italy , the Armies of the Sambre and Mouse , and of the Rhine and Moselle , had given notice of recommencing- hoftiliiies , which accordingly took place on the 17 th of April , as the following letters from their respective Commanders will shew .