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The Roman Consuls To The Citizens Commissioners Of The French Republic, Dated At Rome, Oct. 19, 179 8.
• will appear , whose existence is not even suspected by those . who only superficially view the men who live under our constitution . We know their wishes , their means , their love for that liberty which they derive from the French , which they inherit from their ancestors , their natural hatred to Naples , which braves us , their conviction of the impossibility of being tranquil and happy , -without redeeming their neighbours from an abhorred sway , even to the very bosom of Naples itself . The diplomacy of Republics is not the cant
of Courts . Republics , when attacked , can acknowledge no negociators but cannon and bayonets . Monarchical powers , when unfortunate in war , re . trieve their affairs by treaties . Republics know no alternative but death or victory . We will not perish the victims of the perfidy of our neighbours ; we will not suffer them to- pollute this sacred ground ; we will not pay the succours furnished by them to an enemy who conspires against the French Republic , and the Republics her allies . Naples finds soldiers—we shall have
heroes . Naples has dismissed a Minister who did not watch over the niaga . zines of despotism : —we will imitate Naples to the advantage of liberty .--Naples supports royalty , aristocracy , and the hypocrisy of fanaticism : —we shall deliver our country from royalists , from aristocrats , and fanatical hy . pocrites . Naples holds the patriots in subjection and debased : —the patriots shall raise their heads and resume their dignity . Naples insults the Governments of Rome , of Milan , and of Paris : —we will avenge Paris , Milan , and
Home . Citizens Commissioners , one cause invites all ; is it not the cause of all the ' defenders , of the republican system ? We shall conquer if we wish to conquer . Should the Committee unite with the Consulate , should they sanction the measure which we shall propose , should they communicate to us those which their zeal for the Republic has suggested , and come to a resolution fatal to tyranny , Rome will learn its regeneration , and Naples it chastisement . ¦ ' Signed PIERELLI , President of the Consulate ; BASSAL , Sec .
Citizens Representatives , The Executive Directory , in their message of the 6 th of December , [ in-» erted in our last number J announced to you that they should shortly transmit to you the details which make manifest the long train of perfidy of which the Court of Naples has been guilty , brought to the height by an audacious attack on the French Republic . It this day lays before you details which will prove no less clearly the hostile connivance of the Court of Turinwhich ,
, joined to the machinations of the Sicilian King , have rendered that proposition necessary which they made to you , to declare war against the Kings of Naples and Sardinia . For a long time Europe has resounded with accounts of the perfidy of the Neapolitans , and for a long time must it have been astonished at the magnanimous moderation of the Executive Directory ; while , on the other hand , the sincere desire of the French Government to live at peace with the King of
Naples was not less manifest . Superior to the just indignation which this Court had provoked in so many ways—a Court that during the whole course of the . war of the coalesced Monarchs distinguished itstlf by the most insensate fury against the Republic—the French Government received with the most pure benevolence the first propositions which were made to them for a good understanding between the two States ; they made no other use of the superiority which our victories gave them than for the purposes of moderation : in a word , ail the advantages of the treaty were as reciprocal as if tiie successes of the war had been equal . Such magnanimity should have for ever put an end to the malevolent dispositions of this Court , and . should have
at-MANIFESTO OF FRANCE AGAINST NAPLES AND SARDINIA , ADDRESSED if THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY TO THE TWO COUNCILS .
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The Roman Consuls To The Citizens Commissioners Of The French Republic, Dated At Rome, Oct. 19, 179 8.
• will appear , whose existence is not even suspected by those . who only superficially view the men who live under our constitution . We know their wishes , their means , their love for that liberty which they derive from the French , which they inherit from their ancestors , their natural hatred to Naples , which braves us , their conviction of the impossibility of being tranquil and happy , -without redeeming their neighbours from an abhorred sway , even to the very bosom of Naples itself . The diplomacy of Republics is not the cant
of Courts . Republics , when attacked , can acknowledge no negociators but cannon and bayonets . Monarchical powers , when unfortunate in war , re . trieve their affairs by treaties . Republics know no alternative but death or victory . We will not perish the victims of the perfidy of our neighbours ; we will not suffer them to- pollute this sacred ground ; we will not pay the succours furnished by them to an enemy who conspires against the French Republic , and the Republics her allies . Naples finds soldiers—we shall have
heroes . Naples has dismissed a Minister who did not watch over the niaga . zines of despotism : —we will imitate Naples to the advantage of liberty .--Naples supports royalty , aristocracy , and the hypocrisy of fanaticism : —we shall deliver our country from royalists , from aristocrats , and fanatical hy . pocrites . Naples holds the patriots in subjection and debased : —the patriots shall raise their heads and resume their dignity . Naples insults the Governments of Rome , of Milan , and of Paris : —we will avenge Paris , Milan , and
Home . Citizens Commissioners , one cause invites all ; is it not the cause of all the ' defenders , of the republican system ? We shall conquer if we wish to conquer . Should the Committee unite with the Consulate , should they sanction the measure which we shall propose , should they communicate to us those which their zeal for the Republic has suggested , and come to a resolution fatal to tyranny , Rome will learn its regeneration , and Naples it chastisement . ¦ ' Signed PIERELLI , President of the Consulate ; BASSAL , Sec .
Citizens Representatives , The Executive Directory , in their message of the 6 th of December , [ in-» erted in our last number J announced to you that they should shortly transmit to you the details which make manifest the long train of perfidy of which the Court of Naples has been guilty , brought to the height by an audacious attack on the French Republic . It this day lays before you details which will prove no less clearly the hostile connivance of the Court of Turinwhich ,
, joined to the machinations of the Sicilian King , have rendered that proposition necessary which they made to you , to declare war against the Kings of Naples and Sardinia . For a long time Europe has resounded with accounts of the perfidy of the Neapolitans , and for a long time must it have been astonished at the magnanimous moderation of the Executive Directory ; while , on the other hand , the sincere desire of the French Government to live at peace with the King of
Naples was not less manifest . Superior to the just indignation which this Court had provoked in so many ways—a Court that during the whole course of the . war of the coalesced Monarchs distinguished itstlf by the most insensate fury against the Republic—the French Government received with the most pure benevolence the first propositions which were made to them for a good understanding between the two States ; they made no other use of the superiority which our victories gave them than for the purposes of moderation : in a word , ail the advantages of the treaty were as reciprocal as if tiie successes of the war had been equal . Such magnanimity should have for ever put an end to the malevolent dispositions of this Court , and . should have
at-MANIFESTO OF FRANCE AGAINST NAPLES AND SARDINIA , ADDRESSED if THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY TO THE TWO COUNCILS .