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Besides these enrolled banditti , the Due d'Aust , a monster , the brother of the King , and heir to the throne , like another Old Man ofthe Mountain , never ceased to keep under his orders , and in his pay , a band of cut-t hroats , to whom he issued orders to assasinate such and such a Frenchman , and these orders were but-too faithfully executed . It is in vain to suppose that all these crimes were not imputable to the Sardinian Government , since the whole of its conduct has proved that it
was privy to every one of them . The principal places in Piedmont were occupied by French troops ; for those no provisions were to be obtained . The friends ofthe Republic were constantly thrown into prison , the Frenchmen insulted , and even their dress turned into derision ; the Emigrants were encouraged in their audacity ; those public officers who were most distinguished for their hatred towards the French , chiefly promoted ; the Barbels protected , even openly by their first magistrates ; poniards forged
and distributed to a vast number : in short , the most dreadful plots against the French p lanned and ready to be carried into execution . From an interrogatory , exhibited to one of" the Barbels , it appears that a person who was employed in the Custom-house at Turin , and who was commissioned to pay these banditti , had received from the Sardinian Government orders to distribute among the Chiefs of them boxes of poison , to be thrown into the wells which lay nearest to the French camp . It is evident that there exists the most intimate connection between the conduct of such a Government as this and that of the Court of Naples , in
their hostility to the French Republic ; this connection , maintained and supported-by so many crimes , would alone be sufficient to implicate the Court of" Turin in the guilt of the other , but a stronger proof is added , in the circumstance of the preparations for war being increased at Turin , in proportion as those at Naples were multiplied . The militia in the former place were called forth , and thirty thousand stand of arms were delivered to them . The Piedmontese troops inarched towards Loana and Oneilla ' at the
same moment in which the Neapolitan army attacked the Fi ench troops on the territory ofthe Roman Republic , in . which Sooo Neapolitans disembarked at Leghorn , and in which a new disembarkation was threatened on the coast of Liguria . It was in the same moment that the order to march on the first signal was given ; that Turin was filled with troops ; that 1500 poniards were distributed ; that the citadel was nearly besieged ; that the heights which command it were furnished with an extraordinary number of cannon ; and
that the Sardinian Government dared to require the evacuation of the citadel ami the diminution of our troops in Piedmont . In this situation of affairs- it was impossible for the French Government to separate two Courts obviousl y so hastily united against the French Republic .. But the Directory declares solemnly to Europe , that whatever may be the result of this war , no ambitious views shall intermeddle in the purity of the motives which have induced them to take up arms , and they declare to all governments , guiltless of the perfidy ofthe Neapolitans , that the treaties which bind them shall never have been more faithfully observed in times past , than they shall be in times to come .
IN our last Number we noticed the commencement of hostilities b y Naples Upon the Roman Republic , now subject to the controul of France , without , a previous declaration of war . Ac the moment of this rupture , the Neapolitan force amounted to 100 , 000 effective men , militia and regulars , of which 80 , 000 of the best disciplined formed an army commanded b y the King in person .. -Before the French could collect a force sufficient , to resist this fb ' r-
HOSTILITIES COMMENCED BETWEEN FRANCE AND NAPLES .
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Besides these enrolled banditti , the Due d'Aust , a monster , the brother of the King , and heir to the throne , like another Old Man ofthe Mountain , never ceased to keep under his orders , and in his pay , a band of cut-t hroats , to whom he issued orders to assasinate such and such a Frenchman , and these orders were but-too faithfully executed . It is in vain to suppose that all these crimes were not imputable to the Sardinian Government , since the whole of its conduct has proved that it
was privy to every one of them . The principal places in Piedmont were occupied by French troops ; for those no provisions were to be obtained . The friends ofthe Republic were constantly thrown into prison , the Frenchmen insulted , and even their dress turned into derision ; the Emigrants were encouraged in their audacity ; those public officers who were most distinguished for their hatred towards the French , chiefly promoted ; the Barbels protected , even openly by their first magistrates ; poniards forged
and distributed to a vast number : in short , the most dreadful plots against the French p lanned and ready to be carried into execution . From an interrogatory , exhibited to one of" the Barbels , it appears that a person who was employed in the Custom-house at Turin , and who was commissioned to pay these banditti , had received from the Sardinian Government orders to distribute among the Chiefs of them boxes of poison , to be thrown into the wells which lay nearest to the French camp . It is evident that there exists the most intimate connection between the conduct of such a Government as this and that of the Court of Naples , in
their hostility to the French Republic ; this connection , maintained and supported-by so many crimes , would alone be sufficient to implicate the Court of" Turin in the guilt of the other , but a stronger proof is added , in the circumstance of the preparations for war being increased at Turin , in proportion as those at Naples were multiplied . The militia in the former place were called forth , and thirty thousand stand of arms were delivered to them . The Piedmontese troops inarched towards Loana and Oneilla ' at the
same moment in which the Neapolitan army attacked the Fi ench troops on the territory ofthe Roman Republic , in . which Sooo Neapolitans disembarked at Leghorn , and in which a new disembarkation was threatened on the coast of Liguria . It was in the same moment that the order to march on the first signal was given ; that Turin was filled with troops ; that 1500 poniards were distributed ; that the citadel was nearly besieged ; that the heights which command it were furnished with an extraordinary number of cannon ; and
that the Sardinian Government dared to require the evacuation of the citadel ami the diminution of our troops in Piedmont . In this situation of affairs- it was impossible for the French Government to separate two Courts obviousl y so hastily united against the French Republic .. But the Directory declares solemnly to Europe , that whatever may be the result of this war , no ambitious views shall intermeddle in the purity of the motives which have induced them to take up arms , and they declare to all governments , guiltless of the perfidy ofthe Neapolitans , that the treaties which bind them shall never have been more faithfully observed in times past , than they shall be in times to come .
IN our last Number we noticed the commencement of hostilities b y Naples Upon the Roman Republic , now subject to the controul of France , without , a previous declaration of war . Ac the moment of this rupture , the Neapolitan force amounted to 100 , 000 effective men , militia and regulars , of which 80 , 000 of the best disciplined formed an army commanded b y the King in person .. -Before the French could collect a force sufficient , to resist this fb ' r-
HOSTILITIES COMMENCED BETWEEN FRANCE AND NAPLES .