-
Articles/Ads
Article MONTHLY CHRONICLE. ← Page 3 of 4 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
In this perplexity , the Senate held two . extraordinary meetings without coming to a final decision . But . Tandy , as a . French General of Brigade , and Bjackwell , bearing also a commission in the French service , were immediately released from irons . For the other two prisoners , Morris and Peters , no . interference has been made by the French Minister : consequently their . fater appears certain . Both the French and English Ministers having sent to their respective Courts for instructions on this subject , the Senate has suspended
its deliberations till these instructions should arrive . FRANCE .
DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE KINGS OF NAPLES AND SARDINIA ,,-VAllIS , B £ C . 6 , I-98 . . \ THE Executive Directory has sent a Message to the Councils of Elders , spd of Five Hundred , in the following terms : ' The Court of Naples has completed the measure of its perfidies . You will see bthe letters of the Generals Joubert and Championet , and by
they rapy of a letter from , the Neapolitan General Mack to General Championet , that the French troops in the Roman Republic have been attacked by the-Neapolitan troops . Thus the moderation of the French Republic has onlyserved to increase the audacity of her enemies . The details , which shall beimmediately transmitted to you , will convince you that both the one and theother has been carried to the utmost extent . At present the first . object of the Government should consist in taking measures to repel the insolent at- ,
tacks of a perjured Court . The Executive Directory is also bound to de- ' clare to 3 'ou , that the Court of Turin , equally perfidious , is joined in . a common cause with our enemies , and thus puts the finishing hand to a long : train of crimes directed against the , prosperity of the French Republic . Citizens Representatives , the Executive Directory does , not conceal that the danger is imminent , but the energy of the Republic is still greater ; and now ,, when all the shadows of opinion about to disappearwhen all wishes
are , our ne about to-unite , and that the . Legislative Body is on the point ' of support-C ing , with all its means , the efforts of the Government , the projects of the enemies of the Republic will be again confounded , and the triumph of liberty will be for ever secured . The Executive Directory formally proposes to you to declare war against the Kings of Naples anel of Sardinia . " : The following documents . accompanied the Message :
COPY OF THE LETTER FROM CliNERAL CHAMPIONET TO GENERAL MACK , NOV . 23 . ' General—I am informed by the Commanders of the advanced corps of the Fiench army stationed in the Roman Republic , tha : you have causeei them to he summoned to evacuate their posts , threatening , in case of refusal , to nwrch your army against them , and that several of them giving way to su- ' p-eiinr force , have retreated . This conduct requires on your part a frank ;
a . nd candid explanation , and I demand it of you . Intrusted by my Government with the command of the army destined to protect the independence of [ ta Roman Republic , I am responsible to it for every breach of that inde-, p-ndence . On your si . tle , General , you are not less responsible for the blood which is about to flow , and the iiaiai . es which you shall kindle .. Consider , tjtat Peace exists between the French Republic and the Court of Naples ; that « -e- two Ambassadors of the two Governments , and all their diplomatic ¦ gents , still reside at Paris and Naples ; and finally , that nothing has broken . ( '' e ties established by the last Treaty of Peace between the French Republic
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
In this perplexity , the Senate held two . extraordinary meetings without coming to a final decision . But . Tandy , as a . French General of Brigade , and Bjackwell , bearing also a commission in the French service , were immediately released from irons . For the other two prisoners , Morris and Peters , no . interference has been made by the French Minister : consequently their . fater appears certain . Both the French and English Ministers having sent to their respective Courts for instructions on this subject , the Senate has suspended
its deliberations till these instructions should arrive . FRANCE .
DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE KINGS OF NAPLES AND SARDINIA ,,-VAllIS , B £ C . 6 , I-98 . . \ THE Executive Directory has sent a Message to the Councils of Elders , spd of Five Hundred , in the following terms : ' The Court of Naples has completed the measure of its perfidies . You will see bthe letters of the Generals Joubert and Championet , and by
they rapy of a letter from , the Neapolitan General Mack to General Championet , that the French troops in the Roman Republic have been attacked by the-Neapolitan troops . Thus the moderation of the French Republic has onlyserved to increase the audacity of her enemies . The details , which shall beimmediately transmitted to you , will convince you that both the one and theother has been carried to the utmost extent . At present the first . object of the Government should consist in taking measures to repel the insolent at- ,
tacks of a perjured Court . The Executive Directory is also bound to de- ' clare to 3 'ou , that the Court of Turin , equally perfidious , is joined in . a common cause with our enemies , and thus puts the finishing hand to a long : train of crimes directed against the , prosperity of the French Republic . Citizens Representatives , the Executive Directory does , not conceal that the danger is imminent , but the energy of the Republic is still greater ; and now ,, when all the shadows of opinion about to disappearwhen all wishes
are , our ne about to-unite , and that the . Legislative Body is on the point ' of support-C ing , with all its means , the efforts of the Government , the projects of the enemies of the Republic will be again confounded , and the triumph of liberty will be for ever secured . The Executive Directory formally proposes to you to declare war against the Kings of Naples anel of Sardinia . " : The following documents . accompanied the Message :
COPY OF THE LETTER FROM CliNERAL CHAMPIONET TO GENERAL MACK , NOV . 23 . ' General—I am informed by the Commanders of the advanced corps of the Fiench army stationed in the Roman Republic , tha : you have causeei them to he summoned to evacuate their posts , threatening , in case of refusal , to nwrch your army against them , and that several of them giving way to su- ' p-eiinr force , have retreated . This conduct requires on your part a frank ;
a . nd candid explanation , and I demand it of you . Intrusted by my Government with the command of the army destined to protect the independence of [ ta Roman Republic , I am responsible to it for every breach of that inde-, p-ndence . On your si . tle , General , you are not less responsible for the blood which is about to flow , and the iiaiai . es which you shall kindle .. Consider , tjtat Peace exists between the French Republic and the Court of Naples ; that « -e- two Ambassadors of the two Governments , and all their diplomatic ¦ gents , still reside at Paris and Naples ; and finally , that nothing has broken . ( '' e ties established by the last Treaty of Peace between the French Republic