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A Review Of The Conduct Of The French
provinces ; he plundered them ofthe scarcest relics and the most valuable productions of arts -and literature : he extorted from them such immense sums of money , that the bank of Venice , hitherto regarded as secure and firm , became insolvent , and was obliged to stop payment . Such has been the conduct of the enli ghtened French towards
countries in alliance with them . But they stopped not here . Success only tended to increase their rapacity . Their insolence took fresh strides . They then concluded preliminaries of peace with the House of Austria ; and stipulated therein to open a congress at P . astadt , a city in the marquisate of Baden , in the circle of Stiabia , in Germany , in
crder to settle all differences with the German empire . By this treaty with Austria they annihilated the ancient republic of Venice , and indemnified the Emperor for the loss ' of Belgium with the remaining part of the empire . But they did not f ' orgep themselves .: they took possession of the richest and most considerable of the Venetian Islands ; of Ceri go , Zephalonia , Maura , Paxo , and Corfu , to which they joined the cities of Butrinto and Voniaa , and its environs in Lower-Albania , and annexed the whole to the French Republic .
Notwithstanding the ratification and conclusion of peace with the house of Austria , the French perceived that something . still remained in the Pope's dominions worth their attention . They , therefore , in spite of these and former treaties , expelled his Holiness , verging on the brink ofthe grave through old age , and formed ofthe remainder of his states a new Roman republic ; this afforded them another
opportunity to gratify their insatiable desires for plunder . The Swiss republic had been one ofthe first allies of France ; b y her means she was rescued from famine . To reward the noble conduct of the Swiss , who had lived for a number of years under a government formed by themselves , in peace and tranquillity , the French , having recourse to their usual expedient , disseminated discord among them , merelfor the
y purpose of creating a pretext for sending an army into the country ; to rob them of their treasures ; to force upon them a new constitution , resembling their own ; and , by dividing their sentiments , to undermine their strength . From the beginning of the revolution they endeavoured to raise a factionfriendlto their interestin Genevaart ancient republic
, y , , , on the confines of France and Switzerland ; they now thouo-ht a favourable opportunity offered of making an acquisition of it , and by their artful machinations reduced the inhabitants to apply for permission to be joined to the Great Nation .
Phis , on the part of the French , was another violation ofthe peace Wade with the Emperor ; by adding the most populous city of Switzerland and the territories of that republic to their own , under the denomination of the department of the Lake Leman ( Le Lac Leman ) , they infringed upon the preliminaries already mutuall y agreed upo * between them and Jiis Imperial Majesty .
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A Review Of The Conduct Of The French
provinces ; he plundered them ofthe scarcest relics and the most valuable productions of arts -and literature : he extorted from them such immense sums of money , that the bank of Venice , hitherto regarded as secure and firm , became insolvent , and was obliged to stop payment . Such has been the conduct of the enli ghtened French towards
countries in alliance with them . But they stopped not here . Success only tended to increase their rapacity . Their insolence took fresh strides . They then concluded preliminaries of peace with the House of Austria ; and stipulated therein to open a congress at P . astadt , a city in the marquisate of Baden , in the circle of Stiabia , in Germany , in
crder to settle all differences with the German empire . By this treaty with Austria they annihilated the ancient republic of Venice , and indemnified the Emperor for the loss ' of Belgium with the remaining part of the empire . But they did not f ' orgep themselves .: they took possession of the richest and most considerable of the Venetian Islands ; of Ceri go , Zephalonia , Maura , Paxo , and Corfu , to which they joined the cities of Butrinto and Voniaa , and its environs in Lower-Albania , and annexed the whole to the French Republic .
Notwithstanding the ratification and conclusion of peace with the house of Austria , the French perceived that something . still remained in the Pope's dominions worth their attention . They , therefore , in spite of these and former treaties , expelled his Holiness , verging on the brink ofthe grave through old age , and formed ofthe remainder of his states a new Roman republic ; this afforded them another
opportunity to gratify their insatiable desires for plunder . The Swiss republic had been one ofthe first allies of France ; b y her means she was rescued from famine . To reward the noble conduct of the Swiss , who had lived for a number of years under a government formed by themselves , in peace and tranquillity , the French , having recourse to their usual expedient , disseminated discord among them , merelfor the
y purpose of creating a pretext for sending an army into the country ; to rob them of their treasures ; to force upon them a new constitution , resembling their own ; and , by dividing their sentiments , to undermine their strength . From the beginning of the revolution they endeavoured to raise a factionfriendlto their interestin Genevaart ancient republic
, y , , , on the confines of France and Switzerland ; they now thouo-ht a favourable opportunity offered of making an acquisition of it , and by their artful machinations reduced the inhabitants to apply for permission to be joined to the Great Nation .
Phis , on the part of the French , was another violation ofthe peace Wade with the Emperor ; by adding the most populous city of Switzerland and the territories of that republic to their own , under the denomination of the department of the Lake Leman ( Le Lac Leman ) , they infringed upon the preliminaries already mutuall y agreed upo * between them and Jiis Imperial Majesty .