houfes in our poffeffion, and we make a folemn promife never to bear arms against the republic. Done under the tent, the 29th Pluviofe (new ftyle) the 3d year of the republic. (Signed) CHARETTE, FLEURIOT, GUERIN AINE, CAILLAUD,' DEBRUE JEUNE, PRUDHOMME, BOSSARD LE JEUNE, AUVINET FILS AINE. A fimilar declaration was made. by the officers, compofing the military council of the army of Anjou. (Signed) NoToUIN, DELAVILLE, DEBAUGE, RONOU, MARTIN AINE, MARTIN LE JEUNE, HIRTAN, MARTIN, ET GIBERT. A third declaration, on the part of the Chouans, was made on the 28th Ventofe. (Signed) COMARTIN, SOLILLHAC, DE SCEPEAUX, DIENSIE, COURLET, ET MENARD. Addrefs of CHARETTE, and the other Leaders, to the Inhabitants of La Vendee, laid before the Convention on the 14th March; 1795. their fellow-men, feek now to millead you. They impute to our meafures difhonourable motives; they pervert our benevolent intentions; and they give to the treaty, which we have concluded, falfe and perfidious colours; with unparalleled impudence they circulate reports calculated to infufe into every bofom miftruft, terror, and difcord. BRAVE inhabitants! Vile feducers, infamous intriguers, ambitious and perverfe men, who build their happiness and their enjoyments on the ruins of the public fortune, and who facrifice, without remorfe, to the fuccefs of their guilty defigns, the lives and property of your To watch over your interefts, to forget our own, to labour for good, without any perfonal confiderations-fuch is the glorious task which we propofed to ourselves; we think that we have not wandered from this honourable line of conduct. Since, however, the malevolent dare yet to raise doubts, and inju rious fufpicions refpecting our con duct, it is our duty to diffipate them, and to undeceive and instruct you; we shall now fulfil that duty. We are not ignorant, brave inhabitants, of the powerful reafons which provoked you to infprrection, and which put arms in your, hands. The most deadly blows were aimed at the freedom of your reli gious opinions. New pontiffs and a new worship had been established upon the ruins of your own. Intolerance hunted every where for the guilty, and delighted in feizing victims. The infolent defpotifm of the authorities established for your protection the corvées of all kinds, and vexation of every spe cies aggravated the afflicting pic ture. When the principle of a dan gerous evil is entirely deftroyed, the difagreeable confequences, that flow from it ought to exift De longer. The neceflity of putting an end to the melancholy confe quences quences, at the fame time with the fource of them, is one of your moft urgent neceffities, and one of your moft facred duties. The peaceful exercife of your religion is granted to you. You may fecurely make ufe of this imprefcriptible right, which could not be taken from you without a total difregard of your rights. From this moment you are free to offer to the Supreme Being your homage and your gratitude, according to your antient ufages. Your unhappy country has been laid wafte; fire has confumed your habitations, an unbridled foldiery has exercised on your perfons and property the most horrible robberies. But the national convention has folemnly promifed to indemnify you for your loffes, and to repair, as far as poffible, all the evils occafioned by a fyftem of profcription and in juftice. Succours are granted to you to rebuild your cottages. Cattle will be given you to revive agriculture and to procure you the comforts of life. You will not long regret the want of your inftruments of labour. You will not hear of taxes, till the period arrives in which your recovered happiness fhall afford you the means of contributing to the wants of the state. Let not the difconfolate widow and the infirm father tremble for the fate of their children whom the laws may call to the defence of the republic. No; misfortune and old age will not be deprived of their fupport.-What, could the republic refolve to deprive misfortene of its fupport, and refpectable old age of its prop? no: the nation difpenfes with your going to protect the frontiers, and only impofes upon you the easy task of labouring in your fields to affift in the nourishing her defenders. You have furnished, for the subfiftence of armies, the fruit of the fweat of your brow, and your œconomy. We have given you receipts for it; the national convention will pay the amount. What remains for you to defire? what difquiets can fill agitate hearts fo long torn, it is true, by refentment and misfortune? will you fear being oppreffed anew by authorities unworthy of your confidence? Difmifs your fears, brave inhabitants; let fecurity re-enter your minds, and drive thence horrible defpair. The men whofe odious yoke you dread with reafon; the men who are as much the enemies of their country as your enemies, will no more be the depofitories of power which they abused fo cruelly. The representatives of the people will confult us on the choice of men to replace them; we will point out to them perfons known to you; perfons who have acquired your efteem and our's; perfous who, to fweeten your exiftence, are ready to facrifice their pleafures, their fortunes. Could you then think, brave inhabitants, that we are capable of bafely betraying your interefts? after having fupported them with fo much ardour, ought you to fear for a moment that we are capable of giving the lie to the condu&t we have conftantly held ? Ah, if thefe injurious fentiments proceeded from your hearts; if we were to impute them to jealoufy and malevolence, how muft our hearts be for ever afflicted! how thould we fupport the fhocking 04 idea, idea, that in withing to make men happy, we had only made them ungrateful. But what, are not your interefts our interefts? are not our friends, our wives, our children among you? do not our poffeffions join your fields? yes, undoubtedly; and however precious may be thefe connections, think not that they have furnished the motives which have determined our conduct. We have thought only of you, we have facrificed every thing for your happiness; and in eftablishing it on a fure and durable foundation, we have referved only to ourfelves the incftimable advantage of being the witneffes of it. (Signed) CHARETTE, FLEURIOT, SAPINAUD, Extract from the Regifter of the States General of the United Provinces, Jan. 18th. WE have heard the report of Meffrs. de Grotenray, and other deputies for military affairs; we have alfo examined a letter from his highness, dated from the Hague this day, and ftating, "that, as from the fituation of the republic his highnefs fore fees the fate that awaits the country, in cafe the enemy penetrate further, and as he is unwilling to be an obstacle to the making of peace, he has taken the refolution to retire for a time out of the country; he hopes that their high mightineffes will not difapprove of this ftep, and he prays that the Supreme Being will beftow his bleflings upon the provinces, and reftore them to their former profperity. "His highness protests that he has done every thing in his power for the good of his country. He expreffes his regret that he has not been able to do more for the general good; and he afferts, that if circumstances permit him to be again ufeful to his country, their high mightineffes fhall always find him ready to exert his utmost endeavours. He concludes by informing the States General, that his two fons, who have received permiffion to refign their military commands, will leave the country with him." The States General having taken the above circumftances into their confideration, and having confidered that the exifting circumftances require immediate measures, and that the ordinary forms of difcuffion and deliberation cannot be followed, decree previously, that what fhall be done and refolved upon, in the present pofture of affairs, is not to be confidered as a precedent; without any prejudice, therefore, to any ulterior deliberation, it is determined, that information shall be communicated to the commanders of regiments and corps in the fervice, as well as to all governors and commanders of towns and places occupied by the troops of the State; that the prince of Orange and Naflau has abfented himself for fome time, and that the princes of Orange, his fons, have been difcharged from the command of the army. All colonels, or commanding officers, as well as governors and commanders, are therefore to addrefs themfelves provifionally to the council of state of the United Low Countries on the subjects of thofe orders which they have hitherto received from the faid princes. It is alfo decreed, that the private fecretary of his highnefs, Larrey, fhall be written to, to fend immediately to the council all letters addreffed to his highnefs on military affairs. Extract from the Records of the Deliberations of the States General of Monday, Jan. 19, 1795. THE counsellor penfionary Vanden Spiegel has communicated to their high mightineffes a letter which he received from the ftadtholder, written on board the pink Johanna Hogenraat, off the road of Schevelling, dated January the 18th, with the note annexed thereto, worded as follows: "Sir, "I was informed, by Mr. D'Eughuyza, of the anfwer received from Paris. Sinee his departure, I difcourfed with the officers of the marine, and the pilot of the pink: I fubjoin you their replies; by which you will fee that it is impoffible to land any where elfe but in England; and, as there exifts no armiftice, it cannot be required of me, that I fhould be wandering on the feas, in expectation of the fuccefs of the deputies of the affembly of the States of Holland, fent to the French general, who, in my opinion, will not prevent the arrival of the French at the Hague: I will make then one of the ports of England; and as foon as I can poffibly do it, I will go on board of one or other fhip of the States, which I fuppofe are at Plymouth. I hope, fir, to write to you from thence, in order to inform you of the place I landed at, and the pro Questions put by the Prince of Orange, William the 5th, Stadtholder, Captain and Hereditary Admiral General of the United Provinces, to the under-written, on the 18th of January, 1795, in the evening. Queft. 1. WILL it be poffible at this moment to make one of the ports of the republic? Answ. There is not the least poffibility; the wind is east, the paffages are obftructed by the ice, and the pink not ftrong enough to be expofed in the icicles. Queft. 2. Is there any poffibility of landing any where elfe, but in England? Anfw. No; the fame impoffibility exifts for all other ports, on account of the ice; the Elbe, the Wefer, as well as the Eaftern and Western Ems, are fo much incumbered with ice, that none of their ports can be entered. Queft. 3. Will it be prudent to remain here at anchor; and by taking this refolution, is there no danger to be foreseen? Anfw. The weather is now favourable, but if the wind fhould fhift about to the weft, which is often the cafe at the turn of the tide, and if the weather grows tempeftuous, there would moft probably be fome danger if it was refolved to go afhore again; befides, we fhould be expofed to the attacks of the enemy, if they fhould come from the road fide with armed vetiels. (Signed) J.O.VAILLANT, fhip's captain. G.VAN. HEIDEN, lieutenant of the navy. (Lower) The mark of JAN Roos, pilot of the pink called Johanna Hogenraat. General Daendels' Proclamation to the Dutch inviting them to furrender. Head Quarters at Leerdam, the 28th Nivofe (1th Jan. 1795) Third Year of the Republic. THE reprefentatives of the French people require of the Dutch nation that it thall fet itfelf free: they do not with it to. fubmit to the conquerors; they do not wifh to compel the acceptance of aflignats, but only to ally themfelves with it as a free people: that Dordrecht, Haerlem, Leyden, and Amfterdam; that all the province of Holland make in this manner the revolution, and inform the reprefentatives of it by their deputies at Bois le Duc. The General of Divifion. Irclamation of the Revolutionary Committee of Amfterdam. Brave citizens, WE G. Pruys, S. Wifeleus, J. J. A. Goges, J. Thoen, D. Von Laer, J. Ondoup, E. Vandenfluis, P. Duereult, J. Van Haffen, P. J. B. P. Vander Aa, forming your revolutionary committee, hail you with vows of health and fraternity. By the mighty aid of the French republic, and by your own energy, you have caft off the tyranny which oppreffed you. You are once more in poffeffion of your rights. YOU ARE FREE, YOU ARE EQUAL! Your tyrants have fled from their pofts. Fellow-citizens, you may follow with confidence and fecurity your ufual avocations. Your perions, your properties, fhall be protected. We propose to you to name as your provifional reprefentatives the following burghers. Be allured that they will watch over and protect your rights, your interefts, and your liberties. The citizens whom we propofe are-N. Van Staphoerft, J. Van Bieterfe, A. P. Leyden. G. Titfing, J. Van Eys, W. Vander Vuurfi, J. Teuffet Junia, J. W. J. Van Dam, S. Bos, G. H. de Wilde, H. T. Kate, Karel d'Amoer, H. Van Caftrop, R. I. Schimmelpenning, N. Breukelaar, G. Vander Zoo, D. Vanaken, J. L. Hendras, M. Van Maurick, J. Galdberg, J. Van Lang. Chufe, fellow-citizens, thefe patriots as your reprefentatives, that, in the name of the people of Amfterdam, they may forthwith enter upon the adminiftration of your affairs. We once more hail you, worthy fellow-citizens. By your own patriotifm, with the aid and under the guidance of fuch reprefentatives, order, tranquillity, and happinefs, will reign in this city. The Frenchmen |