plying it with the objects of fubfiftence, supplies of provifion and cloathing, of which it has occafion in the countries where it is established; wishing to avoid the means of particular requifitions, and the intervention of fubaltern agents, they think it most agreeable to address themselves to the states general, and formally invite them to fupply them in the space of one month with the following quantities, viz. 200,000 quintals of wheat avoir- hay. 200,000 rations of straw. flatter themselves that all the citizens of the united states, and all the constituted authorities, will use the fame zeal to fecond their views and amicable intentions. Every necessary measure shall be taken to fettle for the payment of the above articles. (Signed) N. HAUSSMAN, Proclamation, figned at the Hague, 27th. Jan. 1795. THE States General of the Unit 5 millions bushels of corn. ed Provinces, to all who shall fee or 150,000 pair of shoes. 40,000 pair of breeches. To be delivered further, within two months, 12,000 oxen. These different objects are to be delivered at Thiel, Nimeguen, and Bois le Duc, at three different times. The representatives of the people anxiously expect, that the States General will comply with the above request, and do every thing in their power to prevent their fellow-citizens from being troubled with the forms of a requifition, always perplexing to the inhabitants; and that they will use every exertion to complete their contingent. They hope that the flow form of ordinary adminiftration, and the doubts of the competence of their authority, which may put fome stoppage to this operation, will be carefully fet afide. They have a right to 3 hear these presents greeting-give to know, that the representatives of the French nation now in this country have intimated to us, that it is necessary that speedy provifion should be made of several articles appertaining to the subsistence and cloathing of the French troops, namely the following, 200,000 quintals of corn. 5 million of rations of hay, at 15lb. each. 5 millions measures of oats, at 10lb. each, heavy weight. 200,000 rations of straw, at 10lb. each.. 150,000 pairs of shoes. 20,000 pairs of boots. 20,000 cloth coats and waift coats. 40,000 pairs of stocking breeches. 150,000 pairs of troufers, of coarse linen, 200,000 shirts. 50,000 hats. All which are to be delivered at Nimeguen, Thiel, and Bois le Duc, within the space of a month, in three inftalments and besides, 12,000 oxen within two months. The above-mentioned reprefentatives have also added, that instead of following the practice introduced in other countries which their troops have entered, namely, that the requifitions of fimilar articles have been made, published, and carried into execution by themselves, they have chosen to treat this republic in another manner, and thereby prove the inclination of the French nation, to confider it in the light of an approaching ally; and, of confequence, have begged of us to effectuate the delivery of the abovementioned neceffaries in the specified quantities, and at the appointed times and places, adding, at the fame time, that the payment thall be regulated according to arrangements which shall afterwards be made with the government. Convinced of the neceffity of taking the most effectual measures for complying with the faid requifitions, we have judged that the best and least burthensome method of accomplishing this object, will be for the government to contract for the articles in question, and for the respective provinces to furnish the neceffary funds. We doubt not that the inhabitants will be convinced of the abfolute neceffity of enabling their provincial fovereigns to furnith these neceffary funds without the smallest delay; but we think it nevertheless necessary to hold up to all, conjunctly and severally, the diftress to which they must expose theunselves, if they manifeft the leaft unwillingness or even procraftination; for we are intimately perfuaded of the serious intention VOL. XXXVII. of the above-mentioned representatives of the French nation that these requifitions shall be complied with, at the appointed time, and must therefore warn all, in the most impreffive manner, that they will have themselves to blame if measures of force and violence must be employed to obtain what we with to fee accomplished with the greatest possible order and regularity. With this view it will be necefsary that those persons who have any provision of the required articles, should not refuse to allow the fame to be judicially valued at a reasonable price, to fell and deliver them to the perfons entrusted with the execution of this work, and manifeft every possible readiness to co-operate for the proper conveyance of the goods to the appointed places: and that in order not only to prevent the confequences with which non-compliance with the requifition of the abovementioned representatives will necessarily be attended, but alfo on pain of being rigorously punished for disobedience or unwillingness, according to the exigency of the case. And that no person may pretend ignorance, we call upon and defire the lords, the states, their deputies in the respective provinces, and all jufticiaries and officers of the fame, to publish immediately, affix, and make known this our proclamation in all places where it may be necessary, and is usual to post up such publications. Resolved and concluded in the assembly of their high mightineffes the States General of the United Provinces, at the Hague, the 27th of January, 1795. (Signed) G. L. RouSE. B. P. VAN LELYVELD. Undersigned, by reason of the abfence of the greffier. Proclamation at the Hague, 11th Pluwiose, 30 January, 1795, the third Year of the French Republic, one and indivifible. THE representatives of the French people, with the armies of the North, the Sambre, and the Meuse, decree as follows: Art. 1. All goods, both moveable and immoveable, ships, merchandise, claims, and property of any kind whatever, belonging to governments at war with the French republic, or of French emigrants; likewise those of priests, monks, members of churches, or spiritual corporations, having emigrated from the conquered provinces between the Rhine and the fea, also all goods whatever given in truft by members of churches and corporations, are seized and confifcated for the benefit of the French republic. 2. All fuch perfons as are debtors, concealers, or detainers of what is mentioned in the above article, are to give inventories of the fame to the magiftrates of their circuits, within eight days after the publication of these prefents. All fuch as neglect to conform themselves to it are to pay a fine of double the value of the article of which they have not given in any account as above stated. The fourth part of the fine, and likewife one fourth of the value of the goods not declared, shall belong to the difcoverers and informers. 3. An agent-general shall be aр pointed for all the united provinces, who is to collect all the above inventories, and dispose of the things mentioned therein, according to the inttructions he shall receive from the representatives of the people. The magistrates are to deliver to him all the declarations made to them. 4. It is forbidden to accept of any notes or bills of exchange, or to make any negociations or loans for or on account of governments at war with the French republic, upon pain of confifcation of the whole value of such objects. The tranfgreffors of this thall be confidered and dealt with as enemies of the French republic. 5. It is forbidden to all civil and military agents of the French republic, to seize upon any treasure belonging to towns, communes, or to the government of the United Netherlands, upon pain of arrest. 6. What has been decreed by these presents shall be addressed to the States General, defiring them to fend it to the respective States of the United Provinces, in order to be printed in both languages, and to be sent to, and posted up, without delay, in all the towns, communes, and ports of the United Provinces. Signed upon the original. NS. HAUSSMANN, JOUBERT, and ROBERJOT. Conformable to the original, (Signed) NS. HAUSSMANN. Proclamation of the Provisional Repre fentatives of the People of dmSterdam. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. laft, you established us your provifional representatives, at the inftance of the revolutionary committee, and when you called us to the town-house to take on us the provisional government of this city, we refolved that no difficulty whatever should deter us from accepting that awful'truft in a moment so import ant. The apprehenfion of the terrible confequences which might be drawn on by anarchy were of but short duration; for of the lively sense we entertained of the diforder, confufion, and despair, which would infallibly result from it, we drew so strong and melancholy a picture, that all oppofition, even the moft well-founded, vanished before it. The just fear of our faculties being perhaps unequal to a talk fo difficult; the sacrifice of our occupations, of our repose, and of our domeftic enjoyments; all these gave way to this fingle decifive confideration, that your interests, and your security, required an immediate administration: and that if we defired to withdraw from that with which you charged us provifionally, we really would render our selves responsible for all the horrors that anarchy might bring upon us. Citizens, fuch have been our motives, such have been our views. It is in them we confide, in the purity of our intentions, in a cause the most facred, the most just, the most fublime of all causes, that of liberty; it is in these we trust, and above all, in the assistance of the Almighty, whom we adore without fuperftition, and in the respectful hope of his approbation, we have courageously undertaken the arduous taik which you have imposed on us. Our first work, citizens, has been to declare folemnly, and with a lively emotion, that the facred principles of justice and of equity thould be the fole guide of our actions: that no base motive of vengeance, that no confideration different from those principles should influence our conduct; and that the prefervation of order in a city so populous, that the security of prfons and of property against all attack, under whatever pretext or colour, should be with us the order of the day during our provifional adminiftration. How flattering and confolatory must it be to us, dear citizens! to have been able to accomplish this great object of our appointment! How happy is it for you, and all of us, that the fublime cause of liberty has not been fullied by any irregularity! How honourable for humanity, that at the dawn of liberty this town has been the theatre of the most pure sentiments of joy and fraternity, and not of those of animofity, of hatred, and of vengeance! What weet emotions does not the true patriot and the friend of humanity feel in being able to fay, that in a city so populous as Amsterdam, we have, in the moment of the restoration of liberty, seen tears of joy flow, but not one drop of the blood of our fellow-citizens! What an admirable example for our Batavian brethren in the other cities of the republic! The Batavians shew themselves generous in the midst of their victories: they forget, they despise the injuries that have been done to them; they cordially hold out the hand of fraternity to all those who have erred: they feek not vengeance nor pillage, but liberty: they are generous in respect to the past, but they will punish the more feverely the future offences against the cause of freedom. Such, citizens, are our principles: you have thewn by your fteady and tranquil conduct that they are also your's: it is to them that you owe the quiet of this city; and the great end of our provifional administration is fulfilled. Amsterdam, may take care of your interests, and constitute all the fubdivifions of the adminiftrations of this city, and its different branches, in fuch manner as the nature of things shall require. In the mean time, the different committees fhall remain in their functions till the assembly which will replace us shall have made in that respect the proper arrangements. For these reasons, and to the end that the appeal to the citizens, It is time then, citizens, as we and the manner of voting for the think, to terminate our adminis- election of new representatives tration; and cordially thanking may be conducted in a manner, you all for the confidence you the least subject to corruption, to have teftified in us, we return confufion, or to illicit influence, into the class of our fellow-citizens, we have thought it our duty, as and remit into their hands the your provifional representatives, powers you have given us: let and for accomplishing this deambitious tyrants, let cowards in pofts, into which they have intruded themselves, endeavour to support their ufurped authority by a thousand fecret plots; the true patriot knows no poft more noble, nor no place more elevated, than the ftate of a citizen, and he remits with fatisfaction his powers into the bosom of those from whom he received them. But though every thing goes on with order at present, previous to refigning our administration there must be made, in a regular manner, and in a proper place for that object, an appeal to all the citizens and inhabitants of this city, on purpose that they may choose for their fupreme adminiftration a proper number of representatives who may be able to replace us, under the name of a municipality, or under any other name whatever; and who chosen by your voice, freely given, to be the reprefentatives of the people of firable end, to make use of the Proclaimed and published at |