STATE PAPERS. 



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Froclamation published in French 

 and Flemish, relative to the cir- 

 culation of assignats. — Liberty, 

 equality. 



THE representatives of the 

 French people, sent to the ar- 

 mies of the North, the Sanibre, and 

 the Meuse, hereby decree : 



!• That the assignatsof the French 

 repubhc shall be circulated in Brus- 

 sels and other conquered countries 

 in the same manner as metal mo- 

 ney. 



2. All the inhabitants, whether 

 merchants or others, are hereby 

 prohibited tVomtixing two prices for 

 their commodities, and from refu- 

 singor discrediting assi vnats, under 

 thepenalty of being regarded as the 

 enemies of the republic, and sent 

 to take their tria's before the revo- 

 lutionary tribunals of France. 



L. B- GuiTTON, Richard. 



13d Messidor, II th July, 2d year 



of the republic, one and indivisible. 



Department of Guaclaloupe. — Li- 

 berty, equality. 



Address to the refiublicans of the sea 

 and landforcesof the republic now 

 at Guadal()Upe,from the commis- 

 sioner deputed by the national con- 

 vention to the iviudward isles. 



Citizens, 



THE Romaiw, reduced to their 

 capitol, emerged to liberty 

 more terrible than before. Free- 

 men find resources in the most pres- 

 sing extremities. See, brave sans 

 culottes and intrepid marines, what 

 . has been your situation 1 few in 

 number, and without generals, you 

 liave vanfiuigbed armiesj you were 



reserved toexhibil to the universe a 

 spectacle the most astonishing. En- 

 joy your triumph with exultation, 

 even your enemies ndmlrcyour vir- 

 tue and your courage. 



******, Pitt, and their slaves, 

 had sent, at a vastexpense, land and 

 sea forces to efi'rct the conquest of 

 the French posse.ssions, an enterprise 

 of no difficulty, because they then 

 contained none butmasters and tieir 

 slaves. One republican battalion, 

 two frigates, three transports, (a 

 contrast how striking !) have de- 

 feated the savage Jervis, witli six: 

 ships, twelve frigates, and eight 

 smal. sloops of war ; and the hypo- 

 crite Grey, with twelve battalions 

 and his horde of aristocrats : yoa 

 have made them bite the dust j 

 great numbers have fillen into our 

 power, while, during a combat of 

 . forty days, not a single lepublican 

 has been made a prisoner. 



Your resolution in remaining at 

 your past, notwithstanding the tire 

 of the enemy, in spire of the bombs 

 and red-hot balls which ihey inces- 

 santly discharged upon us for thirty 

 days ; your exemplary conduct has 

 even excited their admiration ; not 

 a complaint has been raised against 

 you : you have respected property, 

 though you were in a country cf)n- 

 quered and taken by assault, and 

 though immense wealth has beea 

 exposed to your view. You have 

 thrown no person into mourning ; 

 you have caused no tears to.flow^ 

 nojmother hasdemanded of yen her 

 slaughtered son j no wife her but- 

 chered husband ; no chiidr n their 

 murdered father i'ut can our bar- 

 barous enemies say thus much? You 

 have heard the cries of the wretch- 

 ed, fiom whom they have, by cruel 

 massacres, torn fathcis, husbands, 

 and children. 

 N 3 yon 



