212 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



country so populous, and on a nation 

 ■forniierly recognized as brave and 

 warlike. 



Given at our head-quarters, at 



Tournay, 26lh May, 1/94. 

 To our reverend fathers, &c. 



(Signed) Francis. 



Proclamation issued hy the Austrian 

 governmevf, exhorting the pcr^ple 

 of the Austrian Netherlands to rise 

 in a viass, Brussels, June 23, 



THE emperor's armies are still 

 intire: victory iiasoflencrown- 

 ed their glorious efforts ; but they 

 are wearied by continual battles : 

 and, ptrhaps, the inactivity of the 

 Belgians may diminish their ardour, 

 when they see tliat it is not felt by 

 ihe nation they are defending. A 

 rapid march into the enemy's terri- 

 tory presented prospects more bril- 

 liant j but glory was sacrificed to 

 your snicty. Powerful re-inforce- 

 mentsare expected : but the dan- 

 ger, though momentary, is urgent ; 

 you have no time to lose. The ge- 

 neral arming, to which wein\ite 



•Belgium, implies neither a regular 



incorporating with the arm)', nor 



• taking up arms for any'length of 



time, nor even a difficult war ; for 



.disciplined and courageous armies 

 support you> and the august brother 

 of our master, the accustomed or- 

 gan of his.sentimentsin your favour, 

 will guide your eForts, and march 

 at your head. Merely to arm, is 

 at once to destroy the audacity and 

 the hopes of the enemy. 



Religion, constitution, property, 



.the sovereign who wears you all in 



.his heart, who tame among you 

 without guards, who tmsted him- 

 self to your love, who esteenvs you 



— These are the watchwords that 

 will organize you ; and your zeal 

 and your courage will never deceive 

 our hopes. 



Exhortation of the Prince of Saxe . 

 Col'ourg to the inhalitants of the \ 

 countri/ on theldnhsof the Rhine, 

 and Moselle. 



German brothers and friends, 



OtJR valourous armies havejust 

 quitted the fertile plains, in 

 vhich they have sustained the most 

 severecombats, during three bloody 

 campaigns, for the preservation of ,1 

 your proper*-,-, the repose of your 

 lives, the security of your fields, 

 the maintenance of your religion, 

 the happiness of you^ children, the 

 richt's of yourflourishing provinces, 

 and to save those provinces from 

 ruin and complete annihilation — 

 pLiins in which they maintained, at 

 the cxpence of their blood, which 

 has flowed for three successive years, 

 ihe glorj' of their aims, by the ge- 

 I'jcrous sacrifice of their lives and 

 of their means; while they sacri- 

 ficed those dearest ties, which at- 

 tach men of distant nations, not less 

 than yourselves, to their home.s, 

 and to their country ; and wfiife 

 they voluntarily renounced all the 

 domestic happiness they had a right 

 to expect. 



The inexhaustible resources of a 

 nation in a state of furor, uhich 

 sports with the life and happiness of 

 man, with rellgio:;, -.vith the du*" 

 ties, v.ith the bands of civil socie- 

 ty; its innumerable cohorts wliich 

 are led to slaughter by their tyrants, 

 and who, hy lavishing their blood, 

 purchase the fleeting shftdow of an 

 imaginary liberty ; the inactivity of 

 a blinded people, who would liot 

 listen to the approach of danger, 

 any mere than to the paternal voice 



of 



