214. ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



system of spoil, the incredulity im- 

 posed by force, of the French. 



But if, on the other hand, you 

 should be so unfortunate, like those 

 inhabitants of the Belgic provinces 

 who now groan in the bosom of 

 calamity, depiived of their proper- 

 ly, of their liberty, of their altars, 

 as to suffer yourselves to be misled 

 by secret seducers, we shall find 

 ourselves obliged to pass the Rhine, 

 to leave youaprey to your enemies, 

 and to withdraw from you, without 

 ceremony, whatever the enemy 

 might find among you for their sub- 

 sistence. 



r)one at our head quarters, at 

 Fouron-le-Compte, July CO, 

 1794. 

 (Signed) The Prince of Co- 

 bo u kg, Field- 

 marshal. 



Note deliiered, bi/ the Austrian envoy 

 at the diet of Ralislon, on the part 

 the emperor, to demand the seme 



■ of the Germanic states, respecting 

 the necessity of arming all the in- 

 halitants on the frontiers of Ger- 

 many, and thefurnishingofu tri- 

 ple contingent on the part of the 

 sa'ul states. 



ALL Europe knows the mani- 

 fold and just grounds which 

 have compelled the Germanic em- 

 pire, united under its supreme chief, 

 to declare a general war, for the 

 maintenance of the most binding 

 covenants and the most sacred trea- 

 ties ; for the preservation of social 

 order, from a wild, destructive, and 

 most anarchic tyranny, falsely called 

 freedom ; for the defence of an ac- 

 knowledged religion from pestilen- 

 tial atheism ; for 'he support of the 

 constitution of (he empire against 



an arbitrary, horrible, and universal 

 revolutionary power; for keeping 

 up the imperial liont ur; for the 

 protection and future security of the 

 imperial privileges and the frontiers, 

 and for obtaining a suitable and en- 

 tire satisfactirnagainst the conmion 

 enemy of all public order, against 

 the most wanton disturhers of all 

 the beneficent ties of social happi- 

 ness, and the most cruel despots 

 an dviolnters of themost sacred rights 

 of mankind. 



Equally well known are the dif- 

 ferent splendid victories, from the 

 first day of the openiny of tl'e last 

 campaign, which were gained blow 

 upon blow by the mo.st incredible 

 bravery of the German troops on 

 the Rhine, the Ruhr, the Maas, 

 the Mayne, theMoz^lle. &c. which 

 were happily followed by the deli- 

 verance of the united Nctherlai^ds, 

 invaded in the n)ost lawless man- 

 ner, and the etnancipation of many 

 other German districts and import- 

 ant countries, from the sway of 

 false French liberty; the capture of 

 Conde, the re-capture of the city 

 and itnportant fortress of Mentz, 

 the taking of Valenciennes, Ques- 

 noy, &c. 



But this campaign, so glorious 

 for battles, sieges, and conquests, 

 could not bring back the French to 

 a more equitable and more just 

 sense of reason, principle and ac- 

 tion, towards the Germanic nation 

 offended to the highest degiee. — 

 That faction, hostile to the human 

 race, which styles itself the nation- 

 al convention of France, strength- 

 ens daily her power of resistance 

 by I he most terrible means, by num- 

 berless arbitrary confiscations, by 

 the plundering of the churches and 

 the rich, having already seized the 

 properly of the clergy, nobility, 



and 



