STATE PAPERS. 
Decree of War against the King of 
Hungary and Bohemia, April 20. 
HE National Assembly, delibe- 
rating on the formal proposition 
of the King, considering that the 
court of Vienna, in contempt of 
treaties, has continued to grant an 
open protection to the French re- 
bels; that it has excited and formed 
a concert with several powers of 
Europe against the independence 
and security of the French nation : 
* That Francis I. King of Hun- 
gary and Bohemia, has by his notes 
of the 18th of March and 7th of 
April last, refused to renounce this 
concert: 
« That, notwithstanding the pro- 
position made to him by the note of 
11th of March, to reduce, on both 
sides, to a peace-establishment the 
troops on the frontiers, he has con- 
tinued and increased the hostile 
preparation : 
«© That he has formally infringed 
the sovereignty of the French na- 
tion, by declaring that he would 
support the pretensions of the Ger- 
man Princes, possessionaries in 
France, to whom the French na- 
tion have continued to hold out in- 
demnifications : 
«« That he has attempted to di- 
vide the French citizens, and to 
arm them against one another, by 
holding out support to the malcon- 
tents in the concert of the powers: 
considering in fine, that the refusal 
of an answer to the last dispatches 
of the King of the French, leaves 
no longer any hope to obtain, by 
the means of amicable negotiation, 
the redress of those different griev- 
ances, and amounts to a declaration 
of war, decrees that there exists a 
case of urgency. 
“The National Assembly de- 
elares, that the French nation, faith- 
ful to the principles consecrated by 
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the constitution not to undertake 
any war with the view of making 
conquests, and never to employ its 
force against the liberty of any peo- 
ple, only take up arms in defence 
of their liberty and their indepernd- 
ence; that the war into which 
they are compelled to enter, is not 
a war of nation against nation, but 
the just defence of a free people, 
against the unjust oppression of a 
monarch. That the French will 
never confound their brothers with 
their enemies; that they will neg- 
lect nothing to soften the rigours 
of war, to preserve their property, 
and prevent it from sustaining any 
injury, and to bring down upon the 
heads of those alone who league 
themselves against liberty, all the 
evils inseparable from war. 
“¢ That it adopts all those fo- 
reigners, who, abjuring the cause 
of its enemies, shall join its stand- 
ard, and consecrate their efforts to 
the defence of freedom ; that it will 
even favour, by all the means in 
its power, their establishment in 
l'rance. 
** Deliberating on the formal 
propositions of the King, and after 
having decreed the case of urgency, 
decrees war against the King of 
Hungary and Bohemia.” 
Address from the Representatives of 
the I'rench People, to the Citizens 
armed for the Defence of the Coun- 
try. 
THE fate of our liberty; that, 
perhaps, of the liberty of the world, 
isin your hands. We do not tell 
you of our confidence ; that, like 
your courage, is unbounded. We 
have not provoked the war; and, 
when the king proposed to us to 
revenge, at length, the outrages 
upon the national dignity, we 
resisted, for a long time, the wish 
expressed by thegeneral pai sa 
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