218 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1799. 
Proclamation of the Government at Brussels, in Answer to the Declaration 
of War on the Part of France. ant 
Marte Curistine, Princess ALBERT CasstmIR, Prince Roy- 
Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, alof Polandand Lithuania, Duke of 
Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Saxe-Teschen, Grand Cross of the 
Burgundy, Lorraine, and Saxe- Royal Order of St. Stephen, Field- 
Teschen, &c. 
Jesty the King of Hungary and Bo- 
Marshal of the Armies of his Ma- | 
hemia, and of those of the Holy Ro- 
man Empire, &c. mr 
Lieutenant-Governors and Captains-General of the Low-Countries, 8c. Sc. 
FACTION, by which the 
kingdom of France has for 
four years, been torn asunder, has 
just prevailed on his Most Christian 
Maiesty to sanction a declaration 
of war againsthis Apostolic Majes- 
ty, our most honoured lord and ne- 
phew. ‘The first acts of hostility 
seem to be directed against these 
provinces; and the enemies of all 
order and power, who are meditat- 
ing an aggression so unjust, found 
their hopes of success on the spirit 
of party which was unfortunately 
disseminated during the late trou- 
bles.—We will carefully attend to 
the defence of those provinces with 
the government of which we are 
entrusted, relying with confidence 
on the protection of the Lord of 
Hosts, who is pleased to manifest 
the effects of his omnipotence in 
favour of those who are inspired 
with a sacred respect for the laws, 
and for all powers by him ordained 
on the earth for the government of 
human societies. 
We flatter ourselves that every 
class of citizens will be animated 
with one spirit, and that they will 
vigilantly attend to the mainte- 
nance of internal tranquillity and 
the preservation of property, while 
we order to the frontiers part of his 
Majesty’s troops, full of glory, and 
crowned by victory under the two 
last reigns, until the league, formed 
between several great powers shall 
oppose a mound to the torrent of 
sinister projects which menace the 
overthrow of Europe.—We owe it 
to the faithful subjects of his Majes- 
ty, to inform them of the measures 
which we have adopted, during a 
whole year, in hopes of remaining 
at peace with France; and to warn 
them of the innumerable calamities 
which our enemies are eager to 
spread and perpetuate, under the 
specious veil of achimerical liberty, 
offered to a credulous multitude 
by an impious sect of innovators, 
soidisant philosophers, as the infalli- 
ble result of their mad projects. 
Theirs is not towar withthe princes 
of the earth, but against the re- 
ligion of our ancesto1s, against so- 
cial order, against prosperity, and 
against all the comforts which na- 
turally flow from it. They have 
already, by the adoption of their 
absurd systems, plunged their coun- 
try into all the horrors of anarchy. 
Jealous of the prosperity of those 
nations who still enjoy the fruits of 
social order, they have formed, for 
their own protection, the barbarous 
project of inspiring them with a si- 
milar delirium of propagating their 
errors, and with them all the cala- 
mities with which the kingdom of 
France is at this time afflicted. 
They — 
