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upon our own soil: we have to 
avenge the excesses committed in 
our fields; and it may be readily 
believed that a war against republi- 
cans proud of their liberty must be 
a bloody war, which can never end 
but with the entire destruction of the 
oppressors or the oppressed. —This 
dreadful reflection ought to agitate 
the heart of a just and humane king. 
He ought to consider that, instead 
of protecting by his arms Louis XVI. 
and his family, the more he conti- 
nues our enemy, the more he will 
aggravate their calamities. 
I hope, for my part, that the King, 
whose virtues I respect, and who has 
shewn me marks of esteem which 
do me honour, will be pleased to 
Tread with attention this note, dictat- 
ed by the love of humanity and of 
my country. He will pardon the 
hurry and incorrectness of the style 
of these truths from an old soldier, 
occupied still more essentially with 
military operations, which must de- 
cide the fate of the war. 
(Signed) Dumouriez, 
Commander of the Army 
of the North. 
Declaration of theDuke of Brunswick. 
HEN their Majesties the Em- 
peror and the King of Prussia 
entrusted me with the command of 
their armies, which have since en- 
tered France, and rendered me the 
organ of their intentions, expressed 
in the two declarations of the 25th 
and 27th of July 1792, their Ma- 
jesties were incapable of supposing 
the scenes of horror which have 
preceded and brought on the im- 
prisonment of the royal family of 
France. Such enormities, of which 
the history of the most: barbarous 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
nations hardly furnishes an example, 
were not, however, the ultimate 
point to which the same audacious 
demagogues aspired. 
Thesuppression of the King’s fune- 
tions, which had been reserved to him 
by the constitution (so long boasted 
as expressing the national wish) 
was the last crime of the Nation= 
al Assembly, and which has brought 
on France the two dreadful scourges 
of war and anarchy. There is but 
one step more necessary to perpe- 
tuate those evils; and a thoughtless 
caprice, the forerunner of the fall- 
of nations, has overwhelmed those 
who qualify themselves the substi- 
tutes of the nation, to confirm its 
happiness and rights on the most 
solid basis. The first decree of their 
convention was the abolition of roy- 
alty in France; and the unqualified 
acclamations of a few individuals, 
some of whom are strangers, has 
been thought of sufficient weight to 
overbalance the opinions of fourteen 
centuries, during which the French 
monarchy has existed. 
This proceeding,at which only the 
enemies of France could rejoice, if 
they could suppose its effect lasting, 
is directly contrary to the firm re- 
solution which their Majesties the 
Emperor and the King of Prussia 
have adopted, and from which they 
will never depart,—that of restoring 
his Most Christian Majesty to his li- 
berty, safety, and royal dignity, or to 
‘take exemplary vengeance on those 
who dare to continue their insults, 
For these reasons, the undersign- 
ed declares to the French nation in 
general, and to every individual in 
particular, that their Majesties the 
Emperor and the Kiog of Prussia, 
invariably attached to the principle 
of not interfering in the internal go- 
vernment of France, persist equally 
in 
