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in requiring that his Most Christian 
Majesty, and all the royal family, 
shall be instantly set at liberty by 
those who now imprison them.— 
Their Majesties insist also, that the 
royal dignity shall, without delay, 
be re-established in France in the 
person of Louis XVI. and his suc- 
cessors; and that measures may be 
taken in order that the royal dig- 
nity may not again be liable to the 
insult to which it is now subject. 
If the French nation have not en- 
tirely lost sight of their real in- 
terests, and if, free in their resolu- 
tions, they wish to end the calami- 
ties of war, which expose so many 
provinces to the evils inseparable 
from armies, they will not hesitate 
a moment to deClare their acquies- 
cence with the peremptory demands 
which I address to them in the name 
of the Emperor and King of Prussia: 
and which, if refused, must inevi- 
tably bring on this kingdom, lately 
so flourishing, new and more ter- 
rible misfortunes. 
The measures which the French 
nation may adopt, in consequence 
of this declaration, must either ex- 
tend and perpetuate the dreadful 
effects of an unhappy war, in de- 
stroying, by the abolition of mo- 
narchy, the means of renewing the 
ancient connections which subsisted 
between France and the sovereigns 
of Europe, or those measures may 
open the way to negotiations for 
the re-establishment of peace, or- 
der, and tranquillity, which those 
who name themselves the deputies 
of ‘the national will are most in- 
terested in restoring speedily to the 
nation. 
C. F. Duke or Brunswick 
LUNENBURG. | 
Hans, Sept. 28, 1792. 
Address from the National Convention 
of the Republic of France to the 
Thirteen Helvetic Cantons. 
Brethren and Allies, 
HE house of Austria has long 
eudeavoured to draw you into 
the league fermed against the liber- 
ties of France; your declaration of 
neutrality has not disconcerted it 5 
and it is seeking new pretexts in 
the events of the 10th of August. 
It dares still to hope you will be 
seduced by the language of calumny 
and intrigue. We willspeak to you 
that of freedom and reason.—Louis 
XVI. reigned only by a constitu- 
tion which he had sworn to main- 
tain; the power he held from it he 
employed to subvert it; numerous 
armies were already advancing un- 
der the guidance of his brothers; 
it was in his name they came to 
conquer France; he had _ every- 
where hatched treasons; the throne 
of despotism was to be again erect- 
ed.—The people feared for their 
liberties, they complained, and the 
answer they received was the signal 
for massacring them, given in the pa- 
Jace itself of their first officer. At 
the head of his assassins were the 
Swiss guards, whom the constitution 
had ordered to be disbanded, and to 
whom, nevertheless, we had reserv- 
ed their rank and pay, as an effect 
of that good-will which unites the 
French to the Helvetic nation. 
It was necessary to conquer—it 
was necessary to destroy the instru- 
ments of such an attempt, or again 
to receive our chains. And you, 
who know the value of liberty, you 
we ask,—Onght free citizens to de- 
liberate in their choice ? 
Such, brethren and allies, are the 
events which our enemies shew you, 
under such perfidious colours. We 
have 
