STATE PAPERS. 
to the National Assembly, on the 
. 16th of January, 1792. 
N extraordinary courier has 
‘& been sent by M. Sainte-Croix, 
with the dispatches, which have 
been transmitted to him by the mi- 
nister of the Elector of Treves. The 
King has ordered a communication 
of their principal contents to the 
National Assembly. 
M. Sainte-Croix has watched with 
the greatest attention over the effi- 
cacy of the dispositions, which had 
been made the subject of an * ordi- 
nance for the dispersion of the 
Meetings formed by the French 
emigrants, 
positively announces, that the dis- 
persion is as real and as complete as 
the nation has desired and the King 
directed. The annihilation of eve- 
ry hope of receiving succours from 
the most considerable powers ; the 
wisdom of the government of the 
Low Countries, and the more seri- 
ous reflections of the Elector, are, 
according to M. Sainie-Croix, the 
causes which have accelerated the 
success of his negotiation. M. le 
Baron de Duminique, with whom 
he has had a long conference, has 
promised him to take measures still 
more severe and more extended than 
those which were announced by the 
first note of the Elector. He has an- 
nounced to him the following ar- 
rangements :—AIl bodies of French- 
men formed in the electorate, un- 
der whatever denomination, shall 
remove. Many of them are alrea- 
dy removed ; and at the moment of 
the departure of the courier, a void 
was perceivable in consequence of 
By this last dispatch he- 
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their removal: there was but one 
company regularly formed, which 
was named the body-guards, Ma- 
ny other small corps, for instance 
the company of French guards, 
composed of forty-six men, are dis- 
persed. Uniforms have been pro- 
scribed by an order. Horses follow 
men; divisions of cavalry are de- 
parting every day: fourscore artil- 
lery horses departed on the same 
day with the courier ; and, in con- 
sequence of an order of regency, 
carriages which were lodged in dif- 
ferent places have been sent away. 
In a word, the emigrants are dis- 
persed on all sides; they are all 
upon their route, by the most fright- 
ful roads, in spite of the snow, where 
scarcely twenty-five men can halt 
in one village for want of lodging. 
They march without any fixed des- 
tination, and receive no orders till 
they reach a considerable distance. 
It is probable that they will proceed 
to the country of Nassau and the 
neigbhouring principalities; and 
many retern into France. 
With respect to ammunition and 
arms, M. Duminique has assured M. 
Sainte-Croix that there remain none 
at the disposal of the emigrants, and 
that the Elector will cause the mea- 
sures ordered by the Emperor to be 
exactly executed in his states. He 
has farther assured him that the emi- 
grants have no cannon, and that if 
they had any, they have been oblig- 
ed to sellthem. That all the con- 
tracts for furnishing them are brok- 
en ; that the flour will be sold with- 
out delay, and that there will re- 
main to them no magazines of any 
kind. 
~-* This ordinance was communicated to the National Assembly on the 6th of Ja- 
muary, The 
here related. 
purport of it will appear sufficiently from the execution of it 
There 
