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There has also been transmitted 
to M. Sainte-Croix a note touching 
the Cardinal de Rohan. The Em- 
peror has caused the most lively re- 
monstrances to be made to him by 
his vice-chancellor, stating, that he 
will not tolerate on his territories 
any hostile preparations ; ‘and that 
he forbids his subjects all enter- 
prizes contrary to the laws of good 
neighbourhood, and which may 
give rise to an invasion on the part 
of the French. In fine, M. Dumi- 
nique has communicated to M. 
Sainte-Croix a note, by which the 
Emperor announces that he is ready 
to protect all the states of the em- 
pire, and, above all, such as have 
been injured ; but forbidding, at the 
same time, that any one of them 
should disturb, by assemblings, or 
any act of their chief, the good bar- 
mony subsisting between the empire 
and France. - a 
Note from the Government General 
of the Netherlands to M. delaGra- 
viere, Resident of France, at Brus- 
sels, dated January 15th, 17.92. 
here government-general of the 
Low Countries has already 
marked to M. de Ja Graviere the 
satisfaction which it received from 
the measures of reciprocity which 
the King has taken for preventing 
the assembling and arming of cer- 
tain emigrants, calling themselves 
Brabanters, who have directed their 
inquietudes and sinister projects 
against their country, at Lisle, at 
Douay, and at Bethune and its 
environs, under the conduct of a 
Count de Bethune Charost, who 
does not take the trouble to conceal 
his foolish designs. The measures 
taken by the King are perverted by 
the societies ajling themselves 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
“ Friends of the Constitution,’” 
whom the states bordering on 
France cannot but consider as the 
friends of licentiousness, of disorder 
and of insurrection against the le- 
gitimate authorities. It is in this 
point of view that the government- 
general of the Low Countries has 
the honour to denounce to M. de 
la Graviere by the present official 
note, a seditious: writing, entitled 
“ The Discourse pronounced by S. 
J. F. Girard,’ &c. which has been 
profusely spread in print through 
the Belgic provinces. This writ- 
ing, so contrary to the intentions 
manifested by the National Assem- 
bly and by the King, had been pre- 
ceded by another piece, entitled 
*¢ Seraphin Joseph Girard, Elector 
of the Department of the North to 
his Fellow-Citizens,” &c. The pro- 
tection openly promised to the fac- 
tious by the societies calling them- 
selves constitutional, in France, em- 
boldens them to that extreme, that 
they no longer observe measures in 
their conspiracies, or in publishing 
their projects of open plunder. 
The care which the government- . 
general awes to the tranquillity of 
these provinces, requires that, in 
imparting these circumstances it 
should strongly iusist that the exe- 
cution of the dispositions ordered 
by the King and the French govern- 
ment, forsecuring the public repose, 
and preserving good neighbourhood 
onthe frontiers, should answer with- 
out delay to the declarations made 
in that respect, and that those in- 
quietudes be done away which cre- 
ate a necessity for measures of pre- 
caution. When proper means are 
employed on’ the part of France for 
dissipating the cause of such mea- 
sures, it is to be hoped they will be 
found superfluous on our part. 
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