STATE PAPERS. 
and neighbours, the just alarm 
which we have reason to conceive 
respecting the farther plans which 
the French may have formed against 
the remainder of our states, and the 
determined resolution we have form- 
ed of employing all our means to 
oppose them with effect. 
~ The interest which your republic 
has alwaystakeninevery thing which 
concernsusas wellasour states, does 
not permit us to doubt that you will 
be particularly disposed in this dis- 
agreeable conjuncture to give us 
new proofs of it,-as far as the situ- 
ation and circumstances of your state 
will permit. Of this we flatter our- 
selves the more, as the connexion 
which has always'subsisted between 
the states of your’ republic and our 
duchy of Savoy, and the dispositions 
which we have always found in it to 
contribute, according to respective 
circumstances, to the preservation 
of the said duchy in its ancient de- 
pendence on our dominion, assure 
us that you will not behold with in- 
difference what has happened in the 
said duchy, and the consequences 
which may thence arise to the neigh- 
bouring states. 
Referring the'above to your wis- 
dom and penetration, we can only 
assure you, that notwithstanding the 
necessity under which we are at pre- 
sent of uniting all our forces on this 
side of the Alps, to secure Piedmont 
from an invasion by the French, we 
will omit nothing which may be in 
our power to repair the losses we 
have sustained; and we think we 
may particalarly depend on the 
friendship of your republic; and the 
More so, as its own interest is con- 
cerned; and to find it disposed to 
assist us in accomplishing our end, 
when the series of events shall per- 
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mit. In ‘the mean time we have 
heard with great'satisfaction the mea- 
sures which you. have so vigorously 
pursued, both to prevent the city of 
Geneva from sinking under the 
power of the French forces, which 
threatened it, and to secure your own 
state from any disagreeable event on 
their part:—and we most ardently 
wish, that you would farther open 
to us the measures which you think 
necessary to be adopted, to remove’ 
still farther from your frontiers an 
enemy which may justly be called 
the common one of all Europe. At 
the same time, if you think proper 
to combine any measures with us 
for that purpose, and which may 
contribute more effectually to the re- 
spective advantage of the two states, 
we shall hasten to receive with as 
much pleasure as gratitude every 
thing which you may propose. You 
may, consequently, from this mo- 
ment, be persuaded that we shall 
continually be disposed to concur, 
on our part, in whatever may be the 
most proper for attaining the desired 
common end; and we have reason 
to flatter ourselves that the powers, 
our allies, and those who have gua- 
ranteed our states, will find the case 
sufficiently ‘urgent, and our cause 
sufficiently just, to induce them ‘to 
hasten to give us that assistance 
which we have a right to expect, in 
conformity with our treaties, and the 
pressing requisitions which we have 
made. 
On this we pray'God that he will 
take our most dear and great friends, 
allies, and confederates, under his 
holy protection. 
Written at Turin, the 10th of 
Oct. the year of grace 1792, 
and of our reign the 20th. 
(Signed) » Vrcror AMADEUs. 
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