“S TATHOPA PERS: 
hearts ‘the principles and laws you 
have proclaimed. They would be 
at the height of their wishes if 
these salutary laws were executed 
in Belgium. Can you, legislators, 
refuse them the advantage of par- 
ticipating in the war and the pros- 
perity of the French, 
4 2 
Letter from the Representatives of the 
People with the Armies of the North, 
and Sambre and Meuse, to the 
National Convention. 
Brussels, Feb. 15. 
Citizen Colleagues, , 
THE central: administrators of 
Belgium request us to transmit’ to 
you an.address, in which they ex- 
press in the most formal and pre- 
cise terms, their wish for a»speedy 
incorporation of their country with 
the French republic. In. doing’ 
this, they observe, that they are 
only the organs of a majority of 
the people, who are eager to bear 
the name of Frenchmen, and to be 
associated in the glory of which 
that name calls up the idea. We 
teceived at the same time an ad- 
dress to the same effect from the 
commune of Mons. All the com- 
munes of Belgium express the same 
eagerness on this head; they all 
ardently desire that you would put 
an end to the state of uncertainty, 
in which their civil and political 
existence has flu€tuated, since you 
for the second time rescued them 
from the yoke of tyranny. We 
invite you to consider in your wis- 
dom their demand, and to pro- 
nounce a union, which we have 
promised in your name, and of 
which we think them worthy to 
« Vor. XXXVII, 
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receive the benefif. Health and 
fraternity. 
q : Peres. 
HausMann,. 
The Members of the Central Adminis- 
tration of Belgium to the National 
Convention. 
Legislators, 
CALLED by the authority of 
your colleagues, under circumstan. 
ces of difficulty, to the important 
and delicate functions of the admi. 
nistration of Belgium, we were to 
keep two points in view; the glory, 
the prosperity of the republic, and 
the happiness of the inhabitants of 
these provinces. Such were the 
views of the Belgians who sat 
among us, such the views of the 
French who share our labours. 
Public confidence reposes upon us, 
and it shall not be deceived. The 
sound and enlightened part of the 
people of Belgium have long as. 
pired to a real incorporation with 
the French republic. They have 
demanded it more than once, and 
the reception you gave their de- 
mand two years ago, nourished the 
hope of their seeing the happy day 
in which they might say with en- 
thusiasm, ** We are Frenchmen.’’ 
Your colleagues, by their procla. 
mations, have already given to 
merited contempt divers agents 
denounced by public opinion, 
agents whose self-sufficiency and 
conduét formed so singular a con. 
trast torepublican manners. These 
proclamations tend to assure.to the 
Belgians subsistence, and whatever 
is necessary for the preservation of 
their trade and sicncihanieess They 
have put a stop, in a great measure, 
to the evil of requisitions, and re- 
moved 
