s 
266 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1497: 
advantageoufly” employed on your 
return to your feveral counties, I 
am confident they will be moft con- 
fpicuoufly difplayed. A» conftant 
intercourfe with your immediate 
neighbourhood muft giveyou the 
opportunity of affording to the 
people both affiftance and example, 
of reclaiming thereby the deluded 
and ill-difpoted, and confirming the 
well-affected in their duty and al- 
legiance.. A forward fpirit of loy- 
zity, which in moft parts of the 
Kingdom has fuccefsfully checked 
the progrefs of treafon, will be 
ftrengthened and diffufed by your 
prefence and exertions. It will be 
may ambition to fecond your a¢tivi- 
ty and zeal, and to co-operate with 
your efforts for reftoring the tran- 
qguillity and profperity of the king~ 
dom. We have acommon and fa- 
cred caufe to defend, — the inde- 
pendence and conftitution of Great 
Britain and Jreland, from which 
both kingdoms have derived innu- 
merable bleflings under his Majef- 
ty’s aufpicious reign. They were 
purchafed by the deareft blood cf 
vour anceftors in a crifis not lefs 
formidable than the prefent. I 
truft we fhall not fail to imitate 
their great, example; and that we 
fhail be enabled, by fimilar courage 
and continued firmnets, to tranfmit 
to-our pofterity inviolate, ‘that in- 
valuable inheritance which their 
valour refcued, and their perfeve- 
rance preferved. 
Extraé from the Regifier of the Execu- 
tive Directory. 
Paris, 29th Frudtidor. 
HE Executive Directory, con- 
vinced that the miffion of Mr. 
Wickham to the Helvetic Cantons 
has no reference whatever to thé 
refpective interefts of England and 
Switzerland; and that his fole ob- 
jeé& is to excite and encourage plots 
againft the internal and external fe- 
curity of the French Republic, 
charge Citizen “Mingaud to invite 
and require the government of the 
canton of Berne, and alfo the ‘other 
Helvetic cantons, if neceflary, to 
give directions for Mr. Wickham’é 
immediate departure from the ter- 
ritories of Switzerland. 
(Signed) REVELLIERE Lepaux, 
Prefident, 
LacanrpE, Sec. Gen. 
Reply of the Canton of Berne. 
THE Republic of Berne, always 
holding in. the higheft eftimation’ 
the good intentions of the French’ 
Republic, has taken into mature 
confideration the note tranfmitted 
to'them by Citizen Mingaud, in the 
name of the Executive Dire@tory 
of the French Republic. 
They have to remark that, for 
nearly a century paft, Britith agents 
have uniformly refided in Switzer- 
land; and that Mr. Wickham, 
whofe departure from Switzerland 
is required by the Executive Direc-- 
tory, being accredited to ‘all the 
ftates of the Helvetic confederacy 
as Minifter Plenipotentiary, the 
Republic of Berne cannot decide 
feparately on a fubje& which fo ef-: 
fentially involves the rights of 
others, and the neutrality of the 
Helvetic Body, as declared and re- 
cognifed by all the powers now at 
war. 
The government of Beraé, al- 
ways employed in maintaining har- 
mony and good underftanding with 
France and the other belligerent 
powers, fubmits the above confide- 
ralions 
