SUV A. Pik BoA FB RS, 
enemies of their country take in 
the glory and the profperity of the 
Englifh government and the Auf- 
trian court; while they endeavour, 
on the contrary, to diminifh the 
true renown of our warriors, and 
{peak with an ill-difeuifed contempt 
of the high deitiny held out to 
France, and of the eminent degree 
of glory and of happinefs which fhe 
was about to reach: — It is owing 
to the blame which has been thrown 
upon the moft glorious and ufeful 
confequences of the victories ef our 
defenders—to the plan, openly de- 
clared, of calumniating and ruining 
the reputation of our republican 
generals, and particularly thofe who, 
to the glory of the moft brilliant 
triumphs and the moft fkilful cam- 
paigns, have added (one in the weft 
of France, the other in Italy) the 
immortal honour of a political con- 
duct, which will procure to their 
philofophy and their humanity as 
much praife as has already been be- 
ftowed on their military genius. 
Finally, ‘the caufe is to be found 
in the defpair to which all true 
citizens, and particularly the de- 
fenders of the country, are reduced, 
in feeing at the moment of its con- 
clufion, and after they had purchaf- 
ed it with fo much blood and fo 
many fufferings, the definitive peace, 
folicited by the chiefs of the van- 
quifhed coalition, placed at a dif- 
tance—that, peace which a govern- 
ment, the friend of humanity, feeks 
fill with the greateft earneftnefs to 
conclude. But, all at once re-ani- 
mating their hopes, and reckoning 
upon the diffolution of the repub- 
lican government, in confequence 
of the exhaufted flate of our finan- 
ees, upon the death or the exile of 
our braveft generals, and on the 
difperfion and deftruction of our 
- 
got 
armies, thefe fame coalefced powers 
have exhibited as much tardinefs in 
the progrefs of their negotiations as 
they at firft teftified ardour to ter- 
minate them. 
Such, Citizens Reprefentatives, 
are the caufes which have agitated 
the minds of the foldiers of the re- 
public, and induced them to exprefs 
their fears and their refolutions. 
The Executive Direétory repeats, 
that they fhall do what they ought 
to do, in recommending to the 
troops to. avoid all irregular pro- 
ceedings which are contrary to that 
difcipline which is the foul of ar- 
mies, and oppofite to the laws which 
are the fupport of the ftate: but 
they owe to you, in the mean time, 
a frank and faithful declaration of 
their fentiments. 
The government ftill confidently 
hopes to fave France from the dif- 
folution to which it is precipitately 
hurried ; to extinguifh the torches 
of civil war which are lighted up 
with fury; and to protect perfons 
and property from the danger of a 
new revolution. This refolution 
the Directory will purfue with per- 
feverance and with courage, and 
will not be turned afide by any 
fears, or by any influence. They 
will not, however, confent to in- 
fpire a falfe fecurity, either in their 
fellow-citizens of the interior, or in 
thofe who defend the country with- 
out. They fhould confider them- 
felves guilty of .reafon towards their 
country, if they concealed the atro- 
cious attempts that are unremitting- 
ly made to lead us into all the hor- 
rors of a fecond revolution, by over- 
throwing the prefent government, 
either by treafon or by force. 
(Signed) ; 
Carnot, Prefident. 
Lacarpe, Secretary General, 
The 
