STIAT E PAP ERS. 
non, and a crew of: forty men, was 
funk in the very port of Venice, 
and by order of the fenate. The 
young and intrepid Haugier, lieute- 
nant and commander of the faid 
flip, as foon as he faw himfelf at- 
tacked by the fire of the fort and’ 
the admiral’s galley, being from 
both not more than piftol-fhot, or- 
dered his crew to go below. He 
alone got upon the deck, in the 
midft of a ftorm of grape-fhot, and” 
endeavoured, by his fpeeches, to 
~ difarm the fury of his affaffins; but 
he fell dead. His crew threw them- 
felves into the fea to fwim, and 
were purfued by fix challops, with 
troops on board, in the pay of Ve- 
nice, who cut to pieces feveral that 
fought for fafety in the open fea. 
One of the mafters, with feveral. 
wounds, and bleeding.in every part,, 
had the good fortune to reach the 
fhore, near the caftle of the port; 
but the commandant himfelf cut off 
his hand with an axe. 
On account of the above-men- 
tioned grievances, and authorifed 
by the 22d title, article 328, of the 
conftitution of the republic, and on 
account of the urgency of affairs, 
the General in Chief requires the 
French minifter to the republic of 
Venice to leave the faid city ; di- 
reéts the different agents of the re- 
public of Venice in Lombardy, and 
the Venetian Terra Firma, to quit 
it in twenty-four hours; directs the 
different generals of divifions to 
treat as.enemies the troops of the 
republic of Venice, and to “pull 
down, in the towns of the Terra 
Firma, the Lion of St. Marc. Every 
one will receive, in the orders of 
the day to-morrow, a rk ace = 
ftruction refpecting u 
tions. 
terior opera- 
BUONAPARTE,. 
339 
Proclamation of General Buonaparte. 
Head Quarters, Monte Bello, 
llth Mefidor, 5thyear. 
THE. Cifalpine Republic was for 
many years under the dominion of 
the houfe of Auftria.. The French 
Republic fucceeded it by the right 
of conqueft. It now renounces 
this right, and the Cifalpine Re- 
public is free and independent. 
Recognized by France and the Em- 
peror, it will foon be equally ac- . 
knowledged by the reft of Europe. 
The Executive Direétory of the 
French Republic, not content with 
employing its influence, and the 
victories of the republican armies, 
to fecure the political exiftence of 
the Cifalpine Republic, extends its 
care ftill further; and convinced 
that, if liberty be the firft of bleff- 
ings, the revolution which attends 
it is the greateft of evils, ithas given 
to the Cifalpine people their pecu- 
liar conftitution, refulting from the 
wifdom of the moft enlightened na- 
tion. ‘From a military regime the 
Cifalpine people pafs toa conftitu- 
tional’ one. That this tranfition 
fhould experience no fhock, nor be 
expofed to anarchy, the Executive 
Direétory has thought proper to 
nominate, for the prefent, the mem- 
bers of the government and the le- 
giflative body; fo that the people 
fhould after the lapfe of one year, © 
have the ele¢tion to the vacant 
places, in conformity to the confti- 
tution. Fora great number of years 
there exifted no republic in Italy. 
The facred fire of liberty was ex- 
tinguifhed, and the fineft part of 
Europe was under the yoke of 
ftrangers. It belongs to the Cif- 
alpine Republic to fhew to the 
world by its wifdom, its energy, 
and the organization of its armics, 
Y2 that 
