340 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
that modern Italy is not degenerat- 
ed, and is ftill worthy of liberty. 
(Signed) BuonaprartTe. 
Ordinance publifhed at Verona on the 
Sth of Auguft, 1797. 
WHEREAS citizen George 
Ginfti continues, notwithftanding 
repeated admonitions, to revile the 
popular government and equality ; 
and inftead of ftyling himfelf citi- 
zen, affumes the title of Count; 
fince he daily boafts to his fervants 
that he is of one of the beft fami- 
lies in Rome; and, what is much 
worfe, continually inveighs againft 
the popular government; the -faid 
citizen George Giufti is hereby 
f{entenced to pay 100 fequins; which 
money fhall be appropriated to erect 
a column to liberty in the Green- 
Market. This fentence fhall be 
read to citizen Giufti in the pre- 
fence of all his fervants and do- 
meftics, by the fecretary of the mu- 
nicipality, to inftruct the whole fa- 
mily in the true principles of liber- 
ty and equality. 
Approved by General Verdier, 
French Commandant in the 
province of Verona. 
Letter of General Buonaparte to the Chief 
of the Maniotes, dated Milan, 12th 
Lhermidor, (July 3uth) 
THE council of the French Re- 
public at Triefte has acquainted 
me with the attention your Lord- 
_ thip had fhewn in fending a deputa- 
tion to intimate to me the defire you 
had to fee in your ports fome French 
veffels, and to be in any refpeét ufe- 
ful to the brave French foldiers of 
the army of Italy. 
The French efteem the farall but 
gallant Maniote people, who alone 
of ancient Greece have preferved 
their liberty. In all the circum- 
ftances which may occur, they fhalk 
ever give proofs of their protection, 
and a particular care to favour their 
veffels and their citizens. . 
I beg your Lordfhip to receive 
with kindnefs the bearers of this, 
who have the ftrongeft defire to fee 
more nearly the worthy defcend- 
ants of Sparta, who, to be as re-_. 
nowned as their anceftors, wanted 
only to appear on a larger theatre. 
The firft time that any of your 
relations have occafion to vifit Ita- 
ly, I beg you to recommend them 
tome. I fhall feel a real pleafure 
in giving marks of the efteem which 
I entertain for you and your com- 
patriots. 
(Signed) BuoNaparrTe. 
From the Viewna Court Gazette, 
April 5th, V197. 
[Re prefent war, of which the 
unavoidable confequence has 
been the deftruction of fo many 
lives, has given the greateft uneafi- 
nefs to his Imperial Majefty from 
the time of his firft acceffion-to the 
throne. Penetrated witha fenfe of 
his‘duty, and compaffion for his fub- 
jects, and enimated with a wifh to 
reftore plenty and profperity to all 
his hereditary ftates, his Majefty has 
never ceafed to devife fuch means 
as might put an end to the calami- 
ties of war; and it was with the ut- 
moft regret that he faw all his en- 
deavours fruitlefs, and himfelf in 
confequence obliged to exert his 
utmoft force to. defend his ftates — 
and faithful fubjets againft the at- 
tacks of the enemy. Anxious to 
{pare the blood of his fubjects, his ~ 
Imperial 
