; SSA Tet PA PERS. 
rected against the French, in such’ 
a manner, that last Wednesday, 
July 6, a band of women assailed, 
on the bridge of Lavignano, two 
Frenchmen, who were peaceably 
taking a sketch of the bridge. 
The undersigned cannot believe 
that the most serene government 
is provoking by any particular 
measure this alarm, which has no 
foundation, since the French Re- 
public is the friend of nations 
that are at peace with her; since 
she respects their liberty, their 
commerce, and their property. 
_ These truths must be demonstrated 
to the senate of Genoa ; and it can 
not but be by some base perfidy 
that the instigators of the present 
ferment speak to the people of the 
just fate of Arquata, and divers 
places which the insurrection in 
Lombardy had changed into dens 
of assassins and robbers. 
As it is important to stop in its 
growth an evil which might prove 
fatal in. its consequences, the un- 
dersigned requests the most serene 
government to take the measuresin 
its power to undeccive the people, 
respecting the false impressions en- 
deayoured to be made on them. 
The men who mislead them are 
known; the Genoese government 
ean no longer suffer their plots and 
insolent declamations against the 
French, without offending the 
French Republic, and becoming 
responsible for the misfortunes 
which might attend upon a reci- 
procal irritation of minds. It ought 
to deprive the impostors of the fa- 
eulty of deceiving, by all the ex- 
aggerations which they do not cease 
to devise and to circulate, by in- 
forming the people of the demands 
which General Buonaparte and 
he undersigned have really ad- 
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dressed to the senate, and of the 
general motives on which they were 
founded. 
The undersigned begs the most 
serene government to communi- 
cate to him the effective measures 
which, in its wisdom, it shall 
resolve on, to prevent the conse-~ 
quences of the present ferment, in 
order that he may beable to ac- 
quaint the Executive Directory, 
and the general of the army of 
Italy, with its real dispositions, 
(Signed) Fayroutt. 
Letter from the Commissary Direce 
tor Sucy, tothe Commandant of 
Fort La Lauterne. 
St. Pierre d’ Arena, 25 Fructidor. 
Sir, 
THE agents of the government 
here have guaranteed our landing 
goods in the harbour of St. Pierre 
d’Arena, nevertheless two English 
sloops have gone out of port, and 
passed before your post, in order to . 
carry off our vessel, and it was not 
till the sloops were at a distance 
with their prize that you’ com- 
menced firing, which you did not 
keep up, and which you discon- 
tinued when the English ships 
were within reach. Yet you can- 
not be ignorant of the fact, because 
we fired more than thirty times be- 
fore you were disposed to oppose 
this violation of neutrality. 
You will, Sir, acknowledge the 
receipt of the present, 
(Signed) S. Sucy. 
BBP Loy, 
Commissary Director, 
THE commandant of Fort Lau- 
terne has the honour to acquaint 
you that he could never have ima- 
gined that the English sloops of 
war which came out of the har- 
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