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interesting to the repose of my sub- 
jects. 
I ardently cesire to receive a 
letter written by yourself,. which 
in the present circumstances may 
render me completely tranquil, and 
at the same time assure the repose 
of all Tuscany. 
(Signed) FEerDINAND. 
Paris, 13 Thermidsr ( Fuly 31) 42h 
Year of the French republic. 
The Executive Directory ta Citizen 
Buonaperte, Commander in Chief 
of the Army of Ital;. 
THE executive dirc€tory, who 
cannot but praise, citizen general, 
the indefatigable aCtivity with 
which you combat the enemies of 
liberty ; the executive directory, 
who patticipate with all the good 
citizens, with all the true friends 
of their country, with all the sin- 
cere republicans.in the admiration 
which ihe great military talents you 
display inspire, aud which give 
you a just claim to national grati- 
tude, see with indignation the ef- 
forts which libellers, under diffe. 
rent masks, are daily making to 
mislead the public, and to second 
the enemies of our country, by ru- 
moovrs which can have no ether end, 
than to disseminate dissention a. 
mong the friends of order and peace. 
The directory see with indignation 
the perfidy with which those con. 
federate libelilers have dared to at- 
tack the loyaliy, the constant fide- 
lity of your services; and they owe 
to themselves the formal denial 
which they give to the sbsurd ca- 
lumnies which the necessity of fos- 
tering malignity has msde them 
hazard, by accounts which tended 
to prove a stimulus to the directory 
to read their produétions, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
Someavowrd royalists, Hatly cir. 
culate a fa'schood ; others, calling 
themselves prime patriots, but pur-” 
suing the came end, comment upon 
it, and eke it out in theirown way, 
under the pretence of combating 
their pretended antagonist. Both 
parties are thus at work to stop the 
progress of order, which is establish- 
ing ; both second the enemies of 
the revolution; both wish to sow 
discord, and to disorganise the 2r- 
mies; both wish thus to sport’ 
with the good faith of their readers, ° 
of these who afford them subsist- 
ence, and indecently present to — 
them, as faéts, accounts which are 
nothing but the fruit of a disorder- 
ed imagination. 
No, citizen general, never have 
the friends of Austria been able to: 
prepossess the dire€tory against you, 
because the friends of Austria have 
neither access to, nor influence over 
the direétory ; because the direfto- 
ry known your principles, and your 
inviolable attachment to the repub- 
lic. No, never kas your recal been 
the question; never have any of 
the members wished to give a suc- 
cessor to him who so gioriously 
leads on our republicans to victory. 
The libeller, who would feign to 
be your defender, dares assert thet 
he knows the intrigues hatched 
against you,.and ot which some 
money affair was only the pretence : 
who assuming a virtue noi his own, 
dares add, that delicacy made him 
pass in silence events which would 
enly have made our enemies laugh ; 
such a man imp@ses upon, such a 
man deceives the public; and is 
evidently unworthy. their confi. 
dence. If this well-in/irmed man, 
who, lke his fellow calumniators, 
wishes to give himself an air of 
importance, pretending to know 
all 
