STATE “PAPE RS. 
you, burghers representatives, the 
too certain proof that an unequal 
combination of particular. powers 
never ‘orm a bulwark of ona. 
tional strength. 
Let the burghers, then, who are 
animated by a sincere wish to see 
the cause of liberty trium;h, re- 
ceive this most positive assu- 
rance, that the French govern- 
ment will applaud and encourage 
their endeavours,’ and will consi- 
der itself indebted to them, as it 
were, for anew ally, whenever it 
shall feel the auxiliary aid of a state 
constituted on the immoveable 
basis of harmony and indivisibility 
—of astate, which she can, with 
more confidence present to her 
friends and her enemies ; particu- 
larly to the treacherous English, 
with whom we must quickly con. 
tend; who, viewing with indif- 
ference the miseries of Europe, 
under shelter of the advantages of 
their commerce, for these last four 
years, have, by their dealings with 
rage-blinded Austria, rather con- 
spired their own destruction than 
 our’s, 
Place yourselves, then, in acon- 
dition, burghers representatives, 
from this time henceforward, to 
defeat the chance-computations of 
\ their infamous politics ; and intro- 
duce a constitution which will de- 
velope your national strength, and 
succeed federal anarchy, which 
destroys power by dividing it: a 
form of government the most de- 
fective and calam:tous which your 
greatest enemy could wish to im- 
pose on you. 
iby, t E. Noeu. 
Message fromthe Executive Dire@ory 
fo the Council of Five. Hundred 
on the 6th Fruétidor ( August 23d). 
Read in a Secret Committee. 
Citizens LeGisLArors, 
THE dtreétory can no tonger 
leave you ignorant of the afflicting 
details which they receive from all 
parts, relative to the situation of the 
troops stationed in the interior of 
the republic. For several months 
has their constancy been put to the 
test by the most painful privations; 
and bewailing their distress, the 
direCtory have admitted more than 
once that resignation with which 
French soldiers forget their wants,’ 
when those of their country are put 
before their eyes, As long 4s the 
directory could flatter» themselves 
with seeing the end of so critical a 
situation in the amelioration of the 
finances, they propped up the 
courage of the troops by hopes, 
and shut up in their own bosom all 
uneasiness ; but the evils are too 
great to be any longer concealed ;. 
and howeyer painful such a dis- 
closure may be, tt is impossible any 
donger to deny it to the alarming 
circumstances by which it is ex- 
atted. Pay, that sacred debt of 
the republic to those who de- 
vote themselves for her, has not 
been made for several months, re- 
gardiess of the urgent requests 
of government: the treasury could 
not secure that part so interesting 
to ifs service, and the penury 
of its means ought dlone to be 
reproached. AH the bargains are 
suspended by the impossibility un- 
der which the treasury labours to 
fuifil the engagements made with 
contra¢tors: provisions begin to be 
exhausted, and there remains no 
hope of renewing them: every 
where almost it has been forced 
to have recourse to requisitions; 
but this measure, the use of which 
is fatal, furnished but insufficient 
resources, and to execute them is 
dangerous above all in those depart- 
ments, 
