& TrAg Py OPA PE B|S. 
galleys, Such informants as can 
establish the fa&t of an insult, shall 
receive a reward of soo ducats on 
conviction of the offender. 
tribunals shall proceed against per- 
sons under an accusation of this 
species of treason in the most sum- 
mary manner allowed by the cri- 
minal jurisprudence of the country. 
Fulyrs. 
Note, by which M. Gal-ppi, Pleni- 
potentiary Minister of Pius VI. an- 
nounced tothe French Commissioners, 
Garrau and Salicetti, the Determi- 
nation of bis Holiness mst 10 accept 
the Conditions of Peace offered, or 
rather diated by the French Di- 
redory. 
THE undersigned plenipotenti- 
ary, minister of his holiness the 
pope Pius VI. has the honour to in- 
form Messrs. Garrau and Salicetti, 
‘commissaries of the executive di- 
retory with the French armies of 
Italy and the Alps, that having 
Jaid before his holiness the sixty- 
four articles proposed by their ex- 
cellencies, under the condition that 
they must all either be rejected or 
accepted to their full extent, his 
holiness, after having examined 
them, and taken the advice of the 
holy college, declares, that neither 
religion nor good faith do any ways 
allow him to accept them. 
It is with the utmost concern 
his holiness, has found, that besides 
the article already proposed at 
Paris, tending to oblige him to 
disapprove, revoke, and annul, all 
the bulls, rescripts, briefs, and 
apostolic mandats issued under the 
authority of the holy see, with 
‘respect to the affairs of France, 
Since the year 1789, there were se- 
veral others, which being equally 
prejudicial to the catholic religion 
and the sights of the church, are 
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consequently inadmissible ; with. 
out entering into any discussion 
concerning those which are de. 
structive both to his. sovereignty 
and dominions ; pernicious to the 
happiness and tranquillity of his 
subjects, and evidently contrary to 
the rights of other nations and 
powers, towards whom the holy 
see would not even be able to 
maintain itself neutral. His holi-. 
ness hopes, therefore, that the ex. 
ecutive dire€tury, from its own 
sense of rectitude, as well as in cone 
sideration of the mediation of his 
maj<sty the king of Spain, will do 
justice to the powerful motives 
which have determined his holiness 
to give this refusal, which he is 
obliged to enforce at the hazard of 
his life. 
Given in Florence, the 15th of 
September, 1796. 
(Signed) GaLeprl, 
Minister plenipotentiary to his 
holiness the pope Pius VI. 
State Paper published at Dresden, 
Fuly 30. 
HIS most serene highness, the 
eleGior of Saxony, has taken no 
part in the present war, as a prin- 
cipal belligerent power. As a co 
estate of the empire, and in that 
charaéter only has he fulfilled those 
obligations which the Germanic 
constitution imposed on him as a 
duty ; and his electoral highness, 
being fully impressed with the wish 
of seeing the miseries of this deso- 
lating war teriainated, has often en~ 
deavoured to accelerate a pacifica- 
tion ‘by his vote in the Germanic 
diet, and by other means. These 
are facts of public notoriety. 
The measures which are diated 
by the present state of things, and 
by the precaution, of his elettoral 
highness, agree -with the princi. 
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