164] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



under forty years, of age, shall be 

 shot. 



2d. Those who shall marry after 

 such acts, shall have their heads 

 shaven, and their relations shall be 

 condemned to pay a fine. 



3d. Young men refusing to join 

 and march along with the loyalists, 

 when called on, shall be shot. 



4th. All deserters from provisory 

 assemblies shall be shot. 



5th. Every man who does not 

 separate himself from the moveable 

 column of the republicans, to which 

 he belongs, shall be shot ; and his 

 next relation shall pay a fine, or be 

 shot also. 



6th. Lewis XVIII. and religion, 

 are the principal objects of all 

 Frenchmen's desires. 



7th. Whoever shall destroy, or 

 tear, or take down these bills and 

 orders shall be shot. 



Such was the state of affairs in 

 the department of Dinan, in Bri- 

 tanny ; but the departments in which 

 the resistance of the loyalists, or, as it 

 was called the rebellion, had be- 

 come the most general, inveterate, 

 and obstinate, were the coasts of the 

 North, Lisle and Vilaine, Morbi- 

 han, and the Nether Loire. These 

 departments, accordingly, by two 

 decrees, passed the sixteenth of Ja- 

 nuary, were declared to be out of 

 the protection of the law, and un- 

 der military government; and ex- 

 traordinary tribunalswere establish- 

 ed for the execution of justice in 

 criminal cases. General Brune, who 

 was invested with the most com- 

 plete and absolute power, set out 

 immediately from Angers, at the 

 head of the main army, on his 

 way to Morbihan, in the depart- 

 ment of the Nether Loire. From 

 his head-quarters, at Vannes, head- 

 dressed to the inhabitants of Mor- 



bihan, a proclamation, dated the 

 thirteenth of February. In this 

 piece, after recapitulating his va- 

 rious efforts, for the prevention of 

 bloodshed, and exhorted the de- 

 luded people to forsake their per- 

 fidious leaders, he says, " The di\y 

 of pardon is nearly past, and I take 

 God and man to witness, that the 

 blood that must be shed is on the 

 heads of the chiefs of the Chouans, 

 of the stipendiaries of England, 

 and of the traitors of their country. 



" Within twenty-four hours 

 after the publication of the present 

 proclamation in all the communes 

 of Morbihan, every unmarried man, 

 from fourteen to fifty years of age, 

 shall appear before the civil or mi- 

 litary authority of the place where 

 he shall be, and declare that he is 

 not a Chouan, or that he abjures 

 the party. 



" The chiefs of the Chouans 

 shall make a similar declaration, 

 and must likewise procure the arms 

 and stores, under their direction, 

 to be given up. 



" Corps are opened for the recep- 

 tion of deserters, according to their 

 line of service, their rank, and qua- 

 lifications. 



" All authorities, which shall re- 

 ceive the declarations and acknow- 

 ledgments of submission to the law, 

 shall keep a register of them, and 

 give a copy to each declarant, 

 which, sanctioned by the generals, 

 shall be a sufficient protection. 



" The general staff will receive 

 petitions and memorials, respecting 

 the means of securing the tran- 

 quillity of individuals. 



" Such are the last conditions 

 which I offer to the rebels. 



" Such is the fatal limit, which, 

 once passed, arms and councils of 

 war must be the only means em- 



