historical chronicle. 



that of endeavouring to induce 

 their troops to desert, by hold- 

 ing out a premium to those who 

 ihail abandon the combined ar- 

 my. This they do without hav- 

 ing provided effectual funds for 

 even paying their own troops, 

 or taking measures for esta- 

 blilhing the permanency of 

 their own authority, on which 

 alone the permanency of the 

 pensions tliey proffer can de- 

 pend. They seem to forget 

 that their own private difsen- 

 tions must tend, in the most 

 unequivocal manner, to weak- 

 en the confidence that ought 

 to be reposed in them, and by 

 this means to counteract the 

 operation of this proclamation. 

 General Luckner, as well as 

 Fayette, leaving the army he 

 commanded, has appeared at 

 the bar of the national afsem- 

 bly. His secretary has also 

 appeared at the bar to deny the 

 truth of the accusations against 

 Fayette. 



The combined army of Pruf- 

 sia and Austria, in the mean 

 while, is forming, and prepa- 

 ring vigorously for an attack j 

 while the French generals are 

 fortifying themselves as well 

 as they can on the frontiers. 



A report prevails that Bri- 

 tain and Holland have made 

 offer of their mediation to 

 settle the difference between 

 the contending parties j but 

 thje conduct of France with re- 

 spect to the king, affords no 

 room to hope that any reason- 



able terras of accommodatlott 

 will be there listened to, for 

 the present. 



The king of Prufsia publifli- 

 ed a concise exposition, as he 

 stiles it, though it is too pro- 

 lix for our bounds, of the rea- 

 sons which have determined 

 him to take up arms against 

 France, dated at Eerhn the 

 ,24th of July 1792. It con- 

 sists, as usual, of complaints 

 against the French for infrac- 

 tion of treaties, and a desire to 

 preserve the balance of power 

 in Europe, to free the king 

 from prison, and to destroy the 

 anarchy that unfortunately pre- 

 vails ill that kingdom, &c. 



This was followed by a 

 DECLARATION by the duke of 

 Brunswick Luneburg, com- 

 manding the combined armies 

 of their majesties the empe- 

 ror and the king of Prufsia, to 

 the people of France, dated 

 Coblentz 23th July, 



In this declaration he says, 

 that, " convinced that the so- 

 ber part of the French nation 

 detest the excefses of a faction 

 which has enslaved them, and 

 that the majority of the inha- 

 bitants wait with impatience 

 the moment when succours ftiall 

 arrive, to declare themselves 

 openly against the odious en- 

 terprises of their opprefsors, 

 his majesty the emperor, and 

 his majesty the king of Prufsia, 

 earnestly invite them to return 

 without delay into the paths 



