^ historical chronicle. 



tliese men loose, without a re- 

 gular fund for paying them, 

 among the subjects of the 

 French nation themselves, seems 

 to be an idea too frightful to 

 the national afsembly. Better 

 carry the war into the territo- 

 iies of another state, where 

 pillage will not appear to be a 

 crime altog^ither of such a hei- 

 nous nature, as it would be in 

 their own country. Whether 

 king and his friends will be 

 able to moderate these exer- 

 tions, as they seem to wifli, 

 cannot as yet be known. 



The lefser states that border 

 upon France, are not insensible 

 of the danger they run in this 

 extremity, and appear to be 

 well disposed to avert the evil 

 by every pofsible conrefsion. 

 But the emperor, and the 

 greater princes, whose states 

 are not in the same degree of 

 danger, having determined to 

 oppose any attack upon the 

 Germanic body, will pofsibly 

 prevent them from complying 

 with the requisitions of t-hc 

 French, in the manner that is 

 required. In these circum- 

 stances it seems Xo be inipof- 

 sible to gi'ard against the ftiock 

 of arms. — The sword is, to all 

 appearance, soon to be drawn-, 

 and when it will be Iheathed 

 again, no human foresight can 

 foretell. — God grant it ma-ybe 

 soon ! But before that can 

 happen, the effusion of m.uch 

 huuian blood can hardly be a- 

 voided, and vhc distrels that 



these scenes must occasi(»n ta 

 many individuals, who may sur- 

 vive the carnage of their friends, 

 and the ruin of their affairs, 

 must be dreadful to contem- 

 plate. 



The emperor and the king 

 of Prufsia have concluded a 

 defensive alliance, the prelimi- 

 naries of which will be signed 

 at Vienna in a few days. 



In the new treaty between 

 the emperor and the king of 

 Prufsia, the latter has underta- 

 ken to guarantee the Germanic 

 constitution, and all the rights 

 and pofsefsions of the empire. 



The mefsage of the national 

 afsembly to the king, recom- 

 mending vigorous measures a- 

 gainst the powers who suffer 

 the emigrants to afsemble in 

 aiTns on their territories, has 

 produced different effects in 

 the petty courts of Germany. 



The elector of Mayence, 

 confiding in the distance of hia 

 territories, v^hich the Frgnch 

 cannot enter but through the 

 Pala^nate, wrote to the ma- 

 gistrates of Worms, of which 

 he is bi(hop, to disregard all 

 menaces of hostility, and to 

 answer openly, that the emi- 

 grapts were afsembled, armed, 

 and exercised, by the e.xprefs 

 permifsion of his Electoral 

 Highnefs. 



The princebifhopof Spire, be- 

 ing open to attack, and dreading 

 the defection of his own sub- 

 jects, thought it prudent to a- 

 dopt more pacific mesfurcs. 



