1796.) | 
Germany, but were even kept in the pay of 
England, and if the defertion of the greater part 
of the army of the Republic could have been 
brought about, there is no doubt but they would 
have been led againft their country under Eng- 
ith Commanders, for the purpofe of renewing 
here, if the faét were poflible, the fcenes of 1787, 
of kindling up, as in La Wendée, a difaftrous ci- 
vil war, and of thus deftroying the Batavian Re- © 
public by inteitine commotions, 
Is it therefore furprifing that the Batavian 
Nation, now free, feeks to reinforce itfelf againft 
fuch unprecedented and numerous outrages, by 
an intimate alliance with a Republic which 
fnatched it from the gripes of its enemies? A 
Treaty of Peace and Alliance was accordingly 
concluded at the Hague, on the 16th of May, 
1795, between the two free Republics of France 
and Holland. That Treaty of mutual defence 
by which the independent Batavian Nation, fup- 
ported by a powerful neighbour, and unfhaken 
by the influence of a Foreign Minifter, will be 
put in a condition to employ for the future its 
forces againft its aggreflors, and of paying them 
in their own coin, has alfo been cemented. 
His Majefty, the King of Great Britain, after 
fo many hoftilities has been exercifed, was at 
length pleafed to proclaim, on the r9th Septem- 
ber, 1795, by his Council of State, a Manifefto 
of War againft this Republic, but in which no 
grounds of complaint was alledged. His Ma- 
jefty, it is true, faysin this Manifefto, “ that for 
fome time divers aés of outrage, contrary to the 
honour of His Majefty’s Crown, and of the legi- 
timate rights of his fubjeéts, had been committed 
in the United Provinces, and that the {hips of war 
which failed from the ports of the United Pro- 
vinces, had received orders to take and fink all 
Britith Vefiels.”’ The aéts contrary to the ho- 
nour of his Majefty’s Crown, which have been 
committed inthe Netherlands, are the aéts of his 
Majefly’s own troops, and the Englifh nation 
will, undoubtedly fooner or later, punifh their 
authors ; and with refpeét to the orders given to 
the fhips of war of the Republic, t# repel vio- 
lence by violence, has not the independent Re- 
public, focruelly treated, aright of refiftance ? 
His Majefty had forgot that the Netherlands 
were no longer under the Stadtholderian yoke, 
and that his Majefty’s Minifters had loft, for ever 
as we truft for the fafety of the country, all influ- 
ence over the independent Batavian Republic. 
~ It is therefore with a perfeét confidence in that 
Jove of the country, in that energy, and in that | 
courage with which liberty alone can infpire a 
nation, for along time infulted and oppreffed, 
that the independent Batavian nation folemnly 
declares in the face of Europe, through the or- 
gan of its legitimate reprefentatives, that, 
obliged to defend itfelf againft the aéts of per- 
fidy and violence of the neighbouring kingdom 
of Great Britain, it will repel every aét of ag- 
- greffion on its liberty, its independence, its 
rights, and its legitimate poflefhons; and that 
it will put in execution all poffible means to 
receive fatisfaétion and indemnity, for the in- 
calculable lofes it has fuftained through a per- 
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fidious ally ;==in the firm hope that Divine Pro- 
vidence, who has fo miraculoufly preferved this 
country from a total ruin, will blefs its arms, 
and will not allow violence and oppreflioh ever 
to fix their fatal abode on its free territory. - 
Done at the Hague, May 2, 1796. 
2d year of Batavian freedom, 
FRANCE. 
The brilliant viétories of the French, 
in the dominions of the King of Sardi- 
nia, feem to have removed from the allied 
powers, all hopes of final fuccefs in their 
conteft with the Republic. Befides the 
battle of Montenotte, mentioned in our 
laft, the French have alfo gained vitto- 
ries at Millefimo, at Dego, at Mondovi, 
and at Coffaria*, and made themfelves 
mafte $s 
¥* SECOND VICTORY AT MILLESIMO, 
The General in Chief of the Army in Italy, to the 
Executive Direétory. 
Head-Quarters, Carcare, April 15. 
« T have given you an account of the opening 
of the campaign on the zoth of this month, and 
I have informed you of the fignal victory gained 
by the army of Italy on the fields of Monte- 
notte ; I have now to give you an account of the 
battle of Millefimo. 
“ After the battle of Montenotte, I removed 
my head-quarters to Carcare; I ordered Gen. 
Laharpe to remove his to Sofello, to menacé the 
eight battalions that the enemy had in that city, 
and to march the next day, by a rapid and fecret 
courfe, to the city of Cairo, 
«6 Gen. Maffena marched with his divifion to 
the heights of Dego; the general of divifion, 
Augereau, who had been on the march two 
days, was in the plains of Carcare; the general 
of brigade occupied the heights of Bieftro; gene- 
ral of brigade, Joubert, with the firft brigade of 
infantry, occupied the interefting pofition of 
‘Saint Marguerite, 
“On the 21rft, at break of day, the General 
Angereau forced the pafies of Millefimo, at the 
fame time that Generals Menard and Joubert 
drove the enemy from all the neighbouring pofi- 
tions, furrounding, by a bold and prompt ma- 
neewvre, a corps of 1300 Aufirian grenadiers, at 
the head of whom was Lieut. Gen. Proveyray 
who, far from laying down his arms, and fure 
rendering prifoner of war, retired to the fummit 
of the mountains of Coffaria, and intrenched 
himfelf in the ruins of an old caftle, extremely 
ftrong by its pofition, Gen. Angereau advanced 
his artillery, and cannonaded him during feveral 
hours. At eleven o’clock, vexed to have my 
march ftopped by a few men, I {ummoned Gen. 
Proveyra to furrender. He folicited to {peak to 
me, but a ftrong cannonade on my right pre- 
vented me from then going to him. He treated 
with Gen. Angereau during feveral hours; but 
the conditions he required being unreafonable, 
and the night approaching, Gen. Angereau form- 
ed’ four columns, and marched te the caftle of 
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