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mated with frefh vigour, their voice was 
heard, and united with the-conguerors, 
they afifted in forming the Neapolitan 
republic, and organifng a_provifional 
government. : 
His Sardinian majeity, alfo lately de- 
pofed by French republicans, was efcorted 
to Tuicany by French dragoons. He 
then went tc Poggio-Imperiale, a fummer 
palace of the Grand Duke, accompanied 
by Chifflault a French officer, in whofe 
refence he had a conference with the 
Pope. This officer was directed to af- 
certain the health of Piusthe Vith. but 
found him too weak to travel, efpecially 
by fea. The titles of the Piedmontete 
nobility were burnt on the 21ft of Janu- 
ary, under the tree of liberty. 
Prince Frederick of Orange, who had 
a command in the Imperial army in Italy, 
died on the 6thof January of a conta- 
gious fever. 
General Jourdan is faid to have 
paffled the Rhine on the rift of March at 
Kehl, with an army of 25,000 men; the 
right wing immediately preceeded through 
Offenburgh into the Brifgau. The fame 
morning, the French minifters at Raftadt, 
delivered a note and two proclamations to 
the deputation of the empire, to the fol- 
Jowing purport : 
«© That the minifters plenipotentiary 
of the French republic, appointed to ne- 
gociate with the German empire, had 
received orders from the executive direc- 
tory, to communicate to the deputation 
the fubjoined proclamation. ‘They ac- 
quitted themfelves of this bufinefs, by 
adding a copy, certified by them, of this 
proclamation, and of the addrefs of 
general Jourdan to the army under his 
command ; that they had orders to de- 
clare, that the march of this army ought 
enly to be confidered as a meafure of 
precaution which cireumftances required. 
That the defire of peace on the part of 
_the French government, ftill continued to 
be lively and fincere, and that it continued 
in the refolution te conclude a peace with 
the empire, premifing that the empire 
would declare itfelf againft the march of 
the Rufiian troops. 
The proclamation of the executive 
directory flated, that the Emperor, re- 
gardlefs of the convention made at Raftadt 
on the 11th of Frimaire (6th year), had 
paffed the river Inn and marched out of 
the hereditary dominions—-that this move- 
ment. was combined with the march of 
the Ruffian troops who loudly declared to 
have come to attack and combat the 
French republic, amd who were aétually 
State of Public Affairs. 
f April 
ftationed in the territories of the emperor 
—-that, always inclined to make peace, the 
French republic had demanded a fatif- 
faétory declaration refpeéting the march 
of thefe troops, but the emperor had not 
given an aniwer. The exeeutive di- 
rectory faw itfelf therefore under the ne- 
ceffity of a lawful defence by making the 
French armies take a péfition which 
circumftances required, but declared at 
the famé time that as foon as the RuMfians 
fhould have quitted the dominions of the 
emperor, the armies of the republic fhould 
refume the pofition fixed in the convention 
of Raltadt. 5 
The proclamation of General Jourdan 
to his army, was in the vfual ftile 
of exhortation to difcipline and good order, 
by the obfervance of which the foldiers 
of the republic had already required fo 
high a reputation. 
Thefe meafures of the French govern- 
ment were ina few days fucceeded by . 
more Cecifive ones. — 
In the council of five hundred on the 
13th of March Dz:lbrel the fecretary, 
read feveral meffages from the council of 
ancients, containing the refolution of that 
council on the fubje€t of the meflage of 
the directory, ftating that the French 
republic was at war with the Evmperors 
King of Hungary and Bohemia, and with 
the grand duke of Tufcany. 
The directory in that meflage explained 
at length the complaints of the republie 
againit thofe two powers. It declared, 
with refpeét to the emperor, that the 
treaty of Campo Formio was mifunder- 
ftood in its principle, and not carried inte 
effect in one of its principal articles, and 
that the condu& of the Auftrian cabinet 
had been always in oppofition to peace, 
It reverted to the cold reception of 
the French ambaffador Bernadotté at 
Vienna; to the affront offered to him 
there; to the hypocrify of that court in 
the negociation ef Seltz, which was the 
more evident becaufe Baron de Degellmann 
did not repair to Paris; to the fending 
of Count Cobentzel to Berlin and 
Ruffia, and to the difficulties raifed at 
Vienna to receive the Cifalpine am- 
baflador. It finally demonftrated the 
hoftile difpefition of the emperor with re- 
gard to the march of the Ruffians acrofs 
Moravia and Auftria, and who were then 
on the confines of Bavaria already occupied 
by an army of 100,coo Auftrians. 
The directory in the fame meflage, ac- 
cufed the Grand Duke of Tufcany of 
perfidy towards the republic, rs of 
connivance with the enemies of France. 
it 
