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and M. Pouffielgue. ‘The letter of Kle- 
ber is a juftification of his own conduét. 
What he fays of the difappointment of 
the troops in Egypt, at hearing of the ar- 
rivalof. the combined fleets in Breft har- 
bour, is worthy of remark. ‘JF enter- 
tained hopes of receiving thefe fuccours, 
becaufe I knew that the French and Spa- 
nifh fleets were united at Toulon, and 
only waited for a favourable wind to fail 
from thence. They left that place indeed, 
but it was for the purpofe of re-paffing 
the ftreights, and getting into Breft. 
The army was deeply afflifted at this 
news, they heard at the fame time of our 
reverles in Italy, in Germany, in. Hol- 
land, and even in La Vendée, without any 
proper meafures having been taken to ar- 
reft the courfe of thofe calamities that 
threatened the very-exiftence of the Re- 
public.” — 
«The French army has, during its refi- 
dence in Egypt, engraven on the minds 
of the inhabitants, the memories of its 
vittories, that of the equity.and modera- 
tion with which we have »eoverned, and 
the conviétion of the poweroot the nation 
of which it~ conftitutes’ a part. . The 
French name will be long refpe&ted, not 
only in this province.of the Ottoman’ Em- 
pire, but alfo in the whole of the Bak, 
I count upon my return to France with 
the army, about the end of Mayat the 
Jateft.”” 
he report to the confuls, by the minif- 
ter of general police, has the following 
ientiments upon the fubjeéts of emigra- 
tion. ‘* Now that the force of the Re- 
public is wholly applied to. the preferva- 
tion of what is good, \and the reparation 
of all; now that moderation and wifdom 
are the moft.neceflary conditions of our 
political exiftence, generofity ought to be 
confidered as an effential part of juftice, 
when it is not incompatible with the in- 
tereits of the country. On the hit on 
“which are infcribed the moft irreconci- 
leable enemies of the Republic, there are 
names, which the trueft friends and matt 
conttant lovers of freedom are altonithed 
and afflicted at reading. Ought they to 
be confdered as Emigrants, ‘and their 
names to remain on the lift, who every 
where, and during the whole of their exile, 
have done honour by their conduét to the 
country which has abjured them, and who 
have fhewn themtelves worthy of the title 
of Frenchmen in places in which this title 
Invited nothing but difficulty, danger, 
and hatred?—-Ought thole who in all 
countries to which they carried the re- 
gret of having loft their own country, have 
State of Public Affairs in April, 1800. - 
[May 1, 
found in voluntary emigrants violent: 
enemies and bitter perfecutors ?—Ought 
thofe finally who expiated in foreign’ 
dungeons the lot of having affited their 
country in the achievement of liberty? 
You will not be of opinion, Citizens Con- 
fuls, that men of this charaéter ought to 
be confounded with degraded beings, who 
would not have a right ‘to pity, if pity 
were infeparable from efteem. Will the 
emigrants confider asa favourable prefage 
for them, as a pledge of hope, that fome 
names are erafed that never deferved the 
affront of being aflociated with theirs? 
No, Citizens Confuls, the lift of emi- 
grants will be more irrevocably fixed 
when it fhall contain none but names dear 
and known to defpotifm. The moft fe- 
vere and folenn meafure you can employ 
againit the true emigrants, is: to ifolate 
from them a {mall number of men honour- 
ed by efforts for the caufe.of liberty, by | 
generous conduct, and by unjuft misfor- 
tunes 27 . sonra 
Appreb ending however, that thefe prin- 
ciples might be carried too far, the mi- — 
nifter of general. police has addrefied the 
prefects to'the following purport. ‘*Ma- 
levolent perfons fpread a report, which 
the credulous repeat, that emigrants re- 
turn to the. French territories, and efta- 
biifh, themfelves without interruption. To 
judge of the fate of the emigrants only by 
what people affect to believe, we might 
fay, that they have nething to do, but 
come and repofe in the bofom of the Re- 
public, and carry on their attempts againtt 
it. An amneity has been granted to the 
infusgents of the Weft, who have laid 
down their arms agreeably. to the terms 
and periods granted by the a& of pacifi- 
cation. This amnefty ought and muft be 
inviolably obferved towards thole in whole 
favour it was made; but it was not. in- 
tended for the emigrantsin vain would 
they fearch in it for titles to favour. The fo- 
cial compact requires, and the government 
and the generals have declared, ‘there is 
no amnelty for emigrants,” The go- 
vernment has promifed juftice to men 
whom the unfortunate concurrence of 
certain circumitances may have for a mo- 
ment confounded with the emigrants. 
This jultice fhall be rendered, but it fhali 
become indulgence for Ro perfon what- 
- ever.” 
The Firft Conful has fent a letter to the 
members of the municipality of the city 
of Amfterdam, dated the Sthof March, 
to the following purport.—** T have taken 
every precantion to make this campaign 
decilive: but to fecure its phate. 
they 
