The city of Toulon has feen in the powers which we reprefent, two generous and fympathizing nations, who came not to conquer it, but to destroy the poniards which were uplifted against the good and peaceable inhabitants of Given at Toulon, on board the Mexicain, the 27th of Sept. 1793, the first year of the reign of Louis the XVIIth. (Signed) LANGARA: TH Genoa. that unfortunate city; to afford Declaration of War by France against them affiftance; to re-establish order; to lay the foundation of a fyftem of regeneration; to fubftitute a regular form of government in the place of that defolation and anarchy which rends France to the centre; and finally, to restore Louis the XVIIth to the throne of his anceflors. Frenchmen! your enemies perfidioufly conceal from you, that the French flag is hoisted upon your fortreffes and your fhips of war; that a French fquadron is at anchor among the combined fleets of Great Britain and Spain; and that all power is fubordinate to the authority of the new king, under the immediate aufpices of the united powers; that our fole object is, to revenge the caufe of our allies, whofe territories were fo daringly violated; to afford you effectual fuccours, and to ftop the career of the manifold crimes which have led you to the verge of deftruction. Frenchmen! If the remembrance of your brilliant fortunes be not wholly effaced from your memory-if you are eager to refume that honourable rank which you have held among nations, thake off the odious yoke of your detpicable tyrants, unite yourselves with the faithful Toulonois, and share with them the glory of having procured happinefs to France, and peace and repofe to Europe. HE following declaration has been addreffed by the French national commiffioners in the army of Italy. The undersigned commiffioners, deputed by the national convention of France, confidering that the focial compact of all nations has been violated in the moft indecent manner-that the atrocious act committed in the port of Genoa towards the members of the French republic, by men calling themselves fubjects of the monarch of England, has outraged the rights of nations, and endangered even the existence of humanity-confidering too, that thefe afflicting events cannot be indifferent to any people, particularly to the people of Genoa, under whofe eyes the crime of treafon againft fociety has been committed that the punishment of fuch a crime ought to be as fpeedy as it fhould be terrible-that juftice and humanity demand it-that the French republic his the power and the inclination to execute it-that the people of Genoa, by preferving a filence, would fanction the conduct of their agents, declare-that in fuch circumftances Genoa cannot, without fhame and difhonour, hesitate an inftant in deciding be tween the friends and foes of fociety, outraged in the perfons of French republicans, and that neu trality trality in fuch an extraordinary fituation of affairs would involve all people in anarchy. Confidering further, that the people of Genoa fee daily the religious attention with which their territory is refpected by the repub. lic, at the very moment when the enemies of France find in Genoa a fecure afylum, and thus escape the purfuit of the French, who are armed in defence of liberty and equality-finally, that fuch refpect muft foon ceafe for a territory which is used as the tomb of French republicans Declare in the moft folemn manner, in the name of the republic of France, to the people of Genoa, that the tardiness and indecifion of the fenate, in neglecting to inflict a juft and fignal punishment on the authors of the crime committed in their port, and under their cannon, against the human race, in the perfons of the members of the French fociety, is regarded as an act of hoftility, and that the French republic is prepared to adopt fuch a conduct as is neceffary to obtain reparation for fo great a crime. The French chargé d'affaires is commanded to communicate this declaration to the fenate of Genoa. (Signed) Done at Nice, O&. 13, Memorial prefented on the 8th of October 1793, to M. De Serriff tori, Minifter for Foreign Affairs at Florence, by Lord Hervey, the English Minifter. ALL. Europe is witness of the reiterated complaints made by the underfigned envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary of his Britannic majefty at the court of Tufcany, on the fubject of the partiality which the latter government obferves in favour of the French. The underfigned has done every thing in his power to open the eyes of his royal highness the grand duke upon his true interests,' and the danger to which he expofes himself by having communication with a nation of regicides, which puts every art in practice to annihilate all kind of government; which defpifes all laws; which deftroys all religion; which has at length dipped its guilty hands in the blood of its king-in the blood of the clergy, of the nobility, and of other fubjects who remained faithful to their king; and which, feeking to extend its calamities to all other people, is warring against almoft all the fovereigns of Europe. Notwithflanding the generous, amicable, and plain intentions of his Britannic majefty, which the underfigned communicated to the government of Tuscany by his memorial of August 14th laft, he has seen maxims of certain perfons prevail; the evil councils and dangerous and, as the conduct which he complains of has been perfevered in, it becomes neceflary to take vigorous measures. The underfigned is obliged to declare, in order that his royal highnefs the grand duke may be informed of it, that admiral lord Hood has ordered an English fquadron, in conjunction with a detach ment from the Spanish fleet, to fet fail for Leghorn, there to act according to the part which his royal highness may take. The unjuft and notorious partiality of Tuscany in favour of the French, and the vast seizure of the corn and effects belonging to merchants of Toulon at Leghorn, at a time when the armies of their Britannic and Spanish majefties had occafion for the fame articles, evidently prove the injury which enfues from fuch a neutrality for the operations of the allies. In confe. quence, admiral lord Hood declares, in the name of the king his mafter, that if, within the fpace of twelve hours after the reprefentation of the undersigned, his royal highnefs the grand duke does not refolve to fend away M. de la Flotte and his adherents from Tufcany, the fquadron will act offenfively against the port and city of Leghorn. The unhappy confequences of this proceeding can alone be imputed to those who have had the audacity to give perfidious advice, and to make false representations upon the prefent ftate of affairs they alone will have to answer for all that may happen henceforward. The undersigned, who earnestly defires to avert fuch a calamity from Tuscany, and to spare his royal highness the grand duke all kind of inconvenience, again invites him to give, without delay, a clear explication of his intentions relative to the demand made by admiral lord Hood, to order the departure of M. de la Flotte and his adherents, and to break off all communication with the national convention, or the foi-difant government of France. In making a common caufe with the allies, his royal highness the grand duke may rely upon the friendship and protection of his Britannic majesty and his allies. The fole way to prevent offenfive operations against the city and port of Leghorn, is to acquiefce in the demands now made, by giving the underfigned the royal promile to conform to them punctually. It will depend then upon his royal highness to receive the faid fquadron as a friend, or to expose Tufcany to all the difafters which will happen if it be compelled to act offenfively. As its expedition at Genoa is concluded, it is on the point of arriving at Leghorn, For this reafon the undersigned will haften to prevent any offenfive measure, by acquainting the commanding admiral with the resolutions of his royal highness. The underfigned has thought it neceffary to make this communica→ tion for the information of his royal highness the grand duke of Tufcany. At the fame time he fincerely hopes, that this affair will terminate amicably, and to the reciprocal fatisfaction of the two courts. (Signed) HERVEY. royal highness has ordered me to reply to the memorial which you have prefented this day, and to the explanatory note of the intentions of the king your fovereign, that his royal highness has refolved to make the necessary difpofitions that M. de la Flotte and his adherents may quit Tuscany as foon as poffible. His royal high nefs nefs fitters himfelf that his majefty the king of Great Britain will con fider this proceeding as a freth tef timony of the particular efteem and deference which his royal highness takes a pleasure in thewing him on every occafion. Such are the orders my fovereign has given me. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) SERRISSTORI. October 8, ten o'clock at night. Declaration of the Grand Mafter of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the Court of Naples, dated September 12, 1793. THE HE court of Naples having caufed to be notified to the grand mafter of the fovereign order of Malta, that, not wishing to have any thing further to do with those who at prefent govern France, it fent away all the agents of that country, who had hitherto refided at Naples, or at the ports of his Sicilian majefty, his eminent highnefs took the earliest opportunity of following that example, and of ordering the ports of Maita to be fhot against all kinds of French fhips of war or privateers, as long as the prefent war fhall continue. The grand mafter wishes to make known at the fame time, that fince the notification which the late king made to him of the acceptance of the conftitution of 1791, the government of Malta has had no relation with France. The dreadful troubles which have broke out in that kingdom, and which have de prived it of a fovereign univerfally regretted, and the violations of the rights of nations, which have been permitted there under every point of view, in regard to the fovereign order of Malta, have induced many perfons, not acquainted with the fundamental laws of this order, to think that reprisals ought to have been made; but these laws even prefcribe neutrality in all those quarrels which arife between the different Chriftian nations. The grand mafter, however, fully determined not to acknowledge the pretended French republic in the perfon of an agent which it might fend to Malta, ordered, on the 15th of March lat, the chevalier de Caumont, in his quality of member of the order and of its delegate, who had refided long in this island as chargé d'affaires of the king of France, to retain the title which he held from his majefty Louis XVI. of glorious memory, and to keep the arms of the king over his gate, which he has hitherto done, under the protection of the government of Malta. But the grand mafter learning, through an indirect channel, that a perfon named Aymar has been appointed to fucceed the chevalier de Caumont, and that he is now on his way to Malta, formally declares at prefent, that he will neither receive nor admit the faid perfonage, nor any other who may be fent to refide at Malta, as agent, in any refpect, of the faid pretended republic, which his eminent highnefs ought not, cannot, and will not acknowledge. Addrefs Kadrefs of the profcribed Deputies of the National Convention, ordered to be put under arreft, to the French Nation. Frenchmen, WH THEN the liberty of the national reprefentation is no more, and truth is ftifled, the temple of the laws must be fhut. Thus, unable to execute the truft repofed in us, it is our indifpenfable duty to inftruct you. We fhall entirely confine ourselves to evident facts, and leave to you the care of drawing the neceffary confequences from them. A law had been enacted, which prescribed the formation of committees in the different fections of Paris, deftined to watch over foreigners and fufpicious people. This law was eluded. Inftead of thofe committees, others were formed in the most illegal manner, contrary to the letter of the law as well as its intention. Thefe illegal revolutionary committees have created a central committee composed of one member from every committee of each fection. This central commiffion, after fome clandeftine deliberations, has fufpended the conftituted authorities; it has affumed the title of "The revolutionary council of the department of Paris," and has invetted itself with a dictatorial power, or rather has ufurped it. An extraordinary committee had been decreed within the bofom of the convention, to denounce the illegal and arbitrary acts of the different constituted authorities of the republic, to trace and difcover the plots framed against the liberty and jecurity of the national reprefen tation, and to caufe all perfons to be arrefted who thould be denounced as chiefs of confpiracies. Surrounded by an armed force, thofe revo lutionary committees demanded, on the 27th of May, the fuppreffion of this commiflion. Their request was decreed; but on the next day, on a nominal call, it was deferred till the committee fhould have made their report. (They conftantly refufed to attend the report) On the 30th the revolutionary council intimated to the convention their order to fupprefs the extraordinary committee. Amidst armed petitioners, furrounded by cannon, under continual hiflings and hootings from the galleries, fome members decreed the fuppreffion of the commiflion. On the 31ft the generale again was beaten; the torfin founded, and the alarm-gun fired. At thefe fignais being given, all citizens took up arms, and were ordered to affemble around the convention. Some deputations demanded a decree of accufation against thirty-five members of the convention. Theaffembly, who before had unanimoully rejected this petition, as calumnious, when in the month of April it was brought forward by fome fections, fupported by the municipality, now referred it to the committee of public safety, and enjoined the members to give in their report within three days. On the 1ft of June, at three in the afternoon, the revolutionary council marched their armed force to inveft the national hall; at night they appeared at the bar, and demanded a decree of accufation against the denounced members. The convention paffed to the order of the day, and ordered the petitioners to deposit with the com |