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fight, in which the general council of the department lighted the torch of civil war, and reared the standard of rebellion in the foi-difant affembly of Corfica. If you had then been commanded by energetic patriots, they would, by enlightening the people, have neutralized the influence of the traitor, who, while, preaching liberty, fought only the means of enflaving you; and, if the adminiftrators had then done their duty, they would have prevented thofe evils which have been the neceffary refult of this first act of rebellion, and you would not now have had occafion to blush at thofe difaftrous events which have been the confequence of the errors into which by degrees you were mifled.

The conftitution insured to you not only the free exercife of your civil and political rights, but allo that of religion, which has been fo ftrangely abused for the purpose of deceiving you. The English had become the friends, the protectors of the pope; thus men without probity, and without virtue, deplored the decay of religion, and the cry of impiety was raifed by thofe whofe days were numbered only by the crimes they had committed, and by the immoral actions which difgraced them.

Ye minifters of religion! the conftitution fecures to you the freedom of worship; the government refpects those who profefs the doctrines of the gofpel; and the confciences of citizens are a facred afylum into which the eye of its agents does not penetrate: but thofe who would preach difcord in the name of the God of peace; those who would abuse the facred miniftry which they are called to fill, and

who would corrupt public opinion by the poifon of fanaticiím; fuch are men to whom the rigour of republican laws extends its feverest punishments-a rigour enjoined both by policy and by respect for religion.

Ye numerous patriots, who during three years have groaned under the rod of thofe proud mafters to whom you were fold, while you fighed for the moment in which you might take up arms to vindicate your rights; and above all, ye who, to fecure the happinefs of your country, have preferred exile to the fhame of obeying a king; whofe generous devotion to the service of your country has overcome all obftacles, has endured all wants, and has braved all dangers-it is your's to give the first example of civic virtue.

At the approach of the arms of the republic, thofe traitors, who had been moft guilty, disappeared; no longer would they tread the ground they had fought to difhor nour, without finding death at hand; and thould any be found to remain in the country, the law will fpeedily overtake them; but in others it behoves you to fee miftaken brethren, who, returning to their right reafon, will merit by republican conduct your virtue and. your esteem. Be united; forget your divifions, and unanimoufly fwear on the altar of your country, and by the manes of your companions in danger and in glory, who died in battle in defence of the republic, eternal hatred to royalty.

Given at Baftia, the 24th of Nov. 5th year of the republic, one and indivifible.

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Treaty of Peace, concluded between the King of Sardinia and the French republic.

THE French republic and his majesty the king of Sardinia, equally animated by the defire of making a happy peace fucceed to the war which divides them, have appointed, viz. the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of foreign affairs, and his majefty the king of Sardinia, M. M. the Chevaliers de Revel and de Tonfo, to negotiate the claufes and conditions proper for re-establishing and confolidating good harmony between the two ftates, who, after having exchanged their full and refpective powers, have agreed to the following articles;

I. There shall be peace and good neighbourhood between the French republic and the king of Sardinia. All hoftilities fhall ceafe between the two powers, reckoning from the time of figning the prefent treaty.

II. The king of Sardinia revokes all adhetion, confent, or acceffion, public or fecret, given by him to the armed coalition against the French republic; and all the treaties of alliance, offenfive and defenfive, which he may have concluded against the faid republic with any power whatfoever. He fhall not furnifa any contingent in men or money to any powers armed against France, upon any pretence, or under any authority whatsoever.

III. The king of Sardinia fairly and entirely renounces for ever, for himfelf or his fucceffors, in favour of the French republic, all the rights which he can pretend to have to Savoy, and the counties of Nice, Tenda, and Breuil.

IV. The limits between the ftates of the king of Sardinia and the departments of the French republic thall be marked by a line through the moft advanced points of the frontier of Piedmont, the fummits, plateaux (flat tops of hills) mountains, and other places hereafter defcribed, as well as the intermediate fummits and plateaux, viz. from the point where the frontiers of ci-devant Francigny, Duchy of Aofte and Valais, unite to the extremity of the Glaciers, or MontsMaudits.

ift. The fummits or plateaux of the Alps at the rifing of t Colmayor.

2d. Little Saint Bernard, and the hofpital fituated there.

3d. The fummits or plateaux of Mont-Alban, of the Col-de Crefance, and of Mont-Iferan.

4th. Turning a little toward the fouth, the fummits or plate ux of Cerat and of Gros-Caval.

5th. Great Mont-Cenis, and the hofpital which ftands to the foutheaft of the lake of that mountain.

6th. Little Mont-Cenis.

7th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Bardo nach from the Val-des-Pres.

8th. Mont-Genevre.

9th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Quires from that of Vaudois.

10th. Mont-de-Vaudois. 11th. Mont-de-Vifo. 12th. Mont de-l'Argenterie. 13th. The fource of the Abayette and the Sture.

14th The mountains between the vallies of Sture and Geffo, on one part; and thofe of Saint Etienne or Tinea, of Saint Martin or Vezubia, of Tenda, or of Roya, on the other.

15th. Leroche-Barbon, on the confines of the state of Genoa,

If fome communes, habitations or portions of territories of the faid communes, actually in friendship with the French republic, fall without the line of frontiers above defcribed, they fhall continue to make part of the republic, notwithstanding any inference that may be made to the contrary from this article.

V. The king of Sardinia engages not to permit emigrants or perfons transported from the French republic to ftop or refide in his dominions. He may, however, retain in his fervice the emigrants of the departments of Mont Blanc, and of the Maritime Alps, fo long as they give no cause of complaint by enterprifes or manœuvres tending to oppofe the internal fafety of the republic.

VI. The king of Sardinia renounces all demand of recovery, or perfonal claim which he might pretend to exercife againft the French republic for caufes anterior to the prefent treaty.

VII. There fhall be immediately concluded between the two powers, a treaty of commerce on equitable bafis, and fuch as may fecure to the French nation advantages, at leaft equal to thofe enjoyed in the dominions of the king of Sardinia by the moft favoured nations.

In the mean time, all communications and commercial relations fhall be re-established.

VIII. The king of Sardinia obliges himself to grant a full and entire amnefty to all his fubjects who have been profecuted for political opinions. Every procefs which may have been raifed on this fabject, as well as the judgments which have intervened, are abolished.

All their property, moveable and immoveable, or the value thereof, if it has been fold, fhall be restored without delay. It fhall be lawful for them to difpofe of it, to return and refide in the dominions of the king of Sardinia, or to retire therefrom.

IX. The French republic and his majefty the king of Sardinia engage to fuperfede the fequeftration of all effects, revenues, or property, feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, belonging to the citizens or fubjects of either power, relative to the actual war, and to admit them refpectively to the legal exercife of the actions or rights, which may belong to them.

X. All the prifoners, refpectively made, fhall be restored in one month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, on paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity.

The fick and wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in the refpective hofpitals. They fhall be reftored when cured.

XI. Neither of the contracting powers fhall grant a paffage through its territory to the troops of any enemy of the other.

XII. Befides the fortreffes of Coni, Ceva, and Tortona, as well as the territory which the troops of the republic occupy, or, ought to occupy, they fhall occupy the fortrefles of Exiles, Affiette, Suza, Brunette, Chateau Dauphin, and Alexandria; for which laft place Valence fhall be fubftituted, if the general in chief of the French republic prefer it.

XIII. The fortreffes and territories above described shall be reftored to the king of Sardinia upon the S 4 conclufion

conclufion of the treaty of commerce between the republic and his majefty, of general peace, and the establishment of the line of frontiers.

and the republic of Genoa, and for deciding on their refpective claims.

XIX. Conformable to the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague, on the 27th Floreal, 3d year, the Batavian republic is included in the prefent treaty.

XIV. The country occupied by the troops of the republic, and which should be definitively reftor-There fhall be peace and friendship ed, thall remain under the civil government of his Sardinian majefty, but fhall be liable to levies of military contributions, and furnishing provifion on forage which have been, or may be enacted for the fupply of the French army.

XV. The fortifications of Brunette and Suza, as well as the intrenchments formed above that town, fhall be demolished, and deftroyed, at the expence of his Sardinian majefty, at the direction of commiffioners appointed by the executive directory.

The king of Sardinia fhall not be permitted to establish or repair any fortification on this part of the frontier.

XVI. The artillery of occupied places, the demolition of which is not ftipulated by the prefent treaty, fhall be employed for the fervice of the republic, but thall be restored with the other fortreffes at the fame epoch to his Sardinian majefty. The flores and provifions which may be there fhall be confumed, without recovery, for the fervice of the republican army.

XVII. The French troops thall have free paffage through the ftates of the king of Sardinia, in entering or returning from the interior of Italy.

XVIII. The king of Sardinia accepts the mediation of the French republic for definitively terminating the differences which have lang fubfifted between his majesty

between that republic and the king of Sardinia. Every thing shall be established between them on the fame footing as before the prefent war.

XX. The king of Sardinia fhall difavow, by his minifter to the French republic, the proceedings employed towards the laft ambasfador of France.

XXI. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in lefs than one mouth, reckoning from the figning of the prefent treaty.

Done and concluded at Paris, the 25th Floreal, 4th year of the French republic, one and indivifible, anfwering to the 15th of May, 1796. (Signed) CHARLES DELACROIX.

LE CHEVALIER DE REVEL.

LE CHEVALIER DE TONZO. The executive directory decree and fign the prefent treaty of peace with the king of Sardinia, negotiated in the name of the French republic by the minifter of foreign affairs, appointed by the executive directory, by a decree of the 22d Floreal, and charged with inftructions to that effect.

At Paris, the 28th Floreal, 4th year of the French republic, one and indivifible.

(Signed)

LETOURNEUR,
REWBELL,
CARNOT,

P. BARRAS,

L. M. REVEILLERE LEPAUX,

Melloge

Meffage of the Executive Directory to the Council of Five Hundred, in Jan. 1796.

Citizens Legiflators,

THE executive directory can no longer defer to call the most serious attention of the legislative body to the emigrants in the colonies.

The national convention thought proper to adjourn this difcuffion of the greatest urgency and importance; on the 25th Meffidor, third year, when the committee of public fafety propofed, in a report concerning the ftate of St. Domingo, to enforce the execution of the laws refpecting emigrants in the colonies, as well as in the mother country. The moment is arrived when the legislators of the republic, fenfible of the mifchief of too much indulgence, ought to cruth with their anathema the moft irreconcileable enemies of liberty and equality. It is neceffary that the emigrants, in whatever place they refide, or whatever difguife they affume, fhould no longer be able to elude the fentence of the law pronounced against them.

Any diftinction between the emigrants of France and thofe of the colonies would be extremely unjuft and impolitic. It would occafion the lofs of our colonies, whom liberty alone can attach to us, and along with the lofs of our colonies, would destroy every hope of re-establishing our commerce, and of procuring to the republic an inexhauftible fource of real opulence and profperity.

The national convention was for a long time led into an error in confequence of the prevalence of a factious and unfounded opinion,

They retained an idea, that it was poffible to difpenfe with nature and juftice with refpect to the freedom of the blacks, and to fave our colonies; by committing a criminal outrage against the rights of man.

Some legiflators, deceived by the artifices of the colonial ariftocracy, were ignorant of the real causes of thofe calamities which defolated our colonies; but the report of the commiffion appointed to inveftigate the truth, which fo much intrigue had been employed to conceal, could not fail to open their eyes.

Will the protectors, the defenders of the emigrant colonists, who have fucceffively been demagogues, royalifts, and moderés, according to the different periods of the revolution, ftill be able to intereft your compaflion, by reprefenting to you the lofs of their fortune, and deftitute fituation in which they are placed?

But have not the clergy and-nobility of France, and all the emigrants in Europe, caufe to regret the lofs of the privileges on which they founded the flavery of the people? And have they not been the authors of their own wretchednefs and difgrace?

They alfo appeal to the compaflion of the French people they alfo ftile themselves the victims of a revolution, which has compelled them to abandon their homes, and yet the conftitution for ever interdicts all of them from returning to the country.

Will thefe emigrant colonifts fay. that they only retired to the United States to avoid the horrors of war, and that they have remained in at neutral country?

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