vessel of the republic, beaten so oft by the tempest, touches at length upon the shore. Beware how you repulse it once more among the breakers. Permit it to approach the port, pressing with a tranquil course an obedient ocean, in the midst of the transports of a people free, happy, and triumphant. Proclamation and decree of the national convention to all those who have taken part in the revolt in the departments of the west, the coasts of Brest, and the coasts of Cherbourg. OR two years your country has did you reject the lights that were held out to you, to embrace a mischevious phantom? Why would you prefer masters to brothers, and the torches of fanaticism to the flambeau of reason? May your eyes at length be opened, and an end put to so many calamities! Weakened by repeated losses, disunited and scattered, without any other resource than despair, you still may have an asylum in the generosity of the nation. Yes, your brothers, the French people, are stili inclined to think you more misled than culpable; their arms are stretched out to you, and the national convention pardons you in their name, if you lay down your arms, and if repon of ce sincere attachment urge civil war. Those fertile plains, which appeared designed by nature to be the abode of happiness, are become the residence of proscription and carnage. The courage of our countrymen is turned against themselves. The flames devour their habitations, and the earth, covered with ruins and with emblems of mourning, refuses even a subsistence to the survivors. Such are, Frenchmen, the wounds which have been inflicted on our country by pride and imposture. Wicked men have abused your inexperience: it was in the name of a righteous God that they furnished you with parricidal arms; it was in the name of humanity that they devoted to death thousands of victims; it was in the name of virtue that they drew together a band of wretches from every corner of France-that they made it the receptacle of monsters vomited out of every country. What blood has been sacrificed to the best of dominions! and you, whom they deluded, why you to fraternize with them. Their word is sacred; and, if unfaithful delegates have abused their confidence and your's, justice shall be Thus the reexecuted on them. public, equally terrible towards its enemies within, as without, is highly gratified by recalling its misguided children! take advantage of its clemency, and hasten to return into the bosom of your country. The authors of all your misfortunes are those who have seduced you. It is time that the enemies of France should cease to be gratified by the spectacle of cur internal dissentions; they alone smile at your misfortunes; they alone profit of them: it is necessary to defeat their impious plans. Turn against them those arms they have supplied you with for our destruction. Are the ties of nature dissolved; and has the blood of the English passed into your veins? Would you massacre the families of your brother-conquerors of Europe, rather than unite yourselves to them, and partake of their glory? glory?-No: you are now enlightened by the voice of truth, and already many of you are returned, and find security the price of your confidence. Return all of you, and let the fire-side of each become secure and peaceful, let the lands be cultivated, and let plenty resume its reign! Let us join in avenging ourselves of the common enentyof that implacable and jealous nation, which has thrown the brand of discord amongst us! Let all our republican energy be directed against those who have violated the rights of the people! Let the utmost vigour animate all throughout our ports; let the ocean be covered with our privateers; and let the war of extermination, with all its attendant horrors, be carried from the banks of the Loire to the banks of the Thames !— Decreed, 1. That all persons in the departments of the east, the coasts of Brest and of Cherbourg, known under the name of the robbers of La Vendée and of Chouans, who shall lay down their arms in the course of a month after the publication of the present decree, shall not be molested or tried for the acts which they may have committed. 2. The arms shall be deposited in the municipalities and communes that shall be pointed out by the representatives of the people. 3. To superinted the execution of the present decree, the convention appointed the representatives of the people, Menou, Boudin, the official for the departments of the east, and two others for the coasts of Cherbourg, with the same powers as the representatives of the people in mission. Proclamation to the French people to accompany the decree of the repeal of the law of the Maximum. Frenchmen, Rof of the republic, reproved long ago the law of the maximum; the national convention revokes it; and the more the salutary motives which dictated this decree shall be known, the more it will have a right to your confidence. In taking this measure, it does not mistake the circumstances which surround it; it foresees that bad faith will endeavour to persuade, that all the evils which were occasioned by the maximum itself are the effects of its suppression. But your faithful representatives have forgot their dangers, and only look for public utility. The least enlightened minds know now, that the law of the maximum annihilated from day to day commerce and agriculture: the more that law was enforced, the more it became impracticable. Oppression in vain assumed a thousand forms; it met with a thousand obstacles; it was constantly eluded, or it only took away, by odious and violent means, some precarious resources, which it was soon to exhaust. It is then that law which became so disastrous, that conducted us to an exhausted state. Considerations which exist no more, justified it perhaps at first; had not the convention, in repealing it, broken the chains of industry. It belongs to industry freed from her shackles; it belongs to regenerated commerce to multiply our wealth and our means of exchange. The supplies of the republic are entrusted to unanimity and to liberty, the only bases of commerce and agriculture. But But after so many calamities, their benefits will not be as speedy as cur wants are urgent. Every sudden transition to a new order of things, every change, however useful it be, is never without a shock, and offers almost constantly some inconvenience. The impatience of the citizens wanted at this moment to supply itself, at any price, with the goods necessary for their consumption. This cause, added to the inclemency of the season, made them undergo a momentary rise in gates of the sanctuary of liberty. But this last cry of royal fanaticism, striking all the republicans with indignation, contributes to give them fresh energy. Justice and reason will bring back abundance by degrees. The most magnanimous nation will reap at last the fruit of her virtues; and her representatives will find their reward in beholding her happiness. to the armies. N the 7th Praireal (26th May, 1704) a pretended design of assassinating Robespierre was discovered and attributed to the English: upon which the national convention of France decreed; that no English nor Hanoverian prisoners shall be made. their price. A few days more, and Decree of the convention, and address we shall see the happy effects of a decree, which malevolence will doubtless calumniate, which was commanded by the welfare of the people. Let all fears vanish; the government watches day and night. Your representatives expect every thing from the character which distinguishes the French nation, and the provisions shall be secured. Fraternity shall be no more an empty name among us; it shall reject alike the calculation of avarice and the false alarms, which are still more subservient to a variety of speculators, in creating a factitious famine. You will not compromise five years labours and sacrifices; and the genius of liberty will triumph this day over all the passions, even of his wants, and of the rigour of the elements, as he has triumphed over all the tyrants of Europe. Your enemies bestir themselves in darkness, and want to mislead the people; but they shall be deaf to the insinuations of perfidy, and shall only rally at the voice of the country. Yesterday royalty seemed to conspire from the bottom of its grave; its blasphemies resounded to the On the 11th Praireal. Barrere proposed to the convention, that the above decree shall be accompanied by the following address to the armies of the republic, which was agreed to. England is capable of every outrage on humanity; and of every crime towards the republic. She attacks the rights of nations, and threatens to annihilate liberty. How long will you suffer to continue on your frontier the slaves of ******— the soldiers of the most atrocious of tyrants? He formed the congress of Pilnitz, and brought about the scandalous surrender of Toulon. He massacred your brethren at Genoa, and burned our magazines in the maritime towns. He corrupted our cities, and endeavoured to destroy the national representation. He starved your your plains, and purchased treasons on the frontiers. When the event of battles shall put in your power either English or Hanoverians, bring to your remembrance the vast tracts of country English slaves have laid waste. Carry your view to La Vendée, Toulon, Lyons, I andrecies, Martinique, and St. Domingo, places still reeking with the blood which the atrocious policy of the English has shed. Do not trust to their artful language, which is an additional crime, worthy of their perfidious character and machiavelian government. Those who boast that they abhor the tyranny of ******, say, can they fight for him! No, No, republican soldiers, you ought therefore, when victory shall put in your power, either Englishmen or Hanoverians, to strike, not one of them ought to return to the traiterous territory of England, or to be brought into France. Let the British slaves perish, and Europe be free. Proclamation of the canton of Berne, in Switzerland, August, 1794. the consequences. At the moment that we had reason to hope for the return of peace and tranquillity, by the establishment of the new order of things, which the government had solemnly announced to us, the same as had the canton of Zurich, a band of tumultuous men attacked and overthrew by main force, public liberty and personal safety; they violated private houses, arrested individuals, and dragged them to prison. These violences were committed even against the ministers of religion, in a manner such as seemed to announce the intended proscription of religion, in a city hitherto remarked as its great supporter. Citizens were sacrificed even against the will of the majority of voters. New victims were pointed out; new attempts were made against persons and property, even in despite of oaths, of forms established, and the laws of the state; and Geneva awaits in consternation the fate which the sanguinary men, who have usurped the right of disposing of the lives and fortunes of all the citizens, are preparing for her. We see with extreme grief the sad destiny of a city whose happiness has been at all times the object of WE, the Avover, the little and our cares, and which, by its proxi great council of the city and republic of Berne, &c, make known by these presents-public fame has sufficiently informed us of the deplorable scenes which have overwhelmed the city of Geneva. That republic, in whose prosperity we have constantly taken an intercst, resulting from long and intimate relations as allies, and the habitual connections of neighbourhood, is delivered up to unheard-of calamities, of which it is not possible to foresee the extent, the duration, or mity, so nearly interests our own state and that of all Switzerland. But the knowledge we have gained of the criminal participation of many individuals of our own country ag gravates still more our grief and indignation. Our paternal solicitude for the safety and honour of our country not permitting us to tole. rate on our territory these men, sullied with crimes, we, by the present publication, interdict their entrance into cur territories; and will that all those of our subjects who shall shall be known to have had any part in these atrocious scenes, be instantly denounced and seized; reserving to ourselves to pronounce the chastisement which their culpable conduct, in a city so long our ally, merits. We doubt not, dear and faithful citizens, that participating in the same sentiments that animate us, you will redouble your activity and zeal in the execution of this present ordinance. Proclamation published by the revolu tionary committee of Geneva, July 20, 1794. Equality, liberty, independence. 1. A revolutionary tribunal, consisting of twenty-one members, shall be formed. 2. The revolutionists, assembled in a body at the national lyceum, shall elect this tribunal by a single process, and according to the relative majorities. 3. The electors shall not return more than 21 citizens, and not less than 11. 4. No one shall refuse his vote on penalty of being considered as a suspected person, and treated as such. 5. Each revolutionary citizen, without any exception, shall be enjoined to repair armed to-morrow, the 21st of July, at eight in the morning, to the national lyceum, and there to vote, on pain of being considered as a suspected person, Revolutionary citizens ! December, 1792, was more serviceable to the aristocrats than to the revolutionists. The former, always incorrigible, and invariably the enemies of liberty, have suffered no abatement of their criminal hopes and liberticidal pretensions. The moment is now arrived, when the revolutionists, wearied with living among men who have not ceased for a moment to be inimical both to them and the French republic, have been forced to rise for the completion of the work which had nearly been entered on, and to ensure the everlasting triumph of the principles of equality in our country. Revolutionary citizens, your moderation has hitherto merely served to ensnare you, to embolden the aristocrats, and give consistency to their culpable views. It is time that the people should have justice done; and with this intention the revolutionary committee lays before you the following plan: 6. The revolutionary tribunal shall try those who are imprisoned, as well as those who have escaped for the present, and have fled since the revolution. 7. It may pronounce sentence of death, pecuniary fines, banishment, &c. 8. Every sentence of death shall be subject to the approval of the whole body of the revolutionary citizens. 9. The revolutionary tribunal shall complete its functions within the space of six days, reckoning from the moment of its election. 10. A military committee: hali be created, to consist of seven members, who are to watch over the public safety, and to execure the sentences of the revolutionary tribu nal. It shall succeed the revolutionary committee, at the expiration of its powers. The members of each circle are enjoined to give their suftrages in |