King's acceptance of the conftitution; and concluded with propofing to approve of the King's notification to the Elector of Treves, and the other German princes, and declare them enemies if they did not comply with it by the 15th of January; to grant the twenty millious demanded; to prepare a charge of high treafon against the emigrant princes within eight days; to request the King to or der the Ruffian and Swedish minifters to quit France: and inform the King of Sweden and the Emprefs, that their aiding the emigrants would be confidered as an act of hoftility; to demand fatisfaction of the King of Spain, for the injurious terms in which his governor in St Domingo refufed fuccour to the French tolonifts, and for the injuries done to the French citizens in Spain, in confequence of the lare edicts; to demand the good offices of the Emperor, the prohibition of all affembling of troops in the Electorates, and the reduction of his own troops in the Netherlands; to order the minifter for foreign affairs to give a weekly account of his adminiftration, and the diplomatic committee to examine the treaties with Ruffia, Spain, Germany, and Sweden, and propofe fuch alterations as may be neceffary. His fpeech was warmly applauded, and ordered to be printed. The minifter for foreign affairs informed the Affembly that the King of Sweden had received the notification of the King's accep tance of the conftitution, but had not returned an answer. M. Condorcet read the plan of a Manifefto to be published in the States of the printes by whom France was menaced, which was adopted by the Affenibly, ordered to be prefented by a deputation of twenty-four members to the King, tranflated into all the languages of Europe, and sent to the eightythree departments. MANIFESTO to all States and Nations, decreed by the French National Affembly, and prefent ed to the King, Dec. 29. Drawn up by M. Condorcet. "At a moment when, for the first time ince the epoch of their liberty, the French people may fee themfelves reduced to the neceffity of exercising the terrible right of war, their reprefentatives owe to Europe, to all mankind, an account of the motives which have guided their refolutions, and an expofition of the principles which dire& their conduct. The French nation renounces the undertaking of war with the view of making conquefts, and will never employ ber firces again the liberty of any fate. Such is the text of their conftitution; fuch is the facred vow by which they have connected their own happiness with the happiness of every other people, and they will be faithful to them. But who can confider that a friendly terri tory, in which exifts an army waiting only the profpect of fuccefs for the moment of attack. Is it not equivalent to a declaration of war, to give places of ftrength not only to enemies who have already declared, but to confpirators, who have long fince commenced it? Every thing, therefore, impofes upon the powers eftab ifhed by the conftitution for maintaining the peace and the fafety of the public, the imperious law of employing force against rebels, who, from the bofom of a foreign land, threaten to tear their country in picces. The right of nations violated-the dig nity of the French people infulted-the criminal abufe of the King's name employed by impoftors to veil their difaftrous projects their distrust kept up by finiter rumours through the whole empire-the obftacles occafioned by this diftruft to the execution of the laws, and the re-establishment of credit the means of corruption exerted to delude and feduce the citizens-the difquiets which agitate the inhabitants of the frontiers-the evils to which attempts the most vain and the most fpecdily repulfed may expofe them; the outrages, always unpunished, which they have experienced on the territories where the revolted French find an afylum-the neceffity of not allowing the rebels time to complete their preparations, or rife up more danger ous against their country-fuch are our mo tives. Never did more juft or more urgent exift. And in the picture which we have drawn, we have rather foftened than overcharged our injuries. We have no occafion to roufe the indignation of citizens in order to inflame their courage. The French nation, however, will never ceafe to confider as a friendly people, the inhabitants of the territory occupied by the rebels, and governed by princes who offer them protection. The peaceful citizens whofe country armies may occupy, fhall not be treated by her as enemies, nor even as fubjects. The public force of which the may be come the temporary depofitary, fhall not be employed but to fecure their tranquillity and maintain their laws. Proud of having regained the rights of nature, fhe will never outrage them in other men. Jealous of her independence, determined to bury herself in her own ruins, rather than fuffer laws to be taken from her, or dictated to her, or even an infulting guaranty of thofe fhe has framed for herfelf, fhe will never infringe the independence of other nations. Her foldiers will conduct themselves on a foreign territory as they would on their own, if forced to combat on it. The involuntary evils which her troops may occafion fhall be repaired. The afylum which the offers to strangers shall not be shut against the inhabitants of countries whofe princes princes fhall have forced her to attack them, and they shall find a fure refuge in her bofom. Faithful to the engagements made in her name, the will fulfil them with a generous exactness; but no danger fhall be capable of making her forget that the foil of France belongs wholly to liberty, and that the laws of equality ought to be univerfal. She will prefent to the world, the new fpectacle of a na tion truly free, fubmiffive to the laws of juf tice amid the forms of war, and refpeting every where, and on every occafion, towards all men, the rights which are the fame to all. Peace, which impofture, intrigue, and treafon, have banifhed, will never ceafe to be the firft of our withes. France will take up arms, compelled to do fo, for her fafety and her internal peace, and fhe will be feen to lay them down with joy the moment he is affured that there is nothing to fear for that liberty-for that equality which is now the only element in which Frenchmen can live. She dreads not war, but the loves peace; fhe feels that he has need of it; and fhe is too confcious of her ftrength to fear making the avowal. When, in requiring other nations to refpect her repofe, he took an eternal engagement not to trouble others, the might have thought that the deferved to be listened to, and that this folemn declaration, the pledge of the tranquillity and the happiness of other nations, might have merited the affection of the princes who govern them; but fuch of thofe princes as apprehend that France would endeavour to excite internal agitations in other countries, fhall learn that the cruel right of reprifal, juftified by ufage, condemned by nature, will not make her refort to the means employed against her own repofe; that the will be juft to those who have not been fo to her; that The will every where pay as much respect to peace as to liberty; and that the men who ftill prefume to call themfelves the mafters of other men, will have nothing to dread from her but the influence of her example. The French nation is free; and, what is more than to be free, fhe has the fentiment of freedom. She is free; fhe is armed; fhe can never be reduced to flavery. In vain are her inteftine difcords counted on; fhe has paffed the dangerous moment of the reformation of her political laws, and fhe is too wife to anticipate the leffon of experience: fhe wishes only to maintain her conftitution, and to defend it. The divifion of two powers proceeding from the fame fource, and directed to the fame end, the laft hope of our enemies, has vanished at the voice of our country in danger; and the King, by the folemnity of his proceedings, by the franknefs of his measures, fhews to Europe the French nation ftrong in her means of defence and profperity. Refigned to the evils which the enemies of the human race, united against her, may make her fuffer, fhe will triumph over them by her patience and her courage; victorious, the will feek neither indemnification nor vengeance. Such are the fentiments of a generous people, which their reprefentatives do themfelves honour in expreffing. Such are the projects of the new political fyftem which they have adopted-to repel force, to refift oppreffion, to forget all when they have no thing more to fear; and to confider adverfa ries, if vanquished, as brothers; if reconciled, as friends. Th fe are the wishes of all the French, and this is the war which they de clare against their enemies" Dec 31. The Affembly determined neither to give nor receive congratulations upon the new year. The Prefident announced that the King's minifter requested to be admitted to prefent an official notification on the part of the King. M. Deleffart faid, that the notification, of which he was the bearer, came from the Em peror. It was delivered by Prince Kaunitz to M. de Noailles, ambaffador from France at Vienna. It related to the advice given, and the period indicated by the King to the Elector of Treves, to difperfe the affemblages of emigrants in his dominions. This official communication, fubjoined, being read, the minifter of justice presented to the Prefident the following letter from the King. "Gentlemen, I have charged the minifter for foreign affairs, to communicate to you an official notice from the Emperor, tranfmitted to the ambaffador from France at Vienna. This, I am bound to fay, has greatly af tonished me, as I had a right to reckon on the fentiments of the Emperor, and on his defire of preferving that good intelligence and connection which ought to fubfift between two allies. I cannot think that these his difpofitions are changed; I wish to perfuade myfelf that he has been deceived on the truth of fas; that he has thought that the Elector of Treves had fulfilled the duties of juftice and good neighbourhood, and that, neverthelefs, this Prince had feared that his ftates were expofed to violences, or particular incurfion. In the answer which I have given to the Emperor, I have repeated, that I have only demanded what was just from the Elector of Treves, and nothing but what the Emperor himself had given an example of. I have reminded him of the care the French nation took immediately to prevent the affembling of the Brabanters, when they attempted it in the neighbourhood of the Auftrian Pays Bas; and finally, I have renewed to him the wifh DE LESSART." (Underneath) This letter was applauded by all the Affembly, and every perfon prefent. Manifefto f the Emperor againft France. Prince Kaunitz Rietberg to the French Ambaffador at Vienna. Office of the Chancellor of the Court and State. Prince Kaunitz Rietberg, the chancellor of the court and ftate, having prefented to the Emperor the official co munication made by the French Amb. ffador of an oftenfible difpatch from M. de Leffart, dated the 14th of November laft, has been authorised to exprefs, in return to the faid Ambaffador, an anfwer to the faid dispatch, with that entire freedom which his Imperial Majesty thinks it his duty to obferve on all fubjects relative to the important crifis in which the kingdom of France is. The chancellor has, in confequence, the honour to communicate on his fide, that the Elector of Treves has alfo fent to the Emperor a note, which the minifter of France was charged to prefent him at Coblentz, as like. wife the answer which the Elector gave to faid note; that this Prince, at the fame time, had made known to his Imperial Majefty, that he had adopted, refpecting the affembling and arming of the French refugees and emigrants, with regard to the furnishing them with arms and warlike ammunition, the fame principles and regulations as had been put in force in the Auftrian Low Countries. But that difcontents began to fpread between his fubjects and thofe in the environs; that the tranquillity of his frontiers and states were likely to be troubled by incurfions and violence, notwithstanding this meature; and that the Elector claimed the affiftance of the Emperor, in cale the event realized his fears. That the Emperor is perfectly tranquil on the juft and moderate intentions of the Most Chriftian King, and not lefs convinced of the great intereft which the French government has in preventing foreign fovereign princes from being provoked to act again them by force of arms; but daily experience fhows, that there do not appear principles of stability and moderation enough in France, in the fubordination of her powers, and efpecially in the provinces and municipalities, to prevent the apprehenfion that the force of arms must be exercised in spite of the King's inten tions, and in fpite of the dangers of the confequences. His Imperial Majefty, neceffitated as well by his friendship for the Elector of Treves as by the confideration he owes to the interest of Germany as a co-eftate, and to his own intereft as a neighbour, has enjoined Marshal de Bender, Commander-General of the troops in the Pays Bas, to march to the ftates of his Electoral Highnefs fpeedy and efficacious fuc cours, in cafe he fhould be attacked with hoftile incurfions, or even imminently me-. naced with fuch. The Emperor is too fincerely attached to his Mo Chriftian Majefty, and takes too great a part in the well-being of France, and the general repofe, not to defire ardently the prevention of this extremity, and the infallible confequences which it will produce, as well on the part of the chief and the states of the Germanic empire, as of other fovereigns, who have united in concert to maintain the public tranquillity, and for the fafety and honour of crowns and it is in confequence of this latter that the Chancellor Prince Kaunitz is ordered to be open and unreferved to the ambassador of France, to whom he has the honour of repeating his affurances of having the most diftinguished confide ation. Vienna, Dec. 21. 1791. M. Deleffart gave an account of a letter officially communicated to the King by M. Herman, minifter for the Bishop of Spire, and the Elector Palatine, at the court of France. The silhop charges his minifter to aflure the court of France, that no emigrant has tarried in his ftates; that thofe who had entered them had only paffed through as travellers; and that whatever had been faid contrary to this declaration, was an impofture, intended to deceive the National Atfembly and the people of France. The Elector Palatine declares, That the French within his territories had always conducted themfelves in fuch a manner as to give no offence, or violate the respect due to good Leighbourhood; that on this account he had not thought himself at liberty to order them to quit his ftates; and that the report of his having promifed to furnish aid against France was utterly falfe. The King had received another letter from Worms, intimating that the emigrants found no protection there. LETTER from the French Princes to the Empe the conduct which you have been pleafed to evince fince the treaty of Pilnitz, feem to require from us an entire referve and difcretion; but, notwithstanding appearances, and the rigorous measures which your Majefty's government in the Low Countries unceasingly purfues against the French faithful to their duty and their honour, we always recall with confidence the facred promifes which your Majefty has made to the Comte d'Artois; and we have the firm affurance, that Leopoid, faithful to his engagements, guided by the fentiments of his heart, and enlightened by his own proper interefts, now wishes, and always will with, to fuccour his ally, deliver his fifter, and guaranty his own ftates, by destroying the germ of contagion. A great occafion has at length prefented: never could a more favourable opportunity be offered. It is our duty to fubmit to your Majefty what can be done in favour of France. It is for you to determine. We do not here recall to your memory the prefent ftate of Europe. The north and the fouth have published their intentions. Prullia and your Majefty have but one opinion. We are defirous to fpeak of the internal fituation of France. The New Affembly has fallen into difrepute; the frightful diforder of the finances announces an approaching bankruptcy; no power, no order any longer exifts in the State; our enemies are acquainted with their dan. ger; they perceive their ruin inevitable, but they ftill perfevere in the audacioufnefs of their crimes; and we dare to fay to a fovereign who loves truth, that the feeming conduct of your Majesty fuftains their hopes, and emboldens them in their fanguinary projeЯts. The decree which they paffed against Monfieur and the emigrants fufficiently developes their defigns. They know that the bro thers of the unfortunate Louis XVI. defpife their menaces; they know that the nobility of France are attached only to honour; but directed at prefent by the Duke of Orkans, and the republican party, they will to profit by the filence of Europe, and to feek their fafety in the excefs of their crimes. To fucceed in their defigns, it was ne ceffary they fhould take the audacious meafure of depriving us both of a right, which their own decrees gave us, to the regency. Sufficient time has elapfed to judge of the ffect which this new crime has produced pon the fovereigns of Europe, and more eApeci: lly upon your Majefy; but if they can le perfuaded of your indifference, or of the revalence of a dilatory fyftem, which is equally dangerous, they will haften to confummate their crimes; they will annihilate the phantom of royalty which they now fuf fer to exift; they will make an attempt on the life of the Queen; and they will elect a chief, by beltowing the regency upon the Duke of Orleans. We do not advance any thing of which we are not certain; and your Majefty may be perfuaded that we speak not the language of exaggeration. But, Sire, by a fingle word, by a fingle action, which will prove the firmness of your refolutions, not only will your Majefty difconcert all the projecs of our enemies; but the change of opinions is fuch, the difcredit of the Affembly fo great, that at one and the fame inftant an infurrection will take place in all parts of the kingdom, and more efpecially in the heart of the capital, where the people are kept in fubjection by the audacity of the rebels alone. What we now demand of your Majefty is, that you will be pleased to make a public declaration, on purpofe to affure the French Princes of your protection, and also the other French, whofe zeal and the purity of whofe principles have obliged them to leave the kingdom. con There is nothing perfonal in our duct; we act only for honour, which is our fole recompence; nothing can deprive us of it. But it is left for your Majefty to confider, whether you will guaranty the life of the King and of the Queen, and produce the best and greateft effects by a measure which will not any way affect you, or whether you chufe to leave the dearest and most precious claims to the chance of events, and the audacity of crimes.We are, with the most respectful fentiments, &c." Jan. 14. 1792. M. Genfonne reported from the diplomatic committee, on the official no. tice delivered on the 21st of December, by Prince Kaunitz, to the French ambassador at Vienna. The points examined by the committee were, 1. The political fituation of France with refpect to the emperor. The alliance with the empire seemed to have the intereft of the Houfe of Auftria for its only object. Since the treaty of 1756, France had exhaufted herself in fupport of that House, and renounced treaties from which fhe might have derived reciprocal advantages. In return for thefe facrifices, the Emperor had openly protected the French emigrants in his ftates; folicited and concerted, by his agents, a league of the powers of Europe against the liberty of France; given illufory orders for difperfing the emigrants, which were never executed; allowed them to wear diftinguilhog cockades and uniforms, while French citizens could not wear the national colours colours without being infulted. Such had been his conduct before the King's acceptance of the conftitution. Since that period, let the Affembly recollect his answer to the notification of the King's acceptance, his circu lar letter to the powers of Europe, the general alliance negotiated with thofe powers, and his fecret treaty with the King of Pruffia. The Elector of Treves fuffered the emigrants to enlist and arm men in his territories. The The minifter for foreign affairs, jan. 16. King, on the defire of the Affembly, request- informed the Assembly, that he had just reed the Emperor's intervention, which he received an extraordinary courier from M. Sainte fufed; and, on the application of the Elector Croix, minifter from the King of France to of Treves, granted to him, against France, the Elector of Treves. what he denied to an ancient and faithful ally. Thefe feveral caufes of complaint a mounted to a manifest infraction of the treaty of 1756. rebel confpirators leagued against her, or with any foreign powers who endeavoured to pro cure any thing else than a juft and moderate compenfation for its claims relative to Al face. Decreed alfo, that this declaration be pre. fented to the King by a deputation, and that he be invited to communicate it to all the powers of Europe. 2. What had France to dread from the league that was forming against her? It was not the intereft of the Emperor to engage in a war, which, even if fuccefs were poffible, muft weaken his force, and put him at the mercy of the other powers of Europe. All his winding policy, and all his menaces, were intended only to keep France in a state of alarm, and perhaps to facilitate a congrefs, which, by pretending to modify the French conftitution, muft destroy it. A nation of twenty-five millions, resolved to possess liberty, and to poffefs it entire, would never furrender its fovereignty to be modified by def pots. It was therefore for the Affembly to exa mine whether the official notice of the Em peror, combined with his other conduct, was er was not to be confidered as an act of hoility. Such was the fituation of France, that war alone could re-animate vublic credit, extinguish civil discord, and fet the edifice of the conftitution upon an immoveable bafis. In a fimilar fituation, Frederick II. broke the Auftrian league, by anticipating the blow with which it threatened him; and a prompt invafon fecured his crown, which the leaft delay might have loft. M. Gaudet the vice-prefident, in a long and animated fpeech, fupported the report, and moved that a declaration should be drawn up and prefented to the King, ftating, that they should look upon every Prince as an enemy of the French nation who should make any attempt against the French confti tution. [At this moment all the members, by a fudden and inftantaneous impulse, arofe, and, with their right hands extended, teftified their adhefion to this propofition.] The Affembly then paffed a decree, by which they declared every agent of the executive power and every Frenchman to be in famous, who took any part, either directly or indirectly, either at any congrefs, or me diation, between the French nation and the Vol. LIV. February 1792. M. Sainte Croix affured him in his dispatch es, that the emigrants were entirely dispersed, and that the wile precautions of the Governors General of the Low countries, and the more mature reflections of the Elector, had deprived them of every hope and of every refource. M Sainte Croix had alfo received an of ficial note, by which it appeared, that the Emperor had caufed his vice-chancellor to remonftrate with the Cardinal de Rohan on his conduct, and enjoined him neither to give fuccour nor afylum to the emigrants, nor do any thing that might justify an invasion ori the part of the French nation. It was likewife ftated, that the Emperor was determined to defend all the states of the Empire, provided no just cause of offence was given to the King of France his ally. Jan. 17. The order of the day, being the propofition of the diplomatic committee on the measures to be adopted with respect to the Emperor, the committee reported on the papers communicated by the minister of fo reign affairs, that there was no longer any doubt of the pacific intentions of the Elector of Treves, the emigrants being completely difperfed in his territory. The Emperor's letter to Cardinal de Rohan had already produced very evident effects. Two thoufand five hundred men, under the command of M. Condé and Mirabeau, had received orders to quit the bishoprick of Strasburgh in twenty-four hours; waggons with ammunition had been stopped on the road to Ettenheim, and the execution of all contrads for cloathing, &c. had been stopped. General Luckner had given ftrict orders not to resent any infult by the fugitives to his advanced pofts. M. D'Artois was at Frankfort. The Duke of Wirtemberg, as director of the circle of Suabia, had written, in conjunc tion with the Bishop of Conftance, to Cardinal de Rohan, in the most preffing terms, to prevent any violation of the laws of good neighbourhood by the emigrants on his ter ritory; with an intimation, that unless he received a categorical anfwer, he would advance a body of troops to cut off all commu M 'nication |