The ill focceft «f the campaign of last yrar. had taught tue Auftrians and PruiTans the difionlties that mall attend entering France ; and produced declarations, tltat it was nut tUeir intention to diktat? a form of Govern ment, for the French, but to prevent tlie efc fcfts of tbofil licentious principles wMeti t'.'irf ed to tin iobverficn of every cftabli&ed gn vernraeiit. By tne however, it was resolved jto comnrencc a plan of active operations a gainst France, and instead of the chimerical project of marching directly to Paris, to be fiegc at dnce as many as poflibie of the (tron* places on t .e frontier, which will block up or call off the greafeft part of the Republican troojs from the interior of tire Kingdom, and leave the Royalists within it without much opposition. If these places fall they wiil be immediately occupied by the troops of the Combined powers, and 'erve as points to act fr<?m according to circuinftances, while tire fleets of England, Holland, and Spain are to form a chain of cruizei? round the coast, rea dy to favor the Royalists wherever they ap pear, and to cut off all the supplies by fi?a, as the armies wiII do by land. Thus attacked and hemmed in on all fides, with a strong par ty to ad against them at home, the Republi cans, it is hoped, must be soon subdued. The cessation ofboftilities was declared at an end, and the a!l"»es immediately commen ced their Operations. Such we understand to be the plan agreed upon at this memorable Cong/e r s, in the ex ecution of which Great-Britain is toafiift with all her forces by sea and land. Of its practi cability we prefiime not to give an opinion ; but from the condutt of the allies in other cases, we have little doubt but that if the garnfons on the French frontiers (hould fall, the Auftrians will take pofleflion of French Flanders, Lorraine, and Alsace. This being accomplished, Pruilia will have an equivalent in another quarter, and peace will be offered to the French without much regard to what form of government they may choose to efta blifli. EatriSt of a letter from Antwerp, dated April 8. u The Deputies put under arrest by Dunrnu rier, and sent to prince Cobourg, are at Ma eftricht —Dumourier with young Egalite,who now calls himfelf the duke de Chartres, and his lifter Mariemoifelle D'Orleans, are at Mons. " The army which general Dumourier lately commanded, is in the utmofl confufion, and it is even said entirely dispersed, without any regular leader. That General persua ded himfelf, from the persona! attachmrnt lhei.cn him by his a my, that he might pro. mife himfelf their support, to the extent of bis wilbes, in the project he had formed. He was, however, miftakeu. He had advanced as far as Cambray, on the wad to Paris, when he found his army deserting him; the artillery firft forfook him, then the national guards. He then harangued the troops of the line, who, in return, informed him, that, not withstanding tbeir love to him as their ge neral, and as a brave foidier they were deter mined, to a man, neither to fight against their country, nor to violate that constitution which they had fwom to maintain. " General Dumourier finding that he could not depend upon the army, immediately set Out with young Egalite at the head of two regiments of horse, and took the road for Mons. He Was, however, so closely pursued by a party who followed him, that he was ab solutely obliged to fight his way. " It is said that Dumourier intends to re cruit among the royalists, who now are very numerous in France. " The Auftrians have laid siege to Conde, and expect to have made considerable pro gress it] Fran<e before the end of fix weeks. •' The French garrison that were in Bre da have made a requisition to be allowed a strong escort, left rhey should be murdered bv the Brabantert, who are highly incensed a gainst the French." ' Dumourier wrote from Mons, requeuing permission to attend the Congress which was refufed him. General Valence was at Antwerp on the day the Congress met, not as a member of it, nor as a prisoner, but having gone thither during the fu r penfion of hostilities. Our ac counts do not (late on what motive. The made of electing officers in the French army which Dumouner in his letter, after the battle of the 18th of March, propofeH to suppress, has been the means of saving the northern army to the republic. 'Had Du monrier had the appointment of the officers ever since he took the command, the army would have gore with hiin. By the mode of ele&ion they are worse ToMiers, but much bct- Ur citiz'.ns. BARCELONA, March I M. Bourgoin, the French M nifter, previ ous to his departure for France, had proposed to leave M. Durtabi/e in quality of Charge d'Affoires, per interim, and MefTrs. Piivabri and Payou, as Consuls. The Minister agreed prpvifionally to receive the two latter, but rejected the former.—By thcTe dispositions, the French here are exposed to the insults of the people, extremely irritated on account of the tragical death of Louis XVI. Our fleet will soon be on a molt refpeftable footing. The coinmandof it is given to Vice Admiral the Marquis de Co'atelli. The fleet of Cadiz consists of seven fail of the line, seven frigates, and one brifeantine ; that of Cai amounts to fix foil of the line, three frigates and one brigantine, that of Ferrol fix fail of the line. Total 20 fail of the line, 10 frigates, or.e cutter and three brigantines. STATE PAPERS. GENERAL DUMOURIER TO THE French Nation. SINCE the Commencement of the Revolu tion, I hare devoted myfclf td the main tenance of the Liberty and Honour of the Na- tion. The fcrvices I rendered in the year 1791, are the most memorable. Minister of Fo reign A/fairs during three months, I elevated and sustained (he dignity of the 1 rench name throughout all Europe. I was calnmxtiaied by an odious Cabal, by whom I was chargcd of ha vingplundered fix millions of Livres, defined for secret services. I have proved that of this sum 1 did not expend half a million. v Having quitted the career.of Politic* the close of the month of June, I comman4eU a small army in the Department of the North— This Dq»artment 1 was ordered to quit with my troops at the very time the Auftrians entered in force that part of the Republic. 1 disobeyed the order, fa ved the Department, and an attempt was made to come on me by surprize, for the purpose of conveying me to the citadel of Metz where 1 was to be condemned by a Council of War to fuffer death. On the 28th of August, I took upon me, in Champagne, the command of an army of twen ty thousand weak, and wkhout either di scipline or organization I arretted |jro grefs of eighty thousand Pruflians and Heißans and forced them to retreat after they had facri ficed the one ha sos their army. } was then the Saviour of France ; and then it was that the most wicked of men, the opprobrium as French men , in a word, Marat began to calumniate me without mercy. With a part of the victorious army of Champagne, and some other troops, I entered on the sth of November, the Beigic pro vinces, where I gained the forever memorable battle of Jemappe ; and, after a fuccefTion of ad vantages, entered Liege and Aix-la-Chapelle, towards the close of that month. From that moment my deftru&ion was resolved on ; and I have been accused of aspiring, now te the ti tle of Duke of Brabant,now to the Stadtholder ship and again to the Di&atorfhio. To retard and crufti my fiicceffes, the Minister Pache, supported by the criminal faction, to whom all our evils are to be ascribed, fuffered the vi&ori ous army to want every thing, and succeeded in diibanding it by famine and nakedness. The consequence was, that more than fifteen thou sand men were in the hospital, more than 25 thousand deserted through misery and disgust, and upwards of ten thousand horses died of hunger!!! I transmitted to the National Convention ve ry itrenuous remonstrances, which I followed up by repairing in person to Paris, to engage the LegiHators to apply a remedy to the evil. They did not even condescend to read the four memorials I delivered in. During the twenty fix hours I spent at Paris, I heard almofl: e?ery night bands of pretended Federates demand my head; and calumnies of every as well as menaces and insults followed me even into the country house to which I retired. Having delivered in my resignation, I was retained in the service of my country, because it was proposed to me to negociate the f'jfren fion of the war against England and Holland, which 1 had conceived as indispensable to the fafety of the Netherlands. Whilil I negotiated and that fuccefsfully, the National Convention itfelf hastened to declare war, without making any preparations and without either power or means for its support. I was not even advised of this Declaration, and learned it through the medium of the Ga zettes pnly. 1 hafttned to form a small army of new troops, who had nevfer fought, and with these troops, whom confidence rendered invincible, I made myfclf miller of three strong places, and was ready to penetrate into the middle of Holland, when I learned the disaster ot An-la-Chapelle, the railing of the siege of Maeflricht, and the fad retreat of the army. By this army I was loudly summoned. I aban doned my conquests to fly to it* fuecour ; Mttt considered that we could be extricated from our difficulties by a speedy fu.cefs only. I led my companions in arms to the enemy. On the i6th of March I ha/1 a considerable advantage at Tirelemont. On the ißth I brought the enemy to a general a&ion ; and the centre and right wing under my charge were victorious. The left wing after having attacked imprudently, fled. On the 19th we retreated honourably, with the brave men that were left together, for a part of the army disbanded itfelf. On the 1 ill and lid we fought with the fame courage, and to our firmnefs was owing the preservation of the remains of an aftny which breathes solely for true Liberty, for the reign of the Laws,and for the extinction of Anarchy. It was then that the Marats, the Roberlpierrs, and the criminal fe<9s of Jacobins of Paris, plot ted the fall of the Generals, and more tfpecially of mine. These villains, bribed with the gold of foreign power, to cnmpleat the disorganiza tion of the armies, caused almost all the generals ti be arretted. They keep them in the jails of Pans, to Septemberize them ; for thus it is that those monsters have Coined a word, to hand down t« posterity the remembrance us the horrid massacres of the firft fa days of Septem ber. Whilst I was employed in re-compoCng the army, in which employment 1 laboured night and day, on the ill of April (yesterday) four commiflionen. reached me with a decree, pur porting that 1 Ihould be brought to the bar of the Convention itfelf. The War Miniiler, Boumonrille, my pupil, was weak enough to accompany them, to fucceeil me in my com mand. The persons who were in suite of these perfidious er.iiflaries, informed me themselves, that different groups of aflaffins, cither fugi 422 tires from or driven out of my army, were dis persed on the raid to kill mc before I could r.ach Pari*. 1 spent fcvcral hours in endeavor ng to convince the commilEoners of the impru dence of thisarrcft. Nothing could (hake their prida, and I therefore arreted the whole of them, to fcrre nx;M the crime* of Part.. I •hh the Impe rialilb a fufpenfibn «T *rtw» and mythed to wards the capital, to extinguiA, at fooa aipof fible.the lighted tmkeh of civil war. My dear countrymen ! it is expedient that a tree and brave mu remove from you the veil which covers all our crimes and misfortunes — In * 789, we made great efforts to obtain Liber ty, Equality, and the Sovereignty of the People. Our principles were consecrated in the Declara tion of the Rights of Man, and there have re sulted from the labours of our LegiQators, ift. the declaration which fays that France is and shall remain a Monarchy; idly, a Constituti on to which we swore fealry in 1789, 90, and 91. This constitution might, and indeed mud have been imperfeA ; but it ought and might have been believed, that with time and experi ence its errors jvould be rectified, and that the necessary ltrifi: between the Legislative and Executive powers would establish a wife equili brium, which would prevent cither of these powers from feiking the whole of the authority, and attaining despotism. If the difpotifm of a single individual is dangerous to Liberty, how much more odious must be that of 700 men, many of whom are void of principles, without morale, and who have been able to reach that lupremacy by cabals or crimes alone I Licentiousness and excess fooa rendered it impofiiblc to support the yoke of a constitution that gave laws. The tribunes influenced the afiembly of reprf Tentative s, and were themselves awed by the dangerous club of Jacobms of Paris. The llrife between the two powers became at length a daily combat, then was the equilibriarr. destroyed. France ceafcd to have a king, and the vi&ory of the ioth of August was foiled by the atrocious ci imes of the firft days of Sep tember. All the departments, but more especially the wretched city of Paris, were delivered up to pil lage, to denunciations, proscriptions, and mafla cres. No Frenchman, the afiaflins and their ac complicesexcepted, had either his life or his pro pel ty in fecunty ! The consternation of slavery was augmented by the clamorous orgies of vil lains. Bands of pretended federates ran thro* and laid wade the departments ; and of the 700 individuals who composed thisdefpotic and anarchial body, 4 or 500 groaned and decreed, and decreed and groaned, exposed to the exter minating swords of the Marats and Roberffi erres. It is thus that the unfortunate Louis the 16th perilhed, without a judicial trial and with out a tribunal; and 'tis thus that the decree of the 19th of Nov. has provoked all nations by holding out to them our aid, provided they will disorganize themselves. 'Tisthus that the un just and impolitic decree of the 15th of Dec. has alienated from us the hearts of the Belgians, has driven us from the~ Netherlands lind would have brought about the massacre of the whole of our army, by this nation, provoked at our out rages and our crimes, if 1 had not saved that ve ry army by my proclamations. *Tis thus that a decree established the bloody tribunal which which places th« lives of the citizens at the mer cy of a small number of iniquitous judges,with out recourse or appeal to any other tribunal. *Tisthus that during the last month all the de crees have been marked by the (lamp of infaria ble avarice, by the blindest pr .de and more espe cially by the delire of maintaining power, by calling to the most important posts ©i the ft ate no other than d?ring, incapable and criminal men, by driving away or murdering men en lightened and of a high chara&er, and by sup porting a phantom of a republic which their er- rors in administration and in policy, as well as their crimes, had rendered impra&icable. These 700 individuals despise, detest, calumniate and revile each other, and have already, and that frequently, thought of poignarding the one the other. At this moment their blind ambition has impelled them to coalesce afrefh ; and bold criminality allies itfelf to feeble virtue, to pre serve a power as unjust as it is unileady. In the mean time their Committees devour every thing, that of the National Treasury absorbing the public funds, without being able to render any account of the expenditure. What has this convention done to maintain the war it has provoked again 11 all the powers of Europe ? It has disorganized the armies, instead of re- inforcing and recruiting the troops of the line, and the ancient battalions of national volunteers which would have formed a refpeilable army, Instead of recompensing these brave warriors by promotion and praises, these legifiators have left the battalions incomplete, naked, di farmed and discontented. In the fame way have they treated the excellent cavalry : and the brave French artillery is in the fame manner exhaufl ed, abandoned, and in want of every neceffa- ry. They notwithstanding create new corps, ccmpofed of the iatellites of the ad of Septem ber, and commanded by- men who hava never served, and who are in no other way to be di«a ded unless by the army they surcharge aod dis organize. The convention facrifices every thing to these satellites of tyranny, to these cowardly headloppers. The choice of officers, and that of adminifixators. are in every particular the fame; we fee throughout the tyranny which flatters the wicked, because the wicked alone can support tyranny . And in its pride and its ignorance, this convention orders the connuell anddiferganization of the whole Univerft; it fays to one of its generals, Go and take Rome, and to another, fully forth and fubduc Spain', to the end that defpoilipg coniniiffioiiers, simi lar to tl-.ofe horrid Roman procoDfuls again (I whom Cicero declaimed, may be sent thither. In the wtrft season of t>j rrCr it feoA tfceo*. ly fteet it poTeff'i iiito the Meditemfl!Uij t* fp'.it and founder on die rocks of Sardinia • whiMl it exfotet the fleet at Bret ta the fnry of the fierns, by fending them in qu~ft ofm Engliih fleet that has nor ret left it* port. In the mnn time a civil war fpreaos thrWMfc all the department*. Some of the infinwnts are excited by fanaticism, the efle&of perfecntion j others by an «d>jp»it*at> at (K« tragical and frutleft end nf I.r.uis XVI. ando. then final 1 j-, by the natuia! principle of refit injf perfccottoti. Arms are every nrh-rrt taken op ; mor«W, every where committed ; and evtrv where ate pecuniary fupplie* and prorifiona intercepted. The Englift foment these trxubiEs, and win b their fuccoArs,fiipply fud to tKem at.thrir pl-a. sure. Soon will every one of o«r corfiirj diff». pear on the ocean ; fain will the foqthera dfc. partment eeafe to receive supplies of com fro* Italy and Africa, and a tread y have thole from the north and from America been intercepted by the fqaadrons of the enemies. F.-un oe will annex itfel/ to all otir other scourges, nod the ferocity of our cambala will but encreafe our calamities. Frenchmen! we have a rallying point which can ftifle the monfler of anarchy; 'tis the coo ftitution wefwore to maintain in 1789. 'tis the work of a free people; and we (hail remain free, and recover our glory, by r<v fuming our conilitution. Let us display our virtues, more especially that of mildness ; too much blood has aires y been spilled. If the monsters by whom we have been diforgaitized chufe to fly, let us leive them to meet their punilhment elsewhere if they do not find it in their own corrupted hearts ; Hut if they wi£h to support anarchy by new crimes then /hall the army punift them. In thegenerofity of 'be enemies we Fare of ten grievously outraged, I have foundthe feca rity of external peace. Not only do th y treat humanely and attentively our wognded iielc, and prisoners who fall into their hands; and all this in despite of the calumnies fprtad by our agitators to render us ferocious; hut they en gage to suspend their march, not to pass our frontiers, and to leave to our brave array the termination of all our internal difientions. Let the sacred torch of the love of our cmn try awaken in us our virtue and our courage! at the bare name of conftitut on, civil war will cease, or can no longer exjlt unless againfl cer tain malevolent men who will no longer befup ported by foreign powers. These have no hat red to any others among us except our feSious criminals, and desire nothing more fervently than to reltoi« their esteem and friendlhip to a nation, whose errors and anarchy difturW tnd trouble Earcjji* Peace \vin 0>4,, 0 f this resolution, and the troops of tbe well as the brave national volunteers, whb r*. the fpase of a year have offered themselves as willing facrifices to liberty, and who abhor i. narchy, (hall repose in the bosom of their fami lies after having accomplished this noble work. As to myfelf I have already made an oath,and I repeat it before the whole nation, and in the presence of all Europe, that immediately after having effefled the fafety of my country by 'tie re-eftabli(hment of the conditution, of peace and good order, I fliall abandon every pilhtic function.and lhall seek in solitude the enjoynu«t of the happiness of my fellow citizens. Tbe General in chief of the French armv, DUMOURIER. Baths of St. Amand, April 2, 1793. The Marefchal Prince of Saxe Cobourg, Gene* ral in chief of the armies ol his Majesty the Emperor and of the Empire, TO THE FRENCH. The general in chief JDumouricr has commu nicated tome his declaration to the French cati on. In it 1 find the fentimects and principles of a virtuous man, who truly loves hi- coun try, and who wishes to put an enH to the cala mities and anarchy by which it is defolatcd, by procuring for it the happiness of a conftitutiofl and a wife and permanent govefnmetlt. Ikno* this also to be the unanimous wish of all the sovereigns whom foroc fadbou* perfaEs have ar med against France, and particularly that of hit Majesty the Emperor, and his Prussian Majef *7- Filled at this moment with esteem for the bulk of so great and so generous a nation, to whom the immutable principles of honor and justice were held sacred, until by the repetition of outrages, difordens afid impolhires, that part of it has been estranged and corrupted, which under the maflc of humanity and of patriotism, fpealcs of nothing but aflaf&hations & poigna'rds Knowing also that this is the wi(h of all vir tuous people in ri — - Profoundly penetrated with these great truths mddeQring nothing but the prosperity andglo j of a country torn by so many convulsions & misfortunes: I declare by the present proclamation, that I will support by all the force «n my power the ge nerous ar.d beneficent intentions of the gene ral in chief Dumourier, and his br ve army. I declare besides, that having lately fought us on several occasions as a gallant, intrepid and generous enemy, I will join a part of my troops, Ihoijldgenerat Dumourier desire it, or even all mr army to that of France, to co-operate a* friends and companions in arms worthy of rer ciprocal e eem, so as to restore to France her constitutional king, the constitution (he has cho sen, and as a neceffiry consequence, the means of perfecting it, if the nation fnould fine? it im perie<sl; thus to restore to France, as well as to the rell of Europe, peace, confidence, tranquil lity a«d happiuefs. I therefore declare on my word of honor, that I willnot enter the terri tory of France to make conquests, but limply and purely for the purposes above mentioned. I further declare upon my word of honour, that should the nvlitary opjrations require one or more fortre lies to be given up to my troops,
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