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the future tranquillity of Europe. fion, to put an end to a system of His majesty delires nothing more unparalleled crimes, and to restore at fincerely than thus to terminate a length tranquillity to France and war which he in vain endeavoured security to all Europe, that his mig. to avoid, and all the calamities of jesty invites the co-operation of the which, as now experienced in France, people of France. It is for these are to be attributed only to the am- objects that he calls upon them to bition, the perfidy, and the violence join the ftandard of an bereditary of those, whose crimes have involved monarch, not for the purpose of de their own country in misery, and ciding in this moment of disorder, disgraced all civilized nations. calamity, and public danger, on all ?

As his majesty has hitherto been the modifications of which this fasting compelled to carry on war against form of government may hereafter sugu the people of France collectively, be susceptible, but in order to unite Fiber to treat as eneinies all those who themselves once more under the sun of a fuffer their property and blood to be empire of law, of morality, and of to Javished in support of an unjust ag- religion; and to secure at length jd enten gression, bis n ajesty would fee with to their country external peace, dow : Eorp infinite satisfaction the opportunity meftic tranquillity, a real and gets they of making exceptions in favour of nuine liberty, a wise, moderate

, and his arments the well

disposed inhabitants of beneficent government, and the un. may m other parts of France, as he bas al- interrupted enjoyment of all the red bu ready done with respect to those of advantages which can contribute to ze bedt Toulon. The king promiles, on his the happiness and prosperity of the sout part, the fuspension of hoftilities, great and powerful nation. friendship, and (as far as the courle of events will allow, of which the will of man cannot dispose) fecu- Note transmitted by Lord Robert Fitza fikirea rity and prote&ion to all those who,

gerald, Minifier Plenipotention des sit by declaring for a monarchical gow his Britannic Majesly to the Suif nomme vernment, thall Take off the yoke Cantons, to the Helvetic Body. of a fanguinary anarchy, of that anarchy which has broken all the

High and mighty Lords, Seignier is dit most sacred bonds of society, dis ors, Burgomafiers, &c. and the secuerdo folved all the relations of civil life, Counsellors of the thirteen re- se free violated every right, confounded

fpectable Swiss Cantons, every duty, which uses the name of

Pro! liberty exercise the most cruel

THE underfigned mijn liepen tyranny, to annihilate all property, nipotentiary of his Britannie to seize on all poffeffions, which majesty thinks himself bound to ex. founds it power on the pretended prets to you the great indignation, content of the people, and itself which he has felt at the new outcarries fire and sword through ex- rage committed against your exco tenfive provinces, for having de lencies, by those vile and ferocious manded their laws, their religion, men assembled at Paris under the and their lawful sovereign.

name of The Convention. Not It is then in order to deliver them- having been able to corrupt your selves from this unheard of oppref- brave troops in the service of his

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moft chriftian majesty, and despair. yond the limits of France, they ing to make them accomplices in have not respected your happy countheir robberies, these fa&ious mèn try. You can never forget the inhave dilarmed, plundered, and mur- trigues of their emiffaries to de. dered them. Europe will never for- ftroy all respect for your laws! Noget the noble facrifice of so many body can believe, that these progenerous Swiss

, who died in defend- moters of discord and anarchy, in ing Louis XVI. ; it will never for- attacking every principle of civilizaget the craelties which those cani. tion in Europe, have any intention bals made them suffer! Stained with of preserving them in your states; the blood of your brothers, and of or that they have renounced the a virtuous king, your friend and ally, project of exciting internal diflen

and of his august spouse, and of an tions in them, when an opportunity Labe infinite number of innocent vi&tims offers. The ravages which they

authors of a most terrible war, have exercised in the low countries, which they undertook with the in Savoy, and the bishopric of Bale, hopes of extending their tyranny and wherever they have penetrated, orer all Europe, at the moment under the name of the Friends of the

when they have reached the last People, prove sufficiently what may File. De point of atrocity and madness, when be expe&ted from their testimonies of hyn cau they multiply more than ever their friend thip! There cannot fublift a port e victims, and butcher one another, durable peace between the wise h ca or they have had the hardiness to call councils of the Helvetic States and

pe themselves your ally; they have such plunderers.-- What then is the mial meie not blushed to mention your treaty end of sheir perfidious caretles ?

with the fovereign whom they They with to conceal the dangers

brought to the scaffold; they have which threaten you; they have the Lill-thewn a desire to strengthen their hopes, no doubt chimerical, of corde Piese connexion with you. Obje&s of rupting your citizens, in diminishVisites a universal execrarion, they have had ing the borrors with which they e likal the impudence, high and mighty inspire them, to be able at a future

Jords, to make for you alone, of all period to surprise you amidft a fatal ghty Lord Europe, this ditgraceful exception! fecurity, nafter

, tr. What connexion can subtiit be The minister of his Britannic ma. s of the testween the freedom of the Swiss, jelly will not decide, whether jur. milf Ca and that horrible anarchy to which tice, and the true interett of a state,

they have prostituted its name? permit it to remain neuter, againit pred mes What common tie can there be be- those who would again reduce it to

of between a people, good, virtuous, barbarism, in a war of almolt all beacht was religious, and the friends of morals the powers of Europe--in a war serts and justice, and atheists, enemies where not only the existence of every 1 x is of God and man, thirsting for blood established government, but even gol ar and pillage? whose crimes for thele that of all kind of property, is at

five years past have exceeded a llake. He will only observe, that ine thousand times the crimes of former neutrality itlelf will not authorize Cam ages! You know, high and mighty any correspondence, directly or in

lords, that in their efforts to pro. direaly, with the factious or their dhe pagate their infamous doctrines be. agents. When twolegitimate powers

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are at war, the connexion of a state examined with all that care and with either of them cannot injure attention which is due to the in. their respective rights; but the pre- terests of our country, and we sent war being carried on against think that we afford your excelufurpers, any correspondence with lency a proof of the cíteem which then by a neutral state would be we entertain for your character, by an acknowledgment of their au. making an open and fincere expozithority, and consequently an act tion of our situation and our conduct

. prejudicial to the allied powers.

However afflicting the remeniHis Britannic majetty has too high brance of those terrible events in Bit an opinion of your wisdom, high France (which your excellency has dit and mighty lords, not to believe that brought to our recolle&tion), and you will despise the infinuations of the sad fate of our brethren who the common enemy of all people, suffered so unfortunately, may be, i that and that you will redouble your yet our grief must nevertheless zeal and vigilance to avert from yield to the principles of our con- : :1 ein your country all those plagues which stitution: these principles have ref-gaden at once overwhelm the unhappy ed for several centuries on the rela-, people of France ;-At all times, tions of peace, amity, and good heart to and on every occasion, his majesty neighbourhood with all the fure estou will not cease to give you proofs of rounding powers. his friendship, and to interest him. The operation of these principles felf in the maintenance of the in. has never been interrupted by dependence, and of the ancient prof- foreign wars. A rigid and exact perity of your states, and of those neutrality was the invariable maxim of your allies.

of our ancestors; and having re(Signed)

ceived it as a sacred inheritance,

we have conceived it to be our ROB. STEPH. FITZGERALD, duty to abide by it in the present

Minister Plenipotentiary of And this conduct has pro

his Britannic Majesty, duced a falutary influence, note Done at Berne, Nov. 30, 1793. only on our external safety, but on

z por our internal peace.

Accustomed to observe scrupu- for Answer of the Srviss Republic to lously all engagements entered into

, a ind Lord Robert Fitzgerald's Decla

we will neither wander from our ration.

declared neutrality, on any pretence on

whatever, nor will we listen to any bien YOUR excellency, in a letter infinuation which might give rile dated the 30th of November, to just complaints.

Etter thought proper to recommend to It is for us to preserve the enjoy. the serious consideration of the ment of that happy and peaceful Helvetic body some important ob. situation to which all our molt servations on the relative fituation zealous efforts tend. We will unite of the republic to the belligerent our force to repel even the lighteft powers.

attempts that may be made to dilThere observations we have turb our repose, or to undermine

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the foundation of it by any deftruc- public ad gives reason to pretive principles.

fume. It is towards this end that our

(Signed) forelight is directed, by carefully J. FAGËL, D. HAILES, guarding our frontiers, and by en

GOLTZ, BREUNIER, deavouring to prevent any difficul. KRUDENER, MUSQUIZ. ties by a correspondence inseparable Copenhagen, Dec. 13, 1793. from our local relations,

We intreat your excellency to affure his Britannic majefty of the Answer of the Danish Minister, invariable determination of the

Count de Bernstorff. Helvetic body; and it is with entire confidence we expect, from his (AVING shewn to the king, good-will, that, following the ex my master, the joint note ample of his illustrious ancestors, remitted to me on the 13th instant, who at all times have maintained by the ministers of the powers at the independence of the Helvetic war with France, bis trajesty has confederacy, he will continue ordered me to reply, “ That it is henceforth to entertain a fincere with pain he fees in this note a affection for our prosperity and our proof of distraft, for which he is repose.

conscious of having given no occaWe are, &c. fion : that if it was notorious that

the national convention had named

M. Grouvelle their minister pleniOficial Note from the Ministers of potentiary in Denmark, it was

the Allied Courts to M. Count de equally so, that he had not been di Bernstorff, Secretary of State for received or acknowledged in that it by Foreign Affairs to the King of quality; and such acknowledgDenmark.

ment, which by its nature must be cordar

a public a&, could not be concealed HE underfigned ministers of from the general knowledge. His

the powers now at war with majesty, always faithful to his deFrance, residing at the court of his clarations, cannot nor ought not to . cor Danith majesty, having seen a paper be suspected of being willing to fail oben printed and addretted to The fulfilling them. I ought also to 2

* Commerce of the North," bear- add this remark, that there does toring the fignature of Grouvelle, who not exist any truth more evident, or

Miles himself minister plenipoten- more unanimoufly received, than tiary of the soi-disant French repub- this, that no one is responsible for

dic, do themselves the honour of the actions of another, and, above itu sending enclosed a copy to his ex. all, when the question is concern

cellency the count de Bernstorff, ing a step unforeseen, unknown, defiring him to inform them if this and in which it was impollible to

paper be authentic and authorized; take the least part. cand if the said Grouvelle be effec (Signed) BERNSTORFF.

tually acknowledged in this charac. Department of Foreign Affairs,
ter by his Danith majesty, as this Copenhagen, Dec. 16, 1793.

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Reply of the British Minifter to the bath Houses of Parliament, on Answer of M. de Bernforti. opening the Sefson, Jatt. 10

1793. THE note of the count de Bern- .

I storff, in answer to that of. My lords and gentlemen, the ministers of the powers at war I HAVE his majesty's commands with France refding at the court to meet von in Parliament, and of his Danish majesty, while it al- to es

to express his fatisfaction in resort. Tures the evoy extraordivary of ing to your counsels in the present his Britannic majefty individually, Station of affairs. on the fubject of the joint note, and

His majesty feels the utmost conwhich only includes a simple ques.

cern that various attempts should tion, relative to the real or lup- have been made to excite a spirit of poled existence of a fact, implies, discontent and disturbance; and by the choice of terms made use of,

that appearances fhould have mani. an exculpation, against which he felted themselves, in any part of muft, for his own part, proteft, this kingdom, of a design to effect leaving it to those with whom hé by violence an alteration in the has co-operated, to make their re

constitution.. presentations, either by word of

It is an additional ground of un. mouth, or by writing, with an easiness to his maiefty, that views earnestness proportionable to his of conqueft and dominion thould conception of how ill-founded it bave incite

have incited France to interfere is.

with the government of other If it were poflible to believe for countries, and to adopt measures an instant that his Danish majcity with regard to his majesty's allies, could forget his declarations, the the states-general, neither connovelty of the fact, such as the formable to che laws of nations, nor

the positive stipulations of existing character unpunished by the go

treaties; especially when both his vernment, must be allowed a very maiefty and the ftates.general bad juft and natural motive. The observed the ftriéteft neutrality with aforesaid undersigned minister is regard to the affairs of France, ready to acknowledge, that it was : Under these circumfta:yes, I equally unlikely to Tuppose that it have ordered, by his majesty's comwas poslible that the king of Den- m

the king of Den. mands, an augmentation of the mark would receive as plenipoten- forces upon this establishment. tiary, near his lacred and augutt By the advice of the privy-coun. perion, a man who had been cil. 'measures have been taken to charged with the taik of reading to prevent the exportation of corn, his unfortunate and innocent fo.

provifions, and Daval stores, arms, vereign the sentence which brought

and ammunition. The circum. him to the scaffold.

ftances which rendered these mea. (Signed) D. HAILES, fures necessary will, I truit, juftily

any temporary infringement of the

Jaws, and will induce you to give Speech of the Earl of Westmoreland, them a parliamentary sancion.

Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland, to It will afford his majesty the

greatest

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