with ftill greater ardour. Their firft withes, their perfevering meafures, have been for peace. The English minifter repels it: the Englith minifter has betrayed the fecret of his horrible fyftem of politics. To ravage France, to deftroy her marine and her ports; to efface her from the map of Europe, or to degrade her to the rank of a fecondary power; to keep all the nations of the continent divided, in order to get poffeffion of the commerce of all, and to enrich herfelf by their fpoils; it is to obtain thefe frightful fucceffes, that England is prodigal of gold, profufe of promises, and that The multiplies intrigues. But neither the gold, nor the promifes, nor the intrigues of England, will chain to her views the powers of the continent. They have heard the with of France; they know the moderation of the principles that guide her; they will liften to the voice of humanity, and the powerful voice of their intereft. Were it otherwife, the government which has not feared to offer and folicit peace, will remember that it is for you to command it. To command it, we must have money, iron, and foldiers. Let all make hafte to pay the tribute which they owe to the common defence; let the young citizens march. It is no longer for factions it is no longer for the choice of tyrants, that they are going to arm; it is for the guarantee of all that is moft dear to them; it is for the honour of France; it is for the facred interest of humanity and of liberty. Already have the armies refanied that attitude, the promife and the prefage of victory; at the fight of them at the fight of the whole nation united in the fame interefts and the fame wishes, do not doubt, Frenchmen, that you will have any more enemies upon the continent. The firft conful has promifed peace; he will go and conquer it at the head of those warriors whom he has more than once led to victory. With them he will know how to find again those fields ftill full of the remembrance of their exploits; yet in the midst of battle, he will still invoke peace, and he fwears to fight only for the happinefs of France, and the repole of the world! Letter written by the General-in-Chief of the Army of St. Domingo to the Authorities civil and military, and all other Citizens of the City of Cayes, and Infiructions given to the Deputies fent by him to the faid City, Bearers of the faid Letter. Leogane, 20th Meffidor (10/k of July), 8th Year of the French Republic, one and indivifible. Touffaint Louverture, General-inChief of the Army of St. Domingo, to the Magifirates of the People, and all the French Citizens of the Department of the South, civil and military. Avail myfelf of the opportunity citizen Vincent, chef de briof gade, director general of the fortifications of the colony, fent by the French government to be an evewitnefs of the events and calamitiesof the civil war produced by the conduct of the evil-difpofed, and the enemies of public tranquillity. I join to him a deputation of two citizens, Arrault, and Celar, the late late member of the civil tribunal of the South, in confequence of the orders which I have received from government, and the confidence which it repofes in me to reftore peace and tranquillity. Thefe citizens will communicate to you my mode of thinking, and will aflure you that I am difpofed to grant to people of every defeription a general amnefty, to pardon and forget the past, provided they fhall return to order, and that all men deceived or led aftray fhall return into the bofom of their families, and that all the cultivators forced to leave their houfes fhall rejoin their refpective habitations. It is my duty to inform you of fome paffages in the letter of the minifter of marine and colonies, of which the following is an extract: "A firong government has fucceeded an executive power, feeble and divided. I depend on your zeal and your fidelity. Inform the troops under your command that the time of fchifms is paft. Unite all around the new focial compact of the French people. The rank of general-in-chief, with which the republic has honoured you, and which the new government has confirmed, is the firft of the military militia. It requires prudence and moderation. Ufe your influence, your talents, to calm all hatred; ftifle all refentment, and be great by the good which you do. "The first conful places confidence in you. You will fhow yourfelf deferving of it by reftoring peace in the fine colony of St. Domingo, which interefts the whole nation in fo many points of view. "The government expeâs that the I. IT and fufpenfion of hoftilities HERE fall be an armiflice between the army of his imperial majefty and that of the French republic in Italy, till an antwer fhall be received from the court of Vienna. II. The imperial army fhall occupy all the country between the Mincio, Fofca-Meftre, and the Po; which includes Mantua, Pefchiera, and Borgo-Forte; and from thence the left bank of the Po, and on the right bank the town and citadel of Ferrara. III. The imperial army fhall in like manner hold Tufcany and Ancona. IV. The French army fhall occupy the countries comprehended between the Chiufa, the Oglio, and the Po. V. The country between the Chiufa and the Mincio fhall not be occupied by either army. The imperial army may procure provifions from a part of the duchy of Mantua. The French arms may procure provifions from a part of the Brescia. VI. The citadels of Tortona, Aleffandria, Milan, Turin, Pizzhigitone, Arona, and Placentia, thall be delivered up to the French army between the 16th and 20th of June. VII. The citadels of Coni, Ceva, Savona, and the city of Genoa, be-. tween the 16th and 24th. VIII. Fort Urbino fhall be given up on the 26th of June. IX. The artillery of the garrifons fhall be claffed in the following manner: All the Auftrian heavy artillery and foundries fhall appertain to the Auftrian army; the artillery of Italians, Piedmontefe, and French calibres and foundries to the French army. The provision fhall be divided-one half to be at the difpofal of the commiffary of ordnance of the Auftrian army, and one half at that of the French. X. The garrifons shall march out with military honours, and fhall repair, with their arms and baggage, by the shortest road to Mantua. XI. The Auftrian army ball direct its march to Mantua, in three columns, by Placentia: the firft between the 16th and 20th; the fecond between the 20th and 24th; and the third between the 24th and 26th. XII. General St. Julien of the artillery, de Brun of the engineers, Telfiege, commillary of provifions, citizen Dejean, counfellor of ftate, and Daru, infpector of reviews, adjutant-general Leopold Stolenzett, and the chief of brigade Mof fet, are named commiflioners, in order to provide for the details of the execution of the prefent convention, either for the formation of inventories, or to provide for fubfiftence and conveyances. XIII. No individual fhall be illtreated on account of having rendered any fervices to the Austrian army, or for his political opinions. The Auftrian commander fhall releafe every individual who fhall have been arrested in the Cifalpine republic for his political opinions. XIV. Whatever may be the anfwer of the court of Vienna, neither of the two armies can renew the attack without giving ten days notice. XV. During the armistice neither army fhall fend detachments to Germany. Done at Aleffandria, the 16th. (Signed) Alex. Berthier. Preliminaries of Peace between France and Aufiria. IS majefty the emperor, king. H'S of Hungary and Bohemia, &c. and the first conful of the republic, in the name of the French people, equally animated with the defire of putting a term to the evils of the war, by a prompt, juft, and folid peace, have agreed upon the following preliminary articles: Art. 1. There fhall be peace, friendfhip, and good understanding between his majefty the emperor and king, and the French republic. Art 2. Until the conclufion of a definitive treaty, the arinies, both in Italy and Germany, fhall refpec-tively remain in the pofition in which they are, without extending their pofitions pofitions more to the fouth of Italy. On his fide, his imperial majefty engages to concentrate all the forces he, may have in the states of the Pope, in the fortrefs of Ancona; to put an end to the extraordinary levy which is making in Tuscany; and to prevent all debarkation of the enemies of the French republic at Leghorn, or any other point of the coafts. Art. 3. The treaty of Campo Formio fhall be taken as the bats of the definitive pacification, excepting however the changes become neceffary. Art. 4. His imperial majefty does not oppofe the French republic keeping the limits of the Rhine, fuch as they were agreed upon at Rafladt, i. c. the left bank of the Rhine, from the fpot where the Rhine leaves the territory of Switzerland, to the point where it enters the territory of the Batavian republic; and engages moreover to cede to the French republic the fovereignty and property of Frickthal, and all that belongs to the houfe of Auftria between Zurzach and Bafle. Art. 5. The French republic is not understood to keep Caflel, Kehl, Ehrenbreitftein, and Duffeldorff.Thefe places will be razed, on condition that there fhall not be raised on the right bank of the Rhine, and for the diftance of three miles, any fortifications, either in ftone-work or in earth. Art 6 The indemnities which his imperial majefty the emperor and king is to have in Germany, in virtue of the fecret articles of the treaty of Campo Formio, fhall be taken in Italy; and therefore it fhall be referved until the definitive treaty, to agrecon th. potition and the quota of the faid indemnities: nevertheless it fhall be established as the bafis, that his imperial majefty the emperor and king fhall poffefs, befides the country which had been granted to him in Italy by the treaty of Campo Formio, an equivalent to the polfeffion of the archbishopric of Salzbourg, the rivers of the Inn and the Sabra, and the Tyrol, comprising the town of Wafferbourg, on the left bank of the Inn, within a circuit of 3000 toifes, and the Frickthal, which he cedes to the French republic. Art. 7. The ratification of the prefent preliminary articles fhall be exchanged at Vienna before Auguft 15. Art. 8. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, the negociations for a definitive peace shall continue; both fides fhall agree upon a place for negociation; the plenipotentiaries fall be there in twenty days at the latest, after the exchange. Art 9. His majesty the emperor and king, and the first conful of the French republic, reciprocally engage on their word of honour to keep the prefent articles fecret till ratification. Art. 10. The powers of M. de St. Julien being contained in a letter from the emperor to the first conful, the full powers, invested with the ufual formalities, shall be exchanged with the ratification of the prefent preliminaries, which fhall not bind the refpe&tive governments till after the ratification. We, the undersigned, have agreed upon and figned the prefent preli minaries at Paris, the 8th of July, 1800. (Signed) Count de St. Julien. C. M. Talleyrand. Armijuice Armistice concluded at Steyer, the 25th of December, 1800... Army of the Rhine.-The General of Divifion, Chief of the Staff, to the Minifier of War. Head-quarters at Steyer, Dec. 26, 9th Year of the French Republic, one and indivijible. Citizen minifter, THE archduke Charles has pro pofed an armistice to the general-in-chief, by announcing to him that the emperor had sent a courier to M. de Cobentzel with orders to fign a peace. The general-in-chief, confidering that the line of the Traun and the Inn was forced, that we were advanced one hundred leagues before the other armies, and were already hear the rear-guard of the Auftrian army in Italy; that, confequently, M. de Bellegarde could avail himfelf of the poffeffion of Saltzburg and Infpruck, as the two grand openings by which he could fend troops to join thofe that were left in the Tyrol, and by attacking our rear with thefe, might cut off our communication with the Traun; for these reasons he thought proper to agree to a fufpenfion of arms, which procuring great advantages for us, would put us in a condition to learn the movements of the army of Italy, of which we had as yet heard no of twenty days loft feventy leagues of territory, twenty-five thousandprifoners, twelve or fifteen thousand in killed or wounded, one hundred and forty pieces of cannon, and immenfe magazines, was no longer able, nor could it be able in three months, to hinder our army from conquering all Auftria, and dictating laws in the capital. But, in order to effect this without danger, it would have been necessary for the army of Italy to be already in poffeflion of the defiles of Carinthia. Befides, the general-in-chief was of opinion, that to ftop in the most brilliant victories was conformable to the character of moderation by which the first conful manifefts himfelf to Europe. I have the honour to prefent you with a copy of the convention of the armistice. The emperor immediately entered into a treaty; and our line running along the Danube to the mountains of the Tyrol, putting us in poffeffion of Kufstein, Scharnitz, Braunau, &c. will en able us to recommence the war with great advantages, and, above all, with great fecurity. Health and refpelt. (Signed) ARMISTICE. Deffolles. His majefty the emperor and king withing to treat immediately for peace with the French republic, whatever the determination of his a ilies may be; the generals-in-chief of the French army and of the imperial army in Germany, defirous of putting a stop, as far as is in their power, to the evils infeparable from war, have agreed to treat for an armiftice and fufpenfion of arms: for this purpose they have respectively charged with Special powers Τ the |