between the French republic and the King of the Two Sicilies. In this ftate of things, to fummon the French troops to evacuate the Roman territory, the defence of which is entrusted to them, is to violate the right of nations, which allows not folemn aggreffions of government against government until after a declaration of war. It is to affume the part of an aggreffor, and to be anfwerable for the events of war, which can only tend to the detriment of humanity; thefe, General, are the obfervations to which I expect your answer. Anfwer of General Mack to General Championet. November 24. I DECLARE to you that the army of his Sicilian Majesty, which I have the honour to command, under the king in perfon, palled yesterday the frontiers, in order to take poffeffion of the Roman ftate, which has been revolutionized, and ufurped fince the peace of Campo Formio, and has never been recognised or acknowledged by his Sicilian Majefty, or by his auguft ally the Emperor and King. I demand that you will caufe, without the fmallest delay, all the French troops ftationed in the faid Rowan ftate to retire into the Cifalpine republic, and to evacuate the places occupied by them. The generals commanding the different columns of his Sicilian Majefty's troops, have received the molt pofitive orders not to commence h ftilities, if the French troops withdraw in confequence of the notice which fhall be given to them; but they are alfo ordered to have recourfe to force in cafe of oppofition. I further declare, I fhall confider it as an act of hoftility, fhould the French troops enter the territories of the Grand Duke of Tufcany. General, I expect your answer without the smallest delay; and request you will dispatch Major Reinhart with it, whom I send to you, within four hours at fartheft after the receipt of my letter. The answer must be pofitive and categorical, both with refpect to the demand of evacuating the Roman state, and of not fetting foot on that of Tuscany. A negative answer will be confidered as a declaration of war, and his Sicilian Majefty will be enabled to carry into effect his juft demands, which I ftate to you in his name. I have the honour to be, &c. Letter Letter of Citizen Alquier to the Bavarian Minifter. THE underfigned refident, chargé des affaires of the French re public to his Serene Electoral Highnefs of the Palatinate of Bavaria can no longer defer claiming, in the name of his government, the execution of the treaty of armiftice concluded at Pfaffenhofen, the 21ft Fructidor, 4th year of the republic (Sept. 7, 1796), between General Moreau, commander in chief of the French army, and the commiffioners of his Serene Electoral Highnefs. The whole of the conditions agreed to by the commander of the French troops have been rigorously fulfilled; property has been refpected, and even protected, by the troops of the republic. Neither the religion, the laws, nor the conftitution of the ftate, have experienced the leaft detriment; on the contrary, all parts of the ftates of his Serene Electoral Highnefs have been reftored to the most perfect tranquillity. None of the obligatory clauses on the part of the Bavarian government have been carried into execution, though it is more than two years fince his Highness has enjoyed the happy effects of a fufperfion of arms. It has preserved the moft abfolute filence with refpect to the engagements contracted by the commiffioners in its name. By the eagerness with which the general of the French army subscribed to the pacific intentions of his Highness, the republic has manifefted, in a manner the most unequivocal, the defire it had to renew the connexion which anciently fubfifted between the two powers. Its refident has been charged to offer the moft ample reparation for the loffes occafioned by the war. He has even declared, that the Executive Directory will confent, not to infift upon the complete execution of the treaty of armiftice, but that, from its attachment to the Bavarian government, it fhall obtain a diminution of the ftipulated fums, provided the minifter of his Serene Highness, at congrefs, fhall receive orders to second the views of France, to procure for Europe a fpeedy peace, for Bavaria an increase of power, and for the Germanic Empire a real independence. The underfigned will not recall all thofe facts, which demonftrate that the councils of his Serene Highness, far from manifefting that fatisfaction, which propofitions fo advantageous for Bavaria ought to have infpired, and of anfwering the unreferved advances, of which the republic has given the example, has, on the contrary, fubmitted its principles to the will of the enemies of France; and that daily preparations, concerted with those powers, announce the refolution of feconding their projects, and of embracing their caufe. The underfigned defires that the Bavarian government, deceived by the refult of events, may return to a fyftem more con formable formable to its real interefts. He confines himfelf, for the prefent, in claiming rights that are incontestable, acquired by force of arms, and fanctioned by a formal convention.' Exifting circumstances preferibe to him as a duty, to require the most prompt execution of the treaty of armiftice. His Highness has juft obtained a bull from the Pope, permitting him to raise fifteen millions of florins upon the property of the clergy; a favour the more valuable, as it does not exhauft the fource from whence it is derived; and that the rich poffeffions of the order of Malta, and the chapters formerly excepted by the bull from the number of taxable properties, may hereafter become the object of a new demand, and the relief of new wants. The tenths exacted in the name of his Highness have been fold, as well as the fonds des bailliages. So confiderable an amelioration of the finances places the government in the happy poffibility of fulfilling its engagements; and there can be no one more powerful or just than that which it has entered into with the French republic. The underfigned therefore requests the Count de Vicregg to or der the payment as foon as poffible of the fums ftipulated to be paid to the French government or its agents, according to the tes nour of the treaty of Pfaffenhofen. The underfigned has the honour of offering the Count de Vicregg affurances of his high confideration. (Signed) ALQUIER. Summons of the Neapolitan General to the Commander of the French Troops in the Cafile of St. Angelo in Rome. THE HE commandant in chief of the Neapolitan army has defired me to inform you, he has learned with the most lively indignation that you have dared to fire on his troops; and still more fo, becaufe General Championct had notified to him that he would evacuate Rome without making the fmallest exception. He defires me to declare to you, that all the French who are fick in the hofpitals at Rome, as well as the guards whom your general has left there, and who have been detained as prifoners, will be confidered as hoftages, and that every fhot which you may fire upon the Neapolitan troops fhall be followed by the death of a French foldier, who fhall be given up to the juft indignation of the inhabitants. You will yourself be answerable for the fate of thefe unhappy victims. Rome, Nov. 28, Gen. BOUCHARD. Copy Copy of the Letter written to General Mack, Commander of the Neapo Titan Army, by General Macdonald, from his Head-quarters at Montereft, on the 29th November 1798. THE commander in chief, Sir, has fufficient confidence in me, to recognife as his own the reply which I make to your letter of the 28th of November. I well know that he has not given any answer to your letter refpecting the evacuation of the forts and ftrong places, and we confider the caftle of St. Angelo as one of thefe. The filence of contempt was certainly what was due to your infolent menaces on this fubject, and this was the only answer that could be expected confiftently with the dignity of the French name. You fpeak of a regard for justice, and yet you invade the territory of a republic in alliance with France, without provocation, and without its having given you the least reason for such conduct. You have attacked the French troops, who trufted in the most facred defence, the law of nations, and the fecurity of treaties. You have fhot at our flags of truce which were proceeding from Trivoli to Vicavero, and you have made the French garrison at Rieti prifoners of war. You have attacked our troops on the heights of Terni, and yet you do not call that a declaration of war! Force alone, Sir, conftrained us to evacuate Rome; but believe me (and you, Sir, know better than any one what I fay), the conquerors of Europe will avenge fuch proceedings. At prefent I confine myself merely to stating our injuries: the French army will do the reft. I declare to you, Sir, that I place our fick, the commiffary of war, Valville, and the other Frenchmen who have remained at Rome to take care of them, under the protection of all the foldiers whom you command. If a hair of their head be hurt, it fhall be the fignal for the death of all the Neapolitan army. The French republicans are not affaffins; but the Neapolitan generals, the officers and the foldiers, who were taken prifoners of war the day before yesterday, on the heights of Terni, fhall anfwer with their heads for their fafety. Your fummons to the commander of the fort of St. Angelo is of fuch a nature that I have made it public, in order to add to the indignation and to the horror which your threats infpire, and which we defpife as much as we think that there is little to be dreaded from them. (Signed) MACDONALD. Anfwer Anfwer of the Count de Vicregg to the Minifter Alquier. IN prefenting Citizen Alquier, at Munich, with thofe refpects due |