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Belgium, when, by a degree of courage which old
troops, perhaps, would not have shewn, they obtained
elarilleane advantages. All retired before us.
reTtuelveakness of i Government, attacked on all
.fit ;l different opinions, internal struggles, the
contests of two parties, issuing from a common source,
and for that very reason inveterate against each other,
'brought on a kind of-dissolution of France, and vic-
tories were succeeded by defeats.
Let an attentive observer recollect the battle of
Neerwenden, and all that _followed shortly after the
flight of Dumourier—perfidious Generals--a disor-
ganized army, calling out treason, and lessening
every day by desertion; formidable and disciplined
enemies, who pursued them ivith rancorous bitter-
ness ; our frontiers threatened And soon invaded ;
within, a civil war, which, like a dreadful canker,
was going to devour the richest provinces of France :
discord every where throwing her firebrands, and an
assembly, in which fermenting passions unnerved the
lgovernment which it had created : such was the state
our country.
Wbo would have believed that France, reduced to
such an extremity, could resist all Europe conspired
against her ? It is true, that like klion, which, while
be overturns his enemies, lashes his own sides with
his tail, she cruelly mutilated herself ; but at length
'ale resisted all, even the paroxysms of her own rage;
and far from undergoing the disgrace of receiving
laws from foreigners, she more than once dictated
them, and made herself respected by those Powers
who had designed to divide ancient Gaul awns
themselves, as they had unfortunate Poland. -
A change of government, a trial always dangerous
for a nation, the excess of passions contrary to those
which had so long exalted the French, having produ-
ced a fatal relaxation in all the parts of the social
,body, new misfortunes, added to a terrible dearth;
again menaced our country with ruin. Yet it was
frOm this state of debasement that she rose to the im-
mortal glory of our triumphs in Italy.
History will tell how the conqueror and pacificator
of these fine-countries arrived by a miracle to recover
them and to save France ; in what a state of debase-
ment we were after the defeat of Scherer, the death of
General Joubert, and the loss of the battle of Novi :
at these two epochs, in which the same genius saved
us from the disasters arising from the weakness of the
Government, and our intestine dissesions, there is
something in the rapid change of our fortune which
confounds the imagination. Our enemies, witnesses of
the prodigies which have repaired the losses occasion-
ed by a dreadful inclemency of the season, vanquish-
ed in four pitched battles, even during this campaign,
owing their last advantage only to treason, crushed
at the battle of Hanau, where only the humanity of
the Emperor saved their soldiers, who begged their
lives, are,acquainted with our strength and resources,
and tear them.
If they come to attack us on our own soil, it is
not because they trust to the power of their arms, it
is because they hope to disunite us. During the course
of the revolution, they never obtained any success,
except when we were disunited, and when the nation
did not go along with the Government. The years
1792, 1793, the year 3, the year 7, attest this truth.
Noi'v, after having been favoured last year by an ex-
traordinary event, how have they succeeded in ren-
dering memorable victories useless ? By sowing di-
visions between our allies and us. In vain would
they have poured forth torrents of soldiers against us :
they would finally have sunk in the struggle. They
were sensible of this, and involuntarily applying to
themselves this verse of a modern tragedy, they
fear our Envoys, not our soldiers," they spun dark
,intrigues in the Courts of some Princes, and led them
to shameful - perfidies. Then, and only then, we
saw ,Victory unfaithful to our standards : she re-
turned to us at the battle of Hanau, as if to shoe
to mankind that Justice is not always lame—
and that she sometimes strikes with the rapidity of
lightning. Artifices and divisions' have been the
most powerful auxiliaries of the Allies during this
campaign. They bring to France -the means by
which they have succeeded in Europe. They have
separatedfrom us Princes who owed every thing to
us. They come to try to separate the French trom
the Government, which is the soul of every thing.—
Yes, it is the hope of dividing us, which alone sup-
ports the rash enterprise of the Allies. They knowt
that a people without a Government, and an army
without a leader, are at the mercy of whoever seek
their ruin. This thought cfirects all the attacks of
their artful policy.
An hundred thousand mrn more, said one of theii.
most distinguished agents, and do not give the Frenclt
the Emperor for their General—we shall triumph,
The Allies in the same manner say to themselves;-
let us separate Franee from the Government, the
will fall an eesy prey toils." Happily their wishes
in this respect cannot have- any success. France re-
members that the Emperor saved her—France knows
he hand which closed the wounds of civil war, and

reconciled all parties—France knows that a people
which should be wanting in fidelity to its Prince and
to its Government, in the, midst of imminent dangers
ask dd expect only shaine and misfortunes from such
tC fault. France feels her dignity ; she knows that it
is intended to prescribe lawn to her, to reduce her to
disgrace, and to despoil her, after having deceived
her by artful words. Thus, far from lending an ear
.to perfidious insinuations, she will answer to the
Allies :—Retire from our territory, or we will crush
your soldiers; their presence insults us, their excesses
revolt us,and teach us what we ought to expect from
your hypocritical 'protestations.
You have reckoned ou our divisions, and you are
deceived. There will be among us only one spirit,
one desire, one will ; that is to make you speedily
repass that river which you ought not t 3 have passed,
if there had been any moderation in your preterit
dons. Finally, you will find all the French collected
round their monarch for their common defence.

SAINT DIE, DEC. 9,5.
According to letters from Colmar; the greater
part of the army of Prince Schwartzenberg had pro-
ceeded in the direction of the Canton of Bern. A
column on its march from Basle, seems to have taken
' the route of Delemont and of Bienne, by the valley
of Moutiers.
STRASBURG, DEC. 24.
The Allies have not only violated the territory of
Switzerland, they exercise there the rights of conquest.
A contribution of two millions has been imposed on
the inhabitants of Basle, to be paid in. 44 hours, the
enemy wanting. it to pay his troops. Wbat, ben,
would they do in France