Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-05-12
FRANCE.
TRIBUNA7E--7 Tsaf9l1, NarcB 8.
PKssiDENr caAssIRoN.


PRESIDENT caASSIRoN.
A letter was received from II. Maret Eating,
rhlta Chancellor Of State would repair 70 the
'-ibunate 10 the courfe Of the fitting, to make a
q. municatioa from the Coriuls.
at ten o'clock ciizen Champagny was in
t-oduced. and announced 70 the Ttibunes that
the government, united with them il their wilhes
anJ deires, as Il was their in(erea would always
ie ambeions 70 communicate 10 them the mea
flres which It might think proper 70 Pur,
Tue tor eniuTing the glory and independence OF
tie nation. The moments approaching when
: FyR Conful, al the head Of thofe warriors
HON he has 70 often led on to victory, will 60 TO
open the campaign or Ggna peace. Before he
carries his plans into execution he has addreked
Proclamation to all the French to make known
10 them the bottle deligns Of England, and in
duce them to fly to arms. Here fts proclamation
zO4l read,
The Counfellor OF State then read two DEGREES,
The FRI Of which was as follows
1. The Department, which at the end OF Ger
minal, April 90 fhall have paid up the greater
part Gifts contributions, hall DC declared 10 have
deferved we'll its couEtry.
z. All the old troops who have obtained leave
of abfence, all veterans able TO bear arms, and
all requiGtionaries and conicripts, are deited to
ioin the armies before the 9th April.
3. Thoie who do not belong TO any particular
corps, fnall repair. before the fame epoch, to Di
ion. where they lhall be reviewed st the end of
Germinal, before the FrR Couful.
A. All other French citizens who with to ierve
under the Firf Conful, lhall get their names in
Ccribed by their prefeas they lhall be organized
into battalions Of volunteers thofe who procure
horfes fhall be organized into fquadrons OF VOL
unteers.
{. Before 10th April, the Prefeas ihall f-nd
20 the miniter Of the interior, fatement Of the
Young men whom they have fent to join the ar
mics.
s. The name Of the department which fhall
have furnhbed the greatef number of defenders
10 its country, hall be proclaimed.
The fecond decree Rates, that there hall be
ureated an army of relerve, coniifing of 10000
men, the headquarters of which fhall be at Di
ion.-The artillery fhall be commanded by Gen.
Saint Remy the park by the chief de Brigade
GaHendi and the engineers by the 6rh inipec-
tor of engineers, Marelcot.
Such are the difpoGt;ons which the govern
nent has thought neceGary under the pteient
circumstances. Let the army Of obfervation be
formed with as much lpeed as it will fly to vi6to
~ let all thole who feel the necelIty of glory
Sun to range theml yes under the fandards of
the Firf Couful. Who would not with TO con
cur in procuring peace that will repair 70 many
Tnisfortuues !-Who would refufe lhare in that
glory which has already placed France above all
nations and which till awaits thole who are
about to 10Th into battle? For the lat time the
trumpet Of war is about TO found It will no Ion
ger ineite to carnage; it will invite to peace
Let all parties, if any Yet exit, rally around a
government which acknowledges none bur that
of thoie who are friends to their country. The
Frit Conful viii prove, BY the teaimony Of facts,
that his iole ambition is the happinefs of France
and the repofe Of Europe Let every mind be
inipired with enthuiafm let all PafIions be alb
forbed in one, and let the electric fpark which is
TO animate all Frenchmen proceed from the
Tribunate
The Prehdeut replied as follows The En- |
elih minilter then has declared himief an enemy
70 all mankind, whom he wiihes TO iacri6ce TO
bis vile, crafty, (agRreJ policy. Hehoped that
France, like ancient Rome, would nave torn
herfelf with her own hands, His hopes have
been deceived /: all the French are united all
are about TO prefent themielves to the common
enemy. II thall be with the fwo.d ia one hand, |
and the olive Of peace in the other, that the Firt
Conlul will 60 and proclaim ia the midi OF
camps repofe TO mankind, glory 70 France, and
independence 70 all nations.
On "a propofal by ThieGe, it was decreed that
twelve copies of the meGage from government,
the fpeech from the Orator, and the anfwer Of
the Preiident ihould be printed.
PARIS, MARCH 7.
II Is fail that the Frh Coniul will fet out