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 Proclamation and Notice, from the Commandant-General of the Army of his Apostolic Majesty, to the Austrian Netherlands.

"1st. All citizens and inhabitants are desired to maintain perfect harmony, order, and tranquility.

"2dly. If there are some mal-contents that excite disturbances against the subjects, attached to the sovereign, either by their conduct, or conversation, the soldiers have the strictest orders to make use of their swords and bayonets, and repel by force every assembling mob, if not dispersed on the first requisition.

"3dly. In case any persons guilty of the above crimes are arrested, the military have orders to act immediately in the manner the laws of war prescribed against every enemy, without the arrested persons being able to claim their usual judges. The military shall look upon such arrested persons as public enemies of the sovereign and state, and in case of urgency, the execution called Stant-recht shall take place against them.

"4thly. If such like excefies are committed in places where there is no garrison nor troops, the evil-minded must not flatter themselves that the preparations of an enemy that cannot frighten us, will prevent from detaching sufficient bodies of troops against them whether in towns, boroughs, or villages, to repress them, and to use against them all the means which the laws of war permit to employ against enemies in towns, boroughs, and villages.

"5thly. This advertisement will be published in both languages of the country, that nobody may pretend ignorance, and that the peaceful citizens may abstain from assembling, and be sheltered, in case the soldiers should be compelled to fire, unless they prefer arresting on the spot such enemies and disturbers of public tranquillity, and deliver them into the hands of the military, who will protect the honest and peaceful citizens.
 * (Signed) "Baron Bender, Marshal."

Bruxelles the 29th of April 1792.


 * Proclamation.

"His majesty, seeing the state of war with France cannot tolerate in his country other subjects of that kingdom than such as fly the persecutions of the party that has usurped all these powers; he declares, that all the French who are in the provinces of the Low Coumries, and who have not made themselves known by an act in form to the commissioners of the French emigrants, established for this purpose here in Brussels, viz. thofe who are actually in this city, within forty-eight hours