These declaimers should learn war, and they would know that the Adige, the Brenta, and the Tagliamento, where we have been fighting for two years, are within the Venetian States.

But, gentlemen of Clichy, we are at no loss to perceive your meaning.

You reproach the army of Italy for having surmounted all difficulties--for subduing all Italy for having twice passed the Alps--for having marched on Vienna, and obliged Austria to acknowledge the Republic that, you, men of Clichy, would destroy.
You accuse Bonaparte, I see clearly, for having brought about peace.
But I know you, and I speak in the name of eighty thousand soldiers.
The time is gone when base advocates and wretched declaimers could induce soldiers to revolt.

If, however, you compel them, the soldiers of the army of Italy will soon appear at the Barrier of Clichy, with their General.

But woe unto you if they do! Bonaparte having arrived at Palma-Nova, issued a manifesto on the 2d of May 1797.