Pierre-Jean VANSTABEL (1744-1797) rear-admiral. P.S. on board the Tigre 25 germinal II (April 14, 1794); 1 page and a half in-fol. Copy of a decree of the Convention of 14 pluviôse. "The captain and the officers of ships of the line of the Republic who will have brought the national flag in front of enemy ships, whatever the number, unless the ship was mistreated, to the point that it ran the risk of sinking [...] and that it remained only the time necessary to save the crew, will be declared traitors to the Fatherland, and punished with death"... Etc.