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notwithstanding any sequestration or obstruction, which shall be regarded as never having taken place, particularly the obstruction resulting from the circumstance that the owners, having become French, have not furnished the thirty or the cent. per cent. demanded from the subscribers of the bank of Vienna by his majesty the emperor and king.

X. The parties contracting shall also take off all sequestrations that may have been put, on account of the war, upon the properties, rights, and revenues of the subjects of his majesty the emperor, or of the empire, in the territory of the French republic, and of the French citizens, in the states of his said majesty, or of the empire.

XI. The present treaty of peace, particularly the articles VIII. IX. X. and XV., hereafter is declared common to the Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine, and Ligurian republics.

The parties contracting mutually guaranty the independence of the said republics, and the liberty of the people who inhabit them, to adopt such form of government as they shall think proper.

XII. His imperial and royal majesty renounces for himself and his successors, in favour of the Cisalpine republic, all the rights, and titles arising from these rights, which his said majesty could claim in the countries which he possessed before the war, and which, by the terins of the 8th article of the treaty of Campo Formio, now make part of the Cisalpine republic, which shall possess them in full sovereignty and dominion, with all the territorial interests dependent on them.

XIII. His imperial and royal majesty, as well in his own name as in the name of the Germanic empire,

confirms the adhesion already given by the treaty of Campo Formio to the union of the ci-devant imperial fiefs with the Ligurian republic, and renounces all the rights, and titles arising from these rights, to said fiefs.

XIV. Conformably with the 11th article of the treaty of Campo Formio, the navigation of the Adige, serving for the limit between the states of his imperial and royal majesty and those of the French republic, shall be free, without either the one party or the other being at liberty to establish there any toll, or having on it any armed ship of war.

XV. All the prisoners of war made on the one side or on the other, as also the hostages carried away or given during the war, who shall not have been yet restored, shall be given up in forty days from the date of the signature of the present treaty.

XVI. The landed and personal property not alienated of his royal highness the archduke Charles, and of the heirs of her late royal highness madame the archduchess Christina, which are situated in the countries ceded to the French republic, shall be restored to them, on condition that they shall sell them within the space of three ycars.

The same shall be observed in the case of the landed and personal property of their royal highnesses the archduke Ferdinand, and madame the archduchess Beatrix his wife, in the territory of the Cisalpine republic.

XVII. The articles XII. XIII. XV. XVI. XVII. and XVIII. of the treaty of Campo Formio are particularly revived, to be executed according to their form and tenor, as if they were inserted, word for word, in the present treaty.

XVIII. The

XVIII. The contributions, deliveries, equipments, and exactions whatsoever of war shall cease to take place from the day of the date of the ratifications of the exchange of the present treaty, on the one part by his majesty the emperor and the Germanic empire, and on the other part by the French republic.

XIX. The present treaty shall be ratified by his majesty the emperor and king, by the empire, and by the French republic, within the space of thirty days, or sooner if possible; and it is agreed that the armies of the two powers shall remain in the positions which they occupy, as well in Germany as in Italy, until the said ratifications of the emperor and king, of the empire, and of the French republic, shall have been mutually exchanged at Luneville between the respective plenipoten

tiaries.

It is also agreed that, ten days after the exchange of the said ratifications, the armies of his imperial and royal majesty shall return to his hereditary possessions, which shall be evacuated within the same space of time by the French armies; and that, thirty days after the said exchange, the French armies shall have evacuated the whole of the territory of the said empire.

Done and signed at Luneville,
the 9th February, 1801, (20
Pluviose), ycar 9 of the French
republic.

LOUIS COUNT COBENTZEL.
JOSEPH BONAPARTE.

Treaty of Peace between the First Consul of the French Republic and His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies.

The first consul of the French re

public, in the name of the French people, and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, equally animated with a desire to put a definitive end to the war which exists between the two states, have nominated for their plenipotentiaries, that is to say, the first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, citizen Charles Jean Marie Alquier; and his Sicilian majesty, the sieur Antoine de Micheroux, knight of the royal order Constantinien de St. Georges, and of the imperial Russian order of Saint Anne, of the first class, and colonel in the service of his majesty, who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:

Art. I. There shall be peace, friendship, and good understanding, between the French republic and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies. All hostilities, by land and sea, shall definitively cease between the two powers, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty; and, previously, the armistice concluded at Foligno on the 18th of February (29th Pluviose) last, between the respective generals, shall receive its full and complete execution.

II. All acts, engagements, or anterior conventions, on the one part or the other, of the two contracting powers, which may be contrary to the present treaty, are revoked, and shall be considered as null and void.

III. All the ports of the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily shall be shut to all ships of war and merchantmen, Turkish and English, until the conclusion, as well of a definitive peace between the French republic and these two powers, as (L 3)

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of the differences which have arisen between England and the powers of the north of Europe, and particularly between Russia and England.

The said ports shall remain, on the contrary, open to all the ships of war and merchantmen, as well of his imperial majesty of Russia, and of the states comprised in the maritime neutrality of the north, as of the French republic and its allies. And if, in consequence of this determination, his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies should find himself exposed to the attacks of the Turks, or the English, the French republic binds itself to place at the disposal of his majesty, and upon his demand, to be employed in his states, a number of troops equal to that which shall be sent to him as an auxiliary force by his imperial majesty of Russia.

IV. His majesty the king of the Two Sicilies renounces, in perpetuity, for himself and his successors, in the first place, Porto Longone, in the Isle of Elbe, and every thing belonging to it in that island. Se.condly, the states of the Presides in Tuscany; and he cedes them, as also the principality of Piombino, to the French governinent, to be by it disposed of at its pleasure.

V. The French republic and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies bind themselves reciprocally to take off the sequestration from all effects, revenues, and property, seized, confiscated, or detained, from the citizens and subjects of the one or the other power, in consequence of the present war, and to admit them respectively to the legal exercise of the rights and claims which may appertain to them.

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trace of the private calamities which have marked the present war, and to give to peace, re-established, the stability which can only be expected from a general oblivion of the past, the French republic res nounces all prosecution in respect of facts of which it might complain; and the king, wishing, on his part, to contribute as much as in him lies to repair the evils occasioned by the troubles which have taken place in his states, binds himself to pay, within three months, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the present treaty, a sum of 500,000 francs, which shall be distributed among the agents and French citizens who have been par ticularly the victims of the disor ders which have been produced at Naples, Viterbo, and in the other points of the south of Italy, by the conduct of Neapolitans.

VII. His Sicilian majesty binds himself also to permit that all those of his subjects who have not been prosecuted, banished, or forced to expatriate themselves voluntarily, but for acts relating to the resi dence of the French in the kingdom of Naples, shall return without molestation to their country, and be reinstated in their properties. His majesty also promises, that all per sons now in custody on account of the political opinions which they have declared shall be immediately set at liberty.

VIII. His majesty the king of the Two Sicilies binds himself to restore to the French republic the statues, pictures, and other objects of the arts which have been carried off from Rome by the Neapo litan troops.

IX. The present treaty is de clared common to the Batavian, Cisalpine, and Ligurian republics,

X. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in the space of thirty days, without delay.

Done and signed at Florence, the 7th Germinal, 9th year of the French Republic, 28th March,

1801, (Signed) ALQUIER.

ANTOINE DE MICHEROUX.

Preliminary Articles of Peace between the French Republic and the Ottoman Porte.

The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, being desirous to put an end to the war which divides the two countries, and to re-establish the ancient relations which united them, have nominated with this intention, for ministers plenipotentiary, to wit;

The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, citizen Charles Maurice Talleyrand, minister for foreign affairs, and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, its ci-devant basch-muhassebe and ambassador Esseyd Ali Effendi, who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon the following preliminary articles:

Art. I. There shall be peace and friendship between the French republic and the Sublime Ottoman Porte; in consequence of which hostilities shall cease between the two powers, from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present preliminary articles. Immediately after the said exchange, the entire province of Egypt shall be evacuated by the French army, and restored to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, the territories and pos sessions of which shall be maintained in their integrity, such as they were before the present war.

It is understood that, after the the evacuation, the concessions which may be made in Egypt to other powers, on the part of the Sublime Porte, shall be common to the French.

II. The French republic acknowledges the constitution of the republic of the Seven Islands and Ex-Venetian territories, situated upon the continent. It guaranties the maintenance of that constitution. The Sublime Porte acknowledges and accepts for that purpose the guarantee of the French republic, as well as that of Russia.

III. Definitive arrangements shall be made between the French republic and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, relative to the goods and effects of their respective citizens and subjects confiscated or sequestered during the war. The political and commercial agents, and prisoners of war of every rank, shall be set at liberty immediately after the ratification of the present preliminary articles.

IV. The treaties which existed before the present war between France and the Sublime Ottoman Porte shall be renewed in the entire. In consequence of this renewal the French repubiic shall enjoy, in the whole extent of the state of its highness, the rights of commerce and navigation which it formerly enjoyed, and which may hereafter be enjoyed by the most favoured nations.

The ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris in the space of twenty-four days..

Done at Paris the 9th of October, in the 10th year of the French republic, or the first of the month Gemasy-ulahir, one thousand two hundred and sixteen of the Hegira.

(Signed) CH.MAU.TALLEYRAND.. ESSEYD ALI EFFENDI. (L4) Articles

Articles of the Treaty of Peace between Spain and Portugal.

As the object which his catholic majesty had in view, and which he considered as necessary for the general good of Europe, when he declared war against Portugal, is obtained, his majesty has resolved, after conferences had, to restore and renew the bonds of friendship and good understanding by means of a treaty of peace; and the plenipotentiaries of the three bellige rent powers having met together have agreed to conclude two treaties, which, in their essential parts, will be but one, as the guarantee will be interchangeable, and will cease with respect to both when either shall be infringed. To carry into full effect this important object, his catholic majesty the king of Spain, and his royal highness the prince of Portugal and Algarve, have granted their full powers as follows; namely, his catholic majesty the king of Spain, to his excellency don Manuel de Godoy, Alvarez de Faria, Rios Sanchez y Zarzosa, prince of peace, duke of Alcudia, lord of Soto di Roma and of the districts of Albala, count of Everamonte, grandee of Spain of the first class, perpetual governor of the city of Madrid and of the towns of Santiago, Cadiz, Malaga, and Ecija, knight of the illustrious order of the golden fleece, grand cross of the distinguished Spanish order of Charles III., commander of Valencia, del Ventoso, Rivera, &c., grand cross of the order of St. John, counsellor of state, chamberlain; generalissimo and captain general of the armies of his catholic majesty, and colonel general of the Swiss troops, &c., and his royal highness the prince regent of Portugal and Algarve, to his excellency Louis Pinto de Sousa Continho, counsel,

lor of state, grand cross of the or der of Aviz, knight of the illustrious order of the golden fleece, minister and secretary of state for the affairs of the kingdom, and lieutenant-general of its armies; who, after having exchanged and verified their full powers in good and proper form, have concluded and signed, accord ing to the orders and intentions of their sovereigns, the following ar◄ ticles :

Art. I. There shall be peace, amity, and good understanding, between his catholic majesty the king of Spain and the prince regent of Portugal and Algarve, as well by sea as by land, through the whole extent of their kingdoms and possessions; and all captures which shall be made by sea, after the ratification of the present treaty, shall be faithfully restored, with all their goods and effects, or their respective value paid."

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II. His royal highness will shut the ports of his whole territories to the ships of Great Britain in general.

III. His catholic majesty will restore to his royal highness the fortresses and places of Jurumena, Arronches, Portalegre, Castel-Davide, Barbacema, Campo Mayor, and Ouguela, with all the territories hitherto conquered by his arms, or which may hereafter be conquered, with all their artillery, fire-arms, or other warlike stores, and in the same condition in which they were when they were surrendered to him; and his catholic majesty will take as a conquest the fortress of Olivenza with its territory and inhabitants, from the Guardiana, and unite the same for ever to his own territory and subjects, so that the river above mentioned shall be the boundary of the respective kingdoms in that part.

IV. His

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