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empire, on the other, relative to the courfe of the Rhine, its navigation, the works to be conftructed for the prefervation of its bed and its banks, fhall continue to be executed in as far as they are not contrary to the prefent treaty.

14. His ferene highnefs engages not to permit the emigrants, and the priests tranfported from the French republic, to refide in his territories,

15. There fhall be concluded, without delay, between the two powers, a treaty of commerce on grounds of reciprocal advantage. Meanwhile all commercial relations fhall be re-established, fuch as they were before the prefent

war.

All commodities and merchandize, being the produce of the French foil, manufactories, colonies, and fisheries, fhall enjoy in the territories of his ferene highnefs the liberty of tranfit and ftaple, exempted from all duties, except thofe of the tolls upon waggons and horfes,

from the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, on paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity.

The fick and wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in the refpective hofpitals; they fhall be given up immediately after their recovery.

18. Conformable to the treaty concluded at the Hague, the 27th Floreal of the third year, the prefent treaty of peace and friendship is declared common with the Batavian republic.

19. It fhall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Paris, within one month, to reckon from its fignature, and fooner if practicable.

Paris, 5 Fructidor, of the fourth year of the French republic, one and indivisible.

(Signed)

CHARLES DELACROIX, SIGISMUND CHARLES JOHN Baron de REITZENTEIN. The Executive Directory refolve The French waggoners fhall be and ratify the prefent treaty of treated, with regard to the pay-peace with the margrave of Baden, ment of thofe duties of toll, like the most favoured nation.

16. The French republic and his ferene highnefs the margrave of Baden, refpectively engage to grant replevy on the fequeftration of all effects, revenues, or eftates, confifcated, detained, or fold from French citizens on one part, and on the other, from the inhabitants, of the margraviate of Baden, and to admit them to the legal exercife of the actions and rights which may belong to them.

17. All the prisoners of war respectively taken thall be delivered p within one month, to count

negotiated in the name of the French republic by the minifter for foreign ailairs, appointed by the Executive Directory by the refolution of the 28th of last Thermidor, and charged with their inftructions for that purpose,

Paris, 8th Fructidor, fourth year
of the French republic, one
and indivifible.
(Signed)

KEVELLIERE LEPEAUX, prefi. By the Executive Directory, (Signed) LA GARDE, fec. gen. The Council of Antients ap-. proved of the above treaty on the of Augutt.

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Treaty of Peace between the French Republic and the King of the Two Sicilies.

THE French republic and his majefly the king of the Two Sicilies, equally animated with the defire to make the advantages of peace fucceed to the miferies infeparable from war, have named, viz. the Executive Directory, in the name of the French republic, the citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter for foreign affairs; and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, the prince Belmonte Pignatelli, gentleman of the chamber, and his envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to his Catholic majefty, to treat, in their name, the claufes and conditions proper to reeftablish good understanding and friendship between the two powers, who after having exchanged their refpective full powers, have agreed on the following articles:

Art. 1. There fhall be peace, friendship, and good underftanding, between the French republic and his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies in confequence, all hoftilities thall definitively ceafe, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty. Meanwhile, and till that period, the conditions ftipulated by the armiftice concluded on the 17th Prairial of the 4th year (5th of June, 1796) thall continue to have full power and effect.

2. Every interior act, engagement, or convention, on the one part or the other of the two contracting parties, which are contrary to the prefent treaty, are revoked, and thall be regarded as bull, and of no effect; in confequence, during the courfe of the prefent war, neither of the two

powers fhall furnish to the enemies of the other, any fuccours of troops, fhips, arms, warlike ftores, provifions, or money, under whatever title or denomination that may be.

3. His majefty the king of the Two Sicilies thall obferve the most ftrict neutrality towards all the belligerent powers; in confequence, he pledges himfelf to prevent indifcriminately accefs to his ports to all armed fhips of war belonging to the faid powers, which shall exceed four, according to the regulations acknowledged by the faid neutrality. All ftores or merchandife, known by the name of contraband, fhall be refufed them.

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4. All fecurity and protection fhall be granted against all perfons whatever, in the ports and roads of the Two Sicilies, to all French merchantmen, of whatfoever number they may be, and to all the fhips of war of the republic, not exceeding the number fpecified in the above article.

5. The French republic and the king of the Two Sicilies engage to take off the fequeftration from all effects, revenues, goods feized, confifcated, and kept from the citizens or fubjects of koth powers, in confequence of the prefent war, and to admit them refpectively to the legal exercife of all civil rights that may belong to them.

6. All prifoners made on one fide or the other, comprifing mariners and failors, thalle reciprocally reftored within a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity; the fick and wounded thali continue to be taken

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care of in their respective hofpi-
tals, and fhall be reftored upon
their recovery.

7. To give a proof of his friendfhip for the French republic, and of his fincere defire to maintain the most perfect harmony between the two powers, his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies confents to be fet at liberty every French citizen who may have been arrested and detained in his ftates, on account of his political opinions refpecting the French revolution; all goods and property, moveable or immoveable, which may have been fequeftrated on the fame account, fhall be restored to them.

8. From the fame motives which dictated the preceding articles, his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies engages to caufe all proper fearch to be made for difcovering, by legal means, and for giving up to the rigour of the laws, the perfons who ftole, in 1795, the papers belonging to the late minifter of the French republic.

9. The ambaffadors or minifters of the two contracting powers fhall enjoy in their refpective ftates, the fame prerogative and precedence which they enjoyed before the war, excepting thofe which were allowed them as family ambaffadors.

10. Every French citizen, and all perfons belonging to the houfehold of the ambaffador or minifter, or to that of the confuls and other authorised and acknowledged agents of the French republic, thall enjoy, in the states of his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, the iame freedom of religious worfhip as is enjoyed by the individuals of thofe nations, not Catholics, which are the moft favoured in that re1pect.

and concluded, without delay, a 11. There fhall be negotiated. two powers, founded on the bafis treaty of commerce between the of mutual utility, and fuch as fhall infure to the French nation advantages equal to all thofe which Two Sicilies by the most favoured are enjoyed in the kingdom of the nations. Until the completion of this treaty, the commercial and confular relations fhall be recipro cally re-established on the fame footing as before the war.

fixth article of the treaty concluded 12. In conformity with the at the Hague on the 27th Floreal, (16th of May, 1795. old ftyle), the in the third year of the republic fame peace, friendship, and good understanding, that are ftipulated in the prefent treaty between the French republic and his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies, fhall fubfift between his majesty and the Batavian republic.

13. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, within forty days from the date hereof.

Done at Paris 19th Vendemiaire, in the 5th year of the French republic, one and indivifible, correfponding with the 10th (Signed) CHARLES DELACROIX. October, 1796, (old style). The Prince of BELMONTE PIGNATELLI.

Offenfive and Defenfive Treaty of Alliance between the French Republic and Spain.

French republic and his Catholic THE executive directory of the majefty the King of Spain, animated by the wish to itrengthen the bonds of amity and good understanding happily re-established

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between France and Spain by the treaty of peace concluded at Bafle on the 4th Thermidor, and the third year of the republic, (July 22, 1795) have refolved to form an offenfive and defenfive treaty of alliance for whatever concerns the advantages and common defence of the two nations; and they have charged with this important negotiation, and have given their full powers to the under-mentioned perfons; namely the Executive Directory of the French republic to citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon, general of divifion of the republic and its ambaffador to his Catholic majefty the king of Spain; and his Catholic majefty the king of Spain, to his excellency Don Manuel de Godoi, prince of peace, duke of Alcudia, &c. &c. &c. who, after the refpective communication and exchange of their full powers, have agreed on the following

articles:

Art. 1. There fhall exift for ever an offenfive and defenfive alliance between the French republic and his Catholic majefty the king of Spain.

2. The two contracting powers fhall be mutual guarantees, without any referve or exception, in the moft authentic and abfolute way, of all the ftates, territories, iflands, and the places which they poffefs, and fhall respectively poffefs. And if one of the two powers fhall be in the fequel, under whatever pretext it may be, menaced or attacked, the other promifes, engages and binds itself to help it with its good offices, and to fuccour it on its requifition, as fhall be ftipulated in the following articles:

3. Within the fpace of three months, reckoning from the mo

ment of the requifition, the power called on fhall hold in readiness, and place in the difpofal of the power calling, 15 fhips of the line, three of which fhall be threedeckers, or of 80 guns, twelve of from 70 to 72, fix frigates of a proportionate force, and four floops or light veffels, all equipped, armed, and victualled for fix months, and ftored for a year. Thefe naval forces fhall be affembled by the power called on in the particular port pointed out by the power calling.

4. In cafe the requiring power may have judged it proper for the commencement of hoftilities to confine itfelf to the one-half the fuccour, which was to have been given in execution of the preceding article, it may, at any epoch of the campaign, call for the other half of the aforefaid fuccour, which thall be furnished in the mode and within the space fixed. The fpace of time to be reckoned from the new requifition.

5. The power called on fhall in the fame way place at the difpofal of the requiring power, within the fpace of three months, reckoning from the moment of the requifition, eighteen thousand infantry, and fix thoufand cavalry; with a proportionate train of artillery to be readily employed in Europe, and for the defence of the colonies which the contracting powers poffefs in the Gulf of Mexico.

6. The requiring power shall be allowed to .fend one or several commiffioners for the purpose of affuring itself whether conformably to the preceding articles, the power called on has put itself in a ftate to commence hoftilities on the

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day fixed with the land and fea forces.

7. Thefe fuccours fhall be entirely placed at the difpofal of the requiring power, which may leave them in the ports and on the territory of the power called on, or employ them in any expeditions it may think fit to undertake, without being obliged to give an account of the motives by which it may have been determined.

8. The demand of the fuccours ftipulated in the preceding articles, made by one of the powers, fhall fuffice to prove the need it has of them, and fhall bind the other power to difpofe of them, without its being neceflary to enter into any difcuflion relative to the queftion whether the war it propofes be offenfive or defenfive; or without any explanation being required, which may tend to elude the most fpeedy and exact accomplishment of what is ftipulated.

9. The troops and fhips demanded fhall continne at the difpofal of the requiring power during the whole duration of the war, without its incurring in any cafe any expence. The power called on fhall maintain them in all places where its ally hall caufe them to act, as if it employed them directly for itself. It is fimply agreed on, that during the whole of the time when the aforefaid troops or thips fhall be on the territory or in the ports of the requiring power, it fhall furnith from its uagazines or arfenals whatever may be neceffary to them, in the fame way and at the fame price as it fupplies its own troops and thips.

io. The power called on fhall immediately replace the hips it

furnishes, which may be loft by accidents of war or of the fea. It fhall alfo repair the loffes the troops it fupplies may foffer.

11. If the aforefaid fuccours are found to be, or fhould become infufficient, the two contracting powers fhall put on foot the greatest forces they poffibly can, as well by fea as by land, against the enemy cf the power attacked, which fhall employ the aforefaid forces, either by combining them, or by causing them to act feparately, and this conformably to a plan concerted between them.

12. The fuccours ftipulated by the preceding articles fhall be furnished in all the wars the contracting powers may have to maintain, even in thofe in which the party called on may not be directly interefted, and may act merely as a simple auxiliary.

13. In the cafe in which the motives of hoftilities being prejudicial to both parties, they may declare war with one common affent against one or feveral powers, the limitations eftablished in the preceding articles fhall ceafe to take place, and the two contracting powers fhall be bound to bring into action againft the common enemy the whole of their land and fea forces, and to concert their plans fo as to direct them towards the most convenient points, either feparately or by uniting them. They equally bind themfelves, in the cafes pointed out in the prefent article, not to treat for peace unless with one common confent, and in fuch a way as that each fhall obtain the fatisfaction which is its due.

14. In the cafe in which one of the powers thall act merely as an auxiliary, the power which alone

fhall

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