By the KING. APROCLAMATION, Declaring the Cessation of Arms, as well by Sea as Land, agreed upon between His Majesty and the French Republic, and enjoining the Ob差 servance thereof. GEORGE R. Whereas preliminaries for restoring peace between Us and the French republic were signed at London on the first day of this instant October by the plenipotentiary of Us and by the plenipotentiary of the French republic: and whereas, for the putting an end to the calamities of war, as soon and as far as may be possible, it hath been agreed between Us and the French republic, as follows: that is to say, That as soon as the preliminaries shall be signed and ratified, friendship should be established between Us and the French re public, by sea and land, in all parts of the world, and that all hostilities should cease immediately: and in order to prevent all causes of complaint and dispute which might arise on account of prizes which might be made at sea, after the signature of the preliminary articles, it has been also reciprocally agreed, That the vessels and effects which might be taken in the British Channel and in the North Seas, after the space of twelve days, to be com. puted from the exchange of the ratifications of the preliminary articles, should be restored on each side; that the term should be one month from the British Channel and the North Seas as far as the Canary Islands inclusively, whether in the Ocean or in the Mediterrapean; two months from the said Canary Islands, as far as the Equator; and, lastly, five months in all other parts of the world, without any exception, or any more parti. and whereas the ratifications of the cular description of time and place: said preliminary articles between Us and the French republic were exchanged by the respective plenipotentiaries of Us and of the French republic on the 10th day of this instant October, from which day the several terms above mentioned of twelve days, of one month, of two months, and five months, are to be computed: and whereas it is our royal will and pleasure, that the cessation of hostilities between us and the French republic should be agreeable to the several epochs fixed between Us and the French republic, We have thought fit, by and with the advice of our privy council, to notify the same to all our loving subjects; and We do declare, that our royal will and plea sure is, and We do hereby strictly charge and command all our of ficers both at sea and land, and all other our subjectswhatsoever, to forbear all acts of hostility, either by sea or land, against the French republic, and their allies, their vas, sals or subjects, from and after the respective times above mentioned, and under the penalty of incurring our highest displeasure. Given at our court at Windsor, the twelfth day of this instant October, in the forty-first year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one. GOD SAVE THE KING. At the Court at Windsor, the 12th His majesty in council was this day pleased to declare and order, that, for the convenience and se curity of the commerce of his love ing subjects, during the cessation of arms, notified by his royal proclamation of this day's date, passes will be delivered, as soon as they can be interchanged, to such of his subjects as shall desire the same, for their ships, goods, and merchandises, and effects, they duly observing the several acts of parliament which are or may be in force. W. FAWKENER. Preliminary Articles of Peace between His Britannic Majesty and the French Republic, signed at London (in English and French), the 1st of October, 1801; the 9th Vendémiaire, Year 10 of the French Republic. His majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, being animated with an equal desire of putting an end to the calamities of a destructive war, and of re-establishing union and good understanding between the two countries, have named for this purpose; namely, his Britannic majesty, the right hon. Robert Banks Jenkinson, commonly called lord Hawkesbury, one of his Britannic majesty's most honourable privy council, and his principal secretary of state for foreign affairs; and the first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, citizen Louis William Qtto, commissary for the exchange of French prisoners in England; who, after having duly communicated to each other their full power in good form, have agreed on the foliowing preliminary articles : Art. I. As soon as the prelimiparies shall be signed and ratified, sincere friendship shall be re-esta blished between his Britannic majesty and the French republic, by sea and by land, in all parts of the world; and, in order that all hostilities may cease immediately between the two powers, and between them and their allies respectively, the necessary instructions shall be sent with the utmost dispatch to the commanders of the sea, and land forces of the respective states; and each of the contracting parties engages to grant passports, and every facility requisite to accelerate the arrival and ensure the execution of these orders. farther agreed, that all conquests which may have been made by either of the contracting parties from the other, or from their respective allies, subsequently to the ratification of the present prelimi naries, shall be considered as of no effect, and shall be faithfully comprehended in the restitutions to be made after the ratification of the definitive treaty. It is II. His Britannic majesty shall restore to the French republic and her allies, viz. to his catholic majesty, and to the Batavian republic, all the possessions and colonies occupied or conquered by the English forces in the course of the present war, with the exception of the isle of Trinidad, and the Dutch possessions in the island of Ceylon, of which island and possessions his Britannic majesty reserves to himself the full and entire sovereignty, III. The port of the Cape of Good Hope shall be open to the commerce and navigation of the two contracting parties, who shall enjoy therein the same advantages. IV. The island of Malta, with its dependencies, shall be evacuated by the troops of his Britannic majesty, and restored to the order of 1 of St. John of Jerusalem. For the purpose of rendering this island completely independent of either of the two contracting parties, it shall be placed under the guarantee and protection of a third power, to be agreed upon in the definitive treaty. V. Egypt shall be restored to the Sublime Porte, whose territories and possessions shall be preserved entire, such as they existed previously to the present war. VI. The territories and possessions of her most faithful majesty shall likewise be preserved entire. VII. The French forces shall evacuate the kingdom of Naples and the Roman territory. The English forces shall, in like manner, evacuate Porto Ferrajo, and generally all the ports or islands which they occupy in the Mediterranean or in the Adriatic, VIII. The republic of the Seven Islands shall be acknowledged by the French republic. IX. The evacuations, cessions, and restitutions, stipulated by the present preliminary articles, shall take place, in Europe, within one month; in the continent and the seas of America and Africa, within three months; and in the continent and the seas of Asia, within six months, after the ratification of the definitive treaty. X. The prisoners made respectively shall, immediately after the exchange of the definitive treaty, all be restored, and without ransom, on paying, reciprocally, the debts which they may have individually contracted. Discussions having arisen respecting the payment for the maintenance of the prisoners of war, the contracting powers reserve this question to be settled by the definitive treaty, according to the law of nations, and in conformity to established usage. XI. In order to prevent all causes of complaint and dispute which may arise on account of prizes which may be taken at sea after the signature of the preliminary articles, it is reciprocally agreed, that the vessels and effects which may be taken in the British Channel, and in the North Seas, after the space of twelve days, to be computed from the exchange of the ratification of the present prelimi nary articles, shall be restored on each side; that the term shall be one month from the British Channel and the North Sea, as far as the Canary Islands inclusively, whether in the Ocean or in the Mediterranean; two months from the said Canary Islands as far as the Equator; and lastly, five months in all other parts of the world, without any exception, or any more particular description of time or place. XII. All sequestrations imposed by either of the parties on the funded property, revenues, or the debts of any description, belonging to either of the contracting powers, or to their subjects or citizens, shall be taken off immediately after the signature of the definitive treaty. The decision of all claims brought forward by individuals of the one country against individuals of the other for private rights, debts, property, or effects whatsoever, which, according to received usages and the law of nations, ought to revive at the period of peace, shall be heard and decided before the competent tribunals; and in all cases prompt and ample justice shall be administered in the countries where the claims are made. It is agreed moreover, that this article, imme diately after the ratification of the definitive treaty, shall apply to the allies of the contracting parties, and to the individuals of the respective nations, upon the condition of a just reciprocity. XIII. With respect to the fisheries on the island of Newfoundland, and of the islands adjacent, and in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, the two parties have agreed to restore them on the same footing on which they were before the present war, reserving to themselves the power of making, in their definitive treaty, such arrangements as may appear just and reciprocally useful, in order to place the fishing of the two nations on the most proper footing for the maintenance of peace. them shall be prosecuted, disturbed, or molested, in their persons or properties, under any pretext, on account of their conduct or political opinions, or of their attachment to either of the two powers, nor on any other account, except that of debts contracted to individuals, or on account of acts posterior to the definitive treaty. XIV. In all cases of restitution agreed upon by the present treaty, the fortifications shall be delivered up in the state in which they may be at the time of the signature of the present treaty; and all the works which shall have been constructed since the occupation shall remain untouched. It is farther agreed, that in all cases of cession, stipulated in the present treaty, there shall be allowed to the inhabitants, of whatever condition or nation they may be, a term of three years, to be computed from the notification of the definitive treaty of peace, for the purpose of disposing of their properties, acquired and possessed either before or during the present war; in the which term of three years they may have the free exercise of their religion and enjoyment of their property. The same privileges shall be granted in the countries restored, to all those who shall have made therein any establishments whatsoever during the time when those countries were in the possession of Great Britain. With respect to the other inhabitants of the countries restored or ceded, it is agreed that none of XV. The present preliminary articles shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, in London, in the space of fifteen days, allowing for all delay; and immediately after their ratification, plenipotentiaries shall be named on each side, who shall repair to Amiens for the purpose of concluding upon a definitive treaty, in concert with the allies of the contracting powers. In witness whereof, we, the undersigned plenipotentiaries of his Britannic majesty, and of the first consul of the French republic, by virtue of our respective full powers, have signed the present preliminary articles, and have caused our seals to be, put thereto. Done at London Oct. 1, 1801, OTTO. (L. S.) Treaty of Peace between the French The first consul of the French republic, in the name of the French people, and the prince regent of the kingdom of Portugal, equally desirous of restoring the connexions of amity and commerce which subsisted between the two states before the war, have resolved to conclude a peace by the mediation of his catholic majesty, and have appointed as their plenipotentia ries; that is to say, on the part of the French republic, citizen Lucien Bonaparte; and on the part of Portugal, his excellency M. Cypriano Bibiero Freire, commander of the order of Christ, one of the privy council of his royal highness, and his minister plenipotentiary to the king of Spain. The plenipotentiaries having exchanged their full powers, agreed to the following articles: Art. I. There shall always be peace, amity, and good understand ing, between the French republic and the kingdom of Portugal. All hostilities shall cease by land and sea, on the ratification of the present treaty, viz. in fifteen days, on the seas near its coasts, and those of Africa; in forty days from the ratification, hostilities shall cease by land and sea, in America and Africa, beyond the Equator; and in three months after for the countries and seas to the West of Cape Horn, and to the East of the Cape of Good Hope. All the prizes, made after any of these periods, shall be restored. The prisoners of war taken on either side shall be restored; and the political connexions between the two countries shall be put upon the same footing as they were before the war. II. Alf the ports and roads of Portugal, in Europe, shall be shut against all English vessels of war and of commerce, and shall remain so till the conclusion of peace between England and France; but the ports, &c. shall be open to the vessels of the French republic and her allies. As to the ports, &c. of Portugal in the other parts of the world, the present article is to be obligatory in the terms fixed for the cessation of hostilities. III. Portugal engages not to furnish, during the course of the pre sent war, to the enemies of the French republic and her allies, any assistance in arms, vessels, troops, ammunition, provisions, or money; under any denomination or pretence whatsoever. All prior acts, engagements, or conventions, which are contrary to the present article, are to be regarded as null and of not effect. IV. The limits between the two Guianas (French and Portuguese) shall, in future, be determined by the river Cartapanatuba, which falls into the river of the Amazons, at about a third of a degree from the Equator. These limits are to follow the course of the river up to its source; from thence they shall turn towards the great chain of mountains which divide the rivers; they shall then follow the bendings of that chain of mountains to the point where they come the nearest to Rio-Branco, about two degrees and one-third North of the Equator. The Indians of the two Guianas who have been carried from their habitations shall be mutually restored. The citizens and subjects of the two powers, who are comprised in the new demarcation of limits, may retire into the territories of their respective states. They are also to be allowed to dispose of their property, real or personal, within two years after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. V. A treaty of commerce shall be negotiated between the two powers, to establish, in a definitive manner, the commercial relations between France and Portugal: in the mean time, it is agreed upon, First, That the communications shall be re-established immediately after the exchange of the ratifications; and that the agents and factors of |