arifen in this refpect, with regard to the interpretation of the said articles of the treaty of Campo Formio, it is expressly understood, that the French republic will not take upon itself any thing more than the debts refulting from the loans formally agreed to by the ftates of the ceded countries, or by the actual adminiftration of fuch countries.

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IX. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, the fequeftration imposed on property, effects, and revenues of the inhabitants or proprietors, fhall be taken off. The contracting parties oblige themselves to pay all they may owe for money lent them by individuals, as well as by the public eftablishments of the faid countries, and to pay and reimburse all annuities created for their benefit on every one of them. fequence of this, it is exprefsly admitted that the holders of stock in the bank of Vienna, become French fubjects, fhall continue to enjoy the benefit of their funds, and fhall receive the interest accrued or to accrue, notwithstanding any fequeftration, or any demand derogatory to their rights, particularly notwithstanding the infringement which the holders aforefaid, become French fubjects, fuftained by not being able to pay the thirty and one hundred per cent. demanded by his Imperial and Royal Majefty,

of all creditors of the bank of Vienna.

X. The contracting parties fhall also cause all the fequeftrations to be taken off, which have been impofed on account of the war, on the property, the rights, and revenues of the Emperor or of the Empire, in the territory of the French republic, and of the French citizens in the ftates of his faid Majefty or the Empire.

XI. The prefent treaty of peace, and particularly the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 15th articles, are declared to extend to, and to be common to the Batavian, Helvetic, Cifalpine, and Ligurian republics. The contracting parties mutually guarantee the independence of the faid republics, and the right of the people who inhabit them, to adopt what form of government they please.

XII. His Imperial and Royal Majefty renounces for himself and his fucceffors, in favour of the Cifalpine republic, all rights and titles arifing from thofe rights, which his Majefty might claim on the countries which he poffeffed before the war, and which, by the conditions of the 8th article of the treaty of Campo Formio, now form part of the Cifalpine republic, which fhall poffefs them as their fovereignty and property, with all the territorial property dependant upon it.

XIII. His Imperial and Royal Majefty, as well in his own name as in that of the Germanic Empire, confirms the agreement already entered into by the treaty of Campo Formio, for the union of the ci-devant Imperial fiefs to the Ligurian republic, and renounces all rights and titles arifing from these rights on the faid fiefs.

XIV. In conformity with the 2d article of the treaty of Campo Formio, the navigation of the Adige, which ferves as the limits between his Majefty the Emperor and King, and the navigation of the rivers in the Cifalpine republic, fhall be free, nor fhall any toll be impofed, or any fhip of war kept there.

XV. All prifoners of war on both fides, as well as hostages taken or given during the war, who fhall not be yet restored, fhall be fo within forty days from the time of figning the prefent treaty.

XVI. The real and perfonal property, unalienated, of his Royal Highness the Archduke Charles, and of the heirs of her Royal Highnefs the Archdutchefs Chriftiana, deceased, fituated in the countries ceded to the French republic, fhall be restored to them on condition of their felling them within three years. The fame fhall be the cafe alfo with the landed and perfonal property of their Royal Highneffes the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archdutchefs Beatrice, his wife, in the territory of the Cifalpine republic.

XVII. The 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 23d articles of the treaty of Campo Formio, are particularly renewed, and are to be executed according to their form and effect, as if they were here repeated verbatim.

XVIII. The contributions, payments, and war impofitions of whatever kind, fhall ceafe from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, on the one hand by his Imperial Majefty and the German Empire, and on the other by the French republic.

XIX. The present treaty fhall be ratified by his Majesty the Emperor and King, by the Empire, and by the French republic, in the space of thirty days, or fooner if poffible; and it is agreed that the armies of the two powers fhall remain in their present pofitions, both in Germany and in Italy, until the ratifications hall be refpectively and at the fame moment exchanged at Luneville.

It is also agreed, that ten days after the exchange of the ratifications, the armies of his Imperial and Royal Majefty fhall enter the hereditary poffeffions, which fhall within the fame space of time be evacuated by the French armies; and thirty days after - the faid ratifications fhall be exchanged, the French armies fhall evacuate the whole of the territory of the faid Empire.

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Executed at Luneville, February 9, 1801.

LOUIS, Count COBENZEL.
JOSEPH BONAPARTE.

Treaty

Treaty of Peace between the First Conful of the French Republic and bis Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies.

THE First Conful of the French republic, in the name of the

French people, and his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, equally animated with a defire to put a definitive end to the war which exifts between the two states, have nominated for their plenipotentiaries, that is to say, the First Conful of the French republic, in the name of the French people, Citizen Charles Jean Marie Alquier; and his Sicilian Majefty, the Sieur Antoine de Micheroux, knight of the royal order Conftantinien de St. Georges, and of the Imperial Ruffian order of St. Anne, of the first clafs, and colonel in the fervice of his Majefty, who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:

Art. I. There fhall be peace, friendship, and good understanding between the French republic and his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies. All hoftilities, by land and fea, fhall definitively cease between the two powers, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty; and, previously, the armiftice concluded at Foligno on the 18th of February laft, between the respective generals, thall 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 prefent treaty, are revoked, and fhall be confidered as null and void.

III. All the ports of the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily fhall be fhut to all fhips of war and merchantmen Turkish and English, until the conclufion, as well of a definitive peace between the French republic and these two powers, as of the differences which have arisen between England and the powers of the north of Europe, and particularly between Ruffia and England.

The faid ports fhall remain, on the contrary, open to all the fhips of war and merchantmen, as well of his Imperial Majefty of Ruffia, and of the ftates comprised in the maritime neutrality of the North, as of the French republic and its allies. And if, in confequence of this determination, his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies fhould find himself expofed to the attacks of the Turks, or the English, the French republic binds itself to place at the difpofal of his Majefty, and upon his demand, to be employed in his ftates, a number of troops equal to that which fhall be fent to him as an auxiliary force by his Imperial Majesty of Ruffia.

IV. His Majefty, the King of the Two Sicilies, renounces, in perpetuity, for himself and his fucceffors, in the first place, Porto

Longone,

Longone, in the Ifle of Elba, and every thing belonging to it in that ifland. Secondly, the ftates of the Prefides in Tuscany; and he cedes them, as alfo the principality of Piombino, to the French government, to be by it difpofed of at its pleasure.

V. The French republic and his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies, bind themselves reciprocally to take off the fequeftration from all effects, revenues, and property, feized, confifcated, or detained, from the citizens and subjects of the one or the other power, in confequence of the prefent war, and to admit them respectively to the legal exercife of the rights and claims which may appertain to them.

VI. In order to remove every trace of the private calamities which have marked the prefent war, and to give peace, re-eftablish the ftability which can only be expected from a general oblivion of the paft, the French republic renounces all perfecution in refpect 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 occafioned by the troubles which have taken place in his ftates, 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 fhall be diftributed among the agents and French citizens who have been particularly the victims of the disorders which have been produced at Naples, Viterbo, and in the other points of the fouth of Italy, by the conduct of Neapolitans.

VII. His Sicilian Majefty binds himself alfo to permit that all those of his subjects who have not been profecuted, banished, or forced to expatriate themselves voluntarily, but for acts relating to the refidence of the French in the kingdom of Naples, fhall return without moleftation to their country, and be reinstated in their properties. His Majefty alfo promises that all perfons now in cuftody on account of political opinions which they have declared, thall be immediately fet at liberty.

VIII. His Majefty 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 Neapolitan troops.

IX. The present treaty is declared common to the Batavian, Cifalpine, and Ligurian republics.

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

Done and figned at Florence, the 7th Germinal, 9th year of the French republic, 28th March 1801.

(Signed) ALQUIER.

ANTOINE DE MICHEROUX.

Copy

Copy of the Convention with the Court of London, figned at St.
Petersburgh, the 5th (17th) June 1801.

In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. THE mutual defire of his Majefty the Emperor of all the Ruffias and of his Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being not only to come to an understanding between themselves with respect to the differences which have lately interrupted the good understanding and friendly relations which fubfifted between the two ftates; but alfo to prevent, by frank and precife explanations upon the navigation of their refpective fubjects, the renewal of fimilar altercations and troubles which might be the confequence of them; and the object of the folicitude of their faid Majefties being to fettle, as foon as can be done, an equitable arrangement of thofe differences, and an invariable determination of their principles upon the rights of neutrality, in their application to their refpective monarchies, in order to unite more closely the ties of friendship and good intercourse, of which they acknowledge the utility and the benefits, have named and chofen for their plenipotentiaries, viz. his Majesty the Emperor of all the Ruffias, the Sieur Nequita, Count de Panen, his counfellor, &c. and his Majefty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Alleyn, Baron St. Helens, privy counsellor, &c. who, after having communicated their full powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following points and articles:

Art. I. There thall be hereafter between his Imperial Majesty of all the Ruffias and his Britannic Majefty, their fubjects, the ftates and countries under their domination, good and unalterable friendship and understanding; and all the political, commercial, and other relations of common utility between the refpective fubjects, thall fubfift as formerly, without their being disturbed or troubled in any manner whatever.

II. His Majefty the Emperor and his Britannic Majesty declare, that they will take the most efpecial care of the execution of the prohibitions against the trade of contraband of their fubjects with the enemies of each of the high contracting parties.

III. His Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias and his Britannic Majefty having refolved to place under a fufficient fafeguard the freedom of commerce and navigation of their fubjects, in cafe one of them fhall be at war, whilft the other fhall be neuter, have agreed:

1. That the fhips of the neutral power fhall navigate freely to the ports and upon the coafts of the nations at war.

2. That the effects embarked on board neutral ships fhall be free, with the exception of contraband of war, and of enemy's property; and it is agreed not to comprife in the number of the

latter,