aid in men, horses, provifions, money, warlike stores or otherwise, under whatever title they may be demanded-even though he should be called upon as member of the Germanic empire.

3. The troops of the French republic shall have free paffage into the states of his royal highness, and permiffion to refide and to occupy all the military posts neceffary for their operations.

4. His ferene highness the duke of Wurtemberg and Teck renounces, in favour of the French republic, for himself, his fucceffors, and all who have any claim, all his rights to the principality of Montheliard, the lordships of Hericourt, Paffavant, and other dependencies, in the county of Hobourg, alfo the lordthips of Riquewir and Ofthein, and generally cedes to it all the property, rights and landed revenue, which he possesses on the left bank of the Rhine, and the arrears due to him. He renounces all right against the republic for all claims he might pretend to have against the French republic, for the privation hitherto of the faid rights and revenues; and any other claim of whatever denomination anterior to the present treaty.

5. His ferene highness engages not to permit the emigrants and priests, banished from the French republic, to refide in his states.

6. There shall immediately be concluded between the two pow. ers, a treaty of commerce on grounds reciprocally advantageous. In the mean time all commercial relations thall be renewed on the fame footing as before the present war All articles and commodidities belonging to the foil, the manufactures, the colonies, or fi

sheries of France, shall enjoy in the states of his royal highness, liberty of tranfit, exempted from all duties except the tolls on carriages and horfes. French drivers thall, with refpect to the payment of the faid tolls, be treated as the most favoured nation.

7. The French republic, and his ferene highness the duke of Wurteinberg, respectively engage to remove the sequestration of all effects, revenues, or goods, feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, belonging to French citizens on the one hand, and to the inhabitants of the dutchies of Wurtemberg and Teck on the other; and to admit them to a legal exercise of their respective engagements and rights. 8. All the prisoners respectively made thall be delivered up within a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, on paying the debts they may have contracted during their captivity. The fick and wounded shall still be taken care of in their respective hofpitals, and shall be delivered up immediately on their cure.

9. Conformably to the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague, on the 27th floreal of the third year, the present treaty of peace and amity is declared to be common with the Batavian republic.

10. It shall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged within a month, reckoning from the fignature, and fooner, if poffible. Paris, 20th thermidor, fourth year of the French republic, one and indivisible.

(Signed) CH. DELACROIX,

CHARLES, baron de
Woepwart,

ABEL.

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The directory agrees upon and figns the present treaty of peace with the duke of Wurtemberg, negociated in the name of the French - republic by the minister of external relations, named by the executive directory, by an arret of the 11th thermidor, (present month) and charged with inftructions for that purpose, at Paris, 21ft thermidor, 4th year of the French republic, one and indivisible.

(As an authentic copy) (Signed) REVELLIERE LEPEAUX,

president. LAGARDE, secretary general.

This treaty was ratified by the legiflative body.

Treaty of Peace between the French
Republic and the Margrave of

Baden.

THE French republic, and his ferene highness the Margrave of Baden, defirous of re-establishing between both countries the relations of friendship and good neighbourhood which existed between them before the present war, have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, namely, the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of foreign affairs, and his ferene highness the margrave of Baden, the baron de Reitzenstein, his chamberlain, and great bailiff of Lorrach, who, after having exchanged their respective powers, have refolved on the following articles:

ART. 1. There shall be peace and good understanding between the French republic and his ferene highness the ma margrave of Baden. In confequence, all hoftilities thall ceafe between the contracting partics, to reckon from the ratification of this prefent treaty.

2. The margrave of Baden revokes all adherence, confent and access, public or fecret, by him given to the coalition armed against the French republic, every contingent or fuccour, in men, horfes, provisions, money, ammunition, or other stores, under any pretence whatever, even if he should be required as member of the Germanic empire.

3. The troops of the republic shall pass freely through the dominions of his ferene highness, refide there, and occupy all military posts neceffary for their operations.

4. His ferene highness the margrave of Baden, for himself and his fucceffors, cedes to the French republic all the rights that may belong to him upon the lordships of Rodemachern and Hesperingen, in the ci-devant duchy of Luxemburgh, the portion belonging to him in the county of Sponheim, and his rights upon the other portion; the lordship of Grevenstein, the bailiwieks of Beinheim and Rhod, and generally all the territories, rights, and revenues, which he posseiled, or pretends to have a right to poffefs on the left bank of the Rhine. He renounces all demands upon the republic respecting the arrears of the faid rights and revenues, and for every other cause anterior to the present treaty.

5. His ferene highness, the reigning margrave of Baden, as well in his own name, as in that of his two fons, the princes Frederick and Louis of Baden, for whom he interests himself strongly, cedes and abandons with entire guarantee to the French republic, the two-thirds of the manor of Kutzenhausen, situate in the ci-devant province

rights and dependencies, together with the arrears of the faid rights and revenues, which might remain due, renouncing all demands upon the republic thereto relating, and for every other cause anterior to the present treaty.

6. Histserene highness the margrave of Baden also cedes for himfelf, and his successors, all the iflands of the Rhine which may belong to him, all the rights to which he may pretend upon the faid islands, as likewise upon the course and the different branches of that river; especially the rights of tolls, high jurisdiction, direct lordship, civil or criminal justice, or police.

There thall not be included, under the denomination of the different arms of the Rhine, the small branches, and the dead or ftagnant waters left in consequence of the inundations of the ancient course of the river, and known to the watermen by the names of Altwaffer, Alt Rhine, or Old Rhine.

7. Each of the contracting parties fhall be at liberty to finish the work of the dykes, which may be thought neceffary for the prefervation of his territory; but this is to be done so as not to injure the country on the oppofite bank. All difputes which may arife from this object, as alfo from the establishment and prefervation of the towing path, shall be decided by juridical means, between the respective governments.'

8. His ferene highness engages to leave, or cause to be left, on the right bank of the Rhine, a space of thirty-fix feet broad, to serve as a towing road in the navigable parts, or in those which may become fo. This road thall be cleared VOL. XXXVIII.

usage. It is, however, agreed, that the houses which stand on the ground which it is to take up, or which would be necessary for continuing it, shall not be demolished without paying a just and previous indemnity to the owner.

9. The punishment of offences relative to navigation, which may be committed on the said towingroad, shall belong to the French republic.

10. The portions of that road, as likewife the iflands on that river, which belonged by special right to his ferene highness, or which were poffefsed by ecclefiaftical bodies or commonalties, are ceded, without referve, to the republic. The lay or private communities thall continue to enjoy, under the fovereignty of the republic, the portions which were in their poffeffion. It is however agreed, that the faid sovereignty shall not be exercised over houses depending on the margraviate, which may be deemed neceffary for continuing the towing-way, but only on their fites, after they thall have been demolished in execution of Art. 8.

11. The navigation of the river shall be free for the citizens and the subjects of both contracting parties.

12. The tolls gathered on that part of the river Rhine which flows between the dominions of the contracting parties are abolished for ever. There shall be none established hereafter on the natural bed of the river.

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

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

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

war.

All commodities and merchandize, being the produce of the French foil, manufactories, colonies, and fifheries, shall enjoy in the territories of his ferene highness the liberty of tranfit and staple, exempted from all duties, except those of the tolls upon waggons and horfes.

The French waggoners shall be treated, with regard to the payment of those duties of toll, like the most favoured nation.

16. The French republic and his ferene highness the margrave of Baden, refpectively engage to grant replevy on the sequestration of all effects, revenues, or estates, 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 exercise of the actions and rights which may belong to them.

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

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

The fick and wounded thall continue to be taken care of in the respective hofpitals; they shall 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 shall 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 and ratify the present treaty of peace with the margrave of Baden, negotiated in the name of the French republic by the minifter for foreign affairs, appointed by the Executive Directory by the resolution of the 28th of laft Thermidor, and charged with their instructions for that purpose.

Paris, 8th Fructidor, fourth year of the French republic, one and indivisible.

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

Sicilies.

THE French republic and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, equally animated with the defire to make the advantages of peace succeed to the miseries inseparable 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 majesty, to treat, in their name, the clauses and conditions proper to reestablish good understanding and friendship between the two powers, who after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed on the following articles:

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

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

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

3. His majesty the king of the Two Sicilies shall observe the most strict neutrality towards all the belligerent powers; in confequence, he pledges himself to prevent indifcriminately access to his ports to all armed fhips of war belonging to the faid powers, which shall exe ceed four, according to the regulations acknowledged by the faid neutrality. All stores or merchandise, known by the name of contraband, shall be refused them.

4. All security and protection shall be granted againft all perfons whatever, in the ports and roads of the Two Sicilies, to all French merchantmen, of whatsoever number they may be, and to all the ships of war of the republic, not, exceeding the number specified in the above article.

5. The French republic and the king of the Two Sicilies engage to take off the sequestration from all effects, revenues, goods feized, confifcated, and kept from the citizens or fubjects of both powers, in consequence of the present war, and to admit them respectively to the legal exercise of all civil rights that may belong to them.

6. All prifoners made on one fide or the other, comprifing mariners and failors, shall he reciprocally reftored within a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity; the fick and wounded thall continue to be taken Q2