and domains situate on the left bank of the Rhine, and which make part of the Germanic empire, so as that, in conformity with what has been expressly agreed at the congress of Rastadt by the deputation of the empire, and approved by the emperor, the Thalweg of the Rhine shall be in future the limit between the French republic and the Germanic empire; that is to say, from the place where the Rhine leaves the Helvetic territory to the place where it enters the Bavarian tertory.

In consequence of which, the French republic formally renounces all its possessions whatsoever on the right bank of the Rhine, and consents to restore to those to whom they belong, the places of Dusseldorff, Ehrenbrietstein, Philipsbourg, the fort of Cassel, and other fortifications opposite Mentz on the right bank, the fort of Kehl, and the Vieux-Brissac, upon the express condition that these places and forts shall continue to remain in the state in which they shall be found at the time of the evacuation.

VII. And as, by consequence of the cession which the empire makes to the French republic, several princes and states of the empire find themselves partially dispossessed in whole or in part, whilst it is for the Germanic empire collectively to sustain the losses resulting from the stipulations of the present treaty, it is agreed between his majesty the emperor and king, as well in his own name as in that of the Germanic empire, and the French republic, that in conformity with the principles formally established at the congress of Rastadt, the emperor shall be bound to give to the hereditary princes, who are dispossessed on the left bank of the Rhine, an indemnity which shall be

taken in the bosom of the said empire, following the arrangements which, according to these bases, shall be further determined.

VIII. In all the ceded countries acquired or exchanged by the present treaty, it is agreed, in like manner as it has been by the articles IV. and X. of the treaty of Campo Formio, that those to whom they shall belong shall charge themselves with the debts secured by mortgage on the soil of the said countries; but, seeing the difficulties which arise in that respect upon the interpretation of the said articles of the treaty of Campo Formio, it is expressly understood that the French republic does not take in its charge any but the debts resulting from loans formally agreed to by the states of the ceded countries, or of expences contracted for the effective administration of the said countries.

IX. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty there shall be granted, in all the countries ceded, acquired, or exchanged, by the said treaty, to all the inhabitants or proprietors whomsoever, a removal of the sequestration placed upon their goods, properties, and revenues, on account of the war which has taken place. The parties contracting bind themselves to pay every thing which they may owe for funds lent to them by the said individuals, as well as by the public establishments of the said countries; and to pay or reimburse all aunuities granted in their favour upon any of them. In consequence of

which it is expressly acknowledged that the owners of bills of the bank of Vienna, become French, shall continue to enjoy the benefit of their bills, and shall receive the interests due, or to become due, (L2)

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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 terms 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.

XHI. 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 Christiana, which are situated in the countries ceeded to the French republic, shall be restored to them, on condition that they shall sell them within the space of three years.

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, deveries, 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 plenipotentiaries.

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), year 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 Scicilies.

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 Alquieur; 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 be tween 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, be tween 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 (L3)

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