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care of in their respective hofpitals, 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 arrefted 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 reftored to them.

8. From the fame motives which dictated the preceding articles, his majesty 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 household of the ambaffador or minifter, or to that of the confuls and other authorised and acknowledged agents of the French republic, fhall enjoy, in the ftates of his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, the fame freedom of religious worship as is enjoyed by the individuals of thofe nations, not Catholics, which are the most favoured in that reSpect.

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

12. In conformity with the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague on the 27th Floreal, in the third year of the republic (16th of May, 1795, old ftyle), the fame peace, friendship, and good understanding, that are ftipulated in the prefent treaty between the French republic and his majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, fhall fubfift between his majefty 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 roth October, 1796, (old ftyle). (Signed) CHARLES DELACROIX.

The Prince of BELMONTE
PIGNATELLI.

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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 respective 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 states, territories, iflands, and the places which they poffefs, and fhali refpectively 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 space 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. These 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 itself 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 fhall 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 space of three months, reckoning from the moment of the requifition, eighteen thousand infantry, and fix thousand 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 feveral commiffioners for the purpofe of affuring itfelf whether conformably to the preceding articles, the power called on has put itself in a ftate to commence hoftilities on the

day fixed with the land and fea

forces.

7. Thefe fuccours thall 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.

furnishes, which may be loft by

accidents of war or of the fea. It fhall alfo repair the loffes the troops it fupplies may fuffer.

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 of the power attacked, which fhall employ the aforefaid forces, either by combining them, or by caufing them to act feparately, and this conformably to a plan concerted between them.

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 12. The fuccours ftipulated by power to difpofe of them, without its being neceifary to enter into any difcuffion 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 moft 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 fhall caufe them to act, as if it employed them directly for itfelf. It is fimply agreed on, that during the whole of the time when the aforefaid troops or fhips fhall be on the territory or in the ports of the requiring power, it fhall furnith from its magazines or arfenals whatever may be neceffary to them, in the fame way and at the fame price as it fupplies its own troops and hips.

lo. The power called on fhall immediately replace the fhips it

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 interested, and may act merely as a fimple 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 against the common enemy the whole of their land and fea forces, and to concert their plans fo as to direct them towards the moft 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 fhall act merely as an auxiliary, the power which alone

fhall

shall find itself attacked may treat for peace feparately, but fo as that no prejudice may refult from thence to the auxiliary power, and that it may even turn as much as poffible to its direct advantage. For this purpose advice fhall be given to the auxiliary power of the mode and time agreed on for the opening and fequel of the negociations.

15. Without any delay there fhall be concluded a treaty of commerce on the most equitable bafis, and reciprocally advantageous to the two nations, which fhall fecure to each of them, with its ally, a marked preference for the productions of its foil or manufactures, or at leaft advantages equal to thofe which the most favoured nations enjoy in their refpective fiates. The two powers engage to make inftantly a common caufe to reprefs and annihilate the maxims adopted by any country whatever, which may be fubverfive of their prefent principles, and which may bring into danger the fafety of the neutral flag, and the refpect which is due to it, as well as to raife and re-establish the colonial fyftem of Spain on the footing on which it has fubfifted, or ought to fubfift, conformably to treaties.

16. The character and jurifdiction of the confuls fhall be at the fame time recognized and regulated by a particular convention. Thofe anterior to the prefent treaty thall be provifionally executed.

conformable to, the instructions, plans, and memoirs, which thall be communicated through the medium of the plenipotentiaries who negotiate the prefent treaty.

17. To avoid every difpute between the two powers, they fhall be bound to employ themfelves immediately, and without delay, in the explanation and developeinent of the 7th article of the treaty of Bafle, concerning the frontiers,

18. England, being the only power against which Spain has direct grievances, the prefent alliance fhall not be executed unless against her during the prefent war; and Spain fhall remain neuter with refpect to the other powers armed against the republic.

19. The ratifications of the prefent treaty fhall be exchanged within a month from the date of its being figned.

Done at Ildephonfo, 2 Fructidor, (Aug. 19) the 4th year of the French republic, one and indivifible.

(Signed) PERIGNON, and the

PRINCE OF PEACE.

The executive directory,refolves on and figns the prefent offenfive and defenfive treaty of alliance with his Catholic majesty the king of Spain, negotiated in the name of the French republic by citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon, general of divifion, founded, on powers to that effect by a refolution of the exceutive directory, dated zo Meffidor, (Sept. 6) and charged. with its inftructions.

Done at the National Palace of the Executive Directory, the fourth year of the French republic, one and indivifible. Conformable to the original.

(Signed)

REVEILLIERE LEPEAUX, prefi. By the Executive Directory,

LAGARDE, fecretary general. This treaty was ratified on the 26 Fructidor, (Sept. 12) by the Council of Elders.

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Treaty between France and Pruffia. HIS majefty the king of Pruffia and the French republic having deemed it proper to modify, in a manner agreeable to exifting circumftances, the ftipulations relative to the neutrality of the northern part of Germany agreed upon by the treaty of Bafle, the 5th of April, 1795, and by the convention of the 17th of May; they named, to concert on that fubject, viz. his Pruffian majefty, Sieur Chretien Henry Count de Haugwiltz, his minister of ftate for the war department; and the French republic, citizen Antoine Bernard Caillard, its minifter plenipotentiary at Berlin, who, having mutually exchanged their powers, have agreed on the following articles:

The French republic will abftain from extending the operations of the war, and from fending troops, either by land or fea, into the ftates included in the following line of demarcation:

This line to begin from the part of the Duchy of Holstein, fituated on the North fea, extending down the coaft of that fea, on the fide of Germany, and including the territory in which the Elbe difembogues felf, together with the Wefer and the Ems, as well as the islands fituated in those diftricts, as far as Forcym, from thence to the frontiers of Holland, as far as Anholt, paffing Herenbergh, and including the Pruffian poffeffions near Sevenaer, as far as Bair on the Yfel; it will then continue down that river to the place where it mixes its waters with the Rhine; the line will then go up the latter river as far as Wefel, and farther on, to the place where the Roer throws itself into the Rhine; it will then extend

along the left bank of the Roer to its fource; after which, leaving the city of Nedebach to the left, it will take its direction towards the Eder, the courfe of which it will follow until that river meets the Fuld, and then it will go up that river as far as its fource.

The French republic will confider as neutral ftates all those in the line, on condition that they obferve on their fide a ftri&t neutrality; the firft point of which will be to furnifh, for the future, for the continuation of the war, no pecuniary contributions of any kind whatever; to order back immediately, if they had not already done fo, their refpective contingent troops, and that in the space of two months, from the figning of the prefent treaty; and not to contract any new engagement, which may authorize them to furnish troops to the powers at war with France. The ftates which do not act agreeably to thefe conditions, fhall be excluded from the benefit of the neutrality.

As for that part of the county of La Marck, which, being on the left bank of the Roer, is not included in the above line, it will nevertheless enjoy the benefits of this treaty in the fulleft extent: but his Pruflian majefty contents to allow the troops of the belligerent powers to pass through it, on condition that they do not there eftablifh the theatre of war, nor poffefs themfelves of entrenched pofitions, &c. &c.

Given at Berlin, Auguft 5th,
1796, old ftyle, and the 18th
Thermidor, 4th year of the
French republic.

(Signed)

CHRETIEN HAUGWILTZ,
ANTOINE CAILLARD.

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