gulated by commissaries named for this purpose by the general of division Belliard, and by naval and military commanders-in-chief of the allied forces, as soon as the present convention shall be ratified. These commissaries shall proceed to Rosetta or to Aboukir, in order to make every necessary preparation for the embarkation.

IX. The allied powers shall provide fourvessels (or more if possible,) fitted for the conveyance of horses, water-casks, and forage sufficient for the voyage.

X. The French and auxiliary troops will be provided by the allied powers with a sufficient convoy for their safe return to France. After the embarkation of the Frenchtroops, the allied powers pledge themselves, that to the period of their arrival on the continent of the French republic, they shall not be in the least molested; and on his part the general of division Belliard, and the troops under his command, engage that no act of hostility shall be by them committed,during the said period, against the fleet or territories of his Britannic majesty, of the Sublime Porte, or of their allies. The vessels employed in conveying and escorting the said troops or other French subjects, shall not touch at any other than a French port, except in cases of absolute necessity. The commanders of the British, Ottoman, and French troops enter reciprocally into the like engagements, during the period that the French troops remain in Egypt, from the ratification of the present convention, to the moment of their embarkation. The general of division Belliard,commandingthe French and auxiliary troops, on the part of his government, engages that the

vessels employed for their conveyance and protection shall not be detained in the French ports after the disembarkation of the troops; and that their commanders shall be at liberty to purchase, at their own expense, the provisions which may be necessary for enabling themto return. General Belliard also engages, on the part of his government, that the said vessels shall not be molested on their return to the ports of the allied powers, provided they do not attempt, or are made subservient to, any military operation.

XI. All the administrations, the members of the commission of arts and sciences, and in short every person attached to the French army, shall enjoy the same advantages as the military. All the members of the said administration, and of the commission of arts and sciences, shall also carry with them not only all the papers relative to their mission, but also their private papers, as well as all other articles which have reference thereto.

XII. All inhabitants of Egypt, of whatever nation they may be, who wish to follow the French troops, shall be at liberty so to do; nor shall their families, after their departure, be molested, or their goods confiscated.

XIII. No inhabitant of Egypt, of whatever religion, who may wish to follow the French troops, shall suffer either in person or property, on account of the connexion he may have entered into with the French during their continuance in Egypt, provided be conforms to the laws of the country.

XIV. The sick, who cannot bear removal, shall be placed in an hospital, and attended by French me

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dical and other attendants, until their recovery, when they shall be sent to France on the same conditions as the troops. The commanders of the allied armies engage to provide all the articles that may appear really necessary for this hospital; the advances to be made on this account shall be repaid by the French go

vernment.

XV. At the period when the towns and forts mentioned in the present convention shall be delivered up, commissaries shall be named for receiving the ordnance, ammunition, magazines, papers, archives, plans, and other public effects, which the French shall leave in possession of the allied powers.

XVI. A vessel shall be provided as soon as possible by the naval commanders of the allied powers, in order to convey to Toulon an officer and a commissioner, charged with the conveyance of the present convention to the French government.

XVII. Every difficulty or dispute that may arise respecting the execution of the present convention, shall be determined in an amicable manner by commissioners named

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XVIII. Immediately after the ratification of the present convention, all the English or Ottoman prisoners at Cairo shall be set at liberty, and the commanders-in-chief of the allied powers shall in like manner release the French prisoners in their respective camps.

XIX. Officers of rank from the English army, from his highness the supreme vizier, and from his highness the capitan pacha, shall be exchanged for a like number of French officers of equal rank, to serve as hostages for the execution of the

present treaty. As soon as the French troops shall be landed in the ports of France, the hostages shall be reciprocally released.

XX. The present convention shall be carried and communicated by a French officer to general Menou at Alexandria, and he shall be at liberty to accept of it for the French and auxiliary forces (both naval and military) which may be with him at the abovementioned place, provided his acceptance of it shall be notified to the general commanding the English troops before Alexandria,within ten days from the date of the communication being made to him.

XXI. The present convention shall be ratified by the commandersin-chief of the respective armies, within twenty-four hours after the signature thereof.

Signed in quadruplicate, at the place of conference between, the two armies, the 27th of June, 1801, or of the siege of Saaffar, 1216, or the 8th Messidor, 9th year of the French republic.

(Signed) J. Hope, brigadier

general. Osman Bey: Isaac Bey.

Dongelot, general

de brigade.

Tarayre, chief de brigade.

Approved and ratified the present convention at Cairo, the 9th Messidor, 9th year of the French republic.

(Signed) Belliard, general de division.

Additional

Additional Note, explanatory of the Convention of the 27th June, 1801, concluded at Cairo.

ART. I. It is understood, that the artillery which the corps of French and auxiliary troops, under the command of general Belliard, is to take with it in its retreat from Cairo, in order to be transported to France, consists of two fieldpieces, of from twelve to two pounders for each battalion, and one piece for each squadron, to gether with the ammunition waggons belonging to them.

II. It is besides understood, that the French troops embarked on board ships of war, shall, from the moment of their going on board, have their arms and ammunition deposited in places appointed for that purpose, which shall be under the inspection of the commander of the vessel; which arms and ammunition shall be restored to them on their landing in France, agreeably to the convention; and that those troops who shall be embarked in vessels not armed, shall, while they remain on board, keep possession of their arms and ammonition, and be under the control of their offi

means of being sent thither; and in case of their not being received at Alexandria, they shall be conveyed to France with the troops under the command of general Belliard, or as soon as possible, and shall enjoy all the advantages of the said convention.

V. Frenchwomen, as well those belonging to the troops, as to Frenchmen in their employ, shall be embarked with their husbands, and enjoy rations of provisions, and other advantages stipulated in the convention, according to the maritime regulations of England.

VI. Baggage and effects belong ing to these troops, as well as to individuals who are in the garrison of Alexandria, if found in Cairo, shall be sent to Rosetta, and embarked if possible.

VII. The director general and accountant of the public revenues, shall have power to go to Alexandria, or to send a person employed by him thither, and for that purpose every possible facility shall be afforded him.

VIII. If among the hostages exchanged between the respective commanders, there shall be land officers, the generals and admirals of the three powers shall be at liberty to replace them by naval officers of the same rank, at the moment of their embarkation.

IX. The horses and camels which the corps under the command of general Belliard shall have left in Egypt, shall, at the moment of the embarkation, be sent back to commissaries appointed by the allied powers for receiving them.

X. It is understood that the fortifications shall be given up without being damaged, and the mines pointed out to officers of skill.

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made after the ratification of the definitive treaty.

II. His Britannic majesty shall restore to the French republic and her allies; namely, 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 island 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 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 and islands which

they may 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 for by the present preliminary articles, shall take place in Europe within one month; and the continent and seas of America and of Africa, within three months; and in the continent and 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 ratifications 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 made at sea after the signature of the preliminary articles, it is reciprocally agreed that the vesselsand 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 ratifications of the present preliminary articles,shall be restored on each side; that the term shall 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 Mediterranean; two months from the said Canary Q 2

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