the property, effects, and revenues of the inhabitants or proprietors, shall be taken off. The contracting parties oblige themselves topay all they may owe for money lent them by individuals, as well as by the public establishments of the said countries, and to pay and reimburse all annuities created for their benefit on every one of them. In consequence of this, it is expressly admitted, that the holders of stock in the bank of Vienna, become French subjects, shall continue to enjoy the benefit of their funds, and shall receive the interest accrued, or to accrue,notwithstanding any sequestration, or any demand, derogatory to their rights, particularly notwithstanding the infringement which the holders aforesaid, become French subjects, sustained by not being able to pay the 30 and 100 per cent. demanded by his imperial and royal majesty, of all creditors of the bank of Vienna. X. The contracting parties shall also cause all the sequestrations to be taken off, which have been imposed 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 states of his said majesty or the empire. XI. The present 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, Cisalpine, and Ligurian republics. The contracting parties mutually guaranty the independence of the said republics, and the right of the people who inhabit them to adopt what form of government they please. XII. His imperial and royal majesty renounces, for himself and his VOL. XLIII. successors, in favour of the Cisalpine republic, all rights and titles arising from those rights, which his majesty might claim on the countries which he possessed before the war, and which, by the conditions of the 8th article of the treaty of Campo Formio, now form part of the Cisalpine republic, which shall possess them as their sovereignty and property, with all the territorial property dependant upon it. XIII. His imperial and royal majesty, 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 ci-devant imperial fiefs to the Ligurian republic, and renounces all rights and titles arising from these rights on the said fiefs. XIV. In conformity with the 2d article of the treaty of Campo Formio, the navigation of the Adige, which serves as the limits between his majesty the emperor and king, and the navigation of the rivers in the Cisalpine republic, shall be free, nor shall any toll be imposed, nor any ship of war kept there. XV. All prisoners of war on both sides, as well as hostages given or taken during the war, who shall not be yet restored, shall be so within forty days from the time of signing the present treaty. XVI. The real and personal property unalienated of his royal highness the archduke Charles, and of the heirs of her royal highness the archduchess Christina, deceased, situated in the countries ceded to the French republic, shall be restored to them on condition of their selling them within three years. The same shall be the case also with the landed and personal property of their royal highnesses the archduke FerT dinand dinand and the archduchess Bea- HE plenipotentiary of the trice, his wife, in the territory of T French government has made the Cisalpine 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 impositions, of whatever kind, shall cease from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty on the one hand, by his imperial majesty and the Germanic empire, and on the other 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, in the space of thirty days, or sooner if possible; and it is agreed that the armies of the two powers shall remain in their present positions, both in Germany and in Italy, until the ratification shall be respectively, and at the same moment, exchanged at Luneville. It is also agreed, that ten days after the exchange of the ratifications, the armies of his imperial and royal majesty shall enter the hereditary possessions, which shall, within the same space of time, be evacuated by the French armies; and thirty days after the said ratifications shall be exchanged, the French armies shall evacuate the whole of the territory of the said empire. Executed at Luneville, Feb. 9,1801. Louis Count Cobentzel. Joseph Buonaparte. Letter from his Imperial Majesty to the Electors, Princes, and States of the Empire, 21st Feb. 1801. to theministerplenipotentiary, whom I have sent to Luneville to negotiate a peace with the French republic, the decided proposition, that, in the treaty to be concluded, I should stipulate also for the peace of the empire, in my quality of supreme chief. The imperial plenipotentiary knew, that the right and cooperation of the electors, princes, and states of the empire, in the objects relative to peace, was fixed in a precise manner by the fundamental laws of the Germanic empire: that also my imperial authority was restricted upon that point by the laws of the Germanic constitution, unless I should have previously received full powers, particularly from the empire, to treat in its name. This consideration, as well as others, entirely opposite to the said proposition, was not received, as my plenipotentiary had a right to expect, from its force and constitutional evidence. On the contrary, the proposition has been insisted upon by express reference to the example of the negotiations for peace at Rastadt and of Baden, in 1714, and its admission has been demanded in a manner so pressing and determined, that the negotiations would have been entirely broken off, if my plenipotentiary, after having in vain exhausted representation, had not at last consented, by referring also to the negotiations of Rastadt and Baden. My perplexity was very great, in my quality of supreme head of the empire, when I learned from my plenipotentiary this state of things, and I considered it a duty of the highest importance to reflect upon it maturely. The idea of approving the step taken by my plenipotentiary, and in conse quence quence of that approbation of beginning to treat for the peace of the empire, although I had it not by any means in contemplation to withhold the treaty from the examination and ratification of the general diet, was in conflict in my mind with my just respect for the rights and attributes of the states of the empire. But, on the other side, the consideration of the melancholy situation in which a considerable part of Germany now is, that of the still more unhappy fate with which the superiority of the French threatens the empire, should peace be longer deferred; in fine, a regard to the general wish and universal anxiety soon to enjoy the blessings of peace; all these motives combined together, strongly persuaded me not to disapprove of the acquiescence of my minister in the demand of the French plenipotentiary: in consequence therefore of the declaration made by my plenipotentiary, approved by myself, resolved (such being the posture of our affairs) also to determine the conditions of a peace for the empire. Your enlightened and well-known wisdom induces me to believe, that most probably, if under the pressure of similar difficulties, you would have adopted a similar line of conduct. I feel some consolation in acquainting you by the present, with the true state of affairs, and with the resolution which I have taken; I also derive a still greater consolation from the consciousness of the purity of the motives by which I am actuated, (motives which are justified by several declarations made by the diet, and more particularly by the imperial decree of the 19th May, 1795,) according to which it cannot appear to have been my intention to encroach on the rights of the imperial states. And when the treaty of peace shall be submitted to the electors, princes, and states, and to the general diet, you have the most perfect and consolatory conviction, that in the negotiation of that treaty I previously took every measure and precaution conformably to the above-mentioned example of the negotiations of Rastadt and of Baden, in 1714, to secure the rights of the states of the empire. Conclusum of the General Diet of the Empire, of the 7th of March, 1801. His highness the prince Charles Alexander of Tour and Taxis, principal commissary of his imperial majesty to the general diet, &c., he is notified by the present, in the name of the electors, princes, and states of the empire. The general diet of the empire has seen by the most gracious imperial decree of the 21st, published the 25th of February of this year, and by the two pieces thereunto annexed, the important motives which have determined his imperial majesty to acquiesce in the formal demand of the French republic, "to conclude and sign, in his quality of supreme chief, the peace of the empire, after the example of the negotiations of Rastadt and Baden." His majesty hav ing in consequence signed thatpeace, has deigned to submit it to the general diet, in order that the electors, princes, and states, should ratify it in the name of the empire: and that, upon real and just considerations of the losses which all delay may occasion to Germany, they may accele rate that ratification, and the conclusum to be adopted for that purT 2 pose pose, which his imperial majesty waits for with impatience. The three colleges of the empire have deliberated upon that imperial decree, with all the attention which the importance of its contents demands, and with as much expedition as the urgency of circumstances prescribes; and as, from the motives amply detailed in the letter of his imperial majesty annexed to the decree of the imperial committee, and from the reiterated assurances of his majesty relatively to the acknowledged and incontestible rights of the empire, they may be entirely upon the right of cooperation in matter of peace, which the Germanic constitution gives to the electors, princes, and states, the force of the reasons which have induced his imperial majesty to conclude the peace in the manner announced, as also the consideration of the melancholy situation of Germany, which so anxiously wishes for peace, and has such pressing need of it, have determined the general diet of the empire to decree, that the peace, concluded the 9th of February, at Luneville, with the French republic, by his impérial majesty, in his quality of supreme chief of the empire, shall be ratified on the part of the emperor and of the empire; that a conclusum on this subject shall be immediately addressed to his imperial majesty, expressive of the lively gratitude which the diet entertains for the cares and patriotic zeal of his majesty in that negotiation; and that his imperial majesty shall be requested to ratify and confirm the treaty of peace in his own name, and in that of the German empire. Wherefore the councillors, ambassadors, and envoys, present of the electors, princes, and states of the empire, recommend themselves to his highness the principal commis sary. Signed at Ratisbon, 7th March, 1801. Decree of the Imperial Committee, delivered to the Diet of Ratisbon, the 10th March, 1801. His imperial majesty has seen, by the conclusum of the 7th of this month, the decision taken by the general diet of the empire, after mature and prompt deliberation. It is a great consolation, and a real satisfaction to his imperial majesty, to see that his paternal cares and his efforts to procure a speedy peace for the empire are acknowledged by the diet, and excite its liveliest gra titude. His majesty, having equally at heart to speedily remove the burden of war, which still oppresses a part of the empire, thinks it his duty to give, without delay, his approbation, in his quality of supreme chief, to the aforesaid conclusum ; and, in conformity with that approbation, he will transmit, with the utmost dispatch, to Luneville, the formal and solemn act of ratification in his own name, and that of the empire. of the imperial commission of the 3d March, published on the 5th, a fresh proof of the constant solicitude of his majesty the emperor for the constitution and rights of each state. It has deliberated as maturely as is required by an object of such extensive interest, and which is to assure the well being and tranquillity of Germany, on the mode of cooperation of the states of the empire for the completement of the peace concluded on the 9th February, in the present year, at Luneville, with the French republic, for the absolute adjustment of the points on which a particular arrangement was necessary." Actuated by the considerations which result from the state of things, the concurrence of circumstances and relations so various, and, consequently, implicated in an affair so eminently important, the diet has resolved and decreed as follows: mage and loss which will result to the empire, and the individuals, who must inevitably suffer by sacrifices and changes which indispensable necessity, and the love of the general good of the empire, may require. His imperial majesty shall also be entreated to communicate to the diet the result of the steps he shall have adopted, before they shall have been fixed and decreed, in order that it may promptly deliberate on the subject, and submit the decision it shall come to to the ratification of his imperial majesty. Decree of his Imperial Majesty, relative to the Conclusum of the Empire on the 30th of April, 1801, addressed to the Assembly of the General Diet of the Germanic Empire; dated at Vienna, 26th June, 1801. That his imperial majesty shall be HIS majesty having seen, by the most respectfully entreated, in a most buruble conclusum, to be pleased to take upon himself the adjustment of all the objects which, according to the treaty of Luneville, of the 9th February, in the present year, were reserved for particular arrangement, and to terminate thereby the work of peace, in conformity to the exact knowledge he possesses of the nature of negotiations, his wisdom, constant solicitude for the well being and general prosperity of Germany, of every state of the empire, of the equestrian order, and the tranquillity and happiness of all the subjects of the empire, and particularly in the case in question, with that attention which characterizes, the goodness of heart of his imperial majesty, and which will tend to alleviate as much as possible the da Η conclusum of the empire of the 30th April last, that the general diet of the empire, after having maturely deliberated on the decree of the imperial commission of the 3d of March, relative to the cooperation of the states of the empire in the convention, necessary for terminating entirely the work of peace, has decreed as follows: [Here follows the Tenor of the Conclusum of the 30th of April, 1801.] The great importance of the object of this conclu um has imposed on his imperial majesty the necessity. of examining its contents in all their relations, and in every point of view. The supreme chief has been guided by the most scrupulous attention in making this examination; he pre sents the result of it to the general T 3 diet |