ror to fecure himself from the unhappy confequences which may be the refult. 2d. The ancient rights of his Imperial Majefty, and his ancestors, to Venetian Iftria, which formerly made part of Hungary. And as feveral of the Venetian provinces. have detached themfelves from the fovereignty of Venice, his Majefty. conceived this to be the time to affert his ancient rights. This declaration has been accompanied by a general pardon, as well for the Auftrian fubjects who had fled into Iftria to avoid taking up arms, as for the Venetian fubjects who had left their country. Definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded between the French Republic and the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia. TIS Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and the French Republic, being defirous to confolidate the peace, the bafis of which has been laid down by the preliminaries figned at the Chateau of Eckenwald, near Leoben, in Styria, on the 18th of April, 1797, (29th Germinal, 5th year of the French Republic, one and indivfible) have named for their Plenipotentiaries the following perfons: his Majefty the Emperor and King, the Sieur D. Martius Maftrilly, noble Neapolitan Patrician; Marquis of Gallo, Knight of the royal Order of St. Januarius, Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies, and his Ambassador Extraordinary at the court of Vienna; the Sieur Louis, Cobentzel, Count of the holy Roman Empire, Grand Crofs of the royal Order of St. Stephen, Chamberlain and actual Privy Counsellor of State to his faid Imperial, Royal, and Apoftolic Majefty, and his Ambaffador Extraordinary to his Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias; the Sieur Maximilian, Count of Merveldt, Knight of the Teutonic and Military order of Maria Therefa, Chamberlain and Major-General of Cavalry in the armies of his faid Majefty the Emperor and King; and the Sieur Ignatius, Baron Degelmann, Minifter Plenipotentiary of his faid Majefty to the Helvetic Republic; and the French Republic has named Buonaparte, General in Chief of the French army in Italy; which perfons, after the exchange of their refpective powers, have refolved upon the following articles : Art. I. There fhall be in future, and for ever, a folid and inviolable peace between his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, his heirs and fucceflors, and the French Republic. The contracting parties fhall give the greatest attention to the maintenance of a perfect intelligence between themselves and their ftates, without permitting, for the future, any fort of hoftilities on either fide, for whatever caufe, or under whatsoever pretext, and fhall carefully avoid whatever may hereafter affect the union thus happily eftablished. No affiftance fhall be given, either directly or indirectly, to thofe who would attempt any thing to the prejudice of one or other of the contracting parties. II. Soon after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, the contracting parties fhall remove all fequeftrations impofed up on on the effects, rights, and revenues of individuals refiding in their respective territories, and the countries reunited to them, as well as upon the public establishments; they fhall be bound to pay all debts for funds fupplied to them by the faid individuals or public establishments, and to repay all rents fettled for their profit. The prefent article is declared common to the Cifalpine Republic. III. His Majefty the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, renounces for himself and his fucceffors, in favour of the French Republic, all his rights and titles to the çi-devant Belgic provinces, known by the name of the Auftrian Pays Bas. The French Republic fhall poffefs thefe countries in perpetuity, in entire fovereignty and property, and with all the territorial effects which belong to them. IV. All the debts for which the foil of the faid countries fhall have been mortgaged before the war, and the contracts for which fhall fubfift in the customary forms, fhall be adopted by the French Repub lic. The Plenipotentiaries of his Majefty the Emperor fhall give an account of them as foon as poffible, and before the exchange of the ratifications, in order that, previous to the exchange, the Plenipotentiaries of the two powers may agree upon the additional articles explanatory of the present, and may fign them. V. His Majefty the Emperor and King confents that the French Republic fhall poffefs, in entire fovereignty, the ci-devant Venetian Ifles in the Levant, called Corfou, Zante, Cephalonia, St. Maure, Cerigo, and the other ifles depending upon them, as well as Batrinto, Larta, Vonizza, and in general all the çi-devant Ve netian establishments in Albany, which are fituated lower than the Gulph of Lodrino. VI. The French Republic confents that his Majefty the Emperor and King fhall poffefs, in entire fovereignty and property, the countries hereafter mentioned; Iftria, Dalmatia, the çi-devant Venetian ifles in the Adriatic, the mouths of Cattaro, the city of Venice, the channels and the countries comprifed between the hereditary states of his Majefty the Emperor and King, the Adriatic Sea, and a line which, iffuing from the Tyrol, shall follow the torrent in front of Gardola, and traverse the lake of Garda, as far as Lacife, whence a military line, offering equal advantages to both parties, fhall be marked out by officers of engineers, named on both fides, before the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty. The line of limitation fhall afterwards pass the Adige at Langiacomo, and fol low the left bank of that river to the mouth of the Canal-Blanc, comprifing that part of Porto-Legnago which is on the left bank of the Adige, with a circular diftrict of three thoufand toifes diameter. The line fhall proceed by the left bank of the Canal-Blanc, by the left bank of the Tartaro, by the left bank of the canal called Polifella, as far as its entrance into the Po, and by the left bank of the Great Po, as far as the fea. Republic, which Republic fhall poffefs them in entire fovereignty, with all the territorial effects belonging to them. VIII. His Majefty the Emperor and King acknowledges the Cifalpine Republic as an independent power. This Republic comprehends the çi-devant Auftrian Lombardy, the Bergamafque, the Breffan, the Cremafque, the city and fortrefs of Mantua, Pefchiera, that part of the ci-devant Venetian ftates which is to the weft and fouth of the line pointed out in Article VI, for the frontier of the ftates of his Majefty the Emperor in Italy; the Modenois, the principality of Maffa and Carara, and the three legations of Bologna, Ferrara, and Ro magna. IX. In all the countries ceded, acquired, or exchanged by the prefent treaty, there fhall be granted to all the inhabitants and proprietors of every fort a removal of the fequeftrations laid upon their property, effects, and revenues, on account of the war between his Imperial and Royal Majefty and the French Republic, and they fhall not be difturbed, with refpect to it, in their effects or perfons. Those who may wifh to quit, for the future, the faid countries, fhall be obliged to make a declaration to that effect three months after the publication of the faid treaty. They fhall then have the term of three years to fell their effects, moveable or immoveable, or to dispose of them at their pleasure. X. Debts for which the foil of the countries ceded, acquired, or exchanged by this treaty fhall be mortgaged, are the debts of thofe to whom the countries remain. XI. The navigation of thofe parts of the rivers and canals which ferve as limits between the territories of his Majefty and thofe of the Cifalpine Republic fhall be free, fo that neither party can eftablifh any toli, or maintain any veffel armed for war; but this article does not exclude the precautions neceflary to the fafety of the fortrefs of PortoLegnago. XII. All fales and alienations made, and all engagements contracted, either by the cities or by the government, or by the civil and adminiftrative authorities, of the çi-devant Venetian countries, for the maintenance of the German and French armies, up to the date of the figning of the prefent treaty, fhall be confirmed and regarded as valid. XIII. The titles and archives of the different countries ceded or exchanged by the prefent treaty, fhall be delivered within three months. from the exchange of the ratifications, to the powers which have acquired the property of them. The plans and charts of the fortreffes, cities, and countries, which the contracting parties acquire by the prefent treaty, fhall be alfo faithfully delivered to them. The military papers and registers taken in the prefent war, fhall be delivered to the Etat-Majors of the refpective armies. XIV. The two contracting parties, equally animated with the defire of removing whatsoever might injure the good intelligence happily established between them, engage themselves, in the moft folema manner, to contribute every thing in their power to maintain the interior tranquillity of their refpective Rates. XV. A treaty of commerce fhall be fpeedily concluded upon an equitable bafis, and fuch as fhall af fure to his Majefty and the French public, advantages equal to thofe oyed in their respective ftates by most favoured nations. In the an time all the communications I commercial relations fhall be eftablished upon the footing on ich they were before the war. XVI. No inhabitant of the counes occupied by the Auftrian or ench armies can be profecuted, her in his perfon or his property, r his opinions, or his civil, miliry, or commercial actions, during e war between the two powers. XVII. His Majefty the Emperor id King cannot, confiftently with e principles of neutrality, receive 1 any of his ports, during the preent war, more then fix veffels of ar belonging to either of the belgerent powers. XVIII. His Majefty the Emperor nd King obliges himself to cede to he Duke of Modena, as an indemnity for the countries hitherto beonging to that prince and his heirs in Italy, the Brifgaw, which he fhall poffefs under the fame conditions as thofe in virtue of which he poffeffed the Modenois. -XIX. The landed and perfonal property of their Royal Highneffes the Archduke Charles and the Archduchefs Chriftina, not previously alienated, and which are fituate in the territory ceded to the Republic, fhall be restored to them, on the condition that they fhall be fold within three years. The fame terms fhall be obferved with refpect to the landed and perfonal property of his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Ferdinand, in the territory of the Cifalpine Republic. XX. A Congrefs fhall be held at Raftadt, compofed folely of the Ple nipotentiaries of the Germanic Empire, and of the French Republic, to conclude a pacification between thofe powers. This congrefs fhall be opened within one month after the conclufion of the prefent treaty, or fooner if poffible. XXI. All the prifoners of war made on either fide, and the hoftages taken or given during the war, and which have not yet been reftored, fhall be given up within forty days from the fignature of the prefent treaty. XXII. The contributions, deliveries, furnishments, and feizures of every hoftile defcription, which have taken place in the refpective ftates of the contracting powers, fall ceafe from the day the ratifications of the prefent treaty fhall be exchanged. XXIII. His Majefty the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and the French Republic, fhall preferve between them the fame ceremonial, as to rank and other etiquettes, as was conftantly obferved before the war. His aforefaid Majefty and the Cifalpine Republic, fhall obferve the fame ceremonial as prevailed between his Majefty aforefaid and the Republic of Venice. XXIV. The prefent treaty of peace is declared to be in common with, and to be extended to the Batavian Republic. XXV. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified by his Majefty the Emperor and the French Republic, within the fpace of thirty days from the prefent day, or fooner, if poffible, and the acts of ratification, in due form, fhall be exchanged at Raftadt. Concluded and figned at Campo Formia, near Udina, on the 17th of October, 1797, (the 26th 26th Vendemiaire) in the fixth year of the French Republic, one and indivisible. (Signed) BUONAPARTE, the Mar quis DI GALLO, LOUIS Compte CоBENZEL, the Compt DE MERVELDT, General Major; and the Baron DE DEGELMANN. The Executive Directory decrees and figns the prefent treaty of peace made with his Majefty the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, negotiated in the name of the French Republic by the Citizen Buonaparte, Commander in Chief of the army of Italy, provided with powers by the Executive Directory, and charged with their inftructions for this purpose. Refeript addreffed to his Excellency M. de Fahenberg, Directorial Minijter of Auftria at Ratisbon, on the Part of his Majesty the Emperor and King, dated Feb. 7, 1797. IS Majefty the Emperor and King, in beholding the prodi. gious efforts of an enemy who, according to his irreligious and artful fyftem, permits himfelf all poffible means to enfure fuccefs, and confidering the hazards attending the fate of arms, has always endeavoured to make the ftates understand how impoffible it would be for him, without the most efficacious affiftance of the whole empire, to refift alone the danger which threatens the conftitution of the Germanic body with its ruin, and the individual members of the empire with the entire lofs of their poffeffions. The existence of this impending danger had plainly enough manifefted itself, when one of the most powerful ftates of the empire aban-doned the common caufe, to conclude with the enemy a peace which, as it is conjectured, contains fecret Conventions that cannot but be far from favourable to the integrity of the Germanic empire. Thefe apprehenfions and alarms gained an additional weight when feveral Proteftant princes and states of the empire, following the aforefaid example, and, in the midst of a war deliberated by one common accord, did not hesitate to cease cooperating in the defence of the Germanic empire, their country, by acknowledging and admitting the line of demarcation and neutrality. The danger becoming greater every day, his Majefty feveral times apprised the states of the empire of it, and above all the ecclesiastical states: their farther existence was threatenhe ftrove to perfuade them, that ed; that there were forging fecretaccording to appearances, it was inly plans of fecularization; and that, tended not to affign any fort of indemnity to the ecclefiaftical states, and to force the Germanic empire, divided and incapable of defending itself, to accept this facrifice as the principal bafis of the conditions of peace, with the concurrence of the French forces, united with the Proteftant power dependent on Pruffia. Notwithstanding the accuracy of these representations on the part of his Majefty, they did not however wifh to own and be convinced of them till now; and by a mistaken economy they would not recur to the only means of falvation propofed by his Majefty, which were to oppofe the enemy with all the poffible forces of the state. At prefent, |