that in the unexpected cafe of the majority of the States not difplaying the neceffary zeal and alacrity, his Majesty will forthwith withdraw his troops, renounce entir ly all the obligations which he has voluntarily taken upon him from motives of patriotm; fupprefs totally the Convention made for that purpose with the French Republic, and confine himfelf folely to the defence of his own dominions abandoning all the reft to their own means and reiources, and making known his intention to the Belligeren Poers. Should fuch a refolution once be taken, and the corps be withdrawn, no circumstances, of what complexion foever, fhall induce his Majedy to r cur again to the adoption of fimilar meafures; and the underigned is obliged to announce before hand, that his Majesty will at no rate interelt himself again in the fate of those of his Co-States, who fhall not now accept of he friendly profer of protection, made with fo much friendship, and fo many perionil facrifices.

The coldness which has for fome time pa't been manifested from various quarters respecting the maintenance of the troops, has induced his Majetty to authorize the underligned to make this frank and explicit declaration, and to give the well meant warning; not to fuffer themselves to be deceived by the hope of a speedy Peace, but rather to rely upon the fufficiently public-fpirited and patriotic fentiments of the King, and his Majelty's knowledge of the general fituation of public affairs, and to entertain the firm confidence that his Majeity would certainly, and with great pleafure to his Co-States, fave the burdens required by the maintenance of the troops, if there were the leat poffibility of fecuring, to their territories the benefits of the neutrality, and all the advantages which have hitherto accrued from it, without fuch a measure.

That, however, (the saving of the burdens occasioned by the maintenance of the troops) according to the general fituation of affairs, being impoble, and his Majesty deeming it abfolutely necefary to preferve the corps of obfervation till the conclufion of Peace. If the tranquillity and neutrality of Northern Germany are to be maintained, his Majesty doubts not but all his affociated Co States will thew their readiness for that purpose, in the maintenance of the troops, display proper zeal in a mealure fo clofely connected with felf-prefervation, and render practicable the farther execution of the beneficient defigns of his Majesty.

With this confidence, the underfigned, by fupreme command, has the honour to make known to you, &c. &c.

[Here follow two Articles, fpecifying the fupplies to be granted, for three months longer, in Flour, Oats, Hay, and Straw, for the Pruflian, Hanoverian, and Brunfwick Troops, at two different periods, viz.-the 15th inftant and the 1st of April. In order to fecure the fubfiftence of the troops in future, the States of Northern Germany are to meet in Convention at Hidelfheim on the 20th intant, or to end Plenipotentiaries to regulate the quotas of fupplies, in neceffaries or in money, for as long as the war may laft.]

As thofe deliberations (in Convention at Hildefleim) will preclude all fubjects not effentially and directly relating to the maintenance of the troops, the underligned will lofe no time to terminate them with the utmost fpeed, and not to detain the Plenipotentiaries a moment longer than fhall be neceffary from following their other affairs. The flattering confidence with which the underligned has hitherto been honoured in the late negotiations, make him equally confident that his zeal and activity will be entirely depended upon in that bufinefs. He has only most gently to request, that, for the fake of difpatch, the States may furnish their Plenipotentiaries with full inftructions for the purpose, which has been thus plainly notified, in order not to waite time in fending for new ones, but that the neceffary refolutions may be taken, not only for the farther fub⚫ itantial

ftantial regulation of the maintenance, but for the obligatory affent to the fame to the end of the War,

The underfigned has it likewife in command to request, that their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries may arrange matters in fuch a manner, as not to quit the Convention, till the state of affairs fhall permit its fufpenfion or conclufion, fince the gradual departure of many Plenipotentiaries has formerly occafioned a precipitate fufpension of the firtt Convention which has been highly prejudical to the difpatching of bufinefs. His Majefty will also consider the fulfilment of this with, and the infallible meeting of the Convention, according as it is expected to meet, as a gra tifying proof that his Serene Co-States with to do juft ce to his efforts and facrifices. And the undersigned allo looks forward for the defired anfwer, refpecting the fourth fending of fupplies, before the expiration of the prefent month, and hopes to have the honour and pleafure to fee again their excellencies the Plenipotentiaries at the fecond opening of the Convention, on the 20th of February.

Memorial of the Pope's Nuncio, addreffed to the Prince of Peace.

FROM the Terms propofed at the Congress of Florence, by the French Commiffioner to the Pontifical Plenipotentiary, of which your Excellency is already informed, it will be plainly perceived at what price we are to purchase a reconciliation with the French Republic.

At first his Holiness was ftruck with ationifhment, on fe ing that at tempts were made to deceive his own confcience, to give the most faral blow to Religion, which, in his capacity of viable Chief of the Church, and as the Centre of the Unity of all the Catholics, he will never betray. His Holinefs could not but be farther concerned at the feizure of his Provinces, at the diminution of his Domains, and the privation of the Church of Rome of her Secular Rights, which the cannot refign, owing to the repeated oaths taken by his Holiness, at the moment of his being railed to the Pontifical Dignity.

Unable to admit thofe, and even defpairing of the French Commissioners finally defitting from or diminishing their pretenfions, both in a fpiritual and temporal light, thefe confiderations reduce his Holinefs to the cruel necefity of fufpending the General Armistice, and of occupying him elf, on the other hand, with the means of defence, the moment the plan of the threatened Invafion fhall be put in execution against us. At the fame time, the Archbishop de Pigri entreats the Prince of Peace. to lay the prefent Memorial before his Catholic Majefty; he continues to implore with a lively confidence the continuance of his Royal protection in favour of the Catholic Religion and the Church of Rome. · Madrid, Sept. 30 1796.

THE

Anfwer of the Prince of Peace, to the Note of the Archbishop de Pigir." HE King of Spain, in conformity to the title of Catholic, by which he is distinguished, and in confequence of the particular effeem which he has entertained, and doth still entertain, for the person of the Holy Father, has rendered all the fervices fuggefted by his religious zealand his fincere attachment, in order that the Revolutions which may agitate Europe might not disturb in any manner the peace of the Church, nor the temporal tranquillity of his Holiness. His Majelty has di cover. ed, nor will he conceal it from his Holiness, that the equivocations and the erroneous principles with which the Court of Rome has entered upon its negotiations, the circumftances by which Government has given reafon to fufpect its fincerity, and the indolence of the perfons charged

with the Adminiftration of his Holinefs's dominions, have brought things to this point of involving his facred person, and of rendering the forfeitures of his fecular poffeffions almoft unavoidable.

In a fimilar pofition, where all the means are infufficient to avert the threatened misfortunes, in fo critical a junЯure it seems to be the most prudent way for his Holinefs to give up his worldly domains, to take every care to preferve his perton, in order to be able to continue to give proofs of his fervent zeal, and to endeavour to preferve untouched the facred rights of the Church, to confole the Chriftian People, and to encourage the faithful by his example and his words. This is all the Prince of Peace has to communicate to his Lordship the Archbishop.

Proclamation of the congrefs of Cifpadana to the people of Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio.

Reggio, 10 Nivore, first year of the Republic of Cifpadana, one and indivifible, Dec. 30, 1796, (old style).

The Congrene held at Modena last October, hanks to the invincible French Nation, which not only was fo generous as to reftore to you your natural rights, but also enabled you to exercite them in order to fecure your future existence; it was in this view you formed the bonds of a friendly confederation, which nothing could untie: you also with ed for the means of drawing those bonds ftill clofer, in order that the ftructure once began, might rife great and Majeft.c. In fine, you call ed us to the Congrefs of Reggio, and we, ftrong in your commands, were proud of being able and authorised to give our concurrence to an enterprize worthy of the honour of Italy, and which will be the admiration of future ages.

HE first stone of the foundation of your infant L berty was laid in

Citizens, the Congress is eager to inform you, that your wishes are fulfilled, and that you are henceforth but one People, or rather one family. The following is the tenor of the refolution:

A motion having been made in the Congress to form the four Nations into a Republic, one and indivifible in every respect, fo conftructed, that the four Nations may only form one People, one fingle Family.

The Congrefs having put this motion to the vote with each Nation, they have all accepted it.

The people of Reggio were witneffes of the publication of this De cree, in the fame manner, as we were witneffes of their joy. Our brave brethren, who came from the Tranfpadanian regions, to fraternize with us, took part in the univerfal joy. May they imitate us, fince we ardently with it, and may they form so close an alliance with our Republic, that tyranny may henceforth lofe all hopes of again enilaving Italy I

It feems as if fomething would have been deficient in the general enthufiafm, had not our invincible deliverers been prefent at fo folemn an a&t.

Citizen Marmont, fent exprefsly by the Commander in Chief to watch over the fafety and liberty of our union, affitted at the Congress, and faw in us, and the whole people affembled, brothers not unworthy of the love of his generous nation. He took it upon him to give an account of this glorious event to the Commander in Chief. We could have wished you all to have been prefent at that happy moment, certain that your joy would have joined in unifon with that of your brothers; but if diftance of places deprived us of this double joy, we make you amends for it, by imparting to you that glorious event, before your Delegates return again to their country. People of the Republic of Cifpadana, the great epoch is already marked. Reject far from you all

ancient

ancient quarrels, and that rivalship, which was fomented by ambition and defpotifm. Liberty, Equality, Virtue, let these be your mottos. The powerful Republic which has invited you to that great work of liberty, will protect you, doubt it not, with all her forces; flavery is flying from thefe countries. The Tyrants to whom you were an object of derifion, fhudder and turn pale. The eyes of the whole world are fixed upon you, and Italy anxiously expects that you will restore to her that priftine fplendour which made her once refpected by all nations.

(Signed) C. FACCI, Prefident.

Piftorini, Maccahi, Lamberti, Leonelli, Secs.

Articles of the Treaty of Peace concluded between the Pope and the French Republic,

Aween the French Republic and Pope Pius the xth.

RT. I. There fhall be peace, friendhip, and good understanding be

II. The Pope revokes all adhesion, affittance and conceffion, open or fecret given by him to the Coalition armed against the French Republic; and to every Treaty of Alliance, offenfive and defenfive, with whatever Power it may be. He engages himself not to furnish, either for the prefent or any future war, to any Power armed against the French Republic, any fuccours in men, hips, arms, warlike itores, provifions, or money, under any title or denomination whatever.

III. His Holinefs thall difband, within five days after the ratification of the prefent Treaty, the troops of the new formation, retaining only the regiments exifting before the Treaty of Armistice finged at Bologna.

IV. The fhips of war or corfairs armed against the French Republic fhall not enter, or at least fhall not make any ftay during the present war, in the ports or roads of the Ecclefiaftical States.

V. The French Republic fhall continue to enjoy, as before the war, all the rights and prerogatives which France had at Rome, and fhall be treated in every respect as the moft refpectable Powers, and particularly fo as to what relates to its Amballador or Minifters, its Confuls or Vice Confuls.

VI. The Pope fhall renounce abfolutely and entirely all the rights which he may pretend to have in the cities and territories of Avignon, the Comtat Venaiffin, and its dependencies; and fhall transfer, give up, and abandon the faid rights to the French Republic.

VII. The Pope in like manner renounces for ever, and gives up and transfers to the French Republic, all his right to the territories known by the title of the Legation of Bologna, Ferrara, and Romagna; and no attack fhall be made on the Catholic Keligion in that quarter.

VIII. The Citadel and Villages forming the territory of the City of Ancona, fhall remain in the hands of the Republic till a Peace with the Continent fhall be concluded.

IX, The Pope engages, for himself and his fucceffors, not to transfer to any one the titles of Seigniories attached to the territory by him ceded to the French Republic.

X. His Holineís engages to pay and deliver at Foligno, to the Treafurer of the French Army, before the 5th of March, 1797, the fum of 15,000,000 of French Livres Tournois of which 10,000,000 shall be in fpecie, and 5,000,000 in diamonds and other valuable effects; besides the fum of 1,600,000 remaining due according to the 9th article of the Armistice figned at Bologna on the 5th Meffidor, in the 4th year of the Republic, and ratified by his Holinefs on the 27th of June.

XI. In order to fettle finally what fhall remain to be paid, in order to the complete execution of the Armistice figned at Bologna, his HoJinefs fhall provide the army with 800 cavalry horses acountred, and Soo,

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draught horfes, bulls and buffaloes, and other objects produced from the Territory of the Church.

: XII. Befides the fum mentioned in the preceding Articles, the Pope fhall pay to the French Republic, in fpecie, diamonds, and other valu ables, the fum of 15,000,000 of French Livres Tournois, of which 10,000,000 livres fhall be paid in the courfe of March, and five in the course of April next.

XIII. The VIIIth Article of the Treaty of Armistice figned at Bologna, concerning the manufcripts and objects of Art, fhall be carried into complete execution as speedily as poffible.

XIV. The French army fhall evacuate Umbria Perugia, and Camerino, as foon as the Xth Article of the prefent Treaty shall be execut ed and accomplished.

XV. The French army fhall evacuate the Province of Macerate, excepting Ancono and Fano, and their Territories, as foon as the first five millions of the fum mentioned in the XIIth Article of the prefent Treaty fhall have been paid and delivered.

XVI. The French fhall evacuate the Territory of the City of Fano, and the Duchy of Urbino, as foon as the fecond five millions of the fum mentioned in the XIIth Article of the prefent Treaty fhall have been delivered, and the IIId, Xth, XIth and XIIth fhall have been executed. The last five millions, making up the whole of the fum ftipulated to be paid by the XIIth Article, fhall be paid at fartheft in the course of April next.

XVII. The French Republic cedes to the Pope all its right to the different religious foundations in the City of Rome, and at Loretto; and the Pope cedes entirely to the French Republic all the allodial proper. ty belonging to the Holy See, in the three provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, and Romagna, and particularly the estate of Mefola, and its dependencies: the Pope referving to himself, however, in cafe they fhall be fold, a third of the fums, arifing from fuch fale, which shall be remitted as part of his contribution.

XVIII. His Holinefs fhall difavow, by his Minifter at Paris, the af faffination of the Secretary of Legation, Baffeville: and, in the course of the year, the fum of three hundred thoufand livres fhall be paid to, and divided among, those who have fuffered by this event.

XIX. His Holiness shall fet at liberty all perfons in confinement on account of their political opinions.

XX. The Commander in Chief fhall permit all the prifoners of war from the troops of his Holiness to return home, as soon as he thall have received the Ratification of this Treaty.

XXI. Until a Commercial Treaty fhall be concluded between the French Republic and the Pope, the Commerce of the Republic fhall be re established, and treated by the States of his Holinefs on the fame footing as the nation most favoured in its commerce.

XXII. Comformable to the 6th Article of the Treaty concluded at the Hague, in April, in the third year, the Peace concluded by the prefent Treaty between the French Republic and his Holiness is declared to extend to the Batavian Republic.

XXIII. The Poft of France fhall be re-established at Rome, in the fame manner as existed before.

XXIV. The School of Arts, inftituted at Rome for all the French, fhall be re-established, and fhall continue to be conducted as before the War. The Palace belonging to the Republic, where this fchool is held, fhall be restored without wafte.

XXV. All the Articles, Claufes, and Conditions, of the prefent Trea

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