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XI. When there are French and Cifalpine troops in the fame fort, ftation, or cantonment, the rank of the officers being equal, they fhall be commanded by a French officer; but if the rank is unequal, by the fuperior officer, whether French or Cifalpine.

XII. The French republic fhall give up to the Cifalpine republic, on the terms agreed on between Citizen Buonaparte and the Executive Directory of the Cifalpine republic, as much of the artillery taken from the enemy as the Cifalpine republic shall require.

XIII. The fort which has been planned out at the rock D'Amfo by the French engineers, under the orders of Citizen Buonaparte, to command the valley of Sabia, fhall be conftructed without delay. The works neceffary to complete the forts of Pefchiera and Mantua fhall alfo be carried on without delay, as well as the fortification of the heights of Valleggio, and the little fort of Coetto, according to the plans approved by Citizen Buonaparte: the whole to be performed at the expense of the Cifalpine republic.

XIV. The Cifalpine republic fhall organize an armed force compofed of Italian and auxiliary troops, the number of which, horfe and foot, fhall be regulated by a separate convention. She fhall always keep in readinefs 120 field-pieces, upwards of 60 pontoons, and a flotilla on the lake of Garda.

XV. The Cifalpine republic fhall not fuffer any French emigrant to refide within her territory. Every French emigrant found on the territory of the Cifalpine republic fhall be arrested, in order to his being tranfported to the place which the Executive Directory of the French republic fhall point out. Every Cifalpine emigrant found on the territory of the French republic fhall be likewife arrested, and placed at the difpofal of the Cifalpine republic.

Subflance of the Treaty of Commerce between the French and Cifalpine Republics, concluded in July 1798.

Art. I. NEITHER of the two republics, French and Cifalpine, thall ever prohibit the importation or the confumption of any merchandife of the growth or manufacture of the other republic, its ally.

II. Neither of the two republics fhall prohibit the exportation of any of its productions or manufactures to the other republic, its ally, except grain or flour, which may be occafionally difcontinued; but only in cafes of fcarcity, and when the fame prohibition fhall be extended to every other nation.

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III. In cafe either of the two republics fhall judge it proper to impofe a duty upon any production or merchandise of the growth or the manufacture of its ally, fuch duty thall not exceed fix per cent. ad valorem.

IV. Until a general peace, all duties fhall be reduced one half, when productions or merchandife of the growth or manufacture of both republics fhall be tranfported in the waggons or fhips of either-thefe commodities, if in waggons, are to be conducted by citizens of one or other of the faid republics; or if in veffels, by a crew, three-fourths of which fhall be citizens. of the one or the other republic.

V. At the period of a general peace, the advantage stipulated by the preceding article fhall ceafe, with regard to productions or merchandise imported in veffels; but the productions or merchandife of the growth or manufacture of France, fhall not be imported into the ports of the Cifalpine republic, but in French or Cifalpine veffels, wholly to the exclu fion of the veffels of every other nation, under pain of confifcation of fhip and cargo, and 3000 livres of fine, to be levied upon the proprietors, configners, and agents of the vessel or cargo, or upon the captain or mate.

VI. The valuation which fhall ferve as the basis for regulating the duties on importation fhall be proved by the invoices or written declarations which may accompany the goods. In cafe the comptrollers of the cuftoms fhall fufpect the invoices or declarations to be forged, it fhall be lawful for them to detain the merchandise, paying for it at the rate of the invoice or declaration, with an addition of 25 per cent.

VII. Each veffel or waggon fhall be furnished with a declaration made before the conful, or, if there be no conful, before the municipal officer of the place where it shall have been loaded. This declaration fhall mention the country in which the faid merchandife was produced or manufactured.

VIII. Both republics fhall employ all their good offices and influence, in order to obtain from intermediate ftates the defirable facilities for the tranfit of their refpective commerce, either by an exemption of the duties it may be liable to in paffing through thefe ftates, or by the reftitution at leaving them of what was paid upon the entry.

IX. There fhall be established relays of post-horses and offices for letters on the road from Milan to Paris: this road fhall be directed through the Valois and the Pays de Vaud, and fhall also pafs through Laufanne, proceeding by the road ufed by the peace of 1748. The French and Cifalpine republics fhall be at the expenfe of thefe eftablishments on their respective territories. They fhall alfo unite in demanding from

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the Helvetic republic the formation of fimilar establishments on its territory.

X. The Executive Directory of the French republic fhall employ its good offices with the powers of Barbary, in order that the Cifalpine flag may be treated with the fame respect by their corfairs as the French.

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Extract from the Register of the Deliberations of the Commission dele gated by the French Government to the Leeward Islands.

THE

HE commiffion, confidering that the ports of the Windward Ilands, as well as Port-au-Prince, St. Marc, L'Arcahaye, the Mole, and Jeremie, given up to the English, occupied and defended by the emigrants, are in a flate of permanent fiege, and ought not to enjoy the fame advantages as the ports of the different English colonies, poffeffed by that power before the war, and from

other titles;

Confidering that is against all principle to treat a horde of rebels, without country, without government, and without a flag, with the fame refpect which polished nations obferve to one another during war;

That it is notorious that the different places of the colony given up to the English no more belong to them than La Vendée, in which the English minifter had in like manner ftipendiary troops, regiments in his pay, wearing the fame uniform as the troops of the king of England;

The revolted cities of La Vendée were, as well as those of the colony, garrifoned by emigrants; its coafts equally protected by English veffels, and that neverthelefs it never entered into the head of a reasonable man to think that it ought to be allowed to merchants of neutral nations, to fupply thefe brigands with food,,

only occupied in rending the bofom of their country; Confidering that in virtue of the 11th article of the treaty of alliance, concluded at Paris on the 6th of February 1778, between the United States and France, this firft power engaged itself to defend the poffeffions of France in America in cafe of war, and that the government and commerce of the United States have trangely abufed the tolerance of the French republic, in turning to her detriment the favours which were granted to her, of entering and trading in all the ports of the colony;

That in permitting any longer to neutral veffels to carry warlike and other provifions to men evidently in a ftate of rebellion, is to

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wifh to prolong civil war, and the evils and crimes that are the effects of it:

The commiffion has decreed, and do decree, as follow:

ARTICLE ft. The captains of veffels of war and French privateers are authorized to capture and to conduct into the ports of the republic, all neutral veffels deftined for the ports of the Windward and Leeward Islands of America given up to the English, occupied and defended by emigrants.

2d. The faid veffels are declared good prize, and shall be fold for the benefit of the captors.

3d. The arret of the 7th Frimaire, taken conformably to the refolution of the Executive Directory of 14th Meflidor, fhall be put in force until it shall be otherwife ordered.

Done at the Cape, 6th Nivofe (26th Dec.), 5th year of the
French republic, one and indivifible.

SANTHONAX, Prefident.

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Declaration of General La Fayeite, previous to his Release from

Imprifonment.

Olmutz, July 26, 1797. THE commiffion with which the Marquis de Chasteller is entrufted, appears to relate to three points:

1. His Imperial Majefty withes to afcertain the true ftate of our fituation at Olmutz.-I am not difpofed to prefer any complaint upon the subject; the detailed circumftances refpecting it may be found in the letters received or fent back, which were tranfmitted by my wife to the Auftrian government; and if his Imperial Majefty is not fatisfied by reading over the orders fent in his name from Vienna, I am willing to give the Marquis de Chasteller any information he may defire.

2. His Majesty the Emperor and King wishes to be affured that, upon my release, I fhall immediately fet out for America. I have frequently fignified this to have been my intention. But, as an answer, under the prefent circumftances, might feem to admit the right of exacting fuch a condition, I do not judge it proper to comply with this demand.

3. His Majesty the Emperor and King does me the honour to fignify to me that the principles which I profefs, being incompatible with the fecurity of the Auftrian government, it is his pleasure that I fhould not re-enter his dominions without his fpecial permiffion. I have duties from which I am not at liberty to withdraw myself, I am under obligations of duty to the United States;

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