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III. The troops comprised in the fufpenfion of arms fhall take up their cantonments in the Venetian territory of Brescia, Cremo, and Bergamo.

IV. The faid fufpenfion of arms fhall take place at fea between the fquadrons of the two powers, and the fhips of the King of Naples fhall feparate themfelves as foon as poffible from the Eng lifh fquadron.

V. A free paffage fhall be granted to the couriers of the two powers, both on the French territory, the territory occupied by French troops, and the territories of the King of Naples.

(Signed)

BUONAPARTE,

BELMONTE PIGNATELLI.

Done at Brefcia, 17 Prairial, June 5.

Treaty of Peace concluded between the French Republic and His Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies.

THE

HE French Republic and his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, equally animated with the defire to make the advantages of peace fucceed to the miferies infeparable from war, have named, viz. the Executive Directory, in the name of the French Republic, the citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter for foreign affairs; and his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies, the Prince Belmonte Pignatelli, gentleman of the chamber, and his envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majefty, to treat, in their name, the claufes and conditions proper to reeftablish good understanding and friendship between the two powers, who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed on the following articles:

I. There fhall be peace, friendship, and good understanding, between the French Republic and his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies in confequence, all hoftilities fhall definitively ceafe, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty. Meanwhile, and till that period, the conditions ftipulated by the armiftice concluded on the 17th Prairial of the 4th year (5th of June, 1796) fhall continue to have full power and effect.

II. Every interior act, engagement, or convention, on the one part or the other of the two contracting parties, which are contrary to the prefent treaty, are revoked, and fhall be regarded as null, and of no effect; in confequence, during the courfe of the present war, neither of the two powers fhall furnish to the enemies of the other, any fuccours of troops, fhips, arms, warlike ftores, provifions, or money, under whatever title or denomination that may be.

III. His

III. His Majeftly the King of the Two Sicilies fhall obfèrve the most strict neutrality towards all the belligerent powers; in confequence, he pledges himfelf to prevent indifcriminately accefs to his ports to all armed fhips of war belonging to the faid powers, which fhall exceed four, according to the regulations acknowledged by the faid neutrality. All ftores or merchandise, known by the name of contraband, fhall be refufed them.

IV. All fecurity and protection fhall be granted against all perfons whatever, in the ports and roads of the Two Sicilies, to all French merchantmen, of whatfoever number they may be, and to all the thips of war of the Republic, not exceeding the number fpecified in the above article.

V. The French Republic and the King of the Two Sicilies engage to take off the fequeftration from all effects, revenues, goods feized, confifcated, and kept from the citizens or fubjects of both powers, in confequence of the prefent war, and to admit them refpectively to the legal exercife of all civil rights that may belong

to them.

VI. All prifoners made on one fide or the other, comprising mariners and failors, shall be reciprocally restored within a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity; the fick and wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in their refpective hospitals, and fhall be restored upon their

recovery.

VII. To give a proof of his friendship for the French Republic, and of his fincere defire to maintain the most perfect harmony between the two powers, his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies confents to fet at liberty every French citizen who may have been arrested and detained in his states, on account of his political opinions refpecting the French revolution; all goods and property, moveable or immoveable, which may have been fequeftrated on the fame account, fhall be reftored to them.

VIII. From the, fame motives which dictated the preceding articles, his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies engages to caufe all proper fearch to be made for difcovering, by legal means, and for giving up to the rigour of the laws, the perfons who stole, in 1795, the papers belonging to the late minifter of the French Republic.

IX. The ambaffadors or minifters of the two contracting powers fhall enjoy, in their respective states, the fame prerogatives and precedence which they enjoyed before the war, excepting those which were allowed them as family ambaffadors.

X. Every French citizen, and all perfons belonging to the household of the ambaffador or minifter, or to that of the confuls and other authorifed and acknowledged agents of the French Republic, thall enjoy, in the ftates of his Majefty the King of the

Two Sicilies, the fame freedom of religious worship as is enjoyed by the individuals of thofe nations, not Catholics, which are the moft favoured in that refpect.

XI. There fhall be negotiated and concluded, without delay, a treaty of commerce between the two powers, founded on the ba fis of mutual utility, and fuch as shall insure to the French nation advantages equal to all those which are enjoyed in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies by the most favoured nations. Until the completion of this treaty, the commercial and confular relations fhall be reciprocally re-established on the fame footing as before the war.

XII. In conformity with the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague on the 27th Floreal, in the third year of the Republic (16th of May, 1795, old ftyle), the fame peace, friendfhip, and good understanding, that are ftipulated in the prefent treaty between the French Republic and his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies fhall fubfift between his Majefty and the Batavian Republic.

XIII. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, within forty days from the date hereof,

Done at Paris 19th Vendemiaire, in the 5th year of the French Republic, one and indivifible, correfponding with the 10th October, 1796, (old style).

(Signed)

CHARLES DELACROIX. The Prince of BELMONTE PIGNATELLI.

Conditions of the Armistice concluded between the Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy and M. Frederick, Plenipotentiary of the Duke of Modena.

THE commander in chief of the army of Italy grants to the Duke of Modena an armistice, for the purpofe of giving him time to fend to Paris, to obtain from the Executive Directory a definitive peace, on the conditions hereinafter mentioned, which M. Frederick, plenipotentiary of the Duke of Modena, promises to fulfil,

I. The Duke of Modena fhall pay to the French Republic the fum of feven millions five hundred thoufand livres, French money, of which three millions fhall be immediately fent to the army cheft; two millions more fhall be paid in fifteen days into the hands of M. Balbi, banker for the Republic of Genoa; and the remaining two millions five hundred thousand livres into the hands of the fame banker, within a month,

II. The Duke of Modena fhall befides furnish to the value of 2,500,000 livres, in commodities, fuch as powder and other artiVOL. V.

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éles of ammunition of war, which the commander in chief that defcribe, together with the periods at which thefe payments fhalk be made.

III. The Duke of Modena fhall be bound to deliver twenty pictures, to be taken from his gallery, or within his dominions, at the option of the citizens who fhall be fent to choofe them.

Provided the above conditions are fulfilled, the troops of the Republic, paffing through the ftates of the Duke of Modena, fhall make no requifitions: the provisions of which they may stand in need thall be furnished and paid for as may be agreed on.

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Offenfive and Defenfive Treaty of Alliance between the French Republic and Spain.

THE

HE Executive Directory of the French Republic and his Catholic Majefty the King of Spain, animated by the wish to ftrengthen the bonds of amity and good understanding happily re-established between France and Spain by the treaty of peace concluded at Bafle on the 4th Thermidor, and the third year of the Republic, (July 22, 1795) have refolved to form an offenfive and defenfive treaty of alliance for whatever concerns the advantages and common defence of the two nations; and they have charged with this important negotiation, and have given their full powers to the under-mentioned perfons; namely, the Executive Directory of the French Republic to Citizen Dominique CatheFine Perignon, general of divifion of the Republic, and its ambasfador to his Catholic Majefty the King of Spain; and his Catho lic Majesty the King of Spain, to his Excellency Don Manuel de Godoi, Prince of Peace, Duke of Alcudia, &c. &c. &c. who, after the refpective communication and exchange of their full powers, have agreed on the following articles:

I. There fhall exist for ever an offenfive and defenfive alliance between the French Republic and his Catholic Majefty the King of Spain.

II. The two contracting powers fhall be mutual guarantees, without any referve or exception, in the most authentic and abfolute way, of all the ftates, territories, islands, and the places which they poffefs, and fhall refpectively poffefs. And if one of the two powers fhall be in the fequel, under whatever pretext it may be, menaced or attacked, the other promifes, engages, and binds itself to help it with its good offices, and to fuccour it on its requifition, as fhall be ftipulated in the following articles: 11. Within

III. Within the fpace of three months, reckoning from the mo ment of the requifition, the power called on fhall hold in readiness, and place in the difpofal of the power calling, 15 fhips of the line, three of which fhall be three-deckers, or of 80 guns, twelve of from 70 to 72, fix frigates of a proportionate force, and four floops or light veffels, all equipped, armed, and victualled for fix months, and ftored for a year. Thefe naval forces thall be affembled by the power called on in the particular port pointed out by the power calling.

IV. In cafe the requiring power may have judged it proper for the commencement of hoftilities to confine to the one-half the fuccour which was to have been given in execution of the preceding article, it may, at any epoch of the campaign, call for the other half of the aforefaid fuccour, which thall be furnished in the mode and within the fpace fixed. This fpace of time to be reckoned. from the new requifition.

V. The power called on fhall in the fame way place at the difpofal of the requiring power, within the fpace of three months, reckoning froin the moment of the requifition, eighteen thousand infantry, and fix thoufand cavalry; with a proportionate train of artillery to be readily employed in Europe, and for the defence of the colonies which the contracting powers poffefs in the Gulf of Mexico.

VI. The requiring power fhall be allowed to fend oneor fe veral commiffioners for the purpofe of afluring itself whether, conformably to the preceding articles, the power called on has put itfelf in a state to commence hoftilities on the day fixed with the land and fea forces.

VII. Thefe fuccours fhall be entirely placed at the difpofal of the requiring power, which may leave them in the ports and on the territory of the power called on, or employ them in expeditions it may think fit to undertake, without being obliged to give an account of the motives by which it may have been determined.

VIII. The demand of the fuccours ftipulated in the preceding articles, made by one of the powers, fhall fuffice to prove the need it has of them, and fhall bind the other power to difpofe of them, without its being neceffary to enter into any difcuffion rela tive to the question whether the war it propofes be offenfive or defenfive; or without any explanation being required, which may tend to elude the moft fpeedy and exact accomplishment of what is ftipulated.

IX. The troops and fhips demanded fhall continue at the dif pofal of the requiring power during the whole duration of the war, without its incurring in any cafe any expence. The power called on fhall maintain them in all places where its ally fhall caufe them to act, as if it employed them directly for itself. It is fimply agreed on, that during the whole of the time when the aforefaid

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