Armistice conculded at Steyer, the 25th of December 1800. Army of the Rhine.-The General of Divifion, Chief of the Staff, to the Minifter of War.

Head-quarters at Steyer, Dec. 26, 9th Year of the French Citizen Minifter, Republic, one and indivisible. THE HE Archduke Charles has propofed an armistice to the General in Chief, by announcing to him that the Emperor had fent a courier to M. de Cobentzel with orders to fign a peace.

The General in Chief, confidering that the line of the Traun and the Inn was forced, that we were advanced one hundred leagues before the other armies, and were already near the rearguard of the Auftrian army in Italy; that, confequently, M. de Bellegarde could avail himself of the poffeffion of Salzburg and Infpruck, as the two grand openings by which he could fend troops to join thofe that were left in the Tyrol, and by attacking our rear with thefe, might cut off our communication with the Traun; for thefe reafons he thought proper to agree to a fufpenfion of arms, which procuring great advantage for us, would put us in a condition to learn the movements of the army of Italy, of which we had as yet heard no account.

The character of the Archduke Charles, and his well-known loyalty, gave us fufficient affurances of the Emperor's desire to put an end to the war. He was alfo impelled to it by the deplorable condition of his army, which having in the course of twenty days loft feventy leagues of territory, twenty-five thousand prifoners, twelve or fifteen thoufand in killed or wounded, one hundred and forty pieces of cannon, and immenfe magazines, was no longer able, nor could it be able in three months, to hinder our army from conquering all Auftria, and dictating laws in the capital. But in order to effect this without danger, it would have been neceffary for the army of Italy to be already in poffeffion of the defiles of Carinthia.

Befides, the General in Chief was of opinion, that to stop in the most brilliant victories was conformable to the character of moderation by which the First Conful manifefts himself to Europe.

I have the honour to prefent you with a copy of the convention of the armistice. The Emperor immediately entered into a treaty; and our line running along the Danube to the mountains of the Tyrol, putting us in poffeffion of Kufstein, Schornitz, Braunau, &c. will enable us to recommence the war with great advantages, and, above all, with great fecurity. Health and refpect.

(Signed)

ARMISTICE.

DESSOLLES.

HIS Majefty the Emperor and King wifhing to treat immediately for peace with the French republic, whatever the deter

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mination of his allies may be; the Generals in Chief of the French army and of the Imperial army in Germany, defirous of putting a flop, as far as is in their power, to the evils infeparable from war, have agreed to treat for an armistice and fufpenfion of arms: for this purpose they have refpectively charged with special powers the following perfons, viz. The General in Chief Moreau has authorized the General of Brigade Victor Faneau Lahoric, and his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Charles, Major Comte de Grime, and Colonel Wairother de Vetal, of the staff, who have agreed to the following conditions:

Art. I. The line of demarcation between the portion of the Gallo-Batavian army in Germany, under the orders of General Augereau, in the circles of Weftphalia, the Upper Rhine, and Franconia, as far as Bayerfdorf, fhall be fpecially determined upon between that general and the general of the Imperial and Royal army oppofed to him. From Bayerfdorf that line paffes to Harlard, Nuremberg, Neumarck, Parfberg, Laver, Stadtamdoff, and Ratisbon, where it croffes the Danube, along the right bank of which it extends to the Erlaph, and then proceeds to the fource of that river; paffes through Markgamingen,, Kogelback, Goulingen, Hammox, Menlerg, Leopoldstein, Heiffemach, Vorderenberg, and Leoben; runs along the left bank of the Muhr to the fpot where that river croffes the way from Salzburg to Klagenfurt, which it purfues to the Spiritat; then goes through Brixen to Botzen, and at laft reaches Bormio in the Valteline, where it joins the army of Italy.

II. Chauchard's map of Germany fhall regulate any differences that may arife concerning the line of demarcation.

III. Upon the rivers which fhall feparate the two armies, the deftruction or the, prefervat on of bridges fhall be regulated by particular arrangements, according to what may be judged useful either for the wants of the armies, or for thofe of the communes. The Generals in Chief of the refpective armies (hall either be acquainted with thofe objects, or fhall leave it to the generals commanding in thofe places to fettle them. The navigation of the rivers thall be free, as well to the armies as to the people of the country.

IV., The French army fhall not only occupy exclufively all the points of the above line of demarcation; but, in order to place a continued interval between both armies, the line of the advanced pofls of the Imperial and Royal army fhall, with the exception of the Danube, be diftant at least one German mile (four English ones) from that of the French army.

V. With the exception of the fafeguards, or those of the police, which fhall be fent into the Tyrol by the two refpective armies, and in equal numbers, but which thall be as few as poffible, there thall remain no other troops of his Imperial Majefty within the

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compafs of the line of demarcation. Those which are now in the Grifons, the Tyrol, and in Carinthia, muft retire immediately by the route of Klagenfurt to Pruck, in order to join the Imperial army in Germany, without their being able to proceed towards Italy.

They fhall fet out from the places where they are as foon as they hear of the prefent convention; and they fhall march on foot at the rate of one German poft and a half per day.

The General in Chief of the French army of the Rhine is authorized to enfure the execution of this article, by means of perfons deputed by him to follow the march of the Imperial troops as far as Pruck."

The Imperial troops which may have occafion to withdraw from the Upper Palatinate, from Suabia, or Franconia, fhall go the thorteft way to the line of demarcation.

The execution of this article must not be delayed, under any pretence whatever, beyond the neceffary time, allowing for the .. diftances.

VI. The fortreffes of Kufstein, Schornitz, and the points of permanent fortification in the Tyrol, fhall be given up as a fecurity to the French army, to be restored in the fame ftate in which they are found at the conclufion and ratification of peace, should it follow this armistice without the refumption of hoftilities.

The defiles of Fintlitermunz, Naudert, and the other fortifications of the Tyrol, thall be furrendered to the disposition of the French army.

VII. The magazines in that country belonging to the Imperial army are left at their difpofal.

VIII. The fortrefs of Wurtzbourg, in Franconia, and the place of Braunau, in Bavaria, fhall be alfo given up to the French army, to be reftored according to the fame conditions as the fortreffes of Kufstein and Schornitz.

IX. The troops, both those belonging to the Empire and thofe of his Imperial and Royal Majefty, which occupy the places, fhall evacuate them; that is to lay, the garrifon of Wurtzbourg on the 4th of January 1801, that of Braunau on the fame day, and thofe in the fortreffes of Tyrol on the 8th of January.

X. All the garrifons thall march out with the honours of war, and repair with their arms and baggage by the shortest way to the Imperial army. Nothing fhall, be taken away by them with refpect to artillery and ftores of all kinds, with the exception of neceffary fubfiftence for them on their march beyond the line of demarcation.

XI. Deputies fhall be fent refpectively appointed to ascertain the fate of the places in question; but it is clearly understood that any delay of theirs fhall not retard the evacuation.

XII. The extraordinary levies ordered in the Tyrol fhall be immediately difbanded, and the inhabitants fent back to their homes.

The order and execution of this difbandment fhall not be retarded under any pretext.

XIII. The General in Chief of the army of the Rhine being defirous to give on his part to his Royal Highnefs the Archduke Charles an unequivocal proof of the motives which have determined him to demand the evacuation of the Tyrol, declares, that with the exception of the fortreffes of Kufstein, Schornitz, and Fintlitermunz, he will confine himfelf to having in the Tyrol fafeguards or guards of police, agreed to in the 5th article, for the purpose of fecuring the communications. He will alfo at the fame time furnish the inhabitants with all the facilities in his power for their fubfiftence, and the French army fhall not interfere in any respect with the government of the country.

XIV. The portion of the territory of the Empire, and of the ftates of his Imperial Majefty in the Tyrol, is put under the protection of the French army, for the purpofe of maintaining the right of property and the actual forms of government. The inhabitants of thefe countries fhall not be molefted on account of any fervices rendered by them to the Imperial army, nor for any political opinion, or for having taken an active part in the war.

XV. In confequence of the above-mentioned arrangements, there thall be between the Gallo-Batavian army in Germany and that of the Rhine, and the armies of his Imperial Majefty and of his allies in the Germanic Empire, an armiftice and fufpenfion of arms, which shall not be of a lefs duration than for thirty days. At the expiration of this delay, hoftilities fhall not be refumed until after a notice of fifteen days, to date from the hour in which the notification of the rupture thall be made known; and the ar miftice fhall be indefinitely prolonged until the notice of rupture. XVI. No corps or detachment, either of the army of the Rhine or of that of his Imperial Majefty in Germany, fhall be fent to the refpective armies in Italy, as long as there thall be no armiftice between the French and the Imperial armies in that country. The violation of this article fhall be confidered as an immediate rupture of the armiftice.

XVII. The General in Chief of the army of the Rhine fhall tranfmit, with the utmost dispatch, the prefent convention to the Generals in Chief of the armies Gallo-Batavian, in the Grifons, and of Italy, with the moft preffing invitation, particularly to the commander in chief of the army of Italy, to conclude, on his part, à fufpenfion of hoftilities.

There thall be afforded, at the fame time, every kind of facility for the paffage of officers and couriers whom his Highnefs the Archduke Charles may think it neceffary to fend, either to the

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Done at Steyer, the 25th of December, in the ninth year. (A true copy) DESSOLLES,

The General of Divifion, and Chief of the general Staff.

Meffage from the Confuls to the Legislative Body, the Tribunate, and the Confervative Senate, on the 12th Nivose (2d January). THE republic triumphs, and her enemies again implore her

moderation. The victory of Hohenlinden has refounded through all Europe; it will be counted by history among the number of the most brilliant days which have illuftrated French valour; but it was fcarcely fo confidered by our brave defenders, who do not think that they have truly conquered, until their country has not an enemy left. The army of the Rhine paffed the Inn; every day was a battle, every battle a triumph.

The Gallo-Batavian army conquered at Bamberg. The army of the Grifons, through the fnow and ice, furmounted the Splagen, in order to turn the formidable lines of the Mincio and the Adige. The army of Italy carried by main force the paffage of the Mincio, and blockaded Mantua. In fine, Moreau was only at five days march from Vienna, mafter of an immenfe country, and of all the enemy's magazines.

It was in this pofition that Prince Charles defired, and that the General in Chief of the army of the Rhine granted to him an armistice, the conditions of which are herewith laid before you.

M. de Cobentzel, the plenipotentiary of the Emperor at Luneville, has declared by a note, dated the 31st December, that he was ready to open negotiations for a feparate peace. Thus Auftria is freed from the influence of the English court.

The government, faithful to its principles, and to the wishes of humanity, depofits in your hands, and proclaims to France, and to all Europe, the intentions by which it is actuated.

The left bank of the Rhine fhall be the boundary of the French republic: the makes no pretenfions to the right bank. The interest of Europe does not permit the Emperor to pafs the Adige. The independence of the Helvetic and Batavian republics fhall be enfured and guaranteed. Our victories add nothing to the pretenfions of the French people: Auftria ought not to expect from her defeats what the would not have obtained from her victories.

Such are the invariable intentions of the government. The welfare of France fhall be to reftore calm to Germany and Italy; her glory, to deliver the continent from the avaricious and deftruc tive genius of England.

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