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The changes which have taken place in the government of the cantons of Switzerland, the deftruction of the Papal power, the negotiations at Raftadt, and the expedition of Buonaparte to Egypt, have engaged the attention of all Europe. It has therefore been the fedulous attention of the Editor to procure every official document relative to thofe important events.

The affairs of Ireland, and the recent rebellion in that country, promoted and encouraged by the French government, come naturally within the scope of a publication whofe profeffed object is to collect every ftaté paper that relates to the war with France. The Editor has inferted all the Proclamations published during the progrefs of that rebellion, together with the very interesting Reports upon it prefented to both Houfes of the Irish Parliament: to these are added the able and satisfactory Report on the treatment of French prifoners in England, a document highly gratifying to the national character.

It has hitherto been usual to arrange the Proclamations, Correfpondence, and Papers relative to Neutral Powers, under diftinct heads. That arrangement having been found inconvenient, all the papers in this volume have been claffed under one general head but as a very copious Index has been added, no perfon can experience the fmalleft difficulty in finding any paper he may want, whether it relates to the neutral or belligerent powers.

In the preceding volumes, the Appendix, containing the history of the war from the Gazettes, has always been brought down to as late a period as poffible. In the prefent volume that rule has been departed from, for two reafons: 1ft, the fize of the volume was already fufficiently large; and, 2dly, the Editor had every reason to believe that its publication was impatiently expected. The Appendix therefore has only been completed to the beginning of March. The remainder of the Gazettes are referved for the fucceeding volume.

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STATE PAPERS.

TREATIES, ARMISTICES, &c.

Treaty of offenfive and defenfive Alliance between the French Republic and the King of Sardinia. Ratified by the Council of Five Hundred on the ft Brumaire (Oct. 21), and by the Council of Ancients on the 4th of the fame Month (O&t. 24), 1797.

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HE Executive Directory of the French republic, and his Majefty the King of Sardinia, being defirous, by every means in their power, and by the most intimate union of their respective interefts, to contribute as fpeedily as poffible to the restoration of that peace which is the object of their wishes, and which will fecure the repofe and the tranquillity of Italy, have determined to enter into a treaty of offenfive and defenfive alliance; and have charged with full powers to that effect, viz. on the part of the Executive Directory of the French republic, Citizen Henry James William Clarke, general of divifion in the armies of the republic; and on the part of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, the Chevalier D. Clement Damian de Priocia, knight of the grand crofs of the order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, firft fecretary of state in his Majesty's department for foreign affairs, and prefident of the home department; who, after exchanging their refpective powers, concluded as follows:

I. There shall be an offenfive and defenfive alliance between the French republic and the King of Sardinia, until the period of continental peace. This alliance fhall then become purely defenfive, and shall be established upon a bafis agreeable to the reci procal interefts of both powers.

II. The prefent alliance having for its object to haften the restoration of peace, and to fecure the future tranquillity of Italy, its execution during the prefent war fhall be directed folely against the Emperor of Germany, he being the only continental power VOL. VII.

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that prefents obftacles to wishes fo falutary. His Majesty the King of Sardinia fhall remain neuter with regard to England and to the other powers ftill at war with the French republic.

III. The French republic and his Sardinian Majefty guarantee reciprocally, by all the means in their power, their refpective poffeffions which they now hold in Europe during the existence of the prefent alliance. The two powers fhall unite their forces against the common enemy externally, and fhall give no aid, directly or indirectly, to the internal enemies of either.

IV. The contingent of troops which his Majefty the King of Sardinia fhall furnish immediately in confequence of the prefent treaty, shall be 8000 infantry and 1000 cavalry, and forty pieces of cannon. In case the two powers fhall think it neceffary to augment this contingent, fuch augmentation fhall be concerted and regulated by commiffioners invefted with full powers to that effect by the Executive Directory and his Majefty the King of Sardinia.

V. The contingent of troops and artillery fhall be ready and affembled at Novarra, viz. 500 cavalry, 4000 infantry, and twelve field-pieces, by the 30th of Germinal current (April 19), and the remainder in a fortnight after.

This contingent fhall be maintained at the expense of his Majefty the King of Sardinia, and shall receive orders from the commander in chief of the French army in Italy.

A separate convention fettled in concert with the commander. in chief of the French army, fhall regulate the nature of the fervice of this contingent.

VI. The troops which form this contingent, fhall participate, in proportion to the number which may be under arms, in the contributions which shall be levied from the conquered countries; reckoning from the day of the union of the contingent to the army of the republic.

VII. The French republic promifes to procure to his Majesty the King of Sardinia, at the period of a general or continental peace, all the advantages which circumstances may permit him to obtain.

VIII. Neither of the contracting powers thall conclude a feparate peace with the common enemy, and no armistice fhall be agreed to by the French republic, in which his Sardinian Majefty is not included.

IX. All the contributions impofed on the ftates of his Sardinian Majefty which are not yet paid up, fhall ceafe to be demanded immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

X. The furnishings which from the fame period fhall be made in the states of his Majefty the King of Sardinia to the French troops, or to prifoners of war, and alfo thofe which may have

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