for in ready money by the treasurer of the army. The articles furnished, from the date of the prefent armistice, to the French troops under General Duchefne, fhall be deducted from the contributions of provifions demanded. V. The Duke of Wurtemberg fhall pay into the cheft of the treasurer of the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, a fum of four millions of French money in the following manner-a million in ten days; two millions in the next ten days. The fourth million fhall be paid in two months after the date of the present armiftice. The Duke of Wurtemberg fhall, befides, furnish provifions and other objects, as it fhall be ftipulated in private. VI. The Duke of Wurtemberg fhall fend to the Directory at Paris a plenipotentiary to negociate peace with the French Republic. VII. The towns of Efslingen and Renthingen being under the fpecial protection of the Duke and the feignores of Sindhingen and Bechingen, belonging to the Duchefs Dowager, are comprifed in the prefent armiftice, and in confequence are fubject to the contributions demanded for their quota in proportion to their revenues. VIII. The general in chief will liften to all propofals for negociations which may be made by the Duke of Wurtemberg in the name of the states of the circle of Suabia, that may defire to treat with the French Republic. Head-quarters, Baden, 29th Meffidor, 4th year of the French Republic (July 17.) (Signed) MOREAU, General in Chief of the Army of the Rhine and the Mofelle. Treaty of Peace between the Duke of Wurtemberg and the French Republic. THE French Republic and his Serene Highness the Duke of Wurtemberg and Teck, equally animated with the defire of terminating the war in which they have been engaged, and for renewing that intercourfe of commerce and of good neighbourhood which must be reciprocally advantageous to them both, have appointed the undernamed plenipotentiaries; the Directory, in the name of the French Republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of external relations; and his Serene Highness the Duke of Wurtemberg and Teck, Baron Charles Woepwart, minister of ftate and prefident of the chamber of finances, and Abel, counfellor of legislation, who, after having refpectively interchanged their full powers, agreed on the following articles: Art. Art. I. There fhall be peace, amity, and good understanding, between the French Republic and his Serene Highnefs the reigning Duke of Wurtemberg and Teck; confequently all hoftilities shall cease between the contracting powers from the date of the present treaty. II. The Duke of Wurtemberg revokes all adherence, confent, and acceffion, open or fecret, given by him to the armed coalition against the French Republic, to any treaty of alliance, offenfive or defenfive, which he may have contracted with it. In future he fhall withhold from the powers at war with the Republic any contingent or aid in men, horfes, provifions, money, warlike flores or otherwife, under whatever title they may be demandedeven though he should be called upon as member of the Germanic empire. III. The troops of the French Republic fhall have free paffage into the ftates of his Royal Highness, and permiffion to refide and to occupy all the military pofts neceffary for their operation. IV. His Serene Highnefs the Duke of Wurtemberg and Teck renounces, in favour of the French Republic, for himself, his fucceffors, and all who have any claim, all his rights to the principality of Montheliard, the lordships of Hericourt, Paffavant, and other dependencies, in the county of Hobourg, also the lordships of Riquewir and Othein, and generally cedes to it all the property, rights and landed revenue, which he poffeffes on the left bank of the Rhine, and the arrears due to him. He renounces all right against the Republic for all claims he might pretend to have against the French Republic, or the privation hitherto of the faid rights and revenues; and any other claim of whatever denomination anterior to the prefent treaty. V. His Serene Highness engages not to permit the emigrants and priests, banished from the French Republic, to refide in his ftates. VI. There fhall immediately be concluded between the two powers, a treaty of commerce on grounds reciprocally advantageous. In the mean time all commercial relations fhall be renewed on the fame footing as before the prefent war. All articles and commodities belonging to the foil, the manufactures, the colonies, or fisheries of France, thall enjoy in the states of his Royal Highnefs, liberty of tranfit, exempted from all duties except the tolls on carriages and horfes. French drivers fhall, with refpect to the payment of the faid tolls, be treated as the most favoured nation. VII. The French Republic, and his Serene Highness the Duke of Wurtemberg, refpectively engage to remove the fequeftration of all effects, revenues, or goods, feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, belonging to French citizens on the one hand, and to the inhabitants of the duchies of Wurtemberg and Teck on the a 2 the other; and to admit them to a legal exercise of their respective engagements and rights. VIII. All the prifoners refpectively made fhall be delivered up within a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, on paying the debts they may have contracted during their captivity. The fick and wounded fhall ftill be taken care of in their refpective hofpitals, and fhall be delivered up immediately on their cure. IX. Conformably to the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague, on the 27th Floreal of the third year, the prefent treaty of peace and amity is declared to be common with the Batavian Republic. X. It fhall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged within a month, reckoning from the fignature, and fooner, if poffible. Paris, 20th Thermidor, fourth year of the French Republic, one and indivifible. (Signed) CH. DELACROIX, CHARLES, Baron de Woepwart, The Directory agrees upon and figns the prefent treaty of peace with the Duke of Wurtemberg, negociated in the name of the French Republic by the minifter of external relations, named by the Executive Directory, by an arret of the 11th Thermidor, (present month) and charged with inftru&tions for that purpose, at Paris, 21ft Thermidor, 4th year of the French Republic, one and indivifible. (As an authentic copy) (Signed) REVELLIERE LEPEAUX, Prefident. LAGARDE, Secretary General. This treaty was ratified by the legislative body. Armistice between the Circle of Suabia and General Moreau, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Rhine and the Mofelle. IN N the first four articles it is ftipulated that the circle fhall withdraw its troops from the coalition, allow a free paffage through the circle to the French troops, furnish them with provifions, waggons, and horfes, for which they will be paid, and fuffer the mails to pafs undisturbed. Art. V. The circle of Suabia fhall pay into the French military cheft the fum of twelve millions of livres in fpecie in the following manner: half a million within the first ten days, half a million in the next ten days, a million in the third decade, two millions in the fourth, two in the fifth, two in the fixth, two in the feventh, and two in the eighth decade. 5 VI. The VI. The circle fhall furnish 8000 horfes, viz. 2000 draft horses, 2000 horfes for heavy cavalry, and 2000 for light cavalry; 500 of the draft horfes in the fecond decade; 500 draft horfes and the fame number of cavalry horfes, in the third; the fame in the fourth; 1000 draft and 500 cavalry horses, in the fifth; 1000 draft horses, and the fame number of cavalry horses, in the fixth; and the like number in the feventh decade. Should any difficulties arife in furnishing the laft 2000 horfes, the circle of Suabia fhall be at liberty to pay for them, at 400 livres a piece. Befides thefe, 400 felect horfes fhall be furnished. VII. Alfo 5000 oxen, of 500lb. weight each, 200 of which must be delivered to the army within two months, without the ordonnator in chief fhould grant fome farther delay in cafe he should not want them immediately. Two thousand five hundred may be paid for at 250 livres each. VIII. It fhall furnish 150,000 quintals of corn, two-thirds wheat, and one-third rye; 100,000 facks of oats; and 150,000. quintals of hay, within two months. IX. 100,000 pair of shoes shall be delivered into the magazines of the army within one month. X. Befides thefe contributions, to which all the princes, ftates, abbies, and cities of the circle of Suabia, fhall contribute, (Wurtemberg, Baden, Reutlingen, and Efslingen excepted) the abbies of Kempton, Lindau, and Buchau, the whole bench of prelates, and abbots, not excepting a single abbey or convent in Suabia, even if it fhould not contribute to the expence of the circle, fhall within fix decades, or fixty days, pay feven millions of livres in fpecie into the military cheft. XI. The circle of Suabia fhall fend deputies to the Directory at Paris, to propofe negociations for peace, in company with the princes who negociate for themfelves. Concluded at Stutgard, the 9th Thermidor, (July 27,) 1796. (Signed) The commander in chief of the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, MOREAU. The plenipotentiaries of the affembly of the circle of Suabia, under the ratification, The Baron de SOLAYE, Armiftice between the French Republic and the Circle of Franconia. WE E the undersigned, members of the general convention of the circle of Franconia, charged in the name, and with the full powers of all the countries of the faid circle, including the immediate Franconian knights of the empire of all the fix places, and V. The Margrave of Baden fhall pay into the cheft of the paymaster of the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, the fum of two millions of French livres in money; 500,000 livres to be paid in ten days from the figning this treaty, 500,000 livres in ten days following, 500,000 livres in the last decade, and 500,000 livres the following month. . VI. The Margrave fhall furnish the French army within the time above fixed, reckoning from the day of figning, 1000 horfes, 400 of which fhall be draft horfes, and 400 cavalry, from eight to eleven hands high, and from five to eight years old. Thefe horfes fhall be furnished by thirds in ten days after figning the treaty. They are to be delivered at the places appointed by the general in chief, together with 500 oxen of 500lbs. weight, within a month. VII. Twenty-four thoufand quintals of grain, two-thirds in wheat, a third in rye, in the magazine which fhall be appointed. Two thousand facks of oats, twelve buthels to a fack, fifty thoufand quintals of hay. All thefe articles fhall be furnifhed in thirds within fix decades, unless the commiffary in chief fixes upon a longer time. VIII. Twenty-eight thousand pair of fhoes fhall be given into the magazines of Strafbourg within a month. If thefe fhoes cannot be furnished within the time fixed, they fhall be paid for at five livres a pair. IX. The Margrave of Baden fhall immediately send to the Executive Directory to negociate the separate peace which he propofes. Given at Stutgard, the 7th Thermidor, July 25, 1796, 4th year of the French Republic. The plenipotentiary of his Serene Highness the Margrave of Baden, The Baron REIZENSTEIN, Grand Bailiff of Lorrach. (Signed) Treaty of Peace concluded between the French Republic and the Margrave of Baden. THE French Republic, and his Serene Highnefs the Margrave of Baden, desirous of re-establishing between both countries the relations of friendship and good neighbourhood which exifted between them before the prefent war, have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, namely, the Executive Directory, in the name of the French Republic, citizen Charles de Lacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and his Serene Highnefs the Margrave of Baden, the Baron de Reitzenftein, his chamberlain, and great bailiff of Lorrach, |