into and depart from the country at their will, and they shall be allowed the free disposal of their property. VIII. All churches, houses, convents, colleges, seminaries, funds of the revenue, credits, effects, chattels, monuments of science and arts, and generally all objects, rights, and acts of every description which did belong to France, and now belong to corporations and countries already united, and to be united to it, shall be restored to the French Republic, to be fold and alienated at will, or should the Republic keep them, they shall be governed and disposed of according to its laws, through the means of its agents. IX. The Pope enters into an obligation to replace and restore the effects specified in the preceding article, or the value thereof, in whatever manner may be agreed upon by the agents of the Republic; also such income as may be accrued from them, and generally the amount of all damages, and the interest. X. The French academy shall be re-established, and under the same direction as before the war; as likewise the college of Liege, and those of every other country already united or to be united to France. XI. Ambassadors, ministers, confuls, or vice-confuls of France, and their domestic establishments, shall be entirely independent of the fovereignty, and of the civil and criminal jurifdiction in the states of his Holiness, and will be dependent on the French government only. The faid ambassadors, ministers, confuls, or vice-confuls, shall have full jurisdiction over the persons who inhabit their houses, whether attached or not attached to them. XII. The differences of whatsoever fort which may arise among the French in the states of the Pope, shall be adjudged and determined by the ambassador or the agent of the Republic. XIII. Whenever any differences thall thall arife between the French and the Pope's subjects, which cannot be terminated without having recourse to tribunals, the plaintiff shall be obliged to bring his action before the judges of the nation to which the defendant belongs-should the cafe be only perfonal. Criminal cases shall be brought before territorial judges. XIV. Every Frenchman accused of a crime may be arrested, but the ambassador or agent of the Republic shall be immediately informed of it, and after having examined into the fact, he will give notice of it to the Executive Directory, who shall decide whether he is to be tried on the fpot or tranfmitted to France, there to be tried according to the nature of his crime. XV. All French and other individuals who shall be employed or known by the agents or confuls of the Republic shall enjoy the free exercise of their worship, without being disturbed by any authority, or under any pretence whatever. VOL. V. d XVI. His XVI. His Holiness being willing to put an end to certain abuses, against which reason and humanity have long exclaimed, accedes to the defire of the Republic, and enters into an obligation to prohibit through the whole of his dominions, under the severest punishments, the degradation of boys or youths, and to abolish the tribunal of the inquifition. No perfon whatever shall be deprived of liberty, or profecuted for his religious opinions. XVII. His Holiness will receive and provide for all fuch French priests, friars, and nuns, as shall be willing to retire to his states. XVIII. The Pope openly and fairly renounces all such rights as he may have or pretend to have on the town and territory of Avignon, the Comtat Venaiffin and its dependencies, and does cede and transfer the fame to the French Republic. XIX. The whole of this treaty shall be binding, both for the present Pope and for all his fucceffors. XX. The Republic of Holland shall be included in the present treaty between the French Republic and the Pope. XXI. The prefent treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications thall be exchanged in the space of forty days, without further delay, from the date of its fignature. The citizens Garrau and Salicetti, commissioners of the Executive Directory with the army of Italy, are authorized, in virtue of their respective full powers, to negotiate with the plenipotentiary of his Holiness, Monfignor Lorenzo Galeppi, the clauses and conditions of the peace, independent of the established articles. SECRET ARTICLES. I. His Holiness will pay 300,000 livres per month, beginning from the ist day of October, until the ratification of the peace with the Emperor and King of Naples. II. The Pope renounces and cedes to the French Republic the duchies of Castro and Ronciglione, Benevento, and Pontecano. The French Republic shall continue to enjoy the Legations of Ferrara and Bologna and their dependencies, and referves to itself, at a general peace, the difpofal of all the lands and places that have been dismembered by the Pope and his predecessors. The Pope now makes the most folemn ceffion to that effect to the French Republic. III. The Pope obliges himself not to take or give to others the titles attached to the ceded territories, and those to be ceded to the French Republic. IV. The ships, vessels, and privateers of the enemies of the Republic, shall not be allowed to enter or remain in the ports of the Pope. On the contrary, it shall be allowed to every ship belonging to the Republic; and, in cafe they should be molested by the ships of the enemy, the Pope obliges himself to repair the damages occafioned by the neglect of taking proper measures for preventing it. V. The French Republic shall be allowed to garrifon Civita Vecchia and Ancona during the present and any future war. VI. The Pope obliges himself immediately to allow the postage of letters as it was before the war. VII. Until a new treaty of commerce is concluded between the Republic and the Pope, the commerce of the Republic shali be established and maintained in the states of the Pope on the footing of the most favoured nations. VIII. The present articles shall be as obligatory for the Pope Pius Sextus as for his successors. Independent of these articles, they have agreed on what follows, respecting the jurisdiction of the French confuls in the states of his Holiness : I. Every Frenchman who arrives in such towns where confuls or vice-confuls of the French Republic reside, shall be obliged to make himself known to them, and be named in the national register. The description of his person shall be left, and the duplicate of it sent to the principal magiftrate of the police of the town. II. Whenever the number of French merchants shall be sufficient to form a company, they shall be allowed to choose among themselves two agents or deputies to look to their common interests; regulate their general expenses, and as representatives of the company before the tribunal or the vice-conful, to whom they shall be fubordinate. III. In the towns where the French Republic shall judge it necessary to establish a conful, his Holiness will nominate a magistrate under the name of judge protector. Whenever any differences shall arise between the French merchants and those of his Holiness, and that the French merchant is the plaintiff, the cause shall be tried by the judge protector, who shall pronounce his judgment at his own house, with the intervention of the conful and two merchants chosen by the parties. If the merchant is a subject of his Holiness, and the plaintiff, the judgment shall be made by the conful, who shall pronounce it at his own house, with the intervention of the judge protector and two merchants, as above. The process shall be instituted according to the laws of the country of the criminal; in case of an equality of votes, a third merchant shall be unanimously chosen by the two judges, who cannot be rejected by the parties. The principal fine ordered by the sentence should not exceed the sum of 240l. or 1000 French livres, and shall be paid without appeal. Nevertheless, such fines as exceed that sum shall be paid, liable to an appeal to be fubmitted to the revisal of the fame tribunal, with two merchants equally chofen by the parties. The fentence which is pronounced by a majority of votes shall be definitive. IV. The jurifdiction relative to civil concerns, and the right of inquiring into criminal matters respecting the French, are under the fole direction of the French confuls, or vice-confuls, according to the laws of conceffion of the Republic. They alone shall be judges and arbitrators of all the diffentions that may arife among the navy of their nation, either with regard to their falaries, provifions of the failors, or the fervice and difcipline of their ships. Consequently they shall have the right to receive on board their ships, and in their chanceries, the contested declarations, contracts of security, and all other acts that the French may choose to fend, furnished with their confular feal, shall hold good in all tribunals of the states of his Holiness. V. The confuls and vice-confuls of the French Republic shall have the exclufive right to investigate all the property of the French who die within their jurifdiction, and to difpofe of the goods of the intested, according to the laws of the Republic, They shall have the nomination of the guardians and executors of the minors; and these nominations fhall, in every cafe, be con fidered as lawful. ARTICLE III. FOR THE SAID CONSULS, I. The faid confuls and vice-confuls shall have the fole examintion of the cafes of wrecks and damages of their ships; and whatever may be decreed by their chanceries, in the usual forms, shall be executed without an appeal; and in cafe of a refusal on the part of the strangers or natives, the magiftrates shall infift on the execution of the demand of the captains, without interfering in any manner whatever with the compilation of the act. 11. The faid confuls and vice-confuls shall have the right to reclaim the deferted seamen and vagabonds of their nation, to arreft them, and employ them until they can be restored to their flag, or fent back to their country. The magiftrates shall never refuse to seize and give the prisoners over to the confuls, whenever it shall be required, unless the faid prifoners are guilty of any crime that can be punished by the laws of the country. III. Every omission or explanation of the rights and privileges of the confuls or vice-confuls of the French Republic shall always be interpreted in favour of the faid agents, and always to the advantage of the commerce of the Republic in the states of his Holiness. ۱ The prefent convention fhall be ratified, and the ratification exchanged in the space of forty days from the date of its fignature, TREATY, 1 TREATY, &c. HIS Majesty the King of Pruffia and the French Republic having deemed it proper to modify, in a manner agreeable to exifting circumstances, the stipulations relative to the neutrality of the northern part of Germany agreed upon by the treaty of Bafle, the 5th of April, 1795, and by the convention of the 17th of May; they named, to concert on that fubject, viz. his Pruffian Majesty, Sieur Chretien Henri Count de Haugwiliz, his minifter of state for the war department; and the French Republic, citizen Antoine Bernard Caillard, its minifter plenipotentiary at Berlin, who, having mutually exchanged their powers, have agreed on the following articles: The French Republic will abstain from extending the operations of the war, and from sending troops, either by land or fea, into the states included in the following line of demarcation: This line to begin from the part of the Duchy of Holstein, situate on the north fea, extending down the coast of that fea, on the fide of Germany, and including the territory in which the Elbe disembogues itself, together with the Weser and the Ems, as well as the islands situated in those districts, as far as Forcum, from thence to the frontiers of Holland, as far as Anholt, paffing Herenberg, and including the Pruffian poffeffions near Sevenaer, as far as Bair on the Ysel; it will then continue down that river to the place where it mixes its waters with the Rhine; the line will then go up the latter river as far as Wesel, and farther on, to the place where the Roer throws itself into the Rhine; it will then extend along the left bank of the Roer to its fource; after which, leaving the city of Nedebach to the left, it will take its direction towards the Eder, the course of which it will follow until that river meets the Fuld, and then it will go up that river as far as its fource. The French Republic will confider as neutral states all those in the line, on condition that they observe on their side a strict neutrality; the first point of which will be to furnish, for the future, for the continuation of the war, no pecuniary contributions or any kind whatever; to order back immediately, if they have not already done so, their respective contingent troops, and that in the space of two months, from the signing of the present treaty; and not to contract any new engagement, which may authorize them to furnish troops to the powers at war with France. The states which do not act agreeably to these conditions shall be excluded from the benefit of the neutrality. As for that part of the county of La Marck, which, being on the left bank of the Roer, is not included in the above line, it will nevertheless enjoy the benefits of this treaty in the fullest extent: but his Pruffian Majefty consents to allow the troops of the belligerent |