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gerent powers to pass through it, on condition that they do not there establish the theatre of the war, nor poffefs themselves of entrenched pofitions, &c. &c.

Given at Berlin, August 5th, 1796, old flyle, and the
18th Thermidor, 4th year of the French Republic.
(Signed) CHRETIEN HAUGWILTZ,
ANTOINE CAILLARD.

Treaty of Peace concluded between the French Republic and his Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, under the Mediation of his Majesty the King of Spain, exercised by the Marquis Del Campo, his Ambassfador to the French Republic.

THE French Republic and his royal highness the infant Duke

of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, defiring to re-establish the ties of amity which formerly subsisted between the two states, and to put an end, as much as in their power, to the calamities of war, have accepted, with eagerness, the mediation of his Catholic Majesty, and have named for their plenipotentiaries, that is to fay, the Executive Directory, in the name of the French Republic, the citizen Charles Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and his royal highness the Infant Duke of Parma, Meffieurs the Count Pierre Politi and Don Louis Boll; who, after having exchanged their respective powers, have determined upon and concluded definitively the following articles, under the mediation of his Catholic Majefty, exercised by the Marquis del Campo, his ambaffador to the French Republic, who has also presented his full powers:

Article I. There shall be peace and amity between the French Republic and his royal highness the Infant Duke of Parma; the two powers shall carefully abstain from every thing that may alter the good harmony and union established between them by the present treaty.

II. Every act, engagement, or anterior convention, on the part of one or other of the two contracting powers, which might be contrary to the present treaty, shall be confidered as null and void. In consequence, during the course of the present war, neither of the two powers shall furnish to the enemies of the other any fuccours in troops, arins, warlike ammunition, provisions, or money, under whatever title and denomination it may be.

III. The Infant Duke of Parma engages not to permit the emigrants, or banished perfons of the French Republic, to stop or sojourn in his state.

IV. The French Republic and his royal highness the Infant Duke of Parma engage to remove the sequestration from all the effects, revenues, or goods, which may have been feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, from the citizens or subjects of the other power, relative to the present war, and to admit them to the legal exercise of the actions or rights belonging to them.

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V. The contributions stipulated in the convention of armistice, figned at Placentia on the 20th of laft Floreal, between General Buonaparte in the name of the French Republic, and the Marquises Pelleviene and Phillippo delle Rosa in the name of the Infant Duke of Parma, shall be fully difcharged. There shall neither be levied nor exacted any other; if there have been levied any contributions in money, or required any fupplies in provifions, beyond what is fettled by the faid convention, the contributions in money shall be reimbursed, and the provifions paid for at the current price at the time of delivery. There shall be named on each part, if neceffary, commissaries to execute the present article.

VI. From the fignature of the present treaty the states of his royal highness the Infant Duke of Parma shall be treated as those of friendly and neutral powers; if there shall be supplied any neceffaries to the troops of the Republic, by his royal highnefs or his subjects, they shall be paid for at a price agreed upon.

VII. The troops of the Republic shall enjoy a free passage through the states of the Infant Duke of Parma.

VIII. One of the contracting powers shall not grant a free passage to the troops of the enemy of the other.

IX. The French Republic and his royal highnefs the Infant Duke of Parma defiring to establish and augment by stipulations, reciprocally advantageous, the commercial relations that existed between their citizens and refpective subjects, determined as follows:

X. Silks, grain, rice, olive oil, cattle, cheese, wines, and other articles, the produce of the estates of his royal highness, shall be exported to the territories of the Republic without any restrictions beyond those which the exigencies of the country may render neceffary. The said restrictions shall never attach folely and especially upon the French citizen. There shall even be granted every degree of preference for the purchase of the objects (mentioned or alluded to in the present article) of which circumstances may fufpend or restrain the exportation.

XI. All articles being the produce of the Republiz, its colonies or fisheries, shall be imported, free of duty, into the states of his royal highness, and exported from France, fubject only to fuch restrictions as local circumstances may render neceffary.

XII. All articles of French manufacture shall likewife be imported to the states of his royal highness, unless he may deem it expedient, for the profperity of his own manufactures, to impose certain restrictions or prohibitions; but these restriaions shall in no case operate against French manufactures exclusively, to which his royal highness even undertakes to give all the preference he can confiftently with the profperity of the manufactures of his own ftates.

The above articles shall be executed with the most scrupulous reciprocity for the introduction of the manufactures of his royal highness's states into France.

XIII. The mutual duties on exports and imports shall be regulated by a feparate convention: in cafe that fuch convention should not be ratified by the Republic, it is exprefsly agreed that the faid duties shall be reciprocally afcertained and collected in the mode obferved with the countries the most favoured by the Republic.

XIV. The produce of the lands of the Republic, her colonies and fisheries, shall be conveyed freely through the states of his royal highness, or lodged in warchoufes on their way to the other ftates of Italy, without the payment of cuftoms, and liable only to a certain toll on their paffage, for the fupport of the highways; which shall be regulated with all poffible difpatch, and founded on a moderate footing between the contracting parties, at so much per quintal per league. The toll shall be payable at the first office for entering the goods..

The above article shall also be in force in all part of the Republic; and all goods and merchandise the produce of the states of his royal highness the Infant Duke of Parma thall be fubject to the fame regulations as above. And,

As the right of toll above mentioned has been retained only with a view to contribute to the fupport of the bridges and highways, it is exprefsly ftipulated that the goods and merchandife conveyed by the rivers and navigable canals shall be reciprocally exempt from duties of every defcription.

The contracting parties refpectively shall adopt the neceffary measures for the due execution of the prefent and preceding articles. XV. In conformity to the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague, the 22d Floreal, 3d year, the peace concluded by the prefent treaty is declared common with the Batavian Republic. XVI. The prefent treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in one month at most from the prefent day, exclufively. Done at Paris, in the 5th year of the French Republic, one and indivifible.

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His royal highnefs ftipulates to grant a remiffion of one-fourth of the rights of importation on the goods and merchandise, being the produce of the Republic, her colonies, fisheries, and manufactures, factures, destined for the home consumption of the states, and alfo the right of exportation on the goods and merchandise, the produce of the states, and destined for the foreign possessions of the Republic; provided the French Republic agree to a reciprocal diminution of duties.

I. On the goods and merchandise arising from the states of his royal highness, at their entry on the territory of the Republic. II. On all goods and merchandise, the produce of the Republic, on being exported for the states of his royal highness. Done at Paris, the day and year as above.

(Signed)

CH. DELACROIX
COUNT POLITI.
LOUIS BOLLA.

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