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VI. The circle shall furnish 8000 horfes, viz. 2000 draft horfes, 2000 horfes for heavy cavalry, and 2000 for light cavalry; 500 of the draft horses in the second decade; 500 draft horses and the fame number of cavalry horfes, in the third; the fame in the fourth; 1000 draft and 500 cavalry horfes, in the fifth; 1000 draft horfes, and the fame number of cavalry horfes, in the fixth; and the like number in the seventh decade. Should any difficulties arife in furnishing the last 2000 horses, the circle of Suabia shall be at liberty to pay for them, at 400 livres a piece. Besides these, 400 select horses shall 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 should grant some farther delay in cafe he thould not want them immediately. Two thousand five hundred may be paid for at 250 livres each.

VIII. It shall 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. Besides these contributions, to which all the princes, states, abbies, and cities of the circle of Suabia, shall 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 should not contribute to the expence of the circle, shall within fix decades, or fixty days, pay seven millions of livres in specie into the military cheft.

XI. The circle of Suabia shall fend deputies to the Directory at Paris, to propose negociations for peace, in company with the princes who negociate for themselves.

Concluded at Stutgard, the 9th Thermidor,
(July 27,) 1796.
(Signed)

The commander in chief of the army of the Rhine and Moselle,
MOREAU.

The plenipotentiaries of the affembly of the circle of Suabia,

under the ratification,

The Baron de SOLAYE,
The Baron de MANDELSLOHE.

Armistice between the French Republic and the Circle of Franconia. WE 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 said circle, including the immediate Franconian knights of the empire of all the fix places,

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and Augustus Ernouf, general of divifion, &c. furnished with proper powers on the part of the citizen and commander in chief Jourdan, animated with the defire of fecuring the tranquillity of the inhabitants of the circle of Franconia, and of confolidating the poffeffions which the victorious armies of the French Republic have gained, have made an agreement, confifting of the following articles:

Art. I. The strictest orders shall be given for the most scrupulous obfervance of the proclamation, publicly printed and promulgated by the commander in chief, respecting the security of person and property, the maintenance of religious worship, and the laws and cultoms of the country.

II. By virtue of the preceding article, every inhabitant is authorised to arrest, or cause to be arrested, fuch folliers or other perfons belonging to the army, as shall be found plundering or committing other exceffes, and they shall be delivered up to the next commandant, and punished according to the rigour of the law.

III. All the inhabitants of the circle of Franconia, even the illustrious states who have left their respective refidence, to avoid for a moment all the horrors of war, are at liberty, with their families and fervants, as likewife with all their property, to return within two decades (20 days) to reckon from the publication of the prefent instrument. They shall then enjoy the fame security and the same protection, as the other quiet inhabitants, who take no part in the events of the war. After the expiration of the two decades, none of them shall be allowed to return without special permiffion from the commander in chief.

IV The circle of Franconia shall pay to the French government, a contribution of eight millions of livres in ready specie, of which, however, two millions may be set off by furnishing neceffaries or provifions for the armies.

V. The payment of the fix millions in specie is to be made to the paymafter general of the French army (according to the feveral terms fixed) the whole within forty-five days.

VI. and VII. Relate to the manner of discharging the two remaining millions in necessaries and provifions, &c.

VIII. The circle of Franconia shall also furnish two thousand horfes for the cavalry, in two stated terms.

IX. and X. Relate to the diftribution of the contributions, for which all military commanders shall, if required, afford every assistance against such as shall refuse to make good payment.

XI. From the period appointed for the payment of the contribution, that is to say, from this present day, every thing that fhall or may be furnished for the French army (except free quarters) shall be deducted from the contributions.

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XII. The Margraviates of Anspach and Bareuth, belonging to his Pruffian Majesty; and the principality of Schmalkalden, belonging to his Serene Highness the Landgrave of Heffe Catfel, according to the status quo in which they were before the war, shall be exempted from their share of the contribution.

XIII. In case another republican army, exclusive of that of the Sambre and Muse, should enter the territories of the circle of Franconia, it shall most strictly obferve the present convention, which is, properly speaking, concluded with the French government.

XIV. The convention of the circle of Franconia referve for themselves to determine farther, by separate articles, every thing relative to the distributing and levying the contribution.

(Signed)

ERNOUF, General of divifion.

OBERKAMP, RHODIUS,

ZWANZIGER, HARSDORF.

Done and expedited on duplicates with all our respective fignatures at Wurtzburgh, 20 Thermidor, in the fourth year of the French Republic, (August 7,) 1796.

Armistice provisionally with the Margrave of Baden, until the definitive Peace proposed by the Directory, or till ten Days after the breaking up of the Negociation.

ARTICLES I. II. III. grant free passage to the French

troops in the margraviate.

IV. If by circumstances or the difficulty of communication, it fhould be necessary for the troops which pass through, or remain in the margraviate, to draw their subsistence from the country, then the bailiffs or other magistrates shall not refuse them grain, or bread, hay, oats, meat, wood, or such carriages and horses, as the generals and commissaries might require. These supplies shall be taken in part of the provisions and money to be furnished by the Margrave of Baden to the French Republic.

Every other article purchased of individuals, shall be paid for. by the troops in money.

There shall be an account made of what is delivered to the French troops from the signing of the treaty.

The commissary in chief of the army of the Rhine and the Moselle shall make every necessary arrangement with the commissary to be fent by the Margrave, that the greatest order may reign with respect to the supplies, which shall be made by the country for the establishment of proper places for magazines which may be necessary, and that the magiftrates may be fupplied beforehand with the provifions to be furnished.

V. The Margrave of Baden shall pay into the chest of the pay master of the army of the Rhine and Mofelle, the fum of twe millions of French livres in money; 500,000 livres to be paid in ten days from the signing 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 shall furnish the French/army within the time above fixed, reckoning from the day of figning, 1000 horfes, 400 of which shall be draft horfes, and 400 cavalry, from eight to eleven hands high, and from five to eight years old.

Thefe horses shall be furnished by thirds in ten days after signing 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 thousand quintals of grain, two-thirds in wheat, a third in rye, in the magazine which shall be appointed. Two thousand facks of oats, twelve bushels to a fack, fifty thousand quintals of hay.

All these articles shall be furnished in thirds within fix decades, unless the commissary in chief fixes upon a longer time.

VIII. Twenty-eight thousand pair of shoes shall be given into the magazines of Strasbourg within a month. If these shoes cannot be furnished within the time fixed, they shall be paid for at five livres a pair.

IX. The Margrave of Baden shall immediately send to the Executive Directory to negociate the feparate peace which he proposes.

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,

(Signed)

The Baron REIZENSTEIN,
Grand Bailiff of Lorrach.

Treaty of Peace concluded between the French Republic and the Margrave of Baden.

THE French Republic, and his Serene Highness the Margrave of Baden, defirous of re-establishing between both countries the relations of friendship and good neighbourhood which exifted between them before the present war, have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, namely, the Executive Directory, in the name of the French Republic, citizen Charles de Lacroix, minifter of foreign affairs, and his Serene Highness the Margrave of Baden, the Baron de Reitzenstein, his chamberlain, and great bailiff of Lorrach,

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Lorrach, who, after having exchanged their respective powers, have refolved on the following articles:

Art. I. There shall be peace and good understanding between the French Republic and his Serene Highness the Margrave of Baden. In consequence, all hoftilities thall cease between the contracting parties, to reckon from the ratification of this present treaty.

II. The Margrave of Baden revokes all adherence, confent, and access, public or fecret, by him given to the coalition armed against the French Republic, every contingent or fuccour, in men, horfes, provisions, money, ammunition, or other stores, under any pretence whatever, even if he should be required as member of the Germanic empire.

III. The troops of the Republic shall pass freely through the dominions of his Serene Highness, refide there, and occupy all military posts necessary for their operations.

IV. His Serene Highness the Margrave of Baden, for himself and his successors, cedes to the French Republic all the rights that may belong to him upon the lordships of Rodemachern and Hesperingen, in the ci-devant duchy of Luxemburgh, the portion belonging to him in the county of Sponheim, and his rights upon the other portion; the lordship of Grevenstein, the bailiwicks of Beinheim and Rhod, and generally all the territories, rights, and revenues, which he possessed, or pretends to have a right to poffefs on the left bank of the Rhine. He renounces all demands upon the Republic respecting the arrears of the faid rights and revenues, and for every other cause anterior to the present treaty.

V. His Serene Highness, the reigning Margrave of Baden, as well in his own name, as in that of his two fons, the Princes Frederick and Louis of Baden, for whom he interests himself strongly, cedes and abandons, with entire guarantee to the French Republic, the two-thirds of the manor of Kutzenhausen, situate in the ci-devant province of Alface, with all its rights and dependencies, together with the arrears of the faid rights and revenues, which might remain due, renouncing all demands upon the Republic thereto relating, and for every other cause anterior to the present treaty.

VI. His Serene Highness the Margrave of Baden alfo cedes for himself, and his successors, all the islands of the Rhine which may belong to him, all the rights to which he may pretend upon the said islands, as likewise upon the course and the different branches of that river; especially the rights of tolls, high jurifdiction, direct lordship, civil or criminal justice, or police.

There shall not be included, under the denomination of the different arms of the Rhine, the small branches, and the dead or stagnant waters left in consequence of the inundations of the VOL. V. ancient

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