peace between his own and a French plenipotentiary in the city of Bafle; his majesty's beneficent views have been bleft with a happy iffue; and his majesty may now enjoy the patriotic and paternal fatisfaction of having reftored, by the treaty of peace with the French republic, tranquillity, and new and undis turbed profperity to his domi nions. But his majefty has confulted in this weighty tranfaction, with the pureft patriotic care, as much as poffible, the common weal of the Germanic empire. His majefty has by no means been able to procure and negotiate for it immedi ately a formal and effective peace; becaufe his majefty wanted in this point the main preliminary introduction, and the concert, not having enfued on the fupreme head of the empire, a direct and definitive authorization on the part of the empire, a legitimation fufficient in the eyes of the French government, and a more exact knowledge of the fpecial conditions of peace, defired and rendered applicable on every part. Meanwhile his majefty, duly confidering the melan choly fituation of the Germanic empire, after the repeated requests addreffed to him by feveral illuftri ous ftates, has done every thing which could depend on him, to pave as much as poffible the way by which the whole empire and all the feparate ftates might obtain foon the accomplishment of fo juft a defire. For this purpofe, a favourable ftipulation is exprefsly contained in his majefty's treaty with the French republic, for all thofe ftates of the empire which fhall, within the space of three months, make propofals of peace to the republic, and in whofe behalf his majesty shall exert 1795 himself. At the fame time, and by virtue of a feparate agreement, a certain line of neutrality has already been fixed for all northern Germany, which fhall put a stop to the warlike operations on all fides, and afford perfect fafety and tranquillity to all the countries fituate behind it, whether they belong to Pruffia, or to the empire, on condition of their abftaining, directly and indirectly, from all acts of hoftility. At the fame time, the liberation of all the pri foners of war taken by the French, being troops of the empire, which were stationed in the field with his majefty's army, was likewife ftipu-. lated. There are the advantages which, his majefty can offer at prefent to his illuftrious co-ftates of the em pire. His majefty flatters himself, that it will not fail to make a due impreffion upon them all, efpecially the general utility of the former point. By it is held forth to them all, the hand of peace and reconci liation; and will they disdain it un-. tried? His majefty likewife declares, in a folemn manner, that he will take upon him with fincere and cordial readinefs, the patriotic talk, to grant in the moft effective manner his fupport to all thofe who fhall immediately addrefs to France their withes of peace, and to confirm in all points the French republic in the beft manner, in her favourable pacific difpofition. His majefty will deem himfelf very fortunate, his moft fervent withes will be fulfilled, and his manifold facrifices, made hitherto for the common weal, will obtain the faireft reward, if thefe efforts and this occurrence do not fail to fpread fpeedily again the bleffings of peace; if the horrors and ră. vages of so calamitous a war, be foon entirely removed from the whole Germanic territory, and if peace and tranquillity be again given to the good Germanic citizen for the happy exercife of his peaceful duties; if even the remaining nations of Europe fhould foon let fuch bloody divifions be fucceeded by reconciliation, in order to be again able to obtain the fole and grand end of all governments in the tranquillity and profperity of their citizens. But what courfe foever these momentous affairs may take, and fhould adverfe fate have doomed the empire to a further profecution of the war, his majefty can only make this exprefs and peremp tory declaration, that he fees himself obliged by his treaty, to renounce completely all further participation in the war, and all co-operation by furnishing contingents, or furnifhing the ufual fupplies, of the Roman months, and to keep up the ftrictest and moft punctual neutrality, His majefty, it is but too true, has performed in the fulleft measure his duties, as a state of the empire (which he will always acknowledge and never retract from) by the enormous facrifices in the laft three campaigns; and his majefty has unequally exerted himself to a higher pitch than fhould have been required of him for many years to come, than all the illuftrious ftates have indeed hitherto done': his majesty is, therefore, in this refpect, in pure conviction, fuperior to every apprehenfion of reproach. His majefty carries with him, upon the whole, the confolatory and remunerating conviction of having really contributed, to a degree of phyfical impoffibility, to the Germanic empire, and to the preferva tion and fecurity of its constitution and tranquillity, all he could indeed contribute, as well by a most vigorous profecution of the war during three years, as likewife by having paved the road to peace with patriotic folicitude. To gain by this road, the end of the present struggle, tranquillity and fafety; to profit for this purpose by the favourable profpects already open, by the proffered fupport of the king, and the moderate and equitable fentiments and principles of the French republic-all this his majesty muft leave with confidence to the enlightened approbation of his moft ferene and illuftrious co-states of the empire themselves. (Signed) FREDERIC WILLIAM. Berlin, May 1, 1795. Refeript of the Emperor, prefented by the Imperial Minifter to the States of the Germanic Empire, in Diet affembled, at Ratisbon, on the 4th of May. The minifters of his imperial majesty are charged to declare, in the name of his majefty the emperor and king, to the envoys reprefenting the feveral princes and states of the holy Roman empire, that his majesty is ready to enter into negotiations with the French republic. His majefty, without being too mindful of his own intereft, will confult thereby the real welfare of the empire, and make it his fole care to procure to the empire an acceptable, folid, and permanent peace. But his imperial majefty has alfo, at the fame time, the just confidence in all his co-ftates of the empire, that they will co-operate, with all their power, to accomplish this defirable end, and not enter into feparate negotiations with the French . French Republic. His imperial majefty expects, however, the fpeedieft declarations on this fubject, and the imperial commiffioner will foon prefent a declaration from the emperor and king, explanatory of the fentiments of his imperial majefty. In other refpects his imperial majefty cannot conceal, that the separate treaty of peace concluded on the part of his Pruffian majefty, even in his quality of a prince and co-state of the empire, has been most unexpected by him. Edic, published at Hanover, Sept. 29. George the Third, king of Great Britain and Ireland, elector of Hanover, &c. &c. Whereas the depots of the French emigrants and other free corps which have ferved with our army were only for a certain time, and until they could be removed to other parts of our German dominions; their longer stay producing diforders and becoming oppreflive and burthenfome to our fubjects; and moreover having already caufed it to be declared, that we acquiefce in the treaty of peace concluded on the 5th of April between his Pruffian majefty and France, and especially in the additional convention of the faid treaty; we do hereby enact and will, that all and every emigrant, as well as other foreign corps, fhall be immediately embarked and removed from our German dominions, and no fuch corps, under any form whatever, fhall any longer be fuffered there. We notify this our pleasure to all our fubjects, and enjoin all our civil officers, magiftrates, &c. &c. in all our German dominions, not to allow any fuch corps or troops, after the embarkation, which is immediately to be effected, to remain in the country, and ftill less to permit any depot, detachment, or divifion of the corps embarked to be left behind, nor to fuffer any tranfports of recruits for the fame to enter and pafs our faid German dominions; but on the contrary, immediately to ftop, order back, take up, and remove from our do minions, or deliver them to the next garrifon, for their removal beyond the frontiers; and in cafe of need to request the affiftance of the military for that purpofe; to which all our civil officers have most carefully to attend, as all thofe who fhall be guilty of any neglect fhall be called to a fevere account for the fame. Treaty of Peace between the French The French republic, and his majefty the king of Spain, equally animated with a defire to put a ftop to the calamities of the war which now difunites them; strongly convinced that there exifts between the two nations refpective interefts, which demand a reciprocal return of friendship and good understanding, and withing, by a folid and durable peace, to re-eftablifh that defirable harmony which had for a long time been the conftant bafis of the relations fubfifting between the two countries, they have charged with this negotiation, viz. The French republic, citizen François Barthelemy, their ambaffador in Switzerland; and his catholic majefty, his minifter plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to the king and republic of Poland, don Domingo D'Yriarte, who, af-, (K 2) ter ter having exchanged their powers, have agreed upon the following articles: Art. 1. There fhall be peace, amity, and good understanding be tween the French republic and the kingdom of Spain. 2. In confequence, all the hoftilities between the two contracting powers fhall ceafe from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty; and none of them fhall, from that period, furnish against the other, in any quality, or under any title, any aid, or contingent either in men, hortes, provifions, money, warlike ftores, fhips, or other articles. 3. Neither of the contracting powers fhall grant a paffage through their territories to any troops at war with the other. 4. The French republic restores to the king of Spain all the conquefts which he has made from him in the course of the prefent war the conquered places and térritories fhall be evacuated by the French troops within fifteen days after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty. 5. The fortified places, of which mention is made in the preceding article, fhall be restored to Spain, with the cannons, warlike ftores, and other articles belonging to thofe places, which fhall have been in them at the moment of the figning of this treaty. 6. All forts of military contributions, requifitions, and payments hall entirely ceafe from the date of fifteen days after the figning of the prefent pacification: all the arrears due at that period, even bills and promiffory notes, given for thefe objects, fhall be of no effect what fhall have been taken or received after the above named period, fhall be gratuitously reftored, or paid to the amount of its value. 7. There fhall immediately be named by both fides commiffioners, for the purpofe of adjusting a treaty of limits between the two powers: they fhall as much as poffible take as the bafis of this treaty, with refpect to the territories which were difputed before the prefent war, the tops of the mountains, which are the fources of the rivers of France and Spain. 8. Neither of the contracting powers can, at the expiration of a month after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, maintain on their respective frontiers more than the number of troops they had ufually been accuftomed to have ftationed there previously to the present war. 9. In exchange for the places reftored by the fourth article, the king of Spain, for himself and his fucceffors, gives up and abandons to the French republic all right of property in the Spanish part of St. Domingo, one of the Antilles; a month after the ratification of the prefent treaty fhall be known in that island, the Spanish troops fhall be in readiness to evacuate the places, ports, and establishments which they at present occupy, in order to give them up to the troops of the French republic, as foon as they fhall arrive to take poffeffion of them; the places, ports, and establishments, of which mention is made above, fhall be delivered up to the French republic, with the cannons, warlike ftores, and articles neceffary for their defence, which fall be in them at the moment when the prefent treaty fhall be known at St. Domingo. The inhabitants of the Spanish part of St. Domingo, who, from inducemente of intereft or other motives, 9 fhal shall prefer removing with their property into the dominions of his catholic majefty, fhall be able to do fo within the space of a year, from the date of the treaty: the refpective generals and commanders of the two nations to concert the meafures neceffary to be taken for the execution of the prefent article. 10. There fhall be refpectively granted to the individuals of the two nations, reftitution of the effects, revenues, and property of all forts, detained, feized, or confif. cated on account of the war which has fubfifted between the French republic and his catholic majefty; and likewife the most speedy juftice with refpect to the particular claims which these individuals may have in the ftates of the two contracting powers. 11. In the mean time, till there shall be a new treaty of commerce between the contracting parties, all correfpondencies and commercial relations fhall be re-established between France and Spain, on the footing on which they stood before the prefent war. All French merchants fhall be allowed to pafs into Spain, there to refume their commercial eftablishments. They fhall make new ones according to their convenience, fubmitting, in common with all other individuals, to the laws and ufages of the country. The Spanish merchants fhall enjoy the fame privileges, fubject to the fame conditions, in France. 12. All the prifoners refpectively made fince the commencement of the war, without regard to the difference of number and rank, com. prehending the feamen and marines captured on board French or Spanifh veffels, or thofe of other nations, as well as in general all thofe imprifoned on either fide on ac count of the war, fhall be delivered up within the space of two months at lateft, after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, without any appeal on either part, difcharging, however, the private debts which the prifoners may have contracted during their captivity. The fame mode fhall be adopted with refpect to the fick and wounded, immediately after their recovery or cure. Commiffioners on either fide fhall be immediately appointed to proceed to the execution of the prefent article. 13. The Portuguese prifoners, making a part of the troops of Portugal, who have feryed with the armies and on board the fhips of his catholic majefty, fhall be in like manner comprehended in the above mentioned exchange. fhall be the fame with refpect to the French troops taken by the Portuguese troops in question. It 14. The fame peace, amity, and good understanding ftipulated by the prefent treaty between France and the king of Spain, fhall take place between the king of Spain and the republic of the United Provinces, allies of the French republic. 15. The French republic, wifhing to give a teftimony of amity to his catholic majefty, accepts his mediation in favour of the kingdom of Portugal, the king of Naples, the king of Sardinia, the Infanta duke of Parma, and the states of Italy, for the re-establishment o. peace between the French republic and each of these princes and ftates. 16. The French republic, fenfi ble of the intereft which his catholic majesty takes in the general pacification of Europe, confents likewife to accept of his good offices in (K 3) favour 1 |