dinian majesty, at the direction of commiffioners appointed by the executive directory. The king of Sardinia fhall not be permitted to establish or repair any fortification on this part of the frontier. XVI. The artillery of occupied places, the demolition of which is not ftipulated by the prefent treaty, fhall be employed for the fervice of the republic, but fhall be reftored with the other fortreffes at the fame epoch to his Sardinian majefty. The ftores and provifions which may be there, fhall be confumed, vithout recovery, for the fervice of the republican army. XVII. The French troops fhall have free paffage through the ftates of the king of Sardinia, in entering or returning from the interior of Italy. XVIII. The king of Sardinia accepts the mediation of the French republic for definitively terminating the differences which have long fubfifted between his majefty and the republic of Genoa, and for deciding on their respective claims. XIX. Conformable to the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague, on the 27th Floreal, 3d year, the Batavian republic is included in the prefent treaty. There fhall be peace and friendship between that republic and the king of Sardinia. Every thing thall be eftablished between them on the fame footing as before the preceding war. XX. The king of Sardinia fhall difavow, by his minifter to the French republic, the proceedings employed towards the laft ambafiador of France. XXI. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, in lefs than one month, reckoning from the figning of the prefent treaty. Done and concluded at Paris, CHARLES DELACROIX. LE CHEVALIER DE TONZO. The executive directory decree and fign the prefent treaty of peace with the king of Sardinia, negotiated in the name of the French republic by the minifter of foreign affairs, appointed by the executive directory, by a decree of the 22d Floreal, and charged with inftructions to that effect. At Paris, the 28th Floreal, 4th LETOURNEUR, L. M. REVEILLERE LEPAUX. Treaty of Peace concluded between the French Republic and the King of the Two Sicilies, Oct. 10, 1796. The French republic and his majefty the king of the Two Sici lies, equally animated with the defire to make the advantages of peace fucceed to the miferies infeparable from war, have named, viz. the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, the citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter for foreign affairs; and his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies, the prince of Belmonte Pignatelli, gentleman of the chamber, and his (L 3) envoy envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to his catholic majefty, to treat, in their name, the claufes and conditions proper to re-establish good understanding and friendship between the two powers; who, after having exchanged their refpective full powers, have agreed on the following articles : : I. There fhall be peace, friendfhip, and good understanding, be tween the French republic and his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies in confequence, all hoftilities hall definitively ceafe, reckoning from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty. Meanwhile, and till that period, the conditions ftipulated by the armiftice concluded on the 17th Prairial of the 4th year (5th of June, 1796) fhall continue to have full power and effect. II. Every anterior act, engagement, or convention, on the one part or the other of the two contracting parties, which is contrary to the prefent treaty, is revoked, and fhall be regarded as null, and of no effect; in confequence, during the course of the prefent war, neither of the two powers hall furnish to the enemies of the other, any fuccours of troops, hips, arms, warlike ftores, provifions, or money, under any title or denomination whatsoever. III. His majefty the king of the Two Sicilies fhall obferve the most strict neutrality towards all the belligerent powers; in confequence, he pledges himfelf to prevent indifcriminately accefs to his ports to all armed fhips of war belong ing to the faid powers, which fhall exceed four, according to the regulations acknowledged by the faid neutrality. All fores or merchandife, known by the name of contraband, fhall be refufed them. IV. All fecurity and protection fhall be granted, against all perfons whatever, in the ports and roads of the Two Sicilies, to all French merchantmen, of whatsoever number they may be, and to all the fhips of war of the republic, not exceeding the number fpecified in the above article. V. The French republic and the king of the Two Sicilies engage to take off the fequeftration from all effects, revenues, and goods, feized, confifcated, and kept from the citizens or fubjects of both powers, in confequence of the prefent war, and to admit them refpectively to the legal exercife of all civil rights that may belong to them. VI. All prifoners made on one fide or the other, comprifing mariners and failors, fhall be reciprocally restored within a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity; the fick and wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in the respective hofpitals, and fhall be reftored upon their recovery. VII. To give a proof of his friendship for the French republic, and of his fincere defire to maintain the most perfect harmony between the two powers, his majefty_the king of the Two Sicilies confents to fet at liberty every French citizen who may have been ar refted and detained in his ftates, on account of his political opinions refpecting the French revolution; all goods and property, moveable or immoveable, which may Lat. been fequeftrated on the fame ac count, fhall be reftored to them. VIII. From the fame motives which dictated the preceding ar ticle, his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies engages to caufe all proper proper fearch to be made for difcovering, by legal means, and for giving up to the rigour of the laws, the perfons who ftole, in 1795, the papers belonging to the late minifter of the French republic. IX. The ambassadors or minifters of the two contracting powers shall enjoy, in their respective states, the fame prerogatives and precedence which they enjoyed before the war, excepting thofe which were allowed them as family ambassadors. X. Every French citizen, and all perfons belonging to the household of the ambaffador or minifter, or to that of the confuls and other authorised and acknowledged agents of the French republic, fhall enjoy, in the states of his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies, the fame freedom of religious worthip as is enjoyed by the individuals of thofe nations, not catholics, which are the most favoured in that refpect. XI. There fhall be negotiated and concluded, without delay, a treaty of commerce between the two powers, founded on the bafis of mutual utility, and fuch as fhral infure to the French nation advantages equal to all those which are enjoyed in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies by the most favoured nations. Until the completion of this treaty, the commercial and confular relations fhall be reciprocally re-established on the fame footing as before the war. XII. In conformity with the fixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague on the 27th Floreal, in the third year of the republic (16th of May, 1795, old ftyle), the fame peace, friendship, and good understanding, that are ftipulated in the prefent treaty between the French republic and his majefty the king of the Two Sicilies, Treaty of Alliance Offenfive and Defenfive between the French Republic and the King of Spain, Aug. 19, 1796. The executive directory of the French republic, and his catholic majefty the king of Spain, animated by the wish to ftrengthen the bonds of amity and good underftanding happily re-established between France and Spain by the treaty of peace concluded at Balle on the 4th Thermidor, in the third year of the republic, (July 22, 1795) have refolved to form an offenfive and defenfive treaty of alliance for whatever concerns the advantages and common defence of the two nations; and they have charged with this important negotiation, and have given their full powers to, the under-mentioned perfons; namely, the executive directory of the French republic, to citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon, general of divifion of the republic, and its ambaffador to his catholic majefty the king of Spain; and his catholic majesty the king of Spain, to his excellency Don Manuel de Godoi, prince of peace, duke of Alcudia, &c. &c. &c. who, after the refpective communication (L4) and and exchange of their full powers, have agreed on the following articles: 1. There fhall exift for ever an offenfive and defenfive alliance between the French republic and his catholic majefty the king of Spain. II. The two contracting powers shall be mutual guarantees, without any referve or exception, in the most authentic and abfolute way, of all the ftates, territories, iflands, and other places which they poffefs, and fhall respectively poffefs. And if one of the two powers fhall be in the fequel, under what ever pretext it may be, menaced or attacked, the other promifes, engages, and binds itfelf to help it with its good offices, and to fuccour it on its requifition, as fhall be ftipulated in the following articles. the fpace fixed. This space of time to be reckoned from the new requifition. V. The power called on shall in the fame way place at the disposal of the requiring power, within the fpace of three months, reckoning from the moment of the requifition, eighteen thousand infantry, and fix thousand cavalry; with a proportionate train of artillery, ready to be employed in Europe, and for the defence of the colonies which the contracting powers poffefs in the Gulf of Mexico. VI. The requiring power fhall be allowed to fend one or several commiffioners for the purpose of affuring itfelf whether, conformably to the preceding articles, the power called on has put itfelf in a ftate to commence hoftilities on the day fixed with the land and fea forces. VII. Thefe fuccours fhall be entirely placed at the difpofal of the requiring power, which may leave them in the ports and on the territory of the power called on, or em ploy them in expeditions it may tank fit to undertake, without being obliged to give an account of the motives by which it may have been determined. III. Within the space of three months, reckoning from the moment of the requifition, the power called on fhall hold in readinefs, and place in the difpofal of the power calling, 15 fhips of the line, three of which fhall be threedeckers, or of 80 guns, twelve of from 70 to 74, fix frigates of a proportionate force, and four floops or light veffels, all equipped, arm- VIII. The demand of the fuced, and victualled for fix months, cours ftipulated in the preceding and itored for a year. Thefe naval articles, made by one of the powforces fhall be affembled by the powers, fhall fuffice to prove the need er called on, in the particular port pointed out by the power calling. IV. In cafe the requiring power may have judged it proper, for the commencement of hoftilities, to confine to the one-half the fuccour which was to have been given in execution of the preceding article, it may, at any epoch of the campaign, call for the other half of the atorefaid fuccour, which fhall be furnilled in the mode and within it has of them, and shall bind the other power to difpofe of them, without its being neceffary to enter into any difcuffion relative to the question whether the war it propofes be offensive or defenfive; or without any explanation being required, which may tend to elude the moft fpeedy and exact accomplishment of what is ftipulated. IX. The troops and fhips demanded fhall continue at the dif-. pofal pofal of the requiring power during The whole continuance of the war, without its incurring in any cafe any expence. The power called on fhall maintain them in all places where its ally fhall caufe them to act, as if it employed them directly for itfelf. It is fimply agreed on, that, during the whole of the time when the aforefaid troops or fhips all be on the territory or in the ports of the requiring power, it fhall furnish from its magazines or arsenals whatever may be neceffary to them, in the fame way and at the fame price as it fupplies its own troops and fhips. X. The power called on fhall immediately replace the fhips it furnishes, which may be loft by accidents of war or of the fea. It fhall alfo repair the loffes the troops it fupplies may fuffer. XI. If the aforefaid fuccours are found to be, or fhould become infufficient, the two contracting powers fhall put on foot the greateft forces they poffibly can, as well by fea as by land, against the enemy of the power attacked, which fhall employ the aforefaid forces, either by combining them, or by caufing them to act feparately, and this conformably to a plan concerted between them. XII. The fuccours ftipulated by the preceding articles fhall be furnished in all the wars the contracting powers may have to maintain, even in thofe in which the party called on may not be directly interested, and may act merely as a fimple auxiliary. XIII. In the cafe in which the motives of hoftilities being prejudicial to both parties, they may declare war with one common affent against one or feveral powers, the limitations established in the preceding articles fhall cease to take place, and the two contracting powers fhall be bound to bring into action against the common enemy the whole of their land and fea forces, and to concert their plans fo as to direct them towards the moft convenient points, either feparately or by uniting them. They equally bind themfelves, in the cafes pointed out in the prefent article, not to treat for peace unlefs with one common confent, and in fuch a way as that each fhall obtain the fatisfaction which is its due. XIV. In the cafe in which one of the powers fhall act merely as an auxiliary, the power which alone fhall find itself attacked may treat of peace feparately, but fo as that no prejudice may refult from thence to the auxiliary power, and that it may even turn as much as poffible to its direct advantage. For this purpose advice fhall be given to the auxiliary power of the mode and time agreed on for the opening and fequel of the negotiations. XV. Without any delay there fhall be concluded a treaty of commerce on the most equitable basis, and reciprocally advantageous to the two nations, which fhall fecure to each of them, with its ally, a marked preference for the productions of its foil or manufactures, or at leaft advantages equal to thofe which the most favoured nations enjoy in their respective states. The two powers engage to make inftantly a common caufe to reprefs and annihilate the maxims adopted by any country whatever, which may be fubverfive of their prefent principles, and which may bring into danger the fafety of the neutral flag, and the refpect which is due to it, as well as to raise and re-establish the colonial system of |