deffroying their cattle, and by affaulting and wantonly wounding one perfon, avowedly becaufe he had inrolled himself, and by threatening affaffination againft all perfons who fhould fo inroll them felves; and in further profecution of fuch their purposes, have, by felonious and other illegal means, endeavoured fecretly to procure ammunition and other warlike ftores; and particularly, that feveral evil difpofed perfons lately broke into one of his majefty's ftores in the town of Belfast, in the county of Antrim, and thereout took and carried away ten barrels of gunpowder. And whereas we have also received information, that, on Tuesday the ift of November inftant, a confiderable number of armed men, affociated in the aforefaid treasonable confpiracies, entered the town of Stewarftown, in the county of Tyroné, and cut and maimed feveral of the peaceable inhabitants of the faid town, who had refused to join in their affociations, and who had agreed to inroll themselves in the corps under officers to be commif fioned by his majesty, for the prefervation of the public peace, and for the protection of the kingdom against foreign invasion. And whereas we have alfo received information, that, in further profecution of the faid treasonable purposes, many large bodies of men have affembled, and arrayed themfelves, and marched in military order, and with military mufic, through feveral parts of the faid diftricts, under pretence of faving corn, and digging potatoes, (though they far exceeded the number neceffary to be employed in fuch fervice) to the very great terror of the loyal and faithful fubjects of his majesty. 1796. And whereas fuch treasonable outrages have caufed well-grounded alarms in the minds of his ma jefty's faithful fubjects, and are of the most dangerous and pernicious tendency. Now we, the lord lieutenant and privy council, being determined to maintain the public peace, and to afford protection to all his majefty's loyal fubjects, and immediately and effectually to exercife all powers with which the conflitution has invefted us for thefe purposes, do forewarn all perfons of the danger they may incur, and, on their allegiance, charge them to defift froin fuch treasonable practices. And we do hereby ftrictly charge and command all mayors, theriffs, juftices of the peace, and other peace officers, and all officers civil and military in this kingdom, and all other his majefty's loving fub. jects, as they tender their allegiance to his majefty, and their own fafety, to ufe their best endeavours to prevent, and, where that cannot be done, to discover and bring to justice thofe concerned in the aforefaid practices; and to prevent and difperfe all treafonable, feditious, or unlawful affemblies; the neceflary orders having been already iffued to the feveral officers of his majeftv's forces in this kingdom, to be aiding and affifting to the civil magiftrates in the execution of their duties for that purpose. Given at the council chamber in Dublin, the 6th day of November, 1796. A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, declaring certain Parts of the County of Down in a State of Difturbance. CAMDEN. Whereas, by an act of parliament (L). paffed paffed in this kingdom, in the 36th year of his majefty's reign, intituled," An Act more effectually to fupprefs Infurrections, and to prevent the Disturbance of the public Peace," it is enacted, that it fhall be lawful for the juftices of the peace, of any county, affembled at a fpecial feffion in manner by the faid act directed, not being fewer than seven, or the major part of them, one of whom to be of the quorum, if they judge fit, upon due confideration of the ftate of the county, to fignify by memorial, by them figned, to the lard lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom, that they confider their county, or any part thereof, to be in a state of disturbance, or in immediate danger of becoming fo, and praying that the lord lieutenant and council may proclaim fuch county, or part thereof, to be in a state of disturb ance, thereupon it fhall be lawful for the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom, by and with the advice of his majefty's privy council, by proclamation, to declare fuch coun ty, or any part of fuch county, to be in a flate of disturbance, or in immediate danger of becoming fo, and alfo fuch parts of any adjoining county or counties as fuch chief governor or governors fhall think fit, in order to prevent the continuance or extenfion of fuch difturbance. his excellency the lord lieutenant, Given at the council chamber in Carleton Lodge Morres S. Hamilton Treaty of Peace, concluded between the French Republic and the King of Sardinia, May 15, 1796. The French republic and his majefly the king of Sardinia, equally And whereas twenty-four juftices animated by the defire of making of the peace of the county of a happy peace fucceed to the war Down (feveral of them being of which divides them, have appointthe quorum) being the major part ed, viz. the executive directory, in of the juftices of the peace duly the name of the French republic, affembled, pursuant to the faid act, citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter at a fpecial feffion of the peace, of foreign affairs, and his majesty holden at Hillsborough, in the faid the king of Sardinia, M. M. the checounty, on Friday the 11th day of valiers de Revel and de Tonzo, to November inftant, have, by me-negotiate the claufes and conditions morial by them figned, fignified to proper for re-establishing and confolidating folidating good harmony between the two ftates; who, after having exchanged their full and refpective powers, have agreed to the following articles: I. There fhall be peace and good neighbourhood between the French republic and the king of Sardinia. All hoftilities fhall ceafe between the two powers, reckoning from the time of figning the prefent treaty. II. The king of Sardinia revokes all adhesion, confent, or acceffion, public or fecrét, given by him to the armed coalition against the French republic; and all the treaties of alliance, offenfive and defenfive, which he may have concluded a gainst the faid republic with any power whatfoever. He fhall not furnish any contingent in men or money to any power armed against France, upon any pretence, or under any authority whatsoever. III. The king of Sardinia fairly and entirely renounces for ever, for himself and his fucceffors, in favour of the French republic, all the rights which he can pretend to have to Savoy, and the counties of Nice, Tenda, and Breuil. IV. The limits between the ftates of the king of Sardinia and the departments of the French republic fhall be marked by a line through the most advanced points of the frontier of Piedmont, the fummits, plateaux (flat tops of hills), mountains, and other places hereafter defcribed, as well as the intermediate fummits and plateaux, viz. from the point where the frontiers of ci-devant Francigny, duchy of Aofte and Valais, unite to the extremity of the Glaciers, or MontsMaudits. ift. The fummits or plateaux of the Alps at the rifing of the Col-mayor. ad. Little Saint Bernard, and the hofpital fituated there. 3d. The fummits or plateaux of Mont-Alban, of the Col-de-Crefance, and of Mont-Iferan. 4th. Turning a little towards the fouth, the fummits or plateaux of Cerat and of Gros-Caval. 5th. Great Mont-Cenis, and the hofpital which ftands to the southeaft of the lake of that mountain. 6th. Little Mont-Cenis. 7th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Bardonach from the Val-des-Prés. 8th. Mont-Genevre. 9th. The fummits or plateaux which feparate the valley of Quires from that of Vaudois. 10th. Mont-de-Vaudois. 11th. Mont-de-Vifo. 12th. Mont-de-l'Argenterie. 13th. The fource of the Abayette and the Sture. 14th. The mountains between the vallies of Sture and Geffo, on one part; and thofe of Saint Etienne or Tinea, of St. Martin or Vezubia, of Tenda or of Roya, on the other. 15th. Leroche-Barbon, on the confines of the state of Genoa. If fome communes, habitations, or portions of territories of the faid communes, actually in friendfhip with the French republic, fall without the line of frontiers above defcribed, they fhall continue to make part of the republic, notwithstanding any inference that may be made to the contrary from this article. V. The king of Sardinia engages not to permit emigrants or perfons tranfported from the French repub lic to stop or refide in his dominions. He may, however, retain in his fervice the emigrants of the departments of Mont Blanc and of the Maritime Alps, fo long as (L2) they they give no caufe of complaint by enterprifes or manœuvres tending to oppofe the internal fafety of the republic. VI. The king of Sardinia renounces all demand of recovery, or perfonal claim which he might pretend to exercife against the French republic for caufes anterior to the prefent treaty. VII. There fhall be immediately concluded between the two powers a treaty of commerce on an equitable bafis, and fuch as may fecure to the French nation advantages, at leaft equal to thofe enjoyed in the dominions of the king of Sardinia by the most favoured nations. In the mean time, all communications and commercial relations fhall be re-established. VIII. The king of Sardinia ob. liges himfelf to grant a full and entire amnefty to all his fubjects who have been profecuted for political opinions. Every procefs which may have been raised on this fubject, as well as the judgments which have intervened, are abolished. All their property, moveable and immoveable, or the value thereof if it has been fold, fhall be reftored without delay. It fhall be lawful for them to difpofe of it, to return and refide in the dominions of the king of Sardinia, or to retire therefrom. IX. The French republic and his majesty the king of Sardinia engage to fuperfede the fequeftration of all effects, revenues, or property, feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, belonging to the citizens or fubjects of either power, relative to the actual war, and to admit them refpectively to the legal exercife of the actions or rights which may belong to them. X. All the prifoners, respectively made, fhall be restored in one month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, on paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity. The fick and the wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in the refpective hofpitals. They shall be restored when cured. XI. Neither of the contracting powers fhall grant a passage through its territory to the troops of any enemy of the other. XII. Befides the fortreffes of Coni, Ceva, and Tortona, as well as the territory which the troops of the republic occupy, or ought to occupy, they fhall occupy the fortreffes of Exiles, Affiette, Sufa, Brunette, Chateau Dauphin, and Alexandria; for which laft place Valence fhall be fubftituted, if the general in chief of the French republic prefer it. XIII. The fortreffes and territories above described fhall be restored to the king of Sardinia upon the conclufion of the treaty of commerce between the republic and his majefty, of general peace, and the establishment of the line of frontiers. XIV. The country occupied by the troops of the republic, and which fhould be definitively reftored, fhall remain under the civil government of his Sardinian majefty, but fhall be liable to levies of military contributions, and furnishing provifion or forage which have been or may be exacted for the fupply of the French army. XV. The fortifications of Brunette and Sufa, as well as the intrenchments formed above that town, fhall be demolished and deftroyed, at the expence of his Sar dinian dinian majefty, 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 shall be reftored with the other fortrelles at the fame epoch to his Sardinian majefty. The stores and provifions which may be there,' fhall be confumed, without recovery, for the service of the republican army. XVII. The French troops fhall have free paffage through the states 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 refpective 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 friendfhip between that republic and the king of Sardinia. Every thing fall be eftablified 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 last ambafla. dor of France. XXI. The present treaty fhall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, in less 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, nego tiated 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, 1. 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 Sicilies, 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 (L3) envoy |