The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-03 00:00:00

+P~ :~, THE &ATI( STATE PA PERS. RI fre .10 i 7 bounded on the east by the Lake of Geneva, on territory of the Canton of Gtneva, nu the north it Vaud, and on the west by the C4IIIISC of the Verso includes the communes of Goilex, Bossy, :end Me , commune of rerney tc. France, shall be erded to th federation, to be united to the canton of Geneva. French Douancs shall he placed td , the %rein of the, wlible dlstriet of tics; shall be without the line. (11 From the frontiers of the Canton of Geneva ranean, the frontier hue is the td Ill „ as that which rated haute from &W ay, and the county of Nice, whieh the treaty of le4ll, lyn4.re-established hetw the Principality of Monaco .shall far ever. cease, • latiens take place between that Principality and (5.) All territories and districts itieL.ded with :n Frat:ee, as fixed by the presont article, remain ur.l. (6.) The contractive Powers Shag appoint with after the signature of the present - treatv, Convni: late evctry thing resiwtlng tizetixing of the frunt:e and as stifln n.; those Ciunmissioners have tinishe maps shall be made and frontier posts se, ap to 4113 f boundaries. Art. IL—The fortresses and territories which, Article, .are no longer to belong to the French te, :riven up to the Allied Powers in the periods spec; Ware convention, annexed to the 'Ai Article of the and his Majesty the King of France renounces fk self, his heirs and seceessurs, the rights of Soviet pertv whit:4 he hithceto exercised over the null territories. Art. lII.—As the fortifications of Hnniagen h; a ground or unc:viness to the city of Basle, the Powers to give to Se itzerfaild a A.esh proof of the, will, have agreed among theluseins, to have the ilaningen razed, and the Freeeh eelverument some reasons never to repair thein,,abil not to ere , tifications within three leagues of the city of Has! The neutrality of Switzerland shall he extewi , .ei territory which lies north of a line to be drawn place included, in the south of the Lake elAnnee (in the Bremen Gazette, TaNTrye,) to Lechernine, to the Lake of Bourget, and the Rhone, in the se , tied by the 92d Article of the final Act of Vie Co! in respect to the province.; of C:,ablais and Faecie The tenor, therefore; which the King of Sardi these proviuces, whenever the: powers adja! ent to in a state of open ho,..tility, or area,* the eve of st retire, and may for that purno-e fake, in case of uc the Valais; but no armed troor of any other throirth or he Aationed in the ab:ete.pnwince,s, qeitzerhint! think:; tit to send thither, bet this - eta', hot hinder the administrators of those countries racers of the King of Sardinia may employ as the for the maintenanzte of good order. Art. IV.—That part of the indemnity to be give the Allied Pe..vers, which consists in mooc y , is 14.4 739,909,9 n) of francs. The saltier, the perlods, a• of the payreent of this sum shall be regulated by vention, which shall be equaliy valid awl inserted axed f-s-r word in the preseat Treaty. Art. V..=-As the state of confusion and fernientat nettessarlly feels, after so many Vialftllt couvulsiol larly af:er :he last canon ophe, nutwithstanding tentione of the King, anti the advanlages which subjects neeetmarily derive front the Constitutional some lecazares of precaution and temporary gnat fee the security of the neighbouring states, it has as absolutely relnisite to occupy, for a fixed time, the frontiers of France, by a corps of allied troop, press reservation that this occupation shall not in! vereignty pt' his. Most Christina Majesty, nor on session, as fixed by this Treaty. The number 'of exceed 150,10j.'The (AH(11110:flier in Chief is num Powers. 'I his army will occupy Condi, Vatenciefl Quesnoy, Maubcuge, Landrecies, Giver with Charlemont, Mezierel. Sedan, 'Montne Lonewy, flitsch, and the Tete ele Pont of Fort. Lae is to proxide fur the maintenance of the army, eve:, to fill. , (liTivet'shall be re;:ulated in a separate Conve CellVelltiUll ) hich shall be a:, valid as if inserted w f" 70 GENERAL TRE:VIY WITH FRANCE. •• . The Allied Powers, after sititirg that they lime by their exer tions, and the triumph of their arms, preserved Frigcce and Furope ' from the convulsions with which t''ly were thteutenett by the late enterprise of Napoleon Buonaptil ie, and bl,tlo:t rcvolutionar3.• sys tem introduced into France tor its 3,:pport; arol..pntiripating with hiS most Christian Majority in the iv:sh, by the inviolable mainte nance of the royal-dignity, and by' Miming 'Le validity of the Conititutional Charter, to confirm the order happily re-eNtabli:,hed in France, vat to bring bikek between Fretwe anti it:. nvizhboins those rohitions fonniled upon reciprocal conlitienee and good will' which the maiiinful consequences of the revolution and system of conquest had so loag interrupted; anti as they are conyinctsql that their laSt objects cannot be attained exct:pt by au arrangement caleuhrted to give them just indemnity for the past, and solid :;ecu fay for the future : They have, therefore, in common with his Ma jesty the King of France, deliberated on the means of bringing about such an arrarmement, and a 3 they have convinced them3elves. that the indemnity doe to the powers cannot c(tnri3t wholly either inces3ions of territory, or pecuniary payments, without greatly injuring the essential interests of France iu one way or the other, and that it is better so to unite them, as to avoid both disadvan taves Their Imperial and Royal Majesties linve therefore taken this as the basis of the pres!..nt negaciations, and have also agreed upon it as a basis, that It is nue:Lay, during a certain time, to keep the friontier provinces of France occupied by a cert.sin number of the allied troops, and hive agreed to unite. in a definitive treaty, the several dispositions founded upon these bases. In this view, and to this cud, his Majesty the King of Great Bri tain and tlanover, for himself and his on one side, and his the Kind of France and Navarre on the other side, hate appointed for their Plenipotentiaries, to diSrll:4A, agree on, and sign thg Detinithe Treaty (here are the names of the Ministers), abuse fall power having been exchanged, and fonnd in due order, they letve, by their respective Ministers, agreed to, and signed the fol loWing articles : Art. 1. The frontiers of France remain ac they were in MO, with the exception of the reciprocal modifientions in this article. In the North, the frontier line remains as it was tixrcl in the Treaty of Paris, till opposite Qui(wrain, thence it goes idopg the ancient frontiers of the Belgic provinces of the former bishopriek of Leige, aad of the duchy of Bouillon, as they were in 1790, so that the territories of Marienburg and Philippeville, with the for tresses cf the sanre name, and the %%hole duchy of Bouillon, remain withoot the French frontiers. From Viitars liv Orval, on the fron tiers of the del a -intent of the Ardennes and die thichy of larrem burg, as far as Perto, on the road leading from '1 hionville to Tre yes, the frontier line remains as it was tiNeil in the Treaty of Paris. Feum Pert° it goes over Lausdorf, WaUnit+, Schardurf, Nutley- Pellewoler, which places, with their barn-liencs, all remain to France, to Honore and along the old feutitier:4 of the district of air witek, so that Saarlbuis ...lid the muse of the Scene, With the places On the right of the above-mention( 1 line, with their hau lienei, %rid come without the French frontiers, from tire frontiers or tire district of Saarland( the frontier line shall he• the Same which now scpArate.+6 the department of the Lower Rhine from Germlny, as /di' US the bcundary to it.; june,tion with the Rhine : the whole of the terriforr lying, on the left bank of the Lama, in cl tiling the fortresses of Landau, shall 'argotic to Germeny, the town of Weirsembeig, however, which is in!riseettil t f y this river, remains wholly to Frdnee, with a rnyox on the left bank; this rayon must not exceed 1900 toises, and will be more part.etiarlv ch:rter mined by the Connuissioutrs who will hereafter be, i.ppuitited to reguldte the frontiers. _ _ _ (2) From the mouth of the Uinta, along the deporttlentf. of the Loner Rbine, the Upper Rhine, the Doubs, and the Sala, :is tir as the Canton of Vand, the frontiers remain as they are fixed in the Tre tty cl Paris. The Thalweg; of the Rhine !hall be tlie line of 5t. 1 74-Jtion between Prance and the German States ; but the pro- Ferty of the i4l;!).tbs, as it will be determined in eotisepienee of a Lew ex;uni:ntiosi of the cowse cf. that river, altall amain nn changed, wilatert: silteratiens-the coarse of the river may, in pro cess of time, undergo. Commi.:sioners shall be appointed, within three m by the }Ugh Contracting Pow(rs on both sides, in l o o t er goat, e the said examinaCon. The half of the !Adv. be w' en Strashurgh and Kelii, shall ['clung to France, lid llie other 110' to the Grand Dori) y of Baden. (3) To restore a direct connnunication hetwcrii the Cthtnn of Gc4...;. d .4au At.:.‘114,,,a, tutu. 'lds' 41 the territur, ) W Ciex, which • • . • . - . 6 • by 11w Canto► nt • ;yrin, leaving the he Ilf.dvetic The line of the ; Jura, so that the to the Mediter- h, in l'/Q3, sopa-. telat:ous Fr.-nee and and the same re- the Kingdom of n the froollets , of lited. to Fra§pe. hen three mJnths issioners to rego- ers on both sides, t 1 their- lailyiars, eck th:t iespecthe by the preeed'n7 territory, will be Titled in the ii- e present Treaty ; l'or ever, for him- erei;nty and pro- ill fortresses and lave always been high contracting eir care and goo:'.. e fortifications of enp;ages for the ect any other fu.-- de. d to that piece of from Uaine, tt,.t ey, over Ja:► r and (loin tlith-e wife:ma:tiler as is itigi•cs.; of Vienna •,!;;;;,.. may !ere in O Switzerland are mil a state; shall eel, the way over power can r ass F, except sivli Js ite of things inrst s whom the civil municipal guard yen by France ta .x.ed to the sun: of arid the se t...uri a sep4rate it it ware rion which Frznee ins, and partico • the pattrnal ia- all classes of the al Charter, make irtaitee necessiny been considered positions ahnig , i , s, under the ex- tfringe on the so- the state of pus- troo,ns shall nit neil by the canes, li,;sichain, Lvcsues, Ilocroy, 'fhion vale, JUiF. At; France ;ry thing rel;:t.Y3 venti , m. In this wOrd for word in • 41** • -- • Dia Id