The National Register. — London, England, 1814-06-12 00:00:00

■ JUNE 12. n 111711.41 Commis%itnitr the part of the two CI demarcation. France renounces ail rights of severeignty, superiority, and pos session. over all the countries and ,listricts, towns and places what ever, situated beyond the frontier above laid down, the principality of Moneco being, however, replaced in the. relation in which it stood before the Ist January, 1791. The Allied Courts assure to France the possession of !lie princit pality of Avignon,. the county Venaissin, the county Montbeliat:d, and all the appendages wine!' formerly- belonged t:. Germany, in cluded within the frontier above indicated, whether incorporated with France before or atYer the Ist Jan. 179'2. The powers reciprocally reserve the entire faculty of fortifying s%h never point - of their dominions they may judge advisable for their serurity. To avoid all damage to iedividnal properties, and to secure, tic cording to the most liberal principles, the estates of ilidiveinals do miciliated on the frontiers, there shah be firmed by cie;i of tin states adjoining to France, commissioners to proceed jointly with French Comniisioners to mark out the limits of the respective ceunt ries. As P4UOII as flue labours of the Commissioners shall be terminated, maps shall be drawn np by the respective Cummissioners, and posts shall be placed to prove and identify the reciprocal limits. Art. 4. To secure the communication of the city of Geneva with other parts of the territory (if Switzerland. situated on the Lake ]'sauce consents,• that the use of_ the road by Vern./ shall be com mon to the two countries. The respective Governments to come to a friendly understanding with each other as to the means of prevent ing contraband trade, and the iegulation of the course of the posts, and the preservation of the road. Art. tr. The navigation of the Rhine, from the point where it be comes navigable to the sea and reciprocally, shall be free in such a manner, that it can be interdicted to no one, and in the future Congre-s the principles, according to which the duties exigible by the the states along its banks, may be regulated in the manner most equal and most favorable to the commerce of all nations, will be taken into consideration. In the same manner in the future Congress it will be examined into and determined in what manner, to facilitate the corntuaniea• lion between nations and render them gradual., less strangers tooled another, the above disposition may be equally extended to ali 11, other rivers which, in their navigable course, bcparate or traverse difti.rent states. _ _ Art. 6. Holland, placed under the sovereignty of the House of Orange, will receive an incrrace of territory. T..e title and exercise of the sovereignty shall in no ease belong to any Prince wearing of called to wear a foreign crown The States of Germany shall be independent, and united by a fede rative bond. Switzerland, independent, to continue to be governed by it self Italy, beyond the limits of the territories which shall return to Austria, shall he composed of Sovei eign state.. Art. 7. The Wand of Malta. and its dependencies), shall belong, it) lull property and sovereignty, to his Britditnic Majesty. Art. 8. His Britannic Majesty, stipulating for himself and his Allies, eng:iges to restore to his Most Christian Majesty, within tile &far to be It- matter fixed, the Colonies, fisheries, factories and establishment-I ot :111 kinds, which France ~possessed on the Ist Jan uary, 1794, in the seas and Continents of A merica, Africa, and Ask, with the exception however of the islands'of Tobago and St. Lucie, awl the islt. of France and its dep►mdencies, particularly Rodrigw. and the Serhelles, %O W, his Most Christian Majesty cedes in liii; property and Sovert ignty to Isis itannic Majesty, as also the pan : of Saint Domingo ceded to France by the peace of Basle, and which his Most Christian Majesty retrocedes to his Most Catholic Ma jesty, in full property and Sovereignty. Art. 9. His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, in sense' silence of arraiigeillC zits entered into with his Allies, and f the execution of the preceding Artiele, consents to tile test:astir)... of the island of theadaloape to Ifts Most Christian Majesty, and cedes all rigiits lie stay have to that iala.cri Art. JO. Ills Mrs-t Flitliful Majesty, in consequence of arrange ments entered into with Ins Allies, and fur the execution of Art. 8, engage• himself to restore to his Most Christian Majesty, in'the s'e` lay hereafter fixed French Guyana, such as it existed on the Ist January. 1792. The effect of the above stipulation being to revive the existieg contestation at this period, on the subject of the boundaries, it is egieed on that this contestation shall be terminated by an amicable *VP*, R, the two Courts, under the mediation et pl • aces and forts existing in the Colonies and eatal.lio menet, which are to be von red to.his Most.lltristiab Maje•to in virtue of Article 8, . nd 10. shall be replaced in the sia'e in which they shall be found at the instant of the signature of act pre ent Ottosty. Art. V I His Britannic Majesty engages to secure the enjeyment to the subjects or his Most Christian Majesty, with respect te. come feeree and safety of their persons and properties, in. the lit in. sf the Britiah Sovetrttht,tyin the Continent of India, of the same facid:ier, privileges, and proteetioo, 'jell are at present, or shall be granted to the most hymned natives Ois his part, hi• Most Christian Ma jesty, having nothing more at heart thao the perpetuity of the peace between the two Crowns of F: dere and England. and wishing to oentrihnte as much as he can to remove from this time kencetorward f om the relations between the two nations, whatever might one day Alien ept their mutual good understanding, engaues to coustruet no work of fortification i.e the establishments which are to he restored to him, anti wl,ich are situated within the limits of the BritisleSoves reignty, on the Continent of Lana, and olds , to plitee the >r t sta. h'isliments the number of troops Hectssary • for the maintenance of the ;Wire. Art 13. As to the right of fishing of the French on the Great Bank of Newfoundland, on the coast of the island of that name, and Ore Adjacent islands, and in the Gape of Saint Laurence, every thing to op . replaced on the same footing as n 1792. Art. 14. The Calories, Factories, and Establishineet= which are to be restored to his Most Christian Majesty by hit B. Donnie MA je•ty, or his Allies, shall be restored as follows, viz. those which are in the North Seas, or in the seas and Continents of America and Africa, in the three months, and these which are beyond the Cape of Good Hope, in the six months which shad follow the ratification of the present Treaty. Art. 15. The high contracting Parties having reserved to them selves by Art. -1. nt the Convention of the 23d of April last, to regu la;e the present Treaty of Definitive Peace, the destination of the arsenals and vessels of war, armed and 'manned, which happen to be in the noiritime places restored by Fratioe. in execution of the 2d Article of the said Ceinveetion.it is agreed on that the said ves•els and tOtips of war, armed and uttarmed, as also the naval artillery aLd naval ammuniti or, and all the materiols slop-buraiars and arma ment, shall be divide:l bete eon France and the countries where alt:: laces are situated, in the proportion or two.thirds for ,Fr ar ego l and oue•third for the powers to whom the said places shall belong. The vessels and slips on the sions, which shall not be in.a state to be launched six weeks after the signatare of the present Treaty, shall be considered as materials, and considered as sneh in the poportien above laid flout', after having been demolished. •• Commissioners shall he mutually named to settle the division and frame the 'lemma of it, and passports or sale eotelucts shall be 4iven by the Allied Powers to secure the retie u to France of the Frenolt workmen, seamen, and agents. Tie vessels 'and arsenals existing in the maritime places which may have falbor into the power of the Allies prior to time '43d of April, and the vessels and arsenals which belonged to flohaud, anti eartienlarly the Texel fleet, are not included in the otiose stiptt lations' The Government of France oblirs itscV to 14ithdraw or it sell all which shall belong to it, by the aueve stipulations, in the space et three months after the completion of tI e Hereafter the Port of Antwerp shall be sot ly a commercial Port. Art. 16. The hi eh con tract ine. parties, ishing to place mat !tecanse to be placed in an entire ehliviou the divisions it have ;t:•iialed En tope declare and promise, that in the commies r 4 ed ceded by the present Treaty, no individnal, of w Lott vet cm; - ation he may be, 'hall be pursued, ui-tu!Led,o , It - 0111)14-i is Lis persc.n or property, under any pretext, on accouet of his political conduct or opinion. or of his attacliment, either to iwy of the eon tractinr parties, or to Governments which have et dto ext, ur for any other reasons, excepting for debts contracted to nudivoitiaL, 4. fOr acts posterior to the ereoent Treaty. Art. 17. in all the countries which ore to chairee mast . .rs, either in virtue of the present 'treaty or of the art-andel - wilt , aro to be made in conrequence, there shall be granted to the iallabitants. natives, and strainers. of whatever condition and nation. a !Tact' of six years, reckoning flour the exclomge of the r atitications. to ois• pose, it they deem it advisable, of their properties , ;teq sired either ' efore or after the war, and to w_pdrow into a earever cathary b they may please to select. „or fl Art. 18. The Allied Powers dexieiseis of giving Ids most Christian Majesty a Dew testimony of their desire to efface, as far iu their tr- ' ...~. Tar 'NATIONAL REGISTER. _.. • Crowns to fix the fitiai arran g ement between Britannic Majesty. ■uneriority. and DOl►- Art. 11. The-places . r• , • I