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belonged to the Republic of the United Provinces, or to the Dutch East India Company. VI. The Port of the Cape of Good Hope re_ trai ns to the Batavian Republic in full sovereignty in the same manner as it did previous to the War: The Ships of every kind belonging to the other Contracting Parties shall be allowed to enter the said Port, and there to purchase what Provisions they may stand in need of as heretofore, Without being liable to pay any other imposts than ;MI as the Batavian Republic compels the Ships of its own Nation to pay. VII. The territories and possessions of Her Most Faithful Majesty are maintained in their integrity, such as they were antecedent to the War. However, the boundaries of French and Portuguese Guiana are fixed by the River Arawari, which empties itself into the Ocean above Cape North, near the Islands Nuovo and Penetentia, about a degree and a third of N orth latitude. These boundaries shall run along the "' • ver Arawari, from its mouth the most dis - taut from Cape North to its source, and afterwards on a ri g h t line, drawn from that source, to the Rio 46auto towards the West. c° nsequence, t h e N ort h ern b an k o f t h e Ri ver ravvati ) from its dis tant mout h to i ts source , an d the territories that lie to the North of the line of the boundaries laid down as above, shall belong in • full sovereignty to the French Republic. Th e Southern bank of the said River, from the sa me mouth, and all the territories to the South of the 'aid line, shall b e l ong to H er M ost F a i t hf ul maj esty. T he navigation of the River Arawari, along the whole of its course, shall be common to both Nations. The ar rangements whic h have been agreed upon between the Courts of Madrid and Lisbon, respeCt -I,lg t he seglement of their boundaries in Europe, rill nevertheless be adhered to conformdtbly to the r v u l ia l ti nns al nsof th e T reat y o f B a d a j os . th e The territories, possessions,And rights of S • übli me Porte, are maintained in their inte grity, as they were before the War. IX Lized, T Ile Rep u bli c o f t he S even I s l an d s i s recog - The Islands of Malta, Gezo, and Comino, SJt i all be restored to the Order of Sr. John of Jerusa e rn, to be held on the same conditions on which it t4lts essed them before the 'War, and under the fol.: to ltin stipulations . . 1 . the Knights of the Order, whose languages shall continue to subsist, after the exchange of the I ltification of the present Treaty, are invited to retur n to Malta, as Soon as the Exchange shall have ki ken Place. They will there form a general Chap_ ter, an d Proceed to the Eledion of a .Grand Master, ch osen from among the Natives of the Nation which Preserve their language, unless that Eleetion has been already made since the Exchange of the Pre_ It ' s understood that an EleCtion made subsequent to that epochthe s h a l l alone b e cons id ered valid, to • e at exclusion Place Of any other that may have tak en 2. , r an Y Period pliot to . t h at e p o ch. and s h"e C.° VernirlentS .of the French .Republic, an d A` Gre at B r i ta i n, d es i r i ng to place the Orde r Island of Malta in a state of entire independence t fi reS Pea to theta, agree th a t there shall n o t b e lt ure eith er. a French or English language ; ane nd that i ndividual belonging to either th e ° or the other of these Powers shall be admitted i nto the Order, tv l ' 3 ' . T J'ere shall be established a Maltese language, ieh Shall be supported by the territorial reve. Hoeg '• and commercial duties of the Island. This :anguage shall have its isle peculiar dignities, an esta. notOlment and an hotel. Proofs of Nobility shall be n ecessary f or t h e a d m i ss i on of Knights of t he ; an d t h ey shall be moreover adonis_ t ° all offices, • and shall enjoy all privileges in Bare manner as t h e K n i ghts of. the other ]an Bare At least half of the Municipal, Admi tithstrative, Civil, Judicial, and other employ n ments habit nding on the G overnment, shall be filled by in. ants of the Islands of 'Malta, Gezo, and C6 nlino. t - The Forces of His Britannic Majesty shall acu ate the I sland, and its dependencies, within Illree months from the exchange of the Ratifications, ° r sooner if possible, At that epoch it shall he given (;k.) to the O r d er in its present state, rovided the r"ucl Master p or tcor Commissari es , f u ll y aut h or i ze d 4 h di , ding to the Statutes of the Order, shall be in w e : Island to t a k e possession, and that the force hick i s . to be provided by hereafter Stipulated, shall have arrived tl'ere• 5. One half of the Garrison, at least, shall be al_ nlacomposed of native Maltese ; for the re 11,de r, the O r d er may. levy Recruits in. those '-'ountries only which continue to - possess the lan shellc;s:'cier les laitgllcs. The Maltese Troops have •Maltese Officers. The Commander in it.j,l'aeof of the Garrison, as well,as the nomination of shall pertain to the Grand Master, and this right he cannot ribigh even temporarily, except in favour of a Knight, and in concurmice with.the advice of the Council of the Order. 6. The independence of the isles of Malta, of Gezo and Comirw, as well as the pr•eesent arrange ment, shall be placed under the -proteetion and guarantee of France, Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia, and Prussia. 7. The Neutrality of the Order and of the Island of Malta, with its dependencies, is proclaimed. 8. The Ports of Malta shall be opened- to the Commerce and the Navigation of all Nations, who shall there pay equal and moderate Duties : these Duties shall be applied to the cultivation of the Maltese language, as specified in paragraph 3, to that of the Civil and Military Establishments of the Island, as well as to that of a general Lazaret, open to all Colours. 9. The States of Barbary are excepted from the conditions of the preceding paragraphs, until, by means of an arrangement to be procured by the Contrafting Parties, the system of hostilities, which subsists between the States of Barbary, and the Or der of St. John, or the Powers possessing the lan guages, or concurring in the composition of tho Order, shall have ceased. ro. The Order shall be governed, both with re speft to Spirituals and Ternporals, by the same Sta tutes, which were in force, when the Knights left the Isle, as far as the present Treaty shall derogate 'from them. i. The Regulations contained in the paragraphs iii, v, vii, viii, and x, shall be converted into Laws and perpetrial Statutes of the Order, in the customary manner ; and the Grand Master, or, if he shall not be in the Island at the time of its re storation to the Order, his Representative, as well as his Successors, shall be bound to take an Oath for their pundual observance. z. His Sicilian Majeny shall be invited to fur nish zOOO Men, Natives of his States, to serve in Garrison of the different Fortresses of the said Islands. That fOrce shall remain one year, to bear date from their restitution to the Knights ; and if, at the expiration of this term, the Order should not have raised a force sufficient, in the judgment of the Guaranteeing Powers, to garrison the Island and its Dependencies, such as is specified in the pa ragraph, the NeapOlitan Troops shall continue there until they shall be replaced by a Force deemed suffi cient by the said Powers. 13. The different Powers designated in the 6th paragraph, to wit, France, Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia,. and Prussia, shall be in.: vited to accede to the present Stipulations. XI. The French troops shall evacuate the king dom of Naples and the Roman States; the English Forces shall also evacuate Porto Ferrajo, and gene rally all the Ports and Islands that they occupy in the Mediterranean or the Adriatic. XII. The Evacuations, Cessions, and Restitu_ tions, stipulated by' the present Treaty, shall be executed in Europe within a month ; on the Con tinent and Seas of America and Africa in three months ; on the Continent and Seas of Asia in six rncnths which shall follow the Ratification of the present Definitive Treaty, except in case of a Spe cial Reservation. XIII. In all cases of Restitution, agreed upon by the present Treaty, the fortifications shall be restored in the condition they were in at the time of signing the Preliminaries ; and all the works which shall have been construded since their occu pation, shall remain untouched. It is agreed besides, that in all the stipulated cases of Cessions, there shall be allowed to the inhabi tants, of whatever rank or nation they may be, a term of three years, reckoning from the notification of the present 'Treaty, to dispose of all their pro perties, whether acquired or possessed by them, be fore or during the continuance of the present War ; during which term of three years, they shall have free and entire liberty to exercise their religion, and to enjoy their fortunes. The same power is granted in the Countries that are hereby restored, to all persons, whether inhabitants or not, who shall have formed any establishments there, during the time that those Countries were in the possession of Great Britain. As to the Inhabitants of the Countries restored or ceded, it is hereby agreed, that no person shall, under any ,pretence, be prosecuted, disturbed, or molested, either in person or property, on account of his political conduct or opinion, or for his at tachment •to any of the Contrading Parties, on any account whatever, except debts contraCteci with in dividuals, or. for als subsequent to. the present Treaty XIV. All the Sequestrations 'laid on either side, on Funds, Revenues, and Credits, of what nature soever they may be, belonging to any Of the Con. traaing Powers, or to their Citizens, or Subjeas, shall be taken off immediately after the Signature of this Definitiie Treatye Tje de'ei.',ion of all'elaitilS ainong the individuals of the respeftive nations, for debts, property, ef feas, or rights, of any nature whatsoever•, , which shoal!, according to received usages, and the Law of Nations, be preferred at the epoch of the Peace, shall be referred to the competent Tribunals : in all those cases speedy and complete justice shall be done in the countries wherein those claims shall be respeetively preferred. XV. The Fisheries on the toasts of Newfound land, and of the adjacent islands, and in the Gulph of St. Laurence, are placed on the same footing as they were - before the War. • . The French Fishermen of Newfoundland and the inhabitants of the Islands of St. Pierre and Mique lon, shall have liberty to cut such wood as may be necessary for them in the Bays of Fortune and Despair during the first year, reckoning from the Ratification of the present Treaty. XVI. To prevent all grounds of complaint and disputes which might arise on account of Captures which may have been made at sea subsequent to the signing of the Preliminaries, it is reciprocally agreed, that the Ships and property which may have been taken in the Channel, and in the North Seas, after a space of twelve days, reckon ing from the exchange of the Ratifications of the Preliminary Articles, shall be restored on the one side and the other ; that. the term shall be one month for the space; from the Channel and the Ni o rth Seas, as far as the Canary Islands inclusively, as well io, the ocean as in the Mediterranean ; two months from the Canary Islands to the Equator ; and, .finally, five months in all the other parts of the world, with out any further exception, or distinction of ti.,rie or place. XVII. The Ambassadors, Ministers, and other Agents of the Contrading Powers shall :ujoy re. speaively in the States of the said Power'', the same rank, privileges, prerogatives, and immunities which were enjoyed before the War by Agents of the same class. XVIII. The branch of the Home of Nassau, which was established in die ci.devant Republic of the United Provinces, now the Batavian Republic, having experienced some losses, as well with respect to private property as by the change of Constitution adopted in those Countries, an equivalent compensa tion shall be procured for the losses which they shall be proved to have sustained. XIX. The present Definitive Treaty of Peace is declared common •to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, the Ally of His Britannic Majesty ; and the Sublime Porte shall be invited to transmit its ad of accession •as soon as possible. XX. It is agreed that the . Contraaing Parties, upon requisitions made by them respedively, or by their Ministers, or Officers duly authorized for that purpose, shall be bound to deliver up to justice per sons accused of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bank ruptcy-, committed within the jurisdiaion of the requiring party, provided flat this shall only be done in cases in which the evidence of the crime shall be such, that the laws of the place in which the accused person shall be discovered, would have authorized the detaining and bringing him to trial, had the offence been committed there. The ex pences of the arrest and the prosecution, shall be defrayed by the party making the requisition ; but this Article has no sort of 'reference to crimes of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy, com mitted before the conclusion of this Definitive Treaty. XXI. The ContraEting Parties promise to ob serve sincerely and faithfully all the Articles con rained in the present Treaty, and - will not suffer any sort of counteraaion, diret or indirea, to be made to it by their Citizens, or respeaive subjeas ; and the Contratling Parties guarantee, generally and reciprocally, all the stipulations of the present Treaty. XXII. The present Treaty to be ratified by the Contrafting Parties, as soon as possible, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged in due farm at Paris. In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned Ple_ nipotentiaries, have signed with our hands, and in virtue of our respeaive full powers, the present Definitive Treaty, causing it to be sealed with our respeftive seals. brine at Amiens, the 4th Germinal, in the year to (March zs, I 8oz). '(Signe(i) BONAPARTE', CORNWALLIS, AZARA, anti SCHINIMEL'ENNECK. (Alcorteel Copy), J. Re Yesterday a Court of Dire6lors was held at the East India House, when the Skelton Castle and Travers, lately arrived from India, were taken up for the Company's service, in addition to the extra shipping of the present season. On Monday, the two Mail Robbers, the Beat. sgns, were conviaed at Horsham, and sentenced to be executed at East Grinstead, near the spot where the robbery was committed, but not to be hung► in chains. NA frA . L At E #;* J. PLYMOUTII, MAIiCEI Z 9 AtouvED this morning, the I:) . oizctz:qer Trans: port, JoHN SHOUT master, hai , irtg- . on board Troops belonging to the 26th Regiment of t'oot, five I,Vott'len, and two children; from Egypt, Sailed from Alexandria the 25th Oaoberi and arrived at Gibraltar the 36th January : sailed thence the 23d February, and touched' at Cork the 13d inst. She his had a very boisterous passage, and tiers sup; postal to be lost : the Troops and Cm*. ate ;ill Sailed the of 84 gut , ,s, for T6rbay. Arrived the Fisgard Frigate, from a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MARc 30. ARR IV ED this day, His Majesty's Ships Sairest and Ropzuha, front the Mediterranean, last from Gibraltar. The Ro7.willts came in twelve days : by her we learn', that Captain DowmAN was promoted from the Dorothea into the C.vsar, and that Captain BRUNTON Ivaii appointed to the Dorothea. Arrived this evening at the Motherbank, au/. put under qilarantine, His Majesty's Ship 11ercal:,, from tin: Mediterranean. Arrived a large Fleet of Coasters and Cu:tilers, from the Downs,. .The ii/zwx.2,:dria Frigate is hourly expeaed to arrive from GJ)raitar. This day t!v: Prince of Wales's own Fencibiei landed from the- Ocean Transport. The Ca dlbrian, BaniEhire, ;.rd Wanace Feneible3, front Egypt, are now perforinirig quarantine at the Motherb3nk. Sailed tbis day, His Majesty's Ships Delft, All nraer, and Cercs, armle ere i lut6 ftir die West Indies, with Troops. A Boat belonging to the Isis, of 56 grins, .was' this day upset off' Ryde, with several people oii board, who were all saved by the 'extraordinary ex.: ertions of Captain STILES, of the Roebuck Revenue Cutter. F.ILMOUTH, MARCH zB. ARRIVED this evening, the American Ship Dcrt; Capt. PECK, in 35 days from _Norfolk, ‘c-ith flour called here for orders: Sailed the Queen Charlo,?te nlckct, Cape. Will/at; r; with Mails of ,the i 7th inst. for Leeward Islands the Ship George, Capt. \l 7 ri t.tAM.B►,nttt, for Bar., badoes, ; ditto Ann, Capt. GR Eo:•: , ;, for Sr, Kitt's ; Brig Matilda, Capt. JUDGE, for I`.Zevis ; American Ship Union, Capt. Hoot; E , for Alicant ; and Schooner Clara, Cap . t. REGN'A RT j for Ma deira. Last evening sailed the Prince of Wal:i Packet, Capt. MOD, with two Mails (16th and 23d inst.), for Lisbon ; and His Majesty's Ships gard and Amerkyit ; the former appeared off again this day, and sent her boat on shore for Letters, and again proceeded on a Cruize to the Westward also sailed the Jean, Capt. I\ I I‘LACH L AN, for Li verpool ; and Liberty, WESBOROUGU, for New.. foundland. The Auckland Packet, froth the Leeward Islandsi and 71, , ionshoid Packet from America, are hourly- expeded. STA MFORD, MARCH 30► NOTHING can equal the rejoicings at this place on the occasion of the Definitive Treaty : the Po. palace; on the Mail entering the town, took the horses from the Coach, and- drew it in triuthrh to the Post-Offi. cc.; The Marquis of EXErER sent a quantity of wine to the Leicester. Militia, quartered here ; and the rejoicings would have been perfe s 64 but fOr an unfortunate accident : a Field-piece, the ramrod having been carelessly left in, was discharg_ ed among a great number of people : it killed one boy on the spoti and wounded two other persons dangerously. The French and Dutch Prisoners at Stilto n; . nearly 4.000 in mnnber, are; we understand; iii high spirits;• and th. ; ;; people of the, town ate not less re. joked, at the probability of being rid of these con_ su'mets of their bread and cheese There are about 400 Dutch among these prisoners, and it has been ascertained; that upon ;in average they do not con sume less than half a plod of C.:hee'sf: pei Man daily which they are enabled to procure by the liberality of their officers; and by bartering other articles fur it. CORN XCIIAA'GE,, Match 3t. This day we had a middling supply' in general.. From the late great salesi we had but few buyers ; and little business done ; Oats rather lower Beans but few arrivals; they maintair their prices; Flour cot tinOes very plentiful, with littlz variation. Wheat 48 - s a si , ;s a 6 . 2 s ad Fine ditto -69 s a 72s cd Malt -42 s a 4ss' od Fine ditto - 465 avs od Barley . - 325 a 35s 6d Rye -38 s a 4 is otl White Pease 36 a ilos ad 3s3s a 32s fnl Tick ditto - aSs a 3as 00 Oats - - - J4s a 2os ail Poland do. iis a 22s ad Rape Seed 321 a 35.1 per last Fine Flour sss a 58s per sack. Second do. sas a s'is pes do. Hatlfiel4 the unfortunate maniac who made an attempt about two years ago on the life of His WimEsTY, for which he was tried and acquitted,- killed a fellow'prisoner on Sunday in Bcthiern Hos, pital, by a blow, on the jugular vein,.