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&„ after the ratification of the pref
, ent treaty, those parts of the Pruffiao
dominions which they may occupy
on the right bank of the Rhine, All
contributions and supplies of every
description, by exaftion, (hall cease
entirely fifteen days after the fignmg
.of the present treaty. All the arrears
due at that epoch, as well as the bills
and promises contracted for them,
shall be null and void. Every thing
which shall have been taken or levied
after the above mentioned epoch, (hall
be immediately freely returned or paid
in money.
Art. V. The troops of the French
Republic (hall continue to occupy that
part of rhe King of Prussia's domin
ions, situated upon the left bank of
the Rhine. All definitive settlement
concerning those provinces (hall be
deferred to the general peace with the
Germanic Powers, whenever it may
take place.
Art. VI. Until a new commercial
treaty between the two contrasting
powers (hall be fettled, all commer
cial relations and communications (hall
be re-established upon the fame foot
ing they were before the present war.
Art. VIL It being impossible that
the dispositions of the 6th art. should
have their full effect, without liberty
of commerce being established thro'-
out the north of Germany, the two
contracting powers shall take meas
ures to remove the theatre of the war.
Art. VIII, There shall be granted
to the individuals of the two nations
refpeCtively, release of all goods, in
come, or estates of whatever nature
they may be, detained, seized or con
fifcared in consequence of the war be
tween France and Prussia, as well as
prompt justice in the recovery of any
debts which may be due to those in
dividuals in the countries of the two
con(radi^ go wers.„,
Art. IX 111 prisoners refpe&veiy
made since the beginning of the war,
without regard to their number or
quality, comprehending all Prussian
seamen and navigators taken in Prul
fian vessels, in those of any other na
tion, and in general all those detained
by either power, for cause of war,
shall be returned in the space of two
months at fartheft, after the exchange
of the ratification of the present trea
ty, paying nevenhelefs the several
debts which they may have contrast
ed during the time of their,detention ;
the fame rule (halite followed for the
Bek and wounded, as soon as their
health shall be re-established. Com
missaries shall be immediately ap
pointed^n both sides in order to pro
ceed to the execution of the forego
ing art cle.
Art. X. The prisoners of the Sax
on, Mentzer, Palatine, arid Hessian
corps, as well as' of Heffe-Caffel and
Darmftadt, who .have served in the
King of Pfuffia's armies, shall be e
qualy comprehended in the exchange
above mentioned.
Art. XL The French Republic
foal accept the good offices of his
Mj^fty the King of Prussia, in fa
vor of the Princes and States of the
Germanic Empire, who shall with to
enter immediately into negociation
with her ; and who, to that effect,
have already claimed, or shall claim
the intervention of the King. The
French Republic, in order to give to
the Kng of Prussia a firft proof of
her wish to concur in the establish
ment of the ancient ties of friendfhip,
which have subsisted between the two
qations, agrees not to treat ai an ene
myl country, for the space of three
months after the ratification of the
present treaty, those of the Princes
and States of the laid Empire, which
are situated upon the right bank^
the Rhine, whose favoflhe King shall
interest himfelf in.
Art. XII. The prefect treaty shall
not have effect till after having been
ratified by the contraaing parties, and
the ratification shall be exchanged in
this city of B.fle, within the term of
one month from this day, or sooner if
possible.
In witnefi whereof, we the under
signed Minsters Plenipotentiaries of
the French Republic, and of hit Maj
esty the King of Prussia, by virtue of
our power, have signed the present
Treaty of Peace and Amity, and have
thereunto fer our refpe&ive seals.
Done at Bafle, the 16th Germinal,
the 3d,ear of the French Republic —
^pril 51b, 1795. (Signed)
Francois Barthelemy; &
Charles Augustus, Baron
de Hardenberg.
Secret Articles of the Treat, of Peace
between the French Republic and the
King of Prussia.
Art. I. Hanover and Ofaaburg, be
long to Prussia.
IL Upper Silefis, guaranteed by
France to Pruffi.
111. Prussia guarantees the Neth
erlands to the French Republic.
IV. Prussia guarantees ttie Repub
lican form of government of the Sev
en United Provinces without the
Stadtholder, provided the payment of
an annuity to the lift Stadtholder of
25 thousand guilders.
V. Prussia is to quit the country at
the left bL.k of the Rhine.
--—: rt^ffify^—t.
ARTICLES of Ag-eement between the
FRENCH and BATAVIAN PEO
PLE, to eftabh/b an ALLIANCE
between the two nations.
Article I. The solemn acknowledge
ment of the Batavian Republic,
IL An o^fafoe and defenfao&li
ance between the two republics.
111. Neither of the two republics
can conclude a peace the one with
out the other.
IV. The Batavian republic shall
furnifh for the mutual defence, 12
ships of the line and 18 frigates, and
the army will be augmented in case
the war is continued.J
V. During the war, the army and
the navy are to be under the com
mand of French generals.
VI. All conquered lands, fruited
part the Waal and Rhine are to be
restored.
VII. The lands between the Rhine
and Waal, excepting those excepted
in the following articles, are to remain
in the possession of the French until
the peace.
VIII. Mseftricht; Venlo, Breda,
Bergen-op Zoom, and the remaining
territory from the last named place,
to the Margraviate of Antwerp, are
excepted ; finally, the territory which
forms the borders of the Hond, viz.
to the right, the Ifhnd's South Bev
eland and Welcheren, a^d co the left,
State Vlaanderen, are to remain in the
possession of the French, until the lot
of Brabant is decided.
IX. The French republic shall oc
cupy until rhe peace, all those places
(he shall deem necessary for defence.
X. The navigation of the Rhine,
Maefe, Scheldt, and all the branches,
shall be free for both nations. ,
XL The Batavian republic shall
pay to the French republic the ex
penses of the war, which she was ob
liged to carry on against the former ;
the Dutch republic shall be at liberty
to redeem it, provided by offering an
equitable equivalent, which is to be
, regulated in an amicable manner be
-6 tween the two republics. \/%^
Oh account, there is to be paid,
, without delay, not left than twenty
millions of guilders, in specie, or in
good bills ot exchange on France or
neutral countries.
(Signed) ; Merlin, Rewbel A Sieyes,
M, du Bois Crance, le comte
du Rnut, le Porte, Founcroy,
Boiffy, Duffault.
Important decree of the present Revolu
tionary Government of Holland.
APRIL 17.
“ The commercial intercourse be
tween these United Provinces and sov
ereign countries, (except England arid
her dependencies) shall continue free,
fubjeft only to the regulations for
merly eftablilhed.
“ The exportation of naval and
military stores, arms, gunpowder, and
fait peter, is prohibited to all places
except to France and her pofftffions,
and to the colonies and places belong
ing toihe Seven United Provinces."
The revolutionary committee of
Amsterdam, taking into coofideration
the exhausted state of the Dutch fi
riances, and the obligations of every
citizen to contribute as much as pofli
ble to the public nect ffries, have re
solved to place a box in every com
mune to be superintended by the col
ledor, in whose poffi ffion the key (hall
be deposited, in order to afford the
patriotic citizens an opportunity of e
vincing their attachment to the cause
of liberty, by free gifts of gold and
silver articles, such as buckles, rings,
ear-rings, &c. &c. which are not in
cluded in the provisional decree of the
26th March.
A bock shall be deposited in cus
tody of the fame persons appointed to
receive the donations, in which the
name of every person disposed to fac
rifice their uhneceffary ornaments for
the public bentfi. (hail be regularly
entered, that posterity may observe
the disinterested patriothm of their
ancestors. T& ,
The committee, confident that love
of country will not be lek conspicuous
in the native Dutch, upon this occa
sion, than past experience has shewn,
exists among our French brethren,
who have offered at the altar of lib
erty, oblations of the greatest value,
invite all their fellow citizens, resi
dents of other towns in this province,
to imitate their example, and evince
to the Universe, that no consideration,
however dear, is too important to be
facrificed to that freedom which is
their hereditary birth-right, and which
they are determined in every vicissi
tude of fortune, to support and de
fend.
Amsterdam, 14th April, 1795.
First year ot Dutch Liberty.
By order of the Committee,
VAN DER AA, Sec'ry.
"SUICID E!
'—
RICHMOND, JUNE 4.
William Rone, of the county of
King and Queen, and a Magistrate of
the said county, put an end to his ex
istence, by putting a musket to his
head, and blowing out his brains.—
He was a man in easy independent
circumstances. At the place of exe
cution,the following lines were found:
This is not the firft time by the
twenty thousandth, chit I have resolv
ed to put an end to my exifteoce ;
but I believe I shall now execute it.
No pew or recent cause operates, to
produce the resolution ; my motives
are of long standing, and such, per
haps, as my friends and the world
may not ascribe the present (as it will
be called) rath step to. But, fearing
above all vulgar prejudices, and look
ing with the most sovereign contempt
on the vanities, vexations and frivoli
ties of this life, I shall, without fear,
& with the greatest serenity of mind,
in the twink& cos seye, launch my
foul into those regions whence no tra
veller ever returns Neither love nor
law induce my present resolution, but
the fatigues of living, and the persua
sion of the inanity of all mundane
things, added to one other cause that
has been, and will ever be, after this,
hid from mortal light. To the world
1 bid a general farewel, and to my rel
atives, and particular friends, a warm,
a tender, an affectionate, and last, a
dieu, adieu! W. ROANE.
Domeflic Mijcellan,.
for the FEDERAL MIRROR.
FREE THINKER versus VERITAS.
<7OU fay, Mr. Veritas, if you un
-1 derftand me, I conclude, that
Christ has so completely finifhed the
work of salvation that ail men shall
be infallibly laved without their good
works or attention—.but fay, if you
misunderstand me, if I intend no more
by that p^ffage in John 19, than this,
that Chtift, by his obedience and
death, did completely finifh a juftify
ing righteousness, so chat the (inner
has nothing to do in this refpeft, you
have no contention with me, but
fully agree with me— You may be
assured that this is my real meaning,
that mankind have no more hand in
their future happiness or their eternal
falvation,than they had io their origin
al formation or firft exigence —Sure I
am, that God formed them in their
original altogether without their
knowledge, and that Christ has mer
ited. eternal salvation for them all,
and makes them partakers thereof,
without their aid or affiftance,— For
mankind never had, and never will
have, any thing to recommend them- 4
(elves to God by, but fid therefore,
,it is such that Christ came to save,
not in fin, but from fin—it is not the
righteous which he fives, but the fin
nets. ••
Then you go on to condemn me
for the fame thing which you just be
fore said you argued with me io, viz.
That all mankind had no hand in
their salvation, or in the completion
of a juftifying righteoufoefi—then
you vouch in the concern, the atten
tion, the consideration, the repentance,
the faith, the obedience, and the good
works of men, as co-partners with
Christ, in the completion of this great
salvation.—Oh I Bartimeas, what a
ditch is before us, into which thou
farids have plunged, by being led on
by blind guides—for if the blind lead
the blind, both shall fall into the
ditch, viz, the ditch of 'ignorance,
d^rknefs, foperftitioo and bigotry.—
You further urge the impossibility of
any being saved, without their be
lieving in Christ and his gospel— then
what will become of those millions
who die in iofane,; before they are *
capable of exercising a belief io Christ
or his gospel, or those millions in the 7
world who have never heard of a
Christ or a gospel ?—Muft they be
damned for not believing in that of
.which they never heard ?-,Forbid it^
ye great author of man's salvation!
that such a horrid feotiment should
further prevail through this our en
lightened America—but convince and
convert all those who have been
blindly led into this erroneous princi
ple, and bring them to believe in thy
true character, and trust in thy righte
ousness, and not in their own, for fal*
ration eternal.
You further fay, Mr. V. that you
have no expectation of being saved in,
any other way than by your belief
and obedience— We read of such who
being ignorant of God'irightcoufoefr,