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Proclamation
or THE FIRST CONSUL
BU ONA I'AR 1 E
To the French.
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Announcing the /ipiat^ of the Pre
liminaries of Peace, between
France and England.
Yesterday at 4 o'clock P. M.
several couriers extraordinary ar
rived in Paris ; they brought dispatch
es announcing the Preliminaries or
Peace with England.
It is difficult to describe the joy of the
people at an event so interesting to all
orders of trade, for the general and par
ticular good.
Frenchmen, behold the happiest day of
thy life; the genius, the talents, the
§ military tallies which belong to Buona
parte alone, assure the French people of
the return of the Golden Age.
The proclamation was yesterday the
loth of October announced, by a gen
eral illumination, from io o'clock in
the evening, to 2 o'clock in the morn
ing ; while the people in immense
crowds continued to exclaim— Fite la
Republique ! live the Republic !
A difeharge of artillery is heard.
The commilfaries of police, surround
ed by numerous detachments of caval
ry and infantry are carried thro' all the
Greets of the Capitol, and at the found
of warlike music they announce the
tignature of the preliminaries of a de
finitive peace.
This joyful news has been announced
by order of Government upon the
principal theatres of the Capitol. These
preliminaries were signed at London,
the 9th Oa. the loth year.
It is at the time of this precious proc
lamation, that the public joy is mani
fefted.
Abundance will be the fruit of this
proclamation, so long expe&ed; com
merce will resume its splendor. & soon
all nations re-united, will felicitate the
French Republic for having given peace
to Europe by the cares and labors of
the Firit Consul, aided by his worthy
colleagues.
For this long time the fittings of the
parliament of England have been di
refted only to the demand of a peace,
which should affine to the two powers
the tranquility of their refpeftive con
tinents.
Happy peace, thou enriched France,
the good is forever fixed in thy Repub
lic!
Liberty of the fcas, commercial ne
gociations, every thing in one word re
vives under the aEgis of Buonaparte.
Extraordinary Gazette of the Court, pub-
HJhedby Authority, Friday October
Bth 1801.
THE Preliminaries of Peace, be
tween his Majesty and the French Re
public, were signers last evening at the
bench of Lord Hawkefbury, one of
the principal Secretaries of the State, on
the fide of his B. Majesty and by Mr.
Otto on the tide of the French Gov
ernment.
This morning, information of it was
given by a letter from Lord Hawkes
bury, to the Lord Mayor who made
it publicly known: this evening they
expeaedfome illuminations.
Ex' if? ofa particular letter from London.
1 wrfte you in the midst of public
joy; Carel Peace! this word goes
from , uth. ? r uth ; it opens eve
ry 1 ^rtt) soy; it fatisfies all their
viEk Th public funds have expe
rienced a considerable rife ; the om
nium is risen to eighteen per cent, the
three pe cent, consolidated have risen
tofixtvfix.
I The people are in a kind of delirium
L—the frul of humanity, of liberty con
igiauf^es itfelf, to fee us finally ap
/proacb to a nation which has always
hmadeitfelf distinguished by these two
'enwr^nts : the negotiant projeds to
r ew ffoulations ; the cultivator ceases
t? fra, hhe invaGon of his field ; the
nhE $ rejoice to fee their children
no) m , threatenedwith impressment ;
011} politicians, our men of estate, pro
mfe.tmnfelves to go quickly to visit
Portsmouth, Wednesday Morning, December 2, 1801.
The brig Hannah. Capt. H. Fernald, in 39 days from Bourdeaux, bound to Newburyport, put into this harbor on Monday evening.—We have by her received
Bordeaux ( French) papers, containing the 'Proclamation of the First Consul, and the Treaty of Peace between France and Great-Britain. By the pohtenefs
offevehl Gentlemen, translations were immediately made, and we are happy in thus early presenting their contents to the patrons of the ORACLE.
&Ra<WE emaortitnarp.
Art. 1. As soon as the Prelimina
ries shall be signed and ratified, sincere
friendfhip shall be re-established be
tween the French Republic and his
Britannic Majesty, by land and by sea,
in every part of the world. Conse
quently, so that all the hostilities cease
immediately between the two powers
and between them and their allies re
fpe&vely, orders shall be transmitted
to the forces of the land and sea, with
the greafteft dilpatch, each of the con
trading parties engaging to give pass
ports and the neceffar y ease for to has
ten the arrival of said orders and as
sure their execution. It is likewise a
greed that all conquests which shall
have been from the part of the one or
the other of the contrasting parties, up
on the one of her or their allies, after
the ratification of the present prelimi
naries shall be regarded as not hap
pened and faithfully comprised in the
restitutions which shall have place after
the ratification of the definitive treaty.
Art. 2. His Britannic Majesty shall
restore to the French Republic and her
allies, and particularly to his Catholic
Majesty, and to the Batavian Republic,
all the possessions and colonies occupied
or conquered by the English forces in
the course of the adual war, except the
Ille of Trinity, and some possessions of
Holland in the Isle of Ceylon, which
islands & possessions his Britannic Majes
ty shall reserve the full & entire power.
Art. 3 The port of the Cape of
Good Hope shall be open to the com
merce and the navigation of both con
tracting parties, which shall enjoy there
the fame advantages.
Art. 4. The Isle of Malta, with her
dependencies, shall pe evacuated by the
English troops, and it shall be restored
to the order of St. John of Jerpfalem.
To allure the absolute independence of
this Island from either of the two con
trading parties, it shall be put under
the guarantee and protection ofa third
power, which shall be designed by the
definitive treaty.
Art. 5. Egypt shall be restored to
the Sublime Pprte, whose territories &
possessions shall be preserved entire as
they were before the present war.
Art. 6. The territories and posses
sions of his Christian Majesty shall also
be preserved entire.
Art. 7. The French troops shall
evacuate the kindom of Naples and
the Rbman State. [O'etat Romain.]
The English forces shall, in like man
ner, evacuate Porto Ferajo and, gene
rally all the ports and islands which
that land which so long a time agitat
ed by the revolution, is this day
ftrenthened by a government whose
force they acknowledge, and wisdom
they refped. Every class of the peo
ple partake of these feelings, and ap
plaud the ministry, who have harkened
to the words of reconciliation.
«z=t^ramtroi ^ ——
FRENCH REPUBLIC.
Paris, 14, Vendemaire, loth year.
The Government having been in
ftruded by a Courrier, that the King
of England had ratified the Prelimina
ries of Peace, the firft Consul came to
give his ratification to this aft.
Preliminary Articles of Peace be
tween the French Republic and his
Britannic Majesty, signed at London
9th Vendemaire, loth year of the
French Republic.
October loth, lßot.
The firft Consul of the Frencli Re
public, in the name of the French peo
ple, and his Majesty tlre king of the u
nited kingdoms of greatßritain andlre
land, animated with an equal desire of
ceasing the calamities of a deftru&ive
war, and of re-establishing between the
two nations, union and good inter
course, have nominated to this effect,
viz : the firft Consul of the French Re
publican the name of the French peo
ple alledge this. Louis, William Ot
to, commissary charged with the ex
change of prisoners in England ; and
his Britannic Majesty, Sir Robert
Banks, Jenkienfon, Hawkefbury, of
the private Council of his Britannic
Majesty and his principal Secretary of
State for foreign affairs, who, after
having duly communicated their full
power in good form, have agreed to
the following
Preliminary Articles.
they have seized upon in the Mediter
ranean or the Adriatic.
Art. 8. The Republic of the seven
Islands shall be acknowledged by the
French Republic.
Art. 9. The evacuations, ceflions,
and restitutions, stipulated by the pre
sent preliminary articles, shall be carri
ed into execution, as they refped Eu
rope, in one month ; as they refpeCt the
Continent and Seas of America and
Africa in three months ; and, as they
lefpeCf the Continent and the Seas of
Afia,in fix months from the ratification
of the definitive treaty.
Art. 10. The refpe&ive prisoners,
immediately after the exchange of the
ratifications of the definitive treaty, shall
be given up, en maffe, and without ran
som, by paying, on either fide, the par
ticular debts, which they may have
contracted.
Disputes arising as to the pay
ment of the expences of the prison
ers of war, the contrasting powers re
serve to themselves, by the definitive
treaty, the right of deciding such dis
putes, agreeably to the laws of nations,
and principles rendered sacred by cus
tom.
Art. 11. In order to prevent all fub
jeds of complaint and contest which
may arise by reason of captures which
shall be made on the sea, after the sign
ing of the preliminary articles, it is mu
tually agreed that the veflels and ef
feds, which may be taken, in the chan
nel and northern seas after the space of
twelve days, to reckon from the ex
change of the ratifications of the pre
sent preliminary articles, shall be, on
either part, restored; that this term
shall be one month, from the channel
and northern seas as far as the Canary
Islands inclusively, whether in the
Ocean or Mediterranean, two months
from the said Canary Islands to the
equator, and five months as to all oth
er parts of the world without any ex
ception or other diftindion more partic
ular as to times or places.
Are. 12. All the sequestrations
made on the one fide or the other, of
whatever kind they may be, belonging
to one of the contrasting powers, or its
citizens, or fubjefts, shall be immedi
ately taken off, after the signing of the
definitive treaty.
The decision of all claims between
the individuals of the two nations for
debts, property, effects, or any rights,
which, in conformity to the received cus
toms and laws of nations, ought to be
brought forward at the epoch of peace,
shall be referred to competent tribunals;
and in'this case, prompt and perfect
justice shall be rendered in the country
where the demands shall be made, re
fpedively. It is agreed that the pre
sent article shall be applied immediate
ly after the ratification of the definitive
treaty, by the contracting powers, to
the refpeCtive allies and individuals of
their nations under the condition of a
just reciprocity.
Art. 13. In refpeC tto the fifheries
upon the coasts of Newfoundland and
the adjacent islands, and in the gulf of
Saint Lawrence, the two powers have
agreed to place them upon the fame
footing, as they were before the present
war, reserving to themselves, by the de
finitive treaty, the arrangements which
shall appear just and mutually ufeful in
order to put the fifhery of the two na
tions in a Rate the most suitable for
maintaining the peace.
Art. 14. In all cases of restitutions
agreed upon by the present treaty, the
fortificationsfhall be given up in the date
in which they are found at the moment
of signing the present treaty and all the
works which shall have been conftruCt
ed since the occupation shall remain
untouched ; besides it is agreed that,
in all cases of cessions stipulated in
the present treaty, there (hall be al
lowed to the inhabitants, of whatever
condition or nation they may be, a
term of three years, to be reckoned
from the notification of the treaty of
definitive peace, for the disposing of
their property whether acquired and
poffefled, before or during the present
war, in which term of three years they
shall be allowed the free exercise of
their region and the enjoyment of
their property.
The fame right is granted, in all the
reftered countries, to those, who shall
have made an, establishments while
The Editors of the Mercury have
received the Articles of the Prelimina
ries of Peace, by an arrival at New
Bedford from London. They were
published in their paper of yesterday.
By last Mails we learn, that an infur
redion, dreadful in its consequences,
had broken out in the Island of St. Do
mingo. It was set on foot by one Fla
rill, a black, his prime object was to
overturn the government of TouiSTant,
the insurgents under him, in number
between 1500 and 2000, set fire to the
town in several places, and after com
miting great devastation and barba
rously murdering 60 persons, they were
entirely overcome by a force confiding
of .3000, headed by Touiffant, who
dedroyed the greatest part of them.
Flarril, the fomentorof this insurrec
tion, among the rest was taken, and
will be made a fad example of for his
temerity.
Capt. Symonds fays, when he left
the Cape, the minds of the people of
, that place were in a degree tranquiliz
ed, and the regularity of business near
ly restored.
O Our readers Shall be gratified
with the particulars of this tranfadion
in next Saturday's Oracle.
these countries were pofTeffed by Great-
Britain. As to the other inhabitants of
the countries restored or ceded, it is a
greed that no one of them shall be liable
to be prosecuted, disquieted, or troub
led in their person or property, under
any pretext, by reason of their conduct
or political opinion, or attachment to
either of the twoPowers or for anyother
reason, unless it be for debts contracted
with individuals, or for ads posterior to
the definitive treaty.
Art. 15. The present preliminary
articles shall be ratified and the ratifi
cations exchanged at London in the
space of fifteen days and immediately
after their ratification, there shall be
named on the one part and on the oth
er Plenipotentiaries, who shall repair to
Amiens in order to proceed to the di
gesting of the definitive treaty, in con
cert with the allies of the contracting
powers.
In testimony of which, we the un
dersigned Plenipotentiaries of the First
Consul of the French Republic and of
his Britannic Majesty, by virtue of our
full and refpeCtive powers, have signed
the present preliminary articles and
have caused our seals to be added.
Done at London, the tyh Fendemaire,
10th year of the French Republic.
The if. October, 1801.
(Signed) OT TO,,
HAWKESBURY.
LONDON, OCT. §.
About the Peace.
The Marquis Cornwallis is appoint
ed by His Majesty to negociate and
sign a definitive treaty with France.
Amiens, in France, is assigned for the
place of the negociation.
Parliament is summoned for the
29th inst.
Mr. Fox is said to esteem the terms
of the peace highly honorable to the
minidry.
The extreme ftri&nefs about pass
ports, and to prevent communication
with France, is to last fix weeks from
the signing of the Preliminaries, when
the intercourse wiil be more free, but
not entirely open.
o •
of Egyp,
Extras ofa letter from Sir J. H. Hutch
inson, K. B. to the earl of Elgin, dated
Head-Barters, Camp before Alexan
dria, Augufl 2], 1801.
“ I just feizelthe opportunity of a
messenger going to Constantinople,(dif
patched by the Captain Pacha,) to in
form your excellency that Gen. Menou
offered last night to capitulate for the
town and forts of Alexandria, and de
manded an armistice of ttyree days, for
the purpose of arranging the terms of
the capitulation ; this I have granted
accordingly."
The Gazette has confirmed the fad
that Menou offered to capitulate for
the surrender of Alexandria. 'I he 3
days of armistice and conference had
not ended when the last news came
away.