The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-19 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 19.

votion, all arrears of contributions, requisitions, or claims
o hawser, of the French Government, against subjects of Portu-
ga
l, or an other individnals residing in this country, found 41
.iitt he occupation of Portugal by the French troops in the month
of Do-ember 18th, w hich may not have been paid up, are can-
celled, and all sequestrations laid upon their property, move-
able or immoveable. are removed, and the free disposal of the
same iv restored to the proper owners. •
XVI. All subjects of France, or of Powers in friendship or
alliance with France, domiciliated in Portugal, or accidentally
in this country shall be protected. Their property of every
kind, moveable and immoveable, shall be reverted, and they
shall he at liberty either to accompany the French army, or to
remain in Portugal. in either case their property is guaranteed
to them, ss ith the liberty of retaining or of disposing of it, and
pis,ing the produce of the sale thereof into France, or any other
country where they may fix their residence, the space of one
year being allowed them for that purpose.
It fully understood that the shipping is excepted from this
arrangement, suly, however, in so far as regards leaving the
port, and that none •f the stipulations above-mentioned can be
made the pretext of any commercial speculation.
XV lI.—No native of Portugal shall be rendered accountable
for his political conduct during the period of the occupation of
tins country by the French army ; and all those who have con-
tinued in the exercise of their employments, or who have ac-
ceett•d situaloos under the French Government, are placed
under the protection of the British Commanders, they shall sns-
taio no injar • in their persons or property, it not having been at
their oetion to he obedient, or not to the French Government;
they are also so liberty to avail themselves of the stipulations of
the 'No article.

XI t I I.— ► he Spanish troops detained on board ship is the
Port of Ls•bon, shall be given up to the Commander in Chief of
the liritt,,o Artny, who engages to obtain' of the Spaniards to
rer•tore such French subjects, either military or civil, as may
have been detained in Spain, without being taken in battle, or
ron.equence of military operations, but on occasion of the
ocrarrelices of the 4th of last Illay. and the days immediately
tolion _ _ _

X i X..- -There shall he an immediate exchange established for
r.ll r❑uks m Prisoneri made in Portugal, siuce the commence-
ment or the precnt

X X.--iro,tai,•es of the rank of Field Officers shall be mntually
farni,hed mi the part of the British Army and Navy, and on that
of th,. E t,ch Army for the reciprocal guarantee of the present
tson,.etition. The officer of the British Army shall be reitored
oe the completion of the Articles which concern the Army ;
.wd the Onkel. of the Nave on the disembarkation of the
French troops in their own country. The like is to take place
on the part of the French Army.
XXI.--l% shall be allowed to the General in Chief of the
Preach Army. to send an Officer to France with intelligence of
the Pre,ctit Convention. A vessel will be furnished by the
Admiral to convey him to Bourdeaux or Rochefort.
Admiral will be invited to accommodate
his Lvcelleory the Commander in Chief and the other principal
Officers of the French Army, on board of ships of war.
l)une and concluded at Lisbon, this 30th day of August, 1808.
(Signed) GEORGE. M ()Wirier- MaSier•Gcneral.
KELLKnICANN, General of Division.
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The Dnke of Ahrantes, General in Chief of the French Army,
have ratified, and do ratify the present Definitive Convention in
4LI its Articles, to he executed according to its form and tenor.
Ileau-Quarters, Lisbon, Aug. 30. Dumf.,: or illift4STES.

A DIA rlO NAL ARTICLES TO TILE CONVENTION Ol•' THE SO•II
OF AUGUST, 1808.

ART. I.—The individuals in the civil employment of the
4riny n-1:13e prisoners, either by the British troops, or by the
Portuguese in any part of Portugal, will be restored, as is
cuAinary, withotst exchange.
IL—The French Army shall be subsisted from it own maga-
zines up lt) dav; of embarkation ; the garrisons up to the clay
of the evaru ti of the fortresses.
The reinaiader of the magazines shall be delivered over in
the tl-ual form to the British tiovernment, which clia-ges itself
oh the subsistence of the men and horses of the army, from
ttie above-mentioned periods till their arrival in France, under
the condition of their being rftimbursed by the French Ciovern-
theta for tire excess of tlie ex 1, Te beyond the estimation to be
niade by both parties, of the .slue of the magazines delivered
up to the British army.
Atm y.roviioas i board. the ships of war, in possession of the