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