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of the coast as shall be thottlit fit, in order to treat
for and conclude said Convention.

Art. III.: The River Sir:aticier shall form the line
of demarcation between the two armies : Torres
Vedras shall not be occupied by either. ,
Art. IV. The Commander in Chief of the British
Army shall engage to include the Portuguese Ar-
mies in this Convention, and their line of demarca-
tion shall be from Leira to Thurman

Art: V. It is provisionally agreed, that the French
Army shall in no case he considered as prisoners of
war; that all those of whom it consists, shall. be
.coveyed to France, with arms and baggage, and all
their private property of every description, no \part
of which shall be wrested from them. -
Art. VI. No individual, whether native of Portu-
gal, of a country in alliance with France, or, of France,
shall be molested for his political conduct ; they shall
be protected in their person 4, their propertiesrespe&ed,
and they shall be at liberty to remove from Portu-
gal with what belongs to them within a stipulated
time.

- Art. VII. The neutrality of the port of Lisbon
shall be recognised with regard 'to the Russian Fleet ;
that is to say, when the British' Army or Fleet shall
be in possession of the City and Port ; the same Fleet
shall not be molested during its continuance there,
nor obstructed when leaving it, nor followed after it
shall have quitted that .port, before the time prescrib-
ed by the maritime laws.
Art. VIII. All the - artillery of French calibre, as
also all the horses of the French cavalry, shall- be
transiforted 'to France.

Arr. IX. This Suspension of Arms shall. not be
brake without forty-eight hours notice.
Made and agreed upon by the forernentioned Ge-
nerals.
(Signed)

ARTHUR W,ELLltsi.ty.
KELLERMANN, Gsn, of Div.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

The imisons of the places dccapieilliv the French
Army shall be included in the present.Co'nvention, if
they shall not' have capitulated before the 25\th in-
stant.

(Signed)

ARTHUR WELLESLEY.
KELLERMANN, Gen. or Div.
(A true Copy.)
A. J. DALRYMPLE, Cf..!pill, Sec.

DEFINITIVE CONVENTION for the Evacuation of
Portugal by the French Army.
The Generals commanding in Chief the British
and French Armies to Portugal, having determined
to negotiate and conclude a Treaty for the eva-
cuation of Portugal by the French Troops, on the
basis of the pgreemetit entered into on the 22d
instant, for a Suspension of tiostilitit..s, have ap-
pointed the undermentioned Officers to necrociate
the same in their names. viz.—Oti the part of the
General in Chief of -the Britisti)army, Lieutenant-
Colonel Murray, auarter-IVl4ter-eneral, and on
the part of the General in ,Chief of the French
army, Monsieur Kellermann, qpneral of Division, to
whom they have given authority.tO negotiate and
conclude a convention to that effea, subject to 'their
ratification respeatively, and to that of ti'e Admiral
commanding the British Fleet at the entrance of the
Tagus.

Those two Officers, after exchanging their full
powers, have agreed:upon the Articles which follow
Art. I. All the places "and forts in the kingdom
of Portugal, occupied by the French troops, shall
be delivered up to the British army in the4it.ite in
which they are at the period of the signature of the
present Convention.
Art. 11. The French troops shall evacuate Portu-
gal with their arms and baggy e ; they shall not be
considered as prisoners of .war, autl, ,on their arrival
in France, they sball be at libertpto 'serve.
Art. The EoglAilt Government shall forniiii
the means of conveyance for the French army, which
shall be disembarked in any of the pot is of France
bet weep Rochtort and L'Orient
Art. IV. The French army shall carry u ith it all
its artillery of French calibre, with the horses be-
longing to ite and the tumbrils, 'supplied with sixty
rounds per gun. All other artillery, arms, and am-
munition, as also the military and naval arsenals,
shall be given up to the British army and navy, in.
the state in which they may be at the period of the
ratification •of the' convention.
-Art. V, The French army shall carry with it all
its equipments, ant-Pall that is comprehended 'tinder
the .name of property of the army ; that is to say,
its .military chest, and carriages attached to the
Field Cot missiariat and Field Hospitals, or shall be
allowed to dispose of such part of the same on its
account as the Commander in Chief may judg., it
unnecessary to embark. In like Inaimer all indi-
viduals of the army shall be at liberty to dispose of
their private property of every description,. with full
security hereafter for the purchasers. . *
Art. VI. The cavalry are to earbark their horses,
as also the Generals and other Officers of all ranks.
It is however fully understbod that the means of
conveyance for horses at the disposal of the British
Commanders are very lirtited ; some additional
conveyance may be procured in the port of Lisbon •,
the number of horses to be embarked by the troops
shall not exceed Goo, and the number embarked by.
the Staff shall not exceed 200. At all events every
facility will be given to tjse French army to-dispose
of the horses belonging to it which cannot.be eeit-
barkt:d.
Art. VII. In order to facilitate/the embarkation,
it shall take place in three divis:i6ris, the last of
which will be principally compoed or the gatrioes
of the places, of the cavalry, the artillery, the sick;
and the equipment of the army. The first division
shall embark within seven 'days of the dateof tire
Ratification, or sooner, it possible.
Art. VIII. The Garrison of Bras, and its Fort,;,
and. of Peniche and Palitela will be embarked at Lis-
bon. That of Altnaida at Oporto, or the nearest 17,2:•-
bour. They will be accompanied on their march
by Ilrirish Comtnissaries, charged with providiug tOr
their subsist, nee and accommodation. .
*Alt. IX. All the sick and wounded who cannot
be embarked with the iroops are entrusted to the
British army. 'They are to be taken care of whilst,
they remain in this country at the expellee bt the
Government, under the condihon of the.
same being reimbursed by France when the final eva-
cuation is effeeted. The English Government will
provide for their return to France, Which shall take
place by detachments of about 14)1)0 200 men at a
time. A sufficient number of iFroncli Medical Offi-
cers shall be left behind to attend them