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FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, ,APRIL 25.--:-This day have been. ratified
by his Royal Highness '49NSIEUR Son of Fr:iitce;
Brother of the king, Lieutenant-General.of the
Kingdom of France, Conventions wift each of
the High Allied Powers, of which the folrotving
are the particulars ,
The Allied Powers, consentaneously determined
to put an end to the miseries of Fuirope, and to
lay the basis of its futufe tranquillity on a just'cli-
vision of strength between the States of -which it
is composed ; wishing to give to France, whose
newly-formed Government affords all necessary'
securities for the maintenance of peace, proofs'of
their desire to unite with her in relationsof amity;
wishing also to allow _France ta enjoy, -as far as
possible, .and immediately, the athantages of
peace, even before ail its arrirhgementa may be
determined on, have agreed, conjointly with
Monsichr, Son of _Franee,Bi-other of the King,
Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom of France,
to a suspension of hostilities between their respee.
tive forces, and the reestablisliment .of
eient relations of friendship.bet,,ween them.
His Royal Highness Alloaienr, Son of France,'
&c. &c. on the one part, and the respective Sove-
reigns, &c. on their .part, have, in consequeme,
nominated Plenipotentiaries to agree to. an Act,
which,.without prejudicing the arrangements-for
feaCe, shall contain the stipulatiOni. for'a sus-
pension of hostilities, and which shall be follow-
ed as soon as possible by a regular Treaty of
Peace, namely,

[Here follow the designatio is of tEe di ferent High Con.
tracting Powers, and their Plenipotentia

These 'characters, alter the interchange of their

respective full powers, bare agreed to the follow-

articles
:
Art. 1. All hostilities by laridand si,a are, and shall remain,
suspended between the iNllicdTo;,vers and Fiance, namely, 4y
land, as soon as. the Generals commanding the French armies
and fortiiied places shall-have made known to the Generals
commanding the- Allied Troops who are opposed to them),
.that they have acknowleilged the authority of the Lieutenant.
General of the Kingdom; of France; arm as kfell by sea, as
with regard to all maritime placesund stations, as soon as the
fleets and ports of the Kingdom of France, or the places occu-
pied bY French troops, shall have made the same submission.
Art. 11. In order to eonarm the re-establishment of the 're-
Wiens of amity between the Allied Powers and France, and
to let her enjoy, as much as pi)Ssible, beforehand, the advan-
tages of Peace, the Allied POwers siiall cause to bL evacuated
by their armies the whole of the French territory, such as it
was on the Ist of January, 1792, while the places still occu-
pied beyond those, limits by the-French troops shall be evacu•
ated and restored to the Allies.

Art, 111. The Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom of France
will, in consequence, give orders to the Commandants of
those places, to resigtr them on the following 'conditions, viz..
The places situated on the Rhine, not comprised within the

limits of France, on the Ist of January, 1792, and those be-
tween the Rhine and the said limits, within the space of ten
days from the date of the signature of the present Act; the
places in Piedmont and the other parts of Italy which be•
longed to France, within the space of fifteen days; those in
'Spain within twenty days; and all other places without ex-
ception, which are at present occupied by French troops; so
• •
that a total surrentier may be made previods to the Ist of
June next. The garrisons
.of .those places shall march otit
with their arms and baggage, and the military and other per-
sons of every description iu the French service, with their
private property: They shall also he allowed to take with
theta their field artillery, in the proportion of three pieces to
every thousand Men, the sick end wounded being included
in the numbers. '

The appurtenances of the fortresses, and whatever is not
private property, shall rernain and be consigned to. the Al-
lies as they may be found, without any dilapidation. In the.
appurtenances arecumpr;sed„not only the depots of artillery
and ammunition, but also all other sorts'of warlike stares of
any kind whatever, as well as all archives, inventories, plans,
maps, models, &c. &c. &c.
Imo ediately after the signature of the present Convention,
CoMmissioners on the part of the Allied I'owers and Franca
shall be appointed and sent off to the fortresses, to ascertain
the state in which they may be Wind, and to regulate con-
jointly the execution of this article.

The garrisons shall be dispatched at regular intervals to the
routes which shall be agreed on for their return to France. •
The blockade of all tht.lstrong places in France, shall _be
raised immediately by the Allio Armies. The French troops
forming part of the Army of Italy, or occupying the strung
places in that country, or in the INlediterranean, _shall be ini-
"mediately recalled by the Lieutenant General of the Kingdom.
Art. IV. The stipulations of the "preceding Articlet shall
likewise be applied to the maritime places; the Contracting. •
Povr.rs reserving to themselves the right of regulating, in the
pefitiitive Treaty of Peace, the fate of the arsZ.tials and ships
of war, armed or in,ordinary, which may be fouml_in the said
places.

Art. V. The fleets anti slips of France shall remain:in their

respecti►'e situations, excepting the vessels charged with Inis.
sions; but the immediate effecteof the.present act, with regard
to the ports, shall be., thicessation of all blockades
by land and sea, the liberty of fishing, that of coasting, and
particularly.as this is 'necessary for supplying Paris'lrith pro-
visions, and re-establishing,the ref:ations of commerce, cone
fortuably to ill() intqrnal regulations of each country. And

this imnaediate effect with retard to the interior shall 'he tie
f-e,,sn'tply of the toscns and the transit of military or com-
mercial stores.

Art. VI. In order to prevent all cause of complaints or dis-
putes which may arise on account of the captures which may
he made at sea, after the signing of the present Convention,
it is reciprocally agreed, thatsthe ships and effects Which may
he taken in the Channel, and in the North Sea, after the space
of twe've days, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifica-
tions of the •present- Act, shall be restored en either side;
that the period shall be one month from' the Channel and the
North Sea to the Canary Isles,i the Equator, and five months
in all the-other parts of the -worn, without any exception, or
any other-distinction as•to tinmor
Art. VII. The' prisoners oil all sides, whether soldiers or
s-amen, or of what description soever, and particularly all
lostages, shall he iaimediately set at liberty, and sent hmhe

4o their respective countries, without ransom or exchange.—
Cominissim;ers shall be appointed reciprocally.
.to forward this

general liberation. •
Art. VIII. The Co-Belligerents, immediately after the siX--
nature bf the pi esent act, shall surrender the government or
possession of; the towns at present occupied by their troops,
to the Magistrates appointed by his-Royal Highness the Lieu-
tenant-General of the Kingdom of France. The Royal
Au-
iborities undertake to provide for the subsistence and ne-
cessities of the troops, fill the time
.when they shall have
evacuated the Freneliterritor,ies and the Allied roweri on
their part,• out of good-will and friendship towards France,
-will cause all military requisitions to be discontinued, as soon
as the surrender of the dilferent places to the Legitimate Au-
thority shall have been effected.

The general terms of the execution of this article shall be
regulated- by a particular Convention.
Art. IX. A general understanding shall prevail, with.re-
gard to the terms of the second article, as to the roads which
the troops of the Allied Powers shall talc on thefr march, in
order that the necessary supplies may be prepared for them;
and COmmissaries shall be appointed to malts all the neces-
sary arrangements, and to accOmpanT the troops till they
shall quit the French territory.
In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries 4ve
signed- the present Convention, and have affixed to it their

seals

Done at Paris, the 23d of April, in the year of Grace 1814.
ADDITIONAL ARTICJ4.
The period of ten days, admitted in virtue of the stipula-
tions of the Third Article of the Convention of this day, for
the evacuation of the places on the Rhine, and between this
rii•er and the ancient frontiers of France, is extended to the
places,"forts, and militarle4ta.blishruents, of what nature
soever they may be, in the United Provinces of the Low
Countries.

The prevent additional Article shall have the same force
and value as if it had been actually inserted in the Conven-
tion of this day.

In virtu“lf which the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed it, and affixed to it their respective seals.
Done at Paris, the 23d of April, in the year of Grace 1814.

The General Council of the Department of the
Seine and Dix had an extraordinary meeting on
the 14th instant, to vote an Address to Monsieur,
which was presented on the 16th, by a Deputation,
consisting of the Prefect, the Seeretary-Generkil,
/and . some Members of the General Coniscil, and
the Councillors of the Prefectorate. llis Royal
Highness received the Deputation with great
affability, and observed, in answer, that he should
never forget' that he was born in the Department
of the Seine and Oise, , and that he had passed in
it his happiest years. •
A. similar Deputation froth the Council of Sois-
sons was, introduced on the 19th, as was one from
the, town of Langres, another from that of
Rheims, a third from• the Society of Sciences of
Paris; and a fourth from the consistory of the
Christian Churches at Augsburgh.