The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-20 00:00:00

7iI.R7S, APRIL 16.

TheCARDINKL LEGATE has declared, by virtue
of his apostolic power, that the following days
shall be kept as Festivals and Holidays—Christmas-
day,, the Ascension, the Assumption, and the Feast
of All Saints.

M. CAMB ASC ER ES, Archbishop of Rouen, yes.
terday performed the ceremony of washing feet in
,the Church of St. Roch.

On Sunday the Archbishops and Bishops Of France
will take the usual oath of Fidelity publicly in the
Church of Notre Dame.

A private Letter from Rochfirt states, that in a
few days a Vesel of 130 guns will be launched in
that Port.

The Minister of Police has succeeded, in causing
a mar; of the name of Thevenet to he apprehended at
Thoulouse : he is one of the greatest thieves now
in existence. Seventeen years ago Ir. robbed the
house of FINGERLIN and SCHERER, at Lyons, in
the open day, of 400,000 crowns. He was also
concerned in the robbery of the Garde Meable. He
has lately committed several robberies at Lyons and
Thoulouse.

The EMT EROR of RUSSIA his ordered that there
shall be a uniformity of weights and measures
'throughout his Empire.
HAGUE, APRIL 4.—Admiral De WINTER IlaS
received instruaions to sail to Algiers, Tunis, and
Tripoli. These Powers have expressed som, dis-
content, and have even decared War agairfst our
Republic, because the usual Presents, amounting to
130,000 florins a-year, were not sent. Admira
De WINTER will pay the sum which is due, and
renew the former relations between the two States.

TREATY OF PEACE

BETWEEN THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND .THE

REGENCY OF TUNIS.

THE FIRST CONSUL of the French Republic,
wishing to .renew the .Articles of Peace anciently
agreed upon between France• and Tunis, and to
add thereto new Articles, has appointed for this'
purpose JACQUES DEVOIZE, who, by virtue' of full
powers given to him as the Representative of the
First Consul of the 'French Republic, has agreed
with His Excellency HAMOUDA PACHA BEY and
the Divan of Tunis, upon the following additional
Articles :

z. The First Consul of the French Republic, in the name
of the Frenc'h People, and His Excellency HAMOUDA
PA en A BEY, and the Divan of Tunis, do confirm and renew
all preceding Treaties, particularly that of 1742.

2. The Trench Nation shall be maintained in, the enjoy-
before the War',; and being more distinguished and morn use,
ful than other Natives established at Tunis, it shall also b
the most favoured.

3. Whenever any French Ship of War shall stop at the.
Goulette, the Commissary of the Republic, or some one for
him, shall be allowed to go on board without molestation.
4. The Commissary of the French Republic shall appoint,
and change at his pleasure, the Dragoman's-arid the Janissa-
ries in the service of the Commissariat.

5. The Merchandizes coming from France in French ves-
sels, either to Tunis or any other Ports dependent upon it,
shall duly pay.as heratofore, a Custom duty of 3 per Cent.
which shall not be colleted in Merchandize, but in the cur-
rent coin of the Country. The Tunisian Subjects shall en-
joy in France the same privilege.
6. All Merchandize coming from Countries at war with
'the Regency, and which shall be imported into Tunis by
French Merchants, shall continue to pay a custom duty of
Three Per Cent. ; and in case of a War between the French
Republic and any other Power, the 141erchandizes belonging
to and laden in France on account of French Merchants, in
vessels belonging to Neutral Powers, friends of the Regency,
shall only pay the duty of Three per Cent. until the cessa-
tion of hostilities. Reciprocal regulations shall be made in
France, with respell to the TuniSians.
7. The Jewish Brokers and other strangers resident at
Tunis, in the service of French Merchants, shall be under
the protedion of the Republic ; but if they import Merchan-
dise into the Kingdom, they shall pay the impost usually
paid by the Subjedis of the Country to which they belong;
and if any difference arise between them and the Christians or
Moors of the Country, they shall come with their antago-
nists before the Commissary of the French Republic, where
they shall chuse, at their own option, two French and two
Moorish Merchants of the first rank, to decide their disputes.
8. Every indiVidual of any Country, which, by concwiest
or by treaty, shall have been re-united to the States
.of the
French Republic, who shall be found in a state of captivity
in the Kingdom of Tunis, shall be set at liberty on the first.
• request of the Commissary of the Republic ; but if that in-
dividual shall have been taken in the service and pay -of a
Power at War with the Regency, he shall not be released,
bin remain a Prisoner.

9. In the event of a rupture between the two Powers, the
French Residents at Tunis shall not be any ways molested ;
they shall be allowed the space of three months, during
which they shall enjoy all manner of liberty and protedion ;
and upon the expiration of that term, they :shall be at liberty
to retire unmolested with their etteds, to wherever they may
think proper.

Done at Tunis the 20 of February, 18oz, or the ztst of
the month of Chewal, in the year One Thousand Two
Hundred and Six of the Hegira.
(Signed) DEVOIZE,
'Commissary-General of the French Re-
public with the B of To: s
HAMOUDA, Pacha-Bey of Tunis.

In September last the Chinese Sea was visited by
a tuffoon, which occasioned the loss of many junks
and fishing boats, and upwards of SOOO persons ;
the, severity of the gale produced an inundation of
the low lands, and it was coniputed"that 2000' natives
peri‘hed in consecoence, .