The Sun.
London, England, 1802-03-31 00:00:00

DFFII\II77I7A TRA..17`17 OF PE-ICE'

BTWEE,T

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, HIS. MAJESTY THE
KING OF SPAIN AND THE INDIES, AND THE
BATAVIAN REPUBLIC., (ON THE ONE PART);

. ,
i AND
HIS MAJESTY, THE KING OF; THE UNITED'
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANN
(ON THE OTHER PART).

THt First Consulof the French 'Republic, in-0°
Name of the French People, And His majesty till:
'King of the United KingctOni of Great Britain and
Ireland, being equally animated With- a ,desire
put an end to the Calamities of War, have laid 61
foundation of Peace; by the Preliminary', Article,.
which were signed in London the .9t...h
Vendeoliaire
or it), (or the itt of oCloher, ISotj. .
And as by the x sth- Article of the Preliminaries
it has been agreed on, " That Plenipotentiaries
should be named on the part of each GoverOnient°
',who. should repair to Amiens, and there proceed
to arrange a Definitive- Treaty, in concert With
the- Allies Of the Contracting- Powers;".
The First Consul of the French Republic, in. tile
name of the Frencli People, has named-as
tentiary the Citizen jOseph Bonaparte, Counsellor
of State. • •
His Majesty the King of the Unitcd'iCingtiota
of Great Britain and Ireland,las named the Mar-
quis Cornwallis, Knight of the Most' NobleOr`lefr
of the Garter, one of His Ma* • Coliilci"'
jestys Privy
General in His Majesty's Army, 'c. &c.
His Majesty the King of Spain and the Indiegl
and the Government of the 'Ratavian R
ep
ub
l
i
c
,
have appointed the following Plenipotentiaries' ch
wit, His "Catholic Majesty. hitS named Don .1°.4,
Nicolas d'Azara, his CoontellOr of State, Gr:l
Cross of the Order of Charles 111. Amhassol°-
„
traordinary .of- His Majesty to. the French .e1)--

lic, Scc. Sec. - •
übliC.
And-the GO m Vernent of the Batavian Bel'
'has named Roger Jean Schimmelpenninck its
szt,
bassador Extraordinary to the French Republic'
m.
, c
Which said Plenipotentiariei having dolt' (11.5
municated to each other- their respectivePvie
which are transcribed at the conclusion of. oe,Pf
sent Treaty, have ;treed. upon the followin.g.l‘..l c

Iles :
Article I. There shall-he Peace, Friendshir, an
Good Understanding between the French Tkel'u)lict
A lc-
His Majesty the King of Spain, his heirs stio
cessors, and the Baravian Republic on the one
and His Majesty the King,of the United Kingd°
of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and succes'

sors on the other part.
ost
The Conttadirrg-Tarties shall use their null
efforts to preserve a perfeft harmony between their •
of
respective Countries, without permitting anY
sat
hostility whatever by sea or by land, for anY
or under-any pretext.
wbich
They shall carefully avoid every thing v
oos
Tight for the futute disturb the happy Vni°n
re-established between them, and shall not give e
tilos
succour or .protedion, dirediy or iudiredly,.

who would wish to injure any of them. d the
11. All the prisoners made on one side arl •
es
other, as well by land as by sea, and the 1.-,tan
carried off or delivered up during the war alit.i up
~001
to the present day, shall be restored without ra°'
the
In, six weeks at the latest, to be reckoned from
day when the Ratifications of the present pr•ch
are exchanged, and on paying the Debts w`ll
they shall have contraded during their 01'6'11%;
Each of the ContraEing Parties -shall fesre6lisreic
discharge the advances which shall have been 113rc
by any of the Contraeting Parties for the suPLO °
and maintenance of prisoners in the countries .be-
they haYe been detained. There shidl be 4P°100;
ed by mutual consent for this purpose a r‘°111111:S51;110
.specially empowered to ascertain and deterrl3'°°
I 'l4'
compensation which may be due to any Qle
Contraffing Parties. The time and the. place 'jog
likewise be fixed by mutual consent for the illeet
of the Commissioners who shall be entrt:isiea witc
the execution,of this Article, and who shall °c,
into account, not only the-Expences incurred cooos,
count of the Prisoners of the respeCtive I\l4tlops)
but likewise on account- of the Foreign 'fr(), at
who before being taken,' were in the paY) 'lll '
the disposal of one of the Contraaing Parties'
„e c..
n
111. His Britannic Majesty restores to the':%.sy
Republic and its Allies, viz. His Catholic
ava
and the Batavian Republic, all the possessi'''s
Colonies which respectively belonged to 'l'6ll'4
a I'l
which have been either occupied or congtiere
csent
the British Forces during the course Of- tlic Pr • • lid
r I'o
War, with the exception of the Island 0'
f CcVl°°'
and of the Dutch possessions in the Isiard 0
te 0
IV. His Catholic Majesty cedes a.1ua ranof
Tjani.
in full property and sovereignty.
Trinidad to His Britannic MajeStY•
iranteeS
V. The Batavian Republic-cedes and gth
oon oic
.
in full property and. sovereignty
to His Bhmeenl'S jr
's 'n
Majesty, all the possessions and establis
the Island of Ceylon, which previous to
the .1-

belonged to the Republic of the United Provinces,
or to the Dutch East India Company.
VI. The Port of the Cape of Good Hope re_
trains to the Batavian Republic in full sovereignty
in the same manner as it did previous to the War:
The Ships of every kind belonging to the
other Contracting Parties shall be allowed to
enter the said Port, and there to purchase what
Provisions they may stand in need of as heretofore,
Without being liable to pay any other imposts than
;MI as the Batavian Republic compels the Ships of
its own Nation to pay.
VII. The territories and possessions of Her Most
Faithful Majesty are maintained in their integrity,
such as they were antecedent to the War. However,
the boundaries of French and Portuguese Guiana are
fixed by the River Arawari, which empties itself
into the Ocean above Cape North, near the Islands
Nuovo and Penetentia, about a degree and a third
of North latitude. These boundaries shall run along
the "' •
ver Arawari, from its mouth the most dis-
- taut from Cape North to its source, and afterwards
on a right line, drawn from that source, to the Rio
46auto towards the West.
c°nsequence, the Northern bank of the River
ravvati) from its distant mouth to its source, and
the territories that lie to the North of the line of
the boundaries laid down as above, shall belong in
• full sovereignty to the French Republic.
The Southern bank of the said River, from the
same mouth, and all the territories to the South of
the 'aid line, shall belong to Her Most Faithful
majesty.
The navigation of the River Arawari, along the
whole of its course, shall be common to both Nations.
The arrangements which have been agreed upon
between the Courts of Madrid and Lisbon, respeCt-
-I,lg the seglement of their boundaries in Europe,
rill nevertheless be adhered to conformdtbly to the
rvulialtinns
alnsof the Treaty of Badajos.
the The territories, possessions,And rights of
S •
üblime Porte, are maintained in their inte-
grity, as
they
were before the War.
IX
Lized, T Ile Republic of the Seven Islands is recog-
The Islands of Malta, Gezo, and Comino,
SJtiall be restored to the Order of Sr. John of Jerusa
ern, to be held on the same conditions on which it
t4ltsessed them before the 'War, and under the fol.:
to
ltin
stipulations .
.

1. the Knights of the Order, whose languages
shall continue to subsist, after the exchange of the
Iltification of the present Treaty, are invited to
return to Malta, as Soon as the Exchange shall have
kiken Place. They will there form a general Chap_
ter, and Proceed to the Eledion of a
.Grand Master,
chosen from among the Natives of the Nation which
Preserve their language, unless that Eleetion has
been already made since the Exchange of the Pre_
It's
understood that an EleCtion made subsequent
to that epochthe shall alone be considered valid, to
• e at exclusion
Place Of any other that may have taken
2. ,ranY Period pliot to.that epoch.
and s h"e
C.°VernirlentS .of the French
.Republic,
an d A`
Great Britain, desiring to place the Order
Island of Malta in a state of entire independence
t
fi reSPea to theta, agree that there shall not be
lture either. a French or English language ;
ane nd that individual belonging to either the
° or the other of these Powers shall be admitted
into the Order,
tv
l'3'. TJ'ere shall be established a Maltese language,
ieh Shall be supported by the territorial reve.
Hoeg'• and commercial duties of the Island. This
:anguage shall have its
isle peculiar dignities, an esta.
notOlment and an hotel. Proofs of Nobility shall
be necessary for the admission of Knights of
the
; and they shall be moreover adonis_
t° all offices, • and shall enjoy all privileges in
Bare manner as the Knights of. the other
]an Bare
At least half of the Municipal, Admi-
tithstrative, Civil, Judicial, and other employ
n ments
habit nding on the Government, shall be filled by in.
ants of the Islands of 'Malta, Gezo, and
C6nlino.
t - The Forces of His Britannic Majesty shall
acuate the Island, and its dependencies, within
Illree months from the exchange of the Ratifications,
°r sooner if possible, At that epoch it shall he given
(;k.) to the Order in its present state, rovided the
r"ucl Master p
or
tcor Commissaries, fully authorized
4hdi , ding to the Statutes of the Order, shall be in
we:
Island to take possession, and that the force
hick is .to be
provided by
hereafter Stipulated, shall have arrived tl'ere•
5. One half of the Garrison, at least, shall be al_
nlacomposed of native Maltese ; for the re-
11,de r, the Order may. levy Recruits in. those
'-'ountries only which continue to- possess the lan-
shellc;s:'cier les laitgllcs. The Maltese Troops
have •Maltese Officers. The Commander in
it.j,l'aeof of the Garrison, as well,as the nomination of
shall pertain to the Grand Master, and

this right he cannot ribigh even temporarily, except
in favour of a Knight, and in concurmice with.the
advice of the Council of the Order.

6. The independence of the isles of Malta, of
Gezo and Comirw, as well as the pr•eesent arrange-
ment, shall be placed under the -proteetion and
guarantee of France, Great Britain, Austria, Spain,
Russia, and Prussia.

7. The Neutrality of the Order and of the Island
of Malta, with its dependencies, is proclaimed.

8. The Ports of Malta shall be opened- to the
Commerce and the Navigation of all Nations,
who shall there pay equal and moderate Duties :
these Duties shall be applied to the cultivation of
the Maltese language, as specified in paragraph 3,
to that of the Civil and Military Establishments of
the Island, as well as to that of a general Lazaret,
open to all Colours.
9. The States of Barbary are excepted from the
conditions of the preceding paragraphs, until, by
means of an arrangement to be procured by the
Contrafting Parties, the system of hostilities, which
subsists between the States of Barbary, and the Or-
der of St. John, or the Powers possessing the lan-
guages, or concurring in the composition of tho
Order, shall have ceased.

ro. The Order shall be governed, both with re-
speft to Spirituals and Ternporals, by the same Sta-
tutes, which were in force, when the Knights left
the Isle, as far as the present Treaty shall derogate
'from them.

i. The Regulations contained in the paragraphs
iii, v, vii, viii, and x, shall be converted into
Laws and perpetrial Statutes of the Order, in the
customary manner ; and the Grand Master, or, if
he shall not be in the Island at the time of its re-
storation to the Order, his Representative, as well
as his Successors, shall be bound to take an Oath
for their pundual observance.
z. His Sicilian Majeny shall be invited to fur-
nish zOOO Men, Natives of his States, to serve in
Garrison of the different Fortresses of the said
Islands. That fOrce shall remain one year, to bear
date from their restitution to the Knights ; and if,
at the expiration of this term, the Order should not
have raised a force sufficient, in the judgment of
the Guaranteeing Powers, to garrison the Island
and its Dependencies, such as is specified in the pa-
ragraph, the NeapOlitan Troops shall continue there
until they shall be replaced by a Force deemed suffi-
cient by the said Powers.

13. The different Powers designated in the
6th paragraph, to wit, France, Great Britain,
Austria, Spain, Russia,. and Prussia, shall be in.:
vited to accede to the present Stipulations.
XI. The French troops shall evacuate the king-
dom of Naples and the Roman States; the English
Forces shall also evacuate Porto Ferrajo, and gene-
rally all the Ports and Islands that they occupy in
the Mediterranean or the Adriatic.

XII. The Evacuations, Cessions, and Restitu_
tions, stipulated by' the present Treaty, shall be
executed in Europe within a month ; on the Con-
tinent and Seas of America and Africa in three
months ; on the Continent and Seas of Asia in six
rncnths which shall follow the Ratification of the
present Definitive Treaty, except in case of a Spe-
cial Reservation.

XIII. In all cases of Restitution, agreed upon
by the present Treaty, the fortifications shall be
restored in the condition they were in at the time
of signing the Preliminaries ; and all the works
which shall have been construded since their occu-
pation, shall remain untouched.
It is agreed besides, that in all the stipulated cases
of Cessions, there shall be allowed to the inhabi-
tants, of whatever rank or nation they may be, a
term of three years, reckoning from the notification
of the present 'Treaty, to dispose of all their pro-
perties, whether acquired or possessed by them, be-
fore or during the continuance of the present War ;
during which term of three years, they shall have
free and entire liberty to exercise their religion, and
to enjoy their fortunes. The same power is granted
in the Countries that are hereby restored, to all
persons, whether inhabitants or not, who shall have
formed any establishments there, during the time
that those Countries were in the possession of Great
Britain.

As to the Inhabitants of the Countries restored
or ceded, it is hereby agreed, that no person shall,
under any ,pretence, be prosecuted, disturbed, or
molested, either in person or property, on account
of his political conduct or opinion, or for his at-
tachment •to any of the Contrading Parties, on any
account whatever, except debts contraCteci with in-
dividuals, or. for als subsequent to. the present
Treaty

XIV. All the Sequestrations 'laid on either side,
on Funds, Revenues, and Credits, of what nature
soever they may be, belonging to any Of the Con.
traaing Powers, or to their Citizens, or Subjeas,
shall be taken off immediately after the Signature of
this Definitiie Treatye

Tje de'ei.',ion of all'elaitilS ainong the individuals
of the respeftive nations, for debts, property, ef-
feas, or rights, of any nature whatsoever•,, which
shoal!, according to received usages, and the Law
of Nations, be preferred at the epoch of the Peace,
shall be referred to the competent Tribunals : in all
those cases speedy and complete justice shall be
done in the countries wherein those claims shall be
respeetively preferred.

XV. The Fisheries on the toasts of Newfound-
land, and of the adjacent islands, and in the Gulph
of St. Laurence, are placed on the same footing as
they were-before the War. •

. The French Fishermen of Newfoundland and the
inhabitants of the Islands of St. Pierre and Mique-
lon, shall have liberty to cut such wood as may be
necessary for them in the Bays of Fortune and
Despair during the first year, reckoning from the
Ratification of the present Treaty.
XVI. To prevent all grounds of complaint and
disputes which might arise on account of Captures
which may have been made at sea subsequent to
the signing of the Preliminaries, it is reciprocally
agreed, that the Ships and property which may
have been taken in the Channel, and in the
North Seas, after a space of twelve days, reckon-
ing from the exchange of the Ratifications of the
Preliminary Articles, shall be restored on the one
side and the other ; that. the term shall be one month
for the space; from the Channel and the Niorth Seas,
as far as the Canary Islands inclusively, as well io,
the ocean as in the Mediterranean ; two months from
the Canary Islands to the Equator ; and, .finally,
five months in all the other parts of the world, with-
out any further exception, or distinction of ti.,rie or
place.
XVII. The Ambassadors, Ministers, and other
Agents of the Contrading Powers shall :ujoy re.
speaively in the States of the said Power'', the same
rank, privileges, prerogatives, and immunities which
were enjoyed before the War by Agents of the
same class.

XVIII. The branch of the Home of Nassau,
which was established in die ci.devant Republic of
the United Provinces, now the Batavian Republic,
having experienced some losses, as well with respect
to private property as by the change of Constitution
adopted in those Countries, an equivalent compensa-
tion shall be procured for the losses which they
shall be proved to have sustained.
XIX. The present Definitive Treaty of Peace is
declared common •to the Sublime Ottoman Porte,
the Ally of His Britannic Majesty ; and the Sublime
Porte shall be invited to transmit its ad of accession
•as soon as possible.
XX. It is agreed that the. Contraaing Parties,
upon requisitions made by them respedively, or by
their Ministers, or Officers duly authorized for that
purpose, shall be bound to deliver up to justice per-
sons accused of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bank-
ruptcy-, committed within the jurisdiaion of the
requiring party, provided flat this shall only be
done in cases in which the evidence of the crime
shall be such, that the laws of the place in which
the accused person shall be discovered, would have
authorized the detaining and bringing him to trial,
had the offence been committed there. The ex-
pences of the arrest and the prosecution, shall be
defrayed by the party making the requisition ; but
this Article has no sort of 'reference to crimes of
murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy, com-
mitted before the conclusion of this Definitive
Treaty.

XXI. The ContraEting Parties promise to ob-
serve sincerely and faithfully all the Articles con-
rained in the present Treaty, and -will not suffer
any sort of counteraaion, diret or indirea, to be
made to it by their Citizens, or respeaive subjeas ;
and the Contratling Parties guarantee, generally
and reciprocally, all the stipulations of the present
Treaty.

XXII. The present Treaty to be ratified by
the Contrafting Parties, as soon as possible, and
the Ratifications shall be exchanged in due farm at
Paris.

In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned Ple_
nipotentiaries, have signed with our hands, and in
virtue of our respeaive full powers, the present
Definitive Treaty, causing it to be sealed with our
respeftive seals.

brine at Amiens, the 4th Germinal, in the year
to (March zs, I 8oz).
'(Signe(i) BONAPARTE',
CORNWALLIS,
AZARA, anti
SCHINIMEL'ENNECK.
(Alcorteel Copy), J. Re

Yesterday a Court of Dire6lors was held at the
East India House, when the Skelton Castle and
Travers, lately arrived from India, were taken up
for the Company's service, in addition to the extra
shipping of the present season.
On Monday, the two Mail Robbers, the Beat.
sgns, were conviaed at Horsham, and sentenced to
be executed at East Grinstead, near the spot where
the robbery was committed, but not to be hung► in
chains.

NA frA.L At E #;* J.

PLYMOUTII, MAIiCEI Z 9

AtouvED this morning, the I:).oizctz:qer Trans:
port, JoHN SHOUT master, hai,irtg-. on board
Troops belonging to the 26th Regiment of t'oot,
five I,Vott'len, and two children; from Egypt, Sailed
from Alexandria the 25th Oaoberi and arrived at
Gibraltar the 36th January : sailed thence the
23d February, and touched' at Cork the 13d inst.
She his had a very boisterous passage, and tiers sup;
postal to be lost : the Troops and Cm*. ate ;ill

Sailed the of 84 gut,,s, for T6rbay.
Arrived the Fisgard Frigate, from a Cruize.

PORTSMOUTH, MARc 30.

ARR IV ED this day, His Majesty's Ships Sairest
and Ropzuha, front the Mediterranean, last from
Gibraltar. The Ro7.willts came in twelve days : by
her we learn', that Captain DowmAN was promoted
from the Dorothea into the C.vsar, and that Captain
BRUNTON Ivaii appointed to the Dorothea.
Arrived this evening at the Motherbank, au/.
put under qilarantine, His Majesty's Ship 11ercal:,,
from tin: Mediterranean.

Arrived a large Fleet of Coasters and Cu:tilers,

from the Downs,.

.The ii/zwx.2,:dria Frigate is hourly expeaed to
arrive from GJ)raitar.

This day t!v: Prince of Wales's own Fencibiei
landed from the- Ocean Transport.
The Ca dlbrian, BaniEhire, ;.rd Wanace Feneible3,
front Egypt, are now perforinirig quarantine at the
Motherb3nk.

Sailed tbis day, His Majesty's Ships Delft, All-
nraer, and Cercs, armle ereilut6 ftir die West Indies,

with Troops.
A Boat belonging to the Isis, of 56 grins,
.was'
this day upset off' Ryde, with several people oii
board, who were all saved by the 'extraordinary ex.:
ertions of Captain STILES, of the Roebuck Revenue
Cutter.

F.ILMOUTH, MARCH zB.

ARRIVED this evening, the American Ship Dcrt;
Capt. PECK, in 35 days from _Norfolk, ‘c-ith flour
called here for orders:

Sailed the Queen Charlo,?te nlckct, Cape. Will/at; r;
with Mails of
,the i 7th inst. for Leeward Islands
the Ship George, Capt. \l7 ri t.tAM.B►,nttt, for Bar.,
badoes, ; ditto Ann, Capt. GR Eo:•:,;, for Sr,
Kitt's ; Brig Matilda, Capt. JUDGE, for I`.Zevis ;
American Ship Union, Capt. Hoot; E , for Alicant ;
and Schooner Clara, Cap. t. REGN'A RTj for Ma-
deira.

Last evening sailed the Prince of Wal:i Packet,
Capt. MOD, with two Mails (16th and 23d
inst.), for Lisbon ; and His Majesty's Ships
gard and Amerkyit ; the former appeared off again
this day, and sent her boat on shore for Letters,
and again proceeded on a Cruize to the Westward
also sailed the Jean, Capt. I\II‘LACH L AN, for Li-
verpool ; and Liberty, WESBOROUGU, for New..
foundland.

The Auckland Packet, froth the Leeward Islandsi
and 71,,ionshoid Packet from America, are hourly-

expeded.

STA MFORD, MARCH 30►

NOTHING can equal the rejoicings at this place
on the occasion of the Definitive Treaty : the Po.
palace; on the Mail entering the town, took the
horses from the Coach, and- drew it in triuthrh to
the Post-Offi. cc.; The Marquis of EXErER sent a
quantity of wine to the Leicester. Militia, quartered
here ; and the rejoicings would have been perfes64
but fOr an unfortunate accident : a Field-piece, the
ramrod having been carelessly left in, was discharg_
ed among a great number of people : it killed one
boy on the spoti and wounded two other persons
dangerously.
The French and Dutch Prisoners at Stilton;
.
nearly 4.000 in mnnber, are; we understand; iii high
spirits;• and th.;;; people of the, town ate not less re.
joked, at the probability of being rid of these con_
su'mets of their bread and cheese There are about
400 Dutch among these prisoners, and it has been
ascertained; that upon ;in average they do not con-
sume less than half a plod of C.:hee'sf: pei Man daily
which they are enabled to procure by the liberality
of their officers; and by bartering other articles fur it.