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FRANCE.

LIONLATIVZ BODY, I PRIMAIRN, (NOV. at.)
PIiSIDIOCT OF DUPUIS.
The order of the day being the prefentation of
the projea of a law refpeaing the Treaty condu-
it:A on the sth of Fruaidor, year 9, (Auguft 23,)
between the French Republic and the Eledor of
Bavaria, the Cantlenor of State Boozer (de la
Nieurthe) after having read the Treaty, addreffed
the Affembly as follows :
The Treaty of Peace prefented to you, Citizens
Legifiators, is a Rains inflame oldie wifdom and
moderation of the French Government. Bf this
Treaty the Fidler of Bavaria renounces all the
rights of territorial fuperiority and property which
belonged. to him in the countries and domains
fituated on the left bank of the Rhine. He re-
nounces there in particular the Duchies of Julia:
' and Deux Pouts, as well as all the Basiliwicks of
the Palatinate &sated on the fame bank. If at
the epoch of this Treaty there domains bad not
belonged to the Republic, it might under this
point of view have been advantageous to it ; but
they formed already a part of die French territory
by the Treaty of Luneville, which in this refped
only renewed that of Campo.Formio, by which
all the left bank of the Rhine, occupied for a long
time by our armies, bad been ceded to France.
This talon, made by the Emperor and the Ger.'
man Empire, is one of the benefits then of the
Treaty of Luneville, and not an advantage of that
concluded at a later period wide Bavaria. The'
renunciation of the Eleaor ought therefore to be
canfidered as nothing elfe than a proof of his fpe-
cial adhering to the Treaty of Lunevllle, or as a
tefliniony of defire to execute that treaty ; but
it is evident that it gives no new augmentation of
territory to the Republic. The orator, after ex-
• patiating on the condo& of the Eleftor of Bavaria
in joining the coalition, though he had concluded
a Treaty with the French Republic in the year 4,
and extolling the generous and magnanimous
condo& which, notwithflanding his aggreffion,
France had (hewn towards him, even in midi
of vittory, proceeded to Rate, " That, in regard
to the loffes which the Eleaor had fuftained on
the left bank, he mull, in terms of the Treaty of
Lnoeville, be indensnifted for them on the right
bank ; and though, on this fake, the French
Government might Brew itfelf indifferent, it is de.
firous of Rill giving a proof of its good will to.
words the Eleaot, and promifes to him its irks.
ewe zed its mass, not only that the indemnity fhall
be complete, but that it thall be emonsiew to km,
and really render him more powerful than he was
before the war." After making tome further ob-
. fervatioos on the moderation difplayed by the
French Nation, the orator concluded with fisting,
that the Treaty contained nothing contrary to the
Conftitudon. The Prefident then &aced that the
projea of the law refpeaing it, and a copy of the
crator's fpeech, (Ismail be transmitted without de-
lay, by a niefragz, to the Tribunate.
8 FILIMAItt, VOTINBIII 29.
The Order of the day being the prefentation of
the projea of a law, in regard to the Treaty con-
cluded on the 16th of Vendemiaire (Oa. 8,) be-
tween the French Republic and the Emperor of
all the Rufus. the Counfelico of State,
hating read the Treaty, made a long fpeech. in
which he gave an account of the various events that
preceded the negotiation for this Treaty, and
concluded with the following obfervations on
its general tendency and advantages This
Treaty prefents a vat field for new fpeeutations
on the pad of the French mere/anti--Porte ac-
quired by France to the north of its antient limits;
the free navigation of the Scheldt, which will
c^nytT to the ocesn, and thence to the via di Rant
cr.irotries, the produdions of Belgium; and which
sa ill roll: re to the city of Antwerp its antitot
fp:endow. ; a new Wood& communicated in
all parts of the Republic to the national ;oilman- ;
encorragenserit and rewards granted by Go
e z =trent to the efforts of the arts and of commerce.
rive t: • rci•tet tnhve, that OUT natrigat: m sill
rtlume cnurfe towards the North, i%

has bees too lose segiegted for the sailor and al-
wit exclutivo navigation of the Pacific leas of ow
Weftern colonies : no doubt, we (ball fee our
(hips (hew themfelves as before in the Baltic, in
the fea of Lapland, and penetrating even to the
extremities of the Boreal teas, to enrich us in the
one by an exchange of our produaions, and in the
other by the Whale Filhery : it is there, it is on the
frozen thorn and foggy coatis of Newfoundland,
that there may be formed by fatigue and danger,
a new nurfery of (cameo., who will introduce into
the navy of the State, when the voice °Muir cowl.
try, =Bs urn them, that naval experience, the
want of Which can never be fupplied by the impe.
tuous courage of the French, by their love of
glory, and even by their genius."
The Prefident decreed, that the law, together
with the Orator's (perch, (bould be tranfmitted
without delay by a meffage to the Tribunate.

FRIM•1111, NOVEMBER 30.
The Order of the Day being the'Projed of a
law in regard to the Treaty concluded between
the French Republic and Portugal, the Counfellor
of State, DREIRISMIT, after reading the Treaty,
addreffi the Atrembly, as follows :
Citizens Legidators—The Treaty which I have
the honour of prefentins to you, is one of thofe
Aas for which we are indebted to the wifdom of
the meafures taken by the government, and to the
eutuagetsub devotion of the armies of the Repub-
lic. It will not be difficult to make you fenfible
of the advantages it prefenu fur the honour and
praperity of the two nations. It contains three
principal difpofltions. By the firft, peace and'
amity are re.ellabliffied between the French Re-
public and the Kingdom of Portugal, and the po-
litical relations between the two Powers are re.
ftored on the fame footing as before the war. By
the fecund, the limits between die two Guyana*,
the French and the Portugnefe' are fixed for the
future. In a country ahnoit defart, none better
could be chores than rivers and mountains and it
was natural that France, whofe poileifions in that
quarter are much lets eztenGve than thofe of Por-
tugal, mould make thefe limits approach the an-
cient
point at which they had been fixed. In the
Lift place, the third Rates, That there mall be
negotiated betweeli the two Powers, a Treaty of
Commerce and Navigation, which mill Re in a
definitive manner, the commercial relations be-
tween France and Port%al ; but is the mean time,
tin the former communications be ellabliffied, the
citizens and fuhjelts of the two Powers ihall
equally and refpedively enjoy in both States all
the rights which are enjoyed by the fubjeds of the
moll favoured nations : That the commodities
and merchandize the produce of the foil and ma-
nufaaures of each of the two States, (hall be re-
ciprocally admitted without rethidions, and with-
out being &Ned to any dutf. which ihall not'
equally ailed fimiliar commodities and mercban-
dize imported by other nations; and that the
French' cloth may be confequently introduced into
Portugal on the footing of the moll favoured mer-
thandize. The Orator then proceeded to give an
hiftorical view of the relations between France
and Portugal, and recurring to that article of the
Treaty which relates to the boundaries betiveen
the two Guyana:, obfeived thus :-
44 It is an error to fuppofe that the Torrid Zone
cannot be inhabited by Europeans : the Amazon,
the largeß river in the world, purfues a winding
courfe parallel to the equinolffial, two or three de-
grees fouth of that line, which iticms at its mouth;
and la Condamine, who followed it throughout
its whole courfe, did not find the heat infupport-
able. The climate beComes temperate the farther
one penetrates
. into the country, thebeautyofwhich u
gives s reafon to hope, that valuable colony
may be founded in it. There hopes, indeed, can-
not be realized without powe-ful aid, but it was
necerat4y, in the firil place, that the boundaries
of the Colony, Rill unr-ertqin, mould be fixed.—
If debates arofe in the Britill Parliament on the
means of reconciling this fixation with the Preli-
minary Treaty concluded between France and
England, which confecrates the integrity of the
Portuguefe poileffions ; theft- debates could occa-
lion no ferrous difficulty. It is evident that the
cbufe of the Preliminary Treaty had relation only
to the invafion with which Portugal was threatened
by the French army, then on its frontiers."
The Legiflative Body decreed, that the projea
of the Law, together with a copy of the Orator's
fpeech, mould be forthwith traufmitted to the Tri-
bunate by a meffage.