Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-27
TREATY OF PEACE
Ret4veen THE Freueb Rebu6hc and The
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Kmgdom Of Portugal.
The 6rt coniul of the French republic.
in the name of the French people and his
royal highnefs the prince regent of the
kingdom of Portugal and Algarva, equal
ly animated with the deire of eftablihine
thoie relations of commerce and ami,y
which iubiiGed betweeR both fla,es previ-
Gus to the war, have determined TO con-
clude treaty of peace, through the me /.
diation of his Catholic ma;eiiy, and have
appointed for this purpoie the following
pleniposentiaries, viz.
The irf conful has nominated, in the
name Of the French people, citizen Lucien
Buonaparte, and his royal highnefs the
prince regent of the kingdom Of Portugal
and Algarva, his excellency Cypriano Bi.
belro trcire, commander of the order OF
ChriR, one Of the council of his royal
highnefs, and his minifer |plenipo,enriary
to his Catholic majeRy which plenipo-
tcn,iaries, after having exchanged their
REFLECTIVE powers, have agreed upon the
following articles:
I. There lhall be from henccforth peace,
friendlhip and yood understanding, be-
tween the French republic and the king.
dom OF Portugal. All hofilities, both
by land and fea, fhall ceafe inmediately
after the exchange of the notifications of
the preient treaty that is to fay, with
in fifteen days in Europe and the ieas
which bound it and the coaf1 of Africa on
this fide of the Epuator within forty
days after the aforefaid notifications in the
territories and feas of America and Africa
on the other ddc Of the Equator and 4
months after in all the territories and feas
to the wefward of Cape Horn, and to the
eaf of the Cape of Good Hope. All the
prizes made after thefe reflective periods,
in the latitudes mentioned, lhsll be reipec-
lively reaored. The priioners on each iide
ihall be reaored, and the fame political
relations re-eitablilhed between the two
powers as exitted before the war.
II. All the ports and roads of Portugal
in Europe ihall Immediately be Nhut, and
continue 70 until the concluiun of peace
between France and England, againG all
Engliih veGels, bot!l of war and trade; and
the iaid ports and roads fhali be open to
all the ye6els ofwar and trade belonging
to the French republic and her allies.
As to the ports and roads of Portugal
in other parts of the world, the prefent ar
ticle lhall be, obligatory within the peri.
DDS above fixed for The ceaation OF hoiti-
litieS.
III. Portugal engages NOT to furnih,
during the courfe of the prefent war, TO
the enemies Of the French republic and her
allies, any iuccours in troops, veGels, arms,
ammunition, proviGons, or money of any
kind, or in any manner whatever. All
anterior acts, engagements, or convent
onS, contrary to the preient article, fhall
be revoked, and regarded as null and
void.
". The boundaries of the French and
Portugefe Guyana ihall be determined in
future by the river Carapanatuba, which
flows into the river Amazon, about a
third OF a degree north latitude, above
Fort Macapa. Theie limits flnall follow
the coutie of the river to its fource, whence
they fhall take direction to the grand
chain ofmountains whichdivide the courle
of the river they fhall follow tile wind
ings of that chain to the point nearea to
Rio Branco, between the fecond and third
degree north of the Equator.
The Indians of the two Guyanas, who
IN the courfe Of :be war may have been
carried off from their habitatioas, fhall be
respectively refored.
The citizens or fubjeds Of the vo pow
ers, who may be comprifed within the