longer dread those imprudent laws, which would spread devastation and death throughout the colonies. Their only wish is to be united to the mother-country, and they will bring back to it, with their attachment

Treaty, concluded the 20th of May 1802, between the French Republic and his Serene Highness the Duke of Wirtemburg.

Art. I.

HERE shall be good under

rity at least equal to that which they have before enjoyed. At St. Domingo great calamities have happened; great evils are to be repaired; but the insurrection grows less formidable every day. Touissant, without fortresses, without treasure, without army, is no more than a chief of banditti, wandering from mountain to mountain, whom our light troops are constantly pursuing, and will soon destroy.

The peace is known in the Isle of France and in India; the first cares of government have already brought back their love of the republic, their confidence in its laws, and afforded every hope of prosperity.

Many years will pass over us without victories, without triumphs, without those splendid negotiations, which fix the destiny of states; but another species of success ought to mark the existence of nations, and, above all, that of the republic. Industry is every where reanimated, and commerce and the arts every where unite to efface the calamities of war. Labour of every kind calls for the attention of government. It will perform this new task with success, as it shall possess the confidence of the French people. The years which are to come will be, it is true, less celebrated; but the happiness of France will increase, instead of her obtaining that glory which she would now despise. (Signed) Buonaparté, first consul. H. B. Maret, secretary of state.

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the French republic and his serene highness.

II. His majesty the emperor, and the empire of Germany, having conseed, by the 7th article of the treaty of Luneville, that the French republic should possess, in full sovereignty and property, the countries and territories situate on the left bank of the Rhine, and which made part of the empire of Germany, his serene highness the duke of Wirtemburg renounces, for himself, his heirs and successors, in favour of the French republic, the rights of sovereignty, territorial superiority, property, and all other rights which he exercises, and which belong to him over the countries and territories on the left bank of the Rhine, and in particular,

1. The principality of Montbeliard.

2. The county of Storburg.

3. The seignories of Riquewir, Ostheim, Aubure, Franquemont, Blamont, Clermont, Stéricourt, Chàtelot, Granges, Clerval, and Passavant.

4. The fiefs arising out of the said principalities, counties, and seignories.

5. The seignories, fiefs, and domains, possessed by the heirs and successors of the natural children of the duke Leopold Eberhard of Wirtemburg Montbeliard, and which are revertible to the ducal house.

6. The territories, rights, and revenues, at Sphire, Dundenhoven,

and

and in the environs on the left bank of the Rhine.

III. His serene highness in like manner renounces all claims of re

stitution which he might make up

on the French republic for arrears and non-enjoyment of rights and revenues, and for all other causes, anterior to the present treaty.

IV. In pursuance of the 7th article of the treaty of Luneville, the French republic promises and engages its good offices to obtain for his serene highness those territorial indemnities which shall be as much as possible suited to the convenience and pleasure of his serene highness, equivalent to the losses of all kinds resulting to his serene bighness from the war, and conformable to the advantages and privileges at tached to the ceded possessions.

V. The 8th article of the treaty of Luneville, concerning the debts of the countries on the left bank of the Rhine, shall serve as the basis of the regulations to be made respecting the debts of the countries comprised in the cession made by the 2d article of the present treaty.

VI. The private debts of communes and other corporations shall remain charged to them, and by them paid.

VII. On the day of the ratification of the present treaty, all sequestrations placed, on account - of the war, on the goods, effects, and revenues of citizens of the French republic, in the states of his serene highness, shall be taken off, and they shall be at liberty to carry away their goods and effects, and also to sell their property, or receive its revenues, without any hindrance whatever.

Treaty concluded between France and the Prince of Orange.

Art I.

HIS highness the prince of Nassau-Orange-DillenburgDietz, formally renounces for himself and his heirs and successors, the dignity of stadtholder of the united provinces which now form the Batavian republic; he also formally renounces all rights, claims, and pretensions whatsoever, which arise from the above-mentioned dignity; as likewise all domains and territorial property situated in the said republic, or in its colonies.

II. His highness the prince of Nassau-Orange- Dillenburg- Dietz, the princess his consort, their children and heirs, shall enjoy all permanent or annual rents which they have in the Batavian republic, in the same manner as other possessors of rents in the said republic.

III. To indemnify the house of Nassau-Orange-Dillenburg - Dietz, for the renunciations and cessions in the first article of the present treaty, his highness shall receive.

1. The bishopric and abbey of Fulda.

2. The abbey of Corvey. 3. The abbey of Weingarten, with its dependencies.

4. The imperial town of Dormund, in Westphalia, and Ysny and Buchhorn, in Southern Swabia, with their territories and dependencies. His highness shall possess, for ever, and in full sovereign property, for himself, his heirs and successors, the above-mentioned bishopric and abbeys, which shall be secularized in his favour, and the imperial towns,

advantages granted to other nations, the sublime Porte consents that the French merchant ships bearing the French flag, shall for the future possess the undisputed right to navigate and pass freely in the Black Sea. The sublime Porte likewise consents, that the said French merchant ships, on their passage into and out of this sea, shall, with respect to every thing that can favour the free navigation of it, be placed precisely on the same footing with the merchant ships of those nations which now navigate it.

The sublime Porte and the government of the French republic will with common consent take vigorous measures to cleanse the scas, which the ships of both states navigate, from all kinds of pirates.

The sublime Porte promises to protect the French trading ships in the Black Sea against all kinds of pirates.

It is hereby understood, that the advantages secured by the present article to the French in the Ottoman empire, shall in like manner extend to the subjects and flag of the sublime Porte in the seas and territory of the French republic.

III. The French republic shall, in the Ottoman countries which lie on, or in the vicinity of, the Black Sea, both with respect to their trade and the agents and commissaries which that trade may render it necessary to appoint in such places, enjoy the same rights and privileges which France, before the war, enjoyed by virtue of the old capitulations, in any other parts of the states of the sublime Porte.

IV. The sublime Porte assents to all that was stipulated with respect to it in the treaty concluded at Amiens between France and Eng

land, on the 4th Germinal of the year ten (25th of March 1801), or the 22d of Zillides, of the year of the Hegira 1216. All the articles of this treaty, which have relation to the sublime Porte, are by the present treaty formally renewed.

V. The French republic and the sublime Porte mutually guaranty the integrity of their possessions.

VI. The restorations and indemnifications which are due to the agents of the two powers, or to their citizens and subjects, whose effects have been confiscated or sequestrated during the war, shall be regulated in an equitable manner, by a particular agreement to be concluded between the two governments at Constantinople.

VII. Until by common consent new regulations shall be agreed on, with respect to the tolls or customs on which disputes may have arisen, these shall in both countries continue to be regulated by the old capitulations.

VIII. Should any prisoners be found in the two countries, who are detained in consequence of the war, they shall immediately be set at liberty, without ransom.

IX. As the French republic and the sublime Porte, by the present treaty, wish to place their states reciprocally in the situation of the most favoured powers, it is expressly understood that each state grants to the other, all the advantages which have been or shall be granted to any other powers, in the same manner as if they were expressly stipu lated in the present treaty.

X. The ratifications of the present treaty shall be exchanged within eighty days, or sooner, if possible, at Paris.

Done at Paris, the 6th of Mes