ror to fecure himself from the unhappy confequences which may be the refult.

2d. The ancient rights of his Imperial Majefty, and his ancestors, to Venetian Iria, which formerly made part of Hungary. And as feveral of the Venetian provinces have detached themfelves from the fovereignty of Venice, his Majefty conceived this to be the time to affert his ancient rights.

This declaration has been accompanied by a general pardon, as well for the Auftrian fubjects who had fled into Iftria to avoid taking up arms, as for the Venetian subjects who had left their country.

Definitive Treaty of Peace, concluded between the French Republic and the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia.

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IS Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and the French Republic, being defirous to confolidate the peace, the b.fis of which has been laid down by the preliminaries figned at the Chateau of Eckenwald, near Leoben, in Styria, on the 18th of April, 1797, (29th Germinal, 5th year of the French Republic, one and indivsible) have named for their Plenipotentiaries the following perfons: his Majefty the Emperor and King, the Sieur D. Martius Maftrilly, noble Neapolitan Patrician; Marquis of Gallo, Knight of the royal Order of St. Januarius, Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majefty the King of the Two Sicilies, and his Ambaffador Extraordinary at the court of Vienna; the Sieur Louis, Cobentzel, Count of the holy Roman Empire,

Grand Cross of the royal Order of St. Stephen, Chamberlain and actuai Privy Counfellor of State to his faid Imperial, Royal, and Apoftolic Majefty, and his Ambafador Extraordinary to his Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias; the Sieur Maximilian, Count of Merveldt, Knight of the Teutonic and Military order of Maria Therefa, Chamberlain and Major-General of Cavalry in the armies of his faid Majefty the Emperor and King; and the Sieur Ignatius, Baron Degelmann, Minifter Plenipotentiary of his faid Majefty to the Helvetic Republic; and the French Republic has named Buonaparte, General in Chief of the French army in Italy; which perfons, after the exchange of their respective powers, have refolved upon the following

articles :

Art. I. There fhall be in future, and for ever, a folid and inviolable peace between his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, his heirs and fucceffors, and the French Republic. The contracting parties fhall give the greateft attention to the maintenance of a perfect intelligence between themfelves and their ftates, without permitting, for the future, any fort of hoftilities on either fide, for whatever cause, or under whatfoever pretext, and shall carefully avoid whatever may hereafter affect the union thus happily eftablished. No affiftance fhall be given, either directly or indirectly, to

thofe who would attempt any thing to the prejudice of one or other of the contracting parties.

II. Soon after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, the contracting parties fhall remove all fequeftrations impofed up

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on the effects, rights, and revenues of individuals refiding in their refpective territories, and the countries reunited to them, as well as upon the public establishments; they fhall be bound to pay all debts for funds fupplied to them by the faid individuals or public establishments, and to repay all rents fettled for their profit.

The prefent article is declared common to the Cifalpine Republic. III. His Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, renounces for himself and his fucceffors, in favour of the French Republic, all his rights and titles to the gi-devant Belgic provinces, known by the name of the Auftrian Pays Bas. The French Republic fhall poffefs these countries in perpetuity, in entire fovereignty and property, and with all the territorial effects which belong to them.

IV. All the debts for which the foil of the faid countries fhall have been mortgaged before the war, and the contracts for which fhall fubfift in the cuftomary forms, fhall be adopted by the French Repub

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The Plenipotentiaries of his Majefty the Emperor fhall give an account of them as foon as poffible, and before the exchange of the ratifications, in order that, previous to the exchange, the Plenipotentiaries of the two powers may agree upon the additional articles explanatory of the present, and may fign

them.

V. His Majefty the Emperor and King confents that the French Republic fhall poffefs, in entire fovereignty, the ci-devant Venetian Ifles in the Levant, called Corfou, Zante, Cephalonia, St. Maure, Cerigo, and the other ifles depending upon them, as well as Batrinto, Larta, Vonizza,

and in general all the çi-devant Ve netian eftablishments in Albany, which are fituated lower than the Gulph of Lodrino.

VI. The French Republic confents that his Majefty the Emperor and King fhall poffefs, in entire fovereignty and property, the countries hereafter mentioned; Iftriá, Dalmatia, the çi-devant Venetian ifles in the Adriatic, the mouths of Cattaro, the city of Venice, the channels and the countries comprifed between the hereditary states of his Majefty the Emperor and King, the Adriatic Sea, and a line which, iffuing from the Tyrol, shall follow the torrent in front of Gardola, and traverse the lake of Garda, as far as Lacife, whence a military line, offering equal advantages to both parties, fhall be marked out by officers of engineers, named on both fides, before the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty. The line of limitation fhall afterwards pafs the Adige at Langiacomo, and fol low the left bank of that river to the mouth of the Canal-Blanc, comprifing that part of Porto-Legnago which is on the left bank of the Adige, with a circular diftrict of three thousand toifes diameter. The line fhall proceed by the left bank of the Canal-Blanc, by the left bank of the Tartaro, by the left bank of the canal called Polifella, as far as its entrance into the Po, and by the left bank of the Great Po, as far as

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Republic, which Republic fhall poffefs them in entire fovereignty, with all the territorial effects belonging to them.

VIII. His Majefty the Emperor and King acknowledges the Cifalpine Republic as an independent power. This Republic comprehends the i-devant Auftrian Lombardy, the Bergamafque, the Breffan, the Cremafque, the city and fortrefs of Mantua, Peschiera, that part of the ci-devant Venetian itates which is to the weft and fouth of the line pointed out in Article VI, for the frontier of the states of his Majefty the Emperor in Italy; the Modenois, the principality of Maffa and Carara, and the three legations of Bologna, Ferrara, and Romagna.

IX. In all the countries ceded, acquired, or exchanged by the prefent treaty, there fhall be granted to all the inhabitants and proprictors of every fort a removal of the fequeftrations laid upon their property, effects, and revenues, on account of the war between his Imperial and Royal Majefty and the French Republic, and they fhall not be disturbed, with refpect to it, in their effects or perfons. Thofe who may wish to quit, for the future, the faid countries, fhall be obliged to make a declaration to that effect three months after the publication of the faid treaty. They fhall then have the term of three years to fell their effects, moveable or immoveable, or to difpofe of them at their pleafure.

X. Debts for which the foil of the countries ceded, acquired, or exchanged by this treaty fhall be mortgaged, are the debts of thofe to whom the countries remain.

XI. The navigation of thofe parts of the rivers and canals which ferve

as limits between the territories of his Majefty and thofe of the Cifalpine Republic fhall be free, fo that neither party can eftablish any toll, or maintain any veffel armed for war; but this article does not exclude the precautions neceffary to the fafety of the fortress of PortoLegnago.

XII. All fales and alienations made, and all engagements contracted, either by the cities or by the government, or by the civil and adminiftrative authorities, of the çi-devant Venetian countries, for the maintenance of the German and French armies, up to the date of the figning of the prefent treaty, fhall be confirmed and regarded as valid.

XIII. The titles and archives of the different countries ceded or exchanged by the prefent treaty, fhall be delivered within three months from the exchange of the ratifications, to the powers which have acquired the property of them. The plans and charts of the fortreffes, cities, and countries, which the contracting parties acquire by the prefent treaty, fhall be alfo faithfully delivered to them. The. military papers and regifters taken in the prefent war, fhall be delivered to the Etat-Majors of the respective armies.

XIV. The two contracting parties, equally animated with the defire of removing whatfoever might injure the good intelligence happily established between them, engage themfelves, in the moft folemn manner, to contribute every thing in their power to maintain the interior tranquillity of their refpective ftates.

XV. A treaty of commerce fhall be fpeedily concluded upon an equitable bafis, and fuch as fall af

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fure to his Majefty and the French Republic, advantages equal to thofe enjoyed in their respective states by the most favoured nations. In the mean time all the communications and commercial relations fhall be re-established upon the footing on which they were before the war. XVI. No inhabitant of the countries occupied by the Auftrian or French armies can be profecuted, either in his perfon or his property, for his opinions, or his civil, military, or commercial actions, during the war between the two powers. XVII. His Majefty the Emperor and King cannot, confiftently with the principles of neutrality, receive in any of his ports, during the prefent war, more than fix vellels of war belonging to either of the belligerent powers.

XVIII. His Majesty the Emperor and King obliges himfelf to cede to the Duke of Modena, as an indemnity for the countries hitherto belonging to that prince and his heirs in Italy, the Brifgaw, which he fhall poflefs under the fame conditions as thofe in virtue of which he poffefled the Modenois.

nipotentiaries of the Germanic Empire, and of the French Republic, to conclude a pacification between thofe powers. This congrefs fhall be opened within one month after the conclufion of the present treaty, or fooner if poffible.

XXI. All the prifoners of war made on either fide, and the hoftages taken or given during the war, and which have not yet been reftored, fhall be given up within forty days from the fignature of the prefent treaty.

XXII. The contributions, deliveries, furnifhments, and feizures of every hoftile defcription, which have taken place in the refpective ftates of the contracting powers, fhall ceafe from the day the ratifications of the prefent treaty fhall be exchanged.

XXIII. His Majefty the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and the French Republic, fhall preferve between them the fame ceremonial, as to rank and other etiquettes, as was conftantly obferved before the war. His aforefaid Majefty and the Cifalpine Republic, fhall obferve the fame ceremonial as prevailed between his Majefty aforefaid and the Republic of Venice.

XXIV. The prefent treaty of peace is declared to be in common with, and to be extended to the Ba-: tavian Republic.

XXV. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified by his Majefty the Emperor and the French Republic, within the space of thirty days from the prefent day, or fooner, if poffible, and the acts of ratification, in due form, fhall be exchanged at Raftadt.

Concluded and figned at Campo Formia, near Udina, on the 17th of October, 1797, (the s