in war. The following articles only are declared to be contraband, viz. guns, mortars, firelocks, pistols, bombs, grenades, balls, mufkets, flints, matches, powder, faltpetre, fulphur, cuiraffes, pikes, fwords, fword-belts, cartridge-boxes, faddles, and bridles. All other goods, in neutral bottoms, are to be confidered as neutral property.

XXVIII. The power engaged in war fhall grant leave for fitting out privateers to fuch of its fubjects only as refide in the country, and are able to find fecurity for the damage they may do to neutral veffels.

XXIX. If either of the two powers should be at war with another state, its fhips of war and privateers fhall be allowed to fearch fuch merchant-fhips of the other power as are not under convoy, but only two or three men fhall be fent on board, to inveftigate the legality and neutrality of the cargo.

XXX. If any fuch fhip fhould have contraband on board, that only, and nothing elfe, fhall be taken and confifcated.

XXXII. XXXIII. If one of the powers is carrying on war, the fubjects of the other hall enjoy in the country of fuch power, all liberty and fecurity as before, and its men and fhips fhall not be employed in military fervices. In cafes of bankruptcy of the fubjects of either country, truftees of the eftate fhall be appointed.

XXXIV. If a war fhould break out between the two powers, the fpace of twelvemonth, from the date of the declaration of war, fhall be allowed to their respective trading fubjects, for withdrawing their property from the country of the other.

XXXV. XXXVI. The prefent treaty is concluded for twelve years, and figned by

Count STEDINGK,

Prince KURAKIN,

Count VON DER PAHLEN,
And Prince SAGAZIN.

[Here follow the ratifications of Guftavus Adolphus, and Alexander I.]

Treaty of Peace between the French Republic and the Kingdom of

Τ

Portugal.

'HE First Conful of the French republic, in the name of the French people, and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of the kingdom of Portugal and of Algarva, equally animated with a defire of re-establishing the connexions of commerce and amity, which fubfifted between the two ftates before the prefent war, have refolved to conclude a treaty of peace by the mediation of his Moft Chriftian Majefty, and for this purpofe have named as their plenipotentiaries, viz. the First Conful of the French republic, in the name of the French people, Citizen Lucien Bonaparté; and his

Royal

Royal Highnefs the Prince Regent of the kingdom of Portugal and of Algarva, his Excellency Cyprian Bibeiro Freire, commander, of the Order of Christ, member of his Royal Highness's council, and minister plenipotentiary to his Moft Catholic Majesty; which plenipotentiaries, after exchanging their reciprocal powers, have agreed upon the following articles:

Art. I. There fhall in future and for ever be a peace, amity, and good understanding, between the French republic and the kingdom of Portugal; all hoftilities fhall ceafe by land as well as by fea, dating from the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, viz. in fifteen days for Europe, and the feas which wash its coaft; and thofe of Africa, on this fide the equator, forty days after the faid exchange for the countries and feas of Africa and America, beyond the equator; and three months after, for the countries and feas fituated to the weft of Cape Horn, and to the eaft of the Cape of Good Hope. All prizes made after each of these periods in the feas, to which they apply, fhall be respectively reftored. The prifoners of war fhall be given up on both fides, and the political relations between the two powers shall be reestablished on the fame footing as before the war.

II. All the ports and harbours of Portugal, in Europe, fhal! be immediately fhut, and thall remain fo till peace between France and England, to all English ships of war and merchantınen; and the fame ports and harbours fhall be open to all thips of war or merchantmen belonging to France or its allies.

In regard to the ports and harbours of Portugal, in the other parts of the world, the prefent article shall be obligatory, according to the terms above fixed, for the ceflation of hoftilities.

III. Portugal engages to furnish during the courfe of the prefent war to the enemies of the French republic, and its allies, any. aid in troops, fhips, arms, warlike ammunition, provifions, or money, under whatever name or denomination. Every anterior act, engagement, or convention, which may be contrary to the prefent article, fhall be revoked, and fhall be confidered as null and void.

IV. The limits between the two Guianas, the French and Portuguese, shall be determined in future by the river Carapanatuba, which empties itself into the Amazon, at about one third of a degree of the equator above Fort Macapa. Thefe limits thall follow the course of the river to its fource, whence they shall proceed towards the great chain of mountains which divides the waters; they shall follow the inflections of that chain to the point where it approaches neareft the Rio-Branco, towards about 2'd degrees north of the equator.

The Indians of the two Guianas, who in the course of the war may have been taken from their habitations, shall be respectively

reftored.

The citizens or fubjects of the two powers, who may find themselves comprehended in the new determined limits, may reciprocally retire into the poffeffions of their respective states: they fhall have power alfo to difpofe of their property, moveable and immoveable, during the space of two years, dating from the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

V. There fhall be negotiated between the two powers a treaty of commerce and navigation, which shall definitively fix the commercial relations between France and Portugal. In the mean time it is agreed:

Ift. That the communications fhall be re-eftablished immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, and that the agencies and commiffaries of commerce shall be put in poffeffion of the rights, immunities, and prerogatives, which they enjoyed before

the war.

2d. That the citizens and fubjects of the two powers fhall equally and refpectively enjoy in the ftates of both all the rights which are enjoyed by the fubjects of the moft favoured nations.

3d. That the articles of trade and commerce, the produce of the foil, or manufactories of each of the two ftates, fhall be reciprocally admitted without reftriction, and without their being fubjected to any duty which fhall not bear equally upon analogous articles imported by other nations.

4th. That French cloths may be immediately introduced into Portugal, on the footing of the most favoured merchandifes.

5th. All ftipulations in regard to coinmerce, inferted in preceding treaties, and not contrary to the prefent treaty, fhall be provifionally until the conclufion of a definitive treaty.

VI. The ratifications of the prefent treaty of peace shall be exchanged at Madrid, within the term of twenty days at most. Done, in duplicate, at Madrid, the 7th Vendemiaire, year Io of the French republic, 29th Sept. 1801.

(Signed)

LUCIEN BONAPARTE.
CYPRIANA BIBEIRO FREIRE.

Freliminary Articles of Peace between his Britannic Majesty and the French Republic. Signed at London (in English and French), the ift of October 1801, the 9th Vendemiaire, Year 10 of the French Republic.

HIS Majefty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain

and Ireland, and the First Conful of the French republic, in the name of the French people, being animated with an equal defire of putting an end to the calamities of a destructive war, and of re-establishing union and good understanding between the two countries, have named for this purpofe; namely, his Britannic

Majesty,

Majefty, the Right Honourable Robert Banks Jenkinson, commonly called Lord Hawkefbury, one of his Britannic Majefty's most honourable Privy Council, and his principal Secretary of State for foreign Affairs; and the First Conful of the French republic, in the name of the French people, Citizen, Lewis William Otto, commiffary for the exchange of French prifoners in England; who, after having duly communicated to each other their full powers, in good form, have agreed on the following preliminary articles:

Art. 1. As foon as the preliminaries fhall be figned and ratified, fincere friendship fhall be re-established between his Britannic Majefty and the French republic, by fea and by land, in all parts of the world; and in order that all hoftilities may cease immediately between the two powers, and between them and their allies refpectively, the neceffary inftructions fhall be fent with the utmoft difpatch to the commanders of the fea and land forces of the refpective states, and each of the contracting parties engages to grant paffports, and every facility requifite to accelerate the arrival, and enfure the execution of thefe orders.-It is farther agreed, that all conquefts which ry have been made by either of the contracting parties from the other, or from their respective allies, fubfequently to the ratification of the prefent preliminaries, fhall be confidered as of no effect, and fhall be faithfully comprehended in the reftitutions to be made after the ratification of the definitive treaty.

II. His Britannic Majefty fhall restore to the French republic and her allies; namely, to his Catholic Majesty, and to the Batavian republic, all the poffeffions and colonies occupied or conquered by the English forces in the courfe of the prefent war, with the exception of the island of Trinidad, and the Dutch poffeffions in the island of Ceylon, of which ifland and poffeffions his Britannic Majefty referves to himself the full and entire fovereignty.

III. The port of the Cape of Good Hope fhall be open to the commerce and navigation of the two contracting parties, who fhall enjoy therein the fame advantages.

IV. The island of Malta, with its dependencies, fhall be evacuated by the troops of his Britannic Majefty, and restored to the Order of St. John of Jerufalem. For the purpose of rendering this island completely independent of either of the two contracting parties, it shall be placed under the guarantee and protection of a third power, to be agreed upon in the definitive treaty.

V. Egypt (hall be restored to the Sublime Porte, whofe territories and poffeffions fhall be preferved entire, fuch as they existed previously to the prefent war.

VI. The territories and poffeffions of her Moft Faithful Majesty fhall likewise be preserved entire.

d 2

VII,

VII. The French forces fhall evacuate the kingdom of Naples and the Roman territory. The English forces fhall in like manner evacuate Porto Ferrajo, and generally all the ports and islands which they may occupy in the Mediterranean, or in the Adriatic. VIII. The republic of the Seven Islands fhall be acknowledged by the French republic.

IX. The evacuations, ceffions, and reftitutions, ftipulated for by the prefent preliminary articles, fhall take place in Europe within one month; in the continent and feas of America and of Africa, within three months; and in the continent and feas of Afia, within fix months after the ratification of the definitive treaty.

X. The prifoners made refpectively fhall, immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the definitive treaty, all be reftored, and without ranfom, on paying reciprocally the debts which they may have individually contracted. Difcuffions having arifen refpecting the payment for the maintenance of the prisoners of war, the contracting powers referve this question to be settled by the definitive treaty, according to the law of nations, and in conformity to established usage.

XI. In order to prevent all caufes of complaint and dispute which may arife on account of prizes which may be made at fea after the fignature of the preliminary articles, it is reciprocally agreed that the veffels and effects which may be taken in the British Channel and in the north feas, after the space of twelve days, to be computed from the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent preliminary articles, fhall be reftored on each fide; that the term fhall be one month from the British Channel and the north feas as far as the Canary Islands inclufively, whether in the ocean, or in the Mediterranean; two months from the faid Canary Islands as far as the equator; and, laftly, five months in all other parts of the world, without any exception, or any more particular defcription of time or place.

XII. All fequeftrations imposed by either of the parties on the funded property, revenues, or debts, of any defcription, belonging to either of the contracting powers, or to their fubjects or citizens, fhall be taken off immediately after the signature of the definitive treaty. The decifion of all claims brought forward by individuals of the one country against individuals of the other for private rights, debts, property, or effects whatsoever, which, according to received ufages and the law of nations, onght to revive at the period of peace, fhall be heard and decided before the competent tribunals; and in all cafes prompt and ample justice shall be adminiftered in the countries where the claims are made. It is agreed, moreover, that this article, immediately after the ratification of the definitive treaty, fhall apply to the allies of the contracting parties, and to the individals of the refpective nations, upon the condition of a just reciprocity.