restitution to the knights; and if, at the expiration of this term, the order should not have raised a force sufficient, in the judgment of the guarantying powers to garrison the island and its dependencies, as is specified in the 5th paragraph, the Neapolitan troops shall continue there until they shall be replaced by a force deemed sufficient by the said powers. 13. The different powers designated in the 6th paragraph, to wit, France, Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia, and Prussia, shall be invited to accede to the present stipulations. XI. The French troops shall evacute the kingdom of Naples and the Roman states; the English forces shall also evacuate Porto Ferrajo, and generally all the ports and islands, that they occupy in the Mediterranean or the Adriatic. XII. The evacuations, cessions, and restitutions, stipulated by the present treaty, shall be executed in Europe within a month; on the continent and seas of America and Africa in three months; on the continent and seas of Asia in six months, which shall follow the ratification of the present definitive treaty, except in case of a special reservation. XIII. In all cases of restitution, agreed upon by the present treaty, the fortifications shall be restored in the condition they were in at the time of signing the preliminaries; and all the works which shall have been constructed since their occupation shall remain untouched. It is agreed besides, that in all the stipulated cases of cessions, there shall be allowed to the inhabitants, of whatever rank or nation they may be, a term of three years, reckoning from the notification of the present treaty, to dispose of all their properties, whether acquired or posessed by them before or during the continuance of the present war; during which term of three years, they shall have free and entire liberty to exercise their religion, and to enjoy their fortunes. The same power is granted in the countries that are hereby restored, to all persons, whether inhabitants or not, who shall have formed any establishments there, during the time that those countries were in the possession of Great Britain. As to the inhabitants of the countries restored or ceded, it is hereby agreed, that no person shall, under any pretence, be prosecuted, disturbed, or molested, either in person. or property, on account of his political conduct or opinion, or for his attachment to any of the contracting parties, on any account whatever, except for debts contracted with individuals, or for acts subsequent to the present treaty. XIV. All the sequestrations laid on either side on funds, revenues, and credits, of what nature soever they may be, belonging to any of the contracting powers, or to their citizens or subjects, shall be taken off immediately after the signature of this definitive treaty.. The decision of all claims among the individuals of the respective nations, for debts, property, effects, or rights, of any nature whatsoever, which should, according to received usages, and the law of nations, be preferred at the epoch of the peace, shall be referred to the competent tribunals: in all those cases speedy and complete justice shall be done in the countries wherein those claims shall be respectively preferred. XV. The XV. The fisheries on the coasts of Newfoundland, and of the adjacent islands, and in the gulph of St. Laurence, are placed on the same footing as they were before the war. The French fishermen of Newfoundland, and the inhabitants of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, shall have liberty to cut such wood as may be necessary for them in the bays of Fortune and Despair during the first year, reckoning from the ratification of the present treaty. XVI. To prevent all grounds of complaint and disputes which might arise on account of captures which may have been made at sea subsequent to the signing of the preliminaries, it is reciprocally agreed that the ships and property which may have been taken in the channel, and in the north seas, after a space of twelve days, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the preliminary articles, shall be restored on the one side and the other; that the term shall be one month for the space, from the channel and the north seas, as far as the Canary islands inclusively, as well in the ocean as in the Mediterranean; two months from the Canary islands to the equator; and, finally, five months in all the other parts of the world, without any further exception or distinction of time or place. XVII. The ambassadors, ministers, and other agents of the contracting powers, shall enjoy respectively in the states of the said powers the same rank, privileges, prerogatives, and immunities, which were enjoyed before the war by agents of the same class. XVIII. The branch of the house of Nassau, which was established in the ci-devant republic of the united provinces, now the Batavian republic, having experienced some losses, as well with respect to private property as by the change of constitution adopted in those countries, an equivalent compensation shall be procured for the losses which it shall be proved to have sustained. XIX. The present definitive treaty of peace is declared common to the sublime Ottoman Porte, the ally of his Britannic majesty; and the sublime Porte shall be invited to transmit its act of accession as soon as possible. XX. It is agreed that the contracting parties, upon requisitions made by them respectively, or by their ministers, or officers duly authorized for that purpose, shall be bound to deliver up to justice persons accused of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy, committed within the jurisdiction of the requiring party, provided that this shall only be done in cases in which the evidence of the crime shall be such, that the laws of the place in which the accused persons shall be discovered, would have authorized the detaining and bringing him to trial, had the offence been committed there. The expenses of the arrest and the prosecution shall be defrayed by the party making the requisition; but this article has no sort of reference to crimes of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy, committed before the conclusion of this definitive treaty. XXI. The contracting parties promise to observe sincerely and faithfully all the articles contained in the present treaty, and will not suffer Rr3 any any sort of counteraction, direct or indirect, to be made to it by their citizens, or respective subjects; and the contracting parties guaranty, generally and reciprocally, all the stipulations of the present treaty. XXII. The present treaty shall be ratified by the contracting parties, as soon as possible, and the ratificatious shail be exchanged in due form at Paris. In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned plenipotentiaries, have signed with our hands, and in virtue of our respective full powers, the present definitive treaty, causing it to be sealed with our respective seals. Done at Amiens, the 4th Germinal, in the year 10 (March 25, 1802). (Signed) Bonaparté. Cornwallis. Azara, and (A correct copy) J. Bonaparte. Separate Article to the Definitive Treaty, added thereto March 27, 1802. It is agreed that the omission of some titles which may have taken place in the present treaty, shall not be prejudicial to the powers or to the persons concerned. It is further agreed, that the English and French languages, made use of in all the copies of the present treaty, shall not form an example, which may be alleged or quoted as a precedent, or in any manner; prejudice the contracting powers whose languages have not been used; and that for the future what has been observed, and ought to be observed, with regard to, and on the part of powers who are in the practice and possession of giving and receiving copies of like treaties in any other language, shall be conformed with; the present treaty having nevertheless the same force and virtue as if the aforesaid practice had been therein observed. In witness whereof, we the underwritten plenipotentiaries of his Britannic majesty, of the French republic, of his Catholic majesty, and of the Batavian republic, have signed the present separate article, and have caused our respective seals to be affixed thereto. Done at Amiens, the twentyseventh day of March 1802, the 6th Germinal, year 10 of the French republic. (L.S.) Cornwallis. Joseph Bonaparté. Separate Convention between France and the Batavian Republic, explanatory of the 18th Article of the Definitive Treaty between France, Spain, and Holland, on the one Part, and Great-Britain on the other Part. The undersigned plenipotentiary of the French republic declares, conformably to existing stipulations between the French and Batavian republics, and in virtue of special instructions with which he is furnished to that effect on the part of his government, that it is understood that the indemnity stipulated in favour of the house of Nassau, in the 18th article of the present treaty, shall not upon any account, or in an any manner, be at the charge of the Batavian republic; the French government being guarantied to this effect towards the said republic. The undersigned plenipotentiary of the Batavian republic, in the name of his government, accepts the above declaration, as explanatory of the aforesaid 18th article of the definitive treaty, signed this day by the plenipotentiaries of the four contracting powers. The present act shall be presented at the ratification of the two respective governments, and the ratifications exchanged in due form. Done at Ameins, March 27th. (Signed) J. Bonaparté, R. J. Schimmelpenninck. By the KING.-A Proclamation. G. R. W HEREAS a definitive treaty of peace and friendship between us, the French republic, his Catholic majesty, and the Batavian republic, hath been concluded at Amiens, on the twenty-seventh day of March last, and the ratifications thereof have been duly exchanged; in conformity thereunto, We have thought fit hereby to command that the same be published throughout all our dominions; and we do deciare to all our loving subjects our will and pleasure, that the said treaty of peace and friendship be. observed inviolably as well by sea as land, and in all places whatsoever; stricdy charging and commanding all our loying subjects to take notice hereof, and to conform themselves thereunto accordingly. Given at our court at Windsor, By the KING.-A Proclamation, Declaring the Conclusion of the War. G. R, W HEREAS by an act, passed in the 34th year of our reign, intituled, An act for the further encouragement of British_mariners, and for other purposes therein mentioned, various provisions are made which are directed to take effect from and after the expiration of six months from the conclusion of the then existing war, to be notified in manner therein mentioned; and it is thereby further enacted,. that, for the purposes of the said act, the conclusion of the said war shall be holden to be from the time that the same shall be notified by. our royal proclamation, or order in council, to be published in the London Gazette: And whereas a definitive treaty of peace has been duly ratified between us, the French. republic, his Catholic majesty, and the Batavian republic; We have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of our privy council, for the purposes of the said act, hereby to notify and declare the conclusion of the said war, by this our royal proclamation, to be published in the London Gazette; and we do direct the same to be published accordingly. Given at our court at Windsor, Extract of a Letter from his Excellency Lord St. Helen's to the Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, dated Petersburgh, April 2, 1802. the 26th day of April 1802, in I HAVE the satisfaction of trans the 42d year of our reign. God save the King. mitting to your lordship the Swedish act of accession to the con vention of the 17th June 1801, which was signed (with its duplicate) on the 30th past, by myself, and the baron de Stedingk, and instruments of a like tenor were at the same time interchanged between that minister and the plenipotentiaries of his Imperial majesty. I have moreover the satisfaction of being enabled to assure your lordship, that the Swedish ambassador has been distinctly informed by the count de Kotschoubey, that as the motives which had occasioned the late revival of the system of the armed neutrality were now happily done away, that system is consiaered by this court as completely annulled and abandoned, not only as a general code of maritime law, but even in its more limited meaning of a specific engagement between the Russians and the other confede rates. Convention between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, touching the Difficulties arising in the Execution of the 6th Article of the Treaty of 1794. DIFF IFFICULTIES having arisen in the execution of the 6th article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded at London, on the 4th day of November 1794, between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America, and in consequence thereof the proceedings of the commissioners under the 7th article of the same treaty having been suspended, the parties to the said treaty being equally desirous, as far as may be, to obviate such difficulties, have respectively named plenipotentiaries to treat and agree respecting the same: that is to say, his Britannic majesty has named for his plenipotentiary the right honourable Robert Banks Jenkinson, commonly called lord Hawkesbury, one of his majesty's most honourable privy council, and his principal secretary of state for foreign affairs; and the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate thereof, has named, for their plenipotentiary, Rufus King, esq. minister plenipotentiary of the said United States to his Britannic majesty, who have agreed to and concluded the following articles: Art. I. In satisfaction and discharge of the money which the United States might have been liable to pay in pursuance of the provisions of the said 6th article, which is hereby declared to he cancelled and annulled, except so far as the same may relate to the execution of the said 7th article, the United States of America hereby engage to pay, and his Britannic majesty consents to accept for the use of the persons described in the said 6th article, the sum of 600,000l. sterling, payable at the time and place, and in the manner following, that is to say, the said sum of 600,000l. sterling shall be paid at the city of Washington, in three annual instalments of 200,000l. sterling each, and to such person or persons as shall be authorized by his Britannic majesty to receive the same; the first of the said instalments to be paid at the expiration of one year; the second instalment at the expiration of two years; and the third and last instalment at the expiration of three years, next following the exchange of the ratifications of this convention: and to prevent any disagreement concerning the rate of exchange, the |