we have effaced from our recollection, as we wish it was possible to efface from history, all the evils which have afflicted the country during our absence. -Happy to find ourselves once more in the bosom of the great family, we know not how to reply to the love of which we have received so many testimonies, except by pronouncing words of peace and consolation. The wish most dear to our heart is, that all Frenchmen should live as brothers, and that no bitter recollection may ever disturb the security to be expected from the solemn deed which we execute this day. Sure of our intentions, strong in our conscience, we pledge ourselves, before the assembly that hears us, to be faithful to this constitutional charter, reserving to ourselves to swear to maintain it, with a new solemnity, before the altars of Him who weighs in the same balance kings and nations. For these reasons, we have voluntarily, and by the free exercise of our royal authority, granted, and do grant, transfer, and make over to our subjects, for ourselves, and for our successors, and for ever, the constitutional charter."

CHAP. XXXVII.

Treaty of Peace between France and the Allied
Powers.

"In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided

Trinity.

HIS majesty the king of France and Navarre, on the one part, and his majesty the emperor of Austria, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and his allies, on the other, being animated by an equal wish to put an end to the long agitations of Europe, and to the calamities of nations, by a solid peace, founded on a just distribution of force between the powers, and containing in its stipulations the guarantee of its duration; and his majesty the emperor of Austria, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and his allies, no longer wishing to exact from France, at the present moment, when being replaced under the paternal government of her kings, she thus offers to Europe a pledge of security and stability, conditions and guarantees which they had to demand with regret under her late government; their said majesties have appointed plenipotentiaries to conclude and sign a treaty of peace and friendship; that is to say:

His majesty, the king of France and Navarre, M. Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, prince of Be nevento, &c. his minister and secretary of state for foreign affairs; and his majesty, the emperor of Austria, king of Hungary and Bohemia, M. M. prince Clement Wenceslas Lothaire of MetternichWinneburg-Ochsenhausen, knight of the golden fleece, and many other orders, chamberlain, actual privy counsellor, minister of state, of conferences,

and for foreign affairs, of his imperial, royal, and apostolic majesty; and count J. P. de Stadion Thaunhausen and Warthausen, knight of the golden fleece, &c. chamberlain, privy counsellor, minister of state and conferences to his imperial, royal, and apostolic majesty; who, after exchanging their full powers, have agreed upon the following articles :

Art. 1. There shall be, reckoning from this day, peace and amity between his majesty the king of France and Navarre on the one part, and his majesty the emperor of Austria, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and his allies, on the other part, their heirs and successors, their respective states and subjects in perpetuity.

The high contracting parties will use all their exertions to maintain, not only amongst themselves, but also, as much as depends upon them, amongst all the states of Europe, that good harmony and understanding so necessary to its repose.

2. The kingdom of France preserves the integrity of its limits, such as they existed at the epoch of the 1st of January, 1792. It will receive, besides, an augmentation of territory comprised in the line of demarcation fixed by the following article.

3. On the side of Belgium, Germany, and Italy, the ancient frontier, such as it existed on the 1st of January, 1792, shall be resumed, commencing from the North Sea, between Dunkirk and Nieuport, and terminating at the Mediterranean, between Cagnes and Nice, with the following rectifications:

1. In the department of Jemappe, the cantons of Dour, Merbes-le-Chateau, Beaumont, and Chimay, shall remain in the possession of France, the line of demarcation shall pass from where it touches the canton of Dour, between that canton and those of Boussu and Paturage, and also farther off, between that of Merbes-le-Chateau, and those of Binch and De Thuin.

2. In the department of Sambre and Meuse, the cantons of Valcourt, Florennes, Beausaing, and Gediane, shall belong to France, the demarcation, when it touches that department, shall follow the line which separates the before mentioned cantons to the department of Jemappe, and the rest of that of Sambre and Meuse.

3. In the department of La Moselle, the new demarcation from where it breaks off from the former one, shall be formed by a line drawn from Perle to Fremersdorff, and by that which separates the canton of Tholey from the rest of the department of La Moselle.

4. In the department of La Sarre, the cantons of Saarbruck and Arneval shall remain in possession of France, and also that part of that of Leback, which is situated in the middle of a line drawn along the confines of the villages of Herchenbach, Heberhos

Hilsbach, and Hall, (leaving these different places out of the French frontier) unto the point where taken from Querselle (which belongs to France) the line which separates the cantons of Arneval and Oteweiler, touches that which separates those of Arneval and Leback, the frontier on this side shall be formed by the line above pointed out, and then by that which separates the canton of Arneval from that of Bliescastel.

5. The fortress of Landau having formed, before the year 1792, an isolated point in Germany, France preserves beyond her frontiers a part of the departments of Mont-Tonnerre and the Lower Rhine, for the sake of connecting the fortress of Landau and its radius with the rest of the kingdom. The new demarcation, parting from the point where, near to Obersteinbach (which remains be yond the limits of France), the frontier between the department of the Moselle and that of Mont-Tonnerre reaches the department of the Lower Rhine,

will follow the line which separates the cantons of Weissenburg and Bergzabern (on the French side) from the cantons of Pirmasens, Dahn, and Anweiler, (on the side of Germany) to this point where these limits, near the village of Wolmersheim, touch the ancient radius of the fortress of Landau. From this radius, which remains as it was in 1792, the new frontier will follow the arm of the river Queich, which, in quitting this radius, near Queicheim (which remains to France) passes near the villages of Merlenheim, Koittelsheim, and Belheim (remaining equally French), to the Rhine, which will continue afterwards to form the boundary between France and Germany.

As to the Rhine, the Thalweg will constitute the boundary, but the changes which the course of this river may hereafter undergo, shall have no effect on the property of the islands within it. The state of possession of these islands shall be established, such as it existed at the period of the signature of the treaty of Luneville.

6. In the department of the Doubs, the frontier will be so rectified as to begin above la Rouconnieve, near Locle, and follow the crest of Jura, between the Cerneux-Pequignot and the village of Fontenelles, to a summit of Jura, situated nearly seven or eight thousand feet to the north-west of the village of Brevine, where it will fall into the old boundary of France.

7. In the department of the Leman, the frontiers between the French territory, the Pays de Vaud, and the different portions of the territory of the republic of Geneva (which will make a part of Switzerland), remain the same as they were before the incorporation of Geneva with France. But the canton of Frangy, that of St. Julian, (with the exception of the part situated to the north of a line to be drawn from the point where the river Laire en