on the country between the Meuse and the Rhine, which would entirely ruin the country, can take place with any regard to appearance of justice. It has already in effect given our envoy at Paris the most positive assurance, that the measures taken with respect to the clergy should be put an end to, and that the ecclesiastics should remain in quiet enjoyment of their goods and revenues we therefore constantBy expect the revocation of the order for the sale of woods, and, in general, a renunciation of all those destructive innovations relative to our dominions. We shall not by any means recognize as valid the sale of woods, which has already taken place, to our great astonishment; and we are positively determined to have recourse to the purchasers for restitution in kind, or for the value at which the property sold shall be estimated by our agents, and for the damages which shall result from the waste committed on these woods. In those cases where the purchasers cannot be found, we shall exercise our severity on all those who are employed by these last for cutting and carrying wood. We, in consequence, exhort our faithful subjects in the said provinces to remain assured of our lasting and efficacious protection, and to wait with confidence, for the return of that ancient order of things so highly to be desired. At Wesel in our chamber of war and territory, 29th December, 1796, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty. BARON DE STEIN, First President. Given at Emmerick, in our regency, the 29th December, Treaty of Peace between the Duke of Wurtemberg and the French Republic. THE French republic and his serene highness the duke of War temberg and Teck, equally ani mated with desire of terminating the war in which they have been engaged, and for renewing that intercourse of commerce and our d neighbourhood which must be reciprocally advantageous to them both, have appointed the undernamed plenipotentiaries; the di rectory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minister of exte:nal rela tions; and his serene highness the duke of Wurtemberg and Teck, baron Charles Woepwart, minister of state and president of the chamber of finances, and Abel, counsellor of legislation, who, af. ter having respectively interchang ed their full powers, agreed on the following articles: ART. 1. There shall be peace, amity, and good understanding, between the French republic and his serene highness the reigning duke of Wurtemberg and Teck: consequently all hostilities shall cease between the contracting powers from the date of the present treaty. 2. The duke of Wurtemberg revokes ail adherence, consent, and accession, open or secret, given by him to the armed coalition against the French republic, or any treaty of alliance, offensive or defensive, which he may have contracted with it. In future he shall with hold from the powers at war with the republic any contingent or aid in men, horses, provisions, money, warlike stores or otherwise, under whatever tile they may be demanded-even though he should be called up on as member of the Germanic empire. 3. The troops of the French repubic hall have free passage into the stares of his royal highness, and permission to reside and to occupy all the military posts necessary for their operations. 4. His serene highness the duke of Wurtemberg and Teck renounces in favour of the French republic for himself, his successor, and all who have any claim, all his rights to the principality of Mo thenard, the lordships of Hericourt, Passavant, and other dependencies, in the county of Hobourg, also the lord tips of Riquewir and Os ben, and generally cedes to i. all the property, rights and landed revenue, which he possesses on the left bank of the Rhine, and the arrears due to him. He renounces all right against the republic for all claims he might pretend to have against the French republic, for the privation bitherto of the said rights and revenues; and any other claim of whatever denomination anterior to the present treaty. 5. His serene highness engages not to permit the emigrants and priests, banished from the French republic, to re ide in his states. 6. There shall immediately be concluded between the two powers, a treaty of commerce on grounds reciprocally advantageous. In the mean time all commercial relations shall be renewed on the same footing as before the present war. All articles and commo. dities belonging to the soil, the manufactures, the colonies or fi sheries of France, shall enjoy in the states of his royal highness, liberty of transit, exempted from all duties except the tolls on catriages and horses. French drivers shall, with respect to the payment of the said tolls, be treated as the most favoured nation. 7. The French republic, and his serene highness the duke of Wur temburg, respectively engage to remove the sequestration of all effects, revenues, or goods, seized, confiscated, detained, or sold, belonging to French citizens on the one hand, and to the inhabitants of the dutchies of Wurtemberg and Teck on the other; and to admit them to a legal exercise of their respective engagements and rights. 8. All the prisoners respectively made shall be delivered up within a month reckoning, from the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, on paying the debts they may have contracted during their captivity. The sick and wounded shall still be taken care of in their respective hospitals, and shall be delivered up immediarely on their cure. 9. Conformably to the sixth article of the treaty concluded at the Hague, on the 27th Fioreal of the third year, the present treaty of peace and amity is declared to be common with the Batavian republic. The directory agrees upon and signs the present treaty of peace with the duke of Wurtemburg, negociated in the name of the French republic by the minister of external relations, named by the executive directory, by an arret of the 11th Thermidor, (present month) and charged with instructions for that purpose, at Paris, 21st Thermidor, 4th year of the French republic, one and indivisible. (As an authentic copy) (Signed) REVELLIERE LEPEAUX, president. LAGARDE, Secretary This treaty was ratified by the legislative body. Treaty of Peace between the French Republic and the Margrave of Baden. THE French republic, and his serene highness the Margrave of Baden, desirous of re-establishing between both countries the relations of friendship and good neighbourhood which existed between them before the present war, have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, namely, the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, citizen Charles Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and his serene highness the margrave of Baden, the baron de Reitzenstein, his chamberlain, and great baliff of Lorrach, who, after having exchanged their respective powers, have resolved on the following articles: ART. 1. There shall be peace and good understanding between the French republic and his serene highness the margrave of Baden. In consequence, all hostilities shall cease between the contracting parties, to reckon from the ratification of this present treaty. 4. His serene highness the margrave of Baden, for himself and his successors, cedes to the French republic all the rights that may belong to him upon the lordships of Rodemachern and Hesperingen, in the ci-devant duchy of Luxemburgh; the portion belonging to him in the county of Sponheim, and his rights upon the other portion; the lordship of Grevenstein, the bailiwicks of Beinheim and Rhod, and generally all the territories, rights, and revenues, which he possessed, or pretends to have a right to possess on the left bank of the Rhine. He renounces all demands upon the republic respecting the. arrears of the said rights and revenues, and for every other cause anterior to the present treaty. the 5. His serene highness, reigning margrave of Baden, as well in his own name, as in that of his two sons, the princes Frederick and Louis of Baden, for whom be interests himself strongly, cedes and abandons, with entire guarantee to the French republic, the two-thirds of the manor of Kutzenhauser, situate in the ci-devant province province of Alsace, with all its rights and dependencies, together with the arrears of the said rights and revenues, which might remain due, renouncing all demands upon the republic thereto relating, and for every other cause anterior to the present treaty. 6. His serene highness the margrave of Baden also cedes for himself and his successors, all the islands of the Rhine which may belong to him, all the rights to which he may pretend upon the said islands, as likewise upon the course and the different branches of that river; especially the rights of tolls, high jurisdiction, direct lordship, civil or criminal justice, or police. There shall not be included, under the denomination of the different arms of the Rhine, the small branches, and the dead or stagnant waters left in consequence of the inundations of the ancient course of the river, and known to the watermen by the names of Altwasser, Alt Rhine, or Old Rhine. 7. Each of the contracting parties shall be at liberty to finish the work of the dykes, which may be thought necessary for the preservation of his territory; but this is to be done so as not to injure the country on the opposite bank. All disputes which may arise from this object, as also from the establishment and preservation of the towing path, shall be decided by juridical means, between the respective governments. 8. His serene highness engages to leave, or cause to be left, on the right bank of the Rhine, a space of thirty-six feet broad, to serve as a towing-road in the navigable parts, or in those which may become so. This road shall be cleared VOL. XXXVIII. of every thing that may injure its usage. It is, however, agreed, that the houses which stand on the ground which it is to take up, or which would be necessary for continuing it, shall not be demolished without paying a just and previous indemnity to the owner. 9. The punishment of offences relative to navigation, which may be committed on the said towingroad, shall belong to the French republic. 10. The portions of that road, as likewise the islands on that river, which belonged by special right to his serene highness, or which were possessed by ecclesiastical bodies or commonalties, are ceded, without reserve, to the republic. The lay or private communities shall continue to enjoy, under the sovereignty of the republic, the portions which were in their possession. It is however agreed, that the said sovereignty shall not be exercised over houses depending on the margraviate, which may be deemed necessary for continuing the towing-way, but only on their sites, after they shall have been demolished in execution of Art. 8. 11. The navigation of the river shall be free for the citizens and the subjects of both contracting parties. 12. The tolls gathered on that part of the river Rhine which Bows between the dominions of the contracting parties are abolished for ever. There shall be none established hereafter on the natural bed of the river. 13. The stipulations contained in the preceding treaties between France on the one part, and his serene highness the margrave of Baden, or the emperor and the ૨ empire, empire, on the other, relative to the course of the Rhine, its navigation, the works to be constructed for the preservation of its bed and its banks, shall continue to be executed in as far as they are not contrary to the present treaty. 14. His serene highness engages not to permit the emigrants, and the priests transported from the French republic, to reside in his territories. 15. There shall be concluded, without delay, between the two powers, a treaty of commerce on grounds of reciprocal advantage. Meanwhile all commercial relations shall be re-established, such as they were before the present war. All commodities and merchandise, being the produce of the French sil, manufactories, colonies, and fisheries, shall enjoy in the territories of his serene highness the liberty of transit and staple, exempted from all duties, except those of the tolls upon waggons and horses. The French waggoners shall be treated, with regard to the payment of those duties of toll, like the most favoured nation. 16. The French republic and his serene highness the margrave of Baden, respectively engage to grant replevy on the sequestration of all effects, revenues, or estates, confiscated, detained, or sold from French citizens on one part, and on the other, from the inhabitants of the margraviate of Baden, and to admit them to the legal exercise of the actions and rights which may belong to them. 17. All the prisoners of war respectively taken shall be delivered up within one month, to count from the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, on paying the debts which they may have contracted during their cap. tivity. The sick and wounded shall continue to be taken care of in the respective hospitals; they shall be given up immediately after their recovery. 18. Conformable to the treaty concluded at the Hague, the 27th Floreal of the third year, the pre sent treaty of peace and friendship is declared common with the Batavian republic. 19. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Paris, within one month, to reckon from its signature, and sooner if practicable. Paris, 5 Fructidor, of the fourth year of the French republic, one and indivisible. (Signed) CHARLES DELACROIX, SIGISMUND CHARLES JOHN Baron de REITZENTEIN. The Executive Directory resolve and rauty the present treaty of peace with the margrave of Baden, negotiated in the name of the French republic by the minister for foreign affairs, appointed by the Executive Directory by the resolution of the 28th of last Thermidor, and charged with their instructions for that purpose. Paris, 8th Fructidor, fourth year REVELLIERE LE PEAUX, presi. The Council of Ancients approved of the above treaty on the 31st of August. |