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the left bank of the Rhine and of the Alps, without the ancient limits of France, are and remain guaranteed to the purchasers.

Art. XXVIII. The abolition of the droits d'aubaine, detraction, and others of the same nature in the countries which reciprocally `stipulated it with France, or which had been antecedently annexed to it, is expressly confirmed.

Art. XXIX. The French Government engages to cause to be restored the obligations and other titles which shall have been seized in the provinces occupied by the French armies or administrations; and in cases where restitution cannot be made, these obligations and titles are and remain annihilated.

Art. XXX. The sums which shall be due for all works of public utility not yet terminated, or terminated posterior to the 31st of December, 1812, on the Rhine, and in the departments detached from France by the present treaty, shall pass to the charge of future possessors of the territory, and shall be liquidated by the commission charged with the liquidation of the debts of the districts.

Art. XXXI. All archives, charts, plans, and documents whatsoever belonging to the countries ceded, and connected with their administration, shall be faithfully restored at the same time with the countries; or, if that be impracticable, within a period not more than six months after the surrender of the said countries.

This stipulation is applicable to archives, charts, and plans, which may have been carried off in countries for the moment occupied by the different armies.

Art. XXXII. Within a period of two months, all the Powers who

have been engaged on both sides in the present war, shall send Pienipotentiaries to Vienna, in orde: to regulate, in a General Congress the arrangements necessary for completing the dispositions of the present Treaty.

Art. XXXIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged within a fortnight, or sooner if practicable. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at Paris, this 30th of May, in the year of our Lord 1814. (Signed)

(L. S.) The Prince of BENEVENT. (L. S.) The Prince of METER

NICH.

(L. S.) J. P. Count STADION.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

The High Contracting Parties, wishing to efface all traces of the unfortunate events which have weighed heavily on their people, have agreed explicitly to annul the effects of the Treaties of 1805 and 1809, in as far as they are not already actually annulled by the present Treaty. In consequence of this declaration, his most Christian Majesty engages that the decrees issued against French, or reputed French subjects, being, or having been in the service of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, shall remain without effect, as well as the judgments which may have passed in execution of those decrees.

The present additional Article shall have the same force and effect as if it had been inserted in the patent Treaty of this date. It shall be ratified, and the ratification shall

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be exchanged at the same time. In testimony whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their

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count Castlereagh, Privy Counsel.: or of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. and Ireland, Member of his Parliament, Colonel of the Regiment of

Done at Paris this 30th May, Londonderry Militia, and his Prin1814. (Signed)

(L. S.) The Prince of BENEVENT. (L. S.) The Prince of METTER

NICH.

(L. S.) Count STADION.

cipal Secretary of State for Foreign affairs, &c. ;

George Gordon, Earl of Abërdeen, Viscount Formartin, Lord Haddo, Tarvis, and Kellie, &c. one of the 16 Scotch Peers, Knight of the most ancient order of the Thistle, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty.

The same day, at the same time and place, the same treaty of definitive peace was concluded between France and Russia; between France and Great Britain; between France and Prussia; and signed, William Shaw Cathcart, Visviz. :count Cathcart, Baron Cathcart The treaty between France and and Greenock, Counsellor of his Russia :

For France, by M. Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevent (ut supra);

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And for Russia, by M. M. Count Rasomouffsky, Privy Counsellor of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Knight of the orders of St. Andrew, St. Alex. Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wolodimir of the 1st class and Charles Robert Count Nesselrode, Privy Counsellor of his said Majesty, Chamberlain, Secretary of State, Knight of the Order of St. Alex. Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wolodimir of the 2d class, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Austria, of that of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of the Polar Star of Sweden, and of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemberg.

The treaty between France and Great Britain.

For France, by M. Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevent (ut supra) ;

And for Great Britain, by the Right Hon. Robert Stewart, VisVOL. LVI.

said Majesty, Knight of the Order of the Thistle, and of several Russian Orders, General in his armies, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia;

And the Hon Charles William Stewart, Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath, Member of his Parliament, Knight of the Prussian Orders of the Black and Red Eagle, and of many others, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Prussia.

The Treaty between France and Prussia :

For France, by C. M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevent, (ut supra.)

And for Prussia by M. M. Charles Augustus Baron Hardenberg, Chancellor of State to his Majesty the King of Prussia, Knight of the Orders of the Black and Red Eagle, and of many other Orders, and Charles William Baron Humboldt, Minister of State of his said Majesty, and Envoy Ex2 E traordinary

traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty.

With the following additional articles :

Article Additional to the Treaty

with Russia.

The Duchy of Warsaw having been under the administration of a provisional council established by Russia ever since that country was occupied by her arms, the two high contracting parties have agreed to appoint immediately a Special Commission, composed on both sides of an equal number of Commissaries, who shall be charged with the examination and liquidation of their respective claims, and all the arrangements relative thereto.

The present additional article shall have the same force and effect, as if inserted verbatim in the patent treaty of this date. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at the same time; In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the sanie, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at Paris, this 30th of May, 1814.

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ples of natural justice, and the lights of the times in which ve live, engages to unite at a future Congress, all his efforts to those of his Britannic Majesty, in order to cause all the Powers of Christendom to proclaim the abolition of the Slave Trade, in such manner that the said trade may cease uni versally, as it shall cease defialtively, and in all events, on the part of France, within a period of five years, and that besides, pending the duration of this period, no trader in slaves shall be at liberty to import or sell them elsewhere, but in the colonies of the state to which he belongs.

Art. II. The British Government and the French Government will immediately appoint Commissaries to liquidate their respective expenses for the maintenance of prisoners of war, for the purpose of coming to an arrangement on the manner of paying off the ba lance which shall be found in favour of either of the two powers.

Art. III. The prisoners of war respectively shall be bound to discharge, before their departure from the place of their detention, the private debts which they may have there contracted, or at least to give satisfactory security,

Art. IV. There shall be on both sides, immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty, a removal of the sequestration which, since the year 1792, may have been placed on the funds, revenues debts, and all other effects whatever of the high contracting powers, or of their subjects.

The same Commissaries mentioned in Art. II. shall employ themselves in the examination and liquidation of the claims of his Britannic Majesty upon the French Government,

Government, for the value of property, moveable or immoveable, unduly confiscated by the French authorities, as well as for the total or partial loss of their debts or other property, unduly detained under sequestration since the year

1792.

France engages to treat in this respect the subjects of England with the same justice that the subjects of France have experienced in England; and the English government wishing, on its part, to concur in this new testimony that the allied powers have given to his most Christian Majesty of their desire to remove entirely the consequences of the epoch of misfortune, so happily terminated by the present peace, engages on its side (as soon as complete justice shall be done to its subjects,) to renounce the whole amount of the excess which may be found in its favour, relative to the maintenance of the prisoners of war, so that the ratification of the result of the labours of the undersigned commissioners, and the payment of the sums, as also the restitution of the effects which shall be adjudged to belong to the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, shall render its renunciation complete.

Art. V. The two high contracting powers, desirous to establish the most amicable relations between their respective subjects, reserve to themselves a promise to come to an understanding and arrangement as soon as possible, on their commercial interests, with the intention of encouraging and augmenting the prosperity of their respective states.

The present additional articles shall have the same force and validily as if they had been inserted in

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Additional Article of the Treaty with Prussia.

Although the treaty of peace concluded at Basil, the 5th of April, 1795, that of Tilsit of the 9th of July, 1807, the convention of Paris of the 20th of September, 1808, as well as all the conventions and acts whatsoever, concluded since the peace of Basle between Prussia and France, are already in fact annulled by the present treaty, the high contracting parties have judged it nevertheless proper to declare again expressly, that the said treaties cease to be obligatory, both in the articles that are expressed, and those that are secret, and that they mutually renounce every right, and disengage themselves of every obligation which might result from them.

His Most Christian Majesty promises, that the decrees issued against French, or reputed French subjects, being or having been in

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the service of his Prussian Majesty, shall remain without effect; as also the judgments which may have been given in execution of those decrees.

The present additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted in those words in the treaty of this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In faith of which the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at Paris, 30th of May, in the year of our Lord, 1814.

The Prince of BENEVENT.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, Baron of

HARDENBURgh.

CHARLES WILLIAM, Baron de
HUMBOLDT.

FRENCH CONSTITUTION.

Public Rights of the French. Arts. 1, 2, 3, declare all Frenchmen, of whatever rank or title, equal in the eye of the law, equally admissible to civil and military employments, and contributing without distinction in proportion to their property to the burthens of the state.-Art. 4 guarantees personal liberty, so that no one be prosecuted or arrested but according to law.-Arts. 5 and 6, declare the Catholic religion the religion of the state; but that every one shall profess his faith with equal freedom, and be protected in its exercise.-By Art. 7, the ministers of the Catholic and other Christian modes of worship alone receive their stipends from the royal treasury.-Art. 8. The French are entitled to publish and print

their opinions, while conforming to the laws which will repres abuses of this liberty.-Art. 9, declares all property inviolable, that called national not excepted. Art. 11, prohibits all inquiry into opinions or votes delivered before the Restoration.-By Art. 12, the conscription is abolished.

Forms of the King's Government.

Art. 13. The person of the King is sacred and inviolable; his ministers are responsible.-Art. 14. He is supreme head of the state; commands the sea and land forces; makes treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce; appoints to all public employments. Art. 15. The Legislative Power is exercised collectively by the King, the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber of Deputies of Departments.-By Art. 16 and 17, the King proposes laws, either to the Peers or Deputies; but tax-bills must first be proposed to the Deputies. Every law to be discussed freely and decided by vote.-By Art. 19 and 20. the Chambers are entitled to request the King to propose a law on any subject whatever, and to suggest what it should contain. This request must have been discussed in Secret Committee, and is not to be sent from the one Chamber to the other, but after an interval of ten days - Art. 21. If the proposition is adopted by the other chamber, it shall be transmitted to the King; if rejected, it cannot be re-introduced in the same session.-Art. 22. The King alone sanctions and promulgates laws.Art. 23. The Civil List to be fixed for the reign, by the first legisla ture assembled after the accession of the King.

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