The prefent declaration fhall be confidered as making part of the above-mentioned treaty of navigation and commerce, figned February 10-21, of the prefent year, and this day ratified. In faith of which, we, the refpective plenipotentiaries, have caufed two copies of it, perfectly conformable to each other, to be made, have figned them with our own hand, and have thereunto affixed the feal of our arms. Done at Moscow, on the 30th April, 11th May, 1797 (L. S.) (L. S.) (L. S.) ALEXANDER Count of Befborodko. Convention fipulated at Monte Bello upon the 5th and 6th of June, 1797, between Citizen Buonaparte, General in Chief of the French Army of Italy, Citizen Faypoult, Minifter of the French Republic at Gensa, and his Excellency M. Michael Angelo Cambrofa, Louis Carbonera and Gerolino, Deputies of the Republic of Genoa. THE French republic and the republic of Genoa being defirous to confolidate the union and harmony which have always existed between the French republic and the republic of Genoa ; thinking likewife that the happiness of the Genoefe nation requires that it fhould regain poffeffion of the depofit of its fovereignty; the two states have agreed upon the following articles: I. The government of the republic of Genoa acknowledges the fovereignty to refide in the aggregate of all the citizens of the territory of the state. II. The legislative power fhall be entrusted to two reprefentative councils: the one compofed of three hundred, and the other of one hundred and fifty members. The executive power fhall be delegated to a fenate of ten members, over which a doge shall prefide: the fenators fhall be in the nomination of the councils. III. Every commune fhall have a municipality, and every diftrict an adminiftration. IV. The mode of election of all the authorities, the limits of the districts, the portion of authority entrusted to all the different bodies, the organization of the judicial power and the military force, fhall be determined by a committee of legislation, charged with the task of framing the conftitution, and all the organical daws of the government, with the reserve of doing nothing contrary to the Catholic religion, to guarantee the confolidated debts, to preserve the free port of the city of Genoa and the bank of St. George, and to take meafures, as far as means fhall permit, to provide for the fupport of the poor nobles who at prefent exift. This committee fhall be obliged to complete its work in the fpace of one month, reckoning from the day of its formation, V. The people finding themselves reftored to the enjoyment of their rights, every kind of privilege and exclufive establishment which breaks the unity of the state is neceffarily annulled. VI. The provifional government fhall be entrusted to an executive committee, which fhall be compofed of twenty-two members, over which the reigning doge fhall prefide, and which shall be inftalled upon the 14th prefent month of June, 26 Prairial, the 5th year of the French republic. VII. The citizens who fhall be called upon to compofe the provifional government of the Genoefe republic, are not at liberty to refuse the office without being regarded as indifferent to the welfare of the country, and condemned to a fine of two thoufand crowns. VIII. When the provifional government fhall be formed, it fhall determine the neceffary regulations for the forms of its deliberations; it fhall appoint, within a week after its inftallation, the committee of legislation, empowered to frame the conftitution. IX. The provifional government fhall fix the juft indemnification due to the French who were pillaged upon 3d and 4th Prairial. X. The French republic, defirous of giving a proof of the intereft which it takes in the happinefs of the Genoefe people, defirous of feeing them united, and free from factions, grants an amnefty to all the Genoefe, against whom it has grounds of complaint, either on account of the tranfactions of the 3d and 4th Prairial, or on account of the different events which took place in the Imperial fiefs. The provifional government fhall employ its utmost endeavours to extinguifh all factions, to unite all the citizens, and to convince them of the neceffity of rallying round public liberty, and fhall therefore grant a general amnesty. XI. The French republic fhall grant its protection to the Genoefe republic, and even the affiftance of its armies, to facilitate, if neceffary, the execution of the above articles, and to maintain the integrity of the territory of the Genoese republic. Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the French Republic and her Moft Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal. THE HE French republic and her most faithful Majefty the Queen of Portugal, defirous of re-establishing the bonds of commerce and friendship which exifted between the two powers before the prefent war, have given full powers to enter into negotiations for that purpose, viz. the Executive Directory, in the name of the French republic, to citizen Charles Delacroix; and her very faithful Majefty, to M. le Chevalier d'Aranjo Daze 4 Dazevedo, of her faid Majefty's council, gentleman: of her ́household, knight of the order of Chrift, and her envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to the Batavian republic; who after having exchanged their refpective powers, have concluded the prefent treaty of peace. Article I. There thall be peace, friendship, and good underftanding between the French republic and her moft Faithful Majelty the Queen of Portugal. II. All hoftilities fhall ceafe, as well by land as by fea, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, viz. in fifteen days for Europe, and the feas on her coafts, and thofe of Africa on this fide the equator: forty days after the faid exchange for the countries and feas of America and Africa beyond the equator, and three months after for the countries and feas fituated to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. III. The ports, towns, places, or any other territorial poffeffions of either of the two powers, in whatever part of the world, which are occupied or conquered by the troops of the other, fhall be reciprocally restored within the periods above mentioned, without either compenfation or indemnity being required. IV. Her most Faithful Majefty engages to obferve the most exact neutrality between the republic and the other belligerent powers. A fimilar neutrality fhall be obferved by the French republic, in cafe of a rupture between Portugal and any other European power. In confequence, neither of the two contracting parties, during the courfe of the prefent war, fhall furnish to the enemies of the other, in virtue of any treaty or flipulation whatever (public or fecret), any fuccours in troops, fhips, arms, warlike ammunition, provifions or money, under whatever title or denomination. V. Her most Faithful Majefty fhall not admit into her great ports more than fix armed fhips of war belonging to any one of the belligerent powers, nor more than three into her fmaller ports. The prizes made by their fhips of war or refpective cruifers fhall no more be received into her Majesty's ports than the cruisers themselves, unlefs it be in cafes of tempeft or imminent peril, and then they thall depart as foon as the peril is paft. All fale of merchandife or captured veffels thall be feverely prohibited. The French republic fhall obferve the fame regulations with respect to fhips of war, cruifers, or prizes belonging to the European powers with which her moft Faithful Majefty may enter into war. VI. Her most Faithful Majefty acknowledges, by the prefent treaty, that all the territories fituated to the north of the limits herein after mentioned, between the poffeffions of the two contracting powers, belong in full property and fovereignty to the French republic: renouncing, as far as need be, as well for herself as her fucceffors, all the rights to which the might pretend VOL. VI. d upon upon the said territories, under whatever title, and particularly in virtue of the eighth article of the treaty concluded at Utrecht, the 11th of April, 1713. The French republic reciprocally acknowledges that all the territories fituated to the fouth of the faid line, belong to her most Faithful Majefty, in conformity to the treaty of Utrecht. VII. The limits between the two French and Portuguese Guyanas fhall be determined by the river called by the Portuguese Calmeme, and by the French Vincent Pinfon, which flows into the ocean above the North Cape, about two degrees and a half fouthern latitude. They fhall follow the faid river to its fource, and afterwards, a right line drawn from the faid fource towards the weft, as far as Rio Blanco. VIII. The mouth, as well as the whole courfe of the faid river Calmeme or Vincent Pinfon, belong in full and entire fovereignty to the French republic, without, however, the fubjects of her moft Faithful Majesty, established in the environs to the fouth of the faid river, being prevented from ufing it freely, and without being fubject to the duties of entrance, courfe, and water duty. IX. The fubjects of her most Faithful Majefty who are fettled to the north of the frontier line above marked, fhall be free to remain there, obeying the laws of the republic, or to withdraw with their effects, or to fell the lands belonging to them. The faculty of retiring and felling their moveable or immoveable effects is reciprocally referved to the French who may be fettled to the fouth of the faid frontier line. The exercife of the faid faculty is limited to one, and the other to two years, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the French treaty. X. There fhall be negotiated and concluded as foon as poffible. between the two, powers, a treaty of commerce founded upon equitable bafes,, and reciprocally advantageous. Until it is concluded, it is agreed, 1. That the commercial relations fhall be re-established imme diately after the exchange of the ratification, and that the citizens. or fubjects of each of the two powers thall enjoy in the territories of the other all the rights, immunities, and prerogatives enjoyed by the most favoured nations. 2. That the provifions and merchandifes, the produce of their foil or their manufactures, shall be refpectively admitted, if the provifions and merchandise of the fame kind of other nations are or fhall afterwards be admitted; and that the faid provifions and merchandises thall not be fubject to any prohibition, which shall not equally fall on other provifions and merchandifes of the fame kind imported by other nations. 3. That nevertheless the French republic not being able to offer to Portugal but a price extremely low for its wines, and being being unable to compenfate by the introduction of French cloths into that kingdom, things fhall reciprocally remain, with refpect to those two articles, in their prefent ftate. 4. That the duties of cuftom, and others upon provifions and merchandise of the foil and manufactures of the two powers, fhall be reciprocally regulated upon the fame footing as with regard to other most favoured nations. 5. That out of the duties thus regulated there fhall be allowed a drawback in favour of merchandifes the produce of the foil or manufactures of the ftates of each of the two powers, provided they are imported in national veffels on account of the merchants to whom they belong, and fent in right of the ports of Europe on the one hand, to the ports of Europe on the other. The amount of these drawbacks, as well as the kinds of merchandises to which they fhall apply, to be regulated by the treaty of commerce to be concluded between the two powers. 6. That further, all the ftipulations relative to commerce inferted in preceding treaties concluded between the two powers fhall be provifionally executed, wherein they are not contrary to the present treaty. XI. Her molt Faithful Majefty fhall admit into her ports the French ships of war and merchantmen, under the fame conditions as the fhips of the most favoured nations are admitted. The Portuguese veffels fhall enjoy in France the most exact reciprocity. XII. The French confuls and vice-confuls fhall enjoy privi leges, immunities, prerogatives, and jurifdictions, as they enjoyed them before the war, and as they are enjoyed by the most favoured nations. XIII. The ambaffador or minifter of the French republic at the court of Portugal, fhall enjoy the fame immunities, prerogatives, and privileges, as French ambassadors enjoyed previous to the war. XIV. All the French citizens, as well as the individuals compofing the establishment of the ambassador or minister of the councils, and other agents accredited and acknowledged by the French republic, fhall enjoy in the ftates of her most Faithful Majefty, the fame liberty of worship as is enjoyed by the most favoured nations in this refpect. The prefent, and two preceding articles, fhall be reciprocally obferved by the French republic, with regard to the amballadors, minifters, confuls, and other agents of her moft Faithful Majefty. XV. All the prifoners made on both fides, including marines and failors, fhall be given up in a month, reckoning from the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, on payment of the debts they shall have contracted during their captivity. The fick and wounded fhall continue to be taken care of in the |