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between France and Spain by the treaty of peace concluded at Bafle on the 4th Thermidor, and the third year of the republic, (July 22, 1795) have refolved to form an offenfive and defensive treaty of alliance for whatever concerns the advantages and common defence of the two nations; and they have charged with this important negotiation, and have given their full powers to the under-mentioned perfons; namely the Executive Directory of the French republic to citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon, general of division of the republic and its ambaffador to his Catholic majesty the king of Spain; and his Catholic majesty the king of Spain, to his excellency Don Manuel de Godoi, prince of peace, duke of Alcudia, &c. &c. &c. who, after the respective communication and exchange of their full powers, have agreed on the following articles:

Art. 1. There shall exift for ever an offenfive and defenfive alliance between the French republic and his Catholic majesty the king of Spain.

2. The two contracting powers shall be mutual guarantees, without any reserve or exception, in the most authentic and absolute way, of all the states, territories, islands, and the places which they possess, and shall respectively possess. And if one of the two powers shall be in the sequel, under whatever pretext it may be, menaced or attacked, the other promises, engages and binds itself to help it with its good offices, and to fuccour it on its requifition, as shall be stipulated in the following articles:

3. Within the space of three months, reckoning from the mo

ment of the requifition, the power called on shall hold in readiness, and place in the disposal of the power calling, 15 ships of the line, three of which shall be threedeckers, or of 80 guns, twelve of from 70 to 72, fix frigates of a proportionate force, and four floops or light vessels, all equipped, armed, and victualled for fix months, and stored for a year. These naval forces shall be afsembled by the power called on in the particular port pointed out by the power calling.

4. In cafe the requiring power may have judged it proper for the commencement of hoftilities to confineitselfto the one-half the fuccour, which was to have been given in execution of the preceding article, it may, at any epoch of the campaigu, call for the other half of the aforesaid succour, which shall be furnished in the mode and within the space fixed. The space of time to be reckoned from the new requifition.

5. The power called on shall in the fame way place at the difpofal of the requiring power, within the space of three months, reckoning from the moment of the requifition, eighteen thousand infantry, and fix thousand cavalry; with a proportionate train of artillery to be readily employed in Europe, and for the defence of the colonies which the contracting powers possess in the Gulf of Mexico.

6. The requiring power shalt be allowed to send one or several commiffioners for the purpose of affuring itself whether conformably to the preceding articles, the power called on has put itself in a state to commence hoftilities on the

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7. These fuccours shall be entirely placed at the disposal of the requiring power, which may leave them in the ports and on the territory of the power called on, or employ them in any expeditions it may think fit to undertake, without being obliged to give an account of the motives by which it may have been determined.

8. The demand of the fuccours Ripulated in the preceding articles, made by one of the powers, shall fuffice to prove the need it has of them, and shall bind the other power to dispose of them, without its being neceffary to enter into any difcuffion relative to the question whether the war it proposes be offenfive or defenfive; or without any explanation being required, which may tend to elude the most fpeedy and exact accomplishment of what is ftipulated.

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9. The troops and ships demanded Thall continne at the difposal of the requiring power during the whole duration of the war, without its incurring in any cafe any expence. The power called shall maintain them in all places where its ally thall cause them to act, as if it employed them directly for itself. It is fimply agreed on, that during the whole of the time when the aforesaid troops or thips thall be on the territory or in the ports of the requiring power, it shall furnish from its ruagazines or arfenals whatever may be neceffary to them, in the fame way and at the fame price as it supplies its own troops and thips.

io. The power called on shall immediately replace the ships it

furnishes, which may be loft by

accidents of war or of the fea. It shall also repair the loffes the troops it supplies may fuffer.

11. If the aforesaid fuccours are found to be, or should become infuficient, the two contracting powers shall put on foot the greateft forces they possibly can, as well by fea as by land, against the enemy of the power attacked, which shall employ the aforefaid forces, either by combining them, or by caufing them to act separately, and this conformably to a plan concerted between them.

12. The fuccours ftipulated by the preceding articles shall be furnished in all the wars the contracting powers may have to maintain, even in those in which the party called on may not be directly interested, and may act merely as a fimple auxiliary.

13. In the cafe in which the motives of hoftilities being prejudicial to both parties, they may declare war with one common affent againft one or feveral powers, the limitations established in the preceding articles shall cease to take place, and the two contracting powers thall be bound to bring into action against the common enemy the whole of their land and fea forces, and to concert their plans so as to direct them towards the most convenient points, either separately or by uniting them. They equally bind themselves, in the cases pointed out in the present article, not to treat for peace unless with one common confent, and in fuch a way as that each shall obtain the fatisfaction which is its due.

14. In the cafe in which one of the powers thall act merely as an auxiliary, the power which alone shall shall find itself attacked may treat for peace feparately, but fo as that no prejudice may refult from thence to the auxiliary power, and that it may even turn as much as poflible to its direct advantage. For this purpose advice shall be given to the auxiliary power of the mode and time agreed on for the opening and sequel of the negociations.

15. Without any delay there shall be concluded a treaty of commerce on the most equitable basis, and reciprocally advantageous to the two nations, which thall secure to each of them, with its ally, a marked preference for the productions of its foil or manufactures, or at least advantages equal to those which the most favoured nations enjoy in their respective states. The two powers engage to make instantly a common cause to reprefs and annihilate the maxims adopted by any country whatever, which may be fubverfive of their present principles, and which may bring into danger the fafety of the neutral flag, and the respect which is due to it, as well as to raise and re-establish the colonial system of Spain on the footing on which it has fubfifted, or ought to fubfift, conformably to treaties.

16. The character and jurifdiction of the confuls shall be at the fame time recognized and regulated, by a particular convention. Those anterior to the present treaty thall be provifionally executed.

17. To avoid every difpute between the two powers, they shall be bound to employ themselves immediately, and without delay, in the explanation and developement of the 7th article of the treaty of Bafle, concerning the frontiers,

conformable to the instructions, plans, and memoirs, which shall be communicated through the medium of the plenipotentiaries who negotiate the present treaty.

18. England, being the only power againft, which Spain has direct grievances, the present alliance shall not be executed unless against her during the present war; and Spain shall remain neuter with respect to the other powers armed against the republic.

19. The ratifications of the present treaty shall be exchanged within a month from the date of its being figned.

Done at Ildephonso, 2 Fructidor, (Aug. 19) the 4th year of the French republic, one and indivisible.

(Signed)

PERIGNON, and the
PRINCE OF PEACE.

The executive directory resolves on and figns the present offenfive and defenfive treaty of alliance with his Catholic majesty the king of Spain, negotiated in the name of the French republic by citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon, general of divifion, founded on powers to that effect by a refolution of the exceutive directory, dated 20 Meffidor, (Sept. 6) and charged with its inftructions.

Done at the National Palace of the Executive Directory, the fourth year of the French republic, one and indivifible.

Conformable to the original.

(Signed) KEVEILLIERE LEPEAUX, prefi. By the Executive Directory,

LAGARDE, secretary general. This treaty was ratified on the 26 Fructidor, (Sept. 12) by the Council of Elders. Q4

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Treaty between France and Pruffia. HIS majesty the king of Pruffia and the French republic having deemed it proper to modify, in a manner agreeable to exifting circumstances, the stipulations relative to the neutrality of the northern part of Germany agreed upon by the treaty of Bafle, the 5th of April, 1795, and by the convention of the 17th of May; they named, to concert on that subject, viz. his Pruffian majesty, Sieur Chretien Henry Count de Haugwiltz, his minifter of state for the war department; and the French republic, citizen Antoine Bernard Caillard, its minifter plenipotentiary at BerJin, who, having mutually exchanged their powers, have agreed on the following articles:

The French republic will abstain from extending the operations of the war, and from sending troops, either by land or fea, into the states included in the following line of demarcation:

This line to begin from the part of the Duchy of Holstein, situated on the North sea, extending down the coast of that sea, on the fide of Germany, and including the territory in which the Elbe disembogues itself, together with the Wefer and the Ems, as well as the iflands fituated in those diftricts, as far as Forcum, from thence to the frontiers of Holland, as far as Anholt, paffing Herenbergh, and including the Pruffian poffeffions near Sevenaer, as far as Bair on the Ysel; it will then continue down that river to the place where it mixes its waters with the Rhine; the line will then go up the latter river as far as Wefel, and farther on, to the place where the Roer throws itself into the Rhine; it will then extend

along the left bank of the Roer to its source; after which, leaving the city of Nedebach to the left, it will take its direction towards the Eder, the course of which it will follow until that river meets the Fuld, and then it will go up that river ás far as its fource.

The French republic will confider as neutral states all those in the line, on condition that they observe on their fide a ftrict neutrality; the first point of which will be to furnish, for the future, for the continuation of the war, no pecuniary contributions of any kind whatever; to order back immediately, if they had not already done so, their respective contingent troops, and that in the space of two months, from the figning of the present treaty; and not to contract any new engagement, which may authorize them to furnish troops to the powers at war with France. The states which do not act agreeably to these conditions, shall be excluded from the benefit of the neutrality.

As for that part of the county of La Marck, which, being on the left bank of the Boer, is not included in the above line, it will nevertheless enjoy the benefits of this treaty in the fullest extent: but his Pruffiau majesty consents to allow the troops of the belligerent powers to pass through it, on condition that they do not there eftablish the theatre of war, nor poffefs themselves of entrenched pofitions, &c. &c.

Given at Berlin, August 5th,
1796, old style, and the 18th
Thermidor, 4th year of the
French republic.

(Signed) CHRETIEN HAUGWILTZ.
ANTOINE CAILLARD.

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Treaty of Peace between the French republic and the Infant Duke of Parma, Placentia, and Guoftalla. THE French republic and his royal highnefs the infant duke of Parma, Placentia, and Guaftalla, defiring to re-establish the ties of amity which formerly fubfifted between the two ftates, and to put an end, as much as in their power, to the calamities of war, have accepted, with eagerness, the mediation of his Catholic majesty, and have named for the plenipotentiaries, that is to fay, the executive directory, in the name of the French republic, the citizen Charles Delacroix, minifter of foreign affairs, and his royal highness the infant duke of Parma, Meffieurs the count Pierre Politi and Don Louis Boll; who, after having exchanged their respective powers, have determined upon and concluded definitively the following articles, under the mediation of his Catholic majesty, exercifed by the marquis del Campo, his ambaffador to the French republic, who has alfo prefented his fall powers:

ART. 1. There fhall be peace and amity between the French republic and his royal highness the infant duke of Parma; the two powers fhall carefully abftain from every thing that may alter the good harmony and union established between them by the present treaty.

2. Every act, engagement, or anterior convention, on the part of one or other of the two contracting powers, which might be contrary to the prefent treaty, fhall be confidered as null and void. In confequence, during the course of the prefent war, neither of the two powers fhall furnith to the enemies

of the other any fuccours in troops, arms, warlike ammunition, provi fions, or money, under whatever title and denomination it may be.

3. The infant duke of Parma engages not to permit the emigrants, or banished perfons of the French republic, to ftop or fojourn in his state.

4. The French republic and his royal highness the infant duke of Parma engage to remove the fequeftration from all the effects, revenues, or goods, which may have been feized, confifcated, detained, or fold, from the citizens or fubjects of the other power, relative to the prefent war, and to admit them to the legal exercife of the actions or rights belonging to them.

5. The contributions ftipulated in the convention of armistice, figned at Placentia on the 20th of last Floreal, between general Buonaparte in the name of the French republic, and the marquifes Pelleviene and Phillippo delle Rofa in the name of the infant duke of Parma, fhall be fully difcharged. There hall neither be levied nor exacted any other; if there have been levied any contributions in money, or required any fupplies in provifions, beyond what is fettled by the faid convention, the contributions in money thall be reimbursed, and the provifions paid for at the current price at the time of delivery. There fhall be named on each part, if neceffary, commiffaries to execute the prefent article.

6. From the fignature of the prefent treaty the ftates of his royal highness the infant duke of Parma fhall be treated as thofe of friendly and neutral powers; if there fhall be fupplied any neceffaries to the

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