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names shall be contained in a list to be signed by the Emper Napoleon, and shall be transmitted to the French Government,

Art. 10. All the Crown diamonds shall remain in France. Art. 11. His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon shall return to the Treasury, and to the other public chests, all the sums and effects that shall have been taken out by his orders, with the exception of what has been appropriated from the Civil List.

Art. 12. The debts of the Household of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, such as they were on the day of the signture of the present Treaty, shall be immediately discharged out of the arrears due by the public Treasury to the Civil List, according to a list which shall be signed by a Commissioner appointed for that purpose.

Art. 13. The obligations of the Mont-Napoleon, of Milan, towards all the creditors, whether Frenchmen or foreigners, shall be exactly fulfilled, unless there shall be any change made in this respect.

Art. 14. There shall be given all the necessary passports for the free passage of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, or of the Empress, the Princes, and Princesses, and all the persons of their suites who wish to accompany them, or to establish themselves out of France, as well as for the passage of all the equipages, horses, and effects belonging to them. The Allied Powers shall in consequence furnish officers and men for

escorts.

Art. 15. The French Imperial Guard shall furnish a detach ment of from 1,200 to 1,500 men, of all arms, to serve as an escort to the Emperor Napoleon to St. Tropes, the place of his embarkation.

Art. 16. There shall be furnished a corvette, and the neces sary transport vessels, to convey to the place of his destination his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon and his household; the corvette shall belong, in full property, to his Majesty the Emperor.

Art. 17. The Emperor Napoleon shall be allowed to take with him and retain as his guard 400 men, volunteers, as well officers, as sub-officers and soldiers.

Art. 18. No Frenchman, who shall have followed the Em

n or his Family, shall be held to have forfeited uch, by not returning to France, within three they shall not be comprised in the exceptions nch Government reserves to itself to grant after of that term.

e Polish troops of all arms, in the service of be at liberty to return home, and shall retain d baggage, as a testimony of their honourable e officers, sub-officers, and soldiers, shall retain is which have been granted to them, and the xed to those decorations.

e high Allied Powers guarantee the execution cles of the present Treaty, and engage to obtain adopted and guaranteed by France.

e present Act shall be ratified, and the ratificaed at Paris within two days, or sooner if

ris, the 11th of April, 1814.

S.) The Prince de METTERNICH.
S.) J. P. Comte de STADION.

S.) ANDRE Comte de RASOUMOUFSKY.

S.) CHARLES ROBERT Comte de NESSELRODE. .S.) CASTLEREAGH.

S.) CHARLES AUGUSTE Baron de HARDENBERG.

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e disgrace here inflicted upon this vain at man is too obvious to require obserat it is not inappropriate to mark his owards the French people. Not one does he obtain in favour of the peoce; not a single stipulation even for ers who had gained him his glories, nds upon thousands of whom he had

left prisoners in the hands of the enemies d France; but, if he had been Jew or loanmonger, he could not have stipulated more tightly for him self, and for every member of his family, to sup port whom, in luxury and with their upstart titles, he loaded the people of France with the payment of an annuity of a hundred thousand pounds sterling a year. It was great baseness in the BOURBONS to submit to this; but he ought to have died a thousand deaths rather than to purchase his life upon such terms; or, rather, to sell the people of France in a manner so barefaced.

209. In the meanwhile the BOURBONS, with all their train of old tyrannical noblesse, which time and the miseries of banishment had left them, were returning to Paris; where, on the 30th of May, 1814, they entered into treaties with the Allies. These treaties, which will be presently inserted, must be read with great care and attention, in order that the reader may have a clear view of the terms to which the BOURBONS submitted for the sake of regaining their power, and more especially for the sake of living in idleness, luxury, and debauchery, on the fruit and labour of the industrious people of France. In every line of them we see the insolence of the Allies, and the baseness of the BOURBONS; in every line of them, revenge on the brave people of France; in every line of them, an anxious desire to stifle the spirit of liberty for ever.

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TREATY OF PEACE.

me of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. There shall be, reckoning from this date, peace p between his Majesty the King of France and the one part, and his Majesty the Emperor of of Hungary and Bohemia, and his Allies on the eir heirs and successors, their respective states in perpetuity. The high contracting parties Il their cares to maintain, not only between them. also as far as depends on them between all the rope, the good agreement and understanding so its repose.

he kingdom of France preserves the integrity of ich as they existed at the period of the 1st of Ja

It shall receive besides an augmentation of terised within the line of demarcation fixed by the icle:

On the side of Belgium, Germany, and Italy, the tier, such as it existed on the 1st January, 1792, stablished, the same commencing from the North a Dunkirk and Niewport, even unto the Meditereen Cagnes and Nice, with the following ratifica

department of Jemappes, the canton of Dour Chateau, Beaumont, and Chimay, shall remain to line of demarcation, where it touches the canton all pass between that canton and those of Boussu re, as well as, farther on, between that of Morbesand those of Binch and Thuin.

department of the Sambre and Meuse, the cancourt, Florennes, Beauing, and Gedume, shall bence; the demarcation, upon reaching this departfollow the line which separates the forementioned m the department of Jemappes, and from the rest he Sambre and Meuse.

department of the Moselle, the new demarcation fers from the old, shall be formed by a line to be

drawn from Perle as far as Fremorsdurf, or by that which se parates the canton of Tholey, from the rest of the department of the Moselle.

4. In the department of the Sarre, the cantons of Saarbrock and Arnwal shall remain to France, as well as that part of the canton of Lebach, which is situated to the south of a line to be drawn along the confines of the villages of Herehenbach, Uebechosen, Hilsbach, and Hall (leaving these different places without the French frontier) to the point where, taken from Querselle (which belongs to France), the line which s parates the cantons of Arnwal and Ottweiler, reaches that which separates those of Arnwal and Lebach; the frontier on this side shall be formed by the line above marked out, and then by that which separates the canton of Arnwal from that of Bliescastel.

5. The fortress of Landau having, prior to the year 1792, formed an insulated point in Germany, France retains beyond her frontiers a part of the departments of Mont Tonnerre and the Lower Rhine, in order to join the fortress of Landau and its district to the rest of the kingdom. The new demarcation proceeding from the point where, at Obersteinbach (which remains without the French frontier), the frontier enters the department of the Moselle, and that of Mont Tonnerre, joins the department of the Lower Rhine, shall follow the line which separates the cantons of Weissenburgh and Bergzaberu (on the side of France) from the cantons of Pirmasens, Dalm, and Anweller (on the side of Germany), to the point where these limits, near the village of Wohnersheim, touch the ancient dis trict of the fortress of Landau. Of this district, which remains as it was in 1792, the new frontier shall follow the arm of the river Queich, which, in leaving this district near Queicheim (which rests with France), passes near the villages of Merlenheim, Kniltelsheim, and Beiheim (also remaining French) to the Rhine, which thence continues the boundary between France and Germany. As to the Rhine, the Thalveg, or course of the river, shall form the boundary; the changes, however, which may occur in the course of the river, shall have no effect on the property of the isles which are found

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