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to give them success eventually, and transmit to new magistracies the care of the public weal, be guaranteed from the influence of passions, exempt from every thing which might put them at variance, and executed with moderation, impartiality, and wisdom. A suitable beginning cannot be expected, but from commissaries named by the very act of mediation, and animated by the same spirit which has dictated it.

For these considerations,

WE, in our aforesaid quality, and with the before-mentioned reserve, decree as follows;

Art. I. For the year 1803, the directorial canton is Fribourg.

II. Citizen Louis d'Affry is landamman of Switzerland for this year, and clothed with extraordinary powers till the re-union of the diet.

III. The original act of mediation shall be sent to the landamman, to be by him deposited in the archives of the directorial canton.

IV. In each canton, a commission of seven members, (one of whom to be named by us, and six designated by the ten deputies named to confer with us) is charged to carry the constitution into effect, and administer accordingly.

V. These committees are composed as follows:

[Here follow the names of the persons composing these committees in the several cantons.]

VI. The 10th of March next, the central government shall dissolve itself, after having remitted its papers and archives to the landamman.

VII. Each commission shall as semble on the 10th of March, at the capital of the canton, and shall notify its assembly to the prefect.

VIII, Twenty-four hours after

the assembly, the prefect shall send to the commission the papers of the administration.

IX. In cases which may require instructions, or special authorities, commissions shall be addressed to the landamman.

X. The 15th of April the constitution shall be in activity; by the 1st of June every canton shall have named its deputies to the diet, and digested its instructions; and the first Monday in July, of the present year, the diet shall assemble.

XI. The business depending on the supreme tribunal, shall be turned over to the tribunal of appeal of the canton to which the parties belong. The supreme tribunals shall cease all functions on the 10th of March,

XII. The Helvetic troops now in Swiss pay, which shall not be employed to the 1st of May by the cantons, shall be taken into the service of France.

XIII. No prosecutions can take place for crimes relating to the revolution, committed, or pretended to be committed, whether by private persons, or those exercising a public function.

The dissolution of the central government, and the reintegration of sovereignty in the cantons, requiring a provision for discharging the debts of Helvetia, and the disposal of the property declared national,

WE, in our aforesaid quality, and with the reserve before mentioned, decree as follows:

[Here follow nine articles of a de cree for that purpose; after which it declares, that:] the present act, the result of long conferences between wise and well-disposed minds, appears to us to contain the properest dispositions to assure the pacifica, tion and the happiness of the Swiss.

As soon as they shall have been executed, the French troops shall be withdrawn.

We acknowledge Helvetia, constituted according to the present act, as an independent power.

We guarantee the federal constitution, and that of each canton, against the enemies of the tranquillity of Helvetia, whoever they be; and we promise to continue the relations of amity which, during several ages, have united the two nations.

Done and executed at Paris, the 30th Pluviose, an. 11. (Feb. 19, 1803.)

(Signed) BONAPARTE. The Secretary of State,

(Signed) H. B. MARET. The Minister of Foreign Relations,

(Signed) C. M. TALLEYRAND. The Minister of Exterior Relations of the Helvetic Republic,

(Signed) J. MARESCALCHI. The present act has been remitted by the senatorial commissaries undersigned, to the ten undersigned Swiss deputies, at Paris, this 30th Pluviose, an. 11. (19 Feb. 1803.)

(Signed) (Signed) BARTHELEMY, LOUIS D'AFFRY, PIERRE GLUTZ, EMMANUEL JAUCH,

RODERER,

FOUCHE,

DEMEUNIER. H. MONNOT, REINHART, SPRECHER BER

NEGG,

P. A. STAPFER,
PAUL USTERY,
R. DE WATTEVILLE

DE MONTBENAY, IG. VON FLUE.

GERMANY.

Convention concluded at Paris respecting the Amount of the Indemnities

to be granted to the House of Austria, in the Empire. The following is the Substance of the Articles:

Art. I. Towards the increase of the indemnity stipulated in favour of the duke of Modena, and his heirs, his imperial majesty cedes the bailliwick of Ortenau, in Suabia, with all its appurtenances, in order that it may be united to the Brisgau; and that these two provinces may be possessed, without any limitation whatsoever, by his said highness the duke of Modena, and his heirs, conformably to the fourth article of the treaty of Luneville.

II. In order to indemnify his imperial majesty for the loss of Ortenau, the bishoprics of Trente and Brixen are to be secularised; and his imperial majesty shall enter into the possession thereof without any exception whatever, and with the condition only of providing an annuity for the present bishops.

III. The grand duke is to have the bishopric of Eichstadt, in addition to what has already been adjudged to him by the general conclusum of the 23d of November, and all the rights and prerogatives attached to it, with the exception only of the bailliwicks of Sendsee, Wernfels, Spelt, Oberberg, Hernberg, and Warbourg, and of the dependencies of the above bishopric which are connected with the territory of Anspach and Bayreuth; in lieu of which the grand duke is to receive an equivalent in money, to be taken from the domains of his electoral highness Bavaro-Palatine in Bohemia.

IV. With the reserve of the above-mentioned stipulations, his imperial majesty binds himself to exert his influence to get the general plan of the indemnities, as set

tled

tled by the deputation of the empire, with the exception of the modifications contained in the present, ratified by the empire, and sanctioned by his imperial majesty himself, as soon as may be.

V. His imperial majesty expressly understands, that, after the exchange of the present, the countries mentioned in the preceding article may be occupied by the civil and military administrations belonging to the princes to whom they have been adjudged; on condition, however, that the city of Passau and environs are not to be fortified, nor any new fortifications be erected in the territory of the bishopric of Eichstadt.

VI. The first consul of the French republic will co-operate with his imperial majesty of the Russias in procuring for his royal highness the archduke Ferdinand, and for his heirs, the electoral dignity.

VII. The high contracting parties mutually guarantee the execution of every thing contained in the above articles; and the minister plenipotentiary of his imperial majesty of all the Russias, as a principal contracting party, will be invited to accede to the present convention.

VIII. The present convention shall be ratified in twenty days, reckoning from this day, and sooner if possible.

Francis the Second, Emperor of the
Romans, &c., &c., to the Electors,
Princes, and States of the Empire,
met in the General Diet.

The extraordinary deputation of the empire, nominated for the execution of the fifth and sixth articles of the treaty of peace of Luneville, having terminated the work confided to it; and the electors, princes, and states of the German empire, having, by their conclusum of the 24th of March, demanded its confirmation; his majesty the emperor, in his paternal solicitude for the maintenance of the peace and tranquillity of Germany, will not delay to give, according to the measure of his duties, the legal sanction to that act, so important by its nature and in its consequences.

The object to which his attention is, at this moment of decision, directed, is, to conciliate, as much as is possible, the accomplishment of the obligations which the emperor and the empire have imposed upon themselves, on the one hand, with the preservation of the Germanic constitution; and, on the other hand, with the regard which his majesty has had for the propositions of the two high mediating powers, and for the wishes and satisfaction of the states of the empire.

This object is the very same to which all the steps and efforts of his majesty the emperor were di

Done at Paris, 26th of Decem- rected at the convocation of the

ber, 1802.

(Signed) PHIL. COBENTZEL,

JOSEPH BONAPARTE,
Count MARKOFF, in the
name of his Impe-
rial Majesty of all

the Russias.

In

deputation of the empire, and in all its acts and negotiations. pursuance of that view, his imperial majesty has, during the course of those negotiations, supported the plan of indemnity proposed by the mediating powers, and adopted by the majority of voices in the deputation,

tation, so far as was allowed by the precise tenor of the articles of the treaty of peace, and by the limits of the plenary powers of the deputation; which had for their object to carry into effect those articles, and to maintain the constitution in all points in which it was compatible with them.

The convention concluded at Paris on the 26th of December, Last year, proves with what moderation and what regard for the mediating powers, and for the states of the empire having an interest in the affair, his imperial majesty laboured to facilitate the removal of the difficulties which had arisen, even when those difficulties arose from the legitimate interests of his own family. In that convention bis imperial majesty voluntarily extended the obliga, tions of the treaty of Luneville, and reduced, as much as possible, the full indemnity due to one of the princes of his own house. His imperial majesty has shown the same dispositions, and has given the same facilities in regard to other propositions, which have latterly been added to the plan of indemnities, though they did not emanate out of the grounds of the indemnification, nor accord with the interior constitution of the Germanic body.

Upon the same considerations and respects, his imperial majesty also determined to give his adherence in the above-mentioned convention, to the conclusum of the deputation on the 23d of November last; still formally reserving all the rights compatible with the plan of indemnities which belong to him, whether as supreme head of the empire, or as sovereign of his own bereditary dominions. Not having

had, in this latter quality, any share in the indemnities for the losses which he suffered in the war, his majesty cannot be subjected to the restrictions attached to that plan, farther than is required by the ne cessity for the execution of the general basis of indemnification.

Finally, as since the conclusion of the convention of December 26, there have been made various additions and changes on the princi pal conclusum of the 23d of November; and as the deputation came to a new conclusum, on the 25th of February, of which the diet, by its decision, demands the approbation under certain reservations formally expressed; his imperial majesty having maturely weighed all the circumstances stated, and being guided by a sense of his dearest duties, has resolved to give his sanction, as supreme head, to the above-mentioned conclusum of the empire, upon the conditions following:

The convention concluded at Paris on the 26th of December last, and communicated to the deputation, shall be maintained in full validity and obligatory force, agreeably to the literal tenor of its articles, and particularly in what regards the reservations contained in article 4th.

The rights of his majesty, as emperor and supreme head of the empire, to which those reservations refer, shall be maintained inviolate both during the execution of the present decision, and in all future cases,

The confirmation of the fundamental laws of the empire, mentioned in the conclusum of the diet of the 24th March, and particularly of the treaty of peace of Westphalia, and of the subsequent

treaties

1803.]

PUBLIC

treaties, so far as they have not been formally changed by the treaty of Luneville, and the present decision of the diet; as also the reservation proposed in this decision, for the maintenance of the Germanic constitution, in all points in which it has not been formally changed, and such as that constitution has hitherto existed in respect to the electors, princes, and states of the empire, comprehending the Teutonic and Equestrian orders; all these confirmations and reservations shall be maintained and carried into effect.

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The difficulty which his imperial majesty showed on the occasion of the votes (viriles) in the college of princes, produced by the first propositions of the deputation, not having been in any manner removed by the propositions subsequent; his majesty sees himself obliged by the duties which he has sworn to fulfil for the maintenance of the Germanic constitution, and the protection of the catholic religion, to suspend, for the present, his ratification upon that point; and to reserve himself to demand, by a decree of commission, which will forthwith be passed, that there shall be a further conclusum of the empire upon this subject, in order that, by suitable propositions, it may be provided that (the protestant party having already obtained a majority so decisive, in the college of the electors, and in that of the free towns) the ancient relations between the two religions shall not be so changed in the college of the princes, as to occasion a disproportion that may entirely derange the parity of votes.

Relative, also, to the points in the last conclusum of the deputation, which ought to be submmitted to further examination and

deliberation, such as those men-
tioned at the end of sections II.
and XXXIX. his majesty and
the empire reserve to themselves to
interfere at a proper time.

His imperial majesty, giving,
under these reservations and con
ditions, his formal sanction, as su
preme head of the empire, to the
conclusum of the diet of the 21st of
March, seizes this opportunity to
express his thanks, and the thanks
of the empire, to the high mediat-
ing powers, for their solicitude,
and for the pains they have taken
in this important affair. His ma
will recog
powers
jesty further indulges the sure
hope that those
nise the proofs given by the empe
ror and the empire, of regard to
their amicable wishes and proposi-
tions; and that the act of peace
thus terminated, will be secured
and confirmed in the most lasting
manner.

of Austria.
Ordinance of Neutrality on the Part

"We, Francis II. &c. &c.

"Whereas it is our determination to observe the strictest neutrality in the present war between France and Great Britain, and to maintain the pacific and friendly relations which exist between us and the belligerent powers; and as, to avoid any interruption of these, it is necessary, that on the one side this neutrality should be carefully observed by all our subjects, especially those concerned in trade and navigation on the coasts; and on the other, that the rights of our neutral harbours and coasts should be acknowledged by those powers, according to the rules of neutral trade admitted by each of those powers; we, in order to pre

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