already been made in virtue of private contracts, and which have not yet been paid for by the French republic, fhall be returned in kind to the troops forming the contingent of his Sardinian Majefty: and if the amount of the furnishings fhould exceed the wants of the contingent, the overplus fhall be repaid in fpecie. XI. The two contracting parties fhall immediately appoint commiffioners charged to negotiate in their name a treaty of commerce agreeably to the bafis ftipulated in article VII. of the treaty of peace concluded at Paris between the French republic and the King of Sardinia.-Meanwhile the pofts and all other commercial relations shall be re-established without delay in the fame manner as they were before the war. XII. The ratifications of the prefent treaty of alliance fhall be exchanged at Paris in the shortest delay poffible. Done and figned at Turin on the 16th of Germinal (April 5), 5th year of the French republic. (Signed) H. CLARKE. The Executive Directory ratify and fign the prefent treaty of alliance with his Majefty the King of Sardinia, negotiated in the name of the French republic by Henry James Clarke, general of divifion, appointed by an order of the Executive Directory on the 13th Ventofe laft, and charged with inftructions to the above effect. Done at the national palace on the 22d Germinal, 5th year of the French republic. Treaty of the Union of the Republic of Mulhaufen to the French Republic. THE HE Executive Directory of the French republic being affured that the magiftrates, councils, citizens, and inhabitants of the republic of Mulhaufen have expreffed a defire to be united to the French republic, and to be incorporated with the great nation, and willing to give to the most ancient ally of France the last proof of her generous friendship, have appointed Citizen John Ulric Metzger, member of the central administration of the department of the Upper Rhine, commiflioner of government, to ascertain their wishes for fuch union, and to ftipulate the mode and conditions of the fame; for which purpofe the magiftrates, &c. of the republic of Mulhaufen have nominated to treat and stipulate in their name, Meffrs. Jean Hofer, burgomafter, Joshua Hofer, fyndic, Paul Hagenin, Jeremiah Koechlin, both members of the great council, James Koechlin, one of the four affiftants to the great council, and Sebaftian Sperlin, all of the town of Mulhau a 2 fen, fen, and equally and fully charged and authorized to ftipulate for the inhabitants of Illzach and Modenheim, which form the republic and dependency of Mulhaufen. The French commiffioner having, by the authentic documents fubjoined, verified the free expreffion of their wishes for the union, the commiffioner and deputies, after producing and exchanging their full powers, agreed on the following articles: 1. The French republic accepts the wifh of the citizens of the republic of Mulhaufen, and that of the inhabitants of the commune of Illzach, and its appendage of Modenheim, both forming a dependency of Mulhaufen, and declares the faid citizens and inhabitants Frenchmen born. II. The French government, as a mark of attachment to its ancient allies, confents to prolong their state of neutrality, and confequently exempts them from all real and perfonal requifitions, and from the quartering of foldiers, during the present war, and until the period of general peace. III. Thofe citizens and inhabitants of Mulhaufen, &c. who may be inclined to remove with all their effects into Switzerland, or elsewhere, thall be allowed one year from the ratification of this treaty, to prepare for their departure, and three years to accomplish the fale and liquidation of their property and debts. IV. All the lands and effects of the town, thofe within its own district, and those which it poffeffes in the diftrict of Illzach, and which are under the management of its magistrate and his agents, thofe allotted to the hofpital, public buildings, and thofe appropriated to public functionaries, mills, commons, arable lands, meadows, paftures, forefts, whether within or without the boundaries of the territory of Mulhaufen, and all rents or quit-rents which may be due to the commune, the hofpital, or any other corporation or foundation of Mulhaufenin general terms, all that conftituted the patrimony of the faid republic, and which was known under the general name of common property, fhall belong in full right and without any diminution to the commune of Mulhaufen. V. The buildings, goods moveable and immoveable, and fums of money, forming the appanage of the fix corporations called tribes (Zunfte), fhall alfo be regarded as common property. VI. The forefts, buildings, and lands, belonging to the Teutonic order of Malta, as well as the poffeffions of the chapter of Arlecheim, and the abbey of Lucelles, within the territory of Mulhaufen, fhall become the property of the commune. VII. Whatever measures the republic of Mulhausen may have taken, previous to the exchange of the ratification of these pre fents, fents, relative to the various fpecies of property mentioned in the 4th, 5th, and 6th articles, fhall be executed according to their form and tenour. VIII. The buildings, capitals, rents, lands, forests, commons, and hemp-fields, ceded by the town of Mulhaufen to the inhabitants of Illzach and Modenheim, fhall belong to them in full property, without any exception, and they fhall be free to difpofe of them as they fhall judge moft fuitable to their own intereft. IX. To encourage the neglected agriculture of the communes of Mulhaufen and its dependencies, the French government declares, that all the rents and duties levied on the lands and other immoveables of the citizens of Mulhaufen, and their dependencies, for the behoof of the orders mentioned previously, and which would fall in to the nation, fhall be abolished without any indemnity and the lawful poffeffors of fuch eftates fhall be exempt from any compenfation, and continue to enjoy them in perfect property. X. The tribunal of commerce of the republic of Mulhaufen fhall be continued, and organized according to the laws of the French republic. There shall be two notaryfhips in the town of Mulhaufen the one exercifed by the ancient Greffier Tabellion, and the other by one of the citizens à hommes: the titles, documents, and original writings of the chancery, fhall be deposited in the archives, which fhall be under the care of an officer, to be paid by the commune. To facilitate commercial relations, there fhall be established an office for poft-horfes; the post-office for letters fhall be continued. The government will establish a direct communication with Bafle, Colmar, and Belford; and to facilitate the difpatch of business, there will be appointed a stamp and regifter office. The period of their commencing business will be fixed by the government, as well as that of the payment of perfonal and real contributions; and as there is at prefent no register of lands, nor matriculation book, the citizens of Mulhaufen having been exempt from contributions, a commiffion will be appointed to complete the register and matriculation, and to make preliminary arrangements for fixing and affeffing the contributions. XI. To encourage the commerce and induftry of Mulhaufen, and to fupport the credit of the merchants who carry on trade with foreign capitals, the French government declares, that it means to preserve to the capitalifts and its Swifs and other foreign dependencies, the fame rights and the fame fyftem of legislation which exifted before the union of the republic of Mulhaufen to France. In confequence, all deeds, whether hypothecary or under fign manual, difpofitions, teftaments, legacies, and all acts anterior to to the ratification of this treaty, fhall be executed according to the ftatutory laws of the town of Mulhaufen. XII. The republic of Mulhaufen renounces all its connexions with the Helvetic body; it depofits in the bofom of the French republic its right to independent fovereignty, and authorizes the French government to notify to the Helvetic cantons, in the most amicable manner, that their ancient allies will form an integral part of a people no less dear to them, and united to whom they will not ceafe to be in a state of intimate relation with their ancient friends. XIII. The ratification of the prefent treaty fhall be exeflanged within one month from the date of fignature. Done at Mulhanfen, on the 9th Pluviofe, 6th year. The above treaty was ratified by the Councils on the 11th Ventofe (1ft March) 1798. Additional Convention to the Treaty of Peace figned on the 7th August 1796, between the French Republic and the Duke of Wurtemberg. E. THE French republic fhall require and infift on the fecularization of the diftrict of Oberkirch, belonging to the Fate bishopric of Strafburgh, the abbey of Zweifalten, and the principality and prebendary of Ellwangen. II. The Duke engages to pay what he is perfonally indebted to the inhabitants of the countries ceded by him, and within five years to replace the capitals which have been paid into his private treafury, and for which he has conftituted rents. III. The Duke engages, by his vote in the diet, to accede to the following propofitions: 1. The ceffion of the left bank of the Rhine, the islands and course of that river. 2. The emancipation of the Italian ftates from the bonds of feudality. 3. The fecularization of the ecclefiaftical principalities which are neceffary for the indemnification of the fecular princes, IV. He engages in all future wars between France and any other power, to obferve the ftricteft neutrality, and neither to contribute a contingent nor any other affistance. V. The French troops, in all wars commenced against France, fhall enter the territories of the Duke, remain in them, and poffefs themfelves of fuch military pofts as fhall be neceffary for their operations. VI. A full amnefty fhall be granted to all perfons who may have been arrested or profecuted on account of political opi nions. VII. The diplomatic agent of the French republic shall de termine termine all civil difputes between French citizens in the states of Wurtemberg. VIII. The Duke renounces the further use of the titles derived from the ceded countries. IX. The armiftice of 29 Meffidor fhall be fully obferved in all the particulars which are not contrary to the articles of the prefent treaty. X. The ftipulated contributions fhall be raised; befides which the Duke fhall pay monthly 200,000 livres, from Vendemiaire to the signing of the preliminaries of peace with Austria. XI. This treaty fhall likewife bind the Imperial towns Efslingen and Reutlingen. (Signed) Paris, 20 Thermidor, 4th year of the French republic. WOELLWARTT. ABEL. Treaty of Peace, and of Alliance offenfive and defenfive, concluded between the French and Helvetic Republics. THE (E French and Helvetic republics being equally defirous to make the most perfect peace and the strictest friendship fucceed to a war which an oligarchy had provoked, and which for a time had caused a divifion between the two nations, have refolved to unite themselves together by an alliance grounded on the real interefts of the two countries: the refpective governments have accordingly appointed, on the part of the French Directory, Citizen C. M. Talleyrand, minifter of foreign affairs, and on the part of the Executive Directory of the Helvetic republic, Citizens P. J. Zeltner and Amedee Jenner, who, after a mutual exchange of their full powers, agreed to the following articles: Art. I. There fhall be for a perpetuity, peace, friendship, and good understanding, between the French and Helvetic republics. II. There exifts, from the prefent moment, between the two republics, an alliance offenfive and defenfive. The general refult of this alliance is, that each of the republics may, in cafe of war, claim the co-operation of its ally. The power claiming this co-operation fhall then specify against whom the co-operation is required, and in confequence of that fpecial requifition, the power called upon enters into war against the power or powers defignated; but it remains in a state of neutrality with refpect to fuch powers as may be at war with the claiming power, and whom it may not have particularly defignated. It is acknowledged that the effect of the requifition on the part of the French republic fhall never be to fend the Swifs troops beyond the fea. The |