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Monthly Chronicle.
PARIS , OCTOBER 2 b , 1797-A rumour in the Hall of the Council of Five Hundred had already excited expectations of a message from the Directory , announcing peace with the Emperor , when suddenly the doors flew open , Members crowded in on all sides , and joy beamed from every countenance , wiule the message was read by one of the Secretaries . Itwas as follows : ' The Directory , assembled according to the number of Members prescribed by the Constitution , has just ratified and signed a Definitive Treaty of Peace , old stilebetween his
concluded on the 6 th Vendernaire , or 17 th of October , 1797 , , Majesty the Emperor , King of Hungary and Bohemia , negociated in the name of . the French Republic by Citizen Buonaparte , Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy , and invested with powers on the part of the Executive Directory , on the one side ; and on the other , by the Marquis de Gallo , Count Cobentzel , Count Meerfeld , and Baron Degellmann , invested with full powers . The Directory transmits to you this Treaty , conformably to the 133 d article of the Constitution , and calls to deliberate it '
on you upon . The following is the substance of the Treaty : —That immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty , the contracting parties shall take off all the sequestrations laid on the property , rights , and revenues of the individuals resident in the respective territories and countries united to them , as well as the public establishments situated in them . That they engage to nay off , a ; much as possible , all the sums lent to them by the said individuals on public establishments , and to pay or re-imburse them for the incomes appropriated to
the use of either of them . That his Majesty the Emperor & c . renounces for himself and successors , in fa- , vour of the French Republic , all his rights and titles to the ci-devant Belgic Provinces , known under the name of the Austrian Low Countries ; and that the French Republic shall possess those countries for ever , in full sovereignty and property , and with all the territorial rights belonging to them . That all the mortgaged debts , before the war , on the soil ofthe countries , and the the usual shall be at the charge ofthe French
contracts for which are in formality , Republic . That his Majesty the Emperor " consents that the French Republic shall possess in full sovereignty the ci-devant Venetian Islands of the Levant ,, viz . Corfu , Zante , Cephalonia , Sante Maurie , Cerigo , and the other independent islands , as also Butrinto , Larta , Vonizzo , and in general all the former Venetian establishment ' s in Albania , situated below the gulph of Lodrino ; That the French Republic consents that his Majesty the Emperor shall possess in full sovereignty and property the undermentioned countriesviz . IstriaDalmatiathe ci-devant
, , , Venetian Islands of the Adriatic , the mouths ofthe Carlaro , the city of Venice , the lakes and countries between the hereditary states of his Majesty the Emperor and King , the Adriatic Sea , and a line which shall proceed from , the Tyro ) , follow the torrent in front of Gardola , traverse the lake of Garda as far as Lacisa ; from thence a military line as far as Sangiacomo , affording an equal advantage to both parties , according as it shall be marked outby officers or engineers appointed by side and the otherthe line of limitation shall thence pass from the Adige
one ; to Sangiacomo , shall follow the left blank of that river to the mouth of the Canal Blanc , comprising that partof Porto Lignano lying on the right side ofthe Adige , with a surrounding radia of three thousand toises . The' line shall continue along the left bank ofthe Canal Blanc , the left bank ofthe Tartaro , the left bank of the Canal called Polisella , to where it discharges itself into the Po , and the left
bank of the great Po to the sea . That his Majesty the Emperor renounces for ever , for himself and his successors , in favour ofthe Cisalpine ^ Republic , all rights and titles proceeding from such rights , which his Majesty could have pretensions to in the countries which he possessed before the war , and which now compose a part of the Cisalpine Republic , so as that it shall possess them in full sovereignty and property ; with all the territorial rights dependent on them ; and he acknowledges the Cisalpine Republic as an Independent Power . That Republic comprehends the ci-devant Austrian Lombardy , the Bergamese , the Bresciese , the Cremonese , the city
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
PARIS , OCTOBER 2 b , 1797-A rumour in the Hall of the Council of Five Hundred had already excited expectations of a message from the Directory , announcing peace with the Emperor , when suddenly the doors flew open , Members crowded in on all sides , and joy beamed from every countenance , wiule the message was read by one of the Secretaries . Itwas as follows : ' The Directory , assembled according to the number of Members prescribed by the Constitution , has just ratified and signed a Definitive Treaty of Peace , old stilebetween his
concluded on the 6 th Vendernaire , or 17 th of October , 1797 , , Majesty the Emperor , King of Hungary and Bohemia , negociated in the name of . the French Republic by Citizen Buonaparte , Commander in Chief of the Army of Italy , and invested with powers on the part of the Executive Directory , on the one side ; and on the other , by the Marquis de Gallo , Count Cobentzel , Count Meerfeld , and Baron Degellmann , invested with full powers . The Directory transmits to you this Treaty , conformably to the 133 d article of the Constitution , and calls to deliberate it '
on you upon . The following is the substance of the Treaty : —That immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty , the contracting parties shall take off all the sequestrations laid on the property , rights , and revenues of the individuals resident in the respective territories and countries united to them , as well as the public establishments situated in them . That they engage to nay off , a ; much as possible , all the sums lent to them by the said individuals on public establishments , and to pay or re-imburse them for the incomes appropriated to
the use of either of them . That his Majesty the Emperor & c . renounces for himself and successors , in fa- , vour of the French Republic , all his rights and titles to the ci-devant Belgic Provinces , known under the name of the Austrian Low Countries ; and that the French Republic shall possess those countries for ever , in full sovereignty and property , and with all the territorial rights belonging to them . That all the mortgaged debts , before the war , on the soil ofthe countries , and the the usual shall be at the charge ofthe French
contracts for which are in formality , Republic . That his Majesty the Emperor " consents that the French Republic shall possess in full sovereignty the ci-devant Venetian Islands of the Levant ,, viz . Corfu , Zante , Cephalonia , Sante Maurie , Cerigo , and the other independent islands , as also Butrinto , Larta , Vonizzo , and in general all the former Venetian establishment ' s in Albania , situated below the gulph of Lodrino ; That the French Republic consents that his Majesty the Emperor shall possess in full sovereignty and property the undermentioned countriesviz . IstriaDalmatiathe ci-devant
, , , Venetian Islands of the Adriatic , the mouths ofthe Carlaro , the city of Venice , the lakes and countries between the hereditary states of his Majesty the Emperor and King , the Adriatic Sea , and a line which shall proceed from , the Tyro ) , follow the torrent in front of Gardola , traverse the lake of Garda as far as Lacisa ; from thence a military line as far as Sangiacomo , affording an equal advantage to both parties , according as it shall be marked outby officers or engineers appointed by side and the otherthe line of limitation shall thence pass from the Adige
one ; to Sangiacomo , shall follow the left blank of that river to the mouth of the Canal Blanc , comprising that partof Porto Lignano lying on the right side ofthe Adige , with a surrounding radia of three thousand toises . The' line shall continue along the left bank ofthe Canal Blanc , the left bank ofthe Tartaro , the left bank of the Canal called Polisella , to where it discharges itself into the Po , and the left
bank of the great Po to the sea . That his Majesty the Emperor renounces for ever , for himself and his successors , in favour ofthe Cisalpine ^ Republic , all rights and titles proceeding from such rights , which his Majesty could have pretensions to in the countries which he possessed before the war , and which now compose a part of the Cisalpine Republic , so as that it shall possess them in full sovereignty and property ; with all the territorial rights dependent on them ; and he acknowledges the Cisalpine Republic as an Independent Power . That Republic comprehends the ci-devant Austrian Lombardy , the Bergamese , the Bresciese , the Cremonese , the city