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minions, the Executive Council of 
France ordered a sufficient number 
of French Soldiers to march into 
the Territories of Geneva, to pre- 
vent the entrance of the Helvetic 
Troops. The Counsellor of State 
of Geneva visited the French Com- 
missioners with the Army on the 8th 
of Oct. 1792, who referred him to 
General Montesquiou; and the 
Dispute at last terminated in the 
following Convention : 
I, LL the corps of Swiss troops 
which are now in Geneva, 
shall successively retire into Swit- 
zerland; and the said retreat shall 
be completed betwixt the present 
period and the Ist of December 
next. 
II. Between this time and the 
same epoch, the heavy artillery, and 
the French troops who surround 
Geneva, and who had approached it 
on account of differences terminated 
by the present convention, shall be 
withdrawn, and posted in such a 
manner as not to give any cause of 
alarm to Geneva. 
If. From the date of the present 
‘convention, a free communication 
between the inhabitants of Savoy 
and the two Republics, and full li- 
berty of passing from Geneva to 
Switzerland, and from Switzerland 
to Geneva, shall be re-established 
on the same footing as in time of 
peace, agreeably to treaty and to 
usage. 
IV. The Republic of Geneva ex- 
pressly and solemnly reserves to 
itself all anterior treaties with its 
neighbours, and particularly that 
of 1584, with the respectable can- 
tons of Zurich and Berne, as well 
as the first article of the treaty of 
1784. : 
The French Republic not mean- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
ing that the reserve should connect 
it with treaties in which it is not 
concerned, nor prejudice in any thing 
the power it has reserved to itself of 
revising its own treaties executed 
provisionally until the time of such 
revision. 
V. The present convention shall 
be ratified by the French Republic 
and the Republic of Geneva, and 
letters of ratification shall be duly 
exchanged on bo'h sides within the 
space of twelve days, or, if possible, — 
sooner. 
Done and agreed upon between 
us, at the quarters-general of 
Landracy, Nov. 2, 1792, First 
Year of the French Republic. 
(Signed) Monresquiou. 
J. F. Prevost, Chancellor of State. 
Amr Luttin, Counsellor of State, 
Member of the Grand Council. 
Francois D’Ivernois, Member of — 
the Grand Council. 
Address of the Genevese Minister to 
the National Convention, on his — 
Presentation, Dec. 19, 1792. 
ITIZENS, I am sensible of the — 
value of such a reception as you — 
honour me with. 
Hitherto the presentations made — 
to the depositaries of power, have — 
offered a vain and fastidious cere- — 
mony only. On the one part were 
seen men erected into demigods, — 
receiving an almost idolatrous wor- — 
ship; on the other, servile adorers, — 
drunk themselves with the incense — 
offered at the shrine of their idols. 
Now a simple citizen presents him- — 
self with confidence before men ho- 
noured with the same title. The 
ministers of a powerful and glorious 
nation — 
