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330 ANNUAL RE 
and amity, and have affixed to it 
our respective seals, MR 
Done at Basle the 16th Germinal, 
the third year of the French 
republic, April 5, 1795. 
(Signed). Franco1s Barts 
LEMY, ' 
CHARLES-AUGUSTE, 
Baron de Harpgn- 
BERG. 
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Second Treaty betaern the Republic of 
Francé and the King of Prussias 
THE republic of France and 
his majesty the king of Prussia 
having stipulated in the treaty of 
\ peace, and amity concluded be- 
tween them the 16th of last Ger- 
minal (sth of April, 1795),. re- 
specting some secret clauses alluded 
to in ihe 7th article of the said 
treaty, which establish a line cf 
demarcation and neutrality for the 
purpose of removing the theatre 
of war from the North ot Germany, 
have thought proper to explain and 
definitively decree the conditions 
by an express convention. For 
‘this purpose the respeétive pleni- 
potentiaries of the two high con- 
tracting powers, viz. on the part of 
the French republic, citizen Fran- 
cis Barthelemy, its ambassador in 
Switzerland, and on the part of the 
King of Prussia his minister of stare, 
of war, and of the cabinet, Charles 
Augustus, baron de Hardenberg, 
knight of the order of the red eagle, 
of the white eagle, and of St. Sta- 
nislaus, &c, have agreed to the 
following articles: —- 
Art. 1. In order to. remove the 
theatre of war from the frontiers of 
the states of his majesty the king of 
Prussia, to preserve the tranquillity 
of the North of Germany, and to re. 
GESTER, 1795. 
establish the entire freedom of com- 
merce between that part of the 
empire and France, in the same 
manner as before the war, the 
French republic consents not to 
push the eperations of war, nor to 
send troops either by land or sea 
into the states situated beyond the 
following line of demarcation. 
‘This line shall comprehend East 
Friesland, and descend along the 
Ems, and the Aa, or Alpha, to 
Munster, taking afterwards its di- 
rection towards Coesfeld, Borken, 
Bockholt, to the frontier of the 
duchy ot Cleves, near Issenbourgh, 
following this line of frontier to 
Magenporst; wpon the new Issel, 
and ascending the Rhine to Duys- 
bourgh; from thence extending, 
along the frontier of the county of 
Marck, to Werden, Gemarke, and 
along the Wipper to Hombourgh, 
Altenkirchen, Limbourg upon the 
Lahn; along that river, and from 
that which stretches from Idstein to 
that city, Epstein, end Hochst upon 
the Mien; trom thence to Rauen- 
heim, along the Langraben to 
Darnheim, thence following the 
brook which crosses that distri@ to 
the frontiers of the Pulatinate; 
thence along the frontiers. of the 
country of Darmstadt and the cir=- 
cle of Franconia, which the line 
willentirely enclose, to Ebersbach 
upon the Necker, continuing the 
course of that_river to Wimien, 2 
free town of the empire, and taking 
thenee a course to Lcewenstein, 
Murhard, Hoenstadt, Noerdlingen, 
a free town of the empire, and 
Holzkirch upon the Wernitz ; im- 
closing the county of Pappenheim 
and the whole circle of Franconia 
and Upper Saxony, along Bavaria, 
the Upper Palatinate,and Bohemia, 
to the frontiers of Silesia. 
Aye ee te 
