STA Tin POA PERS. 
fure to his Majefty and the French 
- Republic, advantages equal to thofe 
enjoyed in their ref{peétive ftates by 
the moft favoured nations. In the 
mean time all the communications 
and commercial relations fhall be 
re-eftablifhed upon the footing on 
which they were before the war. 
XVI. No inhabitant of the coun- 
tries occupied by the Auftrian or 
_ French armies can be profecuted, 
either in his perfon or his property, 
for his opinions, or his civil, mili- 
tary, or commercial actions, during 
the war between the two powers. 
XVII. His Majefty the Emperor 
and King cannot, confiftently with 
the principles of neutrality, receive 
in any of his ports, during the pre- 
fent war, more than fix veffels of 
war belonging to either of the bel- 
ligerent powers. 
XVIII. His Majefty the Emperor 
and King obliges himfelf to cede to 
the Duke of Modena, as an indem- 
nity for the countries hitherto be- 
longing to that prince and his heirs 
‘in Italy, the Boteast which he fhall 
poffefs under the fame conditions 
as thofe in virtue of which he pof- 
fefled the Modenois. 
XIX. The landed and perfonal 
property of their Royal Highneffes 
the Archduke Charles and the Arch- 
duchefs Chriftina, not previoufly 
alienated, and which are fituate in 
the territory ceded to the Republic, 
fhall be reftored to them, on the 
condition that they fhall be fold 
within three years. 
The fame terms fhall be obferved 
with refpect to the landed and per- 
fonal property of his Royal: High- 
nefs the Archduke Ferdinand, in 
the territory of the Cifalpine Re- 
public. 
XX. A Congrefs fhall be held at 
Raftadt, compofed folely of the Ple- 
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nipotentiaries of the Germanic Em- 
pire, and of the French Republic, 
to conclude a pacification between 
thofe powers. This congrefs fhall 
be opened within one month after 
the conclufion of the prefent treaty, 
or fooner if poffible. 
XXI. All the prifoners of war 
made on cither fide, and the hof- 
tages taken or given during the 
war, and which have not yet been 
reftored, fhall be given up within 
forty days from the fignature of the 
prefent treaty. 
XXII. The contributions, delive- 
ries, furnifhments, and feizures of 
every hottile defcription, which 
have taken place in the refpective 
ftates of the contracting powers, 
fhall ceafe from the day the ratifi- 
cations of the prefent treaty fhall 
be exchanged. 
XXIII. His Majefty the Emperor, 
King of Hungary and Bohemia, and 
the French Republic, fhall preferve 
between them the fame ceremonial, 
as torank and other etiquettes, as was 
conftantly obferved before the war. 
His aforefaid Majefty and the Cifal- 
pine Republic, fhall obferve the 
fame ceremonial as prevailed be- 
tween his Majetty aforefaid and the 
Republic of Venice. 
XXIV. The prefent treaty of 
peace is declared to be in common 
with, and to be extended to the Ba- 
tavian Republic. 
XXV. The prefent treaty fhall. 
be ratified by his Majefty the Em- 
peror and the French Republic, 
within the {pace of thirty days from 
the prefent day, or fooner, if poffi- 
ble, and the acts of ratification, in 
due form, fhall be exchanged at 
Raftadt. 
Concluded and figned at Campo 
Formia, near Udina, on the 
17th of Oétober, 1797, (the 
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