Set Aye OB AP Ee Rs 
Treaty of Peace between the French 
Republic and the King of the Two 
Sicilies. 
THE French republic and his 
majesty the king of the Two Sicilies, 
equally animated with the desire 
to make the advantages of peace 
succeed to the miseries inseparable 
from war, have named, Viz. the 
Executive Directory, in the name 
of the French republic, the citizen 
Charles Delacroix, minister for 
foreign affairs; and his majesty the 
king of the Two Sicilies, the 
prince Belmonte Pignatelli, gen- 
tleman of the chamber, and his 
envoy extraordinary and minister 
plenipotentiary to his Catholic ma- 
_ jesty, to treat, in their name, the 
clauses and conditions proper to re- 
establish good understanding and 
friendship between the two powers, 
who ‘after having exchanged their 
respective full powers, have agreed 
on the following articles : 
Art. 1. There shall be peace 
friendship, and good understand- 
g, between the French republic 
and his majesty the king of the 
Two Sicilies: in consequence, all 
hostilities shall definitively cease, 
reckoning from the day of the 
exchange of the ratification of the 
present treaty. Meanwhile, and 
till that period, the conditions sti- 
pulated by the armistice concluded 
on the 17th Prairial of the 4th year 
(5th of June, 1796) shall continue 
to have full power and effect. 
2. Every interior act, engage- 
ment, or convention, on the one- 
part or the other of the two con- 
_tracting parties, which are con- 
trary to the present treaty, are 
revoked, and shall be regarded as 
null, and of no effect; in conse- 
quence, during the course of the 
present war, neither of the two 
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powers shall furnish to the enemies 
of the other, any succours of troops, 
ships, arms, warlike stores, pro- 
visions, or money, under what- 
ever title or denomination that 
may be. 
3. His majesty the king of the 
Two Sicilies shall observe the most 
strict neutrality towards all the bel- 
ligerent powers; in consequence, 
he pledges himself to prevent in- 
discriminately access to his ports to 
all armed ships of war belongin 
to the said powers, which shall ex- 
ceed four, according to the regu~ 
lations acknowledged by the said 
neutrality. All stores or merchan- 
disey known by the name of con- 
traband, shall be refused them. 
4. All security and protection 
shall be granted against all persons 
whatever, in the ports and roads of 
the Two Sicilies, to all French 
merchaotmen, of whatsoever num- 
ber they may be, and to all the 
ships of war of the republic, not. 
exceeding the number specified 
in the above article. 
5. The French republic and the 
king of the Two Sicilies engage to 
take off the sequestration from all 
effects, revenues, goods seized, con- 
fiscated, and kept from the citizens 
or subjects of both powers, in con- 
sequence of the present war, and 
to admit them respectively to the 
legal exercise of all civil rights that 
may belong to them. 
0. All prisoners made on one 
side or the other, comprising ma- 
riners and sailors, shall be recipro- 
cally restored within a month, 
reckoning from the exchange of 
the ratification of the present 
treaty, paying the debts which 
they may have contracted during 
their captivity; the sick and 
wounded shall continue to be taken 
Q2 care 
