998] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
care of in their respective hospi- 
tals, and shall be restored upon 
their recovery. 
7. Togive a proof of his friend- 
ship for the French republic, 
and of bis sincere desire to main- 
tain the most pertect harmony 
between the two powers, his ma- 
*jesty the king of the Two Sicilies 
cousents to set at liberty every 
‘French citizen who may have been 
arrested and detained in his sta‘es, 
op account of bis political opinions 
re-pecting the French revolution ; 
all goods and proper'y, moveable 
or immoveable, which may have 
been sequestrated on the same ac- 
‘count, shall be restored to them. 
8. From the same motives which 
dictated the preceding articles, 
his majesty the kirg of the Two 
_ Sicilies engages to cause all proper 
search.to be made for discovering, 
by legal means, ard for giving up 
to the rigour of the laws, the per- 
sons who stole, in 1795, the papers 
belonging to the laie minister of 
the French republic. 
9. The ambassadors or ministers 
of thetwo contracting powers shall 
enjoy in their respective states, the 
same prerogative and precedence 
which they enjoyed betore the war, 
excepting those which were allowed 
thein as family ambassadors. 
1. Every French citizen, and 
all persons belonging to the house- 
hold of the ambassador or minister, 
or to that of the consuls and 
other authorised and acknowledged 
agents of the French republic, shall 
enjoy, in the states of his majesty 
the king of the Two Sicilies, the 
same freedom of religious worship 
as is enjoyed by the individuals of 
those nations, not Catholics, which 
are the most favoured in that 
respect. 4 , 
11. There shall be negotiated 
and concluded, without delay, a 
treaty of commerce between the 
two powers, founded on the basis 
of mutual utility, and such as shall 
insure to the French nation ad- 
vantages equal! to all those which 
are enjoyed in the kingdom of the 
Two Sicilies by the most fayoured 
nations. Until the completion of 
this treaty, the commercial and 
consular relations shall be recipro- 
cally re-established on the same 
footing as before the war. 
12. In conformity with “the 
sixth article of the treaty concluded 
at the Hague on the 27th Floreal, 
in the third year of the republic 
(16th of May, 1795, old style,) the 
same, peace friendship, and good 
understanding, that are stipulated 
in the present treaty between the 
French republic and bis majesty 
he king of the Two Sicilies, shall 
subsist between his majesty and the 
Batavian republic. 
13. The present treaty shall be 
ratified, and the ratifications ex- 
changed, within forty days from 
the date hereof. 
Done at Paris 19th Vendemiaire, 
in the 5th year of the French 
republic, one and indivisible, 
corresponding with the 10th 
October, 1796, (old style). 
(Signed) Cuarits DELAcrorx. 
The Prince of BELMONTE 
PIG NATELLI. 
Offensive and Defensive Treaty of 
Alliance between the French Re- 
public and Spain. 
THE executive directory of the 
French republic and his Catholic- 
majesty the king of Spain, ani- 
mated by the wish to strengthen 
the bonds of amity and good un- 
derstanding happily re-established 
between 
