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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



as it is impossible that they should 

 all be embarked immediately, the 

 following arrangement shall be 

 resorted to instead. As soon as the 

 capitulation shall be signed, the 

 forts Ricasoli and Tigni shall be 

 delivered up to the troops of his Bri- 

 tannic majesty, and the ships shall 

 be suffered to enter the port. The 

 national gate shall be occupied by a 

 guard composed of French and 

 English in equal numbers, until the 

 ships shall be ready to receive the 

 first embarkation: the whole gar- 

 rison shall then march out with the 

 honours of war, to the ships, where 

 they shall lay down their arms. — 

 Those who cannot form part of the 

 first embarkation, shall occupy the 

 isle and the fort Manuel, having an 

 armed guard over them, to prevent 

 them from escaping into the adjoin- 

 ing country. The garrison shall be 

 considered as prisoners of war, anil 

 are not to serve against his Britannic 

 majesty until they sliallbe exchang- 

 ed, for which the officers respectively 

 shall give their parole. All the ar- 

 tillery, the ammunition, and public 

 magazines, of whatever kind, shall 

 be given up to officers appointed for 

 that purpose, as well as public papers. 



II. 



The genei'al of brigade Cha- 



nez, commander of the place and 

 the forts, the general of brigade 

 d'Hennezel, commander of artillery 

 and engineers; the officers, inferior 

 officers, and soldiers, by land ; the 

 officers, csews, and men, employed 

 in the navy; citizen Pierre Alphonsu 

 Guys, commissary-general of com- 

 mercial connections withtheFrench 

 republic in Syria and Palestine, now 

 at Malta by accident, the civil and 

 military agents, ordinaries, and 

 commissaries of war and navy, 

 civil administrators, members of any 

 of the constituted autliorities, shall 



carry oft their arms, their personal 

 property, and their other effects of 

 every kind. 



Answ. Granted — with the ex- 

 ception of the arms laid down by 

 the soldiers, in conformity with wh at 

 is provided by the first article. 



III. All personsof every country, 

 who have borne arms for the repub- 

 lic, during the siege, .shall be con- 

 sidered as part of the garrison. 



Answ. Granted. 



IV. The division shall be em- 

 barked at the expense of his Britan- 

 nic majest^^ Every officer or per- 

 son employed sliall in the passage 

 receive the same rations as are by 

 the laws and regulations of the 

 French allotted to them. The offi- 

 cers who are members of the civil 

 administrations shall be put on the 

 same footing, both with respect to 

 tliemselves and family, as military 

 men of a corresnondent rank. 



1. 



Answ. Granted, in conformity 

 with the customs of the English 

 navy, wliich allot the same ration to 

 all ranks and conditions whatever. 



V. The necessary numberof wag- 

 gons and sloops sliall he provided, 

 in oi'der to transport and to remove 

 on board ship theprivate property of 

 the generals, their aides-de-camp, 

 the ordinaries and connnissaries, 

 cliiefs of corps, officers civil and 

 military. &c. Their property and 

 their piijiers shall not be subject to 

 any search or inspection, upon the 

 promise of the generals stipulating 

 t!iat there shall be no public pro- 

 perty among them. 



Answ. Granted. 



VI. 



Some vessels belonging to 



the republic, able to keep the sea, 

 shall depart at the same time with 

 the division, to go to a part of 

 France, after being provided with 

 the necessary provisions. 



