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VII. In consequence of the for- 

 mer article, and in order to prevent 

 all differences and hostilities, mea- 

 sures shall be taken to keep the 

 Turkish always at a sufficient dis- 

 tance from the French army. 



VIII. Immediately after the rati- 

 fication of the present convention, 

 all the Turks and other nations, 

 without distinction, subjects of the 

 sublime Porte, imprisoned or retain- 

 ed in France, or in the power of 

 the French in Egypt, shall be set at 

 liberty ; and on the other hand, all 

 the French detained in the cities 

 and sea-port towns of the Ottoman 

 empire, as well as every person of 

 whatever nation they may be, at- 

 tached to French legations and con- 

 sulates, shall be also set at liberty. 



IX. The restitution of the goods 

 and property of the inhabitants and 

 subjects of both sides, or the pay- 

 ment of their value to the proprie- 

 tors, shall commence immediately 

 after the evacuation of Egypt, and 

 shall be regulated at Constantinople 

 by commissaries appointed respec- 

 tively for the pui"pose, 



X. No inhabitant of Egypt^ of 

 whatever religion he may be, shall 

 be disturbed either in his person or 

 his property, on account of any 

 connections he may have had with 

 the French during their possession 

 of Eg3pt. 



XI. There shall be delivered to 

 the French army, as well on the 

 part of the sublime Porte as of the 

 courts of its allies, that is to say, of 

 Russia and of Great Britain, pass- 

 ports, safe conducts, and convoys, 

 necessary to secure its safe return 

 to France. 



XII. When the French army of 

 Egypt shall be embarked, tlie sub- 

 lime Porte, as well as its allies, pro- 

 luibc that till its return to the con- 



tinent of France it shall not be dis- 

 tin-bed in any manner ; and on his 

 side, general-in-chief Kleber, and 

 the French army in Egypt, promise 

 not to commit any act of hostility 

 during the aforesaid time, either 

 against the fleets or against the ter- 

 ritories of the sublime Porte, and 

 that the vessels which shall trans- 

 port the said army shall not stop on 

 any other coast than that of France, 

 except from absolute necessity. 



XIII. In consequence of the truce 

 of three months stipulated above 

 with the French army for the eva- 

 cuation of Egypt, the contracting 

 parties agree, that if in the interval 

 of the said truce some vessels from 

 France unknown to the comman- 

 ders of the allied fleets, should enter 

 the port of Alexandria, they shall 

 depart from it, after having taken 

 in v/ater and the necessary provi- 

 sions, and shall return to France 

 with passports from the allied courts ; 

 and in case any of the said vessels 

 should require reparation, these 

 alone may remain till the said repar- 

 ations are finished, and shall depart 

 immediately after, like the preced- 

 ing, with the first favourable 

 wind. 



XIV. The general-in-chief, Kle- 

 ber, may send advices immediately 

 to France, and the vessel that con- 

 veys them shall have the safe con- 

 duct necessary for securing the com- 

 munication, by the said advices, to 

 the French government, of the 

 news of the evacuation of Egypt. 



XV. There being no doubt that 

 the French army will stand in need 

 of daily supplies of provisions during 

 the three months which it is to 

 evacuate Egypt, and during other 

 three months reckoning from the 

 day on which it is embarked, it is 

 agreed, that it shall be supplied 



