276 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



The inhabitants of these countries 

 shall not be molested on account of 

 any services rendered by them to 

 the Imperial army, nor for any po- 

 litical opinion, or for having taken 

 an active part in the war. 



Art. 15. In consequence of the 

 above-mentioned arrangements — 

 there shall be between the Gallo- 

 Batavian array in Germany and that 

 of the Rhine, and the armies of his 

 imperial majesty and of his allies in 

 the Germanic empire, an armistice 

 and suspension of arms, which shall 

 not be of a less duration than for 

 thirty days. At the expiration of 

 this delay, hostilities shall not be 

 resumed untQ after a notice of fif- 

 teen days, to date from the hour in 

 which the notification of the rup- 

 ture shall be made known ; and the 

 armistice shall be indefinitely pro- 

 longed until the notice of rupture. 

 Art. l6. No corps or detachment, 

 either of the army of the Rhine or 

 of that of his imperial majesty in 

 Germany, shall be sent to the re- 

 spective armies in Italy, as long as 

 there shall be no armistice between 

 the French and the imperial armies 

 in that country. The violation of 

 this article shall be considered as an 

 immediate rupture of the armistice. 

 Art. 17. The general-in-chief of 

 the army of the Rhine shall trans- 

 mit, with the utmost dispatch, the 

 present convention to, the generals- 

 in-chief of the armies, Gallo-Bata- 

 vian, in the Grisons, and of Italy, 

 with the most pressing invitation, 

 particularly to the commander-in- 

 . chief of the army of Italy, to con- 

 clude, on his part, a suspension of 

 hostilities. 



There shall be afforded, at the 

 same time, every kind of facility 

 for the passage of officers and cou- 

 riers whom his highness the arch- 



duke Charles may think it necessary 

 to send, either to the places which 

 are to be evacuated, or to the Ty- 

 rol, and in general to the country 

 comprehended within the line of 

 demarcation during the armistice. 

 Done at Steyer, the 25th of 

 December, in the ninth year. 

 (A true copy) Dessolles, 

 The general of division, 

 and chief of the gene- 

 ral staff. 



Treaiif concluded between the 

 Froich and Batavian Republics. 



THE Batavian and French re- 

 publics, willing to settle some 

 disputed points between them ami- 

 cably and reciprocally advantageous 

 to the two contracting powers, have 

 appointed to come to an agreement 

 on these several subjects ; that is to 

 say, the executive directory of the 

 Batavian republic, citizen Schim- 

 melpennick, its ambassador extraor- 

 dinary and minister plenipotentiary 

 to the French republic, and the first 

 consul of the French republic, citi- 

 zen Talleyrand, minister for foreign 

 affairs, who, after exchanging their 

 full powers, have agreed to the fol- 

 lowing articles : 



Art. 1. The French republic 

 abandons, cedes, and transfers to 

 the Batavian republic all its preten- 

 sions and all its rights, of whatever 

 nature they may be at present, or 

 might be hereafter, of every deno- 

 mination, to the bona of every kind 

 possessed within the extent of the 

 Batavian republic, or upon its in- 

 habitants, by the French emigrants 

 and those of the countries united to 

 France. The French clergy, and 

 those of the nine united depart- 

 ments, forming ci-devant Belgium ; 



