06 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
nected; and that, in asserting the commanders of the two powers by » 
rights, and upholding the dignity Jand and sea shall enter into an 
of the British empire, they defend agreement with respect to the march- 
the most powerful bulwark of the ing out of the troops, and the sur. 
liberties of makind. . render of the country. 
4. His majesty the emperor of 
France and king of Italy consents, 
M.D’Oubril's Treaty, signed the 8th atthe request of the emperor of all 
(20th) of July, with General Clarke, _ the Russias, 
appointed Plenipotentiary for that I. To restore the republic of 
Purpose by theFrench Government. Ragusa to its former independence, 
under the condition that it shall en- 
1. From the present day there joy, as heretofore, the protection of 
shall be peace and friendship for the Ottoman Porte. The French ~ 
ever between his majesty the em- shall retain the position of Stagno, 
peror of Russia, and his majesty the on the Peninsula Sabioncllo, to 
emperor of France and king of secure the communication with 
Italy, their heirs and _ successors, Cattaro. 
their empiresand subjects. ~ II. To cease from any hostile un. 
2, As a consequence of the first dertakings against the Montenegrins 
article, all hostilities, both by sca from tke day of the signing of this 
and land, shall cease between the convention, so long as they shall re. 
two nations: the necessary orders main peaceable as subjects of the 
for which shall be issucd within Porte. ‘They shall immediately re- 
twenty-four hours after signing the turn home, and his majesty the em- 
present convention. All ships of pcror Napoleon engages not tomo- 
war, and other vessels, belonging to lest them, nor to make any en- 
either of the two powers, or their quiries relative to the part they have 
subjects, that shall be taken after taken in the hostile attacks that 
the signing of thisconvention in any have been made in the territory of 
‘part of the world, shall be restored Ragusa, and the neighbouring terri- 
to the owners. tories. 
3. The Russian troops shall give 5. The independence of the re- 
up to the French the country known public of the seven islands is ac- 
by the name of Bocca di Cattaro, as kuowledged by both powers. The 
also Dalmatia, which, by the fourth Russian troops now in the Mediter- 
article of the tredty of Presburg, ranean shall remove to the Lonian 
belongs to his French imperial ma- islands. His Russian imperial ma- 
jesty as King of Italy. Every faci- jesty to give a proof of his sincere 
lity shall be afforded the Russian ‘disposition to peace, shall not leave 
troops for theevacuation of Cattaro, more than 4,000 of his troops there, 
as also of the Ragusan territory, which he shall remove as soon as 
Montenegro, and Dalmatia, if the his imperial majesty shall judge ne- 
éireumstances of the warshouldhave cessary. 
occasioned them to occupy those 6. ‘The independence of the Otto- 
territories., Immediately after this man Porte shall be acknowledged, 
convention shall be ratified, the on both sides, and both the high 
3 ; contracting 
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