GENERAL HISTORY. 



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of Elba, as replete with loyalty 

 and adulation as any which had 

 paid homage to his highest for- 

 tune. 



The important event of the sig- 

 nature of peace between France 

 and the allied powers, Austria, 

 Russia, Great Britain and Prussia, 

 was solemnly proclaimed at Paris 

 on May 31st, as having taken 

 place on the preceding day. The 

 second article of this treaty assures 

 to France the integrity of its boun- 

 daries as they existed on January 

 1st, 1792, with such augmenta- 

 tions of territory as are comprised 

 in the subsequent artide, which 

 in several clauses, specifies a line of 

 demarkation on the side of Bel- 

 gium, Germany, and Italy, that 

 on the Spanish frontier remaining 

 as it was before. By other arti- 

 cles, the navigation of the Rhine, 

 from the point where it first be- 

 comes navigable to the sea, is made 

 free to all persons, the duties pay- 

 able on its banks being to be equit- 

 ably settled at a future congress. 

 Holland, under the sovereignty of 

 the house of Orange, is to receive 

 an increase of territory : its sove- 

 reignty is in no case to devolve on 

 a prince wearing, or designated to 

 wear, a foreign crown. The Ger- 

 man states to be independent, and 

 united by a federal league. Switz- 

 erland to continue independent 

 ■\inder its own government. Italy, 

 out of the Austrian limits to be 

 composed of sovereign states. 

 Malta and its defiendencies to be- 

 long in full sovereignty to Great 

 Britain. All the colonies, facto- 

 ries, fisheries, &c, which were 

 possessed by France on January 1st, 

 1792, in the stas or continents of 

 America, Africa, and Asia, to be 

 restored ; with the exception of 

 Tobago, St. Lucia, and the 



Isle of France and its dependen- 

 cies, Rodrigue and the Sechelles, 

 which are to be ceded to England ; 

 and that part of St. Domingo 

 which was ceded to France by the 

 peace of Basle, and which is to re- 

 vert to Spain. The king of Swe- 

 den cedes to France all the rights 

 which he may have acquired to 

 Guadaloupe. Portugal restores to 

 it French Guyana, as it subsisted 

 in 1792; and the dispute then 

 existing concerning it to be termi- 

 nated under the mediation of his 

 Britannic Majesty. The same se- 

 curity and facilities of commerce in 

 the British territories in India that 

 are granted to the most favoured 

 nations, are to be enjoyed by the 

 French ; and in return, the king 

 of France engages not to erect any 

 fortifications in the establishments 

 restored to him, or to place tnore 

 soldiers in them than are necessary 

 for the police. The French right 

 of fishery off Newfoundland and 

 in the gulf of St. Lawrence, to be 

 restored as in 1792. The naval 

 arsenals and ships of war in the 

 maritime fortresses surrendered by 

 France in the convention of April, 

 to be divided between France and 

 the country in which such for- 

 tresses are situated. Antwerp for 

 the future to be solely a port for 

 conimerce. These were the prin- 

 cipal political articles, the remain- 

 der being chiefly stipulations re- 

 lative to private interests, debts, 

 obligations, &c. The ;32nd article 

 binds the powers engaged in the 

 late war to send within two months 

 plenipotentiaries to Vienna in 

 order to regulate in a general 

 congress the arrangements for 

 completing the dispositions of the 

 present treaty. In the additional 

 articles of the treaty between 

 France and Great Britain, the kio|f 



