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whence, in confequence of that (loicifm which marks his 
a rafter, he refufed to efcape with Barthelemi and Piche- 
gru. He was minifter of finance under Bonaparte, and 
alio prelident of the chamber of accounts; but, having 
made a fpeech very offensive to the latter during his refi- 
dence at Elba, Bonaparte difmifled him, on his return 
from that ifland. M. Barbe Marbois is a man of talents, 
and of the mod auftere virtue.—M. de Cazes (fince cre¬ 
ated a duke) was attached to the family of Bonaparte, and 
counfellor of the imperial court, where he merited confi- 
deration. He ftrongly efpoufed the part of the king, and 
was, in confequence, difmifled by Bonaparte on his re¬ 
turn. He is much efteemed both for virtue and talent. 
—M. Corvetto was counfellor of date under Bonaparte, 
and was confidered as one of the mod upright and enlight¬ 
ened of that body. 
In confequence of the protrafted delay of the negocia- 
tions, the allied troops, which were evacuating France, 
were commanded to halt; but, on the entrance of the 
new miniders into office, matters were foon brought to a 
conclufion, and the treaties were at length concluded and 
figned on the 20th of November. They confided of a 
Definitive Treaty between France and the Allied Powers, 
figned at Paris on the 20th of November, 1815 ; an Addi¬ 
tional Article to the preceding treaty, relative to the 
abolition of the flave-trade; a Convention relative to the 
payment of the pecuniary indemnity to be furnilhed by 
France to the allied powers ; a Convention relative to the 
occupation of a military line in France by the allied army ; 
a Note from the Miniders of the Allied Powers to the 
Duke of Richelieu, on the nature and extent of the powers 
attached to the command of the Duke of Wellington ; a 
Convention between Great Britain and France, relative 
to the Claims of the Britifli Subjefts on the French Go¬ 
vernment; and a Note from the Miniders of the Allied 
Cabinets to the Duke of Richelieu, communicating a 
Copy of a Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain, 
Ruflia, Audria, and Pruflia ; befides other documents of 
lefs importance. 
Of thefe papers, which are all of high and permanent 
intered, we can find room for only the 
Definitive Treaty of Peace between France and 
the Allied Powers. 
In the name of the Mod Holy and Undivided Trinity. 
—The Allied Powers having, by their united efforts, and 
by the fuccefs of their arms, preferved France and Europe 
from the convulfions with which they were menaced by 
the late enterprife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and by the re¬ 
volutionary fydem reproduced in France to promote its 
fuccefs ; participating at prefent with his mod Chridian 
Majedyin the defire to confolidate by maintaining invio¬ 
late the royal authority ; and by redoring the operation 
of the conditutional charter, the order of things which 
had been happily ie-edabli(hed in France; as alio in the 
objeft of redoring between France and her neighbours 
thofe relations of reciprocal confidence and good-will 
which the fatal effefts of the revolution and of the fydem 
of conqued had for fo long a time didurbed ; perfuaded, 
at the lame time, that this lad objeft can only be obtained 
by an arrangement framed to fecure to the allies proper 
indemnities for the pad, and folid guarantees for the fu¬ 
ture;— they have, in concert with his majedy the Kijig 
of France, taken into confideration the means of giving 
effeft to this arrangement; and, being fatisfied that the 
indemnity due to the allied powers cannot be either en¬ 
tirely territorial or entirely pecuniary without prejudice 
to France in the one or other of her effential intereds, 
and that it would be more fit to combine-both the modes, 
in order to avoid the inconvenience which would refult 
were either reforted to feparateiy, their imperial and royal 
majedies have adopted this bafis for their prefent tranfac- 
tions ; and, agreeing alike as to the necefiity of retaining, 
for a fixed time, in the frontier provinces of France, a 
eertain number of allied troops, they have determined to 
combine their different arrangements, founded upon 
thefe bafes, in a definitive treaty. For this purpofe, and 
to this ed'eft, his majedy the King of the United King¬ 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for himfelf and his 
allies on the one part, and his majedy the King of France 
and Navarre on the other part, have named their pleni¬ 
potentiaries to difcufs, fettle, and fign, the faid definitive 
treaty; namely, his majedy the King of the United King¬ 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable 
Robert Stewart, Vifcount Cadlereagh, See. See. and the 
mod illudrious and mod noble Lord Arthur, Duke, Mar¬ 
quis, and Earl, of Wellington, See. See. and his majedy 
the King of France and Navarre, the Sieur Armand Ema¬ 
nuel du Plefiis Richelieu, Duke of Richelieu, &c. &e. 
who, having exchanged their full powers, found to be in 
good and due form, have figned the following articles. 
Art. I. The frontiers of France (hall be the fame as 
they were in 1790, fave and except the modifications on 
one fide and on the other, which are detailed in the pre¬ 
fent article. 
Fird, on the northern frontiers, the line of demarcation 
(hall remain as it was fixed by the Treaty of Paris, as far 
as oppofite to Quiverain ; from thence it (hall follow t'he 
ancient limits of the Belgian provinces, of the late bifhop- 
ric of Liege, and of the duchy of Bouillon, as they exided 
in the year 1790, leaving the territories included (en¬ 
claves) within that line of Philippeville and Marienbourg, 
with the fortrefles fo called, together with the whole of 
the duchy of Bouillon, without the frontiers of France. 
From Villiers, near Orval, upon the confines of the de¬ 
partment of the Ardennes, and of the grand duchy of 
Luxembourg as far as Perle, upon the great road leading 
from Thionville to Treves, the line fhall remain as it was 
laid down by the Treaty of Paris. From Perle it fhall 
pafs by Lauenfdorff, Walwich, Schardorff, Neiderveiling, 
Pelweiler, (all thefe places, with their bunlieues, or de¬ 
pendencies, remaining to France,) to Houvre : and fhall 
follow from thence the old limits of the didrift (Pays) 
of Sarrebruck, leaving Sarrelouis, and the courfe of the 
Sarre, together with the places fituated to the right of 
the line above deferibed, and their bunlieues, or depen¬ 
dencies, without the limits of France. From the limits 
of the didrift of Sarrebruck, the line of demarcation fhall 
be the fame which at prefent feparates from Germany the 
departments of the Mofelle and of the Lower Rhine, as 
far as to the Lauter, which river fhall, from thence, ferve 
as the frontier until it falls into the Rhine. All the terri¬ 
tory on the left bank of the Lauter, including the fortrefs 
of Landau, fhall form part of Germany. The town of 
Weiffenbourg, however, through which that river runs, 
fhall remain entirely to France, with a rayon on the left 
bank, not exceeding 1000 toifes, and which fhall be more 
particularly determined by the commiflioners, who fhall 
be charged with the approaching defignation of the 
boundaries. 
Secondly, leaving the mouth of the Lauter, and con¬ 
tinuing along the departments of the Lower Rhine, the 
Upper Rhine, the Doubs, and the Jura, to the Canton de 
Vaud, the frontiers fhall remain as fixed by the Treaty of 
Paris. The Thalweg of the Rhine fhall form the boundary 
between France and the dates of Germany ; but the pro¬ 
perty of the iflands (hall remain in perpetuity as it fhall 
be fixed by a new furvey of the courfe of that river, and 
continue unchanged, whatever variation that courfe may 
undergo in the lapfe of time. Commiflioners (hall be 
named on both fides, by the high contrafting parties, 
within the fpace of three months, to proceed upon the 
faid furvey. One half of the bridge between Strafbourg 
and Kehl fhall belong to France, and the other half to the 
grand duchy of Baden. 
Thirdly, in order to eflablifli a direft communication 
between the canton of Geneva and Swifferland, that part 
of the Pays de Gex bounded on the eaft by the lake Leman, 
on the louth by the territory of the canton of Geneva, 
on the north by that of the canton de Vaud, on the well 
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