1797-1 
buted very materially to the eflablifhment 
of the republic. Bee 
Harpy faid, that in his capacity of 
officer of health, he had performed the 
firtt chirurgical operation upon his col- 
league. Three piftols appear to have 
been fired at Sieyes ; one ball had reached 
the abdomen, bur having perforated a 
thick drefs, it only grazed the fkin ; an- 
ether ball entered his hand; this ball 
was extraéted in fifty or fixty pieces. 
Yhe council received feveral other ac- 
—@ounts of creafonable practices. 
“ IRELAND. 
The inhabitancs of a very confiderable 
part of this ifland, experience, at pre- 
fent, the fevere calamity of being under 
military law. So preiiing 1s the want 
ef money for the public fervice, and 
fo difficult has it been found to raile 
any by the ordinary means, that, as a 
temptation to the monied intereft, a bo- 
nus has aétually been held out to them, 
fo large, and fo much beyond all former 
‘precedent,’as to be alarming. The Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer has propofed, 
that every perfon making a depofit of 
63]. thall be entitled to receive a deben- 
ture for 100]. to bear 5 per cent. per an- 
num intereft. ** Thele terms, bad as, 
they are for Government,” faid the Chan- 
cellor of. the Exchequer, ** were made 
under a dire necedlity.”” 
_ GERMANY. 
The Circle of Franconia, in a ftate 
paper, has protefted againft the conduct 
\ of the two Pwruifian principalities in Fran- 
conia towards their neighbouring co-ef- 
tates, as contrary to the peace and confti- 
tution of Germany, and as directly in 
oppofition to the treaty of Weftphalia, and 
the fundamental fyftem of the empire. 
‘They have farther appealed to the protec- 
tion of the emperor, as chief of the em- 
ire, ‘This important paper appeared 
at Nuremberg. The fame circle, by a 
frefh note, invited the Pruflian minitter 
to return to the convention of the circle. 
It appears, by a ftatre paper in the 
court gazette of Vienna, dated the 4th 
of April, that the emperor of Germany 
has. given in charge to the prefident 
of Lower Auttria, count. Laurau, ’ to 
communicate tothe public the moft pofi- 
tive affurance, that His Imperial] Ma- 
jefty is now employed in the moft earncft 
manner in baftening the conclufion of a peace. 
TpaALty. 
The follawing are the Articles figned by the 
Pope and the French General Buonarparte. 
Art.I, There fhall be peace, friendfhip, 
ard good underftanding between the French Re- 
public and Pope Pius the Sixth, 
Public Affairs—Ircland —Germany— Italy. 
II. The Pope revokes all adhefion, affift- 
ance, and conceffion, open or fecret, given by 
him to the coalition armed againft the French 
Republic, and to every treaty of alliance, offen- 
five and defenfive, with whatever power it may 
be. Heengages hinvelf not,to furnith, either 
for the prefent or any future war, to any power, 
armed againft the French Republic, any fuc- 
cours in men, fhips, arms, warlike ftores, pro- 
vifions, or money, under any title or denomina- » 
tion whatever. . 
III. His Holinefs thall difband, within five 
days after the ratification of the prefent treaty, 
the troops of the new formation, retaining only 
the regiments exifting before the treaty of ar- 
miftice figned at Bologna, 
IV. The thips of war or corfairs of the powers 
armed againft the French Republic, fhall not 
enter, or at lea(t fhall not make any itay during 
the prefent war, in the ports or roads gf the Ec- 
clefiaftical States. 
‘WV. The French Republic fhall continue to 
enjoy, as before the war, all the rights and pre- 
rogatives which France had at Rome, and fhall 
be treated, in every refpect, as the moft refpec-, 
table powers, and particularly fo as to what re= 
lates to its ambaflador or minifter, its coniuls or 
vice-confuls. 
VI. The Pope fhall renounce abfolutely and 
entirely, all the rights which he may pretend to 
have in the cities and territories of Avignon, the 
Comtat Venaifiin, and its dependencies; and 
fhall transfer, give up, and abandon the {aid 
rights to the French Republic. 
VII. The Pope, in like manner, renounces 
for ever, and gives up and transfers to the French 
Republic, all his right to the ‘territories known 
by the title of the Legation of Bologna, Ferrara, 
and Romagna; and no attack fhall be made 
on the Catholic religion in that quarter. 
VIII. The citadel and villages forming the 
territory of the city of Ancona, fhall remain in 
the hands of the Republic, till a peace with the 
continent thall be concluded. 
IX. Phe Pope engages, for himfelf and his 
fucceficrs, not to transfer to any one the titles 
or feigniories attached to the territory by him 
ceded to the French Republic. 
x, His Holinefs engages to pay and deliver 
at Foligno, to the treafurer of the French army 
before the sth of March, 1797, the fum of 
15,000,Coo of French livres Tournois, of which : 
10,009.09 fhall be in fpecie, and 4,000,000 in 
diamonds and other valuable effects ; befides the 
fum of 1,600,000 remaining due, according to 
the gth article of the armiftice figned at Bo- 
logna, on the 5th Meflidor, in the 4th year of 
the Republic, and ratified by his Holinefs on 
the 27th of June, ; 
XI. In order to fettle finally what fhall re- 
Main to be paid, in order to complete the exe-. 
cution of the armiftice figned at Bologna, his. , 
Holineis fhall provide the army. with~%00 ca= | 
valry horfes, accoutred, and Soo draught-horfes, | 
bulls, and buffaloes, and other objets, produced 
{rom the territory of the church. 
All, Befides the fum mentioned in the pre=- 
ceding articles, the Pope fhall pay tothe French 
Republic, in fpecie, diamonds, and other va- 
S32 luables 
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