(1801.] 
Art. I. There fhall be peace and friend- 
fhip between the French Republic and the 
Sublime Ottoman Porte; in confequence of 
which, hoftilities fhall ceafe between the 
two powers, from the date of the exchange of 
the ratifications of the prefent. Preliminary 
Articles. Immediately after the faid ex- 
change, theentire province of Egypt thairbe 
evacuated by the French army, “and reftored - 
ty the Sublime Ottoman 'Porte, the territories 
and poffefiions of which thal] be maintained 
in their integrity, fuch as they were before 
the prefent war. . > 
It is underftosd, that, after the evacuation, 
the concefiicns which may be made in Egypt 
to other powers, on the part of the Sublime 
Porte, fhall be common to the French. 
Il The French Republic acknowledges the 
Cenftitution of-the Republic of the Seven 
Iflands and Ex-Venetian Territories, fituated 
upon the Continent. It guarantees the 
maintenance of that Conftitution. The Sud- 
lime Porte acknowledges, and accepts for that 
purpofe, the guarantee.of the French Repub- 
lic, as well as that of Ruffia: 
Ill. Definitive arrangements fhall be made 
between the French Republic and the Su- 
blime Ottoman Porte, relative to the goods 
and effets of their refpeétive citizens and 
£abjetts confifcated or fequeftered during the 
war. The political and commercial agents 
and prifoners of war, of every rank, fhall be 
fet at liberty immediately after the ratifica- 
tion of the prefent Preliminary Articles. 
IV. The Treaties which exifted before the 
prefent war between France and the Sublime 
Ottoman Porte fhall be renewed in the en-_ 
tire, In confequence of this renewal, the 
French Republic fhall enjoy, in the whole 
extent of the fate of His Highnefs,the rights 
af commerce and navigation which it former- 
ly enjoyed, and which may hereafter be en- 
yoyed, by the moft favoured nations. 
_ The ratifications fhall. be exchanged at 
Paris in the {pace of twenty-four days. 
Done at Paris the gth of Ofober, in the 
roth year of the FrenchRepublic,or the 
mf of the month Gemafy-ul-ahir, 1216 
of the Hegira. 
(Signed) Cu. Mav. TAtLeyrRawnp. 
Esstyp Aut ErFENDI. 
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GERMANY. 
~_ Citizen Bacher, fhe Frénch minifter at 
Ratifbon, delivered, we find, on the 4th 
inftant, the following extra&t from his laft 
difpatches: *¢ As it as fit that at Ratifbon 
there fhould be nc uncertainty with refpect 
to the particular views of the French go- 
‘ vernment, the Chief Conful gives me now 
- the commiffion to declare to the members 
‘of the Diet, in the moft determined manner, 
that the Frénch government is aftonifhed 
at the delay of the execution of the 7th 
article of the treaty of Luneville; and 
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that it confiders it as a duty to demand of 
the Diet to declare itfelf definitively, in 
what manner the indemnities of the Princes 
who have fuffered are to be adjufted.” 
The dire&torial-body returned for an- 
fwer, that the affair-had hitherto been car- 
ried forward with as much difpateh as the 
forms of the Diet, and the conftitution of 
Regis permitted. 
The Diet of ‘Ratifbon hasfat length, it 
is faid, drawn up, and difpatched toVienna, 
its eieluaheas Bohemia, Brandenburg 
Bavaria, Wirtemberg, the Grand Matter 
of the Teutonic Order, and Caffel, are to 
treat in concert with the French govéin- 
ment, and fubmit the refult of their ope-~ 
vations to his Imperial Majefty and the 
Empire, to be’ ratified. The deputation 
are to have full powers, but are to obferve 
the reftriGtive claule by which the deputa- 
tion of the Empire at the congrels of-Raf- 
tadt gave, in their note of the 4th of 
April, 1798, their-adherence to the princi- 
ple of indemnities. In this note, the de- 
putation ** coffented to the indemnities 
then demanded, by the mode of feculariza- 
tions for the loffes fuftained -on the left 
bank of the Rhine, and that new negccia- 
tions fhould be entered’ into upon the fub- 
ject, in fuch a manner, however, as to pro- 
ceed in it with all the precaution and re- 
firiétion which ave effentially neceffary” 
for the maintenance of the Germanic Em- 
pire in all its relations, as well as for the 
eftablifhment and fecurity of the well- 
being of the ftates, members, and fubjects 
of the Empire.” 
Circumfances however have materially 
changed fince the breaking up of the con- 
grefs of Raftadt, and the meafure of in- 
demnities and fecularizations will probably 
be a more fweeping one than it would 
have been at that time; for Tufcany had 
not then been wrefted from the Grand- 
duke. 
It will be feen, that, though the mee 
is nominally entrufted to a deputation of 
eight members, yet, that in reality it will 
be fettled between Autftria, Prufiia, and 
France ; and, as thofe three powers have 
already, itis believed, agreed upon a plan, 
the deliberations of the deputatioa will 
be foon at an end. 
BATAVIAN REPUBLIC. 
The plan of the new confitution is 
already printed, and confifts of 108 articles. 
TheExecutive-directory is to be abolifhed, 
and in its ftead a State-directoi y initituted, 
to confit of twelve perfons, one to go out 
yearly. . Thereis to be a legiflative-body, 
confifting of thirty-five m- mbers. . 
territory of the republic i is to be divided 
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