1801.] 
VII. The French troops fhall evacuate the 
IKingdom of Naples, and the Roman States. 
The Englifh forces fhall likewife evacuate 
Porto Ferrajo, and generdily all the Ports 
and Iflands which they fhall be found to oc- 
cupy in the Mediterranean or in the Adriatic, 
Vili. The Republic of the Seven Ifles 
fhail be recognized by the French Republic, 
1X. The evacuations, ceffions, and reftitu- 
tions, ftipdlated by the prefént Preliminary 
Articles, fhall be executed for Europe in one 
month, for the Continent and Seas of Ame- 
rica and Africa in three months, for the Con- 
tinent and Seas of Afia in fix months after the 
ratification of the Definitive Treaty. 
X. Theiprifonersfof war, on both fides, im- 
mediately ‘after the exchange of the ratifica- 
_ tions of the Devinitive Treaty, fhall be return- 
ed in a body, and without ranfom, on paying 
on the one fide and the other the private 
debts which they fhall have contraéted. __ 
Difcufiiuns having arifen with regard to the 
expence of the maintenance of the prifoners 
of war, the ContraCting Parties referve the 
Gecifion of this queftion till the Definitive 
Treaty, when it fhall be fettled agreeably to 
the Law of Nations and principles confecrated 
by ufage. . 
XI. To prevent all the fubje@s of com- 
plaint and conteft which might arife with re- 
gard to the prizes made at fea after the fig- 
nature of the Preliminary Articles, it is re- 
ciprocally agreed that the fhips and goods 
which may be taken in the Channel or in the 
North Seas, after twelve days from the ex- 
change of the ratifications of the prefent Pre- 
liminary Articles, fhall, on both fides, be re- 
ftored; that the period fhall be one month 
from the Channel and the North Seas to the 
Canary Iflands inclufively, whether in the 
Ocean or the Mediterraneait; two months 
from the faid Canary Iflands to the Equator ; 
and, finally, five months in all other parts of 
the globe, without any exception or any more 
particular diftin@tion with regard either to 
time or place. - ~ 
XIL All fequeftrations laid on either fide 
upon the funds, revenvfes, or debts of what 
kind foever, belonging to one of the Contraét- 
ing Powers, or to its citizens or fubjeéts, 
fhall be taken off immediately after the fign- 
ing of the Definitive Treaty. 
The decifion of all fuits between individuals 
_ of the two nations for debts, property, eftects, 
Wa 
or dues, which, agreeably to received ufages, 
and to the law of nations, may be brought 
at the conclufion of Peace, fhall be referred 
to the competent tribunals, and in this cafe 
juticé fhall be adminiftered fpeedily and fub- 
Hantially in the countries where the {fuits 
fhali be commenced refpectively. It is agreed 
that immediately after the ratification of the 
‘Definitive Treaty, the prefent articles fhall 
be applied’ by the Contracting Parties to the 
ref{pective Allies, and to the individuals of 
their nations, undex the condition of a jug re- 
ciprocity, et : 
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*XIII. With regard to the Fitheries on the 
Coaft of Newfoundland, and the adjacent 
Iflands, and in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, 
the two Powers have agreed to place them 
on the fame footing on which they ftood be- 
fore the prefen: war, referving to themfelves 
power, by the Definitive Treaty, to form regue 
Jations which fhall appear juft, and recipro- 
cally ufeful to.piace the fifhery of the two 
nations on the footing bef calculated to main- 
tain peace. 
XIV. In all the inflances of reftitution 
agreed upon by the prefent Treaty, the forti- 
fications fliall be delivered up in the ftate in 
which they are at the fignature of the prefent 
Treaty 3 and all the works which may have 
been ereéted fince the occupation of the dif- 
ferent places, fhall remain untouched. 
It is agreed, moreover, that in all the ine 
ftances of cefiion ftiptlated in. the prefent 
Treaty, there fhall be allowed to the inhabit- 
ants, of what condition or nation foever they 
may be, aterm of three years, to be reckoned 
from the notification of the Definitive ‘Treaty 
of Peace, to difpofe of their property, acqui- 
red and pofleffed, whether before or fince the 
prefent war; during which term of three years 
tney fhall be at liberty freely to exercife, 
their religion, and to enjoy their property. 
The fame power is granted in the countries 
_reftored to all thofe who have made any fet- 
tlements there during the period when thefe 
countries were in the poflefiion of Great. Bri- 
tain. 
As to the other inhabitants of the countries 
reflored or ceded, it is agreed that no one of 
thein fhall be profecuted, molefted, or difturb- 
ed, in his perfon or his property, under any 
pretext, on account of his condué or politi- 
cal opinions, or on account of his attachment 
to either of the two powers, or for any other 
reafon, unlefs for debts contraéted to indivi- 
duals, or atts pofterior to the Definitive 
Treaty. 
XV. The prefeat Preliminary Articles hall 
be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, at 
London, within the term of fourteen days at 
the lateft; and immediately after their rati- 
fication, Plenipotentiaries fhall be named on 
both fides, who fhail repair to Amiens,.to 
proceed with the formation of a Definitive 
‘Treaty’ in concert with the Allies of the Con- 
traéting Parties, 
In witnefs whereof we the underfigned Ple- 
nipotentiaries of the Chief Conful of the 
French Republic, and of his Britannic 
Majefty, in virtue of our refpeétive full 
powers, have figned the prefent Prelimi- 
nary Articles, and thereunto fet our feals, 
- Done at London the Ninth’ Vendemiaire, 
Year Ten of the French Republic, the 
Firt Day of October, One Thoufind 
Hight Hundred and One. , 
(Signed), Grro. HawKEsBuRY. 
We fhall now make a few obfervations 
both upon the bafis itfelf, and the mode 
in which the treaty was finally acceded to. 
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