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the Batavian Republic, 
AX. Ail commercial communications and 
relations are re-eftablithed in the two coun- 
tries on the fame footing as before the war. 
XX. 
Many and Auftria, and his Majefty the Em- 
peror of the French, King of Italy, fhail 
Maintain between The the fame ceremonial 
as to rank and etiquette as was obferved be- 
fore the prefent war. 
XXII. Immediately after the exchange 
of the Ratification of the prefent Treaty, 
commifiaries fhall be named on both fides to 
give up and to receive in the names of their 
refpective fovereigns, all parts of the Vene- 
tian territory not occupied by the troops of 
his Majefty the Emperor of the French and 
King of Italy. The city cf Venice, the 
Langnes, and the poffeflions of Terra Firma, 
fhall be given up in the {pace of fif.een days; 
Venetian Iftria, and Dalmatia, the Mouths 
of the Cattaro, the Venetian ifles in the 
Adriatic, and all the pleces and forts which 
they contain, in the fpace of fix weeks from 
the exchange of the Ratifications. The re- 
{pective commiffaries will take care that the 
feparation of the artillery Hetansiae to the 
Republic of Venice from the Auftrian artil- 
lery be exactly made, the former being to 
yemain entirely to the kingdom of Italy. 
Done and figned at Prefourg the 26th of 
December, 1805.6 
(Signed) Cu, Mava. “TALLEYRAND, 
(L.S.) 
(Signed) Toun, Prince of Licsten- 
sTzin. .(b.S.) 
{Signed) Icnac, Count De Gryrar. 
We have approved, and do approve, the 
above Treaty, in all and each of its Articles 
therein contained; we declare, that it is ac- 
cepted, ratified, aaa confirmed; and we pro- 
mie, that it fhall be inviolably obferved. 
In faith of which, we have given thefe Pre- 
fents, figned with our hand, counterfigned, 
and fealed with our Imperial Sea}. 
At the Palace of pies: 27th wrth 
cember, 1805. 
By the Emperor, Ri krauelai: 
The Min:fter Sec. of State, H. B. Mare. 
The Miaifier of Foreign sent 35° Cr. 
M. TALLEYRAND. 
‘Thus in the fhort fpace of eine mont 
and a few days did the Emperor of the 
French fubdue, or indeed almoft annihi- 
Jate, the powers of the continent who had 
combined to ‘limit his deminicns. and 
fhake his authority; in three months we 
have feen a great European empire re- 
duced to the moft sate fubmiiiony and 
part of its territory divided. among thofe 
who were but the mere eleStors in the 
ttate, but now, under the — ces of the 
cor querer, are elevaied: to -the rank of 
kings, independent of ai] authcrity, fave 
of bis who made them 5 at they are, It 
5 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1806. 
Mediation, as well as the independence of | 
His Majefty the Emperor of Ger- 
’ oppofition. 
[March f, 
fhould feem alfo, from the following pro- 
clamaticn, ifflued on the fame day that 
peace with ae and Auftria was rati- 
fied, that the kingdom of Naples is to 
have a new fovereign. . ) 
CC'SOLDIERS, 
‘¢ For ten years I have done all T could 
to fave the King of Naples: he has done 
every thing in his power to deftroy himfelf. 
‘© After the battles of Dego, of Mondovi, 
and of Lodi, he could give me no effectual 
I placed confidence in the word 
of this prince, and J behaved with generofity 
towards him. 
«¢ When the-fecond coalition was diffolved 
at Marengo, the King of Naples, who was 
the firft to commence that unjuft war, aban- 
doned at Luneville by his allies, remained 
alone,.and without prote€tion. He felicired 
my pardon, and | forgave him a fecond time. 
“¢ A few weeks ago you were at the gates 
of Naples. I had fufficient reafon to fufpe& 
‘the treachery which was intended, and to 
‘avenge the infults which I had received.’ 
Still I was genercus. I acknowledged the 
neutrality of Naples—I ordered you to eva- 
cuate that kingdom, and for the third time 
the houfe of Napics was confirmed and 
faved. 
© Shall we grant pardon for a fourth time ? 
Shall we, for a fourth time, place any con-' 
fidence in a Court, without truth, honour, 
or common fenfe?—No! No! The Neapo- 
Utan Dynafty has ceafed to reign—its exiit- 
ence is incompatible with the repofe of Eu- 
rope, and the honour of our crown. 
‘ Soldiers! March—drive into the fea, 
if they will wait your attack, thefe feeble 
battalions of the*tyrants-of the fea. Shew 
to the world the manner in which we punith 
the perjured. Lofe no time in informing me 
that the qwhole of Italy is fubjeét to my laws 
or thofe of my allies ; that the fineft country 
of the world is emancipated from the yoke 
of the mcft perfidious of men; that the fas 
crednefs of treaties is avenged ; and that the 
manes of my brave foldiers, maflacred in the 
ports of Sicily, on their return from Egypt, 
after having efcaped from the dangers of the 
fea, the deferts, and a hundred battles, are at 
length wepenteds 
© 46 Soldiers! my brother will lead you on 5 
he is acquainted with all my plans 3: he is the 
depofitary of my authority—he is in full 
poffeflion of my confience—-it him have 
your's, i 
Fu.ts (Signed ct NAPOLEON, buf 
It does ‘not a appear whether the 
kingdom of Naples is to’ be united ‘to 
that of Italy, over which the Emperor of 
France is at preient fowereign, and: ta 
which: he has made Prince: Eugene;: his 
Lip ogee the legitimate he: nor can 
it be fuppofed that-the conqueror has at 
prefent. completely arranged his plans 
with regard. to the intended changes on 
the 
