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Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, &c.; and the Most Illustrious and Most Noble Lord, Arthur, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Wellington, Marquis of Douro, &c.; and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Andre Prince of Rasoumoffsky, &c, and the Sieur John Count Capo d'Istria, &c.; who, after having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following terms:

Art. 1. The islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxo, with their dependencies, such as they are described in the treaty between his Majesty the Em peror of the Russias and the Ottoman Porte, of the 21st of March, 1800, shall form a single, free, and independent state, under the denomination of the United States of the Ionian Islands.

Art. 2. This state shall be placed under the immediate and exclusive protection of his Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and successors. The other contracting powers do consequently renounce every right or particular pretension which they might have formed in respect to them, and formally guarantee all the dispositions of the present treaty.

Art. 3. The United States of the Ionian Islands shall, with the approbation of the protecting power, regulate their internal organization; and in order to give to all the parts of this organization the necessary consistency and action, his Britannic Majesty will employ a particular solicitude with regard to the legislation and the general administration of those states; his Majesty will therefore appoint a lord high commissioner to reside there, invested with all the necessary power and authorities for this purpose.

Art. 4. In order to carry into execution without delay the stipulations mentioned in the articles preceding, and to ground the political re-organization which is actually in force, the lord high commissioner of the protecting power shall regulate the forms of convocation of a legislative assembly, of which he shall direct the proceedings, in order to draw up a new constitutional charter for the states, which his Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great and Ireland shall be requested to ratify.

Until such constitutional charter shall have been so drawn up, and duly ratified, the existing constitutions shall remain in force in the different islands, and no alteration shall be made in them, except by his Britannic Majesty in council.

Art. 5. In order to ensure without restriction to the inhabitants of the United States of the Ionian Islands, the advantages resulting from the high protection under which these states are placed, as well as for the exercise of the rights inherent in the said pro tection, his Britannic Majesty shall have the right to occupy the fortresses and places of those states, and to maintain garrisons in the same. The military force of the said United States shall also be under the orders of the commander-in-chief of the troops of his Britannic Majesty.

Art. 6. His Britannic Majesty consents, that a particular convention with the government of the said United States shall regulate, according to the revenues of those states, every thing which may relate to the maintenance of the fortresses already existing, as well as to the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, and to the number of men of which they shall be composed in time of peace.

The same convention shall likewise fix the relations which are to exist be

tween the said armed force and the Ionian government.

Art. 7. The trading flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall be acknowledged by all the contracting parties as the flag of a free and independent state. It shall carry with the colours, and above the armorial bearings thereon displayed before the year 1807, such other as his Britannic Majesty may think proper to grant, as a mark of the protection under which the said Ionian States are placed; and for the more effectual furtherance of this protection, all the ports and harbours of the said states are hereby declared to be, with respect to the honorary and military rights, within British jurisdiction. The com. merce between the United Ionian States and the dominions of his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty shall enjoy the same adyantages and facilities as that of Great Britain with the said United States. None but commercial agents or consuls charged solely with the carrying on commer cial arrangements, and subject to the regulations to which commercial agents or consuls are subject in other inde pendent states, shall be accredited to the United States of the Ionian Islands. Art, 8. All the powers which signed the treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814, and the act of the Congress of Vienna, of the 9th of June, 1815; and also his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, and the Ottoman Porte, shall be invited to accede to the present convention.

Art. 9. The present act shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in two months, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.

Done at Paris the 5th day of No

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In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity.

The allied powers having by their united efforts, and by the success of their arms, preserved France and Europe from the convulsions with which they were menaced by the late enterprize of Napoleon Buonaparte, and by the revolutionary system re-produced in France to promote its success; participating at present with his most Christian Majesty in the desire to consolidate, by maintaining inviolate the royal authority, and by restoring the operation of the constitutional charter, the order of things which had been happily re-established in France, as also in the object of restoring between France and her neighbours those relations of reciprocal confidence and goodwill, which the fatal effects of the revolution and of the system of conquest had for so long a time dis turbed; persuaded, at the same time, that this last object can only be obtained by an arrangement framed to secure to the allies proper indemnities for the past, and solid guarantees for the future, they have, in concert with his Majesty the King of France, taken into consideration the means of giving effect to this arrangement; and being satisfied that the indemnity due to the allied powers cannot be either entirely territoral or entirely pecuniary, without prejudice to France in the one or other of her essential inte

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rests, and that it would be more fit to combine both the modes, in order to avoid the inconveniences which would result, were either resorted to separately their Imperial and Royal Majesties have adopted this basis for their present transactions; and agreeing alike as to the necessity of retaining for a fixed time in the frontier provin ces of France, a certain number of allied troops, they have determined to combine their different arrangements, founded upon these bases, in a defini. tive treaty. For this purpose, and to this effect, his Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for himself and his al lies on the one part, and his Majesty the King of France and Navarre on the other part, have named their plenipotentiaries to discuss, settle, and sign the said definitive treaty; namely, his Majesty the King of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Ro. bert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, &c.; and the most illustrious and most noble Lord, Arthur, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Wellington, &c. and his Majesty the King of France, and of Navarre, the Sieur Armand Emanuel du Plessis Richelieu, Duke of Riche. lieu, &c., who, having exchanged their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have signed the following articles :

Art. 1. The frontiers of France shall be the same as they were in the year 1790, save and except the modifications on one side and on the other, which are detailed in the present article. First, on the northern frontiers, the line of demarkation shall remain as it was fixed by the treaty of Paris, as far as opposite to Quiverain, from thence it shall follow the ancient limits of the Belgian Provinces, of the late Bishopric of Liege, and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as they existed in the year 1790, leaving the territo.

ries included within that line, of Phillipeville and Marienbourg, with the fortresses so called, together with the whole of the Duchy of Bouillon, without the frontiers of France. From Villers near Orval upon the confines of the department Des Ardennes, and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as far as Perle, upon the great road leading from Thionville to Treves, the line shall remain as it was laid down by the treaty of Paris. From Perle it shall pass by Launsdorff, Walwich, Schardorff, Niederveiling, Pelweiler (all these places with their Banlieues or dependencies remaining to France,) to Houvre; and shall follow from thence the old limits of the district of Sarrebruck, leaving Sarrelouis, and the course of the Sarre, together with the places situa ted to the right of the line above described, and their Banlieues or dependencies, without the limits of France. From the limits of the district of Sarrebruck the line of demarkation shall be the same which at present separates from Germany the departments of the Moselle and of the Lower Rhine, as far as to the Lauter, which river shall from thence serve as the frontier until it shall fall into the Rhine. All the territory on the left bank of the Lauter, including the fortress of Landau, shall form part of Germany.

The town of Weissenbourg, however, through which that river runs, shall remain entirely to France, with a rayon on the left bank, not exceeding a thousand toises, and which shall be more particularly determined by the commissioners who shall be char ged with the approaching designation of the boundaries. Secondly, leaving the mouth of the Lauter, and continuing along the departments of the Lower Rhine, the Upper Rhine, the Doubs, and the Jura, to the Canton de Vaud, the frontiers shall remain as fixed by the treaty of Paris. The

Thalweg of the Rhine shall form the boundary between France and the states of Germany, but the property of the islands shall remain in perpetuity, as it shall be fixed by a new survey of the course of that river, and continue unchanged, whatever varia. tion that course may undergo in the lapse of time. Commissioners shall be named on both sides, by the high contracting parties, within the space of three months to proceed upon the said survey. One half of the bridge between Strasbourg and Kehl shall belong to France, and the other half to the Grand Duchy of Baden. Third ly, in order to establish a direct communication between the Canton of Geneva and Switzerland, that part of the Pays de Gex, bounded on the east by the lake Leman; on the south, by the territory of the Canton of Geneva; on the north, by that of the Canton de Vaud; on the west, by the course of the Versoix, and by a line which comprehends the communes of Collex Bossy, and Meyrin, leaving the commune of Ferney to France, shall be ceded to the Helvetic Confederacy, in order to be united to the Canton of Geneva. The line of the French custom-houses shall be placed to the west of the Jura, so that the whole of the Pays de Gex shall be without that line. Fourthly, from the frontiers of the Canton of Geneva, as far as the Mediterranean, the line of demarkation shall be that which, in the year 1790, separated France from Savoy, and from the county of Nice. The relations which the treaty of Paris of 1814 had re-established between France and the principality of Monaco, shall cease for ever, and the same relations shall exist between that principality and his Majesty the King of Sardinia. Fifthly, all the territories and districts included within the boundary of the French territory, as determined by the present

articles, shall remain united to France. Sixthly, the high contracting parties shall name, within three months after the signature of the present treaty, commissioners to regulate every thing relating to the designation of the boundaries of the respective countries; and as soon as the labours of the commissioners shall have terminated, maps shall be drawn, and land-marks shall be erected, which shall point out the respective limits.

2. The fortresses, places, and districts, which, according to the preceding article, are no longer to form part of the French territory, shall be placed at the disposal of the allied powers, at the periods fixed by the 9th article of the military convention annexed to the present treaty; and his Majesty the King of France renounces for himself, his heirs, and successors for ever, the rights of sovereignty and property, which he has hitherto exercised over the said fortresses, places, and districts.

3. The fortifications of Huningen ha. ving been constantly an object of uneasiness to the town of Basle, the high contracting parties, in order to give to the Helvetic Confederacy a new proof of their good will, and of their solici tude for its welfare, have agreed among themselves to demolish the fortifications of Huningen, and the French government engages from the same motive not to re-establish them at any time, and not to replace them by other fortifications, at a distance of less than that of three leagues from the town of Basle. The neutrality of Switzerland shall be extended to the territory situated to the north of a line to be drawn from Ugine, that town being included to the south of the lake of Annecy, by Faverge, as far as Lecheraine, and from thence, by the lake of Bourget, as far as the Rhone, in like manner as it was extended to the provinces of Chablais and of Faucigny, by the 92d

article of the final act of the Congress of Vienna.

4. The pecuniary part of the indemnity to be furnished by France, to the allied powers, is fixed at the sum of seven hundred millions of francs. The mode, the periods, and the guarantees for the payment of this sum, shall be regulated by a special convention, which shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted, word for word, in the present treaty. 5. The state of uneasiness and of fermentation, which, after so many violent convulsions, and particularly after the last catastrophe, France must still experience, notwithstanding the paternal intentions of her King, and the advantages secured to every class of his subjects by the constitutional charter, requiring for the security of the neighbouring states, certain measures of precaution, and of temporary guarantee, it has been judged indispensable to occupy, during a fixed time, by a corps of allied troops, certain military positions along the frontiers of France, under the express reserve, that such occupation shall in no way prejudice the sovereignty of his most Christian Majesty, nor the state of possession, such as it is recognised and confirmed by the present treaty. The number of these troops shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand men.-The commander in-chief of this army shall be nominated by the allied powers. This shall army оссиру the fortresses of Conde, Valenciennes, Bouchain, Cambray, Le Quesnoy, Maubeuge, Landrecies, Avesnes, Rocroy, Givet, with Charlemont, Mezieres, Sedan, Montmedy, Thionville, Longwy, Bitsch, and the Tete-dePont of Fort Louis. As the main tenance of the army destined for this service is to be provided by France, a special convention shall regulate every thing which may relate to that object. This convention, which shall have the same force and effect as if it were insert

ed word for word in the present treaty, shall also regulate the relations of the army of occupation with the civil and military authorities of the country. The utmost extent of the duration of this military operation, is fixed at five years. It may terminate before that period, if, at the end of three years, the allied sovereigns, after having, in concert with his Majesty the King of France, maturely examined their reci. procal situations and interests, and the progress which shall have been made in France, in the re-establishment of order and tranquillity, shall agree to acknow. ledge that the motives which led them to that measure have ceased to exist. But whatever may be the result of this deliberation, all the fortresses and positions occupied by the allied troops shall, at the expiration of five years, be evacuated without further delay, and given up to his most Christian Majesty, or to his heirs and successors.

6. The foreign troops, not forming part of the army of occupation, shall evacuate the French territory within the term fixed by the 9th Article of the Military Convention annexed to the present treaty.

7. In all countries which shall change sovereigns, as well in virtue of the present treaty, as of the arrangements which are to be made in consequence thereof, a period of six years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications shall be allowed to the inhabitants, natives or foreigners, of whatever condition and nation they may be, to dispose of their property, if they should think fit so to do, and to retire to whatever country they may choose.

8. All the dispositions of the treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814, relative to the countries ceded by that treaty, shall equally apply to the several territories and districts ceded by the present treaty.

9. The high contracting parties having caused representation to be made

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