be exchanged at the same time. In testimony whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their

arms.

Done at Paris this 30th May, 1814. (Signed)

(L. S.) The Prince of BENEVENT. (L. S.) The Prince of METTER

NICH.

(L. S.) Count STADION.

The same day, at the same time and place, the same treaty of definitive peace was concluded between France and Russia; between France and Great Britain; between France and Prussia; and signed, viz:

The treaty between France and Russia:

For France, by M. Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevent (ut supra);

And for Russia, by M. M. Count Rasomouffsky, Privy Concillor of his Majesty the Emperor all the Russias, Knight of the orders of St. Andrew, St. Alex. Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wolodimir of the 1st class: and Charles Robert Count Nesselrode, Privy Counsellor of his said Majesty, Chamberlain, Secretary of State, Knight of the Order of St. Alex. Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wolodimir of the 2nd class, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Austria, of that of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of the Polar Star of Sweden, and of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemberg.

The treaty between France and Great Britain.

For France, by M. Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevent (ut supra);

And for Great Britain, by the Right Hon. Robert Stewart, Vis VOL. LVI.

count Castlereagh, Privy Councillor of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Member of his Parliament, Colonel of the Regiment of Londonderry Militia, and his Principal Secretary of State for Foreign affairs, &c.

George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formartin, Lord Haddo, Tarvis, and Kellie, &c. one of the 16 Scotch Peers, Knight of the most ancient order of the Thistle, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty.

William Shaw Cathcart, Viscount Cathcart, Baron Cathcart and Greenock, Councillor of his said Majesty, Knight of the Order of the Thistle, and of several Russian Orders, General in his arinies, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia;

And the Hon. Charles William Stewart, Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath, Member of his Parliament, Knight of the Prussian Orders of the Black and Red Eagle, and of many others, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Frussia.

The Treaty between France and Prussia :—

For France, by C. M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince of Benevent, (ut supra.)

And for Prussia by M. M. Charles Augustus Baron Hardenberg, Chancellor of State to his Majesty the King of Prussia, Knight of the Orders of the Black and Red Eagle, and of many other Orders, and Charles William Baron Humboldt, Minister of State of his said Majesty, and Envoy Ex2 E

traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty.

With the following additional articles :

Article Additional to the Treaty with Russia.

The Duchy of Warsaw having been under the administration of a provisional council established by Russia ever since that country was occupied by her arms, the two high contracting parties have agreed to appoint immediately a Special Commission, composed on both sides of an equal number of Commissaries, who shall be charged with the examination and liquidation of their respective claims, and all the arrangements relative thereto.

The present additional article shall have the same force and effect, as if inserted verbatim in the patent treaty of this date. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at the same time; In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at Paris, this 30th of May, 1814.

(Signed)

MOUFFSKY.

ples of natural justice, and the lights of the times in which we live, engages to unite at a future Congress, all his efforts to those of his Britannic Majesty, in order to cause all the Powers of Christendom to proclaim the abolition of the Slave Trade, in such manner that the said trade may cease universally, as it shall cease definitively, and in all events, on the part of France, within a period of five years, and that besides, pending the duration of this period, no trader in slaves shall be at liberty to import or sell them elsewhere, but in the colonies of the state to which he belongs.

Art. 11. The British Government and the French Government will immediately appoint Commissaries to liquidate their respective expenses for the maintenance of prisoners of war, for the purpose of coming to an arrangement on the manner of paying off the ba lance which shall be found in favour of either of the two powers.

Art. III. The prisoners of war respectively shall be bound to discharge, before their departure from the place of their detention, the private debts which they may have there contracted, or at least to give satisfactory security.

Art. IV. There shall be on both sides, immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty, a removal of the sequestration which, since the year 1792, may have been placed on the funds, revenues debts, and all other effects whatever of the high contracting powers, or of their subjects.

The same Commissaries mentioned in Art. II. shall employ themselves in the examination and liquidation of the claims of his Britannic Majesty upon the French

Government, for the value of property, moveable or immoveable, unduly confiscated by the French authorities, as well as for the total or partial loss of their debts or other property, unduly detained under sequestration since the year 1792.

France engages to treat in this respect the subjects of England with the same justice that the subjects of France have experienced in England; and the English government wishing, on its part, to concur in this new testimony that the allied powers have given to his most Christian Majesty of their desire to remove entirely the con

(Signed)

tune, so happily terminated by the present peace, engages on its side (as soon as complete justice shall be done to its subjects), to renounce the whole amount of the excess which may be found in its favour, relative to the maintenance of the prisoners of war, so that the ratification of the result of the labours of the undersigned commissioners, and the payment of the sums, as also the restitution of the effects which shall be adjudged to belong to the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, shall render its renunciation complete.

Art. V. The two high contracting powers, desirous to establish the most amicable relations between their respective subjects, reserve to themselves a promise to come to an understanding and arrangement as soon as possible, on their commercial interests, with the intention of encouraging and augmenting the prosperity of their respective states.

The present additional articles shall have the same force and validity as if they had been inserted in

General.

Additional Article of the Treaty with Prussia.

Although the treaty of peace concluded at Basil, the 5th of April 1795, that of Tilsit of the 9th of July, 1807, the convention of Paris of the 20th of September, 1808, as well as all the conventions and acts whatsoever, concluded since the peace of Basil between Prussia and France, are already in fact annulled by the present treaty, the high contracting parties have judged it nevertheless proper to declare again expressly, that the said treaties cease to be obligatory, both in the articles that are expressed, and those that are secret, and that they mutually renounce every right, and disengage themselves of every obligation which might result from them.

His Most Christian Majesty promises, that the decrees issued against French, or reputed French subjects, being or having been in

the service of his Prussian Majesty, shall remain without effect; as also the judgments which may have been given in execution of those decrees.

The present additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted in those words in the treaty of this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In faith of which the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed the seal of their arms.

Done at Paris, 30th of May, in the year of our Lord, 1814.

The Prince of BENEVENT.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS Paron of
HARDENBURGH.
CHARLES WILLIAM, Baron de
HUMBOLDT.

FRENCH CONSTITUTION.

Publie Rights of the French. Arts. 1, 2, 3, declare all Frenchmen, of whatever rank or title, equal in the eye of the law, equally admissible to civil and military employments, and contributing without distinction in proportion to their property to the burthens of the state. Art. 4 guarantees personal liberty, so that no one be prosecuted or arrested but according to law. Arts. 5 and 6 declare the Catholic religion the religion of the state; but that every one shall profess his faith with equal freedom, and be protected in its exercise. By Art. 7, the ministers of the Catholic and other Christian modes of worship alone receive their stipends from the royal treasury.-Art. 8. The French are entitled to publish and print

their opinions, while conforming to the laws which will repress abuses of this liberty.-Art. 9, declares all property inviolable, that called national not excepted.-Art. 11, prohibits all inquiry into opinions or votes delivered before the Restoration.-By Art. 12, the conscription is abolished.

Forms of the King's Government.

Art. 13. The person of the King is sacred and inviolable; his miuisters are responsible.-Art. 14. He is supreme head of the state; commands the sea and land forces; makes treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce; appoints to all public employments. Art. 15. The Legislative Power is exercised collectively by the King, the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber of Deputies of Departments.-By Art. 16 and 17, the King proposes laws, either to the Peers or Deputies; but tax-bills must first be proposed to the Deputies. Every. law to be discussed freely and decided by vote.-By Art. 19 and 20, the Chambers are entitled to request the King to propose a law on any subject whatever, and to suggest what it should contain. This request must have been discussed in Secret Committee, and is not to be sent from the one Chamber to the other, but after an interval of ten days.-Art. 21. If the proposition is adopted by the other chamber, it shall be transmitted to the King; if rejected, it cannot be re-introduced in the same session.-Art. 22. The King alone sanctions and promulgates laws.Art. 23. The Civil List to be fixed for the reign, by the first legislature assembled after the accession of the King.

Of the Chamber of Peers. Arts. 24 and 25, declare this chamber an essential part of the Legislature, to be convoked and closed at the same time as that of the Deputies.-Art 27. The King nominates the Peers; their number is unlimited; they may be nominated for life, or rendered hereditary, as the King pleases.-Art. 28. Peers enter the chamber at the age of twenty-five, and have a deliberative voice at that of thirty. By Art. 29 and 30, the Chancellor presides in the Senate, and the Princes of the Blood are always Peers by right of birth.-Art. 32. All the deliberations of the Chamber of Peers are secret.-Art. 33. The Chamber of Peers takes cognizance of the crimes of high treason and offences against the state. Peers only to be judged by their

Peers.

Of the Chamber of Deputies of

Departments.

Art. 33. This Chamber to be composed of Deputies chosen by the Electoral Colleges, whose organization shall be determined by law. Art. 36 and 37. Every department to have the same number of deputies as at present; the deputies to be chosen for five years, and the chamber to be renewed annually, by a fifth.-Art. 38. No deputy can be admitted into the chamber, unless he be forty years of age, and pay direct taxes to the amount of one thousand francs. -By Art 40, the electors of the deputies must pay direct taxes to -the amount of three hundred francs, and be at least thirty years of age. -By Art. 41, the presidents of the Electoral Colleges are to be nominated by the King,-By Art. 43, the King appoints the president of

the chamber of deputies from a list of five members presented by the chamber.-Art. 44. The sittings of the chamber are public; but the demand of five members is sufficient for forming it into a secret committee.-Art. 45. The chamber divides into bureaux to discuss the projets which have been presented to it on the part of the King.-Art. 46. No amendment can be made in a law, unless proposed in committee by the King, and unless transmitted to and discussed in the bureaux.-Art. 47 and 48. The Chamber of deputies receives all propositions for taxes; and no tax can be imposed or levied unless assented to by the two chambers, and sanctioned by the King-Art. 49. The land-tax is voted only for a year; the indirect taxes may be voted for several years. Art. 50. The King every year convokes the two chambers; he prorogues them, and may dissolve that of the Deputies; but in this case, he must convoke a new one within the space of three months.-Art. 51. No personal restraint shall be laid upon any member of the house during the session, or within six weeks before and after it.-Art. 52. No member of the house can, during the session, be prosecuted or arrested for criminal matters, till the house has permitted his prosecution.Art. 53. All petitions to either house must be presented in writing.

Of the Ministers."

Art. 54. The ministers may be members of the Chamber of Peers or of that of Deputies. They have moreover, a right to admission into either house, and must be heard whenever they desire it.-Art. 55. The Chamber of Deputies has a