rangements to be made in consequence thereof, the inhabitass both natives and foreigners, of whatever class or conditis, shall be allowed a space of six years, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications, in order to dispose, if they think proper, of their property, whether acquired before or duni the present war, and to retire to whatever country they please. Art. XVIII. The Allied Powers, wishing to give his mas Christian Majesty a new proof of their desire to cause to disappear as much as lies in their power, the consequences f the period of calamity so happily terminated by the prese peace, renounce, in toto, the sums which the Government had to re-demand of France, by reason of any contracts, sup plies, or advances whatsoever, made to the French Govers ment in the different wars which have taken place since 17% His most Christian Majesty, on his side, renounces every claim which he might make on the Allied Powers on simila grounds. In execution of this Article, the high contracting parties engage mutually to give up all titles, bonds, and documents, relating to debts which they have reciprocally renounced. Art. XIX. The French Government engages to cause to be liquidated and paid all sums which it shall find itself bound in duty to pay in countries beyond its territories, in virtue of contracts or other formal engagements entered into between individuals or private establishments, and the French autho rities, both for supplies and legal obligations. Art. XX. The high contracting powers, immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, appoint commissaries to regulate and effectuate the execu tion of the whole of the measures contained in Articles XVIIL and XIX. These commissaries shall employ themselves in the examination of the claims mentioned in the preceding Article, of the liquidation of the sums claimed, and of the mode which the French Government shall propose for paying them. They shall also be charged with the giving up of the titles, obligations, and documents, relative to the debts which the high contracting powers mutually renounce, in such way, ion of the result of their labours shall com. ocal renunciation. le debts specially hypothecated in their origin which cease to belong to France, or contracted il administration, shall remain a charge on tries. An account shall in consequence be ench Government, commencing with the 22d 3, of such of those debts as have been conriptions in the great book of the public debt e titles of all such as have not been prepared on, nor have been yet inscribed, shall be given rnments of the respective countries. Statese debts shall be drawn up by a mixed com The French Government, on its side, shall with the repayment of the sums paid by the e above-mentioned countries into the French under the head of cautionments, deposits, or In like manner French subjects, servants of ies, who have paid sums under the head of eposits, or consignments, into their respective I be faithfully reimbursed. The titulars of places subjected to cautione not the handling of the money, shall be repaid ntil the full payment at Paris, by fifths and encing from the date of the present Treaty.those who are accountable, the payment shall the latest, six months after the presentation of the case of malversation alone excepted. A t account shall be transmitted to the Governcountry to serve it for information, and as a The judicial deposits and consignments, made of the sinking fund in execution of the law of ise, year 13 (18th of January, 1805), and which inhabitants of the countries which France ceases all be restored within a year, dating from the exratifications of the present treaty, into the hands of the authorities of the said countries, with the exception of such deposits and consignments as French subjects are inter ested in; in which case, they shall remain in the chest of th sinking fund, not to be restored but on proofs resulting from the decisions of the competent authorities. Art. XXV. The funds deposited by the communes public establishments in the chest of service and in the chest of the sinking fund, or any other government chest, shall be repaid to them by fifths from year to year, reckoning from the date of the present treaty, with the deduction of advances which shall have been made to them, and saving the regul claims made upon these funds by creditors of the said com munes and public establishments. Art. XXVI. Dating from the 1st of January, 1814, the French Government ceases to be charged with the payment of any pension, civil, military, or ecclesiastical, pension of retirement, or half-pay, to any individual who is no longers French subject. Art. XXVII. The national domains acquired for a valuable consideration by French subjects, in the ci-devant department's of Belgium, the left bank of the Rhine and of the Alps, with out the ancient limits of France, are and remain guaranteed to the purchasers. Art. XXVIII. The abolition of the droits d'aubaine, detraction, and others of the same nature, in the countries which reciprocally stipulated it with France, or which had been antecedently annexed to it, is expressly confirmed. Art. XXIX. The French government engages to cause to be restored the obligations and other titles which shall have been seized in the provinces occupied by the French armies or administrations; and in cases where restitution cannot be made, these obligations and titles are and remain annihilated. Art. XXX. The sums which shall be due for all works of public utility not yet terminated, or terminated posterior to the 31st of December, 1812, on the Rhine, and in the de partments detached from France, by the present treaty, shall pass to the charge of future possessors of the territory, and d by the commission charged with the liquis of the district. All archives, charts, plans, and documents ging to the countries ceded, and connected istration, shall be faithfully restored at the the countries; or, if that be impracticable, ot more than six months after the surrender ries. This stipulation is applicable to ard plans, which may have been carried off in moment occupied by the different armies. Within a period of two months, all the powers gaged in both sides in the present war, shall iaries to Vienna, in order to regulate, in a s, the arrangements necessary for completing of the present treaty. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the anged within a fortnight, or sooner, if practi hereof the respective plenipotentiaries have , and affixed thereto the seal of their arms. (Signed) The Prince of BENEVENT. The Prince of METTERNICH. J. P. Count STADION. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. racting parties, wishing to efface all traces of events which have weighed heavily on their eed explicitly to annul the effects of the trea 1809, in as far as they are not already actually present treaty. In consequence of this de>st Christian Majesty engages that the decrees French, or reputed French subjects, being, or the service of his Imperial and Royal Apostoll remain without effect, as well as the judgay have been passed in execution of these deesent additional article shall have the same as if it had been inserted in the patent treaty t shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged at the same time. In testimony whereof, the spective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed theret the seal of their arms. Done at Paris, this 30th May, 1814 (L. S.) (Signed) (L. S.) (L. S.) The Prince of BENEVENT. The Prince of METTERNICH 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 Perigor Prince of Benevent (ut supra); and for Russia, by MM Count Rasumouffsky, Privy Counsellor of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Knight of the Orders of St. Andrew, St. Alexander Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St Wolodimir of the 1st class; and Charles Robert Count Ne selrode, Privy Counsellor of his said Majesty, Chamberlain, Secretary of State, Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wolodimir of the 2 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 Charles Maurice Talleyrand Perigord, Prince of Benevent (ut supra); and for Great Britain, by the Right Hon. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Privy Counsellor 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 16th 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, Counsellor of his |