Jenks's Portland Gazette

YESTERDAY Paris papers to the 7th were received.

The flag of truce which brought them, came Citizen Lauriston, aide-de-camp of Bonaparte with the ratification of the Preliminaries on the part of the First Consul.

A London Gazette Extraordinary was immediately issued, announcing the exchange of Ratifications; the park and tower guns were fired: and the general exultation was unbounded.

Oct. 1st. Lord Hawkesbury this day sent the following note

To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.

Downing Street, Oct. 10, 1801.

"My Lord—I have the satisfaction to inform your Lordship, that Gen. Laurillon arrived in town this morning, with the ratification of the Preliminaries of Peace, signed the 1st inst. The ratification of the two governments has this afternoon been exchanged between M. Otto and myself.

(Signed)
"HAWKESBURY."

We give the following as a correct copy of the Preliminaries of Peace,

Between his Britannic Majesty, and the French Republic signed at London, Oct. 1, 1801.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people,

being animated with an equal desire of putting a stop to the calamities of a destructive war, and to re-establish harmony and good understanding between the two nations, have appointed for that purpose, viz. his Britannic Majesty, ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON Esq. (commonly called Lord Hawkesbury) one of the Members of his Britannic Majesty's Privy Council, and principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, Citizen LOUIS WILLIAM OTTO, Commissary for the exchange of French prisoners, in England;—who, after duly exchanging their full powers in proper form, have agreed upon the following preliminary articles:—

ARTICLE I. As soon as the preliminaries shall have been signed and ratified, sincere friendship shall be re-established between his Britannic Majesty and the French Republic by sea and land in every part of the world, and that all hostilities may immediately cease between them and their allies respectively, orders shall be transmitted accordingly to the sea and land forces with the utmost dispatch; each of the contracting parties engaging to give the necessary passports and facilities to accelerate the arrival of the said orders, and to ensure their execution. It is further agreed upon, that all conquests which may be made on the part of one or the other of the contracting parties, from either of them or their allies, after the ratification of the present preliminaries, shall be regarded as void, and no otherwise to be treated than as such in the liquidation which is to take place after the ratification of the definitive treaty.

II. His Britannic Majesty shall restore to the French Republic and to her allies, namely to his Catholic Majesty, and the Batavian Republic, all the possessions and colonies occupied or conquered by the English forces in the course of the present war at the capture of the island of Trinidad, and the Dutch possessions in the Cape of Good Hope, excepting the main article of Ceylon of which island and its dependencies his said Majesty retains complete and entire sovereignty.

III. The port of the Cape of Good Hope shall be open to the commerce and navigation of the two contracting parties, who shall therein enjoy the same advantages.

IV. The island of Malta with its dependencies, shall be evacuated by the English troops, and restored to the order of St. John of Jerusalem. To secure the absolute independence of that island upon the one or the other of the contracting parties, it shall be placed under the guarantee and protection of a third power, to be determined by the definitive treaty.

V. Egypt shall be restored to the Sublime Porte, the territory and possession of which shall be maintained entire as they were before the present war.

VI. The territories and possessions of her faithful Ally shall also be maintained entire.

VII. The French troops shall evacuate the kingdom of Naples and the Roman state. The English forces shall likewise evacuate Porto-Ferrajo, and generally all the ports and islands which they occupy in the Mediterranean or Adriatic seas.

VIII. The Republic of the Seven United Islands shall be recognized by the French Republic.

IX. The evacuations, cessions, and restitutions, stipulated by the present preliminary articles, shall be carried into execution, in Europe within one month; on the continent and seas of Africa and America in three months; and on the continent and seas of Asia in six months after the ratification of the definitive treaty.

X. The respective prisoners shall immediately after the exchange of the ratification of the definitive treaty be restored in a body, and without ransom, on the reciprocal payment of the private debts which they may have contracted.

Difference having arisen respecting the payment of the subsistence of the prisoners of war the contracting powers reserve the right of deciding this question by the definitive treaty, according to the law of nations and the principles sanctioned by common usage.

XI. In order to prevent all subjects of complaint and litigation, which might arise on account of prizes made at sea after the signing of the preliminary articles, it is reciprocally agreed, that the vessels and effects which may be taken in the Channel, and in the seas of the north, after the space of 12 days, the date from the exchange of the ratification of the present preliminary articles, shall be restored on each party; that the term shall be one month from the Channel and the seas of the north, as far as the Canary Islands inclusively, whether in the ocean or the Mediterranean; of two months from the said Canary Islands as far as the Equator; and finally, of five months in all the other parts of the world, without any exception or any other distinction more particular with respect to time and place.

XII. All the sequestrations laid on the one part or the other on the funds, revenues, and debts, of whatever kind they may be, belonging to one of the contracting powers, or to its citizens or subjects, shall be taken off immediately after the signing of the definitive treaty.

The decision of all claims between the individuals of both nations respecting all debts, property, credits, or rights whatsoever, which in conformity to the acknowledged usage and rights of nations shall be forthcoming at the epoch of peace shall be referred to the competent tribunals, and in these cases prompt and complete justice shall be done, where such claims shall be respectively made. It is agreed that the present article shall, immediately after the ratification of the definitive treaty, be applied by the contracting powers to the respective allies and individuals of their nations, under the condition of just reciprocity.

XIII. With respect to the fisheries on the coast of Newfoundland, and the adjacent islands and in the gulf of St. Lawrence, the two powers are agreed to replace them on the same footing upon which they were before the present war, reserving to themselves the right of making, by the definitive treaty, such arrangements as may appear just and reciprocally useful.

In order to place the fisheries of both nations in the most proper state for the maintenance of peace.

XIV. In all cases of restitution agreed to by the present treaty, the fortifications shall be restored in the state in which they are at the moment of the signing of the present treaty and all the fortifications constructed since the occupation of them shall remain entire.

It is further agreed that in all the cases of concessions stipulated in the present treaty, a term of three years, to date from the ratification of the treaty of definitive peace, shall be allowed to the inhabitants, of whatever description or rank they may be, to dispose of their property acquired or possessed, whether previous to or during the present war; during which term of three years they shall be at full liberty to exercise freely their religion, and to enjoy their property.

The same privileges are granted in the restored countries to all those who shall have made establishments in them of whatever kind they may be during the time that these countries were in possession of Great-Britain.

With respect to the other inhabitants of the restored countries, it is agreed that none of them shall be prosecuted disturbed or molested in their persons, or in their properties, on any pretence whatever, on account of their conduct or political opinions, or of their attachment to either of the two powers, or for any other reason, unless for debts contracted with respect to individuals, or for acts subsequent to the definitive treaty.

XV. The present preliminary articles shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at London, in the space of fifteen days at farthest; and immediately after the ratification, plenipotentiaries shall be appointed on both sides, who shall repair at Amiens, in order to proceed to the arrangement of the definitive treaty, in concert with the allies of the contracting powers.

In witness whereof, we the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty, and the First Consul of the French Republic, by virtue of our respective full powers, have signed the present preliminary articles and have thereto affixed our seals.

Done at London, the first of October, 1801; the 10th of the French Republic.

(Signed)
HAWKESBURY.
OTTO.