Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

CAPITULATION OF VALENCIENNES

IN THE NAME OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Art. I. The garrison of Valenciennes shall surrender prisoners of war, and march out with all the honours of war: being arrived on the glacis of the gate of Mons, they shall lay down their arms, and in 48 hours after the signing of the present capitulation, they shall be conducted with an escort to the first post of the Imperial and Dutch armies.

II. The garrison shall give their parole not to serve again against the French army, till the said garrison shall be exchanged with equality of numbers, and equality of rank.

III. As soon as the present capitulation be signed, the troops of the republic shall take possession of the Mons and Tournay gates, at each of which shall be posted a battalion of grenadiers.

IV. All the effects belonging to the emperor or the garrison, such as artillery, ammunition and provisions, magazines of all kinds, money, papers, memorials, plans, instructions relative to the fortifications and mines, shall be faithfully delivered and explained to the troops of the republic, without the least reserve.

V. To that end an officer of engineers, one of artillery, a war commissary, and a staff-officer shall be chosen, to whom the above mentioned articles shall be faithfully delivered.

VI. The whole garrison shall retain their baggage, and the necessary horses shall be furnished them for transporting the same.

VII. All the emigrants and deserters shall be delivered up to the troops of the Republic.

VIII. The garrison of Valenciennes shall be victualled until their arrival at their respective advanced posts.

IX. Till the moment of the departure of the garrison, no one, whether military or burgher, shall be allowed to go out of the fortress, excepting the officers employed in making the inventories of the articles contained in the fortress.

X. The sick and wounded of the different corps in the garrison shall be treated and attended with the known humanity of the French nation, and as soon as they shall be cured, they shall be conducted to the advanced posts of the armies to which they belong, they conforming themselves to the articles of capitulation, and waggons shall be furnished for such as can immediately follow their corps.

Head-quarters, before Valenciennes,
27th August, the second year of the
French Republic, one and indivisible.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES.

I. The magistrates having been obliged to accept the posts with which they have been invested since the old magistrates left the city, and having always conducted themselves well as to what concerned the public welfare, shall be in no wise molested, no more than the peaceable inhabitants, and they shall be left to the enjoyment of their properties.

Answer. This article, not being of a military competency, shall be referred to the representatives of the people, who will take it into consideration, and will ordain as justice requires.

II. The inhabitants, who for some months have abandoned the town through fear, shall be at liberty to return within the term of six months, and in the mean time their goods, furniture, and effects, shall remain under the safe-guard of the law, and their friends, housekeepers or servants, who shall have the guard of them.

Answer. Referred to the decision of the representatives of the people.

III. The guarantee of the quiet possession to every one of their property, moveable and immoveable effects.

IV. The debts contracted by the garrison shall be paid by his majesty the emperor as soon as possible, conformably to the proclamation to that effect, signed by General Van Cammeller, commander of the garrison, and the war commissary, Lukwal.

The general commanding the army of the French republic expects that general Van Cammeller shall employ his endeavours to obtain a speedy payment of the said debts.

Lastly, That the garrison shall march out of the fortress on Saturday the 6th of August, between eight and nine in the morning.