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2d. Every kind of hosiery, cotton or wool, single or mixed;

3d. Buttons of every kind;

4th. Every sort of plate, all products in fine hardware, cutlery, toys, clock-making, and other products in iron, steel, copper, brass, cast-iron, sheet-iron, tin, or other metals, polished or not polished, pure or mixed;

5th. Hides tanned, curried or prepared, worked up or not worked up; carriages, set up or not set up, harness and all other articles of harness-making;

6th. Ribbons, hats, veils and shawls known under the denomination of English;

7th. Every sort of skin for gloves, small-clothes, and waistcoats, and these same articles manufactured;

8th. Every kind of glass ware and crystal other than the glasses serving for the making of spectacles and in watchmaking;

9th. Refined sugars, in lump or in powder;

10th. Every kind of faience or pottery known under the denomination of earthen or stone ware of England.

6. Dating from the publications of the law, it is forbidden to all persons to sell or to expose for sale any article the product of English manufactures or commerce, and to all printers to print any notice which may announce these sales.

54. Secret Convention with Genoa.

June 6, 1797 (18 Prarial, Year V). De Clercq, Traites, I, 326-328.

The ancient and oligarchical Republic of Genoa was one of the Italian states revolutionized by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796-7. The revolution was effected through this document. From it the character of the new government and its relationship to France can be seen. In both respects it is typical for all of the republics then established by the French in Italy.

REFERENCES. Rose, Napoleon, I, 134-137; Sloane, Napoleon, II, 7: Lanfrey, Napoleon, I, 204-208; Lavisse and Rambaud, Histoire Generale, VIII, 775-776.

The French Republic and the Republic of Genoa, wishing to consolidate the union of harmony which of all time has

existed between them, and the government of Genoa believing that the welfare of the Genoese nation, in the present circumstances, requires that it should return to her the deposit of the sovereignty of the nation, with which it has been entrusted, the French Republic and the Republic of Genoa have agreed upon the following articles:

I. The government of the Republic of Genoa recognizes that the sovereignty resides in the body of all the citizens of the Genoese territory.

2. The legislative power shall be confided to two representative Councils, one of 300, the other of 150 members. The executive power shall be the attribute of a Senate of twelve members presided over by a Doge. The Doge and the Senators shall be selected by the two Councils.

3. Each commune shall have a municipality, each district an administration.

4. The methods of election of all the authorities, the circumscription of the districts, the portion of authority entrusted to each body, the organization of the judicial power and of the military forces, shall be determined by a Legislative Commission, which shall be charged to draw up the constitution and all the organic laws of the government, having care in this to do nothing which may be contrary to the Catholic religion, to guarantee the consolidated debts, to preserve the free port of the city of Genoa, the Bank of St. George, and to take measures that there may be provision, as far as means will permit it, for the maintenance of the poor nobles now living. This Commission shall be obliged to complete its work within a month, counting from the day of its formation.

5. The people finding themselves replaced in possession of their rights, every kind of privilege or particular organization which breaks up the unity of the State finds itself necessarily dissolved.

6. The provisional government shall be confided to a commission of government composed of 22 members, presided over by the present Doge, which shall be installed on the 14th of the present month of June, 26 Prairial, Year V of the French Republic.

7. The citizens who shall be called upon to compose the

provisional government of the Republic of Genoa cannot refuse these functions without being considered as indifferent to the safety of the fatherland and [they shall be] condemned to a fine of two thousand crowns.

8. When the provisional government shall be constituted, it shall determine the necessary rules for the manner of its deliberations. It shall select, within the first week from its installation, the Legislative Commission charged to draw up the constitution.

9. The provisional government shall provide for the just indemnities due to the French who were plundered on the days of 3 and 4 Prairial (May 22 and 23).

10. The French Republic, wishing to give a proof of the interest which it takes in the welfare of the people of Genoa, and desiring to see them united and exempt from factions, grants an amnesty to all the Genoese of whom it had occasion to make complaint, whether by reason of 3 and 4 Prairial or by occasion of the various events which occurred within the imperial fiefs. The provisional government shall show the most lively solicitude to extinguish all the factions, to unite all the citizens, and to imbue them with the need of uniting about the public liberty, granting for this purpose a general amnesty.

II. The French Republic shall grant to the Republic of Genoa protection and, likewise, the aid of its armies, in order to facilitate, if it be necessary, the execution of the said articles, and to maintain the integrity of the territory of the Republic of Genoa.

55. Treaty of Campo Formio.

October 27, 1797 (26 Vendémiare, Year VI). De Clercq, Traites, I, 335-343.

This treaty terminated the war against Austria begun in 1792. It left France at war only with England. The new boundaries of France, the changes in Italy, and the arrangements for the reorganization of Germany are the features of the treaty of most importance.

REFERENCES. Fournier, Napoleon, 99-100, 108-110; Rose, Napoleon, I, 128-130, 155-157, Sloane, Napoleon, II, 12-16; Lanfrey,

Napoleon, I, Ch. IX; Lavisse and Rambaud, Histoire Generale, VIII, 439-440.

MAPS. Droysen, Historischer Hand-Atlas, 48; Schrader, Atlas de Geographie Historique, 48; Vidal-Lablache, Atlas General, 40.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, and the French Republic, wishing to consolidate the peace of which the foundations were laid in the preliminaries signed at the château of Ekenwald near Léoben in Styria, April 18, 1797 (29 Germinal, Year V, of the French Republic, one and indivisible), have appointed for their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:

I. There shall be for the future and forever a firm and inviolable peace between His Majesty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, his heirs and successors, and the French Republic.

3. His Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, renounces for himself and his successors, in favor of the French Republic, all his rights and titles to the former Belgic Provinces, known under the name of the Austrian Low Countries. The French Republic shall possess these countries forever, in complete sovereignty and proprietorship, and with all the territorial advantages which result therefrom.

5. His Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, consents that the French Republic should possess in complete sovereignty the former Venetian Islands of the Levant, to wit: Corfu, Zante, Cephalonia, Santa Maura, Cerigo, and other islands dependent upon them, as well as Butrinto, Arta, Vonizza, and in general all the former Venetian establishments in Albania, which are situated below the Gulf of Drin.

6. The French Republic consents that His Majesty the Emperor and King should possess in complete sovereignty and proprietorship the countries hereinafter designated, to wit: Istria, Dalmatia, the former Venetian Islands of the Adriatic, the mouths of the Cattaro, the city of Venice, the lagunes and countries included between the hereditary

States of His Majesty the Emperor and King, the Adriatic Sea, and a line which setting out from Tyrol shall follow the stream beyond Gardola, and shall cross the Lake of Garda, to Cise; from there a military line to San Giocomo, offering an equal advantage to the two parties, which shall be marked out by engineering officers appointed by both parties before the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. The line of limitation shall then pass the Adige at San Giocomo, shall follow the left bank of that river to the mouth of the Blanc canal, including the part of Porto Lignano which is upon the right bank of the Adige, with the district to a radius of three thousand toises. The line shall continue by the left bank of the Blanc canal, the left bank of the Tartaro, the left bank of the canal called the Polisella to its juncture with the Po, and the left bank of the great Po to the sea.

7. His Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, renounces forever, for himself, his successors and assigns, in favor of the Cisalpine Republic, all rights and titles springing from these rights, which his said Majesty could lay claim to over the countries which he possessed before the war, and which now make part of the Cisalpine Republic, which shall possess them in complete sovereignty and proprietorship, with all the territorial advantages which result therefrom.

8. His Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, recognizes the Cisalpine Republic as an independent power.

18. His Majesty the Emperor, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, binds himself to cede to the Duke of Modena, as indemnity for the countries which that Prince and his heirs had in Italy, the Breisgau, which he shall possess upon the same conditions as those in virtue of which he possessed Modena.

20. There shall be held at Rastadt a Congress composed exclusively of the Plenipotentiaries of the Germanic Empire and of those of the French Republic for the pacification between these two Powers. This shall be opened one month

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