holiness to make to your excellency, as charge d'affairs of the kingdom of Italy, with which these provinces have been incorporated. The undersigned bath made it a sacred duty to obey faithfully the orders which he has received, and at the same time to renew to you the assurance of his sincere consideration. G. CARDINAL GABRIELLI. To Signor Cavaliero Aldini, Charge D'Affaires of the kingdom of Italy. RESIGNATION Of the Crown of Spain by King Asturias. Napoleon emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine, and Charles IV. king of Spain and the Indies, animated equally by a desire to put an end to the anarchy to which Spain is a prey, and to save that brave nation from the agitation of faction, and the convulsions of civil and foreign war, and place it in the sole position which in the extraordinary circumstances in which it is now found, can maintain its integrity, guarantee its colonies, and enable it to unite all its means to those of France to obtain a maritime peace; have resolved to combine all their efforts, and to regulate by a particular convention interests so dear to them, to this effect they have appointed,His majesty the emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine, the general of division Duroc, grand marshal of the pa lace; His majesty the king of Spain and the Indies, his serene highness Manual Godoy, prince of the peace, count of Evora Mont, who after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed as follows: Art. I. His majesty king Charles having during his whole life only had in view the happiness of his subjects, and constantly adhering to the principle, that all the acts of the sovereign ought solely to attend to that object; as the present circumstances can only be a source of dissensions the more fatal, because factions have divided his own does cede by these presents, to his family, has resolved to cede and majesty the emperor Napoleon, all his rights to the throne of Spain and the Indies, as the only means in the state at which things have arrived which can re-establish order: it being always understood, that the said cession only takes place in order that his subjects may enjoy the two following conditions:-1. The integrity of the kingdom shall be maintained. 2. The prince whom his majesty the emperor Napoleon shall judge proper to be placed on the throne of Spain shall be independent, and the limits of Spain shall undergo no alteration. II. The catholic, apostolic and Roman religion shall be the only one in Spain; no reformed religion shall be tolerated there, and still less infidelity, according to the usage now established. III. All acts contrary to those of our faithful subjects, since the revolution of Aranjuez, are null and of no validity, and their property shall be restored to them. IV. His majesty king Charles having thus secured the prosperity, the integrity, and the independence of his subjects, his majesty (02) the the emperor engages to give an asylum in his states to king Charles, to the queen, to the prince of peace, as also to those of their servants, who shall wish to follow them; who shall enjoy in France a rank equivalent to that which they possessed in Spain. V. The imperial palace of Compeigne, and the parks and forests dependent on it, shall be at the disposal of king Charles during his life. VI. His majesty the emperor gives and guarantees to to king Charles a civil list of 80,000,000 of reals, which his majesty the emperor will cause to be paid him without delay every month, from the treasury of the crown. At the death of king Charles a revenue of 2,000,000 shall form the dowry of the queen. VII. His majesty the emperor Napoleon engages to grant to all the infantes of Spain an annual rent of four hundred thousand livres, to be enjoyed by them and their descendants in perpetuity, saving the revertibility of the said rent from one branch to the other, in case of the extinction of one of them, according to civil laws. In case of the extinction of all the branches, the said rent shall revert to the crown of France. VIII. His majesty the emperor Napoleon shall make such arrangements as he shall judge proper with the future king of Spain for the payment of the civil list, and the rents stipulated in the preceding articles; but his majesty king Charles IV. is understood to have no relation with respect to that object, except with the treasury of France. IX. His majesty the emperor Napoleon gives in exchange to his majesty king Charles the castle of Chambord, with the parks, forests, and farms, dependent on it, to enjoy in full propriety, and to dispose of as shall seem to him good. X. In consequence his majesty king Charles renounces in favour of the emperor Napoleon, all the allodial and particular property not appertaining to the crown of Spain, but possessed personally. The infantes of Spain shall continue to enjoy the revenues of the commanderies they possess in Spain. XI. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged within eight days, of sooner if possible. Done at Bayonne, May 5, 1908. DUROC. THE PRINCE OF THE PEACE. His majesty the emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine, and his royal highness prince of Asturias, having differences to regulate, have ap pointed for their plenipotentiaries -his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy, the general of division Duroc, grand marshal of the palace; and his royal highness the prince of Asturias, Don Juan d'Esco quitz, counsellor of state to his ca tholic majesty and knight grand cross of the order of Charles III.. who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:— Art. I. His royal highness the prince of Asturias accedes to the cession made by the king Charles of his rights to the throne of Spai and the Indies, in favour of his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy; and renounce as much as may be necessary to the rights accruing to him as prince of Asturias, to the crown of Spain and the Indies. II. His majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy grants, in France, to his royal highness the prince of Asturias, the title of royal highness, with all the honours and prerogatives which the princes of his blood enjoyed. The descendants of his royal highness the prince of Asturias shall preserve the title of princes, that of most serene highness, and shall always hold the same rank as the princes dignitaries of the empire. III. His majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy cedes and gives, by these presents, in full property, to his royal highness the prince of Asturias, and to his descendants, the palaces, and parks, and farms of Navarre, and the woods dependent on them, to the amount of fifty thousand acres, the whole free from incumbrance, and to enjoy in full property from the day of the date of the present treaty. IV. The said property shall pass to the children and heirs of his royal highness the prince of Asturias; in default of them, to the children and heirs of the infante don Charles; in default of them, to the descendants and heirs of the infante Don Francisco; and, finally, in default of them, to the children and heirs of the infante Don Antonio. Letters patent and particular conferring the title of prince, shall be made out to him of those heirs to whom the said property shall revert. V. His majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy grants to his royal highness the prince of Asturias four hundred thousand livres of appanage rent on the trea sury of France, and payable onetwelfth part every month, to be enjoyed by himself and his descendants, and the direct descent of his royal highness the prince of Asturias; failing this, the appanage rent shall pass to the infante don Charles, his children and heirs; and they failing, to the infante don Francisco, his descendants and heirs. VI. Independently of what is stipulated in the preceding articles, his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy grants to his royal highness the prince of Asturias a rent of six hundred thousand livres, in like manner on the treasury, to be enjoyed during life. The half of the said rent shall revert to the princess, his consort, if she survive him. VII. His majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy grants and guarantees to the infante don Antonio, uncle of his royal highness the prince of Asturias, and to don Charles and don Francisco, the brother of the said prince, 1. The title of royal highness, with all the honours and prerogatives which the princes of his blood enjoy; the descendants of their royal highnesses shall preserve the title of prince, that of most serene highness, and shall always hold the same rank in France as the princes dignitaries of the empire. 2. The enjoyment of the reve nues of all their commanderies in Spain during their lives. 3. An appanage rent of four hundred thousand livres, to be enjoyed by them and their heirs in perpetuity, it being always understood that the infantes don Antonio, don Charles, and don Francisco, dying without heirs, or their posterity becoming extinct, the said appanage rents shall appertain to his royal highness the prince of Asturias, or to his descendants and heirs, the whole, on condition that their royal highnesses don Charles, don Antonio, and don Francisco, accede to the present treaty. VIII. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged within eight days, or sooner if possible. Bayonne, May 10, 1808. JUAN DE ESCOQUITZ. KING OF SPAIN'S PROCLA MATIONS. The king, the prince of Austrias, their royal highnesses the infanta Don Carlos, and Don Antonio, abdicated the crown and their right thereto, by the following documents, viz. I have thought proper to give my beloved subjects this last proof of my paternal love. Their happiness, tranquillity, prosperity, and preservation, and integrity of the dominions that Divine Providence had placed under my sway, haye been the sole objects of my constant care during my reign. Every step and measure that have been adopted since my exaltation to the throne of my august ancestors have been directed to those just purposes, and could not be directed to any other. This day, in the extraordinary circumstances in which I am placed, my conscience, my honour, and the good name I ought to leave to posterity, imperiously require of me, that the last act of my sovereignty should be solely pointed to that end, viz. to the tranquillity, prosperity, security, and integrity of the monarchy, whose throne I quit, to the greatest happiness of my subjects of both hemispheres. Given in Bayonne, in the impe- To the governor ad interim Don Fernando, prince of Astu rias, and the infantas, don Carlos and Antonio, grateful for the love and constant fidelity that all Spaniards have manifested towards them, with the most poignant grief, see them in the present day plung ed in the greatest confusion, and threatened with the most direful calamities calamities resulting therefrom, and knowing that it arises in the major part of them from the ignorance they are in of the causes of the conduct their royal highnesses have hitherto observed, and of the plans now chalked out for the greatest happiness of their country, they can do no less than endeavour to undeceive them, in order that its execution may suffer no impediment; and at the same time to testify to them the sincere affection they profess for them. They cannot consequently avoid manifesting to them, that the circumstances in which the prince, by the abdication of the king his father, took the reins of government, many provinces of the kingdom, and all the frontier garrisons being occupied by a great number of French troops, and more than 60,000 men of the same nation situated in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, and many other data that no other person could possess; all conspired to persuade them, that being surrounded by rocks and quicksands, they had no other remedy but to choose among many evils, the one that would be the least productive of calamity:-as such, they fixed upon a journey to Bayonne. On their royal highnesses arrival at Bayonne, the prince, then king, unexpectedly found, that the king his father had protested against his abdication, pretending it had not been voluntary; not having accepted the crown, but in the good faith that the abdication was voluntary, he had scarcely ascertained the existence of the protest, when through filial respect he restored the crown, and shortly after the king his father renounced it in his name, and in that of all the dynasty, in favour of the emperor of the French, in order, that looking to the welfare of the nation, hə should elect the person and dynasty who are to occupy it hereafter. In this state of things, their royal highnesses considering the situation they are in, the critical circumstances of Spain, in which all the efforts of its inhabitants in favour of their rights will not only be useless but mournful, as they would only cause rivers of blood to flow, and cause the loss at least of a great part of the provinces, and of all their ultra marine possessions; and reflecting on the other hand that it would be a most efficacious remedy against so many evils for each of their royal highnesses to adhere by himself separately, to the cession of their rights to the throne, already made by the king their father; reflecting also, that the said emperor of the French binds himself in this case, to preserve the absolute independence and integrity of the Spanish monarchy, and of all ultra marine possessions, without reserving to himself, nor dismembering the least part of its dominions, to maintain the unity of the catholic religion, property, laws, and usages, which he secures for the future, and on a sound basis; also the power and prosperity of the Spanish nation:-Their royal highnesses believe they give the greatest proof of their generosity, love, and gratitude for the affection they have experienced, in sacrificing as much as in their power, their personal interest for the benefit of the country, adhering, as they have done, by a particular agreement, to the cession of their rights to the throne, absolving all Spaniards from their duty in this respect, and exhorting them to look to the interest of their country, remaining tranquil, and expecting their happiness from the sage dis position |