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After several armistices had been entered into between Austria and the
French Republic, and as often suffered to expire from the jarring interests
of the different powers, Austria at length found it necessary to enter
into a treaty for peace, separate and alone, which after many delays,
was definitively agreed upon between the first Consul of the French Republic
and the Emperor. This treaty was concluded at Luneville, in February,
1801. The plenipotentiaries named, were the Count Cobentzel and Joseph
Bonaparte. It agreed, first, that there was to be a permanent peace between
the French Republic and the Emperor; the Belgic provinces, Falkenstein
and its dependencies; the Frickthal, and all that belongs to the house
of Austria on the left bank of the Rhine, between Zurzach and Basle, to
be given up to the French. Istria, Dalmatia, and the Venetian Isles dependant
on those countries; the Bocca di Cattaro, the city of Venice, the Adriatic
sea, and the Adige from its leaving the Tyrol to the mouth of the said
sea, to belong to the Emperor, the towing path of the Adige, being the
line of limitation. Draw-bridges to be established in the middle of the
cities of Verona and Porto Legnano, to mark the separation of this line;
the Brisgau to be given to the Duke of Modena; Tuscany and the Island
of Elba to be possessed by the infant Duke of Parma; the grand Duke to
obtain a full indemnity in Germany for his Italian States; the French
to possess all on the left bank of the Rhine, the towing path of the Rhine
to be the limit between the French Republic and the Germanic Empire, from
where the Rhine leaves Switzerland till it enters the Batavian territory.
The French Republic renounces all possession on the right bank of the
Rhine, and restores Dusseldorff, Ehrenbreitstein, Phillipsburg, the Fort
of Cassel, the Fort of Khel, and Old Brisach; these places to remain as
they now are, the Emperor to give indemnity to the hereditary princes
dispossessed on the left bank of the Rhine; which shall be taken from
all the Empire according to arrangements to be determined on, when the
ratification is exchanged; sequestration of property to be taken off on
both sides; this treaty to be common to the Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine
and Ligurian Republics; the said Republics to be gauranteed by both parties.
There were a few other articles, but of no great consequence, and thus,
after a war which lasted for near ten years this famous treaty ended.
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