wer^bêfofe the war. T h e French fifhetmëff' ó f -Newfoundland,
and the inhabitants o f the iflands o f St.
Pierre and “Miquelon, {hall1 have liberty to cut filch
wood as may he neceffary for them in the bays o f
Fortune and Defpair, during one year, reckoning from
the,ratification o f the prefent treaty.
■ X V I . T o prevent all grounds o f complaint and
difputes which might arife on account of' captures
which may have been made at fea■ fubfequèn t - to the
fignih'g.of the preliminaries, it is reciprocally agreed
that the {hips and property which may have been*
taken, in the Channel and in .the-North Seas, after a
fpace o f twelve days, reckoning from the exchange o f
tlie ratifications o f the preliminary articles, {hall be
reftored on the one fide and the o ther; that the term
{hall be one month for the fpace from the Channel and
the North Seas as far as the Canary Ifiands inclrifively,
-as well in the Ocean as in the Mediterranean ; two
months from the Canary Hands to the Equato r; and
finally, five months in all the other parts o f the world,
without any further exception or diftinftiön o f time or
place.
X V I I . T h e ambaffadors, minifiers, and other agents
o f the contrafting powers, {hall enjoy refpeftively in
the ftates o f the faid powers, the fame rank, .privileges,
prerogatives, and immunities, which were enjo
yed before the w a r b y agents o f the fame clafs. :,-r
XVII I. T h e branch o f the houfe o f Naffau, which
was eftablilhed in the ci-devant republic o f the .United-
Provinces, now the Batavian republic, having e x-
peileneed fome Ioffes, as well with refpeft to’ private'
property as -by the change o f coriftitution adopted in
thole countries, an equivalent' compenfatiou {hall bè
procured for the Ioffes which i t {hall be proved to have
fuffamed.
X IX . T h e .prefent definitive treaty o f peace is
declared common, to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, the
ally o f his Britannic majefty; and the Sublime Porte
{hall be invited - to tranfmit its a f t o f aceëffion as fo otf
as poffible.
XX. It-is agreed that the contrafting parties, upon,
yequjfitions made by 'them 1 efpeftivtly, <ot by their
•miriifters or officers dulyauthorifed for that purpdfet
{hall be.bound to deliver up, to juifice perfons accufed
’of murderi’ forgery, 'br fraudhlent bankruptcy, committed
within the jttrtfdiftMn of the reqtfiiing party,
provided that this {hall only be doue'-in-'cafes in which
the evidence of the crime {hall be ffieli,1 that- the laws
of the place, in which the accufed perfon -{halii.btevclil--
covered, would have authorifed the detaifiifig^and
bringing him tb’trial had -the offence- bèemcbminiffied
th’öc, fg-The expellees of tte" arreft. >a»6, ffflf profetU«
tion {hall be defrayed by the party making; thefi-Sqnl-
fitiön; but it is liiiderftoodthat this article has noTort
of reference to crimes of murder, forgery, or fraudulent
bankruptcy committed Before thet-conclufion of
this definitive treaty.
• XXI. The contrafting parties-ptomife to oBfervO,
fincerely and faithfully, all the articles, contained in
the prefent treatyand will not fuller any fort of
cOuiiteraftion, "direft or ifidireft, to-be mads to it by
their citizens, or refpeftivfc fubjefts. And ’ the -con-
tra6tin’g;parties guarantee, generally and reciprocally^
all the.ftipulations of the preféut' treaty.
XXII. The prefent treaty {fell ^'ratified Ty-the
-contrafting parties within j&e fpace'of thirty days,' or
fooner if poffible ; and the ratifications {hall be ex-
changcd in due form at Paris.
In teftimdny* whereof we, life i»hdëffi^hedr plefiipo-
’tentiaries, have figned with ö’hp-handè, i%ud' in ’virtue
of Out' retpeftive' full ^powers, thief pfefetit definitive“
treaty, eaufing it to be ‘feSlcd with our ‘rcfpéft-ive
Kuis, 1 ’
Done at Amiejts> the ólA'IJerfpmal^injtbd year i o t (March 27th, i8o®.)”m
.(.Signed) -J. B o n a pa r t e .’
'fr- "GoRirtir-A'^Isv <T
„ " A1ÏKÏ. * w
<- ■ -SrftlMMÉLPE^NfNCK.
No. III. R e m a r k s a n t h e R u ff ia n a n d S p n n ijh p r o n u n c ia tio n , &c *.
T H E confufion fo frequently met with in books'
and maps, from the mode o f expreffing Ruffian proper
names, arifes principally, i f not entirely, when .other-,
wife any degree o f accuracy is attended-to, from .this
circumftance : T h e Germans render the third letter o f
the Ruffian alphabet, vedi, which is precifely the
L a tin or Engliffi o f , b y their ns), as having the fame
* For fchofe on the Ruffian the author is -indebted .to the
Rev. Mr. Tooke.
t Or ƒ in the word of, e. g. coat of arms; man of war, &c.
where the ƒ is neither more nor lets than a v.
fo u n d ; pronouncing was wollen wic, as we ffiould aids
vollen vie; and accordingly, on their firft coming to
England, they naturally fay, vat vould TO in dead o f
•what would we. Now it is well knovvn that mod o f
the maps and’ books concerning -the geography o f hit*
to ry o f Ruffia,- “fifed in . France and England, are
tranflated from the German ; in which the tranfiators,
adhering d r iftly to the letter o f their original, render
the words, efpecially in our language, (for the French
having no w may give it what found they pleafe,)
totally different: W ha t a different found, for in dance,
in Engliffi have M'ohilew, 7 ambow, Tfc'liernigow',
Cbariow,
ËÜ_si.__
A P P E K B I X
Charhow, Ohzakot0, Saratov), Kiow, Walgn, New a, I
,, M"U-ft.,\Ort'1», 1 ) s/lio-ugr from .1' /1.1/, 7“sm h f, I
Gherhigof, Kbarh f, Ol haliof,. iSafgtof, h i ‘ , Volga,
Neva, Nefshi„ Orlof, Dafhh j , &c. as th y ire ip It I
and pronounced in Ruffian. The rt> Mi S (irnoye
prefers rendering this terminaiiofi-: b y ove; 7 amhave, I
Chernigov , Dafbioi , Off to, & c l ; lud h s op ni< n I
ought to have great weight, a tha of a gentleman I
acquainted w ith both languages. However the dif- I
ference between us is nearly i f not quitetpbh# ;at’ ’ ;N
and I adopted ' the of, after the rev. Mr. Cox c, and
many other refpeftable names, only for t f e -fake • d f’ l
finipl'ificAionj '.and; becaiife, to . my ear tit is: the better J
Engliffi termination 1 o f the two. - At.vany .irate:' tfiea
totally different German orthography ought to be for
ever exploded“ from sail Engliffi maps .and writings.-— I
■ The Poliffi and Hungarian, c and- z , ' copied by the
Gt ina.ns, have likewife, in in inferioi d gree, added
to the perplexities': • C%ar\ for tear;- fGzernichew for
(phernichef, czarowitz for tzqrevilch, Petrowitz for P e -1
‘irovitch, Stc. - i
J .T he following are a few geographical terms :
.Ocean-— Oheane. ,
t Sea— More ; Tilde more, the peaceahle or -PacifipJ
’foa. «■
' Tfc ht 1 noe more, | -the black fea
Sredizemnie more, the midland fe a ; I
Mediterranean.
ft f . L a k e— Ozerq ; Bielo-ozero, the white fea : Ladog-
Jhoi ozero, tlie L ado ga lake.
Cape or promontory— Nofs, fignifying likewife the
note;-as does' the Nafe o f Norway, w™
Strait— Prolife; Veygatjioiproliva, Veigat’ s ftraits. I
G u lf— Zalife ; 1 Zaliva Phin/lago, the g u lf o f Fin- I
B a y— Zalife; > " land. Only one word for them
■ Creek- - Zalife,; j all.
River— Reka.
-Mount lin— G o ra. ■
H ill— Goffa; the diminutive o f Gora.
Valley— Dolina. -
Forell— Left (pron. Lyefs. )-
Defa rt— Puflyi.
Plain— Dolina : alfo Rovnina, and Glade..
Peninfula— Poluojlrof.
' Hand— OJlrof.
Rock-— Kameti. -
City— Gorod; Novgorod, New c i t y ; Staragorod, or
Bohefn Stargard, Old city.
T ow n— Gorodok,- the diminutive o f the foregoing.
Nation or country— Narode.
T 0 VOL. I. « 4
Native country— Rodina, or Olechejlvo.
Region— Slrqna.
Kingdom— Korolevjlvo. '
King— Korol.
(' 'innate— -Klhnai.l (evidently borrowed.) '
Earth Zemla, (pron. Zeml-ya,) Novaaemla, New
' . - eanh j like Newfoundland.
World— Svet, (pron. Sv-yet.)
Province— Provinlzia, or Guberniya.
Territo ry ; diftrift— Uylfd; oblajl.
1 Hhnnis— IJlm, alfo ferefeheek. i'-v
Sound— Sand ; Nulka-fimd.
Volcano— Ogneduifshutfcham gora, (burning mount
“ tain.).
Whirlpool— Puchina. ,
Haven— Gavaiie. i
Harbour— | T h e^ S
From Mr. T do ke ’ s information i t likewife appear*,
that the common.termination Jkoy is merely an adfeftive
ipQffeffiveor appellative; as Fmfhoy, Finmffi; Imfiera-
tdrjboy, Imperial, &c. : So tlie Aleutffioi, the Aleu-
;‘ 'Afew-remarks' may alfo be offered on the Spaniffi
pronunciation,;’from Dobrizhoffer and others.
Ht?. CA U Pronou '<*d as the German tfch (or cb in our
church;) fo mucho, Chili, are nlutfcho, Tfchili.
X and J are founded gutturally like h ; as mujer,
mtther; jamas, hamas; Ximenex, Himenez. In the
found o f x our aiithor feems to err, for it is uniformly
pu t,by the Spaniffi, in expreffing foreign words, as f h ;
thus Xah is Shah; Xoa is Shoa; Xerez is Sherez, &c.
&c -. T h e fou-nd o f X. as a mere h feems a provin-
cialifm, recent tffFeftatipn.'
c is precifely .equal to z .
L l as l i ; thus colmillb, cohAilio.
» as gn in F rench; Pfpdiia ; Efpannia•
qu as i f - .
Link, and his ingenious, tranflator, prefent fome
remarks on the Portugiiefe pronunciation. ^Thh' ;Por-
tuguLfc do not ufe the,j ,fftcr t, &.c. ai tUrr-a, tevra.
The ch is;pioqounced -as in Prfaibh ; and both they
ahd the * like the- Fre'ncb.y.- • .‘The,’final ao is founded
aun£ ,l asQ7,th.e-vfotir.- m ,. which. us| Frequent» lik e ng.
The n between two vowels is .'changed to nh; thus
vino vinho; prqppunced. veenyo. ‘ The Portuguefe
is averfis to the ft; Kenpe^tfie articled h , la, become
Amply 0, a, this Bbem^pronauiscfe as u.
4 0 ^ No. IV .
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