of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

house of Hope and Co. in Amsterdam, to the amount of 25 millions of florins, Dutch currency ; the annual interest of which sum,

THERLANDS.

Treaty between Great Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands, signed at London, May 19th, 1815. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands being desirous, upon the final re-union of the Belgic Provinces with Holland, to render to the Allied Powers who were parties to the treaty concluded at Chaumont on the 1st of March, 1814, a suitable return for the heavy expense incurred by them in delivering the said territories from the power of the enemy; and the said Powers having, in consideration of arrangements made with each other, mutually agreed to wave their several pretensions under this head, in favour of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; his said Majesty the King of the Netherlands has thereupon resolved to proceed immediately to execute with his Imperial Majesty a convention to the following effect, to which his Britannic Majesty agrees to be a party, in pursuance of engagements taken by his said Majesty with the King of the Netherlands, in a convention signed at London on the 13th day of August, 1814. (Plenipotentiaries, Lord Castlereagh, Count de Lieven, and Baron Fagel.)

Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands hereby engages to take upon himself a part of the capital and arrears of interests, the 1st of January, 1816, of the Russian Loan made in Holland, through the intervention of the

for the liquidation of the same, as hereafter specified, shall be borne by, and become a charge upon the kingdom of the Netherlands. And his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages, on his part, to recommend to his Parliament to enable him to take upon himself an equal capital of the said Russian Loan, viz. twentyfive millions of florins, Dutch currency; the annual interest of which sum, together with an annual payment for the liquidation of the same, as hereafter specified, shall be borne by, and become a charge upon the government of his Britannic Majesty.

Art. 2. The future charge, to which their said Belgic and Britannic Majesties shall be respectively liable in equal shares on account of the said debt, is to consist of an annual interest of 5 per cent. on the said capitals, each of 25 millions, together with a sinking fund of one per cent. for the extinction of the same, the said sinking fund being subject, however, to be increased on the demand of the Russian Government to any annual sum not exceeding three per cent.; the same to be payable till the capital of the said debt shall be fully discharged, when the aforesaid charge for interests and sinking fund shall wholly cease to be borne by their said Belgic and Britannic Majesties respectively.

Art. 3. Their said Belgic and Britannic Majesties respectively bind themselves, on or before the

usual

usual day or days in each year, on which the interest on the said debt shall be due and payable, to deposit with the Agent of the Russian Government in Holland, their respective proportions of the said interest and sinking fund, as above specified; provided always, that previously to the advance of each successive instalment so to be paid, the said agent shall be authorised to furnish a certificate to each of the said two high contracting parties, declaring that the preceding instalment has been duly applied in discharge of the interest, and in reduction of the principal of the said debt; together with the corresponding payments, on account of the Russian Government on that part of the debt which shall remain a charge on the said Government.

Art. 4. The Russian Government shall continue, as heretofore, to be security to the creditors for the whole of the said loan, and shall be charged with the administration of the same; the Governments of the King of the Netherlands and of his Britannic Majesty remaining liable and bound to the Government of his Imperial Majesty, each for the punctual discharge, as above, of the respective proportions of the said charge.

Art. 5. It is hereby understood and agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the said payments on the part of their Majesties the King of the Netherlands and the King of Great Britain, as aforesaid, shall cease and determine, should the possession and sovereignty (which God forbid,) of the Belgic Provinces at any time pass or be severed from

the dominions of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands previous to the complete liquidation of the

same.

It is also understood and agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the payments on the part of their Majesties the King of the Netherlands and the King of Great Britain, as aforesaid, shall not be interrupted in the event (which God forbid) of a war breaking out between any of the three High Contracting Parties; the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias being actually bound to its creditors by a similar agreement.

(No. 5.-SARDINIA.) Treaty belween Great Britain and Sardinia, signed at Vienna the 20th May, 1815.

His Majesty the King of Sardinia, &c. &c. being restored to the full and entire possession of his Continental States, in the same manner as he possessed them on the 1st of January 1792, and to the whole of them, with the exception of the part of Savoy ceded to France by the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814; certain changes having since been agreed upon, during the Congress of Vienna, relative to the extent and limits of the said States;

Plenipotentiaries-the Earl of Clancarty, &c.: the Sieurs Don Anthony Maria Philip Asinari, Marquis de St. Marsan, &c.; and Count Don Joachim Alexander Rossi, &c.

Art. 1. The frontiers of the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia shall be, on the side of France, such as they were on the 1st of January 1792, with the ex

ception

ception of the changes effected by the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May 1814.

On the side of the Helvetic Confederation, such as they existed, on the 1st of January 1792, with the exception of the change produced by the cession, in favour of the canton of Geneva, as specified in the 7th Article herein after inserted.

On the side of the States of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, such as they existed on the 1st of January 1792; and the Convention concluded between their Majesties the Empress Maria Theresa and the King of Sardinia, on the 4th of October 1751, shall be reciprocally confirmed in all its stipulations.

On the side of the States of Parma and Placentia, the frontier, as far as it concerns the ancient States of the King of Sardinia, shall continue to be the same as it was on the 1st of January 1792.

The borders of the former States of Genoa, and of the countries called Imperial Fiefs, united to the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, according to the following Articles, shall be the same as those which, on the 1st of January 1792, separated those countries from the States of Parma and Placentia, and from those of Tuscany and Massa.

The island of Capraja having belonged to the ancient Republic of Genoa, is included in the cession of the States of Genoa to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.

Art. 2. The States which constituted the former republic of Genoa, are united in perpetuity to

those of his Majesty the King of Sardinia; to be, like the latter, possessed by him in full sovereignty and hereditary property, and to descend, in the male line, in the order of primogeniture, to the two branches of his house, viz. the Royal Branch, and the Branch of Savoy Carignan,

Art. 3. The King of Sardinia shall add to his present titles that of Duke of Genoa.

Art. 4. The Genoese shall enjoy all the rights and privileges specified in the Act, intituled "A. A. Conditions which are to serve as the bases of the union of the Genoese States to those of his Sardinian Majesty ;" and the said Act shall be considered as an integral part of the present Treaty, and shall have the same force and validity as if it were textually inserted in the present article.

Art. 5. The countries called Imperial Fiefs, formerly united to the ancient Ligurian Republic, are definitively united to the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, in the same manner as the rest of the Genoese States; and the inhabitants of these countries shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as those of the States of Genoa, specified in the preceding article.

Art. 6. The right that the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May, 1814, reserved to themselves, by the Sd article of that Treaty, of fortifying such points of their States as they might judge proper for their safety, is equally reserved, with

* Vide General Treaty of Congress, page

125.

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out restriction, to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.

Art. 7. His Majesty the King of Sardinia cedes to the canton of Geneva, the districts of Savoy specified in the act annexed, intituled "B. B. Cession made by his Majesty the King of Sardinia to the canton of Geneva," and on the conditions specified in the same act. That act shall be considered as an integral part of the present treaty, and shall have the same force and validity as if it were textually inserted in the present article.

Art. 8. The provinces of Chablais and Faucigny, and the whole of the territory of Savoy to the North of Ugine, belonging to his Majesty the King of Sardinia, shall form a part of the neutrality of Switzerland, as recognised and guaranteed by all the Powers.

Whenever, therefore, the neighbouring Powers to Switzerland are in a state of open or impending hostility, the troops of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, which may be in those provinces, shall retire, and may for that purpose pass through the Vallais, if necessary. No other armed troops of any other Power shall have the privilege of passing through, or remaining in the said territories and provinces, excepting those which the Swiss Confederation shall think proper to place there; it being well understood, that this state of things shall not in any manner interrupt the administration of these countries, in which the civil agents of his Majesty the King of Sardinia may

(No. 6.)-NETHERLANDS. Treaty between Great Britain and the Netherlands, signed at Vienna the 31st May, 1815.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, being desirous of carrying into effect and of completing the arrangements contained in the Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris the 30th of May, 1814, which, while it establishes a just equilibrium in Europe, and assigns to the United Provinces such a proportion of territory as may enable them to support their own independence, secures to them the coun

tries comprised between the sea, the frontiers of France, and the Meuse, leaves undefined their limits on the right bank of that river; and their said Majesties having resolved to conclude a separate Treaty on this subject, conformably to the arrangements of the Congress of Vienna, have appointed Plenipotentiaries to concert, agree upon, and sign whatever relates to this subject, viz. :Plenipotentiaries, the Earl of Clancarty, the Sieur Gerhard Charles Baron de Spaen de Voorstonden, and the Sieur Hans Christopher Erneste Baron de Gagern, who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed to the follow ing articles:

Art. 1. The old United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the former Belgic Provinces, both within the limits fixed by the following article, shall form, together with the countries designated in the same article, under the sovereignty of his Royal Highness the Prince of OrangeNassau, Sovereign Prince of the United Provinces, the kingdom of the Netherlands, hereditary in the order of succession already established by the Act of the Constitution of the said United Provinces. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, acknowledges the title and prerogatives of the royal dignity in the House of Orange-Nassau.

Art. 2. The line comprising the territories which shall compose the kingdom of the Netherlands, is determined in the following

manner :

It leaves the sea, and extends along the frontiers of France on

the side of the Netherlands, as rectified and fixed by the third article of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th May, 1814, to the Meuse; thence along the same frontiers to the old limits of the duchy of Luxemburg; from this point it follows the direction of the limits between that duchy and the old bishoprick of Liege, till it meets (to the south of Deiffelt) the western limits of that canton, and of that of Malmedy, to the point where the latter reaches the limits between the old departments of the Ourthe and the Roer; it then goes along these limits to where they touch those of the former French canton of Eupen, in the duchy of Limburg, and following the western limit of that canton in a northerly direction, leaving to the right a small part of the former French canton of Aubel, joins, at the point of contact of the three old departments of the Ourthe, the Lower Meuse, and the Roer; parting again from this point, this line follows that which divides the two latter departments, until it reaches the Worm (a river falling into the Roer) and goes along this river to the point where it again reaches the limit of these two departments, pursues this limit to the south of Hillensberg (the old department of the Roer) from whence it reascends to the north, and leaving Hillensberg to the right, and dividing the canton of Sittard into two nearly equal parts, so that Sittard and Susteron remain on the left, it reaches the old Dutch territory; from whence, leaving this territory to the left, it goes on, following its eastern frontier, to the point where it touches the

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