RUSSIA. Convention of Subsidy between Great Britain and Russia, signed at Paris, 4th October, 1815.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, considering, that at the commencement of the present war, an anxious desire to secure, by sure and paramount means, the success of a struggle on which the peace and security of Europe depended, had determined the two Cabinets of England and Russia to increase the number of troops destined to be employed against the common enemy, beyond what was stipulated for in the Treaty of General Alliance :

That his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias has actually marched into France about one hundred thousand men beyond the contingent mentioned in the said Treaty :

Moreover, that measures had been adopted for collecting from different points of the Russian Empire a second army of 150,000 men, to be brought into active service in the field:

That this army had actually passed the frontiers, and had advanced into Franconia, whence it was judged expedient to order it to fall back, in consequence of the happy events which had put an end to all resistance on the part of the enemy:

Considering likewise, that a corps of 40,000 men had order to join the army under the Duke of Wellington, and to serve in it during the war, that these preparations and military movements on the part of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias have been attended with pecuniary sacrifices, and have subjected his Imperial Majesty to expenses which it would be unjust he should exclusively defray, and desirous of coming to an equitable arrangement on these points; Plenipotentiaries Lord Castlereagh and the Sieur Pozzo di Borgo.

Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages to pay to his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, under the head of Additional Subsidy, and as compensation for a part of the extraordinary expenses occasioned by the aforementioned armament, the sum of 416,6661. 13s. 4d. sterling.

Art. 2. This sum shall be payable in London, by four monthly instalments; the first payment to take place at one month from the signing of the present Act.

Art. 3. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged within two months, or sooner if possible.

In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have

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affixed thereunto the seal of their

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Done at Paris the 4th of October, in the year of our Lord 1815. (Signed)

(L. S.) CASTLEREAGH.
(L. S) Pozzo di Borgo.

Copy of a Dispatch addressed to the Portuguese Minister at the Court of Rome, dated Palace at Rio Janeiro, April 1, 1815.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, my master, having taken under his consideration the intentions of Pius VII. as published in his bull, Solicitudo Omnium, dated 7th August last year, by which his Holiness has thought proper to revive the Company of Jesus, which was extinct, thereby derogating, in so far as the authority of the Church is concerned, from the other bull, Dominus ac Redemptor noster, of Clement XIV. of glorious memory: His Royal Highness is surprised at this determination of his Holiness, this Court never having been informed of it in any way before, although it has had most reason to complain of the offences of the Company of Jesus, against which Portugal proceeded in the most energetic manner, by the ordinance of September 3, 1759. The positive intentions of his Royal Highness being to maintain in their utmost rigour the dispositions of the above ordinance, whatever may be the de. termination of other crowned heads, even of such as associated for the extinction of the said Company, my august master commands me to communicate his resolution to you, in order that

you immediately present a note declaratory of the invariable principles which his Royal Highness intends to maintain, and conformably to which he enjoins your Lordship to admit no negotiation, either verbal or written, on this subject. This determination of his Royal Highness being founded on reasons the most solid and proper, can never be considered as affecting in any way the invariable sentiments of his veneration and filial love towards the sacred person of his Holiness, and which you are specially charged to express.

(Signed)

Marquis D'AGUILAR. To Jose Manuel · Pinto, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Rome.

Papers relative to the Convention for the Evacuation of Paris, laid before the House of Commons. 1. The first Article is the Convention itself, which has already appeared.

2. Copy of a Dispatch from Earl Bathurst to the Duke of Wellington; Downing-street, July 7, 1815.

War Department, London, July 7, 1815. My Lord;-Although your Grace has stated distinctly that the Convention entered into by you and Marshal Prince Blucher on the one hand, and certain French authorities on the other, upon the 3d instant, while it decided all the military questions, had touched nothing political; and although it cannot be imagined that in a Convention negotiated with these authorities by

Prince Blucher and your Grace, you would enter into any engagement whereby it should be presumed that his most Christian Majesty was absolutely precluded from the just exercise of his authority in bringing to condign punishment such of his subjects as had, by their treasonable machinations and unprovoked rebellion, forfeited all claim to his Majesty's clemency and forbearance; yet in order that no doubt should be entertained as to the sense with which this article is considered by the Prince Regent, in conveying his entire approbation of the Convention, I am commanded to state, that his Royal Highness deems the 12th Article of it to be binding only on the conduct of the British and Prussian commanders, and the commanders of such of the Allies as may become parties to the present Convention by their ratification of it. I have, &c.

3. Copy of a Dispatch from the Duke of Wellington to Earl Bathurst; dated Paris, July 13, 1815.

My Lord;-I have had the honour of receiving your Lordship's letter, marked "separate," of the 7th inst. regarding the Convention of the 3d.

The Convention binds nobody except the parties to it; viz. the French army on one side, and the Allied armies under Marshal Blucher and myself on the other; and the 12th Article cannot be considered, and never was in

tended, to bind any other persons or authorities whatever, unless they should become parties to the Convention. I have, &c.

(Signed) WELLINGTON. The Earl Bathurst, &c.

Memorandum of the Duke of Wel

lington, communicated by his Grace to the Ministers of the Allied Powers.

It is extraordinary that Madame la Maréchale Ney should have thought proper to publish in print parts of a conversation which she is supposed to have had with the Duke of Wellington, and that she has omitted to publish that which is a much better record of the Duke's opinion on the subject to which the conversation related, viz. the Duke's letter to the Marshal Prince de la Moskwa, in answer to the Marshal's note to his Grace. That letter was as follows:

"I have had the honour of receiving the note which you addressed me on the 13th of November, relating to the operation of the capitulation of Paris on your case.

"The capitulation of Paris of the 3d of July was made between the commanders in chief of the allied British and Prussian armies on the one part, and the Prince d'Eckmuhl, commander in chief of the French army, on the other, and related exclusively to the military occupation of Paris.

"The object of the 12th Article was to prevent the adoption of any measures of severity under the military authority of those who made it, towards any persons in Paris, on account of the offices

which they had filled, or their conduct, or their political opinions; but it was never intended, and could not be intended, to prevent either the existing French government, under whose authority the French commander in chief must have acted, or any French government which should succeed to it, from acting in this respect as it might deem fit."

It is obvious from this letter, that the Duke of Wellington, one of the parties to the capitulation of Paris, considers that that instrument contains nothing which can prevent the King from bringing Marshal Ney to trial, in such manner as his Majesty may think proper.

The contents of the capitulation fully confirm the justice of the Duke's opinion. It is made between the commanders in chief of the contending armies respectively, and the first nine articles relate solely to the mode and time of the evacuation of Paris by the French army, and of the occupation of the British and Prussian armies.

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The tenth Article provides, that the existing authorities shall be respected by the two commanders in chief of the Allies the 11th, that public property shall be respected, and that the Allies will not interfere en aucune manière dans leur administration, et dans leur gestion;" and the 12th Article states, seront pareillement respectées les personnes et les proprietés particulières, les habitans, et en général tous les invidus qui se trouvent dans la capitale, continueront à jouir de leurs droits et libertés, sans pouvoir être inquietées, Cu recherchés

en rien relativement aux fonctions qu'ils occupent, ou auroient occupées, à leur conduite et à leurs opinions politiques."

By whom were these private properties and persons to be in like manner respected? By the allied generals and their troops, mentioned in the 10th and 11th Articles; and not by other parties to whom the Convention did not relate in any manner.

The 13th Article provides, that "les troupes etrangères" shall not obstruct the carriage of provisions by land or water to the capital.

Thus it appears, that every Article in the Convention relates exclusively to the operations of the different armies, or to the conduct of the Allies, and that of their generals, when they should enter Paris; and, as the Duke of Wellington states in his dispatch of the 4th of July, with which he transmitted the Convention to England, "decided all the military points then existing at Paris, and touched nothing political."

But it appears clearly that not only this was the Duke's opinion of the Convention at the time it was signed, but likewise the opinion of Carnot, of Marshal Ney, and of every other person who had an interest in considering the subject.

Carnot says, in the Exposé de la Conduite Politique de M. Carnot, page 43,-" II fût resolu d'envoyer aux Généraux Anglois et Prussiens une commission spé. ciale, chargée de leur proposer ne Convention purement militaire, pour la remise de la Ville de Paris entre mains, en écartant toute question politique, puisqu'on ne pouvoit préjuger quelles se

roient les intentions des Alliées lorsqu'ils seroient réunis."

It appears that Marshal Ney fled from Paris in disguise with a passport given to him by the Duc d'Otrante, under a feigned name, on the 6th July. He could not be supposed to be ignorant of the tenor of the 12th Article of the Convention, and he must then have known whether it was the intention of the parties who made it, that it should protect him from the measures which the king, then at St. Denis, should think proper to adopt against him.

But if Marshal Ney could be supposed ignorant of the intention of the 12th Article, the Duc d'Otrante could not, as he was at the head of the provisional government, under whose authority the Prince d'Eckmuhl must have acted when he signed the Convention.

Would the Duc d'Otrante have given a passport under a feigned name to Marshal Ney, if he had understood the 12th Article as giving the Marshal any protection, excepting against measures of severity by the two commanders in chief?

Another proof of what was the opinion of the Duc d'Otrante, of the king's minister, and all the persons most interested in establishing the meaning now attempted to be given to the 12th Article of the Convention of the 3d of July, is the King's Proclamation of the 24th July, by which nineteen persons are ordered for trial, and thirty-eight persons are ordered to quit Paris, and to reside in particular parts of France, under the observation and superintendence of the police, till the

Chambers should decide upon their fate.

Did the Duc d'Otrante, did any of, the persons who are the objects of this proclamation, did any persons on their behalf, even then, or now, claim for them the protection of the 12th Article of the Convention?

Certainly the Convention was then understood, as it ought to be understood now, viz. that it was exclusively military, and was never intended to bind the then existing government of France, or any government which should succeed it.

Convention between the Emperor of Russia, the Emperor of Austria, and the King of Prussia.

In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity.

Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, having, in consequence of the great events which have marked the course of the three last years in Europe, and especially of the blessings which it has pleased Divine Providence to shower down upon those States, which place their confidence and their hope on it alone, acquired the intimate conviction of the necessity of founding the conduct to be observed by the Powers in their reciprocal relations upon the sublime truths which the Holy Religion of our Saviour teaches

They solemnly declare that the present act has no other object than to publish, in the face of the whole world, their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective states, and in