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Courts, to send in the like manner a French Commissioner to the place of detention of Napoleon Buonaparte.

Art. 5. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland binds himself to fulfil the engagements which fall to him by the present Convention.

Art. 6. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged within fifteen days, or sooner if possible.

In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto the seals of their

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of Warsaw, by the great Act of Congress, signed on the 9th day of June last, and also by the Treaty of the 18th of May thereto annexed, and hereinafter particularly set forth; and his Majesty the King of Saxony, desirous of procuring the immediate accession of his Britannic Majesty to the said Treaty of the 18th of May, having invited, and his said Majesty having agreed to accede thereto by a direct Treaty with his Saxon Majesty, their said Majesties have named Lord Castlereagh and Count de Schulenburg.

Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland accedes to all the stipulations of the Treaty entered into between their Majesties the Kings of Prussia and Saxony, bearing date the 18th of May, 1815, and also between his said Majesty the King of Saxony, and the Emperors of Austria and Russia respectively, as hereafter inserted.

[Here follows a copy of the Treaty referred to, for which see General Treaty of Congress, Act No. 4.]

Art. 2. His Majesty the King of Saxony accepts of the above Accession, and renews to his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland the engagements therein contained, and engages to fulfil and execute, in the whole and every part thereof, all the stipulations of the said Treaty which his Saxon Majesty has on his part therein stipulated to fulfil and

execute.

Treaties

Treaties of Accession were entered into with the following States:

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No. 1. Baden

Treaties of Subsidy were entered into with the following States:

signed at Brussels, 19 May, 1815.

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23. Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe 24. Schwartzburg-Sondershausen and Rudelstadt

25. Walbeck and Pyrmont

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Additional Convention with Russia Paris,

TREATIES OF ACCESSION.

(No. 1.)-BADEN.

Accession to the Treaty of Alliance, signed at Vienna, March 25,

1815.

Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having engaged conjointly with their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Emperor of all the Russias, and his Majesty the King of Prussia, to unite the means of their States for the purpose of maintaining in all their integrity the conditions of the treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th May, 1814, as well as the stipulations which shall be agreed upon and signed at the Congress of Vienna, to the end of completing the dispositions of that Treaty, and securing them against every attempt, and especially against the designs of Napoleon Buonaparte; and to direct to this effect all their efforts against him and his partisans, in order to put it out of his power in future to disturb the tranquillity of Europe and the general peace; his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden accedes to this alliance, and solemnly engages to unite the means of his States with those of his Britannic Majesty, and the Sovereigns his Allies, in order thus to direct, in concert, and with common consent, all their efforts to the same end.

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Art. 2. In consequence of this accession, his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden engages on his part to keep in the field a corps of 16,000 men of all arms, which shall form part of the grand army assembling on the Upper Rhine, under the command of Field Marshal Prince Schwartzenberg.

The troops of his Royal Highness shall continue united in one corps, and shall be under the im mediate command of a general named by his Royal Highness.

The Landsturm shall be called out according to the exigency of the case, and is not comprised in the calculation made in the present article, and shall only serve within the country and for the defence of the interior.

Art. 3. His Britannic Majesty engages in his own name, as well as in that of their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Emperor of all the Russias, and his Majesty the King of Prussia, not to lay down his arms without particularly taking into consideration the interests of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, and not to permit the political existence of the Grand Duchy to be violated.

Art. 4. When the object of the present war shall have been attained, his Britannic Majesty engages, in concert with his Allies, to admit his Royal Highness the Grand Duke to bear a part in the arrangements

arrangements of the future peace, in as far as they shall concern his interests.

Art. 5. Every thing relating to the subsistence, equipment, and transport; to hospitals and all other objects necessary to support and facilitate the movements of the troops, and the operations of the war, shall be regulated by a particular Convention. (L. S.) CLANCARTY. (L. S.) Le Baron de HACKE. (L. S.) Le Baron de BERK

HEIM.

[The other Treaties of Accession are in the same style and form.]

TREATIES OF SUBSIDY.

(No. 1.)-BADEN.

Treaty of Subsidy between Great Britain and Baden, signed at Brussels, 19th May, 1815.

Art. 1. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, a subsidy of 111. 2s. per man for the service of the year ending the 1st of April, 1816, to the number of 16,000 men. This subsidy shall be paid in London at the end of each month, by monthly instalments, to the person duly authorised to receive the same on the part of his Royal High ness the Grand Duke of Baden, and the first payment is to be made upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty.

In case Peace should take place or be signed between the Allied Powers and France before the expiration of the said year, the subsidy shall be paid up to the end of the month in which the Definitive Treaty shall have been signed; and his Britannic Ma

jesty promises, in addition, to pay to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, the subsidy of one month, to cover the expenses of the return of his troops within his own frontiers.

Art. 3. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, shall commission an Officer to the Head Quarters of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, in order to report the military operations; and this officer shall be permitted to ascertain that the contingent of his Royal Highness is kept complete. Signed,

[All the Treaties contain an article similar to this.]

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(No. 2.)-BAVARIA. Treaty of Subsidy between Great Britain and Bavaria, signed at Brussels, 7th June, 1815.

Art. 1. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay to his Majesty the King of Bavaria a subsidy of 111. 2s. per man, for the service of the year ending on the 1st of April 1816, to the number of 60,000 men; this subsidy shall be paid in London at the end of each month, by monthly instalments, to the person duly authorised to receive the same on the part of his Bavarian Majesty, and the first payment is to be made upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty.

In case peace should take place, or be signed between the Allied Powers and France before the expiration of the said year, the subsidy shall be paid up to the end of the month in which the definitive

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Treaty between Great Britain and Denmark, signed at Paris 14th July 1815.

Art. 1. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay his Majesty the King of Denmark a subsidy of 111. 2s. per man, for the service of the year ending on the 1st of April 1816, to the number of 15,000 men: this subsidy shall be paid in London at the end of each month, by monthly instalments, to the person duly authorised to receive the same on the part of his Majesty the King of Denmark, and the first payment is to be made upon the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty.

In case peace should take place or be signed between the Allied Powers and France before the expiration of the said year, the subsidy shall be paid up to the end of the month in which the Definitive Treaty shall have been signed: and his Britannic Majesty promises, in addition, to pay to his Majesty the King of Denmark the subsidy of two months, to cover the expenses of the return of his troops within his own frontiers.

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(No. 4.)-HANOVER.

Treaty of Subsidy between his Majesty and the Hanoverian Government, (with eight additional Articles annexed), signed at Paris the 26th of August 1815.

Art. 1. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay the Hanoverian Government a subsidy of 111. 2s. per man, for the service of the year ending on the 1st of April 1816, to the number of 26,400

men.

This subsidy shall be paid in London, at the end of each month, by monthly instalments, to the person duly authorised to receive the same on the part of the Hanoverian Government. This Treaty beginning to be in force from the 25th of May last.

In case peace should take place or be signed between the Allied Powers and France before the exsidy shall be paid up to the end piration of the said year, the sub

of the month in which the Definiand his Britannic Majesty protive Treaty shall have been signed; mises, in addition, to pay to the Hanoverian Government the subsidy of one month, to cover the expenses of the return of the troops within the Hanoverian frontier. (Signed)

(L. S.) WELLINGTON. (L. S.) MUNSTter.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES.

Art. 1. Whereas his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on behalf of his Majesty the King of Hanover, has agreed to contribute, for the common cause, the continued services of 16,400 men, heretofore subsidized by Great Britain, over and above the contingent of 10,000 men;

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