[Holy Alliance.] singularly consecrated to the good of mankind, and which we ought to consider the best reward for our efforts. FRANCIS. Our Brother and Cousin, FREDERICK WILLIAM. The Prince Regent of Great Britain. (2.)-The Prince Regent of Great Britain to the Sovereigns of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, respectively. SIR MY BROTHER AND COUSIN, Carlton House, 6th October, 1815. I HAVE had the honour of receiving your Imperial Majesty's letter, together with the copy of the Treaty signed by your Majesty and your august Allies, at Paris, on the 26th of September. As the forms of the British Constitution, which I am called upon to administer in the name and on the behalf of the King, my father, preclude me from acceding formally to this Treaty, in the shape in which it has been presented to me, I adopt this course of conveying to the august Sovereigns who have signed it, my entire concurrence in the principles they have laid down, and in the declaration which they have set forth, of making the Divine Precepts of the Christian Religion the invariable rule of their conduct, in all their relations, social and political, and of cementing the union which ought ever to subsist between all Christian Nations; and it will be always my earnest endeavour to regulate my conduct, in the station in which Divine Providence has vouchsafed to place me, by these sacred maxims, and to co-operate with my august Allies in all measures which may be likely to contribute to the peace and happiness of mankind. With the most invariable sentiments of friendship and affection, His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of Austria. Sir, my Brother and Cousin, (Prussia and Russia respectively.) GEORGE, P.R. [This Alliance was referred to in the Circular addressed by Austria, Prussia, and Russia to Foreign Courts, dated Troppau, 8th December, 1820.] [Territorial.] No. 37.-TERRITORIAL TREATY between Prussia and Hesse-Cassel. Signed at Cassel, 16th October, 1815.* Preamble. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815. 1. Cessions by Prussia to Hesse-Cassel. 2. Cessions by Hesse-Cassel to Prussia and Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. 3. Prussian Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg. 4. Indemnities to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg and to the Elector of Hesse. 5. Stipulations in regard to the Cessions by Hesse-Cassel to Saxe-WeimarEisenach. 6. The Elector of Hesse resumes possession of Lengsfeld, &c. 7. Prussian Indemnities of a Part of the Department of Fulda. 8. Liquidation of the Indemnities. Contributions. 9. Costs of the Central Functionaries. 10. Rhine Tolls. 11. Postal Revenues. 12. Feudal Rights. 13. Mortgaged Debts. 14. Unliquidated Debts. 15. Arrears of Interest. 16. Rents and Pensions. 17. Communal Debts and Charges. 18. Restitution of the four Bailiwicks of Hanau to the Elector of Hesse. 19. Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg for the Domanial Revenue. 20. Mode of this Indemnification. 21. Possessions of which the Revenue will furnish the Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg. 22. Mode of Possessing the Indemnity. 23. Execution of the Convention. 24. Civil Functionaries in Office. 25. Validity of the Arrangements made before the 1st of August. 26. Cession of the Arrears of Taxes to the new Possessors. 27. Transfer of the Military to the new Sovereign. 28. Military Routes for Prussia. 29. Guarantee by Prussia in favour of the Elector of Hesse and the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. 30. Exchange of Ratifications. (Translation.) Preamble. Reference to Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815. [Territorial.] arrangements in North Germany, found to be necessary in consequence of the transactions of the Vienna Congress (No. 27), by a friendly Convention on the appropriate territorial changes, have appointed Plenipotentiaries to agree to, determine, and sign what has reference thereto, that is to say: His Majesty the King of Prussia, President Conrad Siegmund Karl von Hänlein, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hessian and Nassau Courts, Knight of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and of the Iron Cross, as also of the Hesse-Cassel Order of the Golden Lion; And His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, Georg Ferdinand von Lepel, his Privy Councillor and Chamberlain; Who, after having reciprocally exchanged their full powers with each other, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : Cessions by Prussia to Hesse-Cassel. ART. I. His Majesty the King of Prussia cedes to His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse that part of the Department of Fulda which belonged to the former Grand Duchy of Frankfort, and which has been assigned to him by the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), with the exception, however, of the districts of Dermbach and Geysa, which, with their boundaries according to the existing territorial division, pass over to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. His Majesty also transfers to His Royal Highness the Elector, the Knightly Jurisdictions of Lengsfeld, Mannsbach, Buchenau, and Werda, with the village of Wenigentaft, the possession of which he likewise obtains by the said Act of Congress. His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse will have possession of the aforesaid provinces, districts, and places, for himself, his descendants, and successors, with all sovereign, supreme, feudal, domanial, and other rights which have been conveyed to His Majesty the King of Prussia for this purpose by the Act of the Congress of Vienna. Cessions by Hesse-Cassel to Prussia and Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.* ART. II. His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, on the other hand, cedes to His Majesty the King of Prussia, his descendants, and successors, the Lower County of Catzenelnbogen, the Lordship of Plessen, including the Monastery of Höckelheim, the Bailiwicks of Neuengleichen, Uechte, Auburg, See also Art. VI. [Territorial.] and Freudenberg, and the Provostship of Göllingen, with all sovereign, supreme, feudal, domanial, and other rights, which His Highness possessed therein, or as appertaining thereto, on the 1st of August this year. In exactly the same manner, he cedes to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-WeimarEisenach, his descendants and successors, the Bailiwick of Frauensee, including Gosperoda, the Jurisdiction of Völkershausen, the Jurisdiction of Lengsfeld, the Bailiwick of Vacha, including the town of Vacha, with the Prefecture of Kreuzberg, but excepting the districts of Kreuzberg, Philippsthal, Thalhausen, Nippen, Hillartshausen, Röhrich, and Unter-Neurode; of the Bailiwick of Friedewald, the districts of Dippach, Gesterode, Vitzerode, and Abtarode, and the village of Wenigentaft. Prussian Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg. ART. III. His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse agrees, that His Majesty the King of Prussia may, by a free Convention with the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg,* obtain the everlasting and irrevocable free property in all those rights and emoluments which he may have possessed on the 1st of August this year by virtue of the family Treaties, in the possessions or their appurtenances to be transferred to him according to the preceding Article. His Majesty the King of Prussia, on the other hand, undertakes the full guarantee that on the part of the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg no objection shall be raised against the cession agreed to by His Royal Highness the Elector, according to the preceding Article. ART. IV. Indemnities to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg and to the Elector of Hesse for loss of Revenue. Stipulations in regard to the Cessions by Hesse-Cassel to SaxeWeimar-Eisenach. ART. V. The cession to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach described in Article II is to be considered as an exchange of equal population for equal population founded upon equal reciprocal necessity. His Royal Highness the Elector will therefore select the like number of people in the Fulda districts situated next to the Weimar territory, as full compensation for that cession, * See also Treaty between Prussia and Hesse-Rothenburg, of the same date. Appendix. [Territorial.] and no account is to be taken of loss of revenue in regard thereto. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke will contribute in the same proportion to all obligations resting upon the whole former Grand Duchy of Frankfort, as well as upon its department of Fulda specially, and which are transferred to the present or future possessors of territorial shares belonging thereto, as if he had actually received in Fulda the whole of the 27,000 inhabitants assigned to him by the Act of Congress. On the other hand, His Royal Highness the Elector will only take part in those obligations to such extent as if he were merely possessor of that part of the district of Fulda assigned to Prussia which would remain after the deduction of the said 27,000 inhabitants. The Elector of Hesse resumes Possession of Lengsfeld, &c. ART. VI. The Knightly Jurisdictions of Lengsfeld, Mannsbach, Buchenau, and Werda, with the village of Wenigentaft, have only passed out of the possession of Hesse-Cassel again in consequence of the troubles of war. The re-possession of them shall therefore be considered as a simple restitution, and therefore the revenue from them is not to be reckoned as a compensation for cessions made by Hesse-Cassel according to Article II. Prussian Indemnities to consist of a Part of the Department of Fulda. ART. VII. The indemnity assigned by Prussia to HesseCassel and Hesse-Rothenburg for the cessions to be made to her according to Articles II and III consists, therefore, of that part of the district of the department of Fulda ceded to Hesse-Cassel according to Article I which remains after the deduction of the compensation for the cession to Weimar according to Article V. ART. VIII. Liquidation of the Indemnities. Contributions. ART. X. Rhine Tolls. ART. XI. Postal Revenues. ART. XII. Feudal Rights. ART XIII. Mortgaged Debts. ART XIV. Unliquidated Debts. ART. XV. Arrears of Interest. ART. XVI. Rents and Pensions. ART. XVII. Communal Debts and Charges. |