(L. S.) COUNT de Niepperg, (L. S.) COUNT de Mier, (L. S.) LE DUC di Gallo. Secret Articles to the Treaty concluded between the Courts of Vienna and Naples. of Naples shall be at the head of his arms.-Done at Naples, the 11th of Jaarmy, the corps of Austrian troops de-nuary, 1814. tached from the main army, and united with the corps of Neapolitan troops for the purpose of acting together, shall be under the immediate orders of this Sovereign. In the contrary case, the grand Austrian army in Italy being commanded by a field-marshal, or a general in chief of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the Neapolitan corps destined to act with it, shall be under the orders of the said general. In case his Majesty the King shall be present, the operations shall be reciprocally combined and concerted in the manner the most analogous to the common interests, and to the success of the armies of the two Allies. In case his Majesty the King shall not be present at the army, the general commanding the Neapolitan troops will have to follow the orders of the general in chief of the Austrian army, according to the plan concerted between the two armies. Art. 8. With this view there shall be concluded, immediately after the signature of the present Treaty, a military convention for regulating every thing relative to the operations of the two armies, to the lines which they will have to occupy, and also to the provisioning and to the subsistence of the respective troops. Art. 9.-The trophies, booty, and prisoners which shall have been taken from the enemy, shall belong to the troops who take them. Art. 10.-The high contracting parties reciprocally promise, that neither the one nor the other will conclude a truce, or a peace, without including therein his ally. Art. 11.-Orders shall be given to the ambassadors and ministers of the high contracting parties, accredited to foreign courts, to afford, reciprocally, their good offices, and to act in perfect concert on every occurrence relating to the interest of their Sovereigns. Art. 12.-His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, promises the restitution of all the Neapolitan prisoners in his power, and will use his good offices for the restitution of those detained by the Allied Powers. Art. 13. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Naples with the least possible delay. In faith whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereto the impression of their Article 1.-In order to prevent all pretext of dispute between their Majesties the King of Naples and the King of Sicily, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, engages to employ every means to obtain, in favour of his Majesty King Joachim Napoleon, and his descendants, a formal act of renunciation from his Majesty the King of Sicily, for himself and his successors, for ever, to all his pretensions to the kingdom of Naples; his renunciation shall be ac knowledged and guaranteed by his Majesty the Emperor of Austria to his Majesty the King of Naples, and his Imperial Majesty will use his endeavours with the other Allied Powers for the purpose of obtaining from them, a like ac knowledgment and guarantee.—On the other hand, his Majesty the King of Naples renounces for himself and successors, all pretensions to the kingdom of Sicily, and declares himself ready to guarantee the possession of it to the present reigning dynasty.-The Allied Powers not having it however in their power to accede to the guarantee of the kingdom of Naples, to King Joachim, except on condition of the engagement reciprocally entered into between them, to procure a suitable indemnity to his Majesty the King of Sicily; his Majesty the King of Naples engages, from this date, to admit the principle of this indemnity; and as the efforts of his Neapolitan Majesty are to be directed towards all the objects of the grand Eu. ropean alliance, he takes the especial engagement to extend those efforts, in order to procure the said indemnity for the King of Sicily. Art. 2-His Imperial and Royal Majesty also engages to make use of his good offices, to accelerate the conclusion of peace between his Majesty the King of Naples and his Majesty the King of Great Britain, on bases just, solid, and honourable to both parties, as well as for the re-establishment of friendship, and of a good understanding between his Majesty the King of Naples, and the other Powers allied to Austria. Art. 3. The two high contracting | Roman states, and according to the mutual parties, acknowledging that his Majesty convenience of the two countries. His the King of Naples cannot march his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty will troops farther from his kingdom than they use his good offices with the holy Father are at present, without the certainty of and the high Allies, to induce them to having nothing to fear from a landing sanction this concession. His Majesty the upon his coasts, it is expressly understood, King of Naples, on his part, solemnly that his Neapolitan Majesty shall not be engages to consider this arrangement as required to employ his troops in active satisfying all his expectations of territorial service according to the plan of opera- acquisition. The present additional artions to be combined, until the cessation ticle shall be ratified separately, and the of hostilities on the part of Great Britain, ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at with respect to his Neapolitan Majesty, the same time as those of the Treaty shall be completely secured. patent and secret of this day. Done at Naples, the 11th January 1814. Art. 4.-His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, engages earnestly to endeavour, at the period of a general peace, to obtain for his Majesty the King of Naples an indemnity for the sacrifices and exertions which his said Majesty may have made in support of the common cause, by obtaining for him a good military frontier suitable to the political interests of the two Powers, and to the relations of friendship and union established between them by the present Treaty. Art. 5. The two high contracting parties reserve to themselves, at the period of a general peace, to concert more particularly, and with still greater confidence, the conclusion of a treaty of defensive alliance between them, with the view of reciprocally guaranteeing their states in Italy, and of mutually contributing to the common advantages of their subjects and their dominions. These secret articles shall be ratified separately, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at the same time with those of the Treaty of this day.-Done at Naples, the 11th of January 1814. (L. S.) LE COMte de Neipperg, (L. S.) LE COMte de Mier, (L. S.) LE DUC de Gallo. Second additional Article to the Treaty signed between his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and his Majesty the King of Naples. The Farnesian property at Rome, and the allodial property in the kingdom of Naples, are expressly comprehended in the guarantee promised by his Imperial, Royal and Apostolic Majesty, to his Majesty the King of Naples, by the fourth Article of the Treaty of the 11th of January. In witness whereof, the under signed, furnished with the special full Powers of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and of his Majesty the King of Naples, have signed the present additional Article, and have affixed thereunto the seal of their arms.-Done at Chaumont, the 3d March 1814. : (L. S.) LE DUC DE CAMPOCHIARO. (L. S.) LE PRINCE DE CARIATI. No. 2-Extract of a Dispatch from Viscount Castlereagh to Lord W. Bentinck, dated Basle, 22d January 1814. The Emperor of Austria having entered into engagements with the person now exercising the government of Naples, by His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the tenour of which engagements it is King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his agreed, that a corps of Neapolitan troops, Majesty the King of Naples, desiring to not less than 30,000 men, shall immecome to an immediate arrangement re- diately join the Austrian army of Italy, specting the stipulations of the 4th Article for the purpose of acting offensively of the Secret Treaty signed at Naples the against the common enemy, I am to sig11th January, have agreed as follows:-nify to your lordship the Prince Regent's His Imperial and Apostolic Majesty engages to secure to his Neapolitan Majesty an acquisition, calculated upon the scale of 400,000 souls, to be taken from the (VOL. XXXI.) (L. S.) LE COMte de Neipperg, Additional and Secret Article of the pleasure, that as soon as you receive from his Imperial Majesty's minister at Naples, the Count Neipperg, a copy of this Treaty, your lordship do immediately, upon the (F) Under these circumstances, there was only one honourable and prudent line to pursue; to endeavour to combine his Sicilian Majesty's interests with those of the common cause, and to secure for him a suitable indemnity, rather than hazard all the interests concerned. faith of that instrument, suspend hostilities | been postponed, if not hazarded, and the against the Government of Naples, on the use of marshal Bellegarde's force altogepart of Great Britain; and I am also to ther lost to the prosecution of the war in direct, that you will take measures for France itself. prevailing upon his Sicilian Majesty to do the same. The Treaty, actually signed, having been returned by prince Metternich to count Neipperg, to have some alterations made in its detail, I inclose a copy of the Treaty as it is proposed to be amended, in order that your lordship may see that the act, as executed, is substantially conformable to the intentions of the Austrian Government, as notified to me. -You will notify the Armistice, should it be concluded, to his Britannic Majesty's officers by sea and land, as far as circumstances will permit, for the direction of their conduct. No. 3.-Extract of a Dispatch from The subject of the negociations with Murat, and the principles upon which the British Government has acted, are so fully known to your lordship, that you will be enabled to bring the whole under the consideration of the Court of Palermo, in the manner which will best serve to place the conduct observed by your Court, through. out these transactions, in the most correct point of view. It would have afforded the Prince Regent the truest satisfaction, to have seen his Sicilian Majesty replaced on the throne of Naples by the exertions of the Allies; but there has been throughout, the obvious danger, that in aiming at too much, his Sicilian Majesty might lose all; and that the Allies, in endeavouring to assert too tenaciously the interests of the Sicilian family, might sacrifice the common cause. This consideration has been the governing principle of all their measures; and it is one, to the justice of which the hereditary Prince was himself, upon discussion with your lordship at a former period, not insensible. My note to prince Metternich, of the 27th ultimo, will put your lordship in possession of the steps I have already taken, on the part of my Court, to support his Sicilian Majesty's claims. I cannot hope that such a possession as Naples can be found for his Sicilian Majesty; but the British Government will support his interests cordially, and avail themselves of their relations with Murat to give weight to their intervention. I shall be glad to receive from your lordship on this subject any information you conceive may assist the Prince Regent in furthering his Sicilian Majesty's claim to a suitable indemnity. You I trust, my letter to your lordship from Basle, will have enabled you to make such an arrangement with Murat, as may give to the Austrian operations in Italy the entire benefit of his military means. will have observed by that dispatch, as well as by one which I addressed to your lordship from Chatillon-sur-Seine, that his royal highness the Prince Regent takes the most cordial interest in the welfare of his Majesty the King of Sicily; and I have no doubt that your best exertions will not have been wanting, to impress upon Murat, that no accommodation can take place with him on the part of Great Britain, except upon the principle, of his uniting, so far as depends upon him, in procuring a suitable and just indemnity for his Sicilian Majesty, as well as of his co-operating in the common cause against No. 5.-Lord William Bentinck to Earl Your lordship will be enabled to impress his Royal Highness's mind, that if the necessity for the measure, in a defen-France. sive view, had become less pressing, from the late successes of the Allies, it was not the less important in the great scale of the war. Murat's army, united to the Viceroy's, must have neutralized the Austrian efforts in Italy; the deliverance of that important feature of Europe must have Palermo, February 15, 1814. My Lord; I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of an Armistice concluded between the Duke de Gallo and myself, at Naples, on the 3d inst. I have the honour to be, &c. W. C. BENTINCK, Lieut. Gen. (Inclosure in No. 5.)-Translation. CONVENTION. The undersigned, in virtue of the full powers with which they are invested, have concluded the following Convention :Art. 2.-There shall be from this day forward an entire cessation of hostilities by land and sea, as well between the British and Neapolitan forces, as between the kingdom of Naples and the Islands of the Mediterranean and Adriatic, where British forces, or other troops under the orders of English commanders, may be stationed. that he still continues to show some ménagement towards the enemy. I should rather impute this to a desire still to push some personal views with the Allies, than to any understanding with France. My letter by the messenger will have put your lordship fully in possession of the views on this subject of the Prince Regent's ministers. The British Govern, ment never liked the measure, but being taken, they are perfectly ready to act up to the spirit of the Austrian Treaty, and to acknowledge Murat upon a peace, on two conditions; 1st. That he exerts himself honourably in the war; and, 2dly, That a reasonable indemnity (it cannot be an equivalent) is found for the King of Sicily. I should hope, with this basis to Art. 2.-During the Armistice, there work upon, you may not only quiet any shall be a free commerce in articles not alarms Murat may have felt, as to the prohibited between Great Britain, the nature of our armistice, but furnish him kingdom of Naples, and the Islands men- with two very powerful incentives to come tioned in the first Article, subject, how-forward effectually. In doing so, he will ever, to those regulations which are established, or may be established, by the respective Governments. Art. 3.-If the Armistice should be put an end to, from whatever circumstances, hostilities shall not be recommenced, until three months after the rupture of the same shall have been announced by one of the parties. Art. 4.-A Military Convention shall be concluded immediately between general or superior officers of the Austrian, English, and Neapolitan armies, in order to establish the plan of operations, according to which the respective troops, united in the same cause, are to act in Italy.-Done at Naples the 3rd day of February 1814. W. C. BENTINCK. The DUKE DE GALLO. facilitate all his own views, and by assisting in the indemnities to the King of Sicily, he may secure his own title to Naples. I have forwarded your lordship's military dispatch to London; the exertion you have made in assembling this corps is highly creditable, and its presence must largely contribute to the successful issue of the campaign. I shall be anxious to receive reports of your lordship's progress; if sent to marshal Bellegarde's head-quarters, sir Robert Wilson will forward them to me. The Armistice, as now arranged by your lordship, is perfectly satisfactory. No. 7.-Viscount Castlereagh to Lord W. Bentinck, dated March 30, 1814. No. 6.-Extract of a Dispatch from My Lord; This instruction will be deli Viscount Castlereagh to Lord W.vered to your lordship by a courier of Prince Metternich's. I propose in a day or two to forward, by an English messenger, a military instruction, which I Your dispatches were delivered to me have received for your lordship from lord yesterday by captain Graham, who re- Bathurst; but as his lordship's dispatch is ported to me such information as he had framed upon a supposition that the operabeen enabled to collect on his route. The tions are much farther advanced in Italy point now of most importance, is to secure than is the fact, the delay of this commuthe effective co-operation of the Neapoli-nication for a few days can be of no prejutans, whose active assistance appears indispensable, to give to the Allies that rapid and commanding success, which may speedily decide the fate of Italy. Bentinck, dated Chatillon, Feb. 21, I am sorry to find that Murat had, under some pretext, delayed the signature of the Treaty in its amended form; and dice. I cannot dissemble from your lordship my disappointment, that the great superiority of force which the Allies possess over marshal Beauharnois, has not before this produced the results which, for the honour of the arms of the respective Powers, and the ulterior objects of the war, we were entitled to expect from such ample and extended means. In your lordship's intercourse with the marshals Bellegarde and Murat, you will not conceal from them, that such are the sentiments of the British Government; and that we conjure them, by union and exertion, no longer to suffer their great and commanding armies to be paralized by an enemy so much their inferior. As the object is to promote union, and to put aside every minor consideration, I am to signify to you lordship the Prince Regent's pleasure, that you do make every effort to this effect, by lending yourself to whatever measure may best tend to combine the exertions of the allied armies for the early expulsion of the enemy from Italy. For this purpose, you will to the utmost conform to the views of marshal Bellegarde, regulating, at the same time, your conduct towards marshal Murat upon principles of cordiality and confidence; and in order the better to effect this, and publicly to evince the desire felt by your Government zealously to unite their arms with his, your lordship will select an officer of suitable rank and military talents to reside at the Neapolitan head-quarters, whom you will direct to correspond with me and with your lordship, as sir Robert Wilson at present does. Your lordship is already fully apprized of the earnest interest the Prince Regent takes in the restoration of the King of Sardinia and the Grand Duke of Tuscany to their ancient dominions; you will give every aid to both, but you will studiously abstain from encouraging any measure which might commit your Court, or the Allies, with respect to the ultimate disposition of any of the other territories.in the north of Italy, the destination of which must remain to be discussed upon a peace. -I have, &c. CASTLEREAGH. No. 8.-Viscount Castlereagh to Lord William Bentinck. Dijon, April 13th, 1814. My Lord; As several couriers have lately been intercepted, I send you my dispatch of the 30th ultimo in duplicate, also the instruction therein referred to from earl Bathurst. Your lordship will perceive that the object of the former is to accelerate those results which may enable you to execute the important object to which the latter is directed, namely, the concentration of the whole of the British disposable force, employed on the side of the Peninsula and Mediterranean, under the command of field-marshal the marquis of Wellington, in the heart of France. In order to bring the Italian campaign to a speedy and successful result, it is essential that your lordship should consider your force merely as an auxiliary corps, and that you should accommodate, as far as the safety of your army will permit, to the views and wishes of the Austrian commander-in-chief. It is from him your lordship will best learn what are the intentions of the Allies, including those of your own Government; and should your lordship find any difficulty in the execution of this service, arising from what may appear to your lordship to be a departure on the part of marshal Murat or any other member of the Confederacy, from the true principle of the alliance, your lordship will refer the matter for the opinion of the Austrian commander, avoiding as much as posssible any separate discussions which might interfere with the general union and necessary subordination, which ought to pervade the whole. Whilst the Court of Naples was hostile, and the security of Sicily by no means assured, if my recollection is not incorrect, your lordship's military instructions restricted your operations to such parts of the coast of Italy as might facilitate the return of your force to Sicily, should its presence be required. The subsequent change of circumstances, recognized clearly in the Dispatch I now send you from earl Bathurst, seems to assign no other limits to your lordship's movements than such as the military expediency of the moment may suggest, and, subject to the better judgment of your lordship and marshal Bellegarde, I have no hesitation in stating it as my opinion, that both with a view of giving complete developement to the active operations of the Allies against the Viceroy, as well as of securing to the Austrian commander that weight and preponderance which it is desirable he should possess, your lordship's corps can be in no manner so advantageously employed as by incorporating it at once with the Neapolitan army, and thus creating such a force, on the right bank of the Po, as may assume the offensive, without reference to distant and complicated combinations. |