[2nd Peace of Paris. Military Line.] the effective number of horses, also light and accommodation for the guard, and place for the baggage and forage. 5. Forage for the horses of the Officers of different ranks shall be given to each Army, according to the regulations in force with them respectively, previous to the date of the present tariff. It shall be delivered according to such Returns, without any deduction. Officers shall claim stable-room for the actual number of their horses, and room for their baggage and forage, but not candlelight. For each horse there shall be allotted a space of 8 feet long and 4 feet broad. General Remarks. Beyond the present tariff, the troops shall not be entitled to claim anything, and shall be obliged to purchase at their own expense the articles not comprehended in it, such as soap, butter, chalk, pipe-clay, &c. With respect to guard-houses and sentry-boxes, the towns will provide for them at their own expense. II. Hospitals. The administration of the Hospitals shall in general be in the hands of the French authorities, according to the established order; but in the subsistence of the sick, respect shall be had to the Regulation published by each Army on its entrance into France. Everything necessary, medicines included, shall be provided at the expense of the French Government. On the other hand, nothing shall be granted for Regimental Hospitals, beyond the usual portions and quarters, which shall be claimed by regiments for their sick, as well as for their effective. Each Corps d'Armée shall send to the Hospital destined for its sick, the necessary medical or other assistance, to secure proper treatment. All soldiers sent to the Hospitals shall be received, and the Hospitals shall be established at convenient distances. III. Transport. When the troops are on a march, carriages shall be furnished by the French Government, on the demand of the Commanderin-Chief. The same rule shall be observed for the transport of the sick. The necessary relays for the communication between different parts of a Corps d'Armée shall also be granted; but the [2nd Peace of Paris. Military Line.] greatest moderation shall be observed on this subject. With respect to the conveyance of military effects to the Army from beyond the French frontier, such conveyances shall be made by relays of the country, only till the 1st of February, 1816, and merely for moderate quantities. IV. Posts, Dispatches, Couriers, &c. All Dispatches connected with the interior service of the different corps, and correspondence with the French authorities, bearing an Official Seal, shall be received and forwarded, without payment, at the usual posts. Estafettes and private letters of the Military shall be paid for at the usual prices. Couriers and travellers, military or otherwise, shall pay punctually for posthorses. V. Douanes. Articles for the clothing of the troops shall enter free from duty, on Certificates well authenticated. Military persons joining the Armies, or leaving France, shall be exempt from payment of all duties, on whatever is for their own use, or that of the troops. Agreed upon, and signed at Paris, the 20th of November, in the year of Our Lord, 1815. (L.S.) RICHELIEU. (L.S.) CASTLEREAGH. WELLINGTON. [Neutrality of Switzerland and Parts of Savoy.] No. 43.-ACT, signed by the Protecting Powers, Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, for the acknowledgment and Guarantee of the Perpetual Neutrality of Switzerland, and the Inviolability of its Territory. Paris, 20th November, 1815. (Translation as laid before Parliament.*) THE Accession of Switzerland to the Declaration published at Vienna the 20th March, 1815 (No. 9), by the Powers who signed the Treaty of Paris (No. 1), having been duly notified to the Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Courts, by the Act of the Helvetic Diet on the 27th of the month of May following (No. 20), there remained nothing to prevent the Act of Acknowledgment and Guarantee of the perpetual Neutrality of Switzerland from being made conformably to the above-mentioned Declaration. But the Powers deemed it expedient to suspend till this day the signature of that Act, in consequence of the changes which the events of the war, and the arrangements which might result from it might possibly occasion in the limits of Switzerland, and in respect also to the modifications resulting therefrom, in the arrangements relative to the federated territory, for the benefit of the Helvetic Body. These changes being fixed by the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris signed this day (No. 40), the Powers who signed the Declaration of Vienna of the 20th March declare, by this present Act, their formal and authentic Acknowledgment of the perpetual Neutrality of Switzerland; and they Guarantee to that country the Integrity and Inviolability of its Territory in its new limits, such as they are fixed, as well by the Act of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27) as by the Treaty of Paris of this day (No. 40), and such as they will be hereafter; conformably to the Arrangement of the Protocol of the 3rd November, extract of which is hereto annexed (No. 38), which stipulates in favour of the Helvetic Body a new increase of Territory, to be taken from Savoy, in order to disengage from Enclaves, and complete the circle of the Canton of Geneva. The Powers acknowledge likewise and guarantee the Neutrality of those parts of Savoy designated by the Act of the Congress of *For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 359. [Neutrality of Switzerland and Parts of Savoy.] Vienna of the 20th May, 1815 (No. 19), and by the Treaty of Paris signed this day (No. 40), the same being entitled to participate in the Neutrality of Switzerland, equally as if they belonged to that country.* The Powers who signed the Declaration of the 20th of March (No. 9) acknowledge, in the most formal manner, by the present Act, that the Neutrality and Inviolability of Switzerland, and her Independence of all foreign influence, enter into the true interests of the policy of the whole of Europe. They declare that no consequence unfavourable to the rights of Switzerland with respect to its Neutrality and the Inviolability of its Territory can or ought to be drawn from the events which led to the passage of the Allied Troops across a part of the Helvetic States. This passage, freely consented to by the Cantons in the Convention of the 20th May, was the necessary result of the free adherence of Switzerland to the principles manifested by the Powers who signed the Treaty of Alliance of the 25th March.† The Powers acknowledge with satisfaction that the conduct. of Switzerland under these trying circumstances has shown that she knew how to make great sacrifices to the general good, and to the support of a cause which all the Powers of Europe defended, and that, in fine, Switzerland has deserved the advantages which have been secured to her, whether by the Arrangements of the Congress of Vienna (No. 27), by the Treaty of Paris of this day. (No. 40), or by the present Act, to which all the Powers in Europe are invited to accede. In faith of which the present Declaration has been concluded and signed at Paris the 20th November, 1815. The Signatures follow in the Alphabetical Order of the Courts. AUSTRIA. (L.S.) LE PRINCE DE METTERNICII. (L.S.) LE BARON DE WESSENBERG. (L.S.) RICHELIEU. FRANCE. GREAT BRITAIN. (L.S.) CASTLEREAGII. (L.S.) WELLINGTON. PRUSSIA. RUSSIA. (L.S.) LE PRINCE DE HARDENBERG. * See note as to Events of 1860 and 1870, p. 261. + See Appendix. [Alliance of 4 Powers. Peace of Europe.] No. 44.—TREATY of Alliance and Friendship between Great Britain, Austria (Prussia, and Russia). Signed at Paris, 20th November, 1815. Preamble. Alliance and Friendship. Proceedings of Napoleon Bonaparte. Guarantee of Peace to Europe. 1. Execution of Treaties of Peace, &c., with France, of 20th November, 1815. 2. Confirmation of Arrangements of 1814 and 1815. Exclusion of Bonaparte Family from Supreme Power in France. Measures of General Security. 3. Military Line in France. Renewal of Alliance of Chaumont. 4. Additional Forces in the event of War. Conditions of Peace. 5. Duration of Engagements. 6. Renewal of Meetings of the Allies for maintenance of Peace of Europe. 7. Ratifications. (Translation as laid before Parliament.*) In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. THE purpose of the Alliance concluded at Vienna the 25th day of March, 1815,† having been happily attained by the re-establishment in France of the order of things which the last criminal attempt of Napoleon Bonaparte had momentarily subverted; Their Majesties the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Prussia, considering that the repose of Europe is essentially interwoven with the confirmation of the order of things founded on the maintenance of the Royal Authority and of the Constitutional Charter, and wishing to employ all their means to prevent the general Tranquillity (the object of the wishes of mankind and the constant end of their efforts), from being again disturbed; desirous moreover to draw closer the ties which unite them for the common interests of their people, have resolved to give to the principles solemnly laid down in the Treaties of Chaumont of the 1st March, 1814,† and of Vienna of the 25th of March, 1815,† the application the most analogous to the present state of affairs, and to fix beforehand by a solemn Treaty the principles which they propose to follow, in order to guarantee Europe from dangers by which she may still be menaced; for which purpose the High Contracting Parties have named to discuss, settle and sign the conditions of this Treaty, namely; * For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 273. |