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

25. Walbeck and Pyrmont

Paris,

1 Aug. 1815.

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 immediate 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

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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;

[The other Treaties of Acces-and this officer shall be permitted sion 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

to ascertain that the contingent of his Royal Highness is kept complete.

Signed,

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

(L. S.) WELLINGTON.
(L. S.)
DE FRANCKEN.

(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 shall have been signed; and his Britannic Majesty pro mises, in addition, to pay to his Bavarian Majesty the subsidy of two months, to cover the expenses of the return of his troops within his own frontiers.

(Signed)

(L. S.) WELLINGTON. (L. S.) J. WASHINGTON.

(No. 3.)-DENMARK. Treaty between Great Britain and Denmark, signed at Paris 14th July 1915.

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. (Signed)

(L. S.) WELLINGTON.
(L. S.) WATTERSDORFF.

(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, fo: 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, receive the same on the part of to the person duly authorised to the Hanoverian Government.

This Treaty beginning to be in force from the 25th of May last.

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

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.) MUNSTER.

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 the contingent of 10,000 men;

10,00 men; and as the rate of 111. 2s. per man, paid in London, is insufficient to defray the expense of this additional corps, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, agrees to pay monthly to Hanover such sum as shall be found to cover the actual expense to Hanover of the abovementioned 16,400 men.

Art. 2. The Commanding Officer of the said army shall give in to the Comptroller of Army Accounts with the British army, monthly, an estimate of the expense incurred, including pay and other allowances to the officers and troops, and contingent expenses of all descriptions. The amount of this estimate, which shall exceed the sum of 111. 2s. per man, paid in London for the 16,400 men, after having been examined and checked, shall be paid to the Hanoverian military chest with the army.

Art. 3. Hanover shall be at no expense for provisions or hospitals for the officers and troops of this corps of 16,400 men, and the British Government shall be entitled to receive the stoppage of eighteen pfennigs per diem, which is usually deducted from the pay of every non-commissioned officer, musician and private, while in hospital.

Art. 4. All arms, accoutrements, camp-kettles, and other military effects belonging to the said corps, which may be lost, or become unserviceable during the existence of this Treaty, shall be replaced at the expense of Great Britain.

The British Government shall likewise make good to individuals the amount of their personal losses, to which they may be entitled according to the regulations of the Hanoverian army, such losses being first investigated, ascertained, and certified by a Board of Hanoverian Officers, whose proceedings, and the regulations by which they are governed, are to be submitted to the Comptroller of Army Accounts.

(No. 5.)-HESSE (GRAND DUKE.) Treaty of Subsidy between Great Britain and Hesse, signed at Paris, 15th July 1815.

Art. 1. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse a subsidy of 111. 2s. per man, for the service of the year ending on the 1st April 1816, to the number of 8,000 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 Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, 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 Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse the subsidy of one month, to cover the expenses of the re

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