[1st Peace of Paris.] ADDITIONAL, SEPARATE, AND SECRET ARTICLES TO THE TREATY OF 30TH MAY, 1814. SEPARATE AND SECRET ARTICLES. Great Britain (Austria, Separate and Secret Articles. Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, ART. Russia, and France. 1. Balance of Power in Europe. TABLE. 2. Austrian and Sardinian Territories in Italy. Port of Genoa. Guarantee of Switzerland. 3. Territory of Holland. Dutch Frontiers. Navigation of the Scheldt. 4. Territories of Prussia, Holland, &c. 5. Renunciation by France of Claims for Endowments, Donations, Revenues of the Legion of Honour, &c. 6. Bank of Hamburgh. (English version.) Balance of Power in Europe. ART. I. The disposal of the Territories given up by His Most Christian Majesty, under the IIIrd Article of the Public Treaty, and the relations from whence a system of real and permanent Balance of Power in Europe is to be derived, shall be regulated at the Congress upon the principles determined upon by the Allied Powers among themselves, and according to the general provisions contained in the following Articles. Austrian and Sardinian Territories in Italy.* ART. II. The Possessions of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty in Italy, shall be bounded by the Po, the Tessino, and the Lago Maggiore. The King of Sardinia shall return to the possession of his ancient Dominions, with the exception of that part of Savoy secured to France by the IIIrd Article of the present Treaty. His Majesty shall receive an increase of Territory from the State of Genoa. Port of Genoa. The Port of Genoa shall continue to be a Free Port; the Powers reserving to themselves the right of making arrangements upon this point with the King of Sardinia.† *See Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, Arts. LXXX, LXXXV, LXXXVI, LXXXVIII, LXXXIX, and CXVIII. + See Treaty between the 5 Powers and Sardinia of 20th May, 1815, Annex IV. [1st Peace of Paris.] Guarantee of Switzerland.* France shall acknowledge and guarantee, conjointly with the Allied Powers, and on the same footing, the political organization which Switzerland shall adopt under the auspices of the said Allied Powers, and according to the basis already agreed upon with them. Territory of Holland.† Dutch Frontiers. ART. III. The establishment of a just Balance of Power in Europe requiring that Holland should be so constituted as to be enabled to support her Independence through her own resources, the Countries comprised between the Sea, the Frontiers of France, such as they are defined by the present Treaty, and the Meuse, shall be given up for ever to Holland. The Frontiers upon the right bank of the Meuse shall be regulated according to the military convenience of Holland, and her neighbours. Navigation of the Scheldt. The freedom of the Navigation of the Scheldt‡ shall be established upon the same principle which has regulated the Navigation of the Rhine, in the Vth Article of the present Treaty. Territory of Prussia, Holland, &c. ART. IV. The German Territories upon the left bank of the Rhine, which have been united to France since 1792, shall contribute to the aggrandizement of Holland, and shall be further applied to compensate Prussia, and other German States. Renunciation by France of Claims for Endowments, Donations, Revenues of the Legion of Honour, &c. ART. V. The Renunciation of the French Government contained in the XVIIIth Article§ extends especially to all Claims which might be brought forward against the Allied Powers, under the head of Endowments and Donations, Revenues of the Legion of Honour, Senatorships, Pensions, and other charges of the like kind. See Declaration of the 8 Powers of 20th March, 1815, and Act of the 5 Powers of 20th November, 1815. Altered by the Treaty between the 5 Powers and Belgium of 15th November, 1831; and the Treaties of 19th April, 1839. See the Regulations of March, 1815, and the Vienna Congress Treaty of 9th June, 1815, Art. CXVII. By the Treaties of 16th July and 3rd August, 1863, the Scheldt Toll was redeemed. § P. 12. [1st Peace of Paris.] Bank of Hamburgh. ART. VI. The French Government having offered by the Secret Article of the Convention of the 23rd April [1814],* to make search after, and to make every effort to recover the Funds of the Bank of Hamburgh, engages to set on foot the most severe scrutiny to discover the said Funds, and to pursue those who may be found to have detained them.† The present Separate and Secret Articles shall have the same force and validity as if they were inserted, word for word, in the Treaty Patent of this day. They shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed to them the Seals of their Arms. Done at Paris, the 30th day of May, in the year of Our Lord 1814. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES. ART. Great Britain and France. Paris, 30th May, 1814. Additional Articles. Great Britain and France. TABLE. [Ratifications exchanged at London, 17th June, 1814.] (English version.) Abolition of French Slave Trade. Colonial Slave Trade. ART. I. His Most Christian Majesty, concurring without reserve in the sentiments of His Britannic Majesty, with respect * See Appendix. + See Convention between the 4 Powers and France of 20th November, 1815, Art. III,; and Convention between France and Hamburgh of 27th October, 1816. [1st Peace of Paris.] to a description of Traffic repugnant to the principles of natural justice and of the enlightened age in which we live, engages to unite all his efforts to those of His Britannic Majesty, at the approaching Congress, to induce all the Powers of Christendom to decree the abolition of the Slave Trade, so that the said Trade shall cease universally, as it shall cease definitively, under any circumstances, on the part of the French Government, in the course of five years; and that, during the said period, no Slave Merchant shall import or sell Slaves, except in the Colonies of the State of which he is a subject. * Expenses of Prisoners of War. ART. II. The British and French Governments shall name, without delay, Commissioners to liquidate the accounts of their respective expenses for the maintenance of Prisoners of War, in order to determine the manner of paying the balance which shall appear in favour of the one or the other of the two Powers. ART. III. The respective Prisoners of War, before their departure from the place of their detention, shall be obliged to discharge the Private Debts they may have contracted, or shall at least give sufficient security for the amount. Removal of Sequestrations. ART. IV. Immediately after the Ratification of the present Treaty of Peace, the Sequesters, which since the year 1792 may have been laid on the Funds, Revenues, Debts, or any other effects of the High Contracting Parties or their Subjects shall be taken off. Claims of British Subjects.† The Commissioners mentioned in the IInd Article shall undertake the examination of the Claims of His Britannic Majesty's Subjects upon the French Government, for the value of the Property, moveable or immoveable, illegally Confiscated by the French Authorities, as also for the total or partial loss of their Debts or other Property, illegally detained under Sequester since the year 1792. France engages to act towards British Subjects in this respect, in the same spirit of justice which the French Subjects have experienced in Great Britain; and His Britannic Majesty, * See Declaration of the 8 Powers of 8th February, 1815. + See Conventions between Great Britain and France of 20th November, 1815, and 25th April, 1818. [1st Peace of Paris.] desiring to concur in the new pledge which the Allied Powers have given to His Most Christian Majesty, of their desire to obliterate every trace of that disastrous epoch so happily terminated by the present Peace, engages on his part, when complete justice shall be rendered to his Subjects, to renounce the whole amount of the balance which shall appear in his favour for support of the Prisoners of War, so that the Ratification of the Report of the above Commissioners and the discharge of the sums due to British Subjects, as well as the restitution of the effects which shall be proved to belong to them, shall complete the renunciation. Commercial Relations. ART. V. The two High Contracting Parties, desiring to establish the most friendly relations between their respective Subjects, reserve to themselves, and promise to come to a mutual understanding and arrangement, as soon as possible, upon their Commercial interests, with the view of encouraging and increasing the prosperity of their respective States. The present Additional Articles shall have the same force and validity as if they were inserted word for word in the Treaty Patent of this day. They shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed to them the Seals of their Arms. Done at Paris, the 30th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, 1814. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. Austria and France. Paris, 30th May, 1814. SUBJECT. Annulment of effect of Treaties of 1805 and 1809, and of Decrees against French Subjects in the service of Austria. (English version.) Annulment of effect of Treaties of 1805 and 1809, and of Decrees against French Subjects in the service of Austria. THE High Contracting Parties, being desirous to obliterate |