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occupy the Fortresses and places of those States, and to maintain garrisons in the same. The military force of the said United States shall also be under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the troops of His Britannic Majesty.

Maintenance of Fortresses. Payment of British Garrison.

ART. VI. His Britannic Majesty consents, that a particular Convention with the Government of the said United States shall regulate, according to the revenues of these States, every thing which may relate to the maintenance of the Fortresses already existing, as well as to the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, and to the number of men of which they shall be composed in time of peace.

The same Convention shall likewise fix the relations which are to exist between the said armed force and the Ionian Government.

Trading Flag. British Jurisdiction over Honorary and Military Rights. Commerce with Austria. Consuls or Consular Agents

only to be accredited.

ART. VII. The trading Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands shall be acknowledged by all the Contracting Parties as the Flag of a Free and Independent State. It shall carry with the colours and above the armorial bearings thereon displayed before the year 1807, such other as His Britannic Majesty may think proper to grant, as a mark of the Protection under which the said Ionian States are placed; and for the more effectual furtherance of this Protection, all the ports and harbours of the said States are hereby declared to be, with respect to Honorary and Military rights, within British jurisdiction. The Commerce between the United Ionian States and the dominions of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty shall enjoy the same advantages and facilities as that of Great Britain with the said United States. None but Commercial Agents, or Consuls, charged solely with the carrying on Commercial relations, and subject to the regulations to which Commercial Agents or Consuls are subject in other Independent States, shall be accredited to the United States of the Ionian Islands.

Acceding Powers to the Treaty.

ART. VIII. All the Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris

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of the 30th of May, 1814 (No. 1), and the Act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th of June, 1815 (No. 27); and also His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies* and the Ottoman Porte,† shall be invited to accede to the present Convention.

Ratifications.

ART. IX. The present Act shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged in two months, or sooner, if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the Seals of their Arms.

Done at Paris, the 5th day of November, in the year of Our Lord 1815.

(L.S.) CASTELREAGH.

(L.S.) WELLINGTON. (L.S.) METTERNICH.

(L.S.) WESSENBERG.

*The Independence of the Ionian Islands was recognized by Sicily in the Commercial Convention with Great Britain of 26th September, 1816. + The Ratification of the Ottoman Porte was dated 24th April, 1819.

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No. 40.—DEFINITIVE TREATY of Peace between Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and France. Signed at Paris, 20th November, 1815.*

[See special references to this Treaty, and the Conventions annexed thereto, in the Treaty of Alliance concluded between the 4 Powers, on the same day.]

1. Frontiers of France: as in 1790, Landau, Geneva, Savoy, Monaco, &c. 2. Fortresses, &c., to be placed at Disposal of Allied Powers.

3. Fortifications of Huninguen to be Destroyed. Extension of Neutrality of Switzerland to Part of Savoy.

4. Indemnity to be Paid by France.

5. Military Occupation by Allies along the Frontiers of France.

6. Evacuation of French Territory.

7. Period fixed for Emigration and Disposal of Property by Residents in Ceded Territories.

8. Ceded Countries. Application of Treaty of 30th May, 1814, to present

Treaty.

9. Conventions of Claims.

10. Restoration of Prisoners.

11. Maintenance of Treaty of 30th May, 1814, and Final Act of Vienna Congress of 9th June, 1815.

12. Ratifications.

[For Annexes see Nos. 41, 42, 45, and 46.]

(English Version.†)

In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Treaty.

THE Allied Powers having by their united efforts, and by the success of their arms, preserved France and Europe from the convulsions with which they were menaced by the late enterprise of Napoleon Bonaparte,‡ and by the revolutionary system reproduced in France, to promote its success; participating at present with His Most Christian Majesty in the desire to con

*Spain acceded to this Treaty as well as to the Conventions annexed thereto by an Act dated 8th June, 1817, and by the Treaty of 10th June, 1817. The Stipulations of the Convention upon this subject, concluded on the same day, between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and France, were, verbatim the same as those of this Treaty.

+ For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 280.

Bonaparte escaped from Elba on the night of the 25th of February, 1815, and landed in France on the 1st of March.

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solidate, by maintaining inviolate the Royal authority, and by restoring the operation of the Constitutional Charter, the order of things which had been happily re-established in France, as also in the object of restoring between France and her neighbours those relations of reciprocal confidence and goodwill which the fatal effects of the Revolution and of the system of Conquest had for so long a time disturbed: persuaded, at the same time, that this last object can only be obtained by an arrangement framed to secure to the Allies proper indemnities for the past and solid guarantees for the future, they have, in concert with His Majesty the King of France, taken into consideration the means of giving effect to this arrangement; and being satisfied that the Indemnity due to the Allied Powers cannot be either entirely Territorial or entirely Pecuniary, without prejudice to France in the one or other of her essential interests, and that it would be more fit to combine both the modes, in order to avoid the inconvenience which would result, were either resorted to separately, their Imperial and Royal Majesties have adopted this basis for their present transactions; and agreeing alike as to the necessity of retaining for a fixed time in the Frontier Provinces of France, a certain number of allied troops, they have determined to combine their different arrangements, founded upon these bases, in a Definitive Treaty. For this purpose, and to this effect, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for himself and his Allies on the one part, and His Majesty the King of France and Navarre on the other part, have named their Plenipotentiaries to discuss, settle and sign the said Definitive Treaty; namely, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, His said Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c.; and the Most Illustrious and Most Noble Lord Arthur, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Wellington, Marquess of Douro, Viscount Wellington, of Talavera and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley, a Member of His said Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, a Field Marshal of his Armies, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. ;

And His Majesty the King of France and of Navarre, the Sieur Armand Emanuel du Plessis Richelieu, Duke of Richelieu, Peer of France, First Gentleman of the Chamber of His Most

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Christian Majesty, his Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and President of the Council of his Ministers, &c., Who having exchanged their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have signed the following Articles:

Frontiers of France: as in 1790.*

ART. I. The Frontiers of France shall be the same as they were in the year 1790, save and accept the modifications on one side and on the other, which are detailed in the present Article.

Fortress of Philippeville and Marienbourg, &c.

1st, on the Northern Frontiers the line of demarcation shall remain as it was fixed by the Treaty of Paris (No. 1), as far as opposite to Quievrain, from thence it shall follow the ancient limits of the Belgian Provinces, of the late Bishopric of Liege, and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as they existed in the year 1790, leaving the Territories included within that line (enclaves), of Philippeville and Marienburg, with the Fortresses so called, together with the whole of the Duchy of Bouillon without the Frontiers of France. From Villers, near Orval, upon the confines of the Department Des Ardennes, and of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, as far as Perle, upon the great road leading from Thionville to Treves, the line shall remain as it was laid down by the Treaty of Paris (No. 1). From Perle it shall pass by Lauensdorff, Walwich, Schardorff Niederveiling, Pellweiler (all these places with their Banlieues or dependencies remaining to France) to Houvre; and shall follow from thence the old limits of the District (Pays) of Sarrebruck, leaving Sarrelouis and the course of the Sarre, together with the places situated to the right of the line above-described, and their Banlieues or dependencies without the limits of France. From the limits of the district of Sarrebruck the line of demarcation shall be the same which at present separates from Germany, the departments of the Moselle and of the Lower Rhine, as far as to the Lauter, which River shall from thence serve as the Frontier until it falls into the Rhine.

Fortress of Landau, &c.†

All the territory on the left bank of the Lauter, including the Fortress of Landau, shall form part of Germany. The Town of *See Map facing page 350.

+ See Treaties between Prussia and Netherlands, of 8th November, 1816; Great Britain and Netherlands, of 16th November, 1816; Austria and Netherlands, of 12th March, 1817; and Russia and Netherlands, of 17th April, 1817.