The Prince of Schaumburg Lippe, the Sieur Gonthier Henry de Berg, Doctor of Civil Law, President of the Regency;

The Prince of Schwarzbourg Sondershausen, the Sieur Adolphus de Weise, his Privy Counsellor and Chancellor;

The Prince of Schwarzbourg Rudolstadt, the Sieur Frederick William Baron de Ketelhodt, his Chancellor and President, Hereditary Cup-bearer to the Principality-Countship of Henneberg;

The Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the aforesaid Sieur Gonthier Henry de Berg, Doctor of Civil Law, and President of the Regency of the Prince of Schaumbourg Lippe;

Who, in virtue of the Full Powers, produced by them at the Congress of Vienna, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having engaged conjointly with the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Prussia, to unite the means of their States to maintain, in all their integrity, the conditions of the Treaty concluded at Paris, the 30th of May, 1814, as well as the Stipulations which shall be agreed upon and signed at the Congress of Vienna, in the view of completing the dispositions of this Treaty, and to guarantee them against every attempt, and particularly against the designs of Napoleon Buonaparte; and to direct to that effect all their efforts against him and his Partizans, in order to put it out of his power in future to disturb the tranquillity of Europe and the General Peace: their Royal and Serene Highnesses, as well as the Free Towns, accede to this Alliance, and engage solemnly, to. unite the means of their respective States, with those of His Britannic Majesty, and the Sovereigns His Allies, in order thus to direct, in concert and with one accord, all their efforts to the same end.

II. The succours which their Highnesses and the Free Towns agree to furnish for the defence of the Common Cause, shall be proportioned to the population of their States. They shall become part of the 3 great Armies assembling on the Upper and Lower Rhine, and in the Kingdom of the Low Countries, according to the geogra phical position of their different States, and the arrangements which have been judged expedient.

The Contingents of the Troops, and their distribution, are set forth in the Paper annexed to the present Treaty, which shall have the same force and vigour as if it were inserted therein word for word. These Troops shall always be kept up at their full establishment, by means of the formation of a Reserve, amounting to one-half of the number of those brought into the field. The Landsturm shall be called out according to the exigency of the case, and shall not enter into the calcu lation made in the present Article and its annexed Paper: it shall serve only within the Country, and for interior defence. Each State [1814-15.] 21

shall provide for the clothing and equipment, as well as for the pay of its Troops.

III. His Majesty engages, as well in his own name, as in that of their said Majesties, not to lay down their arms without taking particularly into consideration the interests of their Royal and Serene Highnesses and also of the Free Towns, and not to allow any change to be made in the state of their Possessions, such as it is at present, or as it may be regulated by the Stipulations of the Congress, without the free and spontaneous consent of the State which such a change shall concern.

IV. Every thing relative to the subsistence, equipment, and transport, to hospitals, and all other objects necessary to support and facilitate the movements of the Troops, and the operations of the War, shall be regulated by a Particular Convention.

V. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications exchanged within 6 weeks, or sooner, if possible.

In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed the Seal of their Arins thereto.

Done at Vienna, this 27th day of April, in the year of Lord, 1815. (L.S.) CLANCARTY.

FÜR HERRN VON SCHMIDT-PHISELDECK,

(L.S.) GRAF VON KELLER.

(L.S.) FREIHERR VON OERTZEN.

(L.S.) F. MARSCHALL VON BIEBERSTEIN.

(L.S.) FREIHERR VON GERSDORFF.

FUR HERRN FREIHERR VON ERFFA,

(L.S) FREIHERR VON MINCKWITZ.

(L.S.) FREIHERR FISCHLER VON TREUBERG. (L.S.) ADOLPH VON WEISE.

(L.S.) VON BERG.

Table annexed to Article II of the preceding Treaty.

Auxiliary Troops to be furnished by the Princes and States mentioned below, in conformity with Article II,-one-half in Troops of the Line, and one-half in disposable Landwehr or Militia, according to the Arrangement agreed upon.

The Grand Ducal Court of Weimar reserves its declaration on the excess, until it shall be put in possession of the new Acquisitions which are intended for it.

The Ducal Court of Cobourg has, nevertheless, declared that

In addition to these 6,080 men, which will form a part of the Army of the Low Countries, 2 or 3,000 men in reserve will be ready to enter Mayence whenever required.

1,600

1,300

900

1,300

800

3,000

1,600

6,080

3,000

General Observation.

The Auxiliary Troops specified above, have been offered spontaneously by the Sovereigns mentioned in the present Table.

1. In perfect conformity with the Engagements respectively entered into in 1813 and 1814, for the War then subsisting with France.

2. As to the actual Engagements and Succours which differ from former ones, they have been founded on the maximum, according to the analogy of the proportions of the respective Population.

3. This Table does not comprise the additional number which some Princes have already embodied, or that which others reserve to themselves to furnish in case of exigency.

18. Saxe-Coburg, Meiningen, & Hildburghausen. Brussels....15th June.... 506

(1.)—TREATY of Subsidy between Great Britain and Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Bernburg, and Anhalt-Cœthen.-Signed (in English and French) at Paris, 10th July, 1815.

THEIR Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt-Dessau, AnhaltBernbourg and Anhalt-Cothen, having, by a Treaty signed at Vienna, the 13th May, [27th April,] acceded to the Treaty of General Alliance

signed at the same place on the 25th of March last, by the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, and having engaged to employ in the field a contingent of 1600 men; viz. His Serene Higliness the Duke of Anhalt Dessau, as well in his own name as in that of the Duke of Anhalt Cothen, his ward, the number of 1120 men; and His Serene Highness the Duke of Anhalt Bernburg, a Battalion of 480 men ;

And His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty The King of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous, as far as may be in his power, to assist the Dukes of Anhalt, in order to enable their Serene Highnesses to make the exertions to carry into execution their engagements, has named the Duke of Wellington, &c. &c. &c.;

And their Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt-Dessau and Cothen have named the Colonel Wielandt, &c. in the service of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden; and His Serene Highness the Duke of Anhalt-Bernbourg, his Chamberlain De Seelhorst, &c. in order to discuss and settle the terms on which the said assistance shall be given;

Who, having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, have agreed to the following Articles:

ART. I. His Britannic Majesty engages to pay to their Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt, a Subsidy of £11 2s. per man, for the service of the year ending on the 1st day of April, 1816, to the number of 1600 men. en. This Subsidy shall be paid in London at the end of each month, by monthly instalments, to the person duly authorized to receive the same on the part of their Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt; and the 1st 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 their Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt, the Subsidy of 1 month, to cover the expenses of the return of their Troops within their own Frontiers.

II. The Minister of their Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt, in London, shall concert with the Officers appointed by His Britannic Majesty, as to the mode most convenient for the transmission of the money for the use of their Serene Highnesses the Dukes of Anhalt.

III. The present Treaty, made in Duplicate, one Copy to be sent to His Serene Highness the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, and the other to His Serene Highness the Duke of Anhalt-Bernbourg, shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.