casé peace should take place, or be signed between the Allied Powers and France, before the expiration of the said year, the subsidy calculated upon the scale of five millions sterling, 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 Russia four months, and to Austria and to Prussia two months, over and above the stipulated subsidy, to cover the expenses of the return of their troops within their own frontiers. The present additional convention shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted word for word in the treaty of the 25th of March.

It shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged as soon as possible.

In faith of which the respective plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.

Done at Vienna this 30th day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1815.

firm and vigorous assistance of my august allies animates and supports me.

I put myself in march at the head of an army, not like usurpers, to deceive and disturb nations, or like adventurers, to carry off, in the disorder of the tempest and the shipwreck, that which the calm could not procure for them. I return to the bosom of my dear family: I bring to it consolation and peace: I come to restore its ancient serenity, and to efface the recollection of all past evils.

No, you are not made to carry the flame of revolt among those who are not your enemies. You are not made to debase yourselves by that sort of greatness which is born of destruction and of terror. The history of your ancestors is far more glorious. You, descendants of the Bruttians, the Campanians and the Samnites, you should cause to tremble those foreign disturbers of your prosperity, and your internal tranquillity: but never could you be the instruments of their ambition, or the victims of their artifices. Your children should not perish in frozen climates. It is for you alone to enjoy your substances, the fruits of your labours, and the produce of your happy climate.

Neapolitans, come and throw yourselves into my arms. I was born among you; I know, I ap. preciate your habits, your charac ter, and your manners. I desire only to give you the most striking proofs of my paternal love, and to make the new period of my government the most fortunate epoch of the well-being and happiness of our common coun

try. One single day should dissi pate all the misfortunes of many years. The most sacred, the most invariable pledges of moderation, of gentleness, of reciprocal confidence, and of entire union will be the guarantees of your tranquillity. Neapolitans, second with all your efforts an enterprize whose object is so great, so just, so benevolent, and which enters into the common cause of Europe, of which all enlightened nations have undertaken the defence with immense forces.

I promise you that I will not preserve the least recollection of all the faults committed by whatever person, without any exception, against the duties of fidelity towards me, during my absence from this kingdom, at whatever time committed, whether after my first or second departure. An impenetrable and eternal veil shall coverall past actions and opinions. With this view I promise, in the most solemn manner, and on my sacred word, the most complete, most extensive, and general amnesty, and an eternal oblivion.

I promise to preserve to all individuals, Neapolitan and Sicilian, who serve in the armies by land or sea, all the pay, the rank, and military honours which they now enjoy.

May God, the witness of the rectitude and sincerity of my intentions, deign to bless them with FERDINAND. Palermo, May 1, 1815.

success.

DECLARATION.

Louis, by the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre.

To all our subjects greeting,France, free and respected, was enjoying, by our care, the peace and prosperity which had been restored to it, when the escape of Napoleon Buonaparte from the Island of Elba, and his appearance on the French territory, seduced to revolt the greatest part of the army. Supported by this illegal force, he has made usurpation and tyranny succeed to the equitable empire of the laws,

The efforts and the indignation of our subjects, the majesty of the throne, and that of the national representation, have yielded to the violence of a mutinous soldiery, whom treacherous and perjured leaders have seduced by deceitful hopes.

This criminal success having excited in Europe just alarms, formidable armies have been put in march towards France, and all the Powers have decreed the destruction of the tyrant.

Our first care, as our first duty, has been to cause a just and necessary distinction to be recognised between the disturber of the peace and the oppressed French nation.

Faithful to the principles which have always guided them, the Sovereigns, our Allies, have declared their intention to respect the independence of France, and to guarantee the integrity of its territory. They have given us the most solemn assurances, that they will not interfere in the internal government, and it is on these conditions we have resolved to accept their generous assistance.

The usurper has in vain attempted to sow dissentions among them, and, by a feigned modera

tion, to disarm their just resent ment. His whole life has for ever deprived him of the power of imposing upon good faith. Despairing of the success of his artifices, he seeks, for the second time, to precipitate with himself into the abyss, the nation over which he causes terror to reign; he renews all the departments of administration in order to fill them wholly with men sold to his tyrannical projects; he disorganizes the National Guard, whose blood he intends to lavish in a sacrilegious war; he begins to abolish rights which have been long since abolished; he convokes a pretended Field of May to multiply the accomplices of his usurpation; he promises to proclaim there, in the midst of bayonets, a derisory imitation of that constitution, which, after 25 years of disorders and calamities, had, for the first time, founded on a solid basis the liberty and the happiness of France. Finally, he has consummated the greatest of all crimes towards our subjects, by attempting to separate them from their Sovereign; to tear them away from our family, whose existence, which for so many years has been identified with that of the nation itself, is still at this moment the only thing that can guarantee the stability of the legitimacy of the government, the rights and the liberty of the people, the mutual interests of France and of Europe.

In these circumstances we rely with entire confidence on the sentiments of our subjects, who cannot fail to perceive the dangers and the miseries to which they are exposed by a man whom assem

bled Europe has devoted to public vengeance. All the Powers know the disposition of France. We are assured of their amicable views and of their support.

Frenchmen seize the means of deliverance which are offered to your courage. Rally round your King, your father the defender of all your rights-hasten to him to assist him in saving you, to put an end to a revolt, the prolongation of which might become fatal to our country, and by the punishment of the author of so many evils, to accelerate the era of a general reconciliation.

Given at Ghent, the 2nd day of the month of May, in the year of our Lord, 1815, and the 20th year of our reign.

Note delivered to the Diet by the Ministers of the Four Great Powers, which was read in the Sitting of the 12th of May.

"From the moment that Buonaparte returned to France, all Switzerland resolved by an unanimous and energetic determination to take up arms to defend its frontiers, and to keep off those disorders of all kinds with which Europe is menaced by the return of this Usurper.

"This measure, which fully displayed the energy of the Diet, and the wisdom of its deliberations, was perfectly in harmony with the sentiments of all Europe, which openly applauded the conduct of a people, who, though the nearest to the danger, was

seen to pronounce, without hesitation, on the events of which France is the theatre; and boldly profess sentiments so honourable, by repelling the proposals made by the pretended Government of that country to all the States, and which were every where rejected with indignation.

"In this unexpected and unparalleled crisis, the Helvetic Confederation, guided by its ancient integrity, has joined of itself the system of Europe, and embraced the cause of social order, and of the safety of nations. It has felt the conviction that so long as the volcano, rekindled in France, should threaten to influence and convulse the world, the inestimable advantages which the high allied powers take a pleasure in seeing enjoyed by Switzerland, its welfare, its independence, its neutrality, would be always exposed to the encroachments of that illegal and destroying power which no moral restraint is able to check.

"United by the same wish, of annihilating this power, the Sovereigns assembled at the Congress of Vienna have proclaimed their principles in the treaty of the 25th of March, as well as the engagements they contracted to maintain them.

"All the other States of Eu-rope have been invited to accede to it, and they have readily answered this invitation. Thus, the moment is arrived, when the august Sovereigns, whose orders the undersigned are commissioned to execute here, expect that the Diet, on receipt of the present official communications, will, by a formal and authentic declara

tion, adopt the same principles, and in concert with the undersigned, resolve on the measures which may become necessary to oppose the common danger.

"But at the same time that the powers expect without any doubt, that Switzerland, agreed with them on the principal object, will make no difficulty in declaring that it is armed to attain it, and that it has placed itself in the same line of policy, they are very far from proposing to it to display any other force than such as is proportioned to the resources and the usages of its people. They respect the military system of a nation which, remote from all ambition, puts forces on foot only to defend its liberty and its independence; they know the value which Switzerland attaches to the principle of neutrality; it is not to infringe upon it, but solely to accelerate the period when this principle may be applied in an advantageous and permanent manner, that they propose to the confederation to assume an energetic attitude, and adopt vigorous measures commensurate to the extraordinary circumstances of the times, but without forming a precedent for the future.

"It is conformably with these principles that the undersigned have received from their respective courts the necessary instructions to regulate, by a Convention which cannot but be agreeable to Switzerland, the footing upon which its adhesion is to subsist to the sacred cause which it has already embraced. They have, therefore, the honour to invite the Diet without delay to name Plenipotentiaries to enter into a nego