Act, in order that they may bring forward their claims and produce their titles.-This delay shall be extended to three months for the creditors residing in Europe, six months for such as are in the Western colonies, and twelve months for such as are resident in the East Indies, or in other countries equally distant. After the expiration of these periods, the said subjects of his Britannic Majesty shall no longer have the benefit of the present liquidation.

ART. XIII. In order to proceed in the liquidation and allowance of the claims mentioned in the preceding Articles, there shall be formed a commission, composed of two French and two English commissioners, who shall be nominated and appointed by their respective Governments. These Commissioners after they shall have allowed and admitted the titles to the claims, shall proceed, according to the principles pointed out, to the allowance, liquidation, and determination of the sums which shall be due to each creditor. In proportion as the claims shall be allowed and ascertained, they shall deliver to the creditors the two certificates mentioned in the 10th Article, one for the capital, the other for the interests.

ART. XIV. A Commission of Arbitrators shall at the same time be named, composed of four members, two of whom shall be named by the British Government and two by the French Government. If it shall be necessary to call upon the Arbitrators, in case of an equality of votes on any point, the four names of the Arbitrators, English and French, shall be put into an urn, and the one of the four whose name shall be drawn first shall be the Arbitrator of the particular affair upon which there shall have been such equality of votes. Each of the Commissioners of Liquidation shall, in his turn, take from the urn the ticket which is to point out the Arbitrator. A Procès-verbal shall be made of this operation, and shall be annexed to the one which shall be drawn up for the liquidation and determination of the particular claim.

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If vacancy shall take place, either in the commission of liquidation or in that of arbitration, the government, which ought to provide for the nomination of a new member, shall proceed to that nomination without delay, in order that the two commissions may always remain as far as possible complete. If one of the Commissioners of Liquidation shall be absent, he shall be replaced, during his absence, by one of the Arbitrators of his nation; and as in that case there will remain but one arbitrator of that nation, the two arbitrators of the other nation shall also be reduced to one by lot. And if one of the Arbitrators should absent himself, the same operation shall take place, in order to reduce to one the two Arbitrators of the other nation. It is generally understood, that in order to obviate all manner of delay in this business, the liquidation and adjudication shall not be suspended provided there shall be present, and

in activity, one Commissioner and one Arbitrator of each nation, the principle of equality between the Commissioners and the Arbitrators of the two nations being always preserved and re-established if necessary by lot. Whenever either of the Contracting Powers shall proceed to the nomination of new Commissioners of Liquidation, of Deposit, or of Arbitration, the said Commissioners shall be obliged, previously to their entering upon their functions, to make the oath, and in the forms detailed in the following Article.

ART. XV. The Commissioners of Liquidation, the Commissioners of Deposit, and the Arbitrators shall together make oath, in presence of the Ambassador of his Britannic Majesty, and between the hands of the Keeper of the Seals of France, to proceed justly and faithfully, to have no preference either for the creditor or for the debtor, and to act in all their proceedings according to the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May 1814, and of the Treaties and Conventions with France signed this day, and more particularly according to those of the present Convention. The Commissioners of Liquidation and the Arbitrators shall be authorised to call witnesses whenever they shall judge it necessary and to examine them by oath in the usual forms, upon all points relative to the different claims which form the object of this Convention.

ART. XVI. When the 3,500,000 francs of interest, mentioned in the 9th Article, shall have been inscribed in the name of the Commissioners who are to hold that sum in deposit, and on the first demand which shall be thereafter made by the French Government, his Britannic Majesty shall give the necessary orders to carry into execution the restoration of the French colonies, as stipulated by the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May 1814, comprehending Martinique and Guadaloupe, which have been since occupied by the British Forces. The inscription above mentioned shall be made before the 1st of January next, at the latest.

ART. XVII. The prisoners of war, officers and soldiers, both naval and military, or of any other description, taken during the hostilities which have lately ceased, shall on both sides be immediately restored to their respective countries, under the same conditions which are specified in the Convention of the 23d of April 1814, and in the Treaty of the 30th of May of the same year; and the British Government renounces all claim to any sums or indemnities whatsoever, which might belong to it from the surplus arising from the maintenance of the said prisoners of war, subject nevertheless to the condition specified in the 4th Additional Article of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May 1814. Done at Paris the 20th day of Nov. 1815. (Signed)

(L. S.) Castlereagh. (L. S.) Wellington.

(Signed) (L. S.) Richelieu,

of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Minister of State, of Conferences and for Foreign Affairs; and the Sieur John Philip Baron of Wessenberg, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen, Grand Cross of the Military and Religious Orders of St. Maurice and of St. Lazarus, Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of that of the Crown of Bavaria, of St. Joseph of Tuscany, and of Fidelity of Baden, Chamberlain and Privy Councillor of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia; who, after having exchanged their Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. The High Contracting Parties reciprocally promise to maintain, in its force and vigour, the Treaty signed this day with His Most Christian Majesty, and to see that the stipulations of the said Treaty, as well as those of the particular Conventions which have reference thereto, shall be strictly and faithfully executed in their fullest extent.

ART. II. The High Contracting Parties, having engaged in the war which is just terminated, for the purpose of maintaining inviolably the Arrangements settled at Paris last year, for the safety and interest of Europe, have judged it advisable to renew the said Engagements by the present Act, and to confirm them as mutually obligatory, subject to the Modifications contained in the Treaty signed this day with the Plenipotentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty, and particularly those by which Napoleon Buonaparté and his family, in pursuance of the Treaty of the 11th of April 1814, have been for ever excluded from Supreme Power in France, which exclusion the Contracting Powers bind themselves, by the present Act, to maintain in full vigour, and, should it be necessary, with the whole of their Forces. And as the same Revolutionary Principles which upheld the last criminal Usurpation, might again, under other forms, convulse France, and thereby endanger the repose of other States; under these circumstances, the High Contracting Parties solemnly admitting it to be their Duty to redouble their watchfulnes for the tranquillity and interests of their People, engage, in case so unfortunate an event should again occur, to concert amongst themselves, and with his Most Christian Majesty, the measures which they may judge necessary to be pursued for the safety of their respective States, and for the general Tranquillity of Europe.

ART. III. The High Contracting Parties, in agreeing with his Most Christian Majesty that a line of military positions in France should be occupied by a corps of Allied troops during a certain number of years, had in view to secure, as far as lay in their power, the effect of the stipulations contained in Articles I. and II. of the present Treaty, and uniformly isposed to adopt every salutary measure calculated to secure the tranquillity of Europe by maintaining the order of things re-esta ̧ |

blished in France, they engage, that in case the said body of troops should be attacked or menaced with an attack on the part of France, that the said Powers should be again obliged to place themselves on a war establishment against that Power, in order to maintain either of the said stipulations, or to secure and support the great interests to which they relate, each of the High Contracting Parties shall furnish, without delay, according to the stipulations of the Treaty of Chaumont, and especially in pursuance of the 7th and 8th Articles of this Treaty, its full Contingent of Sixty Thousand Men, in addition to the forces left in France, or such part of the said Contingent as the exigency of the case may require should be put in motion.

ART. IV. If, unfortunately, the forces stipulated in the preceding Article should be found insufficient, the High Contracting Parties will concert together, without loss of time, as to the additional number of troops to be furnished by each for the support of the Common Cause; and they engage to employ in case of need, the whole of their forces, in order to bring the War to a speedy and successful termination, reserving to themselves the right to prescribe, by common consent, such Conditions of Peace as shall hold out to Europe a sufficient Guarantee against the recurrence of a similar calamity.,

ART. V. The High Contracting Parties having agreed to the dispositions laid down in the preceding Articles, for the purpose of securing the effect of their Engagements during the period of the temporary occupation, declare, moreover, that even after the expiration of this measure, the said Engagements shall still remain in full force and vigour, for the purpose of carrying into effect such measures as may be deemed necessary for the maintenance of the stipulations contained in the Articles I. and II. of the present Act.

ART. VI. To facilitate and to secure the execution of the present Treaty, and to consolidate the connexions which at the present moment so closely unite the Four Sovereigns for the Happiness of the World, the High Contracting Parties have agreed to renew their meetings at fixed periods, either under the immediate auspices of the Sovereigns themselves, or by their respective ministers, for the purpose of consulting upon their common interests, and for the consideration of the measures which at each of those periods shall be considered the most salutary for the repose and prosperity of Nations, and for the maintenance of the Peace of Europe.

ART. VII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged within Two Months, or sooner, if possible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms.-Done at Paris, the 20th of November, 1815.

(Signed)

(Signed) (L. S.) Castlereagh. (L. S.) Metternich. (L. S.) Wellington. (L. S.) Wessenberg.

The Undersigned Ministers of the United Cabinets have the honour to communicate to his Excellency the Duke de Richelieu the New Treaty of Alliance which they have just signed, in the name and by command of Their august Sovereigns; the object of which has been, to give to the Principles established by those of Chaumont and Vienna the application the most conformable to existing circumstances, and to unite the destinies of France with the common interest of Europe. The Allied Cabinets consider the stability of the order of things, happily re-established in this Country, as one of the essential bases of a solid and durable tranquillity. It is towards this end that their united efforts have been constantly directed; it is their sincere desire to maintain and to consolidate the result of these efforts, which has dictated all the stipulations of the New Treaty. His Most Christian Majesty will perceive in this Act the solicitude with which they have concerted measures the most proper to remove every thing which might in future endanger the interior repose of France, and prepared remedies against the dangers with which the Royal Authority, the basis of public order, might yet be menaced. The principles and the intentions of the AlliedS overcigns in this respect are invariable; of this the engagements which they have just contracted furnish the most unequivocal proofs; but the lively interest which they take in the satisfaction of his Most Christian Majesty, as well as in the tranquillity and prosperity of his Kingdom, makes them hope that the fatal chances supposed in these engagements, will never be realized.

The Allied Cabinets find the first guarantee of this hope in the clear principles, magnanimous sentiments, and personal virtues of his Most Christian Majesty. His Majesty acknowledges with them, that in a State torn during a quarter of a century by Revolutionary Convulsions, it is not by force alone, that calm can be restored to the mind, confidence to the heart, and equilibrium to the different parts of the social body; but that Wisdom should be united with Vigour, and Moderation with Firmness, for producing these happy changes.

Far from fearing that his Most Christian Majesty will ever lend an ear to imprudent or impassioned councils, tending to renew discontents and alarms, to excite hatred and divisions, the Allied Cabinets are entirely relieved from that anxiety by the wise as well (VOL. XXXII.)

as generous disposition which the King has evinced at every period of his reign, and especially at that of his return after the last criminal attempt. They know that his Majesty will oppose to all the enemies of the public good, and of the tranquillity of his Kingdom, under whatever form they may present them selves, his adherence to the Constitutional Laws, promulgated under his own Auspices, his well-understood intention, to be the Father of all his subjects, to efface from remembrance the evils which they have suffered, and to preserve of times past only the good which Providence has brought forth even from the bosom of public calamity. It is thus only that the views formed by the Allied Cabinets for the preservation of the Constitutional authority of his Most Christian Majesty, for the happiness of his Country, and for the maintenance of the Peace of the World, will be crowned with a complete success, and that France, established upon her ancient basis, will resume the eminent place to which she is called in the European System.

The Undersigned have the honour to renew to his Excellency the Duke de Richelieu the assurances of their high consideration.

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XI.—EXTRACT OF A PROTOCOL for regulating the Dispositions relative to the Territories and Places ceded by France, by Articles I, II, and III, of Treaty. The Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Courts of Austria, of Russia, of Great Britain, and of Prussia, having taken into consideration the measures become necessary by those arrangements with France which are to terminate the present war, have agreed to lay down, in the Present Protocol, the dispositions relative to the territorial cessions to be made by France, and to the contributions destined for strengthening the line of defence of the bordering States.

ART. 1. Kingdom of the Low Countries.Considering that his Majesty the King of the Low Countries ought to participate in a just proportion in the advantages resulting from the present arrangement with France, and considering the state of his frontiers on the side of that country, it is agreed, that the districts which forined part of the Belgic Provinces, of the Bishopric of Liege, and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as well as the Towns of Philipeville and Marienbourg, with their Territories, which France is to cede to the Allies, shall be assigned to his Majesty the King of the Low Countries, to be united to his dominions; his Majesty the King of the Low Countries shall receive, moreover, out of that part of the French contribution which is destined towards strengthening the line of

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defence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of sixty millions of franks, which shall be laid out in fortifying the frontiers of the Low Countries, in conformity with the plans and regulations which the Powers shall settle in this respect. It is besides agreed, that in consideration of the advantages which his Majesty the King of the Low Countries will derive from these dispositions, both in the increase of, and in the means for defending his territory, that that proportion of the pecuniary indemnity payable by France to which his said Majesty might lay claim, shall serve towards putting the indemnities of Austria and Prussia on the level of a just propor

tion.

ART. II. Acquisitions of Prussia.-The districts which, by the new Treaty with France, will be detached from the French territory in the department of the Sarre and the Moselle, including the fortress of Sarre-Louis, shall be united to the dominions of the King of Prussia.

ART. III. Acquisitions of Austria.-The territories which France is to cede in the department of the Lower Rhine, including the town and fortress of Landau, shall be united to those possessions on the left bank of the Rhine which devolve to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty by the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna. His Majesty may dispose of his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, in the territorial arrangements with Bavaria, and other States of the Germanic Confederation.

ART. IV. Helvetic Confederation.-Versoix, with that part of the Pays de Gex which is to be ceded by France, shall be united to Switzerland, and form part of the Canton of Geneva. The neutrality of Switzerland shall be extended to that territory, which is placed north of a line to be drawn from Ugina (including that town) to the south of the Lake of Annecy, and from thence to the Lake of Bourget, as far as the Rhone, in the same manner as it has been extended to the Provinces of Chablis and Faucigny by the 92nd Article of the final Act of the Congress of

Vienna.

ART. V. Sardinia.-In order that his Majesty the King of Sardinia may participate, in a just proportion in the advantages resulting from the present arrangement with France, it is agreed, that the portion of Savoy which remained to France in virtue of the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of May 1814, shall be reunited to the dominions of his said Majesty, with the exception of the Commune of St. Julian, which shall be given up to the Canton of Geneva. The Cabinets of the Allied Courts will use their good offices for inducing his Sardinian Majesty to cede to the Canton of Geneva the Communes of Chesne, Thonex, and some others necessary for disengaging the Swiss territory of Jassy from the effects of the retrocession, by the Canton of Geneva, of that territory situated between the road of

Euron and the lake, which had been ceded by his Sardinian Majesty, by the Act of the 29th March 1815. The French Government having consented to withdraw its lines of Custom and Excise from the frontiers of Switzerland, on the side of the Jura, the Cabinets of the Allied Powers will employ their good offices for inducing his Sardinian Ma Jesty to withdraw, in like manner, his lines of Custom and Excise, on the side of Savoy, at least upwards of a league from the Swiss frontiers, and on the outside of the great road of Saleve, and of the mountains of Sion and of Waache. His Majesty the King of Sardinia shall receive, moreover, out of that part of the French contribution which is destined for the strengthening the line of defence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of ten millions of franks, which is to be laid out in fortifying his frontiers, in conformity with the plans and regulations which the Powers shall settle in this respect. It is likewise agreed, that, in consideration of the advan tages which his Sardinian Majesty will derive from these dispositions, both in the extension and in the means for defending his territory that part of the pecuniary indemnity payable by France, to which his said Majesty might lay claim, shall serve towards putting the in demnities of Austria and Prussia on the level of a just proportion.

No. XII.-PROTOCOL respecting the Distri bution of the 700 millions which France is to pay to the Allied Powers, under Art. IV. of the Treaty, and which is to serve instead of a particular Convention on that head.-Paris 20th Nov. 1815.

The undersigned Plenipotentiaries being met to fix the principles of the distribution of of the Treaty of Paris of the 20th November the sums which France is to pay, in pursuance 1815, between their respective Courts and the other Allied States, and having taken it into consideration, that it appears superfluous to conclude a particular Convention for this arrangement, have resolved to lay down, in the present Protocol, every thing that relates to that object, and to consider this Protocol as having the same force and validity as a formal of the full powers with which they are armed, and express Convention entered into by virtue and in pursuance of the instructions they have received from their respective Courts. In conformity with this determination they have concluded the following Articles:

ART. I. The Allied Powers, acknowledging the necessity of guaranteeing the tranquillity of the countries bordering on France, by erecting fortifications on certain points the most exposed, have determined to set apart for that object a portion of the sums which are to be paid by France, leaving the remainder for general distribution, under the head of Indemnities. A fourth part of the total sum to be paid by France shall be ap