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VII. Les Ratifications de leurs Majestés Impériale et Royale, et celle de la Diète au nom des Cantons de la Confédération Suisse, seront échangées à Zurich, dans l'espace de 3 semaines, ou plutôt si faire se peut.

En foi de quoi, les Fondés de Pouvoirs respectifs ont apposé leur Signature et le Sceau de leurs Armes, à Zurich, le 20 Mai, 1815.

STRATFORD CANNING. (L.S.)

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LE BARON DE KRUDENER. (L.S.)

LE BARON DE CHAMBRIER.

VII. The Ratifications of their Imperial and Royal Majesties, and that of the Diet, in the name of the Cantons of the Swiss Confederation, shall be exchanged at Zurich in the space of 3 weeks, or sooner, if possible.

In faith of which, the Plenipotentiaries of the respective Powers have affixed their Signatures, and the Seal of their Arms, at Zurich, the 20th May, 1815. STRATFORD CANNING. (L.S.)

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(11.)-TREATY of Accession of Wirtemberg to the Treaty of Alliance of the 25th March, 1815, between the 4 Powers.-Signed at Vienna, the 30th May, 1815.

In the Name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, animated with the desire of uniting their efforts to secure the tranquillity of Europe, against every attempt by which, under present circumstances, it may be threatened, and His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg having re. solved to this effect, and in consequence of the invitation made to him to accede to the Treaty of Alliance concluded the 25th of March, their Majesties have named, in order to arrange every thing which may be connected with this object;

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Richard Le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, Baron Kilconnel, one of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in Great Britain and also in Ireland,

President of the Committee of the former for the Affairs of Foreign Trade and Plantations, Joint Post-Master-General, Colonel of the Galway Regiment of Militia, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and one of His said Majesty's Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna; and

His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, the Sieur George Ernest Levin, Count of Wintzingerode, Minister of State and of Conferences of His said Majesty, Grand Cross of the Royal Orders of Wurtemberg, and of that of the White Eagle, and Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem:

Who, after exchanging their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg accedes to all the Stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna of the 25th of March, as inserted hereafter, with the exception of the modifications mutually agreed upon by the IIIrd and following Articles of the present Convention. [See the Treaty, Page 443.]

II. In consequence of this Accession, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages to consider as equally binding in favour of His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, all the Stipulations of the Treaty above inserted, which thereby become completely reciprocal.

The High Contracting Powers engage, above all, not to lay down their arms but by common consent.

When the object of the present War shall have been attained, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages, in concert with His Allies, to admit the Plenipotentiaries of His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, to take a part in the arrangements of the future Peace, in as far as they may concern the interests of His States: His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg reserves to Himself the right of accrediting for this purpose a Minister to the Grand Head-Quarters.

III. His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg engages on His side, in order to co-operate more effectually in the object of the Alliance, and without regard to ordinary proportions, to raise and keep in the field an Army of 20,000 men, of which 18,000 shall be Infantry, and 2,000 Cavalry, with 24 pieces of Artillery, to be actively employed against the Common Enemy.

In the event of His Majesty's furnishing during the War a Battering Train, it is agreed that he shall be proportionably remunerated.

IV. The Army of His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg shall be formed into, and continue one Corps d'Armée, always under the orders of a Commander named by His Majesty, and under the orders of those whom he shall appoint to command the Divisions and Brigades.

The Troops of His Majesty the King of Wurtemberg shall share in the trophies, booty, and other military advantages obtained by the Army of which they shall form a part, in the same proportions as the other Corps d'Armée to which they shall be united.

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

In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed the Seal of their Arms thereto. Done at Vienna, 30th of May, in the year of our Lord, 1815.

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CLANCARTY.

GRAF VON WINTZINGERODE.

(12.)—TREATY of Accession of the Princes and Free Towns of Germany, (viz., Anhalt-Dessau Anhalt-Coethen, Anhalt-Bernburg, Brunswick-Luneburg, Bremen, Frankfort, Hamburgh, Hesse Cassell, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, HolsteinOldenburg, Lichtenstein, Lippe, Lubeck, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Nassau, Reuss, Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Gotha, Saxe-Coburg-Meiningen, Saxe - Hildburghausen, Saxe-CoburgSaalfeld, Schaumburg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzbourg-Rudolstadt, and Waldeck and Pyrmont,) to the Treaty of Alliance of the 25th March, 1815, between the 4 Powers.—Signed (in English and German) at Vienna, the 27th April, 1815.

In the Name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one side, and, on the other side, the Princes and Free Towns of Germany hereafter set forth, according to alphabetical order, namely, Their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, as well in his own right, as in the capacity of Guardian to the Duke of AnhaltCœthen, a Minor ;-the Duke of Anhalt-Bernbourg;-the Duke of Brunswick-Lunebourg;-the Senates of the Free and Hauseatic Town of Bremen,-of the Free Town of Frankfort,-of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Hambourg;-His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse; their Serene Highnesses the Prince of HohenzollernHechingen, the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen,-the Duke of Holstein-Oldenbourg,-the Prince of Lichtenstein, the Princess of Lippe, in the capacity of Guardian to the Prince her Son, and of Regent; -the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Lubeck;-their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Mecklenbourg-Schwerin,-the Duke of Mecklenbourg Strelitz,-the Duke and the Prince of Nassau,— the Princes Reuss of Plauen;-His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar ;-their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Saxe-Gotha,the Duchess of Saxe-Cobourg Meiningen, in the capacity of Guardian to the Duke her Son, and of Regent,-the Duke of Saxe-Hildbourghausen, the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg Saalfeld, the Prince of

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Schaumbourg-Lippe, the Prince of Schwarzbourg-Sondershausen, -the Prince of Schwarzbourg-Rudolstadt, — and the Prince of Waldeck and of Pyrmont,--animated by the desire of uniting their efforts to secure the tranquillity of Europe against the attempts with which it may be menaced under the present circumstances; their Royal and Serene Highnesses, as well as the Free Towns, having resolved to that effect, and in consequence of the invitation which has been made to them, by their Majesties the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Prussia, to accede to the Alliance concluded by these 4 Sovereigns on the 25th of March last, have invested with Full Powers to regulate all that may relate to this object;

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Richard le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, Baron Kilconnel, one of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council in Great Britain and also in Ireland, President of the Board of Trade and Plantations, Joint Post-MasterGeneral of Great Britain, Colonel of the Galway Regiment of Militia, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and one of His Majesty's Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna;

And the above-mentioned Princes and Free Towns of Germany, hereafter recapitulated in the alphabetical order aforesaid, the following Plenipotentiaries, namely:

Their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, as well in his own right as in the capacity of Guardian to the Duke of AnhaltCothen, a Minor, and the Duke of Anhalt-Bernbourg, jointly, the Sieur Wolf Charles Augustus de Wolfframsdorf, President of the Regency of Dessau;

The Duke of Brunswick-Lunebourg, the Sieur William Justin Evrard de Schmidt Phiseldeck, his Privy Counsellor ;

The Senates;

Of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Bremen, the Sieur John Smidt, a Senator of the said Town ;

Of the Free Town of Frankfort, the Sieur Johu Ernest Frederic Danz, Doctor of Civil Law, Syndic of the said Town;

Of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Hamburgh, the Sieur John Michael Gries, Syndic of the said Town;

His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, the Sieur Dorotheus Louis Christopher, Count de Keller, his Minister of State, Grand Cross of his Order of the Golden Lion, and also of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the Sieur George Ferdinand Baron de Lepel, his Chamberlain and Privy Counsellor in the Regency.

Their Serene Highnesses;

The Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, the Sieur Francis Anthony Baron de Frank, his Privy Counsellor ;

The Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, the Sieur Francis Louis de Kirchbauer, his Privy Counsellor of Legation;

The Duke of Holstein-Oldenburg, the Sieur Hans Albert Baron de Maltzahn, President of the Regency of the Principality of Lubeck, Grand Cross of the Order of St. Anne of Russia, and Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem;

The Prince of Lichtenstein, the Sieur George Gauthier Vincent de Wiese, Vice Chancellor of the Regency of the Princes of Reuss at Gera;

The Princess of Lippe, in the capacity of Guardian to the Prince her Son, and of Regent, the Sieur Frederic William Helwing, her Counsellor of Regency;

The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic Town of Lubeck, the Sieur John Frederic Hach, Doctor of Civil Law, a Senator of the said Town;

Their Serene Highnesses:-the Duke of Mecklenbourg-Schwerin, the Sieur Leopold Baron de Plessen, His Minister of State, Grand Cross of the Order of Danebrog;

The Duke of Mecklenbourg-Strelitz, the Sieur Augustus Otho Ernest Baron d'Oertzen, his Minister of State, Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia;

The Duke and Prince of Nassau, the Sieur Hans Christopher Baron de Gagern, Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Low Countries, and of their Serene Highnesses the Duke and the Prince of Nassau, Grand Cross of the Orders of the Golden Lion of Hesse and of Fidelity of Baden, and the Sieur Ernest François Louis Baron de Marschall de Bieberstein, Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Low Countries for his German Dominions, and of their Serene Highnesses the Duke and the Prince of Nassau, Grand Cross of the Order of Fidelity;

The Princes of Reuss-Plauen, the aforesaid Sieur George Gauthier Vincent de Wiese, Vice Chancellor of their Regency at Gera.

His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, the Sieur Ernest Augustus Baron de Gersdorff, His Privy Counsellor;

Their Serene Highnesses :-the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, the Sieur Frederick Augustus Baron de Minckwitz, His Privy Counsellor ;

The Duchess of Saxe-Cobourg. Meiningen, in the capacity of Guardian to the Duke her Son, and of Regent, the Sieur Theodore Frederick Hartmann Baron d'Erffa, Her Privy Counsellor and Master of the Horse;

The Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, the Sieur Charles Louis Frederick, Baron de Baumbach, his Privy Counsellor and President of the Regency;

The Duke of Saxe-Coburg Saalfield, the Sieur Francis Xavier Baron de Fischler de Treuberg, his Colonel, Knight of the Order of the Crown of Bavaria;

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