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your character, by making an open and fincere expofition of our fituæ

tion and our conduct.

"However afflicting the remembrance of thofe terrible events in France (v ch your Excellency has brought to our recollection) and the fad fat of our brethren who suffered to unfortunately, may be, yet our grief muft nevertheless yield to the principles of our Constitution: Thele principles have refted for feveral centuries on the relations of peace, amity, and good neighbourhood with all the furrounding powers. "The operation of thefe principles has never been interrupted by foreign wars.-A rigid and exact neutrality was the invariable maxim of our ancestors, and having received it as a facred inheritance, we have conceived it to be our duty to abide by it in the prefent war. And this conduct has produced a falutary influence, not only on our external fafety, but on our internal peace.

"Accustomed to obferve fcrupulously all engagements entered into, we will neither wander from our declared neutrality, on any pretence whatever, nor will we liften to any infinuation which might give rife to just complaints.

"It is for us to preferve the enjoyment of that happy and peaceful fituation to which all our most zealous efforts tend. We will unite our force to repel even the flighteft attempts that may be made to disturb our repofe, or to undermine the foundation of it by any deftructive principles.

"It is towards this end that our forefight is directed by carefully guarding our frontiers, and by endeavouring to prevent any difficulties by a correspondence infeparable from our local relations.

"We intreat your Excellency to affure his Britannick Majefty of the invariable determination of the Helvetic Body: And it is with entire confidence we expect, from his good-will, that, following the example of his illuftrious ancefors, who at all times have maintained the independence of the Helvetic Confederacy, he will continue henceforth to entertain a fincere affection for our profperity and our repose.

"We are, &c."

Preliminary Articles between Great Britain and Hanover, relative to a Body of his Majefty's Hanoverian Forces, confifting of Eight Regiments of Cavalry, of Fifteen Battalions of Infantry, and of a Detachment of Artillery, which are to be taken into the Pay of Great Britain, and employed upon the Continent, on fuch Service as the Exigency of Affairs may require.

ARTICLE I. THESE troops are to ferve and to be employed in Eu

rope only.

ART. II. The extent of their pay, and of all other allowances, privileges, and advantages, being dependent upon the particular country in which they may be employed, is to be governed by established precedent; and the fixed tariff, or ordonnance, declared, and confirmed by his Majefty, for the ufe of his Electoral troops, on emergencies fimilar to the prefent: and on all occasions where they are called upon to serve out of their own country.

ART. III. Their faid pay is to commence from the 22d day of February 1793, being the day on which the orders for their march were given; and is to be continued to them for the space of three months after their return to their own country. During the time they fhall be employed on this fervice, they are to perform all duties in common with the other troops with which they may occasionally ferve, in proportion to their numbers; and their officers are to take rank, on all duties and commands,

commands, according to feniority of commiffion, in conformity to the general rules established in all armies.

ART IV. They are to have their own chaplains, and to be allowed the free exercife of their religion according to the rites and established modes of worship of the German church.

ART. V. In all cafes of military delinquency, the offenders are to be tried, judged, and punished, by their own martial law, and articles of war; and the officers commanding the different regiments, as well as the commanding officer of the whole corps, fhall be enjoined to adhere ftrictly to the faid martial law, and articles of war; and to take care that the fame be, on all occasions, duly observed by the officers and foldiers under their command.

ART. VI. It being very remote from his Majesty's intention to suffer his Electoral military cheft to reap any pecuniary profit or advantage from the circumftance of this corps of his Hanoverian troops paffing upon the prefent energency into the British fervice, it is, on the other hand, but reafonabie and juft, and must accordingly be understood, that Great Britain is to defray all fuch expences as may be found neceffary for enabling the faid corps to take the field, as well as for its maintenance and fupport during the time it remains in the British fervice, upon an equal footing with the troops of any other nation with which it may be deftined to ferve; and, in particular, that not only a reasonable and fair allow ance fhall be made, for fupplying the deficiencies which muft neceffarily be occafioned in his Majefty's Electoral army by the employment of this corps out of his own German dominions, but that due provifion fhall alfo be made for recruiting and keeping it complete, fo long as it remains on that fervice, and for making good fuch leffes as it may fuftain in action, according to the prefent practice in other armies.

ART. VII. It is ftipulated further, that fuch non-commiffioned officers and private men as may become difabled by wounds or other cafualties happening to them, while actually in the British fervice, fhall be allowed the ufual penfions, at the expence of Great Britain; which faid penfions are moreover to be paid to them in their own country, upon authentic and fatisfactory certificates of their exiftence and identity being from time to time produced by his Majefty's Hanoverian Chancery of War.

Grofvenor Square, March 4, 1794.

ALVENSLEBEN.

Article of Agreement relative to an additional Body of His Majesty's Electoral Troops, to be taken forthwith into the Pay of Great

Britain.

IT having been found expedient for the public fervice to augment the corps of Hanoverian troops now ferving, in the pay of Great Britain, in Flanders; and his Majefty having accordingly been pleafed to order this augmentation, to be completely equipped, and in readiness to take the field at the opening of the next campaign; it has, in confequence thereof, been agreed upon, and is hereby made known and declared,

That this additional corps of Hanoverian troops fhall be put, in all refpects, upon the fame footing with that which is at prefent employed in the British fervice, and fhall enjoy the like advantages, privileges, and emoluments, of every kind, as were granted to the faid corps, and are particularly detailed and specified in the Preliminary Articles relative thereto, agreed upon and figned the 4th day of March, 1793, which Articles are deemed to be hereby confirmed, and extended to this ad

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ditional corps, in full force, and to the fame effect, as if herein inferted, word for word.

And as this additional corps is engaged to march from Hanover as early as poflible in the month of February next, fo as to join the army in Flanders in the month of March following, it is therefore agreed that its pay is to commence from the twenty-fecond day of January, 1794. Grofvenor-fquare, (Signed) ALVENSLEBEN.

Jan. 7, 1794.

Treaty between his Britannick Majefty, the King of Pruffia, and the States General of the United Provinces.

THEIR Majefties the King of Great Britain and of Pruffia, and Their High Mightineffes the States General of the United Provinces, being animated by the fame defire of putting a ftop to the Progrefs of the Syftem of Anarchy and Crimes by which Civil Society has been menaced, and being defirous of concerting together to fupport, in the most effectual manner, the Common Caufe in which they are engaged, in Confequence of the unjuft and cruel War which the Perfons who exercife the Powers of Government in France have raised up against feveral of the great Powers of Europe, have agreed, in conformity to the Bonds of Friendship and Alliance which fe happily unite them, to conclude the prefent Treaty and, for this Purpofe, they have named their refpe&ttive Plenipotentiaries; to wit. His Britannick Majefty, the Lord Baron of Malmbury, a Peer of the Kingdom of Great Britain, Privy Counfellor, Knight of the Order of the Bath; His Pruffian Majefty, the Sieur Chrêtien Henry Curce, Count de Haugwiz, his Minister of State, of War, and of the Cabinet, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle; and Their High Mightineffes the States General of the United Provinces, the Sieurs Laurent Pierre Van de Spiegel, Counsellor, Penfionary of the Province of Holland and Weft Friefeland, Keeper of the Seals, and Deputy of the said Province at the Affembly of the States General, and Henry Fagel, Greffier of Their High Mightineffes; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ARTICLE I. His Majesty the King of Pruffia engages to furnish an army, which fhall be compofed of fixty-two thoufand four hundred men, conformably to the establishment which he has caufed to be delivered to the Minifters of the Maritime Powers; which establishment fhall be confidered as making part of the prefent Treaty. This army fhall remain under a Pruffian Commander, and fhall act in the mot effectual manner against the common enemy, either feparately or jointly, with a body of troops in the pay of the Maritime Powers, or of one of them. The faid army fhall be and fhall remain as complete as poffible, and fhall be employed, according to a concert on military points, between His Britannic Majefty, His Pruffian Majefty, and their High Mightineffes the States General of the United Provinces, wherever it fhall be judged to be moft fuitable to the interefts of the Maritime Powers. This army fhall arrive at the place of its deftination on the twenty-fourth of May, in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Four, or fooner if poffible. It fhall be provided with fieldpieces with their carriages, and alfo with the tents and all military equipments neceffary for acting in the field.

ART. II. It is agreed by the High Contracting Parties, that the troops which His Pruffian Majefty is bound to furnish to His Britannic Majefty and to Their High Mightineffes, by virtue of the respective Treaties of Alliance between his Pruffian Majefty and the Maritime Powers, fhall be comprized in this army of fixty-two thoufand four

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hundred men; and that, by employing the faid army in the manner declared in this prefent treaty, His Pruffian Majefty fhall be deemed to have furnished to his High Allies the fuccours ftipulated in the faid Treaties.

ART. III. In order to facilitate to His Pruffian Majefty the means of acting with vigour, and conformably to the fentiments of zeal and concern with which he is animated for the common caufe, His Britannic Majesty and their High Might ineffes agree to furnish to His Pruflian Majefty a fubfidy of fifty thousand pounds fterling per month until the end of the prefent year, and to be reckoned from the beginning of the month in which the prefent Treaty is figned.

ART. IV. His Britannic Majefty and Their High Mightinesses will pay to His Pruffian Majefty, immediately, the fum of three hundred thousand pounds fterling, to enable him to defray the charge of completing the above-mentioned army, and the first expences neceffary for putting it in a state of action, and for carrying it to the place where it is to act; and, at the period of the return of the faid troops, His Britannic Majefty and Their High Mightineffes will moreover pay to His Pruffian Majefty the fum of one hundred thoufand pounds fterling for the expences of the return of the army into the territories of His Pruffian Majefty. The faid payments, for the expences of completing and putting the troops into motion, shall be made immediately after the exchange of the ratifications, as well as that of the first fubfidy, to be paid monthly, of fifty thousand pounds. The following months fhall be dif charged in advance, at the beginning of each month. All thefe payments fhall be made at Berlin by the Maritime Powers, agreeably to arrangements as they fhall agree upon between themfelves; and the pound sterling fhall be reckoned at fix crowns in Frederics d'Or.

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ART. V. The above-mentioned fubfidy and payments fhall fatisfy all demands which His Pruflian Majefty might be enabled to make upon the Maritime Powers for the expences of the army; all thefe expences, of what nature foever they may be, being to be defrayed by His Pruffian Majefty, with the exception only of the expences of bread and forage, which fhall be furnished by the Maritime Powers, as well for the thirtytwo thousand four hundred men whom His Pruflian Majefty engages to employ over and above the ftipulated fuccours, as for thofe fuccours themfelves, in a manner conformable to the terms of the Treaties of Alliance fubfifting between the Maritime Powers and His faid Majefty. But, in order to avoid the difficulties which might arife relative to the furnishing of thefe articles in kind, the High Contracting Parties agree that this expence fhall be fatisfied in money, reckoning at the rate of one pound twelve shillings (fterling money of England) per month, for each man of the fixty-two thoufand four hundred to be furnished by His Pruffian Majefty, according to the establishment herein before mentioned; and the payment of this fum fhall be made in advance, at the beginning of each month, in the fame manner as that of the fubfidy, and fhall begin the fame day. But if it fhall happen in future, that riation fhall be made, by confent of the High Contracting Parties, in the refpective proportions of infantry, cavalry and artillery, fettled by the faid establishment; in fuch case a new valuation of the aforefaid pecuniary aid fhall be made, according to the new proportions of rations and portions which may refult from the faid variation, fo that the faid valuation may not be beyond the actual expences occafioned by the furnishing of the articles in queftion, according to the proportion of men and horfes which fhall be employed.

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ART. VI. It is agreed, that all conquefts made by this army fhall be made in the names of the two Maritime Powers, and fhall remain at

their difpofal during the courfe of the war; and, at the peace, to be made fuch ufe of as they fhall then judge moft proper.

ART. VII. The two Maritime Powers fhall name two perfons commiffioned to refide in their names at the head-quarters of the Prussian Army, to keep up the neceffary communication and correfpondence between the refpective armies.

ART. VIII. This Treaty fhall continue in its full force until the end of the prefent year One Thousand Seven Hundred and NinetyFour.

ART. IX. The prefent Treaty fhall be ratified by all parties, and the exchange of the ratifications fhall be made in the fpace of one month, or fooner, if poflible.

In Witnefs of which, We, the Plenipotentiaries of His Britannick Majefty, and of His Pruffian Majefty, and of the Lords States General of the United Provinces, by virtue of our refpective Powers, have figned the prefent Treaty, and have thereunto affixed the Seal of our Arms.

Done at the Hague, the 19th of April, in the Year of Grace One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Four.

MALMESBURY.

L. P. VAN DE SPIEGEL.
HAUGWIZ.

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H. FAGEL.

Separate Article.

The Plenipotentiaries of Their High Mightineffes not having thought themselves empowered to contract, at the prefent moment, any engagements relative to the payment of the fubfidies ftipulated in the prefent Treaty, beyond the term of the prefent year, this Treaty has been concluded only for that term; but Their Britannick and Pruffian Majefties, being defirous of continuing the effect of the aforefaid engagements until the end of the War, will enter into further concert, as well between themselves as with Their High Mightineffes, for the renewal of the present Treaty, for fo long as the War fhall laft, on the fame conditions as are therein declared with refpect to the Troops, to their employment, and to the payment of the aforefaid fubfidies, as well as to the furnishing bread and forage, conformably to Article V. of the Treaty; without, however, adding any thing for the expences of completing the Troops, or for thofe of putting them in motion.

Done at the Hague, the Nineteenth of April, in the Year of Grace One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Four.

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Convention between his Britannick Majefty and the States General of the United Provinces, figned at the Hague the 19th of April, 1794.

HIS Britannick Majefty and the Lords the States General of the

United Provinces, defiring to put His Pruflian Majesty into a situation to profecute with vigour the war in which the greateft part of the Powers of Europe find themfelves engaged, through the unjust aggreffion of those who have exercifed the Powers of Government in France, a Negociation has been opened for this purpofe at Berlin, which having fince been transferred to the Hague, has been there terminated by the Treaty of Subfidy, concluded this day, by which the Maritime Powers have engaged themfelves to furnish to his Pruffian Majefty the fums fpecified in the above-mentioned Treaty, to the ends which are alfo announced

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