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joy every advantage granted to the 

 most serene landgrave of Hesse, by 

 the treaty of the 10th of April, 

 J 793, and its secret articles. More- 

 over, every thing, which is not de- 

 termined by the preceding articles 

 in a precise manner, is to be here- 

 af'er regulated upon the principles 

 of equity and p;ood faith, which 

 have conducted the present negotia- 

 tion. 



Art. 14. This treaty shall be 

 ratified by the higli contracting par- 

 ties, and the ratifications tliereof 

 shall be exchanged as soon as pos- 

 sible. 



Done at Branswick, this Sth day 

 of November, 1794. 



(L. S.) Wm. Eliot, 

 (L. S.) .Iean Batiste de 

 Fekonce de Rotencreutz. 



SEPARATE ARTICLE. 



It is deteiTnined that this corps of 

 <roops shall enjoy Brabantine pav, 

 being destined to serve in tiie army 

 of the low countries; but the ex- 

 pedition with which it was neces- 

 sary to complete the present treaty 

 not permitting a state of the Bra- 

 bantine pay to be added thereto, tiie 

 undersigned minister of his Britan- 

 nic majesty engages iiimself to cause 

 to be delivered to the minister of 

 the most serene duke, as soon as it 

 can be done, a complete statement 

 of Brabantine pay, on the same 

 footing as it is allowed to the Hes- 

 sian troops. In this statement of 

 pay shall also be specified the num- 

 ber of rations and portions allowed 

 as well as all the other emoluments 

 enjoyed by the Hessian troops ac- 

 tually in Brabant. This communi- 

 cation of the statement of pay sh.ill 

 be made with the accustomed good 

 faith, and without any reserve. 



Doje at Brunswick, this Sth of 

 November, 1/94. 



(L. S.) VVm. Eliot. 

 (L. S.) Jean Batiste de 

 Fekonce de Rotencreutz. 



Mavifi^sloandsupplenieiitpuUhliedat 

 Murtinique, January 1, 1794. 



George R. 



THE assembly, calling itself the 

 national convention of France, 

 having exercistd in shat kingdom 

 and its dependencies the most un- 

 limited and bartarjus despotisn'i, 

 destroyed religion, with the govern- 

 ment and the laws, and violated all 

 kinds of property, have added to so 

 many crimes, a declaration of their 

 design to involve other nations in 

 the same calamities, to overthrow 

 their respective constitutions, and 

 the fundamental principles of every 

 civilized state ; and to that end, not 

 content with" making use of secret 

 and incendiary emissaries, they have 

 gone the length of open ho.-itility, 

 by a declaration of war, wholly 

 unprovoked, against his Britannic 

 majesty and his allies; and his said 

 majesty seeing himself compelled to 

 have recourse to arms, and to pro- 

 secute a war as just as necessary, for 

 the protection of his subjects, the 

 security of his throne, the preserva- 

 tion of the British constitution, and 

 the defence of his allies. 



His majesty moreover taking into 

 consideration how notorious it is, 

 that the aforesaid convention and 

 its adherents, among other atrocious 

 machinations, have conceived the 

 project of entirely destroying all the 

 French colonies in the West Indies 

 — a plan they have executed iu 

 some parts by circumstances of the 

 most horrid nature, and by means 



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