STATE PAPERS. 
Substance of a Treaty between the 
“Emperor and the King of Prussia, 
- signedonthe 7th of February, 792. 
I. FPUERE shall exist a perfect 
raiil 
ally those of Breslau, Dresden, Hu- 
bertsburg, and Teschen, are renew- 
ed and confirmed by the present. 
Illy, The two.courts (guarantee 
and protect, all\their states which 
they, actually possess at present 
against all attacks whatever. 
_ IY. In virtue of. this: guarantee, 
the two powers will act in concert 
for the, maintenance of peace; and 
in case that either of them should be 
menaced; they. will employ mutual 
good offices to prevent hostilities :, 
and should these efforts not prove 
successful, the party shall assist the 
one threatened with fifteen thou- 
sand. infantry and five thousand ca- 
valry. 
v. These troops shall be put in 
motion within two months after the 
requisition made, and remain at the 
disposition of the party attacked. 
during the course of the war. If 
requiring party demand these 
succours in money, he shall receive 
600,000 ecus for one thousand in- 
fantry, and 800,000 for one thou- 
sand cavalry, which shall be paid in 
the year, or proportionably each 
month, and that on the footing of 
the convention, or of twenty florins. 
VI. In case these succours are 
insufficient, the party required will 
augment them by degrees, accord- 
ing to the urgency of the case. 
_ViI. The two contracting pow- 
ers reserve to themselves the power 
¢ inviting the imperial court of 
ussia, the two maritime powers of 
and Holland, and the elec- 
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225. 
tor of Saxony, to! unite with them 
in defensive engagements, confor- 
imable to thé above-mentioned sti-+ 
pulations. , 
~ VIII. The two sovereigns obligé 
themselves to maintain the Germa- 
nic constitution, as it is established 
by the present laws and formet 
treaties. : 
IX. They will not contract any 
more alliancés. sdigal 
X. The ‘present treaty shall be 
ratified in the space of three weeks, 
or sooner if possible. | 
Concise Exposition of the Reasons 
which have determined his Majes- 
ty the King of Prussia to take up 
Arms against France. 
Berlin, July the 24th, 1792, 
H IS) Prussian Majesty. flatters 
t himself that the powers of Eu- 
rope, and the public:in general; did 
not wait for this exposition to fix 
their opinion on the justice of the 
cause they were going to defend.— 
In effect, unless the obligations 
waich the engagements of the King, 
and his political connections, re« 
quire of him be willingly denied, or 
facts designedly established, and 
unless people shut their eyes onthe 
conduct ofthe present government 
of France, there cannot remain a 
doubt but every person may dis- 
cover that the warlike measures 
which the King with regret has re- 
solved upon, are only the natural 
consequences of the violent resolu-.- 
tions which the fury of the party 
who reigns in that kingdom has: 
made him adopt, and of which it is 
easy to perceive the fatal conse- 
quences. 
Not content with having openly 
violated, by notorious suppression, 
P the 
