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altogether the amount of the interest 

 of the two millions advanced, which 

 interest shall be calculated at the 

 same rate as the interest of the loan 

 made on account of the British go- 

 vernment in the present year. His 

 Imperial majesty shall moreover pay 

 annually to the British government 

 the sum of 20,000/. sterling at two 

 periods, that is to say, 1 0,000/. every 

 six months, which sum shall be em- 

 ployed in the successive purchase 

 and reduction of the principal of 

 the two millions, according to the 

 method adopted by the British go- 

 vernment in its own loans. 



III. Their Imperial and Britan- 

 nic majesties mutually promise each 

 other to carry on the war against 

 the French republic, during the 

 present campaign, with all possible 

 vigour; and to employ in it all their 

 respective means by land and sea, 

 concerting together, as occasion shall 

 require, on the most advantageous 

 manner of reciprocally employing 

 their forces by land and sea to the 

 support of their operations against 

 the common enemy. His Imperial 

 majesty shall be careful to complete 

 his armies of Germany and of Italy 

 in proportion to the losses which they 

 have sustained, in order always, as 

 far as possible, to act against the 

 common enemy with the same num- 

 ber of effective men, conformably 

 to the statements which his lm,ierial 

 majesty caused to be confidentially 

 communicated to the British go- 

 vernment on the opening of the 

 campaign. 



IV. The Bavarian troops, those 

 of Wurtemburg, and the Swiss re- 

 gimcntsin the pay of Great Britain, 

 shall be at the disposal of 1 lis Im- 

 perial majesty, to form a part of his 

 army in Germany, and to be eni- 

 jiloyed there in oiicrutions against 



the enemy, in conformity to the 

 conventions and capitulations con- 

 cluded on this subject by the king 

 of Great Britain. His Britannic 

 majesty shall take the necessary mea- 

 sures for the farther reinforcement 

 of the army of his Imperial majesty 

 in Germany, by as great a number 

 as possible of German and Swiss 

 troops. 



V. Their Imperial and Britannic 

 majesties engage, during the whole 

 continuance of the present conven- 

 tion, not to make a separate peace 

 with the French republic, without 

 the previous and express consent of 

 each other. They engage likewise 

 not to treat with the enemy, nor to 

 receive fromhim any overtures either 

 for a private peace, or for a general 

 pacification, withoutmaking, mutu- 

 ally, communications of them with 

 openness, and acting in every re- 

 spect in perfect concert. 



VI. The duration of the present 

 convention is fixed for the term of 

 one year, to be computed from the 

 1st of March, 1800, until the end 

 of February 1801. From the month 

 of December, and immediately af- 

 ter the acquittal of the last payment 

 of the stipulated advances, the two 

 high contracting parties shall enter 

 into deliberation and confidential 

 explanation upon the determinations 

 that they may think necessary to 

 adopt for the future, according to 

 circumstanceSjand their mutual con- 

 venience. 



VII. The present conventionshall 

 be ratified in due form by their Im- 

 perial and Britannic majesties, and 

 the respective ratifications shall be 

 exchanged at Vienna in the space 

 of six weeks, or sooner, if possible. 



In witness whereof, we, the un- 

 dersigned, furnished with the full 

 powers of their Imperial and Bri- 



