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to be paid on the same footing, 

 and in the same manner, as stipu- 

 lated in the subjoined articles. 



Art. 2. The whole corps, as well 

 as the general appointed by his elec- 

 toral highness for its command, shall 

 be under the orders of that general- 

 in-chief of the united armies whom 

 his Britannic majesty shall mention 

 for that purpose. They shall, in 

 every particular, be treated upon 

 the same footing as the troops of 

 the power in whose army they 

 shall act. The said corps shall be 

 entirely independent of those troops 

 which his electoral highness has 

 besides to furnish to the army of 

 the empire as a contingent. 



Art. 3— 12. To defray the ex- 

 penses of raising and equipping 

 them, his Britannic majesty pays 

 for every exercised and equipped 

 horseman 80 dollars banco, and for 

 every equipped and exercised foot 

 soldier 30 dollars banco, the banco 

 dollar at 4^. Q^d. The corps shall 

 march eight days after it shall 

 have been requested. 



As from the interrupted commu- 

 nication between England and the 

 continent, the negociations of the 

 present treaty have been greatly 

 protracted, the pay of the troops 

 shall commence from the 28th of 

 January of the present year. The 

 whole maintenance of the corps 

 shall be on the same footing as that 

 of the imperial armies. In case his 

 Britannic majesty should think it ad- 

 visable to dispense with the service 

 of this corps, he will pay the subsi- 

 dies for the remaining time of the 

 duration of the treaty, on the basis 

 of the treaty of subsidies with Hesse- 

 Cassel, of the 10th of April, 1793, 

 and over and above one month's 

 pay and emoluments. The de- 

 serters from the troops of Mentz 



shall be delivered up, and such of the 

 troops as shall be made prisoners 

 of war are to be exchanged in the 

 same manner as other troops in 

 English pay. His electoral high- 

 ness will always keep the number 

 of the troops complete. The Bri- 

 tish commissary may frequently re- 

 view the troops, and demand re- 

 ports of their state. His Britannic 

 majesty pays 30 rix-dollars banco 

 for every recruit, to recomplete the 

 corps, deserters excepted. Artil- 

 lery and other warlike stores, that 

 shall be lost before the enemy, are 

 to be replaced at the expense of his 

 Britannic majesty. 



Art. 13. His electoral highness 

 promises not to enter into nego- 

 ciations with France, as long as the 

 present treaty shall be in force, 

 unknown to his Britannic majesty, 

 but shall communicate to his ma- 

 jesty, or to the commissioners au- 

 thorized by him for that purpose, 

 all communications and proposals 

 made to him on that head. 



In case the present article should 

 not be observed, his Britannic ma- 

 jesty shall no longer consider himself 

 bound to fulfil such other engage- 

 ments which would still remain to 

 be executed, and will be fully au- 

 thorized to consider as null and 

 void every thing agreed upon in 

 the present treaty. His Britannic 

 majesty, on his part, promises, dur- 

 ing the term of the present treaty, 

 not to conclude a peace with 

 France, without including in it his 

 electoral highness, and regulating 

 his interests by means of it. 



Art. 14. His Britannic majesty 

 promises to be mindful of the secu- 

 rity of the territories and possessions 

 of his electoral highness, and as far 

 as depends on him, and the circum- 

 stances of the war and the good of 



