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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



the general cause shall allow it, to 

 direct military operations in such a 

 manner that the states of his elec- 

 toral highness, at present occupied 

 by his own troops, or those of the 

 united armies, be covered, and, as 

 much as possible, spared. Should, 

 nevertheless, notwithstanding the 

 measures taken for that purpose, any 

 part of the above-mentioned states 

 of his electoral highness be attack- 

 ed by the enemy, in consequence 

 of the present treaty, his Britannic 

 majesty, conjointly v.-ith his allies, 

 will concert measures to procure 

 his electoral highness an indemni- 

 fication proportionate to the loss 

 which one or other of the provinces 

 may have suffered by such attack. 



Art. 1 5. To give to his electoral 

 highness a stiU greater proof of his 

 friendship, and of his sincere parti- 

 cipation in the welfare of the elec- 

 torate, his Britannic majesty will 

 proceed in the same manner with 

 respect to the other possessions of his 

 electoral higliness, so as the same 

 shall be re-conquered and wrested 

 from the hands of the enemy ; and 

 will, conjointly with his allies, ac- 

 tively intercede, on tlie conclusion 

 of a general peace, that the elec- 

 toral house be restored to the pos- 

 session of the states which it en- 

 joyed at the commencement of the 

 present war, such as they were at 

 that time. 



Art. 1 6". The corps stipulated in 

 the present treaty may be increased 

 to 6,000 men, by means of an aug- 

 mentation of the expenses for raising 

 and equipping the troops, as well 

 as the pay and other emoluments, 

 to be calculated on the basis of the 

 present treaty, in proportion to the 

 increase of men which the high 

 contracting powers may agree upon. 



Art. 1 7. The conditions and arti- 



cles of the present convention shall 

 be communicated to his imperial 

 and royal majesty, the Roman em- 

 peror. He shall be at liberty to 

 join in it, as far as the nature of the 

 different articles agreed upon shall 

 permit, as well as in all alterations 

 and additions that might hereafter 

 be made by the high contracting 

 parties. 



Art. 18. The ratifications of the 

 present treaty shall be exchanged 

 within four weeks, or sooner, if pos- 

 sible. In testimony thereof, the un- 

 derwritten have signed, and afiixed 

 their seals to the present treaty. 



(Signed) W. Wickham. 



Henry count Spaur. 

 Done at Psora, near Donaues- 

 chingen, April 30, 1 800. 



Copij of a Letter from Mr. Merry, 

 the British Minister at Copen- 

 hagen, to Count Bernstorff. 



Copenhagen, April 10, 1800. 



THE importance which the 

 Danish court must necessarily 

 attach to the event which hap- 

 pened in the month of December 

 last, in the neighbourhood of Gibral- 

 tar, between some frigates of the 

 king and the frigate of his Danish 

 majesty, named Haufersen, com- 

 manded by captain Van Dockum, 

 and the orders which, in conse- 

 quence, have been sent me by my 

 court upon this point, impose upon 

 me the painful duty of repeating to 

 you, in writing, the complaint which 

 I had the honour to make to you 

 upon this point by word of mouth, 

 in the audience which you had the 

 goodness to grant me for this pur- 

 pose three days ago. 



The facts of this affair are in 

 themselves very simple, and I think 



