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lie Lancey, deputy-quarter-mastcr- 

 general, lieutenant-colonel Dick- 

 son, commanding the artillery, and 

 lieut.-colonel Bouverie, charged 

 with full powers by lieut.-general 

 sir Thomas Graham on the other 

 side. 



The above-named having ex- 

 changed their full powers, agreed 

 as follows . — 



Art. 1. The French troops, form- 

 ing the garrison of Fort La Motte 

 shall be prisoners of war to his 

 majesty's troops and their allies. — 

 Answer : Agreed. 



Art. 2. They shall be embarked 

 in his Britannic majesty's ships and 

 conveyed to England direct, with- 

 out being obliged to go further by 

 land than to the port of Passages. 

 • — Answer: Agreed. 



Art. 3. The general and other 

 superior officers, and the officeis 

 of regiments and of the staff, as 

 Well as the medical officers, shall 

 preserve their swords and their pri- 

 vate baggage, and the non-com- 

 missioned officers and soldiers shall 

 preserve their knapsacks.-- Answer : 

 Agreed. 



Art. 4. The women, the chil- 

 dren, and the old men, not being 

 military, shall be sent back to 

 France, as well as the other non- 

 combatants, preserving their pri- 

 vate baggage. — Answer : Granted 

 for the women and children. The 

 old men and non-combatants must 

 be examined. 



Art. 5. The commissaire de 

 Guerre, Burbier de Guiliy, having 

 whh him tlie wife and the two 

 daughters of his brother, who died 

 at Pamplona, requests sir Thomas 

 Graham to authorise his return to 

 Prance, with the three above-named 

 ladies, as he is their chief support. 

 He is not a military man.""* Answer : 



This article shall be submitted to 

 the marquess of Wellington by 

 sir Thomas Graham. 



Art. 6. The sick and wounded 

 shall be treated according to their 

 rank, and taken care of as English 

 officers and soldiers. — Answer: 

 Agreed, 



Art. 7. The French troops shall 

 file out to morrow morning, by 

 the gate of Mirador, with all the 

 honours of war, with arms and 

 baggage, and drums beating, to the 

 outside, where they will lay down 

 their arms ; the officers of all ranks 

 preserving their swords, their ser- 

 vants, horses, and baggage, and 

 the soldiers their knapsacks, as 

 mentioned in the third article. — 

 Answer: Agreed. 



Art. 8. A detachment of the 

 allied array, consisting of one hun- 

 dred men, shall occupy in the 

 evening the gate of the Mirador, 

 a like detachment shall occupy the 

 gate of the governor's battery. 

 These two port* shall be for that 

 purpose evacuated by the French 

 troops as soon as the present capi- 

 tulation shall be accepted and rati- 

 fied by the commanding generals. 

 — Answer : Agreed. 



Art. 9. The plans and all the 

 papers regarding the fortifications 

 shall be given over to an English 

 officer, and officers shall be named 

 equally on each side, to regulate 

 all that concerns the artillery, en- 

 gineer, and commissariat depart- 

 ment.— Answer : Agreed. 



Art. 10. The general command- 

 ing the French troops shall be au- 

 thorised to send to his excellency 

 Marshal Soult, an officer of the 

 staff, who shall sign his parole of 

 honour, for his exchange with a 

 British officer of his rank. This 

 officer shall be the bearer of a copy of 



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