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with the urgent necessity of esta- 

 blishing with each other a close 

 concert for the maintenance of the 

 independence of the North, and 

 in order to accelerate the so much 

 wished for epocha of a general 

 peace, have agreed to provide for 

 this two-fold object by the present 

 •Treaty. For this purpose they 

 have chosen for their plenipoten- 

 tiaries, namely, his royal high- 

 ness the Prince Regent, in the 

 name and on behalf of his ma- 

 jesty the king of the United King- 

 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 the honourable Alexander Hope, 

 major-general of his majesty's 

 armies ; and Edward Thornton, 

 esq., his envoy extraordinary and 

 minister plenipotentiary to his ma- 

 jesty the king of Sweden ; and 

 his majesty the king of Sweden 

 Lawrence d'Engestrom, one of the 

 lords of the kingdom of Sweden, 

 minister of state and for foreign 

 affairs, chancellor of the univer- 

 sity of Lund, knight commander 

 of the King's Orders, Knight of 

 the Royal Order of Charles XIII, 

 Great Eagle of the Legion of Ho- 

 nour of France ; and Gustavus 

 Baron de Wetterstedt, Chancellor 

 of the Court, commander of the 

 order of the Polar Star, one of 

 the eighteen of the Swedish Aca- 

 demy ; who, after having exchang- 

 ed their respective full powers, 

 found in good and due form, have 

 agreed upon the following articles : 

 Art. I. His majesty the king of 

 Sweden engages to employ a corps 

 of not less than 30,000 men, in a 

 direct operation upon the conti- 

 Bent against the common enemies 

 of the two high ccntracting parties. 

 This army shall act in concert with 

 the Russian troops placed under 

 the command of his royal high- 



ness the Prince Royal of Sweden, 

 according to stipulations to this 

 effect already existing between the 

 courts of Stockholm and St. Peters- 

 burgh. 



Art. II. The said courts hav- 

 ing communicated to his Britan- 

 nic majesty the engageinents sub- 

 sisting between them, and having 

 formally demanded hife said ma- 

 jesty's accession thereto, and his 

 majesty the king of Sweden hav- 

 ing, by the stipulations contained 

 in the preceding article, given a 

 proof of the desire which animates 

 him to contribute also on his part 

 to the success of the common 

 cause ; his Britannic majesty be- 

 ing desirous in return to give an 

 immediate and unequivocal proof 

 of his resolution to join his in- 

 terests to those of Sweden, and 

 Russia, promises and engages by 

 the present Treaty to accede to the 

 conventions already existing be- 

 tween those two powers, insomuch 

 that his Britannic majesty will not 

 only not oppose any obstacle to the 

 annexation and union in perpetuity 

 of the kingdom of Norway as an 

 integral part, to the kingdom of 

 Sweden, but also will assist the 

 views of his majesty the king of 

 Sweden to that effect, either by 

 his good offices, or by employing, 

 if it should be necessary, his naval 

 co-operation in concert with the 

 Swedish or Russian forces. It is, 

 nevertheless, to be understood, that 

 recourse shall not be had to force 

 for effecting the union of Norway 

 to Sweden, unless his majesty the 

 king of Denmark shall have pre- 

 viously refused to join the alliance 

 of the North, upon the conditions 

 stipulated in the engagements 

 subsisting between the courts of 

 Stockholm and St. Petersbur^h ; 



