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ANNUAL REGIS rER, 1813. 



and his majesty the king of 

 Sweden engages, that this union 

 shall take place with every possible 

 regard and consideration for the 

 happiness and liberty of the people 

 of Norway. 



Art. III. In order to give more 

 effect to the engagements con< 

 tracted by his majesty the king of 

 Sweden, in the first article of the 

 present treaty, which have for 

 object direct operations against 

 the common enemies of the two 

 powers, and in order to put his 

 Swedish majesty in a state to begin 

 without loss of time, and as soon 

 as the season shall permit, the said 

 operations, his Britannic majesty 

 engages to furnish to his majesty 

 the king of Sweden (independent- 

 ly of other succours which general 

 circumstances may place at his dis- 

 posal) for the service of the cam- 

 paign of the present year, as well 

 as for the equipment, the transport, 

 and maintenance of his troops, the 

 sura of one million sterling, pay- 

 able at London monthly, to the 

 agent who shall be authorised by 

 his Swedish majesty to receive the 

 same, in such manner as not to 

 exceed the payment of 200,000/. 

 sterling each month, until the 

 whole shall be paid. 



Art. IV. It is agreed between 

 the two high contracting parties, 

 that an advance, of which the 

 amount and the time of payment 

 shall be determined between them, 

 and which is to be deducted from the 

 million before stipulated, shall be 

 made to his majesty the king of 

 Sweden for " mise en campagne" 

 and for the first march of the 

 troops ; the remainder of the before- 

 mentioned succours are to com- 

 mence from the day of the landing of 

 the Swedish army, as it is stipulated 



by the two high contracting parties 

 in the first article of the present 

 treaty. 



Art. V. The two high con- 

 tracting parties being desirous of 

 giving a solid and lasting gua- 

 rantee to their relations, as well 

 political as commercial, his Britan- 

 nic majesty, animated with a desire 

 to give to his ally evident proofs 

 of his sincere friendship, consents 

 to cede to his majesty the king of 

 Sweden, and to his successors to 

 the Crown of Sweden, in the order 

 of succession established by his said 

 majesty, and the States-General of 

 his kingdom, under date the 26th 

 of September, 1810, the possession 

 of Guadaloupe, in the West Indies, 

 and to transfer to his Swedish ma- 

 jesty all the rights of his Britannic 

 majesty over that island, in so far as 

 his said majesty actually possesses 

 thesarae. This colony shall be given 

 up to the commissioners of his ma- 

 jesty the king of Sweden in the 

 course of the month of August, of 

 the present year, or three months 

 after the landing of the Swedish 

 troops on the continent ; the whole 

 to take place according to the con- 

 ditions agreed upon between the 

 two high contracting parties, in 

 the separate article annexed to the 

 present treaty. 



Art VI. As a reciprocal conse- 

 quence of what has been stipulated 

 in the preceding article, his ma- 

 jesty the king of Sweden engages 

 to grant, for the space of twenty 

 years, to take date from the ex- 

 change of the ratifications of the 

 present treaty, to the subjects of 

 his Britannic majesty, the right of 

 entrepot in the ports of Gotten- 

 burgh, Carlshamn, and Stralsund 

 (whenever this last-mentionedplace 

 shall return under the Swedish do- 



