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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



he may judge the most useful to 

 the operations against the common 

 enemy. 



Art. VI. Although the present 

 convention stipulates only the suc- 

 cours to be supplied by Great Bri- 

 tain during theyear 1813, still, as 

 their reciprocal engagements are to 

 be in force as long as the present 

 war shall last, the two high con- 

 tracting parties formally promise, 

 to concert anew on the aid they 

 are to aflbrd each other, if, which 

 God forbid, the war should be 

 prolonged beyond the above men- 

 tioned period ; such fresh agree- 

 ment being chiefly with the view 

 of giving a greater developement 

 to their efforts. 



Art. VII. The two high con- 

 tracting parties will act in the most 

 perfect concert with regard to mi- 

 litary operations, and will freely 

 communicate to each other what- 

 ever relates to their respective po- 

 licy. They, above all, reciprocally 

 engage, not to negociate separate- 

 ly with their common enemies, 

 to sign neither peace, truce, nor 

 any convention whatsoever, other- 

 wise than by mutual agreement. 



Art. VIII. OfBcers shall be al- 

 lowed to be accredited to the ge- 

 nerals com'ianding in chief the se- 

 veral armies in active service; they 

 shall be at liberty to correspond 

 with their courts, and keep them 

 constantly informed of the military 

 events which may have taken 

 place, as well as of every thing re- 

 lative to the operations of those 

 armies. 



Art. IX.The present convention 

 shall be ratified with the least pos- 

 sible delay. 



In witness whereof the respec- 

 tive plenipotentiaries have signed 

 the present convention with their 



hands, and have thereunto affixed 

 the seal of their arms. 



Done at Reichenbach, the third 

 (fifteenth) June, 1813. 

 (L. S.) Cathcart. 

 (L. S.) Charles Count de 



Nesselrode. 

 (L. S.) Jean D'Anstett. 



Convention between his Britannic 



majesty and his majesty the King 



of Prussia, signed at Reichenbach, 



the UthJune, 1813. 

 In the Name of the iVIost Holy and 

 Undivided Trinity. 



His majesty the King of the 

 united kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and his majesty the 

 King of Prussia, united for the pur- 

 pose of securing the independenceof 

 Europe, have resolved to regulate, 

 by an express convention, the na- 

 ture and extent of the pecuniary 

 succours, and of the aid which they 

 shall furnish to each other. 



To which end they have named 

 their respective plenipotentiaries, 

 viz : — 



His majesty the King of the 

 united kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, the hon. sir Charles 

 William Stewart, knight of the 

 Order of the Bath, &c. member of 

 parliament of the united kingdom, 

 one of his majesty's lieutenant-ge- 

 nerals, and his envoy extraordina- 

 ry and minister plenipotentiary to 

 his majesty the King of Prussia. 



And his majesty the King of 

 Prussia, the baron Charles Augus- 

 tus de Hardenberg, his chancellor 

 of state, knight of the Prussian 

 Orders of theBlackand Red Eagle, 

 of the Iron Cross, of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, of St. Andrew, of St. 

 Alexander Newsky, ofSt. Anne of 

 Russia,and of several others,&c.&c. 



