672 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
signed, by virtue of our full powers, 
have signed the present separate ar- 
ticle, and have caused the seal of our 
arms to be affixed thereto. 
Dore at Helsingborg, this 31st 
day of August, 1805. 
(Signed) (L.S.) Henry Pierrepont. 
(L.S.) T. E. Baron de 
Toll. 
No. V.—Treaty between his Majesty 
and the king of Sweden, signed 
at Beckascog, 3d Oét. 1805. 
In the name 68 the Most Holy and 
Undivided Trinity ! 
Art. I. There shall be a perfce& 
understanding, friendship, and als 
liance, between his Britannic ma- 
jesty and his majesty the king of 
Sweden. 
II. The convention concluded 
between their said majesties on the 
3ist of August last, is hereby re- 
' mewed, and shall remain in full 
force and validity, independent of 
the new stipulations contained in 
the present treaty. 
Ill. His majesty the king of 
Sweden, desirons of co-operating 
with effeet towards the success of 
the general plan, engages to furnish 
a corps of troops destined to act 
against the common enemy, in con- 
- cert with the allies, and especially 
with the troops of his imperial ma- 
jesty of all the Russias which shall be 
fanded in Pomerania. The number 
of Swedish troops employed for this. 
purpose, shall be fixed in every case 
at 12,000 men. 
IV. His Britannic majesty, in 
order to facilitate to his Swedish 
majesty the means of acting with vi- 
gour, and conformably to the senti- 
ments of zeal and interest by which 
he is animated for the common 
cause, engages to furnish him an — 
annual subsidy, at the rate of twelve 
pounds ten shillings sterling for 
every man, which subsidy shall be — 
paid in equal proportions at the end 
of each month. 
V. His Britannic majesty, more- — 
over engages, as a compensation 
for the expences of assembling, — 
equipping, and conveying the said — 
troops, to furnish, under the head 
of putting them in motion, a sum 
equal to five months subsidy, to be 
calculated according to the scalelaid — 
down in the preceding article, and 
payable immediately after the ra- 
tification of the present treaty. 
VI. The two high contracting 
parties engage not to lay down their 
arms, nor to conclude peace with 
the commonenemy, but by mutual — 
consent ; but, on the contrary, to 
remain firmly and inseparably. 
united, as long as the war lasts, and 
until the conclusion of a general 
pacification. 
Vil. In. pursuance of the en- * 
gagements agreed upon between the 
two high contracting parties, by 
virtue of the preceding article, not 
to lay down their arms but by com- 
mon consent, his Britannic majesty 
engages to continue the subsidies 
stipulated by the present treaty, un- 
til the end of the war. 
VIII. His Britannic majesty, in 
order as well to cover the expences 
of the Swedish army, as ofall other 
objects conneéted therewith, en- 
gages to continue the subsidies sti- 
pulated by the present treaty, until 
three months after the peace. 
iX. His Britannic majesty, im- 
pressed with the importance of put- 
ting the fortress of Stralsund in the 
best possible state of defence, en- 
gages to place, immediately after the 
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