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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



Art. I. There shall hencefor- 

 ward be peace, friendship, and 

 good understanding between his 

 Majesty the King of Sweden, and 

 his Majesty the King of Denmark ; 

 the high contracting parties shall 

 do every thing in their power to 

 maintain perfect harmony between 

 each other, their respective states 

 and subjects, and avoid all mea- 

 sur«s which might be prejudicial 

 to the peace happily restored be- 

 tween them. 



Art. II. As his Majesty the 

 King of Sweden has unalterably 

 determined, in no respect to sepa- 

 rate the interests of the Allies 

 from his own, and as his Majesty 

 the King of Denmark is desirous 

 that his subjects may again en- 

 joy all the blessings of peace ; and 

 as his Majesty has also received, 

 through the instrumentality of his 

 Royal Highness the Crown Prince 

 of Sweden, positive assurance on 

 the part of the Courts of Russia 

 and Prussia, of their amicable dis- 

 position, to restore their old con- 

 nections of friendship with the 

 Danish Court, such as they ex- 

 isted before the breaking out of 

 hostilities; so they solemnly charge 

 and bind themselves on their side 

 to neglect nothing that may tend 

 to a speedy peace between his Ma- 

 jesty the King of Denmark, and 

 their Majesties the Emperor of 

 Russia and King of Prussia; his 

 Majesty the King of Sweden en- 

 gages to use his mediation with his 

 high Allies, that this salutary ob- 

 ject may be as speedily as possible 

 attained. 



Art. III. His Majesty the King 

 of Denmark, for the purpose of 

 giving a manifest proof of his wish 

 to renew the closest relations with 

 the high Allies of his Swedish 



Majesty, and in the full conviction 

 that the most earnest wishes are 

 cherished on their side to restore a 

 speedy peace, as they have sO' 

 lemnly declared before the break- 

 ing out of hostilities, engages to 

 take an active part in the common 

 cause aganst the Emperor of the 

 French, to declare war against that 

 Power, and in consequence to join 

 an auxiliary Danish corps to the 

 Army of North Germany, under 

 the orders of his Royal Highness 

 the Crown Prince of Sweden ; and 

 all this according to and in pur- 

 suance of the convention that has 

 been settled between his Majesty 

 the King of Denmark, and his 

 Majesty the King of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. 



IV. His Majesty the King of 

 Denmark, for himself and his suc- 

 cessors, renounces for ever and ir- 

 revocably all his rights and claims 

 on the kingdom of Norway, to- 

 gether with possession of the 

 Bishopricks and Dioceses of Christ- 

 iansand, Bergenhuus, Aggerhuus, 

 and Drontheim, besides Nordland 

 and Finmark, as far as the fron- 

 tiers of the Russian empire. 



These bishopricks, dioceses, and 

 provinces, constituting the king- 

 dom of Norway, with their inha- 

 bitants, towns, harbours, for- 

 tresses, villages, and islands, along 

 the whole coast of that kingdom, 

 together with their dependencies, 

 (Greenland, the Ferroe Isles, and 

 Iceland, excepted) ; as well as all 

 privileges, rights, and emoluments 

 thereto belonging, shall belong in 

 full and sovereign property, to the 

 King of Sweden, and make one 

 with his united kingdom. For 

 this purpose his Majesty the King 

 of Denmark binds himself in the 

 most solemn manner, as well for 



