STATE PAPERS. 



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signing of the present treaty, au 

 account of the same shall be sent, 

 with all possible speed, to the Ge- 

 nerals and armies, in order that 

 hostilities may wholly cease on 

 both sides, both by sea and land. 



XV. The high contracting par- 

 ties engage, that immediately af- 

 ter the signing of the present trea- 

 ty, all contributions and requisi- 

 tions of whatever kind and deno- 

 mination, shall immediately cease, 

 so as that even those which shall 

 have been already ordered shall 

 not be enforced. It is likewise 

 agreed, that all property which has 

 been sequestrated by the Army of 

 North Germany, shall be restored 

 to the owners. Herefrom are 

 excepted such ships and ship-lad- 

 ings as belonged to subjects of the 

 King of Sweden and his Allies, 

 and have been brought into the 

 harbours of the Duchies of Sles- 

 wyk and Holstein ; these shall re- 

 main with their present owners, 

 who shall dispose of them as they 

 think fit. 



[This article then arranges the 

 mode in which the places in Hol- 

 stein and Sleswyk, possessed by the 

 allied troops, are to be evacuated 

 by them.] 



Immediately on the signing of 

 the present treaty the Swedish 

 troops shall enter into Norway, 

 and take possession of all the strong 

 places there. His Majesty the 

 King of Denmark binds himself to 

 give the necessary orders to that 

 effect. 



The Swedish troops shall deli- 

 ver up Swedish Pomerania, and 

 the Isle of Rugen, to the troops of 

 the King of Denmark, as soon as 

 the fortresses of Frederickshall, 

 Konigswinger, Frederickstadt, and 

 Aggerhuus have been taken pos- 

 session of by the Swedish troops. 



DANISH DECLARATION, 



By the care of the Danish go- 

 vernment, the war, which already 

 for fifteen years had devastated 

 Europe, had not disturbed the re- 

 pose of the Danish nation ; when 

 the King, for a moment, saw 

 himself under the necessity of 

 using defensive means, partly for 

 the protection of his subjects' com- 

 merce, and partly for the security 

 of his provinces bordering on Ger- 

 many. The attack made by the 

 English on his Majesty's capital, 

 and carrying off the Danish fleet 

 in the year 1807, put an end to 

 the happy tranquillity which his 

 Majesty had until then been ena- 

 bled to preserve for his subjects. 

 The Danish states at that time had 

 the same common enemy with 

 France, and the consequence was, 

 that an alliance was sought, and 

 concluded, with that power. The 

 Emperor, openly and directly, 

 promised men and money ; and a 

 numerous army immediately mov- 

 ed into the provinces belonging to 

 his Majesty the King. It was 

 agreed that the expense of its sup- 

 port should be defrayed by the 

 French government, and this a- 

 mounted to a sum of several mil- 

 lions of rix-dollars. Without un- 

 dertaking any thing, however, this 

 army remained a burthen longer 

 than the Danish government 

 thought requisite. Theexpenseof 

 its support remained unpaid, and 

 the requests of Denmark on this 

 point were equally fruitless, as 

 those concerning the announced 

 requisitions in money. The situa- 

 tion of the State, whose resources 

 were already diminished by the 

 naval war, and by these novel dis- 

 bursements, became totally ex- 

 hausted; and again suffered a 



