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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



Art. II. The high contracting 

 powers mutually engage to enter 

 into no separate negociations with 

 the common enemy, and to con- 

 clude neither ptace, cessation of 

 hostilities, nor any convention what- 

 soever, except by joint consent of 

 them all. 



They further engage never to 

 lay down their arms till the object 

 of the war, as they have agreed 

 upon it among themselves, shall 

 be fully obtained. 



Art. 111. In order to obtain 

 this great object as soon as possi- 

 ble, his Majesty the King of (Jreat 

 Britain engages to furnish a sub- 

 sidy of 5,000,000/. sterling for the 

 service of the year 1814, which 

 shall be equally divided between 

 the three powers ; and their Impe- 

 rial and Royal Majesties further 

 engage to settle before the 1st of 

 January of every future year, in 

 case (which God forbid) the war 

 should continu- so long, the ad- 

 vance in money that may be ne- 

 cessary in the course of the subse- 

 quent year. 



The subsidy of 5,000,000/. here- 

 in specified, shall be paid at Lon- 

 don in monthly instalments, and 

 in equal proportions, to the Mini- 

 sters of tl^e respective Powers duly 

 authorized to receive it. 



In case peace should be con- 

 cluded between the Allied Powers 

 and France before the end of the 

 year, the subsidies calculated at 

 the rate of 5,000,000/. per ann. 

 shall be paid to the end of the 

 month in which the definitive 

 treaty shall be signed ; and his 

 Britannic Majesty promises, over 

 and above the subsidies here stipu- 

 lated, to pay to Austria and Prus- 

 sia the amount of twc months, and 

 to Russia of four months, to defray 

 tbe e»peii0es of the march of their 



troops back to their own territo- 

 ries. 



Art. IV. The high contracting 

 powers shall be mutually autho- 

 rized to have officers duly com- 

 missioned wiih the Generals com- 

 manding those armies, who may 

 freely correspond with their Go- 

 vernments, and acquaint them of 

 the military events, and of every 

 thing relative to the operations of 

 the armies. 



Art. V. Though the high con- 

 tracting powers have reserved it 

 to thenisflves, in the monient when 

 peace shall be concluded with 

 France, to consult with each other 

 on the means by which they may 

 most certainly secure to Europe, 

 and reciprocally to each other, the 

 maintenance of this peace, they 

 have nevertheless thought it ne- 

 cessary, for the defence of their 

 European possessions, in case of 

 an interference to be apprehended 

 from France, in the order of things 

 resulting from the said peace, to 

 make immediately a defensive 

 convention. 



Art. VI. For this end they 

 mutually agree, that if the domi- 

 nions of one of the high contract- 

 ing powers should be threatened 

 with an invasion from France, 

 the rest shall leave no means un- 

 tried to prevent such invasion by 

 amicable mediation. 



Art. VII. But in case such en- 

 deavours should be fruitless, the 

 high contracting powers engage to 

 send to the party attacked an auxi- 

 liary army of 60,000 men. 



Art. VIII. This army shall con- 

 sist of 50,000 foot and 10,000 

 horse, with a proportionate train 

 of artillery and ammunition. Care 

 should be taken that it shall take 

 the field at the very latest in two 

 months after it is called for, and 



