402 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1SI4. 



Art. 15. The French Imperial 

 guards shall furnish a detachment 

 of from 1,200 to 1,500 men, of 

 all arras, to serve as an escort to 

 the EmperOr Napoleon to Saint 

 Tropes, the place of his embarka- 

 tion. 



Art. 16. There shall be furnish- 

 ed a corvette and the necessary 

 transport-vessels to convey to the 

 place of his destination his Majesty 

 the Emperor Napoleon and his 

 household : and the corvette shall 

 belong, in full property, to his Ma- 

 jesty the Emperor. 



Art. 17. The Emperor Napoleon 

 shall be allowed to take with him 

 and retain as his guard 400 men, 

 volunteers, as well officers, us sub- 

 officers and soldiers. 



Art. 18. No Frenchman who 

 shall have followed the Emperor 

 Napoleon or his family, shall be 

 held to have forfeited his rights 

 as such by not returning to France 

 within three years ; at least they 

 shall not be comprised in the ex- 

 ceptions which the French Go- 

 vernment reserves to itself to grant 

 after the expiration of that term. 



Art. 19, The polish troops of all 

 arms, in the service of France, 

 shall be at liberty to return home, 

 and shall retain their arms and bag- 

 gage, as a testimony of their ho- 

 nourable services. The officers, 

 sub-officers, and soldiers, shall re-" 

 tain the decorations which have 

 been granted to them, and the pen- 

 sions annexed to those decorations. 



Art. 20. The High Allied Pow- 

 ers guarantee the execution of all 

 the articles of the present treaty, 

 and engage to obtain that it shall 

 be adopted and guaranteed by 

 France. 



Art. 21. The present act shall 

 T)e ratified, and the ratifications ex- 



changed at Paris, within two days^ 

 or sooner, if possible. 



Done at Paris, the 11th of 

 April, 1814. 

 (L. S.) The Prince De Metter- 



NICH. 



(L. S.) J. F. Comte De Stadion. 

 (L. S,) Andre Comte De Rasou- 



MOUFFSKY. 



(L. S.) Charles Robert Comte 

 De Nesselrode. 



(L, S.) Chas. AtJG. Baron De 

 Hardenberg. 



(L. S.) Marshal Ney. 

 (L. S.) Caulincourt. 



State Paper. — Spain. 



The King. 



Since the period when Divine 

 Providence, in consequence of the 

 spontaneous and solemn resigna- 

 tion of my august father, placed 

 me on the throne of my ances- 

 tors, of which the kingdom took 

 the oaths to me as heir by its pro- 

 curators assembled in Cortes, ac- 

 cording to the law and custom of 

 the Spanish nation, practised in 

 the most remote periods ; and 

 since that happy day on which I 

 entered the capital amidst the most 

 sincere demonstrations of affection 

 and loyalty with which the people 

 of Madrid came out to receive me, 

 this display of love towards my 

 royal person making a deep im- 

 pression on the French hosts, who, 

 under the cloak of friendship, had 

 advanced as far as that city, being 

 a presage of what that heroic po- 

 pulation would one day perform 

 for their King, and for their ho- 

 nour, and giving that example 

 which the other parts of the king- 

 dom have nobly followed : since 



