41S ANNUAL REGISTER, 1SI4. 



traordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary to liis Imperial, Royal, 

 and Apostolic Majesty. 



With the following additional 

 articles : — 



Article Additional to the Treaty 

 tcith liuisia. 

 The Duthy of Warsaw having 

 been under the administration of 

 a provisional council established 

 by Russia ever since that coun- 

 try was occupied by her arms, 

 the two hierh contracting: iiarties 

 have agreed to appoint immedi- 

 ately a Special Commission, com- 

 posed on both sides of an equal 

 number of Commissaries, who 

 shall be charged with the exami- 

 nation and liquidation of their re- 

 spective claims, and all the ar- 

 rangements relative thereto. 



The present additional article 

 shall have the same force and 

 effect, as if inserted verbatim m 

 the patent treaty of this date. It 

 shall be ratified, and the ratifica- 

 tions exchanged at the same time; 

 In testimony whereof the respec- 

 tive Plenipotentiaries have signed 

 the same, and affixed thereto the 

 seal of their arms. 



Done at Paris, this 30th of May, 

 1814. 



(Signed) 

 The Prince of Benevent. 

 Andrew Count Rasc- 



MOUFFSKY. 



Charles Robert Count 

 Nessei.rode. 



(L. S.) 

 (L. S.) 



(L. S.) 



Articles Additional to the Treaty 

 with Great Britain. 

 Article I. His most Christian 

 Majesty, participating without re- 

 serve in all the sentiments of his 

 Britannic Majest} relative to a 

 species of commerce which is 

 equally repugnant to the princi- 



ples of natural justice, and the 

 lights of the times in which we 

 live, engages to unite at a future 

 Congress, all his efforts to those 

 of his Britannic Majesty, in order 

 to cause all the Powers of Christen- 

 dom to proclaim the abolition of 

 the Slave Trade, in such manner 

 that the said trade may cease uni- 

 versally, as it shall cease defini- 

 tively, and in all events, on the 

 part of France, within a period of 

 five years, and that besides, pend- 

 ing the duration of this period, no 

 trader in slaves shall be at liberty 

 to import or sell them elsewhere, 

 but in the colonies of the state to 

 which he belongs. 



Art. II. The British Govern- 

 ment and the French Government 

 will immediately appoint Commis- 

 saries to liquidate their respective 

 expenses for the maintenance of 

 prisoners of war, for the purpose 

 of coming to an arrangement on 

 the manner of paying off the ba- 

 lance which shall be found in fa- 

 vour of either of the two powers. 

 Art. III. The prisoners of war 

 respectively shall be bound to dis- 

 charge, before their departure 

 from the place of their detention, 

 the private debts which they may 

 have there contracted, or at least 

 to give satisfactory security. 



Art. IV. There shall be on both 

 sides, immediately after the rati-, 

 fication of the present Treaty, a 

 removal of the sequestration which, 

 since the year 1792, may have 

 been placed on the funds, revenues 

 debts, and all other effects what- 

 ever of the high contracting powers, 

 or of their subjects. 



The same Commissaries men- 

 tioned in Art. II. shall employ 

 themselves in the examination and 

 liquidation of the claims of his 

 Britannic Majesty upon the French 



