STATE PAPERS. 



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and of those of our house, to the 

 well and justly acquired inheri- 

 tance of our ancestors, is acknow- 

 ledged. Our speedy reinstate- 

 ment ought to be the consequence 

 thereof. 



We should be wamtiny to the 

 most sacred duties towards our 

 royal house, and towards our peo- 

 ple, were we to remain silent 

 under the new measures pro- 

 jected against our states at a mo- 

 ment when we are entitled to ex- 

 pect their restitution. The in- 

 tention manifested by the Court 

 of Prussia, of provisionally occu- 

 pying our Saxon States, compels 

 us to forearm our well-founded 

 rights against such a step, and so- 

 lemnly to protest against the con- 

 sequences which may be drawn 

 from such a measure. 



It is before the Congress of 

 Vienna, and in the face of all 

 Europe, that we discharge this 

 duty, by signing these presents 

 with our hand, and at the same 

 time publicly reiterating the decla- 

 ration, communicated some time 

 ago to the Allied Courts, that we 

 will never consent to the cession 

 of the States inherited from our 

 ancestors, and that we will never 

 accept any indemnity or equiva- 

 lent that may be offered to us. 



Given at Frederickfeld, 

 Nov. 4, 1814. 

 (L. S.) Fred. Augustus. 



Treaty of Peace between his Ma- 

 jesty the King of Denmark, and 

 his Majesty the Emperor of 

 Russia, concluded at Hanover on 

 the Sth of February, and ratified 

 at Vienna, on the Idth of No- 

 vember, 1814. 



In the name of the Holy Tri- 

 nity, his Majesty the King of 

 Denmark, and his Majesty the 

 Emperor of Russia, equally ani- 

 mated by a wish to terminate the 

 differences which for a short time 

 have subsisted between them, and 

 to restore on firai foundations that 

 union and good understanding 

 which so long prevailed between 

 their respective states, have for 

 that purpose named and authorized 

 as Plenipotentiaries, viz. his Ma- 

 jesty the King of Denmark, Mr. 

 Edmund Bourke, his Chamberlain, 

 cic. and his Majesty the Emperor 

 of Russia, Baron Peter Suchtelen, 

 General of Engineers, &c. who 

 having exchanged their full powers, 

 and found them in good and 

 proper order, have agreed upon 

 the following articles : — 



Art. 1. There shall be hence- 

 forward peace, friendship, and 

 good understanding between his 

 Majesty the King of Denmark 

 and his Majesty the Emperor of 

 Russia. Both the high contracting 

 Powers will pay the greatest at- 

 tention to the maintaining of com- 

 plete harmony between their re- 

 spective states and subjects, and 

 will carefully avoid every thing 

 that might interrupt the harmony 

 so happily restored. 



II. The political relations, as 

 well as the old treaties, which ex- 

 isted between the two powers be- 

 fore the war, that for a moment 

 broke off their operation, are again 

 restored to full effect by the pre- 

 sent treaty, in so far as they do not 

 militate against treaties which have 

 recently been concluded between 

 the Emperor of Russia and other 

 Sovereigns of the North. 



III. The relations of navigation 



