STATE PAPERS. 



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negotiation which is about to be 

 opened between Sweden, France 

 and Denmark. 



Meanwhile, his Swedish majes- 

 ty engages, from the exchange of 

 the ratifications of the present 

 ■treaty, to order that the ports of 

 the kingdom of Sweden shall be 

 closed, both to the ships of war 

 and merchantmen of Great Britain, 

 with the exception of the importa- 

 tion ofsaltand colonial productions, 

 which habit has rendered necessary 

 to the people of Sweden. 



His majesty the emperor of all 

 the Russias promises before- 

 hand, to consent to every modifi- 

 cation which his allies may consider 

 just and fit to be admitted in favour 

 of Sweden, with respect to com- 

 merce and mercantile navigation. 



IV. His majesty, the king of 

 Sweden, as well for himself as for 

 his successors to the throne and 

 kingdom of Sweden, renounces ir- 

 revocably and in perpetuity, in fa- 

 vour of his majesty the emperor of 

 all the Russias, and his successors 

 to the throne and empire of Rus- 

 sia, all his rights and titles to 

 the governments hereafter specified, 

 which have been conquered from 

 the crown of Sweden by the arms 

 of his imperial majesty in the pre- 

 sent war; namely, thegovernments 

 of Kymenagard, Nyland, and Ta- 

 vastchus, Abo, and Bjorneborg, 

 with the isles Aland, Savolax, and 

 Corelia, Wasa, Uleaborg, and part 

 of West Bothnia, extending to the 

 river of Tornea, as shall be fixed in 

 the subsequent article in the de- 

 markation of the frontiers. 



These governments, with all the 

 inhabitants, towns, ports, fortresses, 

 villages, and islands, as well as all the 

 dependencies, prerogatives, rights, 

 and emoluments, shall henceforth 

 belong, in full property and sove- 



reignty, to the empire of Russia, 

 and shall remain incorporated with 

 it. 



To this effect, his majesty the 

 king of Sweden promises, in the 

 most solemn and obligatory man- 

 ner, as well for himself as for 

 his successors, and all the king- 

 dom of Sweden, never to make 

 any claim, direct or indirect, on 

 the said governments, provinces, 

 islands, and territories, all the in- 

 habitants of which shall, in vir- 

 tue of this renunciation, be re- 

 lieved from the homage and oath 

 of fidelity by which they were 

 bound to the crown of Sweden. 



V. The sea of Aland (Alands 

 Haf) the Gulph of Bothnia, and the 

 rivers Tornea and Muonio, shall 

 hereafter form the frontier between 

 Russia and the kingdom of Sweden. 



The nearest islands, at an equal 

 distance from the main laud of 

 Aland, and Finland, shall belong to 

 Russia, and those which are near- 

 est to the Swedish coast shall be- 

 long to Sweden. 



The most advanced points of the 

 Russian territorj', at the mouth of 

 the river of Tornea, shall be the 

 isle of Bjorken, the port of Rente- 

 hamn, and the peninsula on which 

 the town of Tornea stands. The 

 frontier shall then be extended 

 along the river Tornea to the con- 

 fluence of the two branches of that 

 river, near Kengis. It shall then 

 follow the course of the rivers Muo- 

 nio, passing in the front of Muo- 

 nioniska, Muonio, Ofreby, Pala- 

 joeus, Rultane, Enontekis, Kelotti- 

 jofoi, Paitiko, Nuimaka, Raunula, 

 and Kilpisjaure, to Norway. 



In the course of the rivers Tor- 

 nea and Muonio, such as it has 

 been described, the islands situated 

 to the east of the Thalwag shall 

 belong to Russia, and (hose to 



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