728 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



tlie west of the Thalwag to Swe- 

 den. 



Immediatel}' after the exchange 

 of the ratifications, engineers shall 

 be appointed on each side, who 

 shall proceed to thebefore-mention- 

 ed places, to fix the limits along 

 the rivers Tornea and Muonio, ac- 

 cording to the above described line. 



VI. His majesty the emperor 

 of all the Russias having already 

 given the most manifest proofs of 

 the clemency and justice with which 

 he has resolved to govern the inha- 

 bitants of the countries which 

 he has acquired, by generously, and 

 of his own spontaneous act, assur- 

 ing to them the free exercise of 

 their religion, rights, property, and 

 privilege, his Swedish majesty con- 

 siders himself thereby dispensed 

 from performing the otherwise 

 sacred duty of making reservations 

 in the above respects, in favour of 

 his former subjects. 



VII. On the signature of the 

 present treaty, information there- 

 of shall be transmitted immediate- 

 ly, and with the greatest celerity, to 

 the generals of the respective 

 armies, and hostilities shall entire- 

 ly cease on both sides, both by sea 

 and land. Those acts of hostility 

 which may in the mean time be com- 

 mitted, shall be regarded as null, 

 and shall not infringe this treaty. 

 Whatever may be, during the inter- 

 vening period, taken or conquered, 

 on the one side or the other, shall 

 be faithfully restored. 



VIIL Within four weeks after 

 the exchange of the ratifications of 

 the present treaty, the troops of his 

 majesty the emperor of Russia shall 

 evacuate West Bothnia, and repass 

 the river Tornea. 



During the said four weeks, there 

 fihall be made no requisition of any 



kind whatever on the inhabitants ; 

 and the Russian army shall draw 

 its supplies and subsistence from 

 its own magazines, established in 

 the towns of West Bothnia. 



If during the negociations, the 

 imperial troops have penetrated in 

 any other direction into the king- 

 dom of Sweden, they shall evacuate 

 the countries they have occupied, 

 in virtue of the before stipulated 

 conditions. 



IX. All the prisoners of war, 

 made on either side, by sea or land, 

 and all the hostages delivered 

 during the war, shall be restored 

 in mass, and without ransom, as 

 speedily as possible ; but at the 

 latest within three months reckon- 

 ing from the exchange of the 

 ratifications ; but if any prisoners 

 may be prevented by sickness, 

 or other cause, from returning into 

 their country within the period 

 specified, they shall not thereby be 

 considered as having forfeited the 

 right stipulated above. They shall 

 be obliged to discharge, or to give 

 security for, the debts they may 

 have contracted, during their cap- 

 tivity, with the inhabitants of the 

 country in which they may have 

 been detained. 



The expenses which may have 

 been incurred by the high con- 

 tracting parties, for all subsist- 

 ence and maintenance of the prison- 

 ers, shall be reciprocally renounced, 

 and provisions shall respectively 

 be made for their subsistence, and 

 the expense for their journey to the 

 frontiers of both places, where com- 

 missioners from their sovereigns 

 shall be directed to receive them. 



The Finland soldiers and seamen 

 are, on the part of his majesty the 

 emperor of Russia, excepted from 

 this restitution, with reference to 



the 



