170 ANNUAL REGISTER, 
( Translation.) 
MILITARY CONVENTION. 
The undersigned, after having 
exchanged the full powers with 
which they were invested by their 
respective Commanders in Chief, 
have agreed upon the following 
articles ; subject, nevertheless, to 
the ratification of the above-men- 
tioned Commanders in Chief:— 
Article I.—From the day in 
which the present military con- 
vention shall have been signed, 
there shall be an armistice be- 
tween the allied troops and the 
Neapolitan troops, in all parts of 
the kingdom of Naples. 
Art. [f,—All fortified places, ci- 
tadels, and forts of the kingdom 
of Naples, shall be given up in 
their actual state, as well as the 
sea-ports and arsenals of all 
kinds, to the armies of the Allied 
Powers, at the periods fixed up- 
on in the following article, for 
the purpose of being made over 
to his Majesty King Ferdinand 
the Fourth, excepting such of 
them as may before that period 
have already been surrendered. 
The places of Gaeta, Pescara, and 
Ancona, which are already block- 
aded by the land and sea forces 
of the Allied Powers, not being 
in the line of operations of the 
army under the General in Chief 
Carascosa, he declares himself un- 
able to decide upon their fate, as 
the officers commanding them 
are independent, and not under 
his orders. 
Art. III,—The periods for the 
surrender of the fortresses, and 
for the march of the Austrian 
army upon Naples, are fixed as 
follows :— 
Capua shall be given up on the 
1815. 
21st of May, at noon: on that 
day the Austrian army will take 
its position on the canal de Reggi 
Lagui. 
On the 22nd day of May, the 
Austrian army will occupy a po- 
sition in the line of Averse, Fra- 
gola, Meleto, and Juliano. 
The Neapolitan troops will 
march on that day upon Sa- 
lerno, which place they will 
reach in two days, and concen- 
trate their head-quarters in the 
town and its environs, in order 
to wait the decision of their future 
destiny. 
On the 23rd of May, theallied 
army will take possession of the 
city, citadel, and all the forts of 
Naples. 
Art. IV.—All the other for- 
tresses, citadels, and forts (the 
above-mentioned excepted), si- 
tuated within the frontiers of the 
kingdom of Naples, such as Scyl- 
la, Omandea, Reggio, Brindisi, 
Manfredonia, &c. shall be likewise 
surrendered to the allied armies, 
as well as all the depots of artil- 
lery, arsenals, magazines, and 
military establishments of every 
kind, from the moment that this 
Convention shall reach the said 
places. 
Art. V.—The garrisons will 
march out with all the honours 
of war, arms and baggage, cloth- 
ing of the several corps, the pa- 
pers relative to the administra- 
tion ; without artillery. 
The engineer and artillery of- 
ficers of these places shall make 
over to officers of the alliedarmies, 
named for this purpose, all pa- 
pers, plans, inventories of effects 
belonging to both departments 
pendent thereon. 
Art. VI.—Particular arrange- 
