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‘be ratified, and the ratifications 
shall be exchanged in twomonths, 
or sooner, if possible. 
In witness whereof the respec- 
tive Plenipotentiaries have signed 
it, and have affixed thereunto the 
seals of their arms. 
Done at Paris the 5th day of 
November, in the year of our 
Lord, 1815. 
(Signed) (L. 8.) CastLernacu. 
(L. 8.) Weviineron. 
(Signed) (L.S.) Le Prince de 
RasouMOFFsky. 
(L. S.) Le Comte 
Caro D'Isrria, 
DEFINITIVE TREATY. 
In the name of the Most Holy 
and Undivided Trinity, 
The Allied Powers having by 
their united efforts, and by the 
success of their arms, preserved 
France and Europe from the con- 
vulsions with which they were 
menaced by the late enterprise of 
Napolecn Buonaparte, and by the 
revolutionary system re-produced 
in France to promote its success; 
participating at present with his 
most Christian Majesty in the de- 
sire to consolidate, by maintaining 
imviolate the Royal authority, and 
by restoring the operation of the 
eonstitutional caarter, the order 
of things which had been happily 
re-established in France, as also 
in the object of restoring between 
France and her neighbours those 
relations of reciprocal confidence 
and goodwill, which the fatal ef- 
fects of the revolutions and of the 
system of conquest had for solong 
a time disturbéd ; persuaded, at 
the same time, that this last ob- 
ject can only be obtained by an ar- 
rangement framed to secure tothe 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1815. 
Allies proper indemnities for the 
past, and solid guarantees for the 
future, they have, in concert with 
his Majesty the King of France, 
taken into consideration the means 
of giving effect to this arrange- 
ment; and being satisfied that the 
indemnity due to theAllied Powers 
cannot be either entirely territo- 
rial or entirely pecuniary, without 
prejudice to France in the one or 
other ofheressential interests, and 
that it would be more fit to com- 
bine both the modes, in order to 
avoid the inconveniences which 
would result, were either resorted 
to separately: their imperial and 
Royal Majesties have adopted this 
basis for their present transactions; 
and agreeing alike as to the neces= 
sity of retaining for a fixed time in 
the frontier Provinces of France, a 
certain number of allied troops, 
they have determined to com- 
bine their different arrangements, . 
founded upon these bases,in a De- 
finitive Treaty. For this purpose, 
and to this effect, his Majesty the 
King of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, for him- 
self and his Allies on the one part, 
and his Majesty the King of France 
and Navarre on the other part, 
have named their Plenipotenti- 
aries to discuss, settle and sign, 
the said definitive Treaty ; namely, 
his Majesty the King of the 
United Kingdom of Great Bri- 
tam and Ireland, the Right Hon. 
Robert Stewart Viscount Castle- 
reagh, &c.; and the mostillus- 
trious and most noble Lord Arthur, 
Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Wel- 
lington, &c.; and his Majesty the 
King of France and of Navarre, 
the Sieur Armand Emanuel du 
Plessis, Richelieu, Duke of Riche- 
lieu, &e who, having exchanged 
