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STATE PAPERS. 
ef the retrocession, by the Can- 
ton of Geneva, -of that territory 
situated between the road of 
Euron and the lake, which had 
been ceded by his Sardinian Ma- 
jesty, by the Act of the 29th of 
March, 1815. 
The French Government hav- 
ing consented to withdraw its lines 
of Custom and Excise from the 
frontiers of Switzerland, on the 
side of the Jura, the Cabinets of 
the Allied Powers will employ 
their good offices for inducing his 
Sardinian Majesty to withdraw, 
in like manner, his lines of Cus- 
tom and Excise, on the side. of 
Savoy, at least upwards of a league 
from the Swiss frontiers, and on 
the outside of the great road of 
Saleve, and of the mountains of 
Sion and of Waache. 
His Majesty the King of Sar- 
dinia shall receive, moreover, out 
of that part of the French con- 
tribution which is destined for 
the strengthening the line of de- 
fence of the States bordering upon 
France, the sum of ten millions 
of francs, which is to be laid out 
in fortifying his frontiers, in con- 
formity with the plans and regu- 
lations which the Powers shall 
settle in this respect. 
It is likewise agreed, that, in 
consideration of the advantages 
which his Sardinian Majesty will 
derive from these dispositions, 
both in the extension and in the 
means for defending his territory, 
that part of the pecuniary indem- 
nity payable by France, to which 
his said Majesty might lay claim, 
shall serve towards putting the 
indemnities of Austria and Prussia 
on the level of a just propor- 
tion. 
419 
STATE PAPER. 
To his Excellency the Duc de 
Ttichelieu. 
The Allied Sovereigns having 
confided to Marshal the Duke of 
Wellington the command in 
chief of those of their troops, 
which, according to the 5th Ar- 
ticle of the Treaty, concluded this 
day with France, are to remain 
in this country during a certain 
number of years, the undersigned 
Ministers, &c. &c. &c. think it 
their duty to give some explana- 
tion to his Excellency the Duke 
de Richelieu as to the nature and 
extent of the powers attached to 
this command. 
Although chiefly guided with 
respect to this measure, by mo- 
tives tending to the safety and 
welfare of their subjects, and be~ 
ing very far from having any in- 
tention of employing their troops” 
in aid of the Police, or of the in- 
ternal Administration of France, 
or in any manner that might 
compromise or interfere witli 
the free exercise of the Royal 
authority in this country, the 
Allied Sovereigns have, however, 
in consideration of the high inte- 
rest whicli they take in support- 
ing the power of legitimate Sove- 
reigns, promised to his most Chris- 
tian Majesty to support him with 
their arms against every revolu- 
tionary convulsion which might 
tend to overthrow by force, the or- 
der of things at present establish- 
ed, aud to menace, also, again, the 
general tranquillity of Europe. 
They do not, however, dissemble, 
that in the variety of forms under 
which the revolutionary spirit 
might again manifest itself in 
Di Franee, 
