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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



of March, in the year of our Lord 

 one thousand eight hundred and 

 fifteen. 



(No. 4.) — Russia and the Ne- 

 therlands. 

 Treaty between Great Britain, Rus- 

 sia, and the Netherlands, signed 

 at London, May \9th, 1815. 

 His Majesty the King of the 

 , Netherlands being desirous, upon 

 the final re-union of the Belgic 

 Provinces with Holland, to ren- 

 der to the Allied Powers who were 

 pajties to the treaty concluded at 

 Chaumont on the 1st of Marcli, 

 1814, a suitable return for the 

 heavy expense incurred by them 

 in delivering the said territoiies 

 from the power of the enemy ; 

 and the said Powers having, in 

 consideration of arrangements 

 made with each other, mutually 

 agreed to wave their se\ eral pre- 

 tensions under this head, in fa- 

 vour of his Majesty the Emperor 

 of all the Russias ; his said Ma- 

 jesty the King of the Netherlands 

 has thereupon resolved to proceed 

 immediately to execute with his 

 Imperial Majesty a convention to 

 the following effect, to which his 

 Britannic Majesty agrees to be a 

 party, in pursuance of engage- 

 ments taken by his said Majesty 

 with the King of the Netherlands, 

 in a convention signed at Lon- 

 don on the 13th day of August, 

 1S14. (Plenipotentiaries, Lord 

 Castlereagli, Count de Lieven, 

 and Baron Fagel.) 

 "Art. 1. His Majesty the King 

 of the Netheiiands hereby engages 

 to take upon himself a part of the 

 capital and arrears of interests, 

 the 1st of January, 1816, of the 

 Russian Loan made in Hollaiul, 

 through the intervention of the 



house of Hope and Co. in Am- 

 sterdam, to the amount of 25 mil- 

 lions of florins, Dutch currency j 

 the annual interest of which sum, 

 together with an annual payment 

 for the liquidation of the same, 

 as hereafter specified, shall be 

 borne by, and become a charge 

 upon the kingdom of the Nether- 

 lands. And his Majesty the King 

 of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland engages, on 

 his part, to recommend to his 

 Parliament to enable him to take 

 upon himself an equal capital of 

 tliesaid Russian Loan, viz. twenty- 

 five millions of florins, Dutch 

 currency ; the annual interest of 

 which sum, together with an an- 

 nual payment for the liquidation 

 of the same, as hereafter speci- 

 fied, shall be borne by, and be- 

 come a charge upon the govern- 

 ment of his Biitaimic Majesty. 



Art. 1. The future charge, to 

 which their said Belgic and Bri- 

 tannic Majesties shall be respec- 

 tively liable in equal shares on ac- 

 count of the said debt, is to con- 

 sist of an annual interest of .^ per 

 cent on the said capitals, each of 

 25 millions, together with a sink- 

 ingfund of one percent, for the ex- 

 tinction of th.e same, tlie said sink- 

 ingfund beingsubject^ however, to 

 be increased on the demand of the 

 Russian Government to any an- 

 nual sum not exceeding three per 

 cent.; the same to be payable till 

 the capital of the said debt shall 

 be fully discharged, when the 

 aforesaid charge foi- interests and 

 sinking fund shall wholly cease to 

 be borne by their said Belgic and 

 Britannic Majesties respectively. 



i\rt. 3. Their said Belgic and 

 Britannic Majesties respectively 

 bind themselves, on or before the 



usual 



