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usual day or days in each year, on 

 which the interest on the said 

 debt shall be due and payable, to 

 deposit with the Agent of the 

 Russian Government in Holland, 

 their respective proportions of the 

 said interest and sinking fund, as 

 above specified ; provided always, 

 that previously to the advance of 

 each successive instalment so to 

 be paid, the said agent shall be 

 authorised to furnish a certificate 

 to each of the said two high con- 

 tracting parties, declaring that 

 the preceding instalment has been 

 duly applied in discharge of the 

 interest, and in reduction of the 

 principal of the said debt ; to- 

 gether with the corresponding 

 payments, on account of the Rus- 

 sian Government on that part of 

 the debt which shall remain a 

 charge on the said Government. 



Art. 4. The Russian Govern- 

 ment shall continue, as hereto- 

 fore, to be security to the credi- 

 tors for the whole of the said 

 loan, and shall be charged with 

 the administration of the same ; 

 the Governments of the King of 

 the Netherlands and of his Bri- 

 tannic Majesty remaining liable 

 and bound to the Government of 

 his Imperial Majesty, each for the 

 punctual discharge, as above, of 

 the respective proportions of the 

 said charge. 



Art. 5. It is hereby understood 

 and agreed between the High 

 Contracting Parties, that the said 

 payments on the part of their Ma- 

 jesties the King of the Nether- 

 lands and the King of Great Bri- 

 tain, as aforesaid, shall cease and 

 determine, should the possession 

 and sovereignty (which God for- 

 bid,) of the Belgic Provinces at 

 any time pass or be severed from 



the dominions of his Majesty the 

 King of the Netherlands previous 

 to the complete liquidation of the 

 same. It is also understood and 

 agreed betAveen the High Con- 

 tracting Parties, that the pay- 

 ments on the part of their Majes- 

 ties the King of the Netherlands 

 and the King of Great Britain, as 

 aforesaid, shall not be interrupt- 

 ed in the event (which God for- 

 bid) of a war breaking out be- 

 tween any of the three High Con- 

 tracting Parties ; the Govern- 

 ment of his Majesty the Emperor 

 of all the Russias being actually 

 bound to its creditor by a similar 

 aereement. 



(No. 5. — Sardinia.) 

 Treaty belaeen Great Britain and 



Sardinia, signed at Vienna the 



20th May, 1815. 



His Majesty the King of Sar- 

 dinia, &c. &c. being restored to 

 the fuU and entire possession of 

 his Continental States, in the same 

 manner as he possessed them on 

 the 1st of January 179'2, and to 

 the whole of them, with the ex- 

 ception of the part of Savoy ceded 

 to France by the Treaty of Paris 

 of the 30th May, 1814; certain 

 changes having since been agreed 

 upon, during the Congress of Vi- 

 enna, relative to the extent and 

 limits of the said States ; 



Plenipotentiaries — the Earl of 

 Clancarty, &c. : the Sieurs Don 

 Anthony Maria Philip Asinari, 

 Marquis de St. Marfan, &c. ; and 

 Count Don Joachim Alexander 

 Rossi, &c. 



Art. 1. The frontiers of the 

 States of his Majesty the King of 

 Sardinia shall be, on the side of 

 France, such as they were on the 

 1st of January 1792, with the ex- 

 ception 



