366 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



tries comprised between the sea, 

 the frontiers of France, and the 

 Meuse, leaves undefined their li- 

 mits on the right bank of that 

 river; and their said Majesties 

 having resolved to conclude a se- 

 parate Treaty on this subject, con- 

 formably to the arrangements of 

 the Congress of Vienna, have ap- 

 pointed Plenipotentiaries to con- 

 cert, agree upon, and sign what- 

 ever relates to this subject, viz. : — 

 Plenipotentiaries, the Earl of Clan- 

 carty, the Sleur Gerhard Charles 

 Baron de Spaen de Voorstonden, 

 and the Sieur Hans Christopher 

 Erneste Baron de Gagern, who, 

 after having exchanged their full 

 powers, found in good and due 

 form, have agreed to the follow- 

 ing articles : — 



Art. 1. The old United Pro- 

 vinces of the Netherlands, and the 

 former Belgic Provinces, both 

 within the limits fixed by the fol- 

 lowing article, shall form, to- 

 gether with the countries desig- 

 nated in the same article, under 

 the sovereignty of his Royal 

 Highness the Prince of Orange- 

 Nassau, Sovereign Piince of the 

 United Provinces, the kingdom of 

 the Netherlands, hereditary in the 

 order of succession already estab- 

 lished by the Act of the Constitu- 

 tion of the said United Provinces. 

 His Majesty the Emperor of Au- 

 stria, King of Hungary and Bo- 

 hemia, acknowledges the title and 

 prerogatives of the royal dignity 

 in the House of Orange-Nassau. 



Art. 2. The line comprising the 

 territories which shall compose 

 the kingdom of tlie Netherlands, 

 is determined in the following 

 manner : — 



It leaves the sea, and extends 

 along the frontiers of France on 



the side of the Netherlands, as 

 rectified and fixed by the third ar- 

 ticle of the Treaty of Paris of the 

 30th May, 1814, to the Meuse; 

 thence along the same frontiers to 

 the old limits of the duchy of 

 Luxemburg; from this point it 

 follows the direction of the limits 

 between that duchy and the old 

 bishoprick of Liege, till it meets 

 (to the south of Deiflfelt) the wes- 

 tern limits of that canton, and of 

 that of Malmedy, to the point 

 where the latter reaches the li- 

 mits between the old departments 

 of the Ourthe and the Roer ; it 

 then goes along these limits to 

 where they touch those of the 

 former French canton of Eupen, 

 in the duchy of Limburg, and fol- 

 lowing the western limit of that 

 canton in a northerly direction, 

 leaving to the right a small part 

 of the former French canton of 

 Aubel, joins, at the point of con- 

 tact of the three old departments 

 of the Ourthe, the Lower Meuse, 

 and the Roer; parting again from 

 this point, this line follows that 

 which divides the two latter de- 

 partments, until it reaches the 

 Worm (a river falling into the 

 Roer) and goes along this river 

 to the point where it again reaches 

 the limit of these two departments, 

 pursues this limit to the south of 

 Hillensberg (the old department 

 of the Roer) from whence it re- 

 ascends to the north, and leaving 

 Hillensberg to the right, and di- 

 viding the canton of Sittard into 

 two nearly equal parts, so that 

 Sitturd and Susteron remain on 

 the left, it reaches the old Dutch 

 territory ; from whence, leaving 

 this territory to the left, it goes 

 on, following its eastern frontier, 

 to the point where it touches the 



old 



