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STATE PAPER S.

TREATIES.

Subftance of the Partition Treaty between the Courts in concert, concluded and figned at Pavia, in the Month of July 1791.

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IS Majefty the Emperor will retake all that Louis XIV. conquered in the Auftrian Netherlands; and uniting these provinces to the faid Netherlands, will give them to his Serene Highness the Elector Palatine, fo that these new poffeffions added to the Palatinate, may hereafter have the name of Austrasia.

His Majefty the Emperor will preferve, for ever, the property and poffeffion of Bavaria, to make in future an indivisible mafs with the domains and hereditary poffeffions of the house of Auftria.

"Her Serene Highness the Archduchefs Maria-Christina shall be, conjointly with his Serene Hignefs her nephew, the Archduke Charles, put into hereditary poffeffion of the Duchy of Lorraine.

"Alface fhall be reftored to the Empire, and the Bishop of Strafburgh, as well as the chapter, fhall recover their ancient privileges, and the ecclefiaftical fovereigns of Germany shall do the fame.

"If the Swifs Cantons confent and accede to the coalition, it may be propofed to them to annex to the Helvetic league the Bishopric of Porentrui, the defiles of Franche-Compté, and even thofe of Tyrol, with the neighbouring bailiwicks, as well as the territory of Verfoy, which interfects the Pays de Vaud,

"Should his Majefty the King of Sardinia fubfcribe to the coalition, la Breffe, la Bugey, and the Pays de Gex ufurped by France from Savoy, fhall be restored to him.

"In cafe his Sardinian Majefty can make a grand diverfion, he fhall be fuffered to take Dauphiny to belong to him for ever, as the nearest defcendant of the ancient Dauphins.

"His Majefty the King of Spain fhall have Rouffillon and Bearn, with the ifland of Corfica, and he fhall take poffeffion of the French part of Saint-Domingo.

"Her Majesty the Emprefs of all the Ruffias fhall take upon

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herfelf the invasion of Poland, and at the fame time retain Kaminieck, with that part of Padolia which borders on Moldavia.

"His Majefty the Emperor fhall oblige the Porte to give up Choczim, as well as the fmall forts of Servia, and those on the river Lurna.

"His Majesty the King of Pruffia, by means of the above-mentioned invafion of the Emprefs of all the Ruflias into Poland, shall make an acquifition of Thorn and Dantzic, and there unite the Palatinate on the east to the confines of Silefia.

"His Majefty the King of Pruflia fhall befides acquire Luface, and his Serene Highnefs the Elector of Saxony fhall in exchange receive the rest of Poland, and occupy the throne as hereditary fovereign.

"His Majefty the prefent King of Poland fhall abdicate the throne, on receiving a fuitable annuity.

"His Royal Highnefs the Elector of Saxony fhall give his daughter in marriage to his Serene Highnefs, the youngeft fon of his Royal Highnefs the Grand Duke of all the Ruffias, who will be the father of the race of the hereditary Kings of Poland and Lithuania.

(Signed)

"LEOPOLD,

"PRINCE NASSAU,

"COUNT FLORIDA BLANCA,
"BISCHOFFSWERDER."

Obfervations. The King of England acceded to this treaty in March 1792. And Holland acceded afterwards, provided the arrangements refpecting their limits with his Imperial Majefty fhould be made according to the defire of the Republic before the partition

Spain renounced it when Count d'Aranda came into office as minifter, giving affurances however of the strictest neutrality.

Subftance of the Convention between the Emperor and the King of
Pruffia.

HIS Majefty the Emperor, and his Majefty the King of Pruffia,

having heard the wifhes and representations of Monfieur (the French King's brother), and the Count d'Artois, do jointly declare, that they look upon the actual fituation of His Majefty the King of France as an object of common concern to all the Sovereigns of Europe. They hope that this concern will, doubtlefs, be acknowledged by all the Powers, from whom aflistance is required; and that, in confequence, they will not refuse employing, in conjunction with Their faid Majefties, the most efficacious means, relative to their forces, in order to enable the King of France to confolidate, in the moft perfect liberty, the bafis of a Monarchical Government, fuitable both to the rights of Sovereigns, and the welfare of the French Nation-Then, and in this cafe, their faid Majefties the Emperor and the King

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of Pruffia are determined to act fpeedily, with mutual concord and with neceffary forces, to obtain the propofed end in common. Mean-while they will give to their troops neceffary orders that they may be ready for putting themselves in a state of activity. Pilnits, the 27th of Auguft, 1791.

En attendant elles donneront à leurs troupes les ordres con. venables pour qu'elles foient à portée de fe mettre en activité. A Pilnitz, le 27 Aout, 1791,

Signés,

LEOPOLD-&-FREDERIC-GUILLAUME.

Convention between his Britannic Majefty and the Empress of Ruffia. Signed at London, the 25th of March, 1793.

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HE perfons who have exercifed the power of Government in France, after having plunged their own country into the moft dreadful miferies, having adopted towards the other powers of Europe measures equally unjust and offenfive, conducting themselves in that refpect by principles incompatible with the fecurity and tranquillity of all independent ftates, and even with the existence of all focial order; and having actually rendered themselves guilty of the most unjuft and injurious aggreffion, by laying an embargo on all the British and Ruffian fhips which were in the ports of France: an aggreflion followed by a declaration 1 of war against his Britannic Majefty, and his ally the republic of the United Provinces; their Majefties the King of Great Britain, and the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, have thought proper to concert together upon the means of oppofing a barrier to the dangers which threaten all Europe, in confequence of fuch principles, views and conduct.

Their Majefties have therefore authorifed their refpective Minifters, to wit, the King of Great Britain, the most illustrious and moft excellent Lord William Wyndham, Baron Grenville of Wotton, one of his Majefty's Privy Council, and his principal Secretary of State for the department of foreign affairs; and her Majefty the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, the moft illustrious and moft excellent Lord Count Simon de Woronzow, Lieutenantgeneral of her Imperial Majefty's armies, her Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary to the King of Great Britain, and Knight of the orders of St. Alexander Newíky, of the mili tary order of St. George of the third class, and of St. Vladimir, grand Crofs of the first class; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, have agreed to the following articles.

Article I. Their Majefties, in conformity to the ancient ties of

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friendship by which they and their auguft predeceffors have been united, and which they are defirous of cultivating and extending as much as poffible, will exert all their endeavours, and will concert together ultimately for aflifting and fuccouring each other mutually, in the courfe of the prefent war, in order to procure for themselves, at the peace, that fatisfaction and fecurity which they have a right to expect, and to guaranty for the future the public tranquillity and fecurity of Europe.

II. For this end, their Majefties engage to employ their refpective forces, as far as the circumftances in which they may find themselves fhall permit, in carrying on the juft and neceflary war in which they are engaged against France; and they reciprocally promife not to lay down their arms, but by common confent, without having obtained restitution of all the conquefts which France may have made upon either of their faid Majefties, or upon fuch other of the powers, friends, or allies of their faid Majefties, to whom they fhall judge proper to extend this guarantee, by common confent.

III. Their faid Majefties reciprocally engage to shut all their ports against French fhips, not to permit the exportation, in any cafe, from their faid ports for France, of any military or naval ftores, or corn, grain, falt meat, or other provifions; and to take all other meafures in their power for injuring the commerce of France, and for bringing her, by fuch means, to just conditions of peace.

IV. Their Majefties engage to unite all their efforts to prevent other powers, not implicated in this war, from giving, on this occafion of common concern to every civilifed ftate, any protection whatever, directly or indirectly, in confequence of their neutrality, to the commerce or property of the French, on the fea, or in the ports of France.

V. Their Majefties, defiring mutually and ardently to confirm and confolidate, as much as poffible, the friendship and union now fubfifting between them, and to protect and extend the commerce between their respective fubjects, will authorise their Ministers to proceed, without delay, to the formation of a definitive arrangement for the treaty of alliance and commerce. In the mean time, and until that happy work can be effected, they have agreed to renew, provifionally, the treaty of 1766, by a preliminary agreement of the fame date with this Convention, and exchanged in like manner between the above-mentioned Minifters.

VI. His Britannic Majefty, and her Imperial Majesty of all the Ruffias, engage to ratify the prefent convention; and the ratifications thereof fhall be exchanged in the space of three months, or fooner if it can be done, to be computed from the day of the fignature.

In witnefs whereof we, the underfigned Plenipotentiaries of their Majefties the King of Great Britain and the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, have figned the prefent Convention, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto.

Done at London, the 25th day of March, 1793.

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Treaty between his Britannic Majefly and the Landgrave of Heffe Caffel. Signed at Caffel the 10th of April, 1793.

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E it known to thofe whom it may concern, that his Majefty the King of Great Britain, and his Serene Highness the Landgrave of Heffe Caffel, in confideration of the ftrict ties which unite the intereft of their refpective Houfes, and having judged that, in the prefent fituation of affairs, it would contribute to the reciprocal welfare of Great Britain and of Heffe, to cement and strengthen, by a new treaty of alliance, the connection which fubfifts between them, his Britannic Majefty, in order to regulate the objects relative to this alliance, has thought proper to fend to Caffel the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Elgin and of Kinkardine, Baron Bruce of Kinrofs, his Minifter Plenipotentiary; and his Serene Highnefs has nominated, on his part, for the fame purpose, the Baron Maurice Frederick, of Munchaufen, his actual Minister of State, Privy Counsellor, and Knight of the Order of the Golden Lion, and his Director of the College and Treafury of War; and John Francis Kunckel, Privy Counsellor of War: who, being furnished with the neceffary full powers, have agreed to take for bafis of the present treaty, the treaties which were formerly concluded between Great Britain and Heffe, to adopt fuch parts of them as may be applicable to the present circumstances, or to fettle by new articles thofe points which it may be neceffary to regulate otherwife. Every thing, which fhall not otherwife be fettled, fhall be deemed fubfifting in full force, in the manner expreffed in the above-mentioned treaties; and as it is not poffible to fpecify each particular cafe, every thing which fhall not appear to be determined in a precifemanner, either in the prefent treaty, or in the former treaties, fhall be fettled with equity and good faith, in conformity to the fame principles, which it is agreed on both fides to adopt, for the regulation of fuch cafes, whether during the courfe of the war, or after its conclufion.

Article I. There fhall be therefore, in virtue of this treaty be tween his Majefty the King of Great Britain and his Serene High

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