TREATY FOR THE EVACUATION OF

FRANCE.

In the name of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity!

Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of all the Russias, having repaired to Aix-la-Chapelle, and their Majesties the King of France and Navarre, and the King of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having sent thither their Plenipotentiaries, the Ministry of the five Courts having assembled in conference, and the French Plenipotentiary having made known, that in consequence of the state of France and the faithful execution of the treaty of Nov. 20, 1815, his Most Christian Majesty was desirous that the military occupation stipulated by the fifth article of the said treaty should cease as soon as possible, the Ministry of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, after having, in concert with the said Plenipotentiary of France, maturely examined every thing that could have an influence on such an important decision, declared, that their Sovereigns would admit the principle of the evacuation of the French territory at the end of the third year of the occupation; and wishing to consolidate their resolution in a formal convention, and to secure at the same time the definitive execution of the said treaty of November 20, 1815, their Majesties named (here follow the names of the Ministry), who have agreed upon the following articles

Art. 1.-The troops composing the army of occupation shall be withdrawn from the French territory by the 30th of November next, or sooner if possible.

Art. 2. The strong places and fortresses which the said troops now occupy, shall be surrendered to Commissioners named for that purpose by his

Most Christian Majesty, in the state in which they were at the time of the occupation, conformably to the ninth article of the Convention concluded in execution of the fifth article of the treaty of November 20, 1815.

Art. 3.-The sum destined to provide for the pay, the equipment, and the clothing of the troops of the army of occupation, shall be paid, in all cases, till the 30th of November next, on the same footing on which it has existed since the 1st of December 1817.

Art. 4.-All the pecuniary arrangements between France and the allied powers having been regulated and settled, the sum remaining to be paid by France to complete the execution of the 4th article of the treaty of November 1815, is definitively fixed as 265 millions of francs.

Art. 5.-Of this sum, the amount of 100 millions of effective value shall be paid by an inscription of rentes on the great book of the public debt of France, bearing interest from the 22d of September 1818. The said inscriptions shall be received at the rate of the funds on the 5th of October 1818.

Art. 6.-The remaining 165 millions shall be paid by nine monthly instalments, commencing with the 6th of January next, by draughts on the houses of Hope and Co. and Baring, Brothers, and Co. In the same manner the inscriptions of the rentes, mentioned in the above article, shall be delivered to Commissioners of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, by the royal treasury of France, at the epoch of the complete and definitive evacuation of the French territory.

Art. 7.-At the same epoch, the Commissioners of the said Courts shall deliver to the royal treasury of France the six obligations (engagements) not

yet discharged (acquittes), which shall remain in their hands of the fifteen obligations (engagements) delivered conformably to the second article of the convention, concluded for the execution of the fourth article, of the 20th of November 1815. The said Commissioners shall, at the same time, deliver the inscriptions of seven millions of rentes, created in virtue of the eighth article of the said convention.

Art. 8. The present convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged, at Aix-la-Chapelle, in the course of fifteen days, or sooner, if possible; in the faith of which the respective plenipotentiaries have herewith signed their names, and affixed to it their seal and arms.

Done at Aix-la-Chapelle, the 9th of October, in the year of Grace 1818.

[Here follow the signatures of the Ministers.

We have found the above treaty conformable to our will, in consequence of which we have confirmed and ratified the same, as we do now confirm and ratify it for our heirs and successors.

[Here follow the signatures of the Sovereigns, with the specification of the different years of their several reigns.] Aix-la-Chapelle, Oct. 17, 1818.

PROTOCOL OF Nov. 3.

The Duke of Richelieu represented at the conference, that the terms for the payment of the 165 millions to be furnished by France, according to the Convention of the ninth of October, having been fixed at very near periods, a too rapid exportation of specie has been occasioned, which tends to produce a depreciation in the value of the inscriptions, equally injurious to the interests of all the contracting parties. To remedy this evil, the Duke of Richelieu proposes:

1. That the 165 millions which France was to discharge by monthly

instalments, from the 6th of January to the 6th of September, be discharged in twelve months, by monthly payments from the 6th of January to the 6th of December inclusive; the inte rest for the delay of three months being made good at the rate of 5 per cent.

2. That one hundred millions, in inscriptions, for which the different governments have treated with MM. Baring and Hope, shall be realized by payments made at the same epochs, with the same bonus of interest, in proportion to the delay of three months.

3. That arrangements shall be adopt. ed with the above-mentioned houses, in order that the bills drawn upon them, conformably to article 6th, may be paid in assets, at the different places which may suit the convenience of the governments interested, by avoiding the removal of too great a mass of of specie.

MM. the Ministers Plenipotentiary of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, were unanimously of opinion to admit the proposition of the Duke of Richelieu, saving the enter ing, with respect to article 3d, inte particular arrangements with Messrs Baring and Hope to fix the terms at which the effects in foreign funds should be accepted; and also that, in order to facilitate these arrangements, Mr Baring should be requested to come to Aix-la-Chapelle to take measures for that purpose, in concert with the persons charged with this business. Prince Hardenberg, besides, presented to the protocol the subjoined observa tions in reserve, relative to the arrange ment which the Prussian Government entered into with Mr Baring, for the part of the payments stipulated by the Convention of 9th October, which accrue to the said Government. (Signed)

METTERNICH. RICHELIEU.
CASTLEREAGH. WELLINGTON.
HARDENBERG. BERNSTOFF.
NESSELRODE. CAPO D'ISTRIA.

If the Prussian Government consent to the modifications proposed in the pecuniary stipulations of the convenvention of the 9th of October, it is under the threefold supposition

1. That the particular arrangement of the Prussian government with Messrs Hope and Company, and Baring, Brothers, remain untouched, with the exception of such modifications as the said government may hereafter agree to with these houses.

2. That the loss which may result from the proposed payment in effects in foreign funds, shall be made good to the foreign powers.

3. That the guarantee stipulated for the payments agreed upon shall be exextended to the more remote periods now claimed.

Aix-la-Chapelle, Nov. 5. To Messrs the Special Commissioners of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, at Paris. "GENTLEMEN,-The French government having, for the reasons stated in the Protocol of November 3, desired that the payments stipulated in the convention of October 9, be, as well for the 165 millions as for 100 millions to be discharged in inscriptions of rents, regulated by twelve instalments, the last being the 8th of December 1819, instead of nine, the last of which was to have been the 6th of September; under the condition, nevertheless, of making good this delay of three months by the payment of interest at the rate of 5 per cent; the four courts have unanimously admitted these propositions, in order to avoid a depreciation in the value of the inscriptions of rentes, which would be equally injurious to all the contracting parties. We therefore lose no time in transmitting this resolution, as consigned in the annexed protocol, to you, to take its contents as your information and direction. We have received, in reply to our dispatch of the 15th of Octo.

ber, the note which you have done us the honour to address to us, under the date of the 8th October.

The protocol of distribution, signed at Paris on the 20th of October, 1815, having, in article 13, determined that the recovery of the sums to be paid by France, as well as their final repartition, should be accomplished through your intervention, we cannot do otherwise than assign to you the task of regulating with equity the mode of the repartition of the payments in respect to the general interest.

With respect to the note which the Sieur Dumond requested you would reproduce to us, we have to inform you that the British Government will transmit its directions to him.

(Signed)

METTERNICH. CASTLEREAGH. WELLINGTON. HARDENBERG. BERNSTOFF. NESSELRODE. CAPO D'ISTRIA.

DECLARATION.

"The convention of the 9th of October, which definitively regulated the execution of the engagements agreed to in the treaty of peace of November 20, 1815, is considered by the Sovereigns who concurred therein, as the accomplishment of the work of peace, and as the completion of the political system destined to insure its solidity.

"The intimate union established among the Monarchs, who are joint parties to this system, by their own principles, no less than by the interests of their people, offers to Europe the most sacred pledge of its future tranquillity.

"The object of this union is as simple as it is great and salutary. It does not tend to any new political combination-to any change in the relations sanctioned by existing treaties. Calm and consistent in its proceedings,

it has no other object than the main tenance of peace, and the security of those transactions on which the peace was founded and consolidated,

"The Sovereigns, in forming this august union, have regarded as its fundamental basis their invariable resolution never to depart, either among themselves or in their relations with other states, from the strictest observation of the principles of the rights of nations; principles which, in their application to a state of permanent peace, can alone effectually guarantee the independence of each government, and the stability of the general association.

"Faithful to these principles, the Sovereigns will maintain them equally in those meetings at which they may be personally present, or in those which shall take place among their ministers; whether it shall be their object to discuss in common their own interests, or whether they take cognizance of questions in which other governments shall formally claim their interference. The same spirit which will direct their councils, and reign in their diplomatic communications, shall preside also at these meetings; and the repose of the world shall be constantly their motive and their end.

"It is with such sentiments that the Sovereigns have consummated the work to which they were called. They will not cease to labour for its confirmation and perfection. They solemnly acknowledge, that their duties towards God and the people whom they govern, make it peremptory on them to give to the world, as far as in their power, an example of justice, of concord, of moderation; happy in the power of consecrating, from henceforth, all their efforts to the protection of the arts of peace, to the increase of the internal prosperity of their States, and to the awakening of those senti

ments of religion and morality, whose empire has been but too much enfee bled by the misfortunes of the times. "Aix-la-Chapelle, Nov. 15, 1818. (Signed)

" METTERNICH. HARDENBERG. "RICHELEU. BERNSTOFF. "CASTLEREAGH. NESSELROde. "WELLINGTON. CAPO D'ISTRIA."

CONSTITUtional CharteR OF THE KINGDOM OF Bavaria, publISHED THE 26th MAY.

TITLE I.-General Principles. Art. 1. All the old and new pro vinces of the kingdom of Bavaria form cording to the determinations cona sovereign and monarchial state, actained in this constitutional act.

2. There shall be, for the whole

kingdom, an assembly of the StatesGeneral, divided into two chambers. TITLE II. Of the King, of the Succession to the Crown, and of the Regency.

Art. 1. The King is the supreme Lord of the State; he unites in his person all the prerogatives of supreme power, and exercises them according to the principles which he has himself fixed by this constitutional act. His person is sacred and inviolable.

2. The crown is hereditary in the male line of the royal family, according to the order of primogeniture, and by collateral males from branch to branch.

3. The right of succession can be. long only to legitimate children, sprung from a marriage with a person of equal birth, and with the consent of the King.

The 4th and 5th articles determine the manner in which the female branches shall succeed after the extinction of the male.

6. If, after the extinction of the

male branches, the crown of Bavaria should fall to the monarch of a greater monarchy, who could not, or would not, establish his residence in Bavaria, the crown shall pass to the second prince of this house, and then the rules of succession shall apply to the issue of this prince. But if the crown should fall to the wife of a greater monarch, she becomes Queen; but she shall be obliged to name a viceroy, who shall establish his residence in Bavaria, and after the death of this princess the crown shall pass to the second of her sons.

7. The princes and princesses are major at the completion of eighteen

years.

8. The other relations of the members of the royal family are regulated by family statute.

9. The regency takes place during the minority of the King, or in case he should be for a long time prevented from exercising his functions, without having himself provided for the government of the kingdom.

10. The monarch has the right of chusing among the major princes the Regent for the minority of his successor. If the King has not made a choice, the right belongs to the nearest collateral major, &c.

11. When, from any cause which lasts more than a year, the King shall be prevented from exercising his functions without having himself provided for this case, the States-General shall be informed of the circumstance, and the constitutional regency shall be esta blished with their consent.

12. (Mode of placing in the archives of the royal family the act of the nomination of a Regent.)

13. In case there should not be a collateral male, the regency belongs to the Queen Dowager. In failure of a Queen, the regency passes to that one of the functionaries of the crown whom the last monarch shall have named; or

in failure of such nomination, to the first of these functionaries, unless there occurs a legal obstacle.

14. In all cases the Queen Dowager has the right of superintending the education of her children, under the inspection of the Regent, and conformably to the family statute.

15. The regency shall always be exercised in the name of the King, whether minor, or incapable of exercising his functions. The acts shall be drawn up in his name, and sealed with the usual royal seal; the money shall bear his effigy, his arms, and his titles. The Regent shall sign, Administrator of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

16. The Regent, whoever he be, must, at the moment of entering on his functions, assemble the States-General, and proffer before them, and in the presence of the ministers and councillors of state, the following oath: "I swear to govern the state conformably to the constitution and laws of the kingdom, to maintain the integrity of the kingdom and the rights of the crown, and to deliver faithfully to the King the prerogative of which the exercise is intrusted to me, with the aid of God and of his Holy Gospel."

17. The Regent exercises all the prerogatives of supreme power which are not formally excepted by the char ter.

18. He names only provisionally to all offices, those of justice excepted; he can neither alienate the domains of the crown nor grant fiefs, nor introduce new offices.

19. The Regent is obliged, in every important affair, to take the advice of the whole ministry formed by the council of regency.

20. The Regent shall be accommodated and maintained in the royal palace, and shall have at his disposal the sum of 200,000 florins.

21. The regency ceases with the minority of the King, or with the