Ewart, his Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Berlin; and his Majesty the King of Pruffia, the Sieur Ewald Frederick, Count de Hertzberg, his Minister of State, and of the Cabinet, Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle: who, after reciprocally communicating their full powers to each other, have agreed upon the following articles: I. There shall be a perpetual, firm, and unalterable friendship, defenfive alliance, and strict and inviolable union, together with an intimate and perfect harmony and correfpondence between the faid moft Serene Kings of Great Britain and Pruffia, their heirs and fucceffors, and their refpective kingdoms, dominions, provinces, countries, and fubjects, which fhall be carefully maintained and cultivated, fo that the contracting powers fhall conftantly employ, as well their utmost attention, as all thofe means which Providence has put in their power, for preferving at the fame time the public tranquillity and fecurity, for maintaining their common interefts, and for their mutual defence and guaranty against every hoftile attack; the whole in conformity to the treaties already fubfifting between the high contracting parties, which fhall remain in full force and vigour, and fhall be deemed to be renewed by the prefent treaty, as far as the fame fhall not be derogated from, with their own confent, by posterior treaties, or by the present treaty. II. In confequence of the engagement contracted by the preceding article, the two high contracting parties fhall always act in concert for the maintenance of peace and tranquillity; and in cafe either of them should be threatened with a hoftile attack by any power whatever, the other fhall employ his moft efficacious good offices for preventing hoftilities, for procuring fatisfaction to the injured party, and for effecting an accommodation in a conciliatory manner. III. But if those good offices fhould not have the defired effect, in the space of two months, and either of the two high contracting parties fhould be hoftilely attacked, molefted, or difturbed in any of his dominions, rights, poffeffions, or interefts, or in any manner whatever, by fea or land, by any European power, the other contracting party engages to fuccour his ally without delay, in order to maintain each other reciprocally in the poffeffion of all the dominions, territories, towns, and places, which belonged to them before the commencement of fuch hoftilities: for which end, if his Pruffian Majefty fhould happen to be attacked, his Majefty the King of Great Britain fhall furnish to his Majefty the King of Pruffia a fụccour of fixteen thousand infantry, and four thousand cavalry; and if his Britannic Majefty fhould happen to be attacked, his Majefty the King of Pruffia fhall likewife furnifh to him a fuccour of fixteen thoufand infantry, and four thousand cavalry; which respective fuccours fhall be furnished in the space of two months after requifition made by the party attacked, and shall remain at his difpofal during the whole continuance of the war in which he fhall be engaged, Thefe fuccours fhall be paid and maintained by the required power, wherever his ally fhall employ them; but the requiring party shall supply them, in his dominions, with fuch bread and forage as may be neceffary, upon the footing to which his own troops are accustomed, It is nevertheless agreed between the high contracting parties, that if his Britannic Majefty fhould be in the cafe of receiving the fucccur in troops from his Pruffian Majefty, his Britannic Majefty fhall not employ them out of Europe, nor even in the garrison of Gibraltar, If the injured and requiring party should prefer fuccours in money to land forces, he fhall have his choice: and in cafe of the two high contracting parties furnishing to each other the ftipulated fuccours in money, fuch fuccours fhall be computed at one hundred thousand florins, Dutch currency, per annum, for one thousand infantry, and at one hundred and twenty thoufand thousand florins, of the like value, for one thousand cavalry, per annum, or in the fame proportion by the month. IV. In cafe the ftipulated fuccours fhould not be fufficient for the defence of the requiring power, the required power shall augment them, according to the exigency of the cafe, and fhall affift the former with his whole force, if circumftances fhall render it neceffary. V. The high contracting parties hereby renew, in the most exprefs terms, the provifional treaty of defenfive alliance which they concluded at Loo, on the 13th of June in the present year, and they again engage and promise to act, at all times, in concert, and with mutual confidence, for maintaining the fecurity, independance, and government of the republic of the United Provinces, conformably to the engagements which they have lately contracted with the faid republic; that is to fay, his Britannic Majefty, by a treaty concluded at the Hague, on the 15th of April, 1788, and his Pruffian Majefty, by a treaty figned the fame. day at Berlin, which the faid high contracting parties have communicated to each other. And if it shall happen that, by virtue of the stipulations of the faid treaties, the high contracting parties should be obliged to augment the fuccours to be given to the States General, above the numbers specified in the faid treaties, or to affift them with their whole force, the faid high contracting parties will concert together upon all that may be neceffary relative to fuch augmentation of fuccours to be agreed on, and to the employment of their respective forces for the fecurity and defence of the faid republic. In cafe either of the faid high contracting parties fhould happen, at any time hereafter, to be attacked, molested, or disturbed, in any of his dominions, rights, poffeffions, or interests, in any manner whatever, by. fea or by land, by any other power, in confequence and and in hatred of the articles or ftipulations contained in the faid treaties, or of the measures to be taken by the faid contracting parties refpectively, in virtue of thofe treaties, the other contracting party engages to fuccour and affift him against fuch attack, in the fame manner, and by the fame fuccours as are ftipulated in the third and fourth articles of the prefent treaty; and the faid contracting parties promife, in all fimilar cafes, to maintain and guaranty each other in the poffeffion of all the dominions, towns, and places, which belonged to them respectively before the commencement of fuch hoftilities. VI. The prefent treaty of defenfive alliance fhall be ratified by each party, and the ratifications fhall be exchanged in the fpace of fix weeks, or fooner, if it can be done. In witness whereof, we the underwritten, being authorized by the full powers of their Majefties the Kings of Great Britain and of Pruffia, have in their names figned the present treaty, and have thereto set the feals of our arms. Done at Berlin, the thirteenth of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. (L. S.) Jofeph Ewart. (L. S.) Ewald Frederic, Comte de Hertzberg. The The STATES GENERAL. 1578. 7 Jan. TH 1585. HE treaty of alliance between Queen The treaty between the fame parties, con 10 Aug. cluded at Nonfuch. 1598. Trait de Paix, tom. ii. p. 512. Treat. 1732, vol. ii. p. 83. The treaty and renewment of alliance be 16 Aug. tween Queen Elizabeth and the States General, concluded at Westminster. 1608. Rym. Fad. vol. xvi. p. 340. Treat. 1732, vol. ii. P. 120. Trait de Paix, tom. ii. p. 631. The defenfive and commercial treaty be 27 June. tween King James and the States General. 1624. 5 June. 1625. 17 Sept. Pap. Off. D. 1. Rym. Fed. vol. xvi. p. 687. The treaty for continuing the defenfive league between King James and the States General, in 1608, concluded at London. Pap. Off. D. 3. Treat. 1732, vol. ii. p. 226. Trait de Paix, tom. iii. p. 213. The treaty of alliance offenfive and defenfive, between Charles I. King of Great Britain and the States General, concluded at Southampton. Pap. Off. D. 4. Treat. 1732, vol. ii. p. 248. |