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STi4TI PAM& PROTOCOL IRSI ECTOI6 THE PARTITION or THE 700 MILLIONS TO EE AMID BY FRANCE TO THE ALLIED POWERS, WHICH IS TO REEVE INSTEAD 01 A SPECIAL CONVENTION ON THIS HEAD/ The undersigned Plenipotentiaries Meeting to estab lish the principles according to which the sums which trance will pay, according to the Treaty of Paris, of • . • shall be divided between their respective Courts and the other Allied Powers, and considering Mgt it seems unnecessary to conclude a • particular Conventi •ts on this head, have resolved to insert in this Protocol all that relates to this object. and to consider it as having the same force and validity as a, particu lar and formal Convention, concluded according to the full powers Aid instructions received from their te:oe ctive Courts till. I. The Allit.d Powers seeing the necessity of securing the tranquillity of the countries bordering on France, by the fortdication of single points that Ste must exposed, decline for this purpose a part of the. sum which France will pay, assigning only the re mainder of this sum for general partition. Thi: sum to be applied to fortresses is one fourth of the stern total which France will pay; but as the ces• sion of the fortress of Saar-Louis, also founded on the motive of common security, renders the erection et new, fortifications on the side where this fortress is ton?eiiiary, and as it has been valued at fifty mil hoes by the. Commissioners appointed by the Council of Ministers*, this fottress shall be taken for fifty mil lions iOshe celculation of the sums destined for for tresses, so that the above-mentioned fourth part shall not be deducted from the 700 millions real value pro mised by France, but from 750 millions, including 60 millions for daar-Lobis. Accor.;ing to this tegnlation the sum destined fUr fortifications is.lb74.millioni, viz. 1374 in effective value, 'end 50 as the value of Saar• Louis. Art. 2. In dividing these 1974 millions among the States bordering on France, the undersigned Minis ters bad a vieer_pirtly to the more or less urgentne cessity for the erection of fortresses in those States, rattly to the mote or less considerable expence of erecting them, and partly to the means which those Stan possess, or which they acquire by the present Treaty according to these principles. His Majesty the JLing of the Netherlands receives 60 millions—the. King of Prussia 20 millions—the King of Davatia, or any other Sovereign of the coun try hotcitring dpobti . France, hoween the Rhine end the Prussia!' territory, 16 Kirg of Spain 7 millions...the King of Sardinia 10 millions —oi the remaining S 5 millions, five are destined for tiril fortifying of !dem i and twenty to build a new fortress df the Contedeiadon on the Upper Rhine. The application et these sums will be made scent: dine to plans and regulations which the Allied Powers shall sigree upon. Art. 3. Alter deducting the sum appointed for foratesses, the remainder which is intended for indem nities is 5621 millions, which ate to be divided as follows. • though all the Allied States have shewn the tame seal and devotion to the common cause, yet • there are sense which, as Sweden from the very be• rintung on account of the difficulties of sending its troops over ME Baltic, being dispensed from all active co-lip-ethos,' have made no exertions at all, or which Mpg ready made such exertions, as Spain, Portu gal, sad Denmark, have been hindered by the rapid SECCeSSiOII of events from offectuelly contributing to the meets:. • Swititirland, which has done essential service to the common cause, did not accede to the Treaty of the 25th of March on the same terms u the other Powers. • As these'Statel are thus in a sitnation which does not admit of their being classed with other Allied Powers according to the number of their troops, it has been agreed in order to afford them a just indem nity* as far as circumstances will allow, to divide enioeg them the sum of 124 millions, vie. to Spain five miliiinne to Portugal two millions, to Denmark fl 4, and to Switeerlend three millions—together 121 millions. Art. 5. As the burden of the war fell chiefly on' the armies under the comittand of the Duke. of Wel lington and of Prince 'Blucher, and as these armies besides took Paris, it is agreed, that oat of the French contribution, 25 millions shall be allotted to England, and '25 millions to Ptustia, saving the arrangements which Great Britain will make in respect to the sum allotted to it, with the Powers whose troops formed the army of the Duke of Wellington. Art. 6. The SOO millions remaining after the de duction of the sums fixed in the preceding articles shall be so ilividea that Prussia, Austria, Russia, and England, each receive a fifth pai t. Art. 7. Though the States which acceded to the Treaty of 25th March this year, have brought into the field a Smaller number of troops than the chief Allied Powers' it is however agreed, that this differ ence shall not be regarded, accordingly they shall re- Ceive together the filth part which remains, according to the dispositions of the preceding article. Art. 8. The division of the fifth part will be made among the several acceding States, according to the number oftheir troops, that is, in the manner that they had a share in the sum of 100 millions, allotted by the French Government for the pay of the troops. The Table of this partition is annexed to the present Protocol. Art. 9. As his Majesty the King of Sardinia reco vas the part of Sardinia; and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, betides the fortresses' of Marien burg and Phtlli k wille, and some other districts, those' parts of Belgium which the Treaty of Paris of the ' Stith May, 1814, left to France; and as these two Sovireigns found in this increase of their territory a Inv ii.deninity for their exertions, they will not turd eip.ce in the indemnity in money, and their share as Saco by the annexed table, will be divided between Prussia and Autria. Art. 10. As the payments of the French Coverts. Went will be mole in ti:e periods fixed by the treat/ of ... ... ..„ mad the annexed Convention, it is resolved, that each of the powers, which by the present Pro. Loco) has a share in these payments; shall receive at each period the pre rata of its share l as shall also be done when II state has to claim a part under different heads, as tar example, Austria for its fifth part, and tot that which it receives out of the Owe of #elgium Tht *Me r 64 1 044 ObOS be 9414 t followed id ests Goveramen!,, it A default of payment by the Feeneh , should be found necessary to sell n part of the in sl tions. Art. 11. Al mil and 'Austria have urgentir r epresented the vantage which - they would derive from the receipt of a larget sum than the general di vision assigns to them, in the first months, Russia and England have agreed to facilitate the general ar ' rangernerit that each of these Powers shall, from the date of the first payment, receive an advance of ten millions of francs in their share, under the condition that they account to them for this-sum in the follow. ing years. Art. 12. The re-payment shall be made by instal ments, so that Austria and Prussia shall pay each from its share, in each of the four following years, thd sum of two millions and a halt of francs to Russia and England. Art. 13. To avoid the numerous inconvenience: which might arise from want of unity in levying the sums to be paid by France, it is resolved that a commission, residing at Pails, shall alone be charged with the receipt of these sums, and that none of the Powers which have a share in these payments shall negociate for itself on this head with the French Go. vernment ; none shall ask or receive from the French Government the bons in which the paymenti will be made, immediately and without the intervention of the said Commission This Commission shall consist of Commissioners named by Austria, Russia, Great Britain, and Prus sia, who shall negociate with the French Govern ment. The other Allied States shall be at liberty to name Commissioners in the same manner, in order to concert for their interests directly with the said Com- Mission, which will be charged to deliver to them the effects or the money which it shall receive for them. Regulations shall be drawn up without delay, to fix their functions more exactly; to which shall be added a table of the " PRO RATA which every party will have to claim in each payment, according to the basis fixed in the present Protocol. Art. 14 The fifty millions of francs fixed for the pay and other necessaries of the armies occupying a part of France, according to the Article of the Military Convention annexed to the Treaty ot I I -, are to be divided as follow : RusAa • 7,142,857 francs 16 cents. An , tria • 10,714,2118 francs 71 cents. Pr. land 10,714,51e 4 5 francs 71 cents. Prn.sla 10.71-1.,`„:83 !ratans 71 cents. 'lite other Allies 10,7140:85 francs 71 centt. If France, as will he tie case in the first years, shall pay only 30 millions, or any other sum than 5.: millions for the above object, the same proportio,i shall take place in the pattition of the sum thus mo dified. The money here mentioned shall be received and divided by the Commission to be appointed according to the 13th Article of this Protocol, to receive the in-, demnity in money. Art. 15. Four copies of this Protocol shall be made out, which shall be provided with the signatures of the und,:rsigned Plenipotentiaries, and shall have the force and validity above mentioned. OFFICIAL NOTE, TRANSMITTED BY THE UNDERMENTIONED IHINISTERS or THE ALLIED POWERS TO THE DUKE DE RICHELIEU, CoMMUNICATIND THE APPOINTMJUIT OF TUE DCKEI.I WELLINGToN, AS COMI4ANDEN IN CHIEF OF THE AL jinn TROOPS DESTINED TO REMAIN IN•IIRANCE. " The Allied Sovereigns having confided to Mar shal the Duke of Wellington the command in chief of those of their troops which, according to the article of the Treaty concluded this day with France, are to remain in this country during a s.ertain number of years, the undersigned Ministers, &c. &c. &c. think it their duty to give some explanation to his Excellency the Duke de Richelieu, as to the nature and extent of the dowers attached to this command. " Although chiefly guided; with respect to this measure, by motives tending to the safety and wet. fare of their subjects, and being very far it ova having any intention of employing their troops in aid of the Police, or of the internal Administration of France, or in any manner that might coinproinise or interfere with the free exercise of the Royal authority in this country, the Allied Soitreigns have, however, in consideration of the high interest which they take in supporting the power of legitimate Sovereigns, pro mised to his Most Christian Majesty, to support him with their arms against every revolutionary convul. sion which might tend to overthrow by force the order of things at present established, and to menace also again the general tranquillity of Europe. They do not, however, dissemble that in the variety of forms under which the revolutionary spirit might again manifest itself in France, doubts might arise as to the naturo of the case which might calf for the in tervention of a foreign force ; and feeling the diffi culty of framing any instructions precisely applicable to each particular ca s e, the Allied Sovereigns have .thought it better to leave it to the tried prudence and, discretion of the Duke of Wellington, to decide when and how far it may be advisable to employ -, the troops under his orders, always supposing that he would not in any case so determine without hiving concerted his measures with the King of Fretiee, or without giving information as soon as possible to the Allied Sovereigns, of the motives which may. have induced bim to come to such a determination., And as, in order to guide the Duke of Wellington in the choice of his arrangements, it will be important that he should be correctly informed of the events which may occur in France, the• Ministers of the four Allied Courts, accredited to his Most Christian Majesty, have received orders to maintain a regular correspon dence with the Duke of Wellington, and to provide at the same time for an intermediate one between the French Government and the Commander in Chief of the Allied troops, for the purpose of • transmitting to the French Government the communications which the Duke of Wellington may have occasion to address to it, and of communicating to the Marshal the sug gestions or requisitions which the Court of France may wish in future to make to him. al The Vndersigned flatter themselves that the Duke de Richelieu will readily recognize in these arrangements the same character and the same prin ciples, which have been manifested in concerting and Ogpting the measures of the military occdpations of a part of France, They carry with them also, on quitting this country; the consoling persuasion, that ni4withatandini the elements of disorder, which rrance ma/ s contain, the effect of imvolutionar? evienti, a wise and paternal Govern meat proceeding in a proper planner to tranquillise and conciliate the minds of the people, and abstaining from every act contrary to such a system, may-not only succeed in maintaining the public tranqUillity, but also in re establishing universal union and confidence, relieving likewise as much as the proceedings of the Govern ment can effect it, the Allied Powers, from the pain ful necessity of having recourse to these measures. which, in case of any new convulsion, would be im periously prescribed to them by the duty of providing for the safety of their own subjects, and the general tranquillity of Europe. •' The Undersigned have the honour, &c. - (Signed) al hlrrrimmicnr. II CASTLEREAGH. 86 HARDENBERG. 86 Perk, November to, NIS." 88 CAPO D'ISTAIA. " • DECLARATION OT PRINCE PAUL OF WURTEMBERG, TO THE PRESIDENT AND STATES 01 WURTEMBEEO. "TO THE illisiDlNT 01 TIC_STATZsOranIco •r HOKCNLOYE oCULINOZN. el Although our long absence and various octupa tions might lead you to suspect us of not having paid due attention to the dearest interests of our country, particularly to the noble enterprise of the States, we think we may confidently refer to our past conduct, and to the heartfelt attachment we have invarialdy evinced towards all our fellow-citizens. We request you, therefore, dear Cousin, to communicate those sentiments to the States, together with our desire of strengthening them in the grand design of giving their country a Constitution, which, respecting equally the rights of the reigning Dynasty, the Nob.lity, and every other class of the people, may be productive of that harmony which alone can secure the dignity of the Throne, and the independence of the Monarchy. Should our own rights be affected by recent occur rences, we cannot place them under a stronger safe guard than that of the States. The appeal to this safeguard is the more necessary, as, being left with out any communication whatsoever from Govern ment, and in consequence entirely ignorant of the state of affairs, we cannot permit our silence to be construed into assent. " Recommending ourselves to the remembrance of the States, we remain, dear Cousin, " Your most devoted, &c. be. (Signed) 44 PIUINCIL PAUL or WUKTENIBEI:G. 4 ' PHU, Nov. 6, 181 5." FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF DF.PUTIE3. SITTING OF THE 2D of DLCEMISLR. At two o'clock the Chamber met, to h ur the dis cussion of the proposal of . M. Piet and tow M. Colbert. The former was as follows :-:—The..oelay granted by Article 14, of the law of the sth of De: cember, ISII, is prolonged till the lst of January, 1818. The Conservative Acts, authorised by the said Articles, bhall have effect in regard to the pro luny of goods or their price or representative value. The law of the sth of December, 1814, relates.to Ithe unsold property of emigrants. Article enacts; that all the immoveable property, sequestrated or confiscated on account of emigration, as well as that which has devolved to the State in consequence of partitions, succession, or prevuccessions, which bast not been sold, and at this moment forms part of the' domains of the State, shall be returned in kind to those who were proprietors, or to their heirs or assigns: Art. 14 states: There shall be a suspension till January 1, 1816, of all actions on the part of the.tre.• ditors of Emigranti respecting the property restored by the present lam ; the said creditors shall never theless have a right to execute all conservative acts. , The proposal of M. Piet tended to prolong the de lay to two years, and to explain more deafly the nature of the conservative acts, which the creditors were authorised to execute. Conformably to the opinion of the Committee, the Chamber agreed, that this proposal was dictated by principles of justice and humanity, and adopted it unanimously; with the ctception of four voices. The proposal of M. Colbert had two objects; one, rosubstitute the words Kin:, Royal, and Kingdom, for the words Emperor, Imperial, and Empire; the other to solicit his Majesty to direct a Committee to be formed for the purpose of revising the different codes, and preparing an entirely new one. The Committee appointed to examine this propo sal, acknowledged that it was doubtless desirable that from that moment all the odious denominations which serve to revive such painful recollections should be effaced from all our codes, and even from the existing laws in which they are introduced. It admitted also, that a general revision of our codes was necessary ; bpt it was otbpinion that for the present it would be sufficient to adopt the following projet s—No quota tion of the laws or decrees wherein the words Empe ror, Imperial, Empire, and the like Ifictur, shall tr ) made without substituting those of Xing, royal, king' dom, Btc. 'whenever suck a change is practicable. The previous question was called tor, on the ground that the objec.v9l this proposal and projet t 6 *gained bro-reigiatiss of ate Chambei:i This suggestion.yas adopted. • On Monday there will be a public Sitting for the iiscussion relative to the Prevotal Courts. . Thp State Lottery finished Drawing on ThurwiayH last, the 7th December. The principal part of the Capital Prizes drawn on that day, including No. 18.646, a Grand Prize of £50,000. S•per Cent. Con sols, were Sold, in Shares, by RICUARDSOY, GOOD LUCK, and Co. The following Capital Prizes drawn on Thursday last, were shared and sold by Buis, viz. 18,041, in 8 Shares, 1050,000 Consols. 17,854, in 8 Shares, 800 Consols. 17,858, in 11 Shares, 300 Ckatsols. 18,347, en $ Shares, 1100 Coesols. and it will be recollected, that in the Lottery wig* finished on Saturday, the 25th November, Bun also shared and sold, 18,533, s 1 Prize of 450,f►00 Conies. 8,167, a Prize of 410,000 Consols. and 14 other Capitals. The Holders of any of the above Prizes, may receive the value of their respective Shares, on demand, at either 0 4, Cornbal l or 9, Charing-Cross. • • • Another Lottery will be Contracted for, on Tuesday next, and new Tickets and Shares will be , vu Bak u loon as ism* THE EVENING' STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY. DECEN!BETt S. 1915. PRICE OP STOCKi TLHS DAY A WELVE O'Clanr. Reduced 59 I—Cane.1 —Cane. nu.. shut —Cs:- opg. 611 Ca 4 per Cent. 74f }-5 per Cent aLt—Enndt dia. It. pr.-. OM. 141 pro—Do. pay. 1411 pre.—Excli. Rids 2a. dl.. 1.; Ka A liamburgh Mail ; also Frsni.inrt Papers t(, Ist inst. and Brussels tr, tLe 4th, Atritiee last niPitt, By the Protocol relative to the Oistribistiln as 700 millions of Imes, to he paid by . Franca. to t: • Allies, it appears th.ft Gre.it Iltit.tin is to receiv e 3' her share 125 millionr, 0 nft:ons ar 1 ;: share of the geaerai expense borne by the lur gi ft Powers, and 23 millions for t!.e extraordirary ever tions of the Duke of NVELLINUioes am y ; f.ut , which latter sum separ4:e distribatiuns wil; 1:e ma. to the different foreign troops e:lder his Grace's crx i mand. All the Powers bordering on France will r ceive certain sums for the erection ox inapruvennnt • their fortresses, to which object IS7II . mini•Ths lotted. The kinr;lom oftise Netherlands rece; , . millions of this s;:rn, as being the state r•!.9:-.c. it have the greatest need to be covered b: n-w tions. This is, we think, the most excepsionat;e l . ot the arrangement in point of true policy. Tf:e n...-, s:ty of erecting frontier fortresses on c: se! s'de ~ r i:. only from the existence of such. works o The maintaining the one or erecting theOtlkr rat::. on the face of it, a declaration of ieciplent.! - . an avowal that the parties hay: no Erci.lt itj .r , •il t 'try their re:T. :live strength as soon as they run:: r,• themselves in circumstances to come to Llows. 'l possibility of courting such air occizion would Li. been placed at a reriod inrch more rettxv ; cr, : other words, the duration of the Peace w, i!!..1: n been rendered more immanent, ii fortresses , i, ho sides, insvad of being crecttel or tepair . ed, 114.11.... .1 razed to their foundations. It is sail that all the principal peints, rtlai:ie i,. the cession and indemnifications of tertizory zo c!li plete the federative system of Germ : lily, are .1!-:.:. agreed mi. The principal changes art tlio.e of I: voila, which cedes to Austria a population of 1-.7,C: : persons, but receives in another (utter 469A9; at 1 of Hesse Darmstadt, which cedes some distsich co taining 185,000 persons, bu: recAyea in rem . 202,000. The fortresses of Mentz. Lander, it ; Luxemburg, are to be considered as belonging to ii ~ general confederation. Their chi:s are to belo:l•r:. spectively to Hesse Darmstadt, Bay ria, and the N thfrilands ; but the cheeps are to he gariisnned i... - tit,l, or in part, by other Powei s, in time of tea . . r e Tr ench Government has recognised :h.! ji::•;• i, Of die claims of the Merchafits whose e , lonial gro BONAPiiITIL ic?usoil to be sold at Dusseldorf, dim:. they bad bought them at a sale which he had 11114 . : a little before at Frankfort, and though they were se; _furnished with the stamp of the french c.:itnau.— The Convention 'oy which the Government en sag 4 to indemnify them e was signed on the night of t'. , .• 11Ith ultimo. It is to the Active interference of En . • land and Prussia in particular, that the Mereliantsa - : indebted for this act of justice. It is to-day that the Allied troops are to reel: Valenciennes, Conde, Bouchain, and Charlement. Among the persons whom the present state of ..• fairs in France has carried to seek an asylum in i-',tr - .• burgh are Madame HAMELIN and Mr. DIMAS. CONSTANT. It will be seen, from the Oflici il Nate transtrin-i by the Ministers of the Allied Powers to the Da,: of RICHELIEU, announcing the appointmeet oft' Duke of WELLINGTON to the command of tie Alfa troops which are to remain in France, that the pony conferred on him, in that capacity, are so estensi; - that but little hope can be left to the agitators - friends of change to be able to disturb the puce . France . . After the Treaty of 1811 the Allied uWi quitted France, Lows, left to the mercy of his er . • •wsies and the machinations of pretended ilien.s, ,$• assailed on every side ; public situations u t.ry til;'.= with traitors ; the army arranged and eisi, ol favour the reception of an invader; the throne s overtutned, and all the prev . jous labours of tire All , were rendered nugagity. To have left France •second time in similar circumstances, and Cult' 411111Peltd to di ' danger of a woad explosion, woi:J have argued great weakhca—nay, insanity 'nl “! part of the Allied Powers. All the arguments abco foreign interference with the internal affairs France, may be best answered by admitting the tai's France herselt has made this necessary and iudispt-* sibie—France has only herself to blame for it. T Allies could not otherwise discharge the duty th owe to the well disposed of the French poet''' . themselves—to their own people I (' 071, Last night, about nine o'clock, the PniNtr:v; c .. esr, accompanied by the Marquis of Si Ito Gen . eral BLOOMFIILD , arrived at Carlton - H ouief #x!ghton. Last night Mr. Mitts, the King's Messenger , Iv ' sent off with dispatches for the Duke of wiLLINGio at Paris. Last night dispatched'for Gibraltar and Mal.; were forwarded f r©m the Secretary of State's O• ' `r : Portsmouth, for conveyance by the Tmros At the law Council held ev i 1:316. 44 J 'u se, Panics ROGIINT gave ditectio.o. for augme wig t• Pensions granted to Naval And Marine cording to the ranks they m4y subscv: ,i,) uots, ' after such pensions may b , allowed, sioula to 16° hat ban dog, for the amp N