The National Register.
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Art. V. The British Government having taken upon itselt the
maintenance of the Russian fleet, for the sum of 500.0001. sterling,
as stated in At title 11. his Majesty the Emperor of ail the Russian
consents, on the other hand, to the employment by his Britannic
Majesty of the said fleet in the European seas, in the manner which
be may judge the most useful to the operations against the common

enemy.
Art. VI. Although the pressent Convention stipulates only. the
succours to be supplied by Great Britain during the year 1815,
still as then reciprocal engagemynts are to be in force as long as
the present war shall last, the two high Contracting Parties for-
mally promise, to concert anew the aid they are to. r Word each
other, if. which God forbid, the war should be prellnrged beyond
the above-mentioned period ; stick fresh agteenicin bring chiefly
with the. view of giving a greater development t ► their ..fort
Art. VII. The two High Contracting Parties will act in env most
perfect concert with regard to military operations, and will freely
communicate to each other whatever relates to their respective
policy. They above all reciprocally engage, not to negociate sepa-
rately with their common enemies, to sign neither peace. truce, nor
any Convention whatsoever, otherwise than by mutual agreement.
Art. VIII. Officers shall be allowed to be aceredited to the Gc•
rerals commanding in chief the several armies in active service;
they shall be at liberty to correspond with their Conrts, and keep
them constantly informed of the military events which may have
taken place, as well as of every thing relative to the operations of
those armies.
Art. IX. The present Convention shall be ratified with the least
possible del ,y.
In witness whereof the respective Pienip6tentiaries have signed
the present convention with their hand.,, and have thereunto affixed
the seal of their arms.
Donee at Reicheubach, the third (fifteenth) June. 1813.
(L. S.) CATHCART. (L. S.) CHARLES COUNT DE
N O.NELROD E.
(L. S.) JEAN D' .eNSTETT.

• Convention between his Britannic Illgjesty and his ilfedesty•
the ling qf Prussia, signed at Reiehenbach, the 14th of
June, 1813.

lti the name of the most Holy and undivided Trinity.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Irelaud, and his Majesty the King ►►f Prussia, united for the
purpose of securing the iudel►endence of Europe, have resolved to
regulate, by an express convention, the nature and extent of the
pecuniary succours, and of the aid which they shall furnish to each
other. _ _

_
To which end they .have named their respective Plenipoten-
tiaries' viz:—
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Hon. Sir Charles William Stewart, Knight of the
Order of the Bath, tte. Member of Parliament of the United King-
dom, one of his Majesty's Lieutenant-Generals, and his Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King
of Prussia ' •
And his Majesty the King of Prussia, the Baron Charles Augustus
de Hardenberg, his Chancellor of State, Knight of the Prussian
0. v'ers of the Black and Bed Eagle, of the lion Cross, of St. John
of Jerusalem, of St. Andrew, of St. Alexander Newsky, of St. Anne
of Russia, and of revural others, ece. &c. ;
Who, atter having verified aid exchanged their full powers, have
concluded the following articles :
Art. I. The object •of the present war being to re-establish the
independence of the States oppre,-sed by France, the two high Con-
tracting. Parties bind toemsek es in consequence, to dircetall their
al erosions towards that end : and as, in order t' accomplish the
same. it will be essential to replace Prussia in posession alter re-
lative power, and to prevent France from evt r occupying hencefor-
w ird any of the strong places in the Nortit of Germany, or CXUr•
CiSing ally sort of influence in that quarter; his Majesty the king
of flit Ua,ited King:iont of Great Britain and Ireland cit•yages to
en-vets:it., etlt ctually to thet cud. On the other hacd, iris
jesty the King of Priisia, who, in his transactions with Rusia, has
art'adv expressly reserved the rights of the House of 'Brunswick
Lonenjungli upon Hanover, will co-operate with all his means to.
word 4 the restoration of their hereditary Slates, to that august House,
and to ths Ducal House of Brunswick.
Art. IL Prussia efvges to maintain in the field an army of eighty
thoosand men, exciimve of the gat t ism 4 in the fortresses.
Art. 111. England engage% to place at the disposal of his Pros.
situ Majesty, for the year 1813, 0ti6,661,. in monthly payments.

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The same engagement for five millions of federative paper, as in
the Russian Treaty.
Articles IV. V. and VI. as in the Russian Treaty.
Art. VII. The British navy shall cO•operate, wherever it is mac.
ticable, in the detenco of the Prussian States, in support of the ant.
litany expeditions in aid of the common cause, and in the protection
of the commerce of Prussi
Art. VIII. This Treaty shall forthwith: be communicated to Rus.
sia, Swedern. and Austria.
Art. IX. It shall be ratified with the least possible delay.
lii witness whereof, &c.
Reichenbaeli, the 14th June, 1813.
CHARLES STEWART. C. A. DE HARDENBERG.

THE WATCHMAN.

No. 2.

What •I the Night?

Ye can discern the face of the sky ; bat, can ye not discern the Sips of

the Times?. • • • Hist'.
SUPPLANTING THE ESTABLISHMENT.

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WARBURTON observed, some years since, that the
Church of England was worth saving; an observation of
infinitely greater importance at ihis period, and which can-
not be too seriously impressed upon those who still profess
themselves to be members of that venerable establishment.
Its opponents are not only numerous and formidaLle, but
active, systematic, and resolute. Their spirit is equal to.
their. numbers, and their property is scarce!y less alarming
than their pretensions. Parliament has, indeed, greatly to
its honour, of late " endeavoured to provide more effe. tually
for the general discharge of those sacred dutiei of a Church
Established; which, by forming the moral and religious cha-
racter of a brave and intelligent people, have, under the bless-
ing of God, laid the deep foundations of British greatness ;"
but unless the friends of this Church awake from their
apparent lethargy, individUally as well as legislatively, the
cry of the church being in danger is reiterated to no purpose,
exerril as admonitory of that catastrophe which it became
their vigilance to have foreseen, and their courage to have
averted. They will presently find, when too lite, that they
have been warned without being roused, and that they have
been instructed withont being benefited.
It furnishes no trivial proof of the persevering alacrity of
the supplanters of our ecclesiastical establishment, that,
not longer ago than April last, they have formed a
Society for Encouraging the Preaching of the Gospel in
and about London :' for, they say, " notwithstanding the
numerous places of. worship in and about the metropolis, it
is a lamentable fact—that many thousands of the inhabitants
remain uninstructed in the things which belong to their
peace." Amongst those "extensive and populous districts "
in which the gospel is thus inferred to be needed, who
would have imagined that the neighbourhood of Lisson
Green should have been one of the first spots selected by
this London Association,' for the erection of one of their
chapels? Though the Rev. Basil Woodd has long occupied
this precise spot, laboriously and successfully, yet this, it
seems, forms one portion of " the western part of the metro-
polis" which is still "comparatively destitute of a gospel
ministry; " and on this account we are called upon to
• " rejoice" that Paddington Chapel has been opened, " for
the diffusion Of the truth as it isin Jesus," scarcely a stone's
throw firm 13entinck Chapel, where, till now, it was thought,
however stupidly, that the truth as it is in Jesus was diffused
by the preaching of the established clergyman of the place.
INo such thing !. "Encouraged by thc succestattendant on