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IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.

TREATY OF AMITY, AND Of, DEFENSIVE ALLIAWCE, RE'
TWEEN THE COURTS OE VIENNA AND ST. TETIES•
BURGH, CONCLUDED AT TOSPLITZ, THE 9TH SEP.
TENIBER, (AUG. 28) 1813.

We, FRAKOS I by Ilivine Clemency, Emperor of
Austria ; King of Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia,
Dalmat'a, Croatia, Sclavonia, Gallicia, and Lodo.i
rniria ; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Lorraine,
Wurtzburg, and Franconia; Great Prince of Tran-
sylvania ; Margrave of Moravia ; Duke of Styria,
Carinthia, Upper and Lower Silesia ; Count of
Hapsburg, &c.
Make known to all and singular whO are interested
therein, by these presents :
That since nothing is more anxiously desired by
us, and the most Serence and Potent Emperor of all
the Russias, than to promote by a stable peace the
welfare of Europe, so long overwhelmed by the ca-
lamities of war, and towards that object having mu•
tually joined our counsels to provide for that wished
for order of things, which, we firmly trust, will arise
from out reciprocal efforts to attain this end ; a
Treaty, of which the following is the tenour, has
beets entered into by each of the Contracting Parties:
In the Name of the mutt Holy and undivided Trinity:
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of,!
Hungary and Bohemia, and his Majesty the Empe.
ror of all the Russias, equally animated by a desire
to put an end to the calamities of Europe, and to se-
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cure its future repose by the establishment of a just '
equilibrium between the Powers, have resolved to
prosecute the war in which they are engaged for that
salutary object, with the whole of the forces which
PaoviDENce has placed at \their disposal.
Wishing, at the same time, to extend the effects of
a concert so beneficial, to the period when the pre-
sent war, having obtained its full success, their mu-
tual interest shall imperiously requite the mainte-
nance of the 3rder of things which shalt be the happy
result thereof, they have appointed to draw up the
articles of a treaty of amity and defensive alliance,
the following Plenipotentiaries furnishecl with their
instructions;

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of
Hungary and L'obemia, the Sieur Clement Wen-
ceslas Lothaire, Count de Metternich-Winneburg-
Ochsenhatisen, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grand
Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen, Grand
Eagle of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the
Order of St. Joseph of Wurtzburg, Knight of St.
John of Jerusalem, Chancellor of the Military Order
of Mari.t Theresa, Curator of the Imperial Academy
of Fine Arts ; Chamberlain, Priiry Counseller, Mi-
nister of State, of Conferences, and of Foreign Af-
fairs, of Imperial Royal and Apostolic Majesty.
And his Majesty the Emperer of all the Russiast
the Sieur Charles Robert, Count de Nesselrode, Privy
Counsellor, Secietary of State, Chamberlain, and
Knight of the Order of St. Wolodimir of the Third
Class ; who, have exchanged their full powers, found
to be in good and due form, have agreed upon' the
*followii.g articles
Article I. There shall be amity, sincere and constant onion,
between Nilesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
and ,Bohemia, and hip Majesty the Emperurof all the Russias'
their Heirs and Successors.' 'I he High Contracting Parties shall,
in consequence, pay the greatest At:tiiiion to the maintaining be-
tween them reciprocal entity and correspondente, by avoiding
every t hat might subvert the onion and good understanding
happily substweg between them.
Art. 11. 11,s Majesty the Emperor of Austria guarantees to his
Majesty the I•Aperor of all the Russias the possession of all his
states, provinces, and dominion,.
On tie other. band, his Imperial Majetty of all the Russia,
guarantees to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the possession
of the states, provinews, and dominions, belonging to toe Crown
Of his Imperaii, Royal, and APOstul c Majesty. -
Art.lll. As a consequence of this reciprocal guarantee, the
High contracting kart es void constantly labour in concert en the
measures which shall appear to them Most proper for the main-
' tenance of peace in Eurepe. ; and in case the States of either of
them shall be menaced by invasion, they will employ their most
effectual good olfiecs for the prevention thereof.
• Art. IV'. As the good offices, however, -which they promise
each other, may not have ;he desired effect, their Imperial Ma-
jesties bind themselves henceforward to assist each other with a
Corps of 00,000 men, in the event of either of them being at-
tacked.
Art. V. This army shall be composed of 50,000 infantry and
30"0 cavalry—it shall be provided with a corps afield-artillery,
with ammunition, and everydother necessary ; the whole propor-
tioned to the number ot croups above attpulated. The auxiliary
army shall arrive at the frontiers ot the Power who shall be at-
tacked, et menaced by an invasion or his pos.essions, two months
at the iarthest after the requisition, has been made.
Art. VI. Ihe auxiliary army shall be under the immediate
eornmand of the General in Chief of the army of the Power re-
quiring it ; It shall be conducted by a General of its own, and
employed in al the military operations according to the rules of
war. Ihe ray of the auxiliary %my shall be at the charge of
the Power requited; the rations and portions of provisions, fo-
rage, &c. as well as th. quarters, shalt be furnished by toe Power
requiring, as .non as the auxiliary .irniy shall have pas.ed its own
frontiers, and that on the same footing as the latter supplies, ur
&hall supply, its own troops in the lido and in quarters.
Art. VII- The order and internal rrtili.ary economy
.of these
troops shall solely flepend on their own proper Chief. The tro-
phies and the totAr y which shall be taken front the enemy shall
belong to the troops which shall have taken them.
Art. VIII. In the event that .he stipulated succour shall be in-
&efficient for 'that one of the two high contracting parties who
shail have peen attacked, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria,
King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his Majesty the Emperor I
of all the Russias, reserve to themselves to come to a mutual
understanding, without loss of time, en the furnishing of more
considerable aids, according to the exigency of the case.
Art. IX. 'the high contracting patties reciprocally promise
each ether, that, in the event that either of the two shall be
compelled to take up arms, he will not conclude either peace or
trece vyf.hoot therein itctuding his Ally; in order that the latter
May not himself be attacked, in resentment of the succour which
be shall have furnished.
Art. X. Orders shall be transmitted to the Ambassadors and
Ministers of tbe high contracting parties at Foreign Courts,
to afford each other reciprocally their good offices, and to act in
perfect concert in all occurrences in which the interests of their
blasters shall be involved.
Arr. Xl. As the' two 11:gli contracting parties, in forming this
Treat) of Amity red Alliance, purely detensive, have no other
object but that at reciprocally guaranteeing to each other their
Possessions, and of teeming, as tar as depends upon them, the
general tranquillity, they not only do not mean thereby to inva-
lidate in the least the prior and particular engagements, alike de-
febsive, which they have contracted with their respective Allies,
but they even mutoally reserve to themselves the liberty of Coll.
chiding, rep in future, other treaties with other Powers, which,
far' from causing by their union any detriment or hindrance to
the present, may communicate thereto still more force and ellect;
prtrifisii,g,'hoWeVer, at the same time, not to contract any en-
gagements contrary to the present Treaty ; and wishing raih.r,
by con.mon consent, to invite, and admit into it, other Courts
rhici. shall have the same sentiments.
Art. XII. 1 lie'pt tient '1 reaty shall be ratified by his Imperial
ana Royal Apostinic Majesty, and by his Imperial Majesty of
sly the Rtissias • and the Ratifications shall be exchani,ed within
he space ot a fortnight, reckoning from the day of the signature,
or slner, it possible.
lu testimony whereof, we, the undersigned Plenlio7entiaries,
Ive signed, in virtue it our powers, the present Treaty ot

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