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London, England, 1815-12-09 00:00:00

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 !demi 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 Phtllikwille, 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
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