§ The undersigned, on the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of the 25th of March last, on the part of his Court, is hereby commanded to declare, that the eighth Article of the said Treaty, wherein his Most Christian Majesty is invited to accede, under certain stipulations, is to be understood as binding the Contracting Parties, upon principles of mutual security, to a common effort against the power of Napoleon Buonaparté, in pursuance of the third Article of the said Treaty; but is not to be understood as binding his Britannic Majesty to prosecute the war, with a view of imposing upon France any particular government.
§ However solicitous the Prince Regent must be to see his Most Christian Majesty restored to the throne, and however 307 anxious he is to contribute, in conjunction with his Allies, to so auspicious an event; he nevertheless deems himself called upon to make this Declaration, on the exchange of the Ratifications, as well in consideration of what is due to his Most Christian Majesty's interests in France, as in conformity to the principles upon which the British Government has invariably regulated its conduct.
§ (Signed) CASTLEREAGH.
§ Foreign Office, May 18, 1815.
§ ADDITIONAL CONVENTION (concluded at Vienna, April 30, 1815) to the Treaty between his Britannic Majesty and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias.
§ Signed March 25, 1815.
§ His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, having agreed by common consent to regulate, by means of a particular Convention, which shall be added in the form of an Additional Article to the Treaty concluded at Vienna the 25th of March, the arrangements which have been judged necessary to give to the stipulations of the said Treaty all the effect requisite for the attainment of the great and noble end which their said Majesties have proposed to pursue, have named, in order to discuss, settle, and sign the conditions of the present Convention, his Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, the right hon. Richard Le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, Baron Kilconnel, one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council in Great Britain and also in Ireland, President of the Committee of Privy Council for the Affairs of Trade and Plantations, Joint Postmaster-General in Great Britain, Colonel of the Galway regiment of militia, Knight Grand Cross of the most honourable Order of the Bath, and one of his Majesty's Plenipotentiaries at the Congress: and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, Andrew Count Rasoumoffsky, his Privy Counsellor, Knight of the Orders of St. Andrew, and of St. Alexander Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wlodimir of the First Class, and his Plenipotentiary at the Congress; and Charles Robert Count of Nesselrode, his Privy Counsellor, Chamberlain, Secretary of State, Knight of the Orders of St. Alexander Newsky, Grand Cross of that of St. Wlodimir of the Second Class, Knight of the Supreme Order de I' Annonciade, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold 308 of Austria, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, the Polar Star of Sweden, and of the Golden Eagle of Wurtemburg, and his Plenipotentiary at the Congress: who, after having exchanged their full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following
§ Article—His Britannic Majesty engages to furnish a subsidy of five millions sterling, for the service of the year ending on the 1st of April, 1816, to be divided in equal proportions amongst the three Powers, namely, between his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and of Bohemia, and his Majesty the King of Prussia. The subsidy above stipulated of five millions sterling, shall be paid in London by monthly instalments and in equal proportions, to the ministers of the respective Powers, duly authorized to receive the same. The first payment thereof to become due on the first day of May next, and to be made immediately upon the exchange of the ratifications of this present additional conventions. In case peace should take place, or be signed between the Allied-Powers and France, before the expiration of the said year, this subsidy calculated upon the scale of five millions sterling, shall be paid up to the end of the month, in which the Definitive Treaty shall have been signed; and his Britannic Majesty promises in addition, to pay to Russia four months, and to Austria and to Prussia two months over and above the stipulated subsidy, to cover the expenses. of the return of their troops within their own frontiers.
§ The present additional Convention shall have the same force and effect as if it were inserted word for word in the Treaty of the 25th of March.
§ It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible.
§ In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereunto the seals of their arms.
§ Done at Vienna, this 30th day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1815.
§ CLANCARTY.
§ LE COMTE DE RASOUMOFFSKY.
§ LE COMTE DE NESSELRODE.
§ [The Treaty with the King of Prussia is couched in the same terms as the above, and is signed "Wellington, Le Prince de Hardenbergh, Le Baron de Humboldt:" the Additional Convention is signed, "Clancarty, Le Prince de Hardenbergh, Le Baron de Humboldt."]