of their troops in the barrier places, or the payment of the interefts and principal fums borrowed upon divers funds affigned by his Imperial Majefty for the fecurity of the faid payment, or if he should make ufe of any fort of reprifal or violence, that then it is their faid majefties intention, that the allies fhall protect and maintain the faid lords the States General, conformably to the alliance to which they have this day acceded, and fhall without delay concert the molt effectual and proper means for maintaining the faid lords the States General in this right, and in the exercise thereof, and fhall guarantee them againft all confequences refulting from the fame; but fo as not to proceed to violence against the Oftend company, in the Indies or elsewhere, before the contracting powers of this alliance haye concerted what to do thereupon. This feparate article fhall be of the fame force as if it had been inferted word for word in the treaty concluded and figned this day: it fhall be ratified in the fame manner, and the ratifications fhall be exchanged within the fame time as the treaty. In witnefs whereof, we the underwritten, constituted plenipotentiaries, by virtue of full powers from their majefties, the moft Chriftian King, the king of Great Britain, aud the lords the States General, have figned the prefent article, and thereto caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed. Done at the Hague, the 9th of August 1726. (Signed by the two minifters of France and England, and alfo by the deputies, as above.) TH DECLARATION. HE deputies of the lords the States General of the United Provinces, having communicated to the minifters of their majestics the most Christian King, the king of Great Britain, and the king of Pruffia, the refolution taken by their High Mightineffes to accede to the treaty of Hanover, according to the invitation made to them by the faid minifters on the part of their majeflies; and having added, that they the faid depu ties were vefted with a full power, and that they were ready to proceed to the conclufion and figning of the treaty treaty and separate articles drawn up upon their acceffion: The marquifs de Fenelon, plenipotentiary of his most Christian Majefty, and Mr. Finch, plenipotentiary of his Britannick Majefty, have declared, that they also were vefted with full powers, and that they were ready to conclude and fign; but the fieur de Meynhertfhagen, minifter of his Pruffian Majefty declaring, that he had not yet received orders for the full powers to the fame end from the king his mafter, the plenipotentiaries of their most Christian and Britannick Majefties, as also the deputies and plenipotentiaries of the lords the States General, confidering that there was no more time to be loft, 3 and that every farther delay in completing the acceffion of the republick to the treaty of Hanover, could not but be difadvantageous to the end propofed by the faid treaty; and at the fame time there being no reason to doubt, that his majefty the king of Pruffia will likewife authorize his minifter to fign the treaty of acceffion, and separate articles: in confideration, and in firm confidence hereof, they have proceeded to the figning of the present treaty and feparate articles, leaving a space for the minifter of his majefty the king of Pruffia to: fign in like manner, as foon as he has received his full power. Nevertheless it is agreed and ftipulated, by this feparate, article, that if, contrary to expectation, his majesty the king of Pruffia doth not come to fuch refolution, the faid treaty and feparate articles fhall, however, be of force, and put in execution by the contracting powers,: in all their clauses, in the manner which has been stipulated, and that the ratifications thereof fhall be exchanged in the time specified. In witness whereof, we the underwritten, who are appointed plenipotentiaries, by virtue of the full powers of their majefties the moft Chriftian King, and the king of Great Britain, and the lords the States General, have figned the prefent article, and caufed the feal of our arms to be thereunto affixed. Done at the Hague, the 9th of Auguft 1726. (Signed by the minifters and deputies as above.) Ac Acceffion of the King and Kingdom of Sweden to the treaty of Hanover. Dated at Stockholm the 14th of March 172. B In the name of the moft Holy Trinity. E it known unto all and every one to whom it doth or may appertain, that his majefty the most ferene king of Sweden, having been amicably invited, on the part of their majefties the moft ferene kings, the king of Great Britain, the most Christian King, and the king of Pruffia, by their minifters, to accede to the defenfive alliance which their majefties concluded at Hanover the 3d of September 1725, and to the three feparate articles annexed thereunto; which, as well as the faid alliance, have the maintaining and preferving of the publick tranquillity, and particularly that of the North for their only object, the tenor whereof is as follows. Fiat Infertio. And his majefty the moft ferene king of Sweden being always difpofed to concur in fo falutary a view, and being defirous to fhow how agreeable this invitation was to him, has authorized, by his full power, in due form his commiffaries, the underwritten fenators of the kingdom of Sweden, and members of the chancery, to enter into conference with the underwritten minifters plenipo. tentiaries, from their majefties the king of Great Britain and the moft Chriftian King, provided with like full powers, for negotiating and agreeing upon the acceffion of his majelty the king, and the crown of Sweden, to the said treaty of alliance. concluded at Hanover, and to draw up and fign an act in form for that purpofe; the faid minifters plenipotentiary and commiffaries having been in conference feveral times upon that fubject, and having produced their full powers on each fide, agreed upon what follows. " His majesty the moft ferene king, and the crown of Sweden, declare and promife, that his faid majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, do full accede to the defenfive alliance concluded at Hanover, and here above inferted; as as likewife to the three feparate articles that are thereunto annexed; and that his majefty and the crown of Sweden, by virtue of this folemn acceffion, do join and affociate themselves as a principal contracting party to their majefties the moft ferene kings, the king of Great Britain and the moft Chriftian King, obliging and engaging themselves towards their faid majefties, their heirs and fucceffors, jointly and separately, to obferve and fulfil faithfully and effectually all the conditions and claufes comprehended in the faid treaty of a defenfive alliance, and the three feparate articles thereof, and to furnish, when the cafe of the alliance fhall happen, a fuccour of three thousand foot, and two thousand horse, according to the obligations of the treaty: the whole in fuch manner, and as faithfully, as if his majesty and the crown of Sweden had been a principal contracting party from the beginning, with the abovefaid moft fe rene confederate kings, and had concluded with their faid majefties jointly or feparately the articles and conditions expreffed in this defenfive alliance, and the feparate articles thereof. Their majefties the most ferene kings, the king of Great Britain and the moft Chriftian King, do admit and affociate his majefty and the crown of Sweden to the abovefaid treaty of Hanover; as likewise to the three feparate articles which are thereunto annexed, as a principal contracting party; declaring and promifing, on their part, that their majefties, their heirs and fucceffors, will obferve and fulfil, jointly and feparately, faithfully and effectually, with refpect to his majesty the moft ferene king and the crown of Sweden, all the conditions and claufes contained in the faid defenfive alliance and the feparate articles thereof. This act of acceffion fhall be approved and ratified, on the part of their majefties the king of Great Britain, and the moft Chriftian King, and of his majefty and the crown of Sweden; and the ratifications thereof fhall be exchanged in the space of two months, to be reckoned from the day of the figning this prefent act, or fooner, if poffible. In witness whereof, we, by virtue of our refpective full powers, have figned this prefent act, and have fet our feals thereunto. Done at Stockholm, the 14th day of March 1727. O. S. A (L. S.) S. Poyntz. (L. S.) M. J. de Garde. SEPARATE ARTICLE S. LTHOUGH by the act of acceffion and admiffion figned this day, his Majefty and the crown of Sweden accede purely and fimply to the treaty of Hanover, the minifters plenipotentiary of their Britannick and most Christian Majefties have however agreed with the commiffaries of his faid majefty, to the exceptions and articles which follow. I. As the defenfive alliance concluded at Hanover the gd of September 1725, has no other view but the peace and tranquility of Europe, and particularly that of the North, their majefties the king of Great Britain, and the most Christian King, as likewife his majesty the king and the crown of Sweden declare, that, being not engaged by any treaties or conventions with other powers that are con trary to this alliance, the faid treaties and conventions fhall not be weakened by this acceffion, but shall remain in their full force: and their majesties declare, at the fame time, that they are, at present, and fhall continue always in a firm refolution to keep and fulfil, inviolably, all that has been ftipulated by the abovefaid alliance of Hanover; obliging themselves, on each fide, to obferve faithfully all the engagements entered into by the present treaty of acceffion, and the feparate articles and fecret one thereof, without neglecting or violating the fame in any wife, under the pretence of former treaties and engagements, or un, der any other pretence whatfoeyer, II. 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