[Territorial.] and Freudenberg, and the Provostship of Göllingen, with all sovereign, supreme, feudal, domanial, and other rights, which His Highness possessed therein, or as appertaining thereto, on the 1st of August this year. In exactly the same manner, he cedes to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-WeimarEisenach, his descendants and successors, the Bailiwick of Frauensee, including Gosperoda, the Jurisdiction of Völkershausen, the Jurisdiction of Lengsfeld, the Bailiwick of Vacha, including the town of Vacha, with the Prefecture of Kreuzberg, but excepting the districts of Kreuzberg, Philippsthal, Thalhausen, Nippen, Hillartshausen, Röhrich, and Unter-Neurode; of the Bailiwick of Friedewald, the districts of Dippach, Gesterode, Vitzerode, and Abtarode, and the village of Wenigentaft. Prussian Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg. ART. III. His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse agrees, that His Majesty the King of Prussia may, by a free Convention with the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg,* obtain the everlasting and irrevocable free property in all those rights and emoluments which he may have possessed on the 1st of August this year by virtue of the family Treaties, in the possessions or their appurtenances to be transferred to him according to the preceding Article. His Majesty the King of Prussia, on the other hand, undertakes the full guarantee that on the part of the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg no objection shall be raised against the cession agreed to by His Royal Highness the Elector, according to the preceding Article. ART. IV. Indemnities to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg and to the Elector of Hesse for loss of Revenue. Stipulations in regard to the Cessions by Hesse-Cassel to SaxeWeimar-Eisenach. ART. V. The cession to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach described in Article II is to be considered as an exchange of equal population for equal population founded upon equal reciprocal necessity. His Royal Highness the Elector will therefore select the like number of people in the Fulda districts situated next to the Weimar territory, as full compensation for that cession, See also Treaty between Prussia and Hesse-Rothenburg, of the same date. Appendix. [Territorial.] and no account is to be taken of loss of revenue in regard thereto. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke will contribute in the same proportion to all obligations resting upon the whole former Grand Duchy of Frankfort, as well as upon its department of Fulda specially, and which are transferred to the present or future possessors of territorial shares belonging thereto, as if he had actually received in Fulda the whole of the 27,000 inhabitants assigned to him by the Act of Congress. On the other hand, His Royal Highness the Elector will only take part in those obligations to such extent as if he were merely possessor of that part of the district of Fulda assigned to Prussia which would remain after the deduction of the said 27,000 inhabitants. The Elector of Hesse resumes Possession of Lengsfeld, &c. ART. VI. The Knightly Jurisdictions of Lengsfeld, Mannsbach, Buchenau, and Werda, with the village of Wenigentaft, have only passed out of the possession of Hesse-Cassel again in consequence of the troubles of war. The re-possession of them shall therefore be considered as a simple restitution, and therefore the revenue from them is not to be reckoned as a compensation for cessions made by Hesse-Cassel according to Article II. Prussian Indemnities to consist of a Part of the Department of Fulda. ART. VII. The indemnity assigned by Prussia to HesseCassel and Hesse-Rothenburg for the cessions to be made to her according to Articles II and III consists, therefore, of that part of the district of the department of Fulda ceded to Hesse-Cassel according to Article I which remains after the deduction of the compensation for the cession to Weimar according to Article V. ART. VIII. Liquidation of the Indemnities. Contributions. ART. X. Rhine Tolls. ART. XI. Postal Revenues. ART. XII. Feudal Rights. ART XIII. Mortgaged Debts. ART XIV. Unliquidated Debts. ART. XV. Arrears of Interest. ART. XVI. Rents and Pensions. ART. XVII. Communal Debts and Charges. [Territorial.] Restitution of the Four Bailiwicks of Hanau to the Elector of Hesse. ART. XVIII. His Majesty the King of Prussia undertakes, in concurrence with his High Allies, to take immediately the most effectual measures, and to continue them without intermission until the end is fully attained, to reinstate His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse in possession of the four Hanau bailiwicks of Babenhausen, Dorheim, Rodheim, Ortenberg, and the Communities, in the same state as before the hostile occupation in the year 1806, as soon as possible. To facilitate the proceedings, it has been agreed that His Royal Highness will accept a full compensation for the bailiwick of Babenhausen, and in the most extreme case also for the bailiwicks of Ortenberg and Rodheim and the Communities. This compensation, however, can only consist of lands and people, with full sovereignty and supremacy, and cannot be settled otherwise than with his full and free concurrence. ART. XIX. Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg for the Domanial Revenue. ART. XX. Mode of this Indemnification. ART. XXI. Possessions of which the Revenue will furnish the Indemnity to the Landgrave of Hesse-Rothenburg. ART. XXII. Mode of Possessing the Indemnity. ART. XXIII. Execution of the Convention. ART. XXIV. Civil Functionaries in Office. ART. XXV. Validity of the Arrangements made before the 1st of August. ART. XXVI. Cession of the Arrears of Taxes, &c., to the new Possessors. ART. XXVII. Transfer of the Military to the new Sovereign. ART. XXIX. Guarantee by Prussia in favour of the Elector of Hesse and the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. ART. XXX. Exchange of Ratifications. In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries on both sides have signed this Treaty, and have affixed to it the Seal of their Arms. Done at Cassel, the 16th of October, 1815. (L.S.) CONRAD SIEGMUND CARL VON HANLEIN. (L.S.) GEORG FERDINAND VON LEPEL. [Defence of Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, &c.] No. 38.-PROTOCOL of Conference between Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, respecting the Territorial Arrangements, and Defensive System of the Germanic Confederation. Paris, 3rd November, 1815.* ART. [Referred to in Documents Nos. 43 and 48.] TABLE. A. Provisions respecting the Cessions to be made by France. 1. Kingdom of the Low Countries (Netherlands), Philippeville, Marienburg, &c. Pecuniary Indemnity towards their Defence. Pecuniary Indemnities to Austria and Prussia. 2. Acquisitions of Prussia. Fortress of Sarre-Louis, &c. 3. Acquisitions of Austria. 4. Helvetic Confederation. Town and Fortress of Landau. Versoy and part of the Pays de Gex to be added to Geneva. Neutrality of Switzerland to include Territory from Ugina to Lake of Bourget (Upper Savoy). 5. Sardinia. Part of Savoy to be given to Sardinia and part to Genera. Proposed Cessions to Genera. Custom Houses. Pecuniary Indemnity to Sardinia. Pecuniary Indemnities to Austria and Prussia. B. Provisions respecting the Territorial Arrangements in 6. Cession to King of Prussia in Department of La Sarre. 7. Arrangements relating to Bavaria. 8. Austrian Cessions to Grand Duke of Hesse. 9. Austrian Cession to Bavaria. C. Defensive System of the Germanic Confederation. 10. Mayence. Luxemburg. Landau. Distribution of Sums of Money to be devoted to the Defensive System of Germany. 11. Protocol to have same force as a Convention. Annexes. Austrian Cessions to Prussia. Arrangement with Bavaria. Territorial Transfers by the Grand Duke of Darmstadt. [Translation.t] THE Ministers of the Imperial and Royal Courts of Austria, of Russia, of Great Britain, and of Prussia, having taken into consideration the measures become necessary by those arrangements with France which are to terminate the present War, have agreed to lay down, in the present Protocol; * Initialed on the 3rd, and Signed on the 20th November, 1815. For French Version, see "State Papers," vol. iii, p. 234. [Defence of Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, &c.] 1. The dispositions relative to the territorial cessions to be made by France, and to the contributions destined for strengthening the line of defence of the bordering States. 2. Provisions relating to certain changes of Territory in Germany. 3. Those which relate to the system of Defence of the Ger manic Confederation. A. Provisions respecting the Cession to be made by France. Kingdom of the Low Countries (Netherlands). Philippeville, Marienburg, &c. ART. I. Considering that His Majesty the King of the Low Countries ought to participate in a just proportion in the advantages resulting from the present arrangement with France, and considering the state of his Frontiers on the side of that country, it is agreed, that the Districts which formed part of the Belgic Provinces, of the Bishopric of Liege, and of the Duchy of Bouillon, as well as the towns of Philippeville and Marienburg, with their Territories, which France is to cede to the Allies, shall be assigned to His Majesty the King of the Low Countries, to be united to his dominions. Pecuniary Indemnity towards Defence of the Low Countries. His Majesty the King of the Low Countries shall receive, moreover, out of that part of the French contribution which is destined towards strengthening the line of Defence of the States bordering upon France, the sum of 60,000,000 of Francs, which shall be laid out in fortifying the Frontiers of the Low Countries, in conformity with the plans and regulations which the Powers shall settle in this respect. Pecuniary Indemnities towards Austria and Prussia. It is besides agreed, that in consideration of the advantages which His Majesty the King of the Low Countries will derive from these dispositions, both in the increase of, and in the means for defending his territory, that that proportion of the Pecuniary Indemnity payable by France to which His said Majesty might lay claim shall serve towards putting the Indemnities of Austria and Prussia on the level of a just proportion. Acquisitions of Prussia. Fortress of Sarre-Louis, &c. ART. II. The districts which, by the new Treaty with France, |