The Kentucky Gazette

His Majesty, the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his Majesty the King of Great Britain, have judged that it was conformable to the interest of their Crowns, and to the good of the common cause, to concert with each other on the best manner of giving effect to the union of their efforts against the common enemy in the present campaign. In consequence of which the Baron De Thugut, Grand Cross of the order of St. Stephen, his Imperial Majesty's minister of conferences, & commissioner general & minister Plenipotentiary in his provinces of Italy, Istria, & Dalmatia, &c. and the Right Hon. Gilbert Lord Minto, Peer of Great Britain, one of his Britannic Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, & his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna, being furnished on the part of their aforesaid Imperial and Britannic Majesties, with the powers requisite for discussing and arranging this important object—the said plenipotentiaries, after having respectively exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon the following articles:—

Art. I. In order to relieve the pressing necessities of the finances of his Imperial Majesty, under the enormous expenses already incurred, and which remain to be incurred during the present campaign, his Britannic Majesty shall advance to his abovementioned Imperial Majesty by way of Loan, the sum of £2,000,000 sterling. This sum shall be divided into three parts and paid at three different periods preferably in specie: so that the first third £666,666 13s. 4d. shall be paid in the first days of the month of July; the second third of the like sum in the first days of September; and the remaining third in the first days of the month of December.

Art. II. During the whole continuance of the war, and during the six months which shall follow the conclusion of a peace between Austria and France, his Imperial Majesty shall not be bound to pay any interest upon the sum of two millions advanced, as stipulated in the preceding article. Great Britain consented to take this charge upon her own account until the period above mentioned: But on the expiration of the term of six months after the conclusion of peace, his Imperial Majesty shall pay for the future to the British Government, or to the individuals who shall be pointed out by the British Government, an annual rent or annual rents, making altogether the amount of the interests of the two millions advanced; which interest shall be calculated at the same rate as the interests of the loan made on account of the British Government in the present year. His Imperial Majesty shall moreover pay annually to the British Government the sum of £20,000 sterling at two periods, that is to say, 10,000 every six months, which sum will be employed in the successive purchase and reduction of the principal of the two millions, according to the method adopted by the British Government in its own loans.

Art. III. Their Imperial and Britannic Majesties mutually promise each other to carry on the war against the French Republic, during the present campaign, with all possible vigour and to employ in it all their respective means by land and sea concerting together, as occasion shall require, on the most advantageous manner of reciprocally employing their forces by land and sea to the support of their operations against the common enemy. His Imperial Majesty shall be careful to complete his armies of Germany and of Italy in proportion to the losses which they have sustained, in order always, as far as possible, to act against the enemy with the same number of effective men, conformably to the statements which his Imperial Majesty caused to be confidentially communicated to the British Government on the opening of the campaign.

Art. IV. The Bavarian troops, those of Wurtemberg, and the Swiss regiments in the pay of Great Britain, shall be at the disposition of his Imperial Majesty, to form a part of his army in Germany, and to be employed there in operations against the enemy, in conformity to the Conventions and Capitulations concluded on this subject by the King of Great Britain,

His Britannic Majesty shall take the necessary measures for the reinforcement of the army of his Imperial Majesty in Germany be as great a number as possible of German and Swiss troops.

Art. V. Their Imperial and Britannic Majesties engage during the whole continuance of the present convention not to make a separate peace with the French republic, without the previous and express consent of each other. They engage likewise not to treat with the enemy, nor to make overtures either for a private peace or receive from him any general pacification, without making, mutually, communications of them with openness, and acting in every respect in perfect concert.

Art. VI. The duration of the present Convention is fixed for the term of one year, to be computed from the 1st of March, 1800, until the end of February 1801. From the month of December, immediately after the last payment of the stipulated advances the two High Contracting Parties shall enter into deliberation and confidential explanation upon the determinations that they may think necessary to adopt for the future, according to circumstances, and their mutual convenience.

Art. VII. The present Convention shall be ratified in due form by their Imperial and Britannic Majesties, and the respective ratifications shall be exchanged at Vienna, in the space of six weeks, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof, We, the undersigned, furnished with the full powers of their Imperial and Britannic Majesties, have in their names signed the present convention, and have affixed thereunto the seal of our arms.

Done at Vienna the 20th of June, in the year 1800.

(LS.) LE BARON DE THUGUT.

(LS.) MINTO.