A The Separate Article. S in the Preliminary Articles Signed here at the Hague the 28th of May, 1709, by the Plenipotentiaries of his Imperial Majefty, of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, and of the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, it is Stipulated, amongst other Things, that the Lords the States-General fhall have, with entire Property and Sovereignty, the Upper Quarter of Guelder, according to the Fifty-fecond Article of the Treaty of Munster of the Year 1648; as alfo that the Garrifons which are or hereafter fhall be on the Part of the Lords the States General in the Town of Huy, the Cittadel of Liege, and in the Town of Bonne, fhall remain there, 'till it fhall be otherwife agreed upon with his Imperial Majefty and the Empire. And as the Barrier which is this Day agreed upon in the principal Treaty, for the mutual Guaranty between Her British Majelty and the Lords the States-General, cannot give to the United Provinces the Safety for which it is Established, unless it be well fecured from one end to the other, and that the Communication of it be well joined together; for which the Upper Quarter of Guelder, and the Garrisons in the Cittadel of Liege, Huy and Bonne are abfolutely neceffary: Experience having thrice fhewn, that France having a defign to attack the United Provinces, has made ufe of the Places abovementioned in order to come at them, and to pene penetrate into the faid Provinces. That further, in refpect to the Equivalent for which the Upper Quarter of Guelder is to be yielded to the United Provinces, according to the Fiftyfecond Article of the Treaty of Munfter abovementioned, His Majesty King Charles the Third will be much more gratified and advantaged in other Places, than that Equivalent can avail. So that to the end the Lords the States-General may have the Upper Quarter of Guelder, with entire Property and Sovereignty, and that the faid Upper Quarter of Guelder may be yielded in this manner to the said Lords the States-General, in the Convention, or the Treaty that they are to make with His Majefty King Charles the Third, according to the Thirteenth Article of the Treaty concluded this Day; as alfo that their Garrisons in the Cittadel of Liege, in that of Huy and in Bonne, may remain there, until it be otherwise agreed upon with his Imperial Majefty and the Empire, Her Majefty, the Queen of Great Britain, engages Herfelf and promifes by this separate Article, which fhall have the fame Force as if it was inferted in the principal Treaty, to make the fame Efforts for all this as She has engaged Herself to make, for their obtaining the Barrier in the Spanish Low-Countries. In Teftimony whereof the Underwritten Ambaffador-Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Her British Majefty, and Deputies of the Lords the States-General, have Signed the prefent Separate Article, and have affixed their Seals E 2 there thereunto. At the Hague, the 29th of O&o ber, 1709. (L. S.) Townshend. A (L. S.) J. V. Welderen, The Second Separate Article, S the Lords the States-General have represented, That in Flanders, the Limits between Spanish Flanders, and that of the States, are fettled in fuch a manner, as that the Land be longing to the States is extreamly narrow there; fo that in fome Places the Territory of Spanish Flanders extends it felf to the Fortifications, and under the Cannon of the Places, Towns, and Forts of the States, which occafions many Inconveniencies, as has been feen by an Example a little before the beginning of the prefent War, when a Fort was defigned to have been built under the Cannon of the Sas van Gand, under pretence, that it was upon the Territory of Spain. And as it is neceffary for avoiding thefe and other forts of Inconveniencies, that the Land of the States, upon the Confines of Flanders fhould be enlarged, and that the Places, Towns and Forts fhould, by that means, be better covered; Her Briti Majesty Majefty entring into the just Motives of the faid Lords the States-General in this refpect, promises and engages Herfelf by this Separate Article, That in the Convention that the faid Lords, the States-General, are to make with His Majefty, King Charles the Third, She will fo affift them, as that it may be agreed, That by the Ceffion to the faid Lords, the StatesGeneral, of the Property of an Extent of Land neceffary to obviate fuch like and other Inconveniencies, their Limits in Flanders fhall be enlarged more conveniently for their Security, and thofe of the Spanish Flanders removed farther from their Towns, Places and Forts, to the End that thefe may not be fo expofed any more. In Teftimony whereof, the underwritten Ambaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Her British Majefty, and Deputies of the Lords the States-General, have Signed the prefent Separate Article, and have affixed their Seals thereunto. At the Hague, the 29th of October, 1709. (L, S.) Townbend. (L.S.) J. B. van Reede. The The Articles of the Counter-Project, which were ftruck out or altered by the Dutch, in the Barrier-Treaty: With Jome Remarks, Article VI. O this End, their High Mightineffes fhall have Power to put and keep Garrisons in the following Places, viz. Newport, Knock, Menin, the Cittadel of Lifle, Tournay, Conde, Valenciennes, Namur and its Cittadel, Liere, Hale to fortifie, the Fort of Perle, Damme, and the Caftle of Gand. REMARKS. In the Barrier-Treaty, the States added the following Places to thofe mentioned in this Article, viz. Furnes, Ipres, Town of Lille, Maubeuge, Charleroy, Philippe, Fort of St. Donas (which is to be in Property to the States) and the Fort of Rodenhuyfen, to be Demolished. To Say nothing of the other Places, Dendermond is the Key of all Brabant; and the Demolishing of the Fort of Rodenhuyfen, fituate between Gand and Sas van Gand, can only ferve to Defraud the King of Spain of the Duties upon Goods Imported and Exported there. Article VII. The faid States may put into the faid Towns, Forts and Places, and in cafe of open War with France, into all the other Towns, Places and Forts, whatever Troops the Reafon of War fhall require. Remarks. But in the Barrier-Treaty it is faid, in cafe of an apparent Tack or War, without specifying againft France: Neither is the Number of Troops limited to what the Reafon of War fhall require, but what the States fhall think necessary. f Article |