ART. V. The Most Serene Prince engages to put this corps on the best footing possible; and no men shall be admitted therein but such as are fit for field service, and acknowledged as such by his Britannick Majesty ’s Commissary.

ART. VI. This corps shall be furnished with tents, and all necessary equipage.

ART. VII. The King grants to this corps the ordinary and extraordinary pay, as well as all the advantages in forage, provisions, winter-quarters, and refreshments, &c., enjoyed by the Royal troops; and the Most Serene Prince engages to permit this corps to enjoy all the emoluments of pay which his Britannick Majesty allows them. The sick and wounded of the said corps shall be taken care of in the King ’s Hospitals, and shall be treated in that respect as the troops of his Britannick Majesty; and the wounded not in a condition to serve shall be transported into Europe, landed in some port on the Weser, and sent back to their own country, at the King ’s expense.

ART. VIII. There shall be paid to his Most Serene Highness, as Levy Money, for each foot soldier, as well as gunner, thirty crowns Banco; the crown to be reckoned at fifty-three soles of Holland; one half of this money shall be paid in three weeks after the signature of the Treaty, and the other half in two months after the signature.

ART. IX. According to custom, three wounded men shall be reckoned as one man killed. A man killed shall be paid for at the rate of the levy money. If it should happen that any Company of this corps should be wholly or in part ruined or destroyed, or that the pieces of artillery, or other effects with which it might be furnished, should be lost by accident, his Majesty the King of Great Britain shall cause the expense of the necessary recruits to be paid, as also the value of the said field-pieces and effects, to reestablish this corps and its artillery immediately.

ART. X. The Most Serene Prince reserves to himself the nominations to the vacant employments, as well as the administration of justice. His Britannick Majesty will give orders to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army in which this corps shall serve, that he does not require from this corps any extraordinary services, or such as are beyond its proportion with the rest of the army; and when it shall serve with the English troops or other auxiliaries, the officers shall command (as the military service requires of itself) according to their rank, and the seniority of their commissions, without making any distinction with regard to what corps the troops may belong with which they shall serve in conjunction. This corps shall take the oath of fidelity to his Britannick Majesty, without prejudice to that which they have taken to their own Sovereign.

ART. XI. All deserters from the Waldeck Regiment shall be faithfully and immediately given up, wherever they may be found, in the places dependant on his Britannick Majesty; and especially, it shall not be permitted, as far as is possible, that any of the subjects whatsoever of his Most Serene Highness establish themselves in America, without the consent of their Sovereign.

ART. XII. The pay shall commence fifteen days before the march of this body of troops; and as soon as the troops shall have quitted their quarters to repair to the place of their destination, all the expenses of their march and transport shall be at the charge of his Britannick Majesty.

ART. XIII. His Britannick Majesty shall grant to the Most Serene Prince, during all the time that this body of troops shall be in his Majesty ’s pay, an annual subsidy of twenty-five thousand and fifty crowns Banco. His Majesty shall cause notice of the determination of the said subsidy to be given a whole year before it shall cease to be paid: Provided that such notice shall not be given till after the return of the troops into the dominions of his Most Serene Highness.

This Treaty shall be ratified by the high contracting parties, and the ratifications thereof exchanged as soon as possible.

In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, by virtue of our full powers, have signed the present Treaty, and have affixed thereto the seals of our arms.

Done at Arolsen, this 20th of April, 1776.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Tuesday, May 7, 1776.

The Lord North presented to the House, by his Majesty ’s command,

Copy of the Ulterior Convention between his Majesty and the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Cassel, concluded at Hanau, the 25th of April, 1776, and Translation.

And the Titles of the said Copy and Translation were read.

The said Copy is preserved amongst the other Papers of this Session; and the said Translation is as followeth, viz :

Translation of the Ulterior Convention, between his Majesty and the Hereditary Prince of HESSE CASSEL, concluded at HANAU, the 25 th of APRIL, 1776.

Since the conclusion of the Treaty between his Majesty the King of Great Britain and his Most Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Cassel, reigning Count of Hanau, signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries, at Hanau, the 5th of February last, his Most Serene Highness having caused it to be signified that he would furnish a detachment of his Artillery, to wit: the Company of Artillery of one hundred and twenty-eight men, according to the establishment hereunto annexed, with six field-pieces, one ammunition-wagon, three carts, one forge, and the necessary harness for the draft horses, which Artillery has always made part of the Regiment of Infantry furnished by his Most Serene Highness, and in British pay, his Majesty having readily consented thereto, promises and engages, by the present Ulterior Convention, that he will cause to be paid to his Most Serene Highness the Levy Money for each man of the said detachment, according to the eighth article of the abovementioned Treaty; and that the whole tenor of the said Treaty shall extend to the Artillery, as far as it is applicable thereto; and his Most Serene Highness promises and engages, on his part, by these presents, to hold the said detachment of Artillery, of one hundred and twenty-eight men, in readiness to march by the 15th of May next, or sooner if it can be done; which detachment of Artillery shall be provided at the place of its destination with the necessary horses, and every other part of the train not above specified, of which it may have occasion, at the charge of his Majesty; and it shall constantly serve in the same army in which the abovementioned Regiment is employed. His Britannick Majesty engages, also, that this Company of Artillery shall enjoy the same pay, and all the emoluments which have been or shall be hereafter granted to the Hessian Artillery, and particularly such as are stipulated for the Regiment of the Most Serene Hereditary Prince, by the seventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh articles of the Treaty. And if it shall unfortunately happen that any of the pieces of artillery, or other effects with which this Company is provided, shall be taken by the enemy, or lost, whether by accidents on the sea or otherwise, his Majesty promises to be accountable for the same to his Most Serene Highness, and consequently to cause the value and price thereof to be paid; his said Majesty and said Most Serene Highness have therefore thought proper to authorize their respective Ministers, to wit: his Britannick Majesty, Colonel William Faucitt, Captain in the Guards, and his Most Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Cassel, his Minister and Privy Counsellor actual, Frederick De Malsbourg, to sign the present Ulterior Convention, which shall have the same force as if it were inserted word for word in the Treaty signed at Hanau, the 5th of February last, and it shall be ratified in the same manner; and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged within the space of six weeks, to be computed from the day of the signature.

In testimony whereof, we, the undersigned, being furnished with the full powers of his Britannick Majesty and his Most Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Cassel, have signed the present Ulterior Convention, and have caused the seals of our arms to be put thereto. Done at Hanau, the 25th of April,1776.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Monday, May 6, 1776.

Colonel Barr éarose, and, holding a paper in his hand, which he informed the House he had cut out of the London

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