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Benjamin Keene, there was alfo concluded and figned a feparate article, of the tenor following.

Fiat Infertio.

Now the fame having been feen and examined, We have thought fit to approve it and ratify it, (as by virtue of this prefent, We do approve and ratify it) in the best and most ample manner that we are able, according, and as it is mentioned and expreffed therein; promifing on the faith of our royal word, to fulfil it entirely, and that it fhall have the fame vigor and force as if it had been inferted in the faid convention. In witness whereof, We have ordered this prefent to be difpatched, figned with our hand, fealed with our fecret feal, and counter-figned by our under-written counsellor of state, and firft fecretary of ftate and of the difpatch. Given at the Pardo, the 15th day of January, one thousand seven hundred and thirtynine.

I THE KING,

Sebaftian de la Quadra.

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The definitive Treaty of Peace, Union, Friendship, and
Mutual Defence, between the Crowns of Great Britain,
Hungary, and Sardinia, concluded at Worms on the T
of September, 1743.

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EORGE the Second, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick, and Lunenburg, ArchTreafurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. To all and fingular to whom these prefents shall come, greeting. Whereas the Minifters plenipotentiary, as well on our part, as on the part of our good Brother the King of Sardinia, &c. and of our good Sifter the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, &c. being affembled at Worins, and fufficiently authorized thereto, did conclude, and fign a certain treaty of mutual friendship and perpetual alli

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In the Name of the most Holy Trinity.

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Fora much as the difturbances, which, upon the decease of the Emperor Charles the Sixth, of glorious memory, without male iffue, arofe in Germany, notwithstanding the exprefs tenor of the most folemn and recent treaties of peace and alliance, corroborated by the authentick gua ranty of the body of the Empire, which do affure to his eldest daughter, and to her pofterity, the entire and indivifible fucceffion to his hereditary dominions, do manifeftly tend to the overthrow of all balance in Europe, and do expofe its liberty, and that of its commerce, to the most evident danger: which danger is ftill increased by the conquest which the Kings of Spain and Naples have openly undertaken to make of the dominions poffeffed by the inoft Screne Houfe of Auftria in Italy, contrary to the faith of their own engagements; after which, the reft of Italy would no longer be able to refift them, and all the coasts of the Mediterranean fea would be under fubjection to one and the fame family.

To obviate, as much as in them lies, fuch imminent evils, and an enterprize, whofe confequences would be fo fatal to all the Princes and States of Italy, to their liberty and commerce, and to that of the maritime powers in the Mediterranean Sea, the moft Serene and moft potent Prince George the Second, King of Great-Britain, Elector of Brunfwick, Lunenburg, &c, the moft Serene and most potant Princess Maria Therefia, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchefs of Auftria, &c. and the moft ferene and most poren: Prince Charles Emanuel King of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy, &c. having fuch an effential intereft in the prefervation of a juft balance in Europe, on which depends the liberty of Europe, and in the maintenance of the liberty and fecurity of Italy in particular, on which depends that of its commerce, and of the commerce of the Medi

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terranean, have refolved to enter into a clofer and more infeparable union, in this fixt intention, and to perfevere inviolably in joining their forces and counfels in order to obe taining the effect defired therefrom, and more especially for the fake of repelling, with one accord, the unjust invafion made by the Kings of Spain and Naples, and for fecuring Italy, if poffible, for the future, from all attempts of the fame kind.

In this view, and in order to prevent the faid invafion, without lofs of time, his Majefty the King of Sardinia did enter, from the 1ft day of February, 1742, into a provifional convention with her Majefty the Queen of Hungary, the tenor whereof is as follows.

As it is fufficiently evident, that the motions of the Spanish troops, which having landed in the States of the Præfidii, are advancing in the dominions of the Pope, in order to join thofe of Naples, and from thence to purfue their march as far as Imola, are bent, according to cer tain intelligence, towards Lombardy, and muft neceffarily very much affect his Majefty the King of Sardinia, as well as her Majesty the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, their Majefties have thought, by the means of the Marquis d'Ormea and of the Count de Schulenbourg (they being respectively provided with the neceffary full powers) of concerting and agreeing upon the following articles, under the hopes of their being ratified and accepted.

Article I.

The forces of her Majefty the Queen of Hungary alone, which are now in Italy, appearing fufficient to make head against the aggreffors, they fhall be brought together, in order to march towards them, and to give an immediate check to their progrefs, and particularly in order to cover the States of Modena, and Mirandola, which are as it were, a bulwark to the dominions of the Queen of Hungary in Italy,

Article II.

The faid King of Sardinia fhall, in the mean while, have a confiderable body of his troops upon the frontiers

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of his dominions towards the borders of the Milanefe, and of the Duchy of Placentia, which fhall be difpofed in fuch a manner, as that they may be brought together in a fhort time; and in cafe the forces of the aggreffors fhould come to be augmented, and that there fhould be caufe to fear a new invafion on any other fide, as is probable, according to the advices that have been received, that a fecond convoy of Spanish troops has already fet fail at Barcelona, and that they are to land in the harbour of La Spezia, his Majefty fhall then co-operate with all his forces for preventing the body of Auftrian troops, which fhall have marched forward, from being either taken in flank, or intercepted by that new reinforcement of Spanish troops: and to this end, all the paffages in the States above-mentioned, and principally, the places of Parma, Placentia, and Pavia, fhall remain free and open to the King's troops for their convenience and fecurity.

Article III.

As to what relates to further motions, and fuch other military operations, as might be afterwards undertaken, as they must depend upon the circumftances which fall out from day to day, it is neceflary to refer them to the concert which fhall be entered into, in proportion to the circumstances which fhall happen; and for this purpofe, his Majefty the King of Sardinia fhall fend one of his general officers to the army of her Majefty the Queen of Hungary, and her Majesty the Queen of Hungary fhall fend one of her's likewife to refide with his Majefty the King of Sardinia: To which general officers fhall be reciprocally communicated, all the advices that fhall be received about the enemy; and all the refolutions which fhall be taken on either fide fhall be concerted with them.

Article IV.

Nothing being fo neceffary towards obtaining the end defired on each fide, as the reciprocal fecurity of the refpective poffeffions, and rights, and a confidence in the good faith of the parties, who are to co-operate towards the fame end, his Majefty the King of Sardinia promises,

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upon the faith and word of a Prince, to her Majefty the Queen of Hungary; Firft, That, for as long time as the prefent provifional agreement fhall laft, he will not avail himself of his pretended rights to the state of Milan, which are not entered into in this provifional convention, forafmuch as the Queen of Hungary cannot admit them, and the King of Sardinia on the contrary thinks them founded; and Secondly, That if it fhould be necessary that his faid Majefty fhould enter, with his forces, into any one of the ftates above-mentioned, he will not exercise in the fame any act of fovereignty, and will not in any wife hinder the Queen of Hungary from continuing to exercise them in the manner, that that princess has done it hitherto; neither will his Majefty exact any contribution, and will content himself in the faid cafe with being furnifhed with fuch things as are indifpenfably requifite to an army; as for inftance, forage, wood, quarters, carts, beds, caferns, and straw, the rations whereof fhall be regulated upon the foot on which they are ufually allowed to his troops; as alfo horfes, mules, and oxen, for the use of the artillery, and victuals.

Article V.

On the other hand, her Majesty the Queen of Hungary declares in the like folemn manner, that it is not her meaning, that the abovefaid promifes of his Majefty the King of Sardinia, nor the execution of them, fhould prejudice the rights by him pretended to the ftate of Milan, nor ever to avail herself of them, fo as to infer from thence that the faid rights were no longer fubfifting; the intention of the two high contracting parties being to preferve to each of them their refpective rights in their full force, in fuch manner as they may appertain to them, independently of the prefent convention.

Article VI.

And it is likewife in this view, that his Majefty the King of Sardinia referves to himfelf exprefly the entire liberty of availing himself of his faid rights, at whatever

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