V. En cas qu'il y ait d'Enfans de ce Mariage, ils ne doivent se marier que du consentement de Sa Majesté le Roi du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, ou de Ses Successeurs. VI. En cas que le Prince vienne à mourir avant la Princesse, soit qu'il y ait des Enfans du Mariage ou non, la Princesse aura la faculté de retourner en Angleterre si elle le juge à propos, et d'emmener avec elle ses biens, paraphernaux, bagues, et joyaux, &c.; tant ceux qu'elle aura apporté, que ceux dont elle aura fait l'acquisition pendant son Mariage. VII. En considération de ce Mariage, et des dispositions énoncées à l'Article II du présent Traité, Son Altesse Sérénissime le Prince Règnant et Landgrave de Hesse Hombourg, s'engage à constituer un Douaire convenable à Son Altesse Royale pour le cas où elle aurait le malheur de devenir Veuve du dit Prince Héréditaire, soit pendant la vie du Landgrave son Père, soit après être parvenu lui même au Gouvernement de ses Etats. Les terres sur lesquelles ce Douaire doit être assigné, le Chateau ou Maison Douairière pour la résidence de Son Altesse Royaule, en cas de Veuvage, et toutes les autres circonstances y relatives, seront réglées et accordées préalablement au Mariage, par un Contrât Allemand, à conclûre entre les Ministres Plénipotentiaires de Sa Majesté pour le Royaume d'Hanovre, et ceux de Son Altesse Sérénissime le Landgrave. V. In case there shall be any Children from this Marriage, they shall not contract any Marriage without the consent of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or his Successors. VI. Should the Prince die before the Princess, whether they have issue or not, the Princess shall be at liberty to return to England if she thinks proper, and to bring with her her property, paraphernalia, rings, jewels &c.; as well those which she took with her, as those she may become possessed of during her Marriage. VII. In consideration of this Marriage, and of the dispositions contained in the IInd Article of this Treaty, His Serene Highness the Reigning Prince and Landgrave of Hesse Hombourg obliges himself to make a suitable Settlement upon Her Royal Highness, in case of her having the misfortune to become the Widow of the said Hereditary Prince, whether that event should be during the life of the Landgrave his Father, or after coming to the Government of his Estates. The Lands upon which this Settlement shall be charged, the Castle or Jointure House for Her Royal Highness in case of Her Widowhood, and all other relative circumstances, shall be regulated and agreed upon previous to the Marriage, by a German Contract, to be concluded between the Hanoverian Ministers Plenipotentiary of the King and those of the Serene Landgrave. VIII. Il sera permis et libre à Son Altesse Royale de faire exercer et célébrer le Service Divin, tant pour elle que pour ses Domestiques, conformément aux rites de 'Eglise du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande. IX. Ce Traité sera ratifié, et les Ratifications en seront échangées aussitôt que possible. En foi de quoi, nous les Plénipotentiaires respectifs avons signé le présent Traité, et y avons fait apposer le Cachet de nos Armes. Fait à Londres, le 6ème Avril, l'an de Grâce 1818. C. CANTUAR. VIII. The Princess shall have liberty for Herself and her Servants, to exercise and celebrate Divine Service, according to the rites of the Church of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. IX. This Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the Seal of their Arms. Done at London, the 6th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1818. C. CANTUAR. ELDON, C. HARROWBY, P. BATHURST. (L. S.) (L. S.) LIVERPOOL. TREATY of Marriage between the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Hesse Cassel.-Signed at Cassel, the 7th of May, 1818. Treaty between His Britannic Majesty and His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, for the Marriage of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge with Her Serene Highness the Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse Cassel. In the Name of Almighty God. Be it known unto all Men, that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, King of Hanover, &c. &c. &c., and His Royal Highness the Elector and Sovereign Landgrave of Hesse, Grand Duke of Fulda, Prince of Hersfeld, Hanau, Fritzlar, and Isenburg, Count of Catzenelnbogen, Dietz, Zie genhain, Nidda, and Schaumburg, &c. &c. being already allied by the closest ties of friendship and consanguinity, have, with the utmost satisfaction, consented that a Marriage shall take place between His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Brother to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and Her Serene Highness the Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, youngest Daughter of His Serene Highness the Landgrave Frederick of Hesse Cassel, and Niece of His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, and that the said Marriage shall be duly and lawfully solemnized at Cassel and at London, according to the Laws of the 2 Countries, and the rites of the Protestant Churches therein respectively established; Their Royal Highnesses being therefore desirous to arrange by a Treaty the Engagements to be contracted for the attainment of the abovementioned object, have for that purpose named and authorized as their Plenipotentiaries, viz.: His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honourable George Henry Rose, a Member of His said Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia; and His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, His Excellency George de Schmerfeld, His Minister of State, and for Foreign Affairs, Knight Grand Cross of the Hessian Order of the Lion, and the Order of Lewis of Hesse Darmstadt; who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles: ART. I. His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse agrees to bestow on Her Serene Highness the Princess, his Niece, a Marriage Portion of 20,000 Frankfort florins, that sum being the usual Portion given to the Princesses of the House of Hesse. In the event of the Princess dying before her Husband, and without issue, that Marriage Portion shall revert to the Elector of Hesse, and to his Successors. Her Serene Highness shall also receive a Marriage Portion from her illustrious Family, and moreover an outfit, or trousseau, suitable to her birth and rank. II. Her Serene Highness the Princess shall renounce, and is hereby considered to have renounced, in favour of the succession in the male line, agreeably to the usage and to the family engagements of the House of Hesse, all right of inheritance arising from the said House, in the same manner, on the same conditions, with the same reservations, and with equal validity and effect, as has been done by all the Princesses of Hesse upon their Marriage: and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting on the part of His Britannic Majesty, in his name, and in that of his Brother, the Duke of Cambridge, confirms this renunciation in the most express and formal manner. III. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge having engaged to pay to Her Serene Highness annually during the whole period of her Marriage, for pin-money and her daily expences, the sum of £3,000, of which Her Royal Highness shall have the free disposal for her own use, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting on the behalf of His Britannic Majesty, and in his name, has thought fit to take upon himself the full and complete execution of the said Engagement; and His Royal Highness promises and engages to secure to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the yearly payment of £3,000. IV. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, having engaged to give the sum of 20,000 Frankfort florins, as a Counter-dowry to the portion given by His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Great Britain, in the name and on the behalf of His Britannic Majesty, engages also to secure to the Princess, in the afflicting event of a separation by the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the annual revenue of £6,000 as her jointure. V. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged at Berlin as soon as possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the Seal of their Arms. Done at Cassel, the 7th day of May, 1818. (L.S.) G. H. ROSE. (L.S.) G. DE SCHMERFELD. ACT of the British Parliament, "for enabling His Majesty to make further Provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and to settle an Annuity on the Princess of Hesse, in case She shall survive his said Royal Highness." [58 Geo. III. cap. 24.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, [8th May, 1818.] WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, having taken into consideration the Message of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, communicating that a Treaty of Marriage was in Negotiation between His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and Her Serene Highness the Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, youngest Daughter of His Serene Highness the Landgrave Frederick of Hesse Cassel, and Niece of His Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by any Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to give and grant unto His said Royal Highness, the Duke of Cambridge, for and during His Majesty's royal will and pleasure, an Annuity or yearly sum of £6,000, of lawful money of Great Britain, in such proportions and in such manner and form as His Majesty in his wisdom shall think fit to direct and appoint the same; which annuity shall commence and take effect from the 5th day of April, 1818, and shall be paid and payable quarterly, in equal portions, at the 4 most usual days of payment in the year, (that is to say), the 5th day of July, the 10th day of October, the 5th day of January, and the 5th day of April in each and every year; and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to give and grant unto Her said Serene Highness the Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, of Hesse Cassel, when she shall become Duchess of Cambridge, or to such other Person or Persons as His Majesty shall think fit to be named in such Letters Patent, and his or their Heirs, to the use of or in trust for, her said Serene Highness, an Annuity of £6,000 of like lawful money, which shall have commencement and take effect immediately from and after the decease of His said Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in case Her said Serene Highness shall survive him, and shall continue from thenceforth for and during the natural life of Her said Serene Highness, and shall be paid and payable, in equal portions, at the 4 days of payment herein-before mentioned; the first payment thereof to be made at such of the said days of payment as shall first and next happen after the decease of His said Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in case Her said Serene Highness shall survive him as aforesaid; and that the said several Annuities shall and may in and by such Letters Patent be directed to be respectively issuing and payable out of and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such sums as have been directed to be paid out of the same by any Act or Acts of Parliament made previous to the time of passing this Act,) but with preference to all other payments which shall or may at any time or times after the passing of this Act be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund. II. And be it further enacted, that the said several Annuities, as the same shall take effect, shall be paid and payable during the continuance of the same respectively, at the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and the Auditor of the said Receipt shall and he is |