essary passports and security
for the free passage of them and their baggage, to the places of their
destination; his royal highness the duke of Cumberland reserving
to himself the liberty of negotiating between the two courts for an
extension of those quarters. As to the French troops, they shall remain
in the rest of the duchies of Bremen and Verden, till the definitive
reconciliation of the two sovereigns.

IV.. As the aforesaid articles are to be executed as soon as possible,
the Hanoverian army, and the corps which are detached from it,
particularly that which is at Buck Schantz and the neighbourhood, shall
retire under Stade in the space of eight-and-forty hours. The French
army shall not pass the river Oste, in the duchy of Bremen, till the
limits be regulated. It shall, besides, keep all the posts and countries
of which it is in possession; and, not to retard the regulation of the
limits between the armies, commissaries shall be nominated and sent on
the 10th instant to Bremen-worden by his royal highness the duke of
Cumberland, and his excellency the mareschal duke de Richelieu, to
regulate, as well the limits to be assigned to the French army, as those
that are to be observed by the garrison at Stade, according to Art. III.

V. All the aforesaid articles shall be faithfully executed, according
to their form and tenor, and under the faith of his majesty the king of
Denmark's guarantee, which the count de Lynar, his minister, engages to
procure.

Done at the camp at Closter-Seven, 8th Sept. 1757. (Signed) WILLIAM.

SEPARATE ARTICLES. Upon the representation made by the count de Lynar,
with a view to explain some dispositions made by the present convention,
the following articles have been added:--

I. It is the intention of his excellency the mareschal duke de
Richelieu, that the allied troops of his royal highness the duke of
Cumberland shall be sent back to their respective countries, according
to the form mentioned in the second article; and that, as to their
separation and distribution in the country, it shall be regulated
between the courts, those troops not being considered as prisoners of
war.

II. It having been represented that the country of Lunenberg cannot
accommodate more than fifteen battalions and six squadrons, and that the
city of Stade cannot absolutely contain the garrison of six thousand men
allotted to it, his excellency the mareschal duke de Richelieu, being
pressed by M. de Lynar, w