Common Contracts
1 similar Convention contracts
between His Majesty and the King of Sweden, signed at Stockholm, on the 8th. Feb. 1808.Convention • March 10th, 2021
The consequences of the Treaty of Tilsit, between Russia and France, unfolding themselves more and more, in such a manner as to threaten Sweden with a speedy invasion, for the purpose of forcing her to accede to the French system; and his Swedish Majesty finding himself, therefore, under the necessity of bringing forward, to resist its effects, a greater force than he has at his ordinary disposal, his Britannick Majesty, animated with the constant desire of contributing to the defence and security of his Ally, and of supporting him by wery means in a war undertaken for the mutual interests of both States, has determined to give to his Swedish Majesty an immediate aid in money, as being the most prompt and efficacious, to be paid from, time to time, at fixed periods; and their Majesties having judged it expedient, that a formal Convention with regard to their reciprocal intentions in this respect should be concluded, they have, for this purpose, named and authorised their respective Ple
