pared at Aland, for which Purpose he departed at the End of September. The Conferences

were in the mean Time continued with Count Gyllembourg, for Form fake; and the Czar relied fo much upon the fair Promises which Baron Gortz had made him, that he had confented to exchange General Renchild, as before mentioned, and fent him back to Sweden.

The main Point which the Czar had in View, was to keep by a Peace, not only Ingria, and Part of Carelia, but alfo Revel, with Efthonia, and Riga, with Livonia. He defigned to restore to Sweden only Finland and Carelia, that Part excepted which was to be difmembered from the latter Province.

Baron Gortz, it seems, flattered the Czar with those Hopes, and expected to perfwade the King of Sweden to confent to those Ceffions, in Confideration of the Succours by Sea and Land which his Czarish Majefty was to furnish to that King, as well for re-establishing Staniflaus on the Throne of Poland, as for retaking from the Kings of Great-Britan and Denmark what they had taken from the Crown of Sweden. As to the King of Pruffia, he was to be included in the Treaty; but the Czar, the better to make his own Terms, engaged to prevail upon his Pruffian Majefty to reftore Stetin, with its District, for an Equivalent to be given him fomewhere else. It will be easier to judge of all these Views, by reading the Plans concerted between Baron Gortz and M. Ofterman, which are here inferted Word for Word, as they were found among the Papers of the faid Baron, after his tragical Death.

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in PLAN concerted between Baron Gortz and M. Ofterman, the Czar's fecond Plenipotentiary, for Peace between that Prince and the King of Sweden.

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HE Czar promifes and takes upon himself to fee the Treaty of Alt-RanStadt executed according to its literal Senfe, fo that the Republick of Poland fhall make no farther Difficulty to acknowledge for the future Stanislaus for their lawful King, and to receive him in that Quality.

To this End, the Czar fhall fend next Spring into Poland, an Army of eighty thousand Men at least. His Swedish Majefty, to fecond this Project, fhall go over to Germany at the fame Time with a numerous Army, which shall act in Concert with that of the Czar in the fame View; and in Cafe any Power fhould concern itself with the Affairs of Poland, and endeavour to hinder the re-establishing of the Peace of AltRanftadt, their Swedish and Czarish Majesties engage not to lay down their Arms before King Stanislaus be actually replaced on the Throne of Poland: They engage to maintain him upon it with all their Forces, and to preserve the Republick of Poland in the quiet and entire Liberty of chufing their King.

II. His Czarish Majefty offers his Mediation between his Swedish Majefty and the King of Pruffia, for re-establishing good Intelligence between those two Princes; in Confequence whereof, his faid Czarish Majefty will employ all Means for accommodating, in a friendly Manner, the Difference relating to Stetin, and

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the Territories poffeffed in Pomerania, as alfo relating to the demolishing of Wifmar. But if the King of Pruffia fhould refufe to give the King of Sweden reasonable Satisfaction for Stetin and its District, the two contracting Parties fhall act in Concert to procure to the King of Pruffia another Equivalent to his Convenience, which fhall coft Sweden nothing. In Return, the King of Pruffia fhall be obliged to restore to the Crown of Sweden, Stetin, and that Part of Pomerania, which did belong to it; to become Guarantee of the Treaty to be made between. that Crown and the Czar, and to conclude with them a defenfive Alliance, pursuant to the Plan formed on this Subject.

And this Alliance with Pruffia fhall be concluded to the mutual Satisfaction of the Parties, two Months after the Exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty between Sweden and Muscovy.

III. The Czar not only thinks it just, that for the confiderable Countries and Provinces which the King of Sweden yields up to him, he fhould have convenient Satisfaction, and an Equivalent elsewhere; but he even obliges himself to procure them to him; and in cafe the King of Sweden thinks an Equivalent on the Side of Norway convenient for him, the Czar will undertake by Force of Arms the Execution of this Project.

If the King of Sweden will pafs over into Germany with a Body of Forty Thousand Men, the Czar fhall join to it Twenty or Twenty-five thousand Men of the Army which he shall have in Poland; he fhall maintain them at his own Expence, and they shall act under the King of K 3 Sweden's

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Sweden's Orders, for executing the Plan which he fhall have formed. If any other Powers fhould pretend to oppofe it, the Czar engages to act against them with all his Forces ; ftipulating however, that the Equivalent which the King of Sweden fhall take from Denmark, fhall not confift of any Country on this Side of the Baltick.

The Operations at Sea fhall be made in Concert between the two contracting Powers, and the Czar promises to join all his Naval Forces with thofe of Sweden.

IV. The Czar promises and engages to act with all his Troops to compel the King of England, as Elector, not only to restore Bremen and Vehrden to the King of Sweden, but alfo to give him due Satisfaction for the Damages he has fuftain'd; and if it happens that the Crown of England should oppofe this, the two contracting Powers promife to unite all their Forces against it, and not to lay down. their Arms till that Reftitution and Satisfaction be really obtained from Hanover.

However, in cafe the King of Sweden fhould chufe, before the Exchange of the Ratifications, to excufe the Czar from this Obligation; his Czarish Majefty promises and takes upon himself, to difpofe the Duke of Mecklenbourg to yield up voluntarily and for ever to the King and Crown of Sweden, the Dutchy of Mecklenbourg and its Dependencies, for a proper Equivalent, which the Czar promifes to procure for that Duke; and as fuch Equivalent cannot be found but on the Side of Poland, the King of Sweden fhall engage to affift in getting it.

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And in this Cafe the Agreements about the Succeffions of Families, which are fubfifting between the Houses of Pruffia and Mecklenbourg, fhall take Place, with refpect to the Equivalent to be given to the Duke of that Name.

V. Farther, the two contracting Parties fhall invite other Powers to enter into this Treaty of Alliance, and they fhall maintain between themselves good Friendship, Confidence, and Neighbourhood..

Conditions concerted between Baron Gortz and M. Ofterman, the Czar's Plenepotentiary, for attaining Peace.

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Here fhall be a perpetual Peace and Alliance between the two Crowns. II. General Friendship.

III. For establishing a more ftrict Friendship and Confidence, the two contracting Powers agree to exchange certain Territories and Countries, and to fettle a new Frontier between their Dominions.

IV. The Czar promises to restore to Sweden the great Dutchy of Finland, and all that depends on it.

V. The Province of Carelia, except what fhall be difmembered from it.

VI. the Powers fhall fettle a new Frontier for the future.

N. B. This Barrier is, indeed, not fpecified in the Project; but a geographical Map was joined to it, in which is feen a Line drawn from Wybourg to the White Sea, paffing by the Lakes of Ladoga and Onega; and the Countries on this Side of that Line, were to be yielded up for ever to Sweden.

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