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GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) - GEORGE IV : (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., George PR , as Prince Regent, on behalf of King George III, two pages, folio, Carlton House, 15 th June 1818. The manuscript document is addressed to Lord Eldon and is a Warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the acceptance of the King of Wurttemberg's Accession to the General Treaty signed in Congress at Vienna on the 9 th June 1815, and to the Acts thereunto annexed. Countersigned at the conclusion by Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) British Statesman, who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affais (1812-22) and was central to the management of the coalition that defeated Napoleon Bonaparte. Sewn into the document with black silk ties is a four-page manuscript copy of the document in which the Prince Regent, on behalf of King George III, approved and accepted the Act of Accession, the text in English and French, stating, in part, 'Whereas an Act of Accession on the part of His Majesty The King of Wurttemberg, to the General Treaty signed in Congress at Vienna…..between His Britannic Majesty, His Majesty The Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Majesty The King of France and Navarre, His Royal Highness The Prince Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Brazils, His Majesty The King of Prussia, His Majesty The Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty The King of Sweden and Norway - as well as to the Treaties, Conventions, Declarations, Regulations, and other Acts recited in the Hundred and Eighteenth Article of the said General Treaty, was concluded and signed at Stuttgart on the Fourteenth day of April last, by the Plenipotentiary of His said Majesty The King of Wurttemberg…….We having seen and considered the Act of Accession aforesaid, have, in the Name and on Behalf of His Majesty, approved and accepted the same…..' With blank integral leaf and blind embossed paper seal affixed. VG   The present document relates to the settlements made at the Congress of Vienna, which met from the end of September 1814 to June 1815 in order to re-organise and settle the shape of post-Napoleonic Europe.