of his Britannic majesty by Ame rican citizens, and into the territories of the United States by British subjects, subject to the regulations established by both parties. The fourth article relates to the ascertaining of the extent of the Mississippi to the northward.

The fifth article alludes to the doubts that have arisen relative to the river St. Croix, and agrees to refer these doubts to commis. sioners.

The sixth article allows British subjects the power of recovering debts due to them by American citizens previously to the peace; which debts have not been recovered hitherto, on account of some legal, impediments. The United States agree to make full and complete compensation to the creditors who have suffered by those impe. diments. The amount of the losses and damages is to be ascertained by five commissioners-two to be appointed by Great Britian, two by the president of the United States, and one by the other four.

When the five commissioners thus appointed shall first meet, they shall, before they proceed to act, respectively take the following oath or affirmation, in the presence of each other, which oath or affirma. tion being so taken, and duly attested, shall be entered on the record of their proceedings, viz. I, A. B. one of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the treaty of amity, com, merce, and navigation, between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America, do so. lemnly swear, or affirm, that I will honestly, diligently, impar. tially, and carefully examine, and to the best of my judgment, accord.

ing to justice and equity, decide all such complaints, as under the said article shall be referred to the said commissioners; and that I will forbear to act as a commissioner in any case in which I may be personally interested.

Three of the said commissioners shall constitute a board, and shall have power to do any act appertaining to the said commission, provided that one of the com. missioners named on each side, and the fifth commissioner shall be present, and all decisions shall be made by the majority of the voices of the commissioners then present; eighteen months from the day on which the said commissioners shall form a board, and be ready to proceed to business, are assigned for receiving complaints and applications; but they are ne-. vertheless authorized, in any par ticular cases, in which it shall appear to them to be reasonable and just, to extend the said term of eighteen months for any term not exceeding six months after the expiration thereof. The said commissioners shall first meet at Philadelphia, but they shall have power to adjourn from place to place as they shall see cause.

The award of the said commissioners, or any three of them as aforesaid, shall in all cases be final and conclusive.

The seventh article allows indemnification, by the British goyernment, to such of the citizens of the United States as have suf fered, during the late war, by irregular and illegal captures. The United States also agree to indem nify British subjects for irregular illegal captures taken by Ameri can ships during the war,

For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of any such losses and damages, five commissioners shall be appointed and authorized to act in London, exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the preceding article, and after having taken the same oath or affirmation (mutatis mutandis) the same term of eighteen months is also assigned for the reception of claims, and they are in like manner authorized to extend the same in particular places. They shall receive testimony, books, papers, and evidence in the same latitude, and exercise the like discretion and powers respecting that subject; and shall decide the claims in question according to the merits of the several cases, and to justice, equity, and the laws of nations. The award of the commissioners, or any such three of them as aforesaid, shall in all cases be final and conclusive, both as to the justice of the claim, and the amount of the sum to be paid to the claimant; and his Britannic majesty under takes to cause the same to be paid to such claimants in specie, without ány deduction, at such place or places, and at such time or times, as shall be awarded by the same commissioners, and on condition of such releases or assignments to be given by the claimants, as by the said commissioners may be directed.

The eighth article refers to the two former, and settles the mode of paying the amount of the losses. The ninth article permits the subjects of each country to hold lands in either country, and to sell and devise them in the same manner as if they were natives.

In the tenth article it is agreed

that in case of a war, no money belonging to individuals shall be sequestered or confiscated.

The eleventh article establishes a perfect liberty of navigation and commerce between the two coun. tries.

The twelfth article allows the ci tizens of the United States to carry the produce of the United States to the West Indies, in vessels of not more than seventy tons burthen. The citizens are also allowed to carry away the produce of the islands to the territories of the United States alone. This article is to continue in force for two years after the present war, when farther regulations are to be made.

In the thirteenth article his Bri. tannic majesty consents to admit American vessels into the British ports in the East Indies. This consent, however, is not to extend to the carrying on of the coasting trade in the East Indies.

The citizens of the United States are not to reside or go into the interior parts of the East India settlements. They are not to export, in time of war, stores or rice from the East-Indies; they may touch at St. Helena for refreshment.

The fourteenth article relates to liberty of commerce and navigation between the dominions of his majesty in Europe, and the territories of the United States in America.

The fifteenth article states, that no higher duties shall be paid by the ships or merchandize of the one party in the ports of the other, than the duties paid by other na tions. No higher duties shall be paid upon importation or exportation than the duties paid on the importation or exportation of simi

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lar articles the produce of other nations.

The sixteenth article relates to the appointment of consuls for the protection of trade.

The seventeenth article relates to vessels being captured or detained, on suspicion of having enemy's property, on board. Such property alone is to be taken out; such vessels are to be permitted to proceed to sca with the remainder of their cargo,

The eighteenth article decides what articles the term contraband can be applied to.

The nineteenth article provides for the security of the respective subjects and citizens, and for the preventing of injuries by men of

war.

The twentieth article relates to the refusal of the respective parties to receive pirates into any harbours or towns, and to the seizure of goods and merchandize taken by pirates.

The twenty-first article provides, that the subjects and citizens of the two nations shall not do any acts of hostility against each other, and shall not accept commissions from foreign states or princes, to commit hostilities.

The twenty-second article prevents acts of reprisal, without due notice.

The twenty-third relates to the treatment of ships, officers, and crews, in the respective ports of the two powers.

The twenty-fourth article provides, that privateers of nations at enmity with either of the two powers, shall not arm their ships in the respective ports of the two powers, or sell what they have taken.

The twenty-fifth allows the ships of war belonging to the said par ties, to carry the ships and goods taken from their enemies, whithersoever they please.

In case of war between the two nations, the twenty-sixth article permits the merchants and others, of each of the two nations, to reside in the dominions of the other, and to continue their trade.

The twenty-seventh article agrees that the two powers shall respectively deliver up persons charged with murder and forgery.

The twenty-eighth, alluding to the preceding articles, states, that the first ten articles shall be permanent, and that the subsequent arti cles (the twelfth excepted) shall be limited in their duration to twelve years. The treaty is to be bind ing and obligatory as soon as it is ratified.

The treaty is signed

GRENVILLE, JOHN JAY.

Official Copy of the Treaty between the King of Spain and the Republic of France.

THE French republic and his majesty the king of Spain, equally animated with a desire to put a stop to the calamities of the war which now disunites them, strongly convinced that there exist between the two nations respective interests which demand a reciprocal return of friendship and good understand. ing, and wishing, by a solid and durable peace, to re-establish that desirable harmony which had for a long time been the constant basis of the relations subsisting between the two countries, they have

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charged with this negotiation, viz. the French republic, citizen Franeis Barthelemi, their ambassador in Switzerland; and his Catholic majesty, his minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to the king and republic of Poland, Don Domingo d'Yriarte; who, after having exchanged their powers, have agreed to the following articles:

Art. 1. There shall be peace, amity, and good understanding between the French republic and the kingdom of Spain.

2. In consequence, all the hostilities between the two contracting powers shall cease from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty; and none of them shall, from that period, furnish against the other, in any quality, or under any title, any aid, or contingent, either in men, horses, provisions, money, warlike stores, ships, or other articles.

3. Neither of the contracting powers shall grant a passage through their territories to any troops at war with the other.

4. The French republic restores to the king of Spain all the conquests which she has made from him in the course of the present war the conquered places and territories shall be evacuated by the French troops within fifteen days after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.

5. The fortified places, of which mention is made in the preceding article, shall be restored to Spain, with the cannons, warlike stores, and other articles belonging to those places, which shall have been in them at the moment of the signing of this treaty.

6. All sorts of military contri

butions, requisitions and paymerts, shall entirely cease from the date of fifteen days after the signing of the present pacification: all the arrears due at that period, even bills and promissory notes, given for these objects, shall be of no effect; what shall have been taken or received after the above-named period, shall be gratuitously restor ed, or paid for to the amount of its value.

7. There shall immediately be named by both sides commission. ers, for the purpose of adjusting a treaty of limits between the two powers: they shall as much as pos sible take as the basis of this treaty with respect to the territories which were disputed before the present war, the tops of the mountains which are the sources of the rivers of France and Spain.

8. Neither of the contracting powers can, at the expiration of a month after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, maintain on their respective fron tiers more than the number of troops they had usually been accustomed to have stationed there previous to the present war.

9. In exchange for the places restored by the 4th article, the king of Spain, for himself and his successors, gives up and abandons to the French republic all right of property in the Spanish part of St. Domingo, one of the Antilles: a month after the ratification of the present treaty shall be known in that island, the Spanish troops shall be in readiness to evacuate the places, ports, and establishments which they at present occupy, in order to give them up to the troops of the French republic as soon as they shall arrive to take possession

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of them; the places, ports, and establishments, of which mention is made above, shall be delivered up to the French republic, with the cannons, warlike stores, and articles necessary for their defence, which shall be in them at the moment when the present treaty shall be known at St. Domingo. The inhabitants of the Spanish part of St. Domingo, who, from inducements of interest or other motives, shall prefer removing with their property into the dominions of his Catholic majesty, shall be able to do so within the space of a year from the date of the treaty; the respec. tive generals and commanders of the two nations shall concert the measures necessary to be taken for the execution of the present arti

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10. There shall be respectively granted to the individuals of the two nations restitution of the ef. fects, revenues, and property of all forts, detained, seized, or confiscated, on account of the war which has subsisted between the French republic and his Catholic majesty; and likewise the most speedy justice with respect to the particular claims which these individuals may have in the states of the two con tracting powers.

11. In the mean time, till there shall be a new treaty of commerce between the contracting parties, all correspondencies and commercial relations shall be re-established between France and Spain on the footing on which they stood before the present war.

All French merchants shall be allowed to pass into Spain, there to resume their commercial establishments. They shall make new ones according to their conveni.

ence, submitting, in common with all other individuals, to the laws and usages of the country.

The Spanish merchants shall enjoy the same privileges, subject to the same conditions, in France.

12. All the prisoners respectively made since the commence. ment of the war, without regard to the difference of number and rank, comprehending the seamen and marines captured on board French or Spanish vessels, or those of other nations, as well as in ge neral all those imprisoned on either side on account of the war, shall be delivered up within the space of two months at latest, after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, without any appeal on either part, discharging, however, the private debts which the prisoners may have contracted during their captivity. The same mode shall be adopted with respect to the sick and wounded, immediately after their recovery or cure.

Commissioners on either side shall be immediately appointed to proceed to the execution of the present article.

13. The Portuguese prisoners making a part of the troops of Portugal, who have served with the armies and on board the ships of his Catholic majesty, shall be in like manner comprehended in the above-mentioned exchange. It shall be the same with respect to the French troops taken by the Portuguese troops in question.

14. The same peace, amity, and good understanding, stipulated by the present treaty between France and the king of Spain, shall take place between the king of Spain and the republic of the United

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