be fettled in concert by the two governments, of which mark the respective governments fhall give nine months previous notice to the manufacturers; and the faid mark fhall be altered from time to time, as the cafe may require. It is further agreed, that until the faid precaution can be put in execution, the faid callicoes mutually exported, fhall be accompanied by a certificate of the officers of the cuftoms, or of fuch other officer as fhall be appointed for that purpose, declaring that they were fabricated in the country from whence they were exported, and alfo that they are furnished with the marks already prefcribed in the respective countries, to diftinguifh fuch callicoes from thofe which come from other countries.

IV. In fettling the duties upon cambricks and lawns, it is understood that the breadth fhould not exceed, for the cambricks, seven-eighths of a yard, Englifh measure (about three quarters of an ell of France) and for the lawns, one yard and a quarter, English meafure (one ell of France) and if any fhall hereafter be made of a greater breadth than what is abovementioned, they fhall pay a duty of ten per cent. ad valorem.

V. It is alfo agreed, that the ftipulations in the 18th article of the treaty fhall not be conftrued to derogate from the privileges, regulations, and usages already established in the cities or ports of the refpective dominions of the two Sovereigns and further, that the 25th article of the faid treaty fhall be conftrued to relate only to fhips fufpected of carrying, in time of war, to the enemies of either of the high contracting parties, any prohibited articles, denominated contraband; and the faid article is not to hinder the examinations of the officers of the cuftoms, for the purpose of preventing illicit trade in the refpective dominions.

VI. Their Majefties having ftipulated, by the 43d article of the faid treaty, that the nature and extent of

the functions of the confuls fhould be determined, "and that a convention relative to this point fhould "be concluded immediately after the fignature of the "prefent treaty, of which it fhould be deemed to "conftitute a part," it is agreed that the faid ulterior convention fhall be fettled within the fpace of two months, and that, in the mean time, the confuls ge neral, confuls, and vice confuls, fhall conform to the usages which are now observed, relative to the confulfhip, in the refpective dominions of the two Sovereigns; and that they fhall enjoy all the privileges, rights, and immunities belonging to their office, and which are allowed to the confuls general, confuls, and vice confuls of the most favoured nation.

VII. It fhall be lawful for the fubjects of his Britannic Majefty to profecute their debtors in France, for the recovery of debts contracted in the dominions of his faid Majefty, or elsewhere, in Europe, and there to bring actions against them, in conformity to the practice of law in ufe in the kingdom: provided that there fhall be the like ufage, in favour of French fubjects, in the European dominions of his Britannic Majefty.

VIII. The articles of the prefent convention shall be ratified and confirmed by his Britannic Majefty, and by his moft Chriftian Majefty, in one month, or fooner, if it can be done, after the exchange of fignatures between the Plenipotentiaries.

In witness whereof, we the Minifters Plenipotentiary have figned the prefent convention, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be fet thereto. Done at Versailles, the fifteenth of January, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-seven.

Wm. Eden. (L. S.) Gravier de Vergennes. (L. S.)

[The following CONVENTION, of Auguft 1787, is printed from the copy, which was published by authority, in 1787.]

The Convention between bis Britannic Majefty and the Moft Chriftian King. Signed at Verfailles, the 31st of Auguft, 1787.

DIFFICULTIES having arifen in the Eaft Indies, relative to the meaning and extent of the thirteenth article of the treaty of peace, figned at Verfailles the third of September, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three, his Britannic Majefty and his most Christian Majefty, with a view to remove every cause of difpute between their refpective fubjects in that part of the world, have thought proper to make a particular convention, which may ferve as an explanation of the thirteenth article above-mentioned: in this view, their faid Majefties have named for their refpective Plenipotentiaries, to wit, on the part of his Britannic Majefty, William Eden, Efq; Privy Counfellor in Great Britain and Ireland, Member of the British Parliament, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his most Christian Majefty; and on the part of his moft Christian Majesty, the Sieur Armand Mark, Count de Montmorin de St, Herem, Marshal of his Camps and Forces, Counsellor in all his Councils, Knight of his Orders, and of the Golden Fleece, Minifter and Secretary of State, and of his Commands and Finances, having the department of foreign affairs; who, after having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles.

I. His Britannic Majefty again engages "to take "fuch measures as fhall be in his power for fecuring "to the fubjects of France a fafe, free, and independ"ant trade, fuch as was carried on by the French East "India Company," and as is explained in the following articles, "whether they exercise it individually, or as a company," as well in the Nabobfhip of Arcot, and the countries of Madura and Tanjore, as in the

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provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, the Northern Circars, and in general in all the British poffeffions on the coafts of Orixa, Coromandel, and Malabar.

II. In order to prevent all abuses and difputes relative to the importation of falt, it is agreed that the French fhall not import annually into Bengal more than two hundred thousand maunds of falt: the faid falt fhall be delivered at a place of depofit appointed for that purpose by the government of Bengal, and to officers of the faid government, at the fixed price of one hundred and twenty rupees for every hundred maunds.

III. There fhall be delivered annually for the French commerce, upon the demand of the French agent in Bengal, eighteen thoufand maunds of faltpetre, and three hundred chefts of opium, at the price eftablished before the late war.

IV. The fix antient factories, namely, Chandernagore, Coffimbuzar, Dacca, Jugdea, Balafore, and Patna, with the territories belonging to the faid factories, fhall be under the protection of the French flag, and fubject to the French jurifdiction.

V. France fhall alfo have poffeffion of the ancient houfes of Soopore, Keerpoy, Cannicole, Mohunpore, Serampore, and Chittagong, as well as the dependencies on Soopore, viz. Gautjurat, Allende, Chintzabad, Patorcha, Monepore, and Dolobody; and fhall further have the faculty of establishing new houfes of commerce; but none of the faid houfes fhall have any jurifdiction, or any exemption from the ordinary juftice of the country exercised over British fubjects.

VI. His Britannic Majefty engages to take meafures to fecure to French fubjects without the limits of the ancient factories above-mentioned, an exact and impartial administration of juftice, in all matters concerning their perfons or properties, or the carrying on their trade, in the fame manner and as effectually as to his own fubjects.

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VII. All Europeans, as well as natives, against whom judicial proceedings fhall be inftituted, within the limits of the ancient factories above-mentioned, for offences committed, or debts contracted, within the faid limits, and who fhall take refuge out of the fame, fhall be delivered up to the chiefs of the faid factories and all Europeans, or others whofoever, against whom judicial proceedings fhall be instituted, without the faid limits, and who fhall take refuge within the fame, fhall be delivered up by the chiefs of the faid factories, upon demand being made of them by the government of the country.

VIII. All the fubjects of either nation respectively, who fhall take refuge within the factories of the other, fhall be delivered up on each fide, upon demand being made of them.

IX. The factory of Yanam, with its dependencies, having, in purfuance of the faid treaty of peace, been delivered up by Mr. William Hamilton, on the part of his Britannic Majefty, to Mr. Peter Paul Martin, on the part of his moft Chriftian Majefty, the restitution thereof is confirmed by the prefent convention, in the terms of the inftrument bearing date the feventh of March, one thoufand feven hundred and eightyfive, and figned by Meffrs. Hamilton and Martin.

X. The prefent convention fhall be ratified and confirmed in the space of three months, or fooner, if it can be done, after the exchange of fignatures between the Plenipotentiaries.

In witnefs whereof, we, Minifters Plenipotentiary, have figned the prefent convention, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto.

Done at Verfailles, the thirty-firft of August, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-feven. Wm. Eden. (L. S.) Le Ce de Montmorin. (L. S.)

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