The SUPPLEMENT to the Treaties with FRANCE.

[The following is the FAMILY COMPACT, which is referred to in the Commercial Treaty 1786, between Great Britain and France.]

The Family Compact of the House of Bourbon; figned at Paris, August 15th, 1761.

IN the name of the most holy and indivifible Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen. The ties of blood, which unite the two monarchs now reigning in France and Spain, and the particular fentiments which have animated each other, of which they have given fo many proofs, have engaged their most Christian and Catholic Majefties to form, and conclude between them, a treaty of friendship and union, under the title of The Family Compact; the principal object of which is to render permanent and indivifible, as well for their faid Majesties, as for their defcendants and fucceffors, thofe duties which are the natural confequences of confanguinity and friendship. The intention of their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties, in contracting the engagements formed by this treaty, is to perpetuate in their pofterity the fentiments of Lewis XIV. of glorious memory, their common and auguft great grandfather; and to preferve for ever a folemn monument of their reciprocal intereft, which ought to be the foundation of the views of their courts, and of the profperity of their royal families.

With this view, and to attain fo agreeable and falutary an end, their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties have given their full powers, i. e. his most Chriftian Majefty, to the Duke de Choifeul, a Peer of France, Knight of his Orders, and Lieutenant General of his Majesty's armies, Governor of Touraine, High Steward and Superintendant General, and Secretary

cretary of State in the department of War and Foreign Affairs; and his Catholic Majefty, to the Marquis of Grimaldi, Gentleman of his Bed-chamber, and his Ambaffador Extraordinary to his moft Chriftian Majefty; who, being informed of the difpofitions of their respective Sovereigns, and after having communicated their credentials to each other, have agreed to the following articles;

I. Their most Christian and Catholic Majesties declare, that in confequence of their intimate ties of confanguinity and friendship, and the union they contract by the prefent treaty, the two Crowns will hereafter confider every Power as their common enemy who fhall become fuch to either of them.

II. The two contracting Kings reciprocally guaranty, in the most abfolute and authentic manner, all the estates, lands, iflands, and places which they pofsess in any part of the world whatever, without any referve or exception; and the poffeffions, the object of their guaranty, fhall be fixed according to the actual ftate in which they fhall be found, as foon as either of the two Crowns fhall be at peace with all other Powers.

III. Their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties grant the fame abfolute and authentic guaranty to the King of the Two Sicilies, and to the Infant Don Philip, Duke of Parma, for all the eftates, territories, and places which they poffefs; provided that his Sicilian Majefty, and the faid Infant Duke of Parma, alfo guaranty, on their part, all the eftates and poffeffions of their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties.

IV. Though the inviolable and mutual guaranty, to which their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties bind themselves, ought to be fupported with all their power, and though their Majefties thus understand it, according to the fundamental principles of this treaty, that whoever attacks one crown, attacks the other, yet the two contracting parties have thought it proper to afcertain

afcertain the first fuccours, which the Power requested fhall be obliged to furnish to the Power requcfting.

V. The two Kings have agreed, that the crown requested to furnish fuccours fhall, within three months after fuch requifition, have twelve fhips of the line, and fix armed frigates, in one or more of its ports, at the entire difpofition of the requesting court.

VI. The Power requested fhall have ready, within the space of three months, at the difpofition of the Power requefting, 18,000 foot, and 6,000 horfe, if France fhall be the Power requefted; and if Spain be the Power requested, 10,000 foot, and 2,000 horfe. In this difference of number, attention must be paid to the greater number of forces actually kept on foot in France than in Spain; but if it fhould at any time fo happen, that the number of forces kept on foot by them fhall be equal, then the obligation fhall alfo be equal to furnish reciprocally the fame number. The Power requefted engages to affemble the ftipulated fuccours, and to place them in fuch fituations (without immediate marching them out of the kingdom) as the party requefting fhall appoint, in order that they may be the more readily employed in the fervices for which the faid troops were demanded; and when, to gain fuch place of deftination, a paffage by fea, or marches by land, may be neceffary, the expences thereof fhall be borne by the Power requefted, to whom the faid fuccours properly belong.

VII. As to what regards the difference in the faid number of troops to be furnished, his Catholic Majefty excepts the cafe wherein they may be found neceffary to defend the poffeffions of the King of the Two Sicilies, his fon, or thofe of the Infant Duke of Parma, his brother; fo that freely acknowledging the preference, which the ties of blood and kindred impofe on him, then the Catholic King, in thofe two circumftances, promifes to furnish the fuccours of 18,000 foot and 6,000 horfe, and even to employ all his forces, without claiming of his moft Chriftian Majefty any

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more than the number of troops above specified, and fuch other efforts as his tender friendship for the Princes of his own blood may induce him to exert in their favour.

VIII. His moft Chriftian Majefty excepts alfo, on his part, the wars he may engage in, either as principal or auxiliary, in confequence of the engagements he has contracted by the treaty of Weftphalia, and other alliances with the German and other Northern Powers; and, confidering that the faid wars 'can in no manner interfere with the crown of Spain, his most Chriftian Majefty promifes not to demand any affiftance from his Catholic Majefty, unlefs fome maritime Powers fhould take part in the faid wars, or that the event should be fo unfavourable to France, that she should be attacked by land in her own territories; then, in this laft cafe, his Catholic Majesty promises to furnish his moft Chriftian Majefty, without any exception, not only with the faid 10,000 foot and 2,000 horfe, but even, in cafe of neceffity, with 18,000 foot and 6,000 horfe, being the number stipulated to be furnished for the ufe of the Catholic King, by his moft Chriftian Majefty; his Catholic Majefty engaging, in fuch cafe, to pay no regard to the difproportion between the land forces of France and thofe of Spain.

IX. The requefting Power fhall be permitted to fend one or more commiffaries, chofen from among their own fubjects, in order to affure themselves, that the Power requefted has collected, within the three months from the time of requifition, in one or more of their ports, twelve fhips of the line and fix armed frigates, as well as the ftipulated number of land forces, ready to march,

X. The faid fhips, frigates, and troops, fhall act agreeably to the will of the Power that fhall have occafion for and demand them; and the Power requefted fhall be allowed to make no more than one representation

reprefentation concerning the motives or objects to which the faid land and fea forces are deftined.

XI. What is above agreed upon shall immediately take place, as often as the requesting Power fhall demand fuccours for any offenfive or defenfive enterprize, either by land or fea, and it must be understood in fuch cafe, that the ships and frigates of the requested Power fhall be collected in fome port of its dominions, fince it shall then be fufficient that the land and fea forces are in readiness in thofe ports of their kingdoms which shall be appointed by the requesting Power, as most convenient to its intentions.

XII. The demand which one of the two Sovereigns shall make of the other, for the fuccours ftipulated by the present treaty, fhall be fufficient to conftitute the neceffity of one party, and the obligation of the other to furnish the faid fuccours, without being obliged to enter into any explication whatever, nor, under any pretence, to elude the most speedy and perfect execution of this engagement.

XIII. In confequence of the preceding article, no difcuffion of the offenfive or defenfive cafe fhall take place, with respect to furnishing the twelve fhips, the fix frigates, and the land troops, fince thofe forces are to be confidered, in all points, three months after the requifition, as properly belonging to the Power that fhall requeft them.

XIV. The Power that fhall furnish thefe fuccours, whether in fhips and frigates, or in troops, fhall pay them, wherever its ally fhall call them to act, as if thofe forces were directly employed in their own fervice; and the requesting Power fhall be obliged, whether the faid fhips, frigates, or troops remain a fhort or long time in their ports, to fupply them with every thing neceffary, at the fame price as if they properly belonged to them, and to allow them the fame prerogatives and privileges as their own troops enjoy. It is agreed, that in no cafe the faid fhips or troops hall

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