be restored to his most Christian Majesty, shall be given up in the state in which they may be at the moment of the signature of the present Treaty. Article XII. His Britannic Majesty guarantees to the subjects of his most Christian Majesty, the same facilities, privileges, and protection, with respect to commerce, and the security of their persons and property within the limits of the British sovereignty on the Continent of India, as are now, or shall be, granted to the most favoured nations. His most Christian Majesty, on his part, having nothing more at heart than the perpetual duration of peace between the two crowns of England and of France, and wishing to do his utmost to avoid any thing which might affect their mutual good understanding, engages not to erect any fortifications in the establishments which are to be restored to him within the limits of the British sovereignty upon the Continent of India, and only to place in those establishments the number of troops necessary for the maintenance of the police. Article XIII. The French right of fishery upon the Great Bank of Newfoundland, upon the coasts of the island of that name, and of the adjacent islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, shall be replaced upon the footing in which it stood in 1792. Article XIV. Those colonies, factories, and establishments, which are to be restored to his most Christian Majesty, by his Britannic Majesty, or his allies, in the Northern Seas, or in the seas on the Continents of America and Africa, shall be given up within the three months, and those which are beyond the Cape of Good Hope, within the six months which follow the ratification of the present Treaty. Article XV. The high contracting parties having, by the 4th Article of the Convention of the 23d of April last, reserved to themselves the right of disposing, in the present Definitive Treaty of Peace, of the arsenals and ships of war, armed and unarmed, which may be found in the maritime places restored by the 2d Article of the said Convention, it is agreed that the said vessels and ships of war, armed and unarmed, together with the naval ordnance and naval stores, and all materials for building and equipment, shall be divided between France and the countries where the said places are situated, in the proportion of two-thirds for France, and one-third for the power to whom the said places shall belong. The ships and vessels on the stocks, which shall not be launched within six weeks after the signature of the present Treaty, shall be considered as materials, and after being broken up, shall be, as such, divided in the same proportions. Commissioners shall be named on both sides to settle the division, and draw up a statement of the same, and passports, or safe conducts, shall be granted by the allied powers for the purpose of securing the return into France of the workmen, seamen, and others in the employment of France. The vessels and arsenals existing in the maritime places which were already in the power of the allies before the 23d of April, and the vessels and arsenals which belonged to Holland, and especially the fleet in the Texel, are not comprised in the above stipulations. The French government engages to withdraw, or to cause to be sold, every thing which shall belong to it by the above stipulations, within the space of three months after the division shall have been carried into effect. Antwerp shall, for the future, be solely a commercial port. Article XVI. The high contracting parties, desirous to bury in entire oblivion the dissentions which have agitated Europe, declare and promise that no individual, of whatever rank or condition he may be, in the countries restored or ceded by the present Treaty, shall be prosecuted, disturbed, or molested, in his person or property, under any pretext whatsoever, either on account of his conduct or political opinions, his attachment either to any of the contracting parties, or to any government which has ceased to exist, or for any other reason, except for debts contracted towards individuals, or acts posterior to the date of the present Treaty. Article XVII. The native inhabitants and aliens, of whatever nation or condition they may be, in those countries which are to change sovereigns, as well in virtue of the present Treaty as of the subsequent arrangements to which it may give rise, shall be allowed a period of six years, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications, for the purpose of disposing of their property, if they think fit, whether it be acquired before or during the present war; and retiring to whatever country they may choose. Article XVIII. The allied powers, desirous to offer his most Christian Majesty a new proof of their anxiety to arrest, as far as in them lies, the bad consequences of the disastrous epoch fortunately terminated by the present peace, renounce all the sums which their governments claim from France, whether on account of contracts, supplies, or any other advances whatsoever, to the French government, during the different wars which have taken place since 1792. His most Christian Majesty, on his part, renounces every claim which he might bring forward against the allied powers, on the same grounds. In the execution of this article, the high contracting parties engage reciprocally to deliver up all titles, obligations, and documents, which relate to the debts they have mutually cancelled. Article XIX. The French government engages to liquidate and pay all debts it may be found to owe in countries beyond its own territory, on account of contracts or other formal engagements between individuals or private establishments and the French au thorities, as well for supplies as in satisfaction of legal engage ments. Article XX. The high contracting parties, immmediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, shall name commissioners to direct and superintend the execution of the whole of the stipulations contained in the 18th and 19th Articles. These commissioners shall undertake the examination of the claims referred to in the preceding Articles, the liquidation of the sums claimed, and the consideration of the manner in which the French government may propose to pay them. They shall also be charged with the delivery of the titles, bonds, and the documents relating to the debts which the high contracting parties mutually cancel, so that the approval of the result of their labours shall complete that reciprocal renunciation. Article XXI. The debts which in their origin were specially mortgaged upon the countries no longer belonging to France, or were contracted for the support of their internal administration, shall remain at the charge of the said countries. Such of those debts debts as have been converted into inscriptions in the great book of the public debt of France, shall accordingly be accounted for with the French government after the 22d December 1813. The deeds of all those debts which have been prepared for inscription, and have not yet been entered, shall be delivered to the governments of the respective countries. The statement of all these debts shall be drawn up and settled by a joint commission. Article XXII. The French government shall remain charged with the reimbursement of all sums paid by the subjects of the said countries into the French coffers, whether under the denomination of surety, deposit, or consignment. In like manner, all French subjects employed in the service of the said countries, who have paid sums under the denomination of surety, deposit, or consignment, into their respective territories, shall be faithfully reimbursed. Article XXIII. The functionaries, holding situations requiring securities, who are not charged with the expenditure of public money, shall be reimbursed at Paris, with the interest by fifths, and by the year, dating from the signature of the present Treaty. With respect to those who are accountable, this reimbursement shall commence, at the latest, six months after the presentation of their accounts, except only in cases of malversation. A copy of the last account shall be transmitted to the government of their countries, to serve for their information and guidance. Article XXIV. The judicial deposits and consignments upon the "caisse d'amortissement" in the execution of the law of 28 Nivosse, year 13 (18th January 1805), and which belong to the inhabitants of the countries France ceases to possess, shall, within the space of one year from the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, be placed in the hands of the authorities of the said countries, with the exception of those deposits and consignments interesting French subjects, which last will remain in the "caisse d'amortissement," and will only be given up on the production of the vouchers resulting from the decisions of competent authorities. Article XXV. The funds deposited by the corporations and public establishments in the "caisse de service," and in the caisse d'amortissement," or other " caisse of the French government," shall be reimbursed by fifths, payable from year to year, to commence from the date of the present Treaty; deducting the advances which have taken place, and subject to such regular charges as may have been brought forward against these funds by the creditors of the said corporations, and the said public establishments. Article XXVI. From the first day of January 1814, the French government shall cease to be charged with the payment of pensions, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, pensions for retirement, and allowances for reduction, to any individual who shall cease to be a French subject. Article XXVII. National domains, acquired for valuable considerations, by French subjects, in the late departments of Belgium, and of the left bank of the Rhine, and the Alps beyond the ancient limits of France, and which now cease to belong to her, shall be guaranteed to the purchasers. Article XXVIII. The abolition of the "droits d'aubaine," “ de detraction," and other duties of the same nature, in the countries which have reciprocally made that stipulation with France, or which have been formerly incorporated, shall be expressly maintained. Article XXIX. The French government engages to restore all bonds, and other deeds, which may have been seized in the provinces occupied by the French armies or administrations; and in cases where such restitution cannot be effected, these bonds and deeds become and continue void. Article XXX. The sums which shall be due for all works of public utility not yet finished, or finished after 31st December 1812, whether on the Rhine or in the departments detached from France by the present Treaty, shall be placed to the account of the future possessors of the territory, and shall be paid by the commission charged with the liquidation of the debts of that country. Article XXXI. All archives, maps, plans, and documents whatever, belonging to the ceded countries, or respecting their administration, shall be faithfully given up at the same time with the said countries: or if that should be impossible, within a period not exceeding six months after the cession of the countries themselves. This stipulation applies to the archives, maps, and plates, which may have been carried away from the countries during their temporary occupation by the different armies. Article XXXII. All the powers engaged on either side in the present war, shall, within the space of two months, send Plenipotentiaries to Vienna, for the purpose of regulating, in general congress, the arrangements which are to complete the provisions of the present Treaty. Article XXXIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged, within the period of fifteen days, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed to it the seals of their arms. Done at Paris the thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. (L. S.) CASTLEREAGH. (L. S. ABERDEEN. Article I. His most Christian Majesty, concurring, without reserve, in the sentiments of his Britannic Majesty, with respect to a description of traffic repugnant to the principles of natural justice, and of the enlightened age in which we live, engages to unite all his efforts to those of his Britannic Majesty, at the approaching congress, to induce all the powers of Christendom to decree the abolition of the Slave Trade, so that the said trade shall cease definitively, under any circumstances, on the part of the French government, in the course of five years; and that during the said period, no slave-merchant shall import or sell slaves, except in the colonies of the state of which he is a subject. Article II. The British and French governments shall name without delay, commissioners to liquidate the accounts of their respective expences for the maintenance of prisoners of war, in order to determine the manner of paying the balance which shall appear in favour of one or the other of the two powers. Article Article III. The respective prisoners of war, before their departure from the place of their detention, shall be obliged to discharge the private debts they may have contracted, or shall at least give sufficient security for the amount. Article IV. Immediately after the ratification of the present Treaty of Peace, the sequesters which since the year 1792 (one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two) may have been laid on the funds, revenues, debts, or any other effects, of the high contracting parties, or their subjects, shall be taken off. The commissioners mentioned in the 2d Article shall undertake the examination of the claims of his Britannic Majesty's subjects upon the French government, for the value of the property, moveable or immoveable, illegally confiscated by the French authorities, as also for the total or partial loss of their debts or other property, illegally detained under sequester since the year 1792 (one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two). France engages to act towards British subjects in this respect, in the same spirit of justice which the French subjects have experienced in Great Britain; and his Britannic Majesty, desiring to concur in the new pledge which the allied powers have given to his most Christian Majesty, of their desire to obliterate every trace of that disastrous epoch, happily terminated by the present peace, engages on his part, when complete justice shall be rendered to his subjects, to renounce the whole amount of the balance which shall appear in his favour for support of the prisoners of war, so that the ratification of the report of the above commissioners, and the discharge of the sums due to British subjects, as well as the restitution of the effects which shall be proved to belong to them, shall complete the renunciation. Article V. The two high contracting parties, desiring to establish the most friendly relations between their respective subjects, reserve to themselves and promise to come to a mutual understanding and arrangement as soon as possible, upon their commercial interests, with a view of encouraging and increasing the prosperity of their respective states. The present additional articles shall have the same force and validity as if they were inserted word for word in the Treaty patent of this day. They shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged at the same time, In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed to them the seals of their arms. Done at Paris the thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. CASTLEREAGH. (L. S.) (L. S.) ABERDEEN. (L. S.) CATHCART. CHARLES STEWART, Lieut-Gen. XII. TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY, AND HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY FERDINAND VII., SIGNED AT MADRID. Article I. There shall be in future a strict and intimate alliance between his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Catholic Majesty, their heirs and suc cessors; |