ces fhall be invited to come into the present treaty and articles. Such other Powers as fhall be agreed on, fhall likewise be invited and admitted by concert into the fame treaty and articles. The ratifications of the present treaty fhall be difpatched within the fpace of fix weeks, or fooner, if it can be done, to be reckoned from the day of figning it. In witness whereof, we the under-written minifters plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majefty, of his moft Chriftian Majefty, and of his Catholic Majefty, by virtue of our full powers, which have been communicated to each other, tranfcripts of which shall be hereto annexed, have figned the prefent treaty, and caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Seville, the ninth day of November, one thousand seven hundred twenty-nine. I. ALTHOUGH, conformably to the prelimi nary articles, it is faid in the fourth article of the treaty figned this day, that the commerce of the English nation in America fhould be re-established on the foot of the treaties and conventions antecedent to the year one thousand feven hundred twenty-five; however, for the greater exactness, it is further declared by the prefent article, between their Britannic and Catholic Majefties, which shall have the fame force, and be under the fame guaranty as the treaty figned this day, that under that general denomination are comprehended the treaties of peace and of commerce, concluded at Utrecht the thirteenth of July and ninth of December, in the year one thoufand feven hundred thirteen, in which are comprized the treaty of one thousand fix hundred fixty-feven, made at Madrid, and the cedulas therein mentioned; the latter treaty made at Madrid the fourteenth of December, one thousand seven hundred fifteen; as also the particular contract, commonly called the Affiento, for bringing negro flaves into the Spanish Indies, which was made the twenty-fixth day of March, in the faid year one thousand seven hundred thirteen, in confequence of the twelfth article of the treaty of Utrecht; and likewife the treaty of declaration, touching that of the Affiento, made the twenty-fixth of May, one thoufand feven hundred fixteen: all which treaties mentioned in this article, with their declarations, fhall from this day (even during the examination by the commiffaries) be and remain in their force, virtue, and full vigour; for the observation of which his Catholic Majefty fhall cause to be dispatched forthwith, if they have not been dispatched, the neceffary orders and cedulas to his viceroys, governors, and other minifters, to whom it fhall appertain, as well in Europe as in the Indies, to the end that without any delay or interruption they may cause them to be obferved and fulfilled. In like manner his Britannic Majefty promises and engages to publifh the neceffary orders, if any be wanting, for re-eftablishing the commerce of the fubjects of Spain in all the countries under his dominion, on the foot specified by the faid treaties, and for caufing them to be exactly obferved and fulfilled. II. Confequently, all fhips, merchandize, and effects, which fhall not have been taken or feized on account of unlawful commerce, and which shall now be proved, by authentic proofs and documents, to have been detained, feized, or confifcated in the ports of Spain, either in Europe or in the Indies, and namely the fhip Prince Frederick and her cargo, if they have not been restored already, fhall be immediately reftored, in the fame kind, as thofe things were in, if the fame shall be found ftill remaining in their former condition; or in default thereof, the just Q 2 and and true value of them, according to their valuation, which, if it was not made at the time, shall be regulated by the authentic informations which the proprietors fhall exhibit to the magiftrates of the places and towns where the feizures were made: his Britannic Majefty promifing the like on his part, as to all feizures, confifcations, or detentions, which may have been made contrary to the tenor of the faid treaties: their said Britannic and Catholic Majesties agreeing, that with respect to the like feizures, confifcations, or detentions on either fide, the validity of which may not yet have been fufficiently made out, the difcuffion and decifion of them fhall be referred to the examination of the commiffaries, to do therein according to right, upon the foot of the treaties here above-mentioned. The present separate articles fhall have the fame force as if they were inferted word for word in the treaty, concluded and figned this day. They fhall be ratified in the fame manner, and the ratifications of them shall be exchanged at the fame time as those of the faid treaty. In witness whereof we the underwritten ministers plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty, of his moft Chriftian Majefty, and of his Catholic Majefty, by virtue of our full powers, have figned the present separate articles, and caufed the feals of our arms to be put thereto. Done at Seville, the ninth day of November, one thousand seven hundred twenty-nine. W. Stanhope. (L. S) B. Keene. (L. S.) Brancas. (L. S.) El Marq. de la Paz. D. Jofeph Patino. [The [The following is printed from the treaty, which was published by authority in 1783.] The Definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship between his Britannic Majefty, and the King of Spain. Signed at Versailles, the 3d of September, 1783. In the name of the moft Holy and Undivided Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. So be it. BE it known to all thofe whom it fhall or may in any manner concern. The most Serene and most Potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenbourg, Arch-treafurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. and the most Serene and most Potent Prince Charles the Third, by the grace of God, King of Spain, and of the Indies, &c. being equally defirous to put an end to the war, which for feveral years paft afflicted their refpective dominions, accepted the offer, which their Majefties the Emperor of the Romans, and the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, made to them, of their interpofition, and of their mediation : but their Britannic and Catholic Majefties, animated with a mutual defire of accelerating the re-establishment of peace, communicated to each other their laudable intention; which Heaven fo far bleffed, that they proceeded to lay the foundations of peace, by figning preliminary articles at Verfailles, the 20th of January, in the present year. Their faid Majefties the King of Great Britain, and the Catholic King, thinking it incumbent upon them to give their Imperial Majefties a fignal proof of their gratitude for the generous offer of their mediation, invited them, in concert, to concur in the completion of the great and falutary work of peace, by taking part, as mediators, in the definitive treaty to be concluded between their Britannic and Catholic Majefties. Their faid Imperial Majefties having readily accepted that invitation, they have named, as their reprefentatives, viz. his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, the most illuftrious and moft excellent Lord Florimond, Count Mercy-Argenteau, Q3 Viscount Viscount of Loo, Baron of Crichegnée, knight of the Golden Fleece, chamberlain, actual privy counsellor of ftate to his Imperial and Royal Apoftolic Majefty, and his ambaffador to his moft Chriftian Majefty; and her Majefty the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, the moft illuftrious and most excellent Lord Prince Iwan Bariatinfkoy, lieutenant-general of the forces of her Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias, knight of the Orders of St. Anne and of the Swedish Sword, and her minifter plenipotentiary to his moft Chriftian Majefty, and the Lord Arcadi de Marcoff, counfellor of ftate to her Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias, and her minifter plenipotentiary to his moft Chriftian Majefty. In confequence, their faid Majefties the King of Great Britain, and the moft Chriftian King, have named and conftituted for their plenipotentiaries, charged with the concluding and figning of the definitive treaty of peace, viz. the King of Great Britain, the moft Illuftrious and moft Excellent Lord George, Duke and Earl of Manchefter, Viscount Mandeville, Baron of Kimbolton, ford lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Huntingdon, actual privy counsellor to his Britannic Majefty, and his ambaffador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to his moft Chriftian Majefty; and the Catholic King, the moft Illuftrious and moft Excellent Lord Peter Paul Abarca de Bolea Ximenes d'Urrea, &c. Count of Aranda and Caftel Florido, Marquis of Torres, of Villanan and Rupit, Viscount of Rueda and Yoch, Baron of the baronies of Gavin, Sietamo, Clamofa, Eripol Trazmoz, La Mata de Castil-Viejo, Antillon, La Almolda, Cortés, Jorva, St. Genis, Rabovillet, Arcau and Ste. Colome de Farnés, lord of the tenance and honour of Alcalatén, the valley of Rodellar, the castles and towns of Maella, Mefones, Tiurana, and Villa Plana, Taradel and Viladrau, &c. Rico-Hombre in Arragon by defcent, grandee of Spain of the firit clafs, knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and of that of the Holy Ghoft, gentleman of the King's chamber in employment, captain general of his forces, and his ambaffador to the most Chriftian |