tieth of our our Roman Germanic reign, and the third of our hereditary reign,

JOSEPHUS.

W. Kaunitz Rietberg.

By his Sacred, Imperial, and Royal Apoftolic Majefty's fpecial command.

Ant. Spielmann,

The Empress of Ruffia's Full Power.

BY the grace of God, we Catharine the Second Emprefs and fole Monarch of all the Ruffias, of Muf covy, Kiovia, Vladomiria, Novogorod; Czarina of Cafan, Czarina of Aftracan, Czarina of Siberia, Lady of Plefcau, and Great Dutchefs of Smolenfko; Dutchefs of Estonia, of Livonia, Carelia, Twer, Ingoria, Germia, Viatkia, Bulgaria, and other countries; Lady and Great Dutchefs of Lower Novogorod, of Czernigovia, Refan, Roftow, Jaroflow, Belo-Oforia, Udoria, Obdoria, Condinia; Ruler of all the fide of the North; Lady of Iveria; and hereditary Princefs and Sovereign of the Czars of Cartalinia and Georgia, as alfo of Cabardinia, of the Princes of Circaffia, of Gorfki, &c. Being intent, during all the course of the late war, which had extended over every part of the earth, to testify how much we had it at heart to fee the calamities thereof terminated, we were inclined, in conjunction with his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungaria and Bohemia, to employ our good offices, in order to find means of conciliation proper for re-establishing peace and good understanding between the belligerant Powers. We have had the fatiffaction to obferve that our common endeavours were not fruitless; and the pacific fentiments, with which the faid Powers were happily animated, having ripened and ftrengthened fo far that they proceeded to conclude preliminary articles, ferving as a bafis to the definitive treaties,

treaties, they invited us, conjointly with his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, to carry our united mediation into full execution, and to interpofe our good offices in this falutary work, by concurring to confolidate and fully establifh the peace, the foundations of which were laid by the aforefaid preliminary articles, and thus to accomplish the bufinefs of pacification fo happily begun. We, equally induced by the fentiments above expreffed, as by a just acknowledgment of those which were manifefted to us on the part of the faid Powers, did not hefitate, in concert with his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, to confirm their expectation, and to charge ourfelf with the important employment which was tendered to us. For this end, we have made choice' of, named, and deputed, and, by these prefents, do make choice of, name, and depute, our minifters plenipotentiary to his moft Chriftian Majefty, our beloved and trufty Prince Iwan Bariatinfkoy, lieutenant-general of our forces, knight of the Order of St. Anne, and the Sieur Arcadius de Marcoff, our counfellor of Chancery, giving them full power, in our name, and on our behalf, in quality of mediators, jointly with him or them who fhall be named for this purpofe, and likewife furnished with full powers, on the part of his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, King of Hungary and Bohemia, co-mediator, as well as on the part of the other Powers interested therein, to act or interpofe, and affift with our mediation and good offices, in the arrangement and completion of all fuch treaties, conventions, or other inftruments, as shall be judged neceffary for the confolidation and entire confirmation of the work begun; and alfo to fign and deliver, on their part, fuch act or acts as may be required and deemed conducive to the attainment of that end: promifing, on our faith and Imperial word, to approve and faithfully perform every thing which fhall have been done, concluded, promifed, and figned, in virtue of the prefent full power, by the faid Prince Bariatinikoy

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fkoy and Sieur Marcoff, as alfo to cause our ratifications thereof to be expedited in the time agreed upon, In witness whereof, we have figned these prefents with our own hand, and have caufed the great feal of the empire to be fixed thereto. Given at our refidence of St. Petersburgh, the twelfth of March, in the year of grace one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three, and in the twenty-first year of our reign.

CATHERINE.

Count John d'Ofterman.

[The following is printed from the Treaty, which was published by authority, in 1786.]

The Convention between His Britannic Majefty and the King of Spain. Signed at London, the 14th of July, 1786.

THE Kings of England and of Spain, animated with the fame defire of confolidating, by every means in their power, the friendship fo happily fubfifting between them and their kingdoms, and wishing, with one accord, to prevent even the fhadow of misunderstanding which might be occafioned by doubts, mifconceptions, or other caufes of difputes between the fubjects on the frontiers of the two monarchies, especially in diftant countries, as are thofe in America, have thought proper to fettle, with all poffible good faith, by a new convention, the points which might one day or other be productive of fuch inconveniences, as the experience of former times has very often fhewn. To this end, the King of Great Britain has named the moft Noble and moft Excellent Lord Francis, Baron Ofborne of Kiveton, Marquis of Carmarthen, his Britannic Majefty's privy counsellor, and principal fecretary of state for the department of foreign affairs, &c. &c. &c. and the Catholic King has likewife authorized

thorized Don Bernardo del Campo, knight of the Noble Order of Charles the Third, fecretary of the fame order, secretary of the fupreme council of ftate, and his minifter plenipotentiary to the King of Great Britain: who having communicated to each other their respective full powers, prepared in due form, have agreed upon the following articles.

I. His Britannic Majefty's fubjects, and the other colonists who have hitherto enjoyed the protection of England, fhall evacuate the country of the Mofquitos, as well as the continent in general, and the islands adjacent, without exception, fituated beyond the line hereinafter described, as what ought to be the frontier of the extent of territory granted by his Catholic Majefty to the English, for the ufes fpecified in the 3d article of the prefent convention, and in addition to the country already granted to them in virtue of the ftipulations agreed upon by the commiffaries of the two Crowns in 1783.

II. The Catholic King, to prove, on his fide, to the King of Great Britain, the fincerity of his fentiments of friendship towards his faid Majesty, and the British nation, will grant to the English more extenfive limits than those specified in the laft treaty of peace: and the faid limits of the lands added by the prefent convention fhall for the future be underftood in the manner following.

The English line, beginning from the fea, fhall take the center of the river Sibun or Jabon, and continue up to the fource of the faid river; from thence it fhall crofs in a ftrait line the intermediate land, till it interfects the river Wallis; and by the center of the fame river, the faid line fhall defcend to the point where it will meet the line already settled and marked out by the commiffaries of the two Crowns in 1783: which limits, following the continuation of the faid line, fhall be obferved as formerly ftipulated by the definitive treaty. III. Although

III. Although no other advantages have hitherto been in question, except that of cutting wood for dying, yet his Catholic Majefty, as a greater proof of his difpofition to oblige the King of Great Britain, will grant to the English the liberty of cutting all other wood, without even excepting mahogany, as well as gathering all the fruits, or produce of the earth, purely natural and uncultivated, which may befides, being carried away in their natural ftate, become an object of utility or of commerce, whether for food or for manufactures: but it is exprefsly agreed, that this stipulation is never to be ufed as a pretext for establishing in that country any plantation of fugar, coffee, cacao, or other like articles, or any fabric or manufacture, by means of mills or other machines whatsoever (this reftriction however does not regard the ufe of faw-mills, for cutting or otherwife preparing the wood) fince all the lands in queftion being indifputably acknowledged to belong of right to the Crown of Spain, no fettlements of that kind, or the population which would follow, could be allowed,

The English fhall be permitted to transport and convey all fuch wood, and other produce of the place, in its natural and uncultivated state, down the rivers to the fea, but without ever going beyond the limits which are prefcribed to them by the ftipulations above granted, and without thereby taking an opportunity of afcending the faid rivers beyond their bounds, into the countries belonging to Spain.

IV. The English fhall be permitted to occupy the fmall ifland known by the names of Cafina, St. George's Key, or Cayo Cafina, in confideration of the circumstance of that part of the coafts oppofite to the faid ifland being looked upon as fubject to dangerous diforders; but this permiffion is only to be made ufe of for purposes of real utility: and, as great abufes, no lefs contrary to the intentions of the British government, than to the effential interefts of Spain, might arife from this permiffion, it is here ftipulated, as an indifpenfable