lick King, the Most Illuftrious and Moft Excellent Lord, Don Jerome Grimaldi, Marquis de Gaimaldi, Knight of the Most Christian King's Orders, Gentleman of his Catholick Majefty's Bedchamber in Employment, and his Ambaffador Extraordinary to his Moft Chriftian Majesty; his Sacred Majesty the Most Faithful King, the Most Illuftrious and Most Excellent Lord, Martin de Mello and Caftro, Knight profeffed of the Order of Christ, of his Moft Faithful Majefty's Council, and his Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Moft Chriftian Ma jefty.

Who, after having duly communicated to each other their full powers, in good form, copies whereof are transcribed at the end of the prefent treaty of peace, have agreed upon the articles, the tenor of which is as follows:

Article I. There fhall be a Chriftian, univerfal, and perpetual peace, as well by fea as by land, and a fincere and conftant friendfhip fhall be re-established between their Britannick, Moft Chriftian, Catholick, and Moft Faithful Majefties, and between their heirs and fucceffors, kingdoms, dominions, provinces, countries, fubjects, and vaffals, of what quality or condition foever they be, without exception of places or of perfons: So that the high contracting parties fhall give the greatest attention to maintain between themselves and their faid dominions and subjects this reciprocal friendship and correfpondence, without permitting, on either fide, any kind of hoftilities, by fea or by land, to be committed from henceforth, for any caufe, or under any pretence whatfoever, and every thing fhall be carefully avoided which might hereafter prejudice the union happily re-establifhed, applying themselves, on the contrary, on every occafion, to procure for each other whatever may contribute to their mutual glory, interefts, and advantages, without giving any affiftance or protection, directly or indirectly, to those who would cause any prejudice to either of the high contracting parties: there fhall be a general oblivion of every thing that may have been done or committed before or fince the commencement of the war which is just ended.

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II. The treaties of Weftphalia of 1648; thofe of Madrid between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain of 1667, and 1670; the treaties of peace of Nimeguen of 1678, and 1679; of Ryfwick of 1697; thofe of peace and of commerce of Utrecht of 1713; that of Baden of 1714; the treaty of the triple alliance of the Hague of 1717: that of the quadruple alliance of London of 1718; the treaty of peace of Vienna of 1738; the definitive treaty of Aix la Chapelle of 1748; and that of Madrid, between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain of 1750 as well as the treaties between the Crowns of Spain and Portugal of the 13th of February, 1668; of the 6th of February, 1715; and of the 12th of February, 1761; and that of the 11th of April, 1713, between France and Portugal with the guaranties of Great Britain, serve as a bafis and foundation to the peace, and to the present treaty and for this purpose they are all renewed and confirmed in the beft form, as well as all the general, which fubfifted between the high contracting parties before the war, as if they were inferted here word for word, fo that they are to be exactly observed, for the future, in their whole tenor, and religiously executed on all fides, in all their points, which fhall not be derogated from by the present treaty, notwithstanding all that may have been ftipulated to the contrary by any of the high contracting parties and all the faid parties declare, that they will not fuffer any privilege, favour, or indulgence to fubfift, contrary to the treaties above confirmed, except what shall have been agreed and ftipulated by the prefent treaty.

III. All the prifoners made, on all fides, as well by land as by fea, and the hoftages carried away or given. during the war, and to this day, fhall be reftored, without ranfom, fix weeks, at least, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, each crown refpectively paying the advances which fhall have been made for the fubfiftance and maintenance of their prifoners by the Sovereign of the country where they shall have been detained, according to the attested receipts and estimates and other authentic vouchers which fhall be furnished on one fide and the other. And fecuri

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ties fhall be reciprocally given for the payment of the debts which the prifoners fhall have contracted in the countries where they have been detained until their entire liberty. And all the fhips of war and merchant veffels which fhall have been taken fince the expiration of the terms agreed upon for the ceffation of hoftilities by fea fhall likewise be restored, bond fide, with all their crews and cargoes: and the execution of this article fhall be proceeded upon immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty.

IV. His Moft Chriftian Majefty renounces all pretenfions which he has heretofore formed or might have formed to Nova Scotia or Acadia in all its parts, and guaranties the whole of it, and with all its dependencies, to the King of Great Britain: Moreover, his Moft Chriftian Majefty cedes and guaranties to his faid Britannick Majefty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the island of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the gulph and river of St. Lawrence, and in general, every thing that depends on the faid countries, lands, iflands, and coafts, with the fovereignty, property, poffeffion, and all rights acquired by treaty, or otherwife, which the Moft Chriftian King and the Crown of France have had till now over the faid countries, lands, iflands, places, coafts, and their inhabitants, fo that the Most Christian King cedes and makes over the whole to the faid King, and to the Crown of Great Britain, and that in the moft ample manner and form, with out restriction, and without any liberty to depart from the faid ceffion and guaranty under any pretence, or to disturb Great Britain in the poffeffions above mentioned. His Britannick Majefty, on his fide, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholick religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he will, in confequence, give the most precife and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholick fubjects may profefs the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit. His Britannick Majefty farther agrees, that the French inhabitants, or others who had been fubjects of the Moft Chriftian King in Canada, may retire with all fafety and freedom wherever they fhall think proper, VOL. III.

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and may fell their eftates, provided it be to the fubjects of his Britannick Majefty, and bring away their effects as well as their perfons, without being reftrained in their émigration, under any pretence whatfoever, except that of debts or of criminal profecutions: The term limited for this emigration fhall be fixed to the space of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty.

V. The fubjects of France fhall have the liberty of fishing and drying on a part of the coafts of the ifland of Newfoundland, fuch as it is fpecified in the XIIIth article of the treaty of Utrecht; which article is renewed and confirmed by the prefent treaty, (except what relates to the ifland of Cape Breton, as well as to the other iflands and coafts in the mouth and in the gulph of St. Lawrence :) And his Britannick Majefty confents to leave to the fubjects of the Moft Chriftian King the liberty of fifhing in the gulph of St. Lawrence, on condition that the fubjects of France do not exercife the faid fishery but at the dif tance of three leagues from all the coafts belonging to Great Britain, as well thofe of the continent as thofe of the islands fituated in the faid gulph of St. Lawrence. And as to what relates to the fishery on the coafts of the ifland of Cape Breton, out of the faid gulph, the subjects of the Moft Chriftian King fhall not be permitted to exercife the faid fishery but at the diftance of fifteen leagues from the coafts of the island of Cape Breton; and the fishery on the coafts of Nova Scotia or Acadia, and every where elfe out of the faid gulph, fhall remain on the foot of former treaties.

VI. The King of Great Britain cedes the inlands of St. Pierre and Macquelon, in full right, to his Moft Chriftian Majefty, to ferve as a fhelter to the French fishermen; and his faid Moft Chriftian Majefty engages not to for tify the faid iflands; to erect no buildings upon them but merely for the conveniency of the fishery; and to keep upon them a guard of fifty men only for the po

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territories on the continent of America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannick Majefty and those of his Moft Chriftian Majefty, in that part of the world, fhall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Miffiffippi, from its fource to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Potchartrain to the fea; and for this purpose, the Moft Chriftian King cedes in full right, and guaranties to his Britannick Majefty the river and port of the Mobile, and every thing which he poffeffes, or ought to poffefs, on the left fide of the river Miffiffippi, except the town of New Orleans and the island in which it is fituated, which fhall remain to France, provided that the navigation of the river Miffiffippi shall be equally free, as well to the fubjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its fource to the fea, and expreffly that part which is between the faid ifland of New Orleans and the right bank of that river, as well as the paffage both in and out of its mouth: It is farther ftipulated, that the veffels belonging to the fubjects of either nation fhall not be ftopped, vifited, or fubjected to the payment of any duty whatsoever. The ftipulations inferted in the IVth article, in favour of the inhabitants of Canada fhall alfo take place with regard to the inhabitants of the countries ceded by this article.

VIII. The King of Great Britain fhall reftore to France the islands of Guadaloupe, of Mariegalante, of Defirade, of Martinico, and of Belleifle; and the fortreffes of these iflands fhall be restored in the fame condition they were in when they were conquered by the British arms, provided that his Britannick Majefty's fubjects, who fhall have fettled in the faid iflands, or those who fhall have any commercial affairs to fettle there or in other places reftored to France by the prefent treaty, fhall have liberty to fell their lands and their eftates, to fettle their affairs, to recover their debts, and to bring away their effects as well as their perfons, on board veffels, which they fhall be per mitted to fend to the faid iflands and other places restored as above, and which shall serve for this ufe only, without

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