month; on the continent and seas of America and Africa in three months; on the continent and seas of Asia within six months; which shall follow the Ratification of the present Definitive Treaty, except in case of a special reservation. Article XIII. In all cases of restitution agreed upon by the present Treaty, the fortifications shall be restored in the condition they were in at the time of signing the Preliminaries; and all the works which shall have been constructed since their occupation shall remain untouched. It is agreed besides, that, in all the stipulated cases of cessions, there shall be allowed to the inhabitants, of whatever rank or nation they may be, a term of three years, reckoning from the notification of the present Treaty, to dispose of all their properties, whether acquired or possessed by them before, or during the continuance of, the present war; during which term of three years they shall have free and entire liberty to exercise their religion, and to enjoy their fortunes. The same privilege is granted, in the countries that are hereby restored, to all persons, whether inhabitants or not, who shall have formed any establishments there, during the times that these countries were in the possession of Great Britain. As to the inhabitants of the countries restored or ceded, it is hereby agreed, that no person shall, under any pretence, be prosecuted, disturbed, or molested, either in person or property, on account of his political conduct or opinion, or for his attachment to any of the Contracting Parties, on any account whatever, except for debts contracted with individuals, or for acts subsequent to the present Treaty. Article XIV. All the sequestrations laid on either side, on funds, revenues, and credits, of what nature soever they may be, belonging to any of the Contracting Powers, or to their citizens or subjects, shall be taken off immediately after the signature of this Definitive Treaty. The decision of all claims among the individuals of the respective nations, for debts, property, effects, or rights, of any nature whatsoever, which should, according to received usages and the law of nations, be preferred at the epoch of the peace, shall be referred to the competent tribunals: in all those cases speedy and complete justice shall be done in the countries wherein those claims shall be respectively preferred. Article XV. The fisheries on the coasts of Newfoundland, and of the adjacent islands, and in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, are placed on the same footing as they were before the war. The French fishermen of Newfoundland, and the inhabitants of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, shall have liberty to cut such wood as may be necessary for them in the Bays of Fortune and Despair, during the first year, reckoning from the ratification of the present treaty. Article XVI. To prevent all grounds of complaint and disputes, which might arise on account of captures which may have been made at sea subsequent to the signing of the Preliminaries, it is reciprocally agreed, that the ships and property which may have been taken in the Channel and in the North Seas, after a space of twelve days, reckoning from the exchange of the ratifications of the Preliminary Articles, shall be restored on the one side and the other; that the term shall be one month for the space from the Channel and the North Sea, as far as the Canary Islands inclusively, as as well in the Ocean as in the Mediterranean; two months from the Canary Islands to the Equator; and, finally, five months in all the other parts of the world, without any farther exception or distinction of time or place. Article XVII. The Ambassadors, Ministers, and other agents of the Contracting Powers, shall enjoy respectively, in the States of the said powers, the same rank, privileges, prerogatives, and immunities, which were enjoyed before the war by agents of the same class. Article XVIII. The branches of the House of Nassau, which were established in the ci-devant Republic of the United Provinces, now the Batavian Republic, having experienced some losses, as well with respect to private property as by the change of constitution adopted in those countries, an equivalent compensation shall be procured for the losses which they shall be proved to have sustained. Article XIX. The present Definitive Treaty of Peace is declared common to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, the ally of his Britannic Majesty; and the Sublime Porte shall be invited to transmit its act of accession as soon as possible. Article XX. It is agreed that the contracting parties, upon requisitions made by them respectively, or by their Ministers or Officers duly authorized for that purpose, shall be bound to deliver up to justice persons accused of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy, committed within the jurisdiction of the requiring party, provided that this shall only be done in cases in which the evidence of the crime shall be such, that the laws of the place in which the accused person shall be discovered, would have authorised the detaining and bringing him to trial, had the offence been committed there. The expences of the arrest and the prosecution shall be defrayed by the party making the requisition; but this Article has no sort of reference to crimes of murder, forgery, or fraudulent bankruptcy, committed before the conclusion of this Definitive Treaty. Article XXI. The contracting parties promise to observe sincerely and faithfully all the Articles contained in the present Treaty, and will not suffer any sort of counteraction, direct or indirect, to be made to it by their citizens, or respective subjects; and the con tracting parties guarantee, generally and reciprocally, all the stipulations of the present Treaty. Article XXII. The present Treaty to be ratified by the contracting parties in thirty days, or sooner, if possible, and the Ratifications shall be exchanged, in due form, at Paris. In testimony whereof, we the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed with our hands, and in virtue of our respective full powers, the present Definitive Treaty, causing it to be sealed with our re spective seals. Done at Amiens, March 27, 1802, the 6th Germinal, in the year 10 of the French Republic. (Signed) (L. S.) CORNWALLIS. (L. S.) JOSEPH BONAPARTE. SEPARATE ARTICLE. It is agreed that the omission of some titles which may have 3 B taken taken place in the present Treaty, shall not be prejudicial to the powers, or to the persons concerned. It is further agreed, that the English and French languages made use of in all the copies of the present Treaty, shall not form an example, which may be alledged or quoted as a precedent, or in any manner prejudice the contracting powers whose languages have not been used; and that for the future, what has been observed, and ought to be observed, with regard to, and on the part of, Powers who are in the practice and possession of giving and receiving copies of like Treaties, in any other language, shall be conformed with; the present Treaty having nevertheless the same force and virtue, as if the aforesaid practice had been therein observed. In witness whereof, we the underwritten Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty, of the French Republic, of his Catholic Majesty, and of the Batavian Republic, have signed the present separate Article, and have caused our respective seals to be affixed thereto. Done at Amiens, March 27, 1802, the 6th Germinal, &c. (as above). The Ratification of the Definitive Treaty, on the part of the French Government, was exchanged on the 18th of April; and on the part of Spain and the Batavian Republic on the 23d of April 1802. Peace was proclaimed at London, with the usual formalities, on Thursday, April 29, 1802. IV. TREATY OF PEACE AND AMITY BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY AND THE KING OF PRUSSIA. Signed at Memel, 28th January 1807. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Prussia, being equally desirous to terminate, in an amicable manner, and to settle, by a formal Treaty, the differences which have, for a short time, interrupted the relations of union and good understanding which had so long subsisted between them; their said Majesties have nominated, as their Plenipotentiaries to be employed in this important undertaking, namely, on the part of his Britannic Majesty, the Right Honourable John Hely Baron Hutchinson, a General of his army, and Knight of the most honourable military Order of the Bath; and on the part of his Prussian Majesty, the Sieur Frederic William De Zastrow, his Minister of State and Cabinet, Major-General of his armies, and Knight of the Orders of the Red Eagle and of Merit; who, after having communicated and exchanged their respective full powers, and found them in due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : Article I. There shall be, between their Britannic and Prussian Majesties, their heirs and successors, their kingdoms, provinces, and subjects, perpetual and inviolable peace, sincere union, and perfect friendship, to the end, that the temporary misunderstanding which has recently taken place, shall, from the present moment, moment, be regarded as entirely at an end, and shall be buried in eternal oblivion. Article II. The accommodation and the reconciliation between the two courts, having for their bases the renunciation, on the part of his Prussian Majesty, of the country of Hanover, his said Majesty relinquishes all right and title whatsoever to the actual and future possession of the Electoral Territories of his Britannic Majesty; and renounces, at the same time, all the pretensions which he had advanced to those States; and in case the events of the war would bring about the reoccupation of the Electorate of Hanover by the Prussian armies, his Majesty the King of Prussia engages not to take possession of the Electorate, but in the name of his Britannic Majesty, and immediately to re-establish the ancient form of civil government, and the ancient constituted authorities of his Britannic Majesty, which authorities shall be formally invested with the entire administration of affairs, in the name and for the advantage of their legitimate Sovereign. Article III. The freedom of navigation and of commerce shall be restored to the subjects of his Prussian Majesty, as it formerly was in time of peace, and on the same footing as it was before the period of the late exclusion of the British flag from the rivers Ems, Weser, and Elbe. And his said Britannic Majesty having with this view already issued an order, bearing date the 19th of Novem ber 1806, to all officers commanding his ships of war, as well as to all privateers, not further to molest, detain, or bring in any Prussian vessels which they may meet at sea, provided their cargoes be innocent, and not prohibited by the laws of war, and that they be not bound to ports belonging to the enemies of Great Britain, or occupied by them, the said order shall continue to be observed, and to have effect in its full force and extent. Article IV. And in pursuance of the above determination, his Britannic Majesty promises and engages to issue to his Admiralty, without delay, the necessary orders, that the merchant vessels, which, by the Proclamation of the 24th of September 1806, were subject to provisionary detention, shall be released and restored to their proprietors, with perfect liberty either to continue their voyage (if their place of destination be not prohibited), or otherwise to return to their own country. Article V. The crews of all the Prussian vessels, detained or brought into British ports since the publication of the letters of marque, shall be set at liberty immediately after the conclusion of the present Treaty; and the British Government shall cause them to return, in the most direct and expeditious manner, into the dominions of his Prussian Majesty, to whatever places shall be hereafter agreed upon. Article VI. His Majesty the King of Prussia engages not to impede, nor to allow any other power to impede, the free navigation of the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, in any of the ports of his dominions; but, on the contrary, to afford full liberty to the English flag to enter into, and to proceed from, the above-mentioned ports, in the same manner as before the late closing of the rivers Ems, Weser, and Elbe. Article VII. The two high contracting parties mutually promise and engage, to invite the Emperor of all the Russias to take upon himself the guarantee of the renunciation, on the part of his 3 B2 Prussian Prussian Majesty, of his rights and pretensions to the country of Hanover, as stipulated in the 2d Article of the present Treaty. Article VIII. Every other subject of discussion or arrangement between the two courts is reserved for future amicable adjustment. Article IX. The Ratifications, drawn up in due and proper form, shall be exchanged in the space of six weeks, or sooner, if possible, in case the present difficulty of communication should allow of it. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty, and have hereunto affixed the scals of their arms. Done at Memel, this 28th day of January 1807. (L. S.) HUTCHINSON. (L. S.) FREDERIC GUILLAUME DE ZASTROW. V. TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP, AND ALLIANCE, BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY AND HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY, FERDINAND THE SEVENTH, SIGNED AT LONDON, THE 14TH DAY OF JANUARY 1809. In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. THE events which have taken place in Spain having terminated the state of hostility which unfortunately subsisted between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain, and united the arms of both against the common enemy, it seems good that the new relations which have been produced between two nations, now connected by common interest, should be regularly established and confirmed by a formal Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Alliance: Wherefore, his Majesty the King of the united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Supreme and Central Junta of Spain and the Indies, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand VII. have constituted and appointed-That is to say, his Majesty the King of the united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George Canning, one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and his Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the Supreme and Central Junta of Government of Spain and the Indies, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII. Don Juan Ruiz De Apodaca, Commander of Vallaga and Algarga in the Military Order of Calatrava, Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy, named by the Supreme and Central Junta of Government of Spain and the Indies, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII. to his Britannic Majesty, their Plenipotentiaries, to conclude and sign a Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Alliance, who, having communicated their respective full powers, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles : Article I. There shall be between his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII. King of Spain and of the Indies thereunto appertaining, and between all their kingdoms, states, dominions, and subjects, a Christian, stable, and inviolable peace; and a perpetual and sincere amity, and a strict alliance during the war against France; together with an entire and lasting oblivion of all acts of hostility done on either side, in the course of the late wars, in which they have been engaged against each other. Article II. |