which might have retarded the conclufion of the faid treaty. We the underwritten, ambaffador and minifter plenipotentiary of his moft Faithful majefty, declare, that the alternative obferved, on the part of the king of Great Britain, and the moft Chriftian king, with the most Faithful king, in the act of acceffion of the court of Portugal, was granted by their Britannic and most Chriftian majefties, folely with a view to facilitate the conclufion of the definitive treaty, and by that means, the more fpeedily to confo jefty defiring moft fincerely to concur in the fpeedy re-establishment of peace, accedes, in vertue of the prefent act, to the faid definitive treaty and separate articles, as they are above transcribed, without any reserve or exception, in the firm confidence that every thing that is promifed to his faid majefty, will be bona fide fulfilled, declaring at the fame time, and promifing to fulfil, with equal fidelity, all the articles, claufes, and conditions, which concern him. On his fide, his Britannic majefty accepts the prefent acceffion of his moft Faith-lidate fo important and fo falutary a ful majefty, and promifes likewife to fulfil, without any referve or exception, all the articles, claufes, and conditions, contained in the faid definitive treaty and feparate articles above inferted. The ratifications of the present treaty fhall be exchanged in the fpace of one month, to be computed from this day, or fooner if it can be done. In witnefs whereof, We, ambaffadors and minifters plenipotentiary of his Britannic majefty, and of his most Faithful majefty, have figned the present act, and have caufed the feal of our arms to be put thereto. Done at Paris the 10th of Fe- (L. S.) BEDFORD, C. P. S. Declaration of his moft Faithful ma- and France. WH work; and that this complaifance of their Britannic and moft Chriftian majefties fhall not be made any precedent of for the future; the court of Portugal fhall not alledge it as an example in their favour; fhall derive therefrom no right, title, or pretenfion, for any caufe, or under any pretence whatsoever. In witnefs whereof, We, ambaffador and minister plenipotentiary of his moft Faithful majefty, duly authorized for this purpose, have figned the prefent declaration, and have caufed the feal of our arms to be put thereto. Done at Paris the 10th of Febru XIII. After the ratification of the preliminaries, France fhall evacuate, as foon as it can be done, the fortreffes of Cleves, Wefel, and Gueldres, and in general all the countries belonging to the king of Pruf Done at Fontainbleau the 3d day of November, 1762. CHOISEUL, Duc de Praslin. (L. S.) The ftipulations relative to Dun fia; and, at the fame time, the Bri-kirk and the Eaft Indies, ftood as follows in the preliminaries. tish and French armies fhall evacuate all the countries which they occupy, in Weftphalia, Lower Saxony, on the Lower Rhine, the Upper Rhine, and in all the empire; and each fhall retire into the dominions of their respective fovereigns: and their Britannic and most Chriftian majesties further engage, and promife, not to furnish any fuccour, of any kind, to their respective allies, who fhall continue engaged in the prefent war in Germany. XIV. The towns of Oftend and Nieuport fhall be evacuated by his moft Chriftian majesty's troops, immediately after the fignature of the prefent preliminaries. V. The town and port of Dunkirk fhall be put into the ftate fixed by the late treaty of Aix la Cha pelle, and by former treaties: the cunette fhall remain as it now is, provided that the English engineers, named by his Britannic majesty, and received at Dunkirk by order of his moft Chriftian majefly, verify, that this cunette is only of ufe for the wholesomeness of the air, and the health of the inhabitants. X. In the East Indies, Great Britain fhall restore tn France the feveral comptoirs which that crown had, on the coast of Coromandel, as well as on that of Malabar, and also in Bengal, at the commencement of hoftilities between the two compa Declaration, figned at Fontainbleau, nies in the year 1749, in the con the 3d of November, 1762, by the French plenipotentiary. HIS IS moft Chriftian majefty declares, that in agreeing to the XIIIth article of the preliminaries, figned this day, he does not mean to renounce the right of acquitting his debts to his allies; and that the remittances made on his part, in order to acquit the arrears that may be due on the fubfidies of preceding years, are not to be confidered as infraction of the faid article. In witnefs whereof, I, the underwritten minifter plenipotentiary of his moft Chriftian majesty, have figned the prefent declaration, and have caufed the feal of my arms to be put thereto. dition in which they now are, on condition that his moft Chriftian majefty renounces the acquifitions which he has made on the coaft of Coromandel, fince the faid commencement of hoftilities between the two companies in the year 1749. And as to the limits of the Englifh and French, and their Indian allies in thefe countries, they were not exactly marked out as they now are in the declaration annexed to the definitive treaty. Thefe, with his moft Chriftian majesty's obliging himself, in the definitive treaty, to difcharge the debts que by him to his Canadian fubjects, form all the difference between faid treaty and the preliminaries. By By the K IN G. WHEREAS a definitive treaty of peace and friendship between us, the moft Chriftian king, and the king of Spain, to which the king of Portugal hath acceded, hath been concluded at Paris on the 10th day of this inftant March; in conformity thereunto, we have thought fit hereby to command, that the fame be published throughout all our dominions: And we do declare to all our loving fubjects our will and pleasure, that the faid treaty of peace and friendship be obferved inviolably, as well by fea and land, and in all places whatfoever; ftrictly charging and commanding all our loving fubjects to take notice hereof, and to conform themselves thereunto accordingly. Given at our court at St. James's, the 21st day of March, 1763, in the third year of our reign. GOD fave the KING. ring the late troubles, by either party, of what nature foever; fo that there fhall be no farther mention made of them, nor any com penfation demanded, under any pretence, or upon any confideration whatfoever. The respective fubjects of each power shall never be molefted upon that account, but fhall fully enjoy, this amnefty, and all its confequences, notwithstanding the avocatory letters which have been iffued and published. All confifcations fhall be entirely taken off; and fuch goods as have been confifcated or fequeftered, fhall be restored to the proprietors, who were in poffeffion of them before thefe laft troubles. III. Both parties renounce all claims on each other's dominions or territories (particularly the empress queen renounces all claim to thofe which were ceded to the king of Pruffia by the preliminary articles of Breflau and the treaty of Berlin) and alfo all indemnification for damages fuffered during the laft war.. IV. All hoftilities fhall entirely ceafe on both fides, from the day of the fignature of the prefent treaty of peace. For this end the neceffary orders fhall be immediately dif patched to the armies and troops of the two high contracting parties, wherefoever they may be; and in cafe, through ignorante of what has been ftipulated in this refpect,. any hoftilities fhall have been committed after the day of the fignature of the prefent treaty, they fhall not be deemed to affect this treaty in any manner; and in this cafe, the men and effects, which may have been taken and carried away, fhall be faithfully reflored. V. Her Apoftolic majefty, the empress queen of Hungary and Bo[R] 4 hemia, hemia, fhall withdraw her troops from all the countries and ftates of Germany, which are not under her dominion, within the space of 21 days after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty; and within the fame term he fhall caufe to be entirely evacuated, and reftored to his majesty the king of Pruffia, the county of Glatz, and, in general, all the ftates, countries, towns, places, and fortreffes, which his Pruffian majefty poffeffed before the prefent war in Silefia, or elfewhere, and which have been occupied by the troops of her Apoftolic majefty the empress queen of Hungary and Bohemia, or by thofe of her friends and allies, during the course of the present war. The fortreffes of Glatz, Wefel, and Gueldres, fhall be reftored to his Pruffian majesty in the fame ftate, with regard to the fortifications in which they were, and with the artillery that was found therein when they were taken. His majesty the king of Pruffia fhall withdraw, with in the fame space of 21 days after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, his troops from all the countries and ftates of Ger many, which are not under his dominion; and he shall evacuate and restore, on his fide, all the ftates, countries, towns, places, and fortreffes, of his majesty the king of Poland elector of Saxony, agreeably to the treaty of peace, which has been concluded this fame day between their majesties the kings of Pruffia and Poland; fo that the reftitution and evacuation of the provinces, towns, and fortreffes refpectively occupied, fhall be made at one and the fame time. VI. The contributions and deliyeries, of what nature foever they be, as well as all demands of recruits, pioneers, waggons, horses, and in general, the things furnished upon account of war, fhall cease from the day of the fignature of the prefent treaty, and every thing that fhall be exacted, taken, or received, after this epoch, fhall be reflored punctually and without delay. Each party fhall renounce all arrears whatsoever of contributions and deliveries. The bills of exchange, or other written promises, which have been given on either fide refpecting these matters, fhall be delared void and of none effect, and fhall be restored gratis to those who gave them. The hostages alfo, which have been taken or given, with regard to the same, fhall be released without ransom: every thing above-mentioned fhall take place immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty. VII. All prifoners of war fhall be reciprocally and faithfully reftored, without ranfom, and without regard to their number, or military rank, on their paying however previously the debts which they fhall have contracted during their captivity. Each party fhall mutually renounce what has been furnished or advanced to them for their affiftance and maintenance; and the fame proceeding, in all respects, fhall be obferved with regard to the fick and wounded immediately after their recovery. To this purpose, each party shall name generals or commiffioners, who fhall, immedi ately after the exchange of the ratifications, proceed, in the places that hall be agreed upon, to the exchange of all the prifoners of war. Every thing that is ftipulated in this article article fhall equally take place with refpect to the states of the empire, in confequence of the general ftipulation contained in the XIXth article. But as his majefty the king of Pruffia, and the ftates of the empire have themselves fubfifted and maintained their refpective prifoners of war, and as, upon this account, fome individuals may have made advances, the high contracting parties do not mean to derogate, by the above ftipulations, from the pretenfions of the faid individuals in this respect. VIII. The fubjects of either party forced to enter into the fervice of the other, fhall be discharged. IX. The empress queen fhall return all the deeds, writings, and letters belonging to the places reftored to the king of Pruffia. X. The inhabitants of the county and city of Glatz fhall be at liberty to remove with their effects, in two years, without paying any duty. XI. The king of Pruffia fhall confirm the nomination made by the empress queen during the war to vacant benefices, and to places in the excife, in the duchies of Cleves and Gueldres. XII. The preliminaries of Breflau, June 11, 1742, the treaty of Berlin, July 28, 1742, the recès of the limits of 1742, the treaty of Drefden, Dec. 28, 1745, where they are not derogated froin by this treaty, are renewed and confirmed. XIII. The two parties purpose to settle a treaty of commerce as foon as poffible; and in the mean time will favour the commerce between their countries. : XIV. The Roman Catholic re ligion fhall be preferved in Silefia, as by the treaty of Dresden, and all other privileges of the fubjects. XV. The two contracting powers shall renew article IX. and the feparate article of the treaty of Berlin, relative to the debts on Silefia. XVI. The two powers mutually guaranty the whole of each other's dominions; thofe belonging to the emprefs queen out of Germany excepted. XVII. The king of Poland shall be comprehended in this treaty on the footing of his treaty of this day with the king of Pruffia. XVIII. The king of Pruffia will renew his convention with the elector Palatine in 1741, relative to Juliers and Bergue. XIX. The whole empire is comprifed in the ftipulations of the IId. ÏVth, Vth, VIth, and VII articles. And by virtue thereof, all the princes and states shall fully enjoy the effects of the faid ftipulations. And whatfoever is therein ftipulated and agreed on between her majefty the emprefs queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and his majefty the king of Pruffia, fhall take place equally and reciprocally between their faid majefties and all the princes and ftates of the empire. The peace of Weftphalia, and all the other conftitutions of the empire, are likewise confirmed by the prefent treaty of |