Great Britain, ferve as a bafis and foundation to the peace, and to the prefent treaty and for this purpofe, they are all renewed and confirmed in the best form, as well as all the treaties in 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 obferved, for the future, in their whole tenor, and religioufly executed on all fides, in all their points, which fhall not be derogated from the prefent 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 fhall 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 hostages carried away during the war, and to this day, fhall be reftored without ranfom, fix weeks at lateft, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent treaty, each crown respectively paying the advances, which fhall have been made for the fubfiftence and maintenance of their prifoners by the fovereign of the country where they fhall have been detained, according to the attefted receipts and eftimates, and offer authentic vouchers, which fhall be furnished on one fide and the other and fecurities 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 mer

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chant veffels which shall have been taken fince the expiration of the terms agreed upon for the ceffation of hoftilities by fea, fhall be likewife restored bona 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 form, 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 Britannic majefty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as theifland of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coafts in the gulph and river of St. Lawrence, aud, in general, every thing that depends on the faid countries, lands, iflands, and coafts, with the fovereignty, proper ty, 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,iflands, lands, places, coafts, and their inhabitants, fo that the moft Chriftian king cedes and makes over the whole to the faid king, and to the crown of Great Britain, and that in the most ample manner and form, without reftriction, and without any liberty to depart from the faid ceffion and guaranty, under any pretence, or to difturb Great Britain in the poffeffions abovementioned. His Britannic majesty on his fide, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he will

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confequently, give the most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic 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 Britannic majefty further agrees that the French inhabitants, or others, who had been the fubjects of the moft Chriftian king in Canada, may retire with all fafety and freedom whereever they shall think proper, and may fell their eftates, provided it be to fubjects of his Britannic majefty, and bring away their effects, as well as their perfons, without being restrained in their emigration, under any pretence whatfoever except that of debts, or of criminal profecutions; the term, limited for this emigration, fhall be fixed to the fpace of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

V. The fubjects of France fhall have the liberty of fishing anddrying on a part of the coafts of the island of Newfoundland, fuch as is fpecified in the13th article of the treaty of Utrecht; which article is renewed and confirmed by the prefent treaty, (except what relates to the island of Cape Breton, as well as to the other islands, and coafts in the mouth and in the gulph St. Lawrence); and his Britannic majefty confents to leave the fubjects of the moft Chriftian king the liberty of fifhing in the gulph ofSt. Lawrence, on condition that the fubjects of France do not exercife the faid fishery, but at the diftance of three leagues from all the coafts belonging to Great Britain, as well thofe of the continent, as thofe of the iflands fituated in the faid gulph of

St. Lawrence. And as to what relates to the fishery on the coast of the island of Cape Breton out of the faid gulph, the fubjects of the most Christian king fhall not be permitted to exercise the said fishery, but at the distance 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 else out of the faid gulph, fhall remain on the foot of former treaties.

VI. The king of Great Britain cedes the iflands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, in full right, to his most Chriftian majesty, to ferve as a fhelter to the French fishermen ; and his faid Chriftian majesty engages not to fortify the faid islands, to erect no buildings upon them, but merely for the convenience of the fishery, and to keep upon them a guard of fifty men only for the police.

VII. In order to re-establish peace on folid and durable foundations, and to remove for ever all subjects of difpute with regard to the limits of the British and French territories on the continent of America, that for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic majefty, in that part of the world, fhall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Miffifippi, from its fource to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lake Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the fea; and for this purpose the most Chriftian king cedes, in full right, and guaranties to his Britannic majefty, the river and port of the Mobile, and every thing which he poffeffes, or ought to poffefs, on the left fide

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the river Miffifippi, except the town of the New Orleans, and the island in which it is fituated, which fhall remain to France; provided that the river Miffifippi fhall be equally free, as well to the fubjects of Great Britain, as to thofe of France, in its whole breadth or length, from its fource to the fea, and exprefly 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 further ftipulated, that the veffels belonging to the fubjects of either nation, fhall not be stopped, vifited, or fubjected to the payment of any duty whatsoever. The ftipulations, inferted in the IVth article, in favour of the inhabitants of Canada, shall also take place, with regard to the inhabitants of the countries ceded by this article.

VIII, The king of Great Britain fhall restore to France the islands of Guadaloupe, of Marie Galante, of Defirade, of Martinico, and of Belleifle; and the fortreffes of these islands fhall be restored in the fame condition they were in, when they were conquered by the British arms; provided that his Britannic majefty's fubjects, who fhall have fettle in the faid iflands, or those who fhall have any commercial affairs to fettie there, or in the 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 permitted to fend to the faid iflands, and other places restored as above, and which fhall ferve for this ufe only, without being restrained on account of their

religion, or under any other pretence whatfoever, except that of debts, or of criminal profecutions; and for this purpose, the term of eighteen months is allowed to his Britannic majefty's fubjects, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty but, as the liberty. granted to his Britannic majefty's fubjects, to bring away their perfons and their effects, in veffels of their nation, may be liable to abuíes, if precautions were not taken to prevent them; it has been exprefly agreed, between his Britannic majefty and his moft Chriftian majesty, that the number of English veffels, which fhall have leave to go to the faid iflands and places restored to France, fhall be limited, as well as the number of tons of each one; that they fhall go in ballaft; fhall fet fail at a fixed time; and snall make one voyage only; all the effects, belonging to the English, being to be embarked at the fame time. It has been further agreed, that his moft Chriftian majesty shall caufe the neceffary paffports to be given to the faid veffels; that, for the greater fecurity, it fhail be allowed to place two French clerks, or guards, in each of the faid veffels, which shall be visited in the landing places, and ports of the faid iflands, and places reftored to France, and that the merchandize, which fhall be found therein, shall be confifcated.

IX. The moft Chriftian king cedes and guaranties to his Britannic majefty, in full right, the islands of Grenada, and of the Grenadines, with the fame ftipulations in favour of the inhabitants of this colony, inferted in the IVth article for thofe of Canada; and the partition of

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the islands, called Neutral, is agreed and fixed, fo that thofe of St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago, fhall remain in full right to Great Britain, and that of St. Lucia fhall be delivered to France, to enjoy the fame likewife in full right; and the high contracting parties guaranty the partition fo ftipulated.

X. His Britannic majefty fhall reftore to France the island of Goree, in the condition it was in when conquered and his moft Chriftian majefty cedes, in full right, and guaranties to the king of Great Britain, the river Senegal, with the forts and factories of St. Lewis, Podor, and Galam; and with all the rights and dependencies of the faid river Senegal.

XI. In the Eaft Indies, Great Britain fhall restore to France, in the condition they now are in, the different factories which that crown poffeffed, as well on the coaft of Coromandel and Orixa, as on that of Malabar, as alfo in Bengal, at the beginning of the year 1749. And his moft Chriftian majefty renounces all pretenfion to the acquifitions which he had made on the coaft of Coromandel and Orixa, fince the faid beginning of the year 1749. His molt Chriftian majefty fhall reftore, on his fide, all that he may have conquered from Great Britain, in the East Indies, during the prefent war; and will exprefly caufe Nattal and Tapanoully, in the ifland of Sumatra, to be restored; he engages further, not to erect for tifications, or to keep troops in any part of the dominions of the Subah of Bengal. And in order to preferve future peace on the coaft of Coromandel and Orixa, the English and French fhall acknowledge Mahomet Ally Khan for the lawful

Nabob of the Carnatick, and Salabat Jing for lawful Subah of the Des can; and both parties fhall renounce all demands and pretenfions of fatisfaction, with which they might charge each other, or their Indian allies, for the depredations, or pillage, committed on the one fide or on the other, during the war.

XII. The island of Minorca fhall be restored to his Britannic majefty, as well as fort St. Philip, in the fame condition they were in, when conquered by the arms of the moft Chriftian king; and with the artillery which was there, when the faid island and the said fort were taken:

XIII. The town and port of Dunkirk fhall be put into the ftate fixed by the last treaty of Aix la Chapelle, and by former treaties. The cunette fhall be destroyed immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, as well as the forts and batteries which defend the entrance on the fide of the fea; and provifion shall be made, at the fame time, for the wholesomeness of the air, and for the health of the inhabitants, by fome other means, to the satisfaction of the king of Great Britain.

XIV. France fhall reftore all the countries belonging to the electorate of Hanover, to the landgrave of Heffe, to the duke of Brunfwick, and to the count of La Lippe Buc keburgh, which are, or fhall be occupied by his moft Christian majefty's arms: the fortreffes of thefe different countries shall be restored in the fame condition they were in, when conquered by the French arms and the pieces of artillery, which fhall have been carried elfewhere, fhall be replaced by the fame number, of the fame bore, weight, and metal.

XV. In cafe the ftipulations, contained in the XIIIth article of the preliminaries, fhould not be compleated at the time of the fignature of the prefent treaty, as well with regard to the evacuations to be made by the armies of France of the fortreffes of Cleves, Wezel, Gueldres, and of all the countries belonging to the king of Pruffia, as with regard to the evacuations to be made by the British and French armies of the countries which they occupy in Weftphalia, Lower Saxony, on the Lower Rhine, the Upper Rhine, and in all the empire, and to the retreat of the troops into the dominions of their refpective fovereigns; their Britannic and moft Christian majefties promise to proceed, bona fide, with all the difpatch the cafe will permit of, to the faid evacuations, the entire completion whereof they ftipulate before the 15th of March next, or fooner if it can be done: and their Britannic and most Christian majesties further engage, and promise to each other, not to furnish any fuccours, of any kind, to their respective allies, who fhall continue engaged in the war in Germany.

XVI. The decifion of the prizes made, in the time of peace, by the fubjects of Great Britain, on the Spaniards, fhall be referred to the courts of juftice of the admiralty of Great Britain, conformable to the rules established among all nations, fo that the validity of the faid prizes, between the British and Spanish nations, fhall be decided and judged, according to the law of nations, and according to the treaties, in the courts of justice of the nation, who shall have made the cap

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caufe to be demolished all the forti fications which his fubjects fhall have erected in the bay of Hondu ras, and other places of the territory of Spain in that part of the world, four months after the ratification of the prefent treaty and his Catholic majefty fhall not permit his Britannic majesty's fubjects, or their workmen, to be difturbed, or molefted, under any pretence whatsoever, in the faid places, in their occupation of cutting, loading, and carrying away logwood: and for this purpose, they may build without hindrance, and occupy without interruption, the houses and magazines which are neceffary for them, for their families, and for their effects: and his Catholic majefty affures to them, by this article, the full enjoyment of those advantages, and powers, on the Spanish coafts and territories, as above ftipulated, immediately after the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

XVIII. His Catholic majefty defifts, as well for himself, as for his facceffors, from all pretenfions which he may have formed, in favour of the Guipufcoans, and other his fubjects, to the right of fishing in the neighbourhood of the island of Newfoundland.

XIX. The king of Great Britain fhall reftore to Spain all the territory which he has conquered in the island of Cuba, with the fortress of the Havanna; and this fortress, as well as the other fortreffes of the faid ifland, fhall be restored in the fame condition they were in when conquered by his Britannic majesty's arms; provided, that his Britannic majefty's fubjects, who fhall have fettled in the faid island, restored to Spain by the present treaty, or those who fhall have any commercial af