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DEFINITIVE TREATY
Os Friendship and Peace between bis Britannick Majesty, the Moft
Christian AT/*/, and the King of Spain, concluded as Paris the
• iQtb Da? of February, 1763; to which the K:*g of Portkjaj
• acceded on the fame Day*
Jn the Name of the Moft amdUudi<wdeJ Trinity, Father, Son,
Wl R it known to all those to wjioni it (hall or
may, in any manner, belong.
It has pleased the Moft High to dis-
A££l B the spirit of onion and concord a-
mon g. the Priflcet, whose divisions had
ijprcid troubles in the four parts of the
world, and to inipirc them with the in
clination to cattfe the comforts of peace
to succeed to the misfortunes of a long and bloody tear;
which, having arisen, between England and France, dur
ing the reign of the moft serene and moft potent Prince
George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great
Britain, of glorious memory, continued under the reign of
the moft serene and moft potent Prince George the Third,
his successor, and, in its jircgrds, communicated itfelf to
Spain and Portugal s Confec|ucntly, the molt serene and
tnoft potent Prince, George the Third, by the Grace of
God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Duke
of Bronfwick and Lunenbourg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector
of the Holy Roman Empire $ the moft serene and moft po
tent Prince, Lewis the Fifteenth, by the Grace of God,
Moft Chri(uan King; and the* moft serene and moft potent
Prince, Charles the Third, by the Grace of Goi, King
of Spain and of the Indies, after having laid the foundati
ons of peace in the Preliminaries, signed at Fontainblcau
the 3d of November last; and the moil serene and moft po
tent Prince, Don Joseph the First, by the Grace of God,
King of Portugal and of the Algarve*, after having acceded
thereto, determined to complcat, without delay, this great
and important work. For this purpose, the high contract
ing parties have named and appointed their reipe&ivc Em
bauadors Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary, viz.
his Sacred Majesty the King of Great Britain, the moft ll
luftrious and moft Excellent Lord, John, Duke and Earl
of Bedford, Marqucfs of Taviftock, See. his Minister tis
fState, Lieutenant General of his Armies, Keeper of his
Privy Seal, Knight of the moft Noble Order of the Garter,
and his AmbafiTador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary to his moft Christian Majesty; his Sacred Majesty the
Moft Christian King, the moll Illustrious fnd moft Excellent
Lord, Car far Gabriel de Choifeul, Duke of Praftin, Peer
of France, Knight of his Order, Lieutenant General of his
Armies, and 6f the Province of Britanny, Counfellor in all
his Councils, ind Minister and Secretary of State, and of
his Commands and Finances; his Sacred Majesty the Ca
tholick King, the moft Illustrious and moft Excellent Lord,
Don Jerome de Grimaldi, Marquis de Grimaldi, Knit ht
of the Moft Christian King’s Orders, Gentleman of the Ca
tholick King's Bed Chamber in employment, and his Am
baflador Extraordinary to his Moft Christian Majesty; his
Sacred Majesty the Moft Faithful King, the moft Illustrious
and moft Excellent Lord, Martin de Mello and Castro,
Knight Profefied of the Order of Christ, of his Moft Faith
ful Majesty’s Council, and his AmbafiTador and Minister
Plenipotentiary to his Moft Christian Majesty.
- Who, after having duly communicated to each other
‘heir full powers, ifi good form* copicj where?! are trau*
T'H U R S D A Y, June 2, 1763.
feribed at the end of the present treaty of peace, have agreed
upon the articles, the tenor of which is as follows.
Article I. There (hall be a chriftian, universal, and
perpetual peace, as well by sea as by land, and a fmcere
and constant friendfhip (hall be re-eftablilhed between their
Britannick, Moft Christian, Catholick, and Mott Faithful
Majefties,and between their heirs and fuccefiors, kingdoms';
dominions, provinces, countries, fubjeds, andvauab, of
what quality or condition soever they be, without exception
of places, or of persons: So that the high contrading par
ties (hall give the greatest attention to maintain between
thcmfelves and their said dominions and fubjeds, this reci
procal friendlhip and corrcfpondence, without permitting,
on either fide, any kind of hostilities, by sea or by land, to
be committed, from henceforth, for any cause, or under
any pretence whatsoever, and every thing (hall be-carefully
avoided, which might, hereafter, prejudice the union hap
pily re-eftablilhed, applying themselves, on the contrary,
on every occasion, to procure for each other whatever may
contribute to their mutual glory, interests and
without giving any assistance or protedion, diredly or indi
redly, to thole who would cause any prejudice to either of
the high contrading parties: there (hall be a general obli
vion of every thing that may have been done or committed
before, or since the commencement of the war, which is just,
ended.
Art. 11. The treaties of Westphalia of 1648 ; those of
Madrid between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain of
1667 and 1670; the treaties of peace of Nimeguen ol 1678,
and 1679; of Ryfwyck of 1697; those of Peace and Com
merce 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 j 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 6tlf of February 171 o and
cf the 1 zth of February 1761; and that of the 1 lth of Apnl
1"j 13, between France and Portugal, vith the Guarantiee
of Great Britain*, serve as a basis and foundation to the
Peace, and the picfcnt Treaty: and for this purpose they
are all renewed and confirmed in the best form, as wen as
all the t r caticj in general, which subsisted between the high
contnaing parties before the war, as if they were inserted
here word for word, so that they arc to be exaftlv ouferved
for the future, in their whole tenor, and religiously execut
ed on all fidcs, in all their points which (hall not be dcro
ratdd from by the present treaty, notwithilanding all that
may have been llipulatcd to the contrary by any of the high
contrading parties; and all the said parties declare, that
they Will notTuffcr any privilege, favour, or indulgence,
to iubiift, contrary to the treaties above confirir excep*
what (hall have been agreed and lhpulated b’ prefen.
f 111 All the prisoners made, on all as wtil
bv *and as by sea, and the heftages earned away, or given
durifi* the war, and to this day lhaU bereftored without
rar fom fix weeks, at latest, to be computed from the day
of the exchange of the ratification of the P re f ~t trc at )j’
r A r*-_t v nivinp the advances which (ha 1 have
bn made for and maintenance of
furniflted on pa of hV debt, which -he
” L! h “ve comraftvd in the countries where.hey
EfctoliU until tbcirimi* liberty- And all .hr
