[The following CONVENTION, of Auguft 1787, is printed from the copy, which was published by authority, in 1787.]

The Convention between his Britannic Majefty and the Moft Chriftian King. Signed at Verfailles, the 31 of Auguft, 1787.

DIFFICULTIES having arifen in the Eaft Indies, relative to the meaning and extent of the thir teenth article of the treaty of peace, figned at Verfailles the third of September, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-three, his Britannic Majefty and his moft Chriftian Majefty, with a view to remove every cause of difpute between their refpective fubjects in that part of the world, have thought proper to make a particular convention, which may ferve as an explanation of the thirteenth article above-mentioned: in this view, their faid Majefties have named for their refpective Plenipotentiaries, to wit, on the part of his Britannic Majefty, William Eden, Efq; Privy Counfellor in Great Britain and Ireland, Member of the British Parliament, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary to his moft Chriftian Majefty; and on the part of his moft Christian Majefty, the Sieur Armand Mark, Count de Montmorin de St. Herem, Marshal of his Camps and Forces, Counsellor in all his Councils, Knight of his Orders, and of the Golden Fleece, Minifter and Secretary of State, and of his Commands and Finances, having the department of foreign affairs; who, after having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles.

I. His Britannic Majefty again engages "to take "fuch measures as fhall be in his power for fecuring "to the fubjects of France a fafe, free, and independ"ant trade, fuch as was carried on by the French East "India Company," and as is explained in the following articles, whether they exercife it individually, or as a company," as well in the Nabobfhip of Arcot, and the countries of Madura and Tanjore, as in the provinces

provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, the Northern Circars, and in general in all the British poffeffions on the coafts of Orixa, Coromandel, and Malabar.

II. In order to prevent all abuses and difputes relative to the importation of falt, it is agreed that the French fhall not import annually into Bengal more than two hundred thousand maunds of falt: the faid falt fhall be delivered at a place of depofit appointed for that purpofe by the government of Bengal, and to officers of the faid government, at the fixed price of one hundred and twenty rupees for every hundred

maunds.

III. There fhall be delivered annually for the French commerce, upon the demand of the French agent in Bengal, eighteen thoufand maunds of faltpetre, and three hundred chefts of opium, at the price eftablished before the late war.

IV. The fix antient factories, namely, Chandernagore, Coffimbuzar, Dacca, Jugdea, Balafore, and Patna, with the territories belonging to the faid factories, fhall be under the protection of the French flag, and fubject to the French jurifdiction.

V. France fhall also have poffeffion of the ancient houfes of Soopore, Kecrpoy, Cannicole, Mohunpore, Serampore, and Chittagong, as well as the dependencies on Soopore, viz. Gautjurat, Allende, Chintzabad, Patorcha, Monepore, and Dolobody; and fhall further have the faculty of establishing new houfes of commerce; but none of the faid houfes fhall have any jurifdiction, or any exemption from the ordinary juftice of the country exercifed over British fubjects.

VI. His Britannic Majefty engages to take meafures to fecure to French fubjects without the limits of the ancient factories above-mentioned, an exact and impartial adminiftration of justice, in all matters concerning their perfons or properties, or the carrying on their trade, in the fame manner and as effectually as to his own fubjects.

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VII. All Europeans, as well as natives, againft whom judicial proceedings fhall be inftituted, within the limits of the ancient factories above-mentioned, for offences committed, or debts contracted, within the faid limits, and who fhall take refuge out of the fame, fhall be delivered up to the chiefs of the faid factories and all Europeans, or others whofoever, against whom judicial proceedings fhall be inftituted, without the faid limits, and who fhall take refuge within the fame, fhall be delivered up by the chiefs of the faid factories, upon demand being made of them by the government of the country.

VIII. All the fubjects of either nation refpectively, who fhall take refuge within the factories of the other, fhall be delivered up on each fide, upon demand being made of them.

IX. The factory of Yanam, with its dependencies, having, in purfuance of the faid treaty of peace, been delivered up by Mr. William Hamilton, on the part of his Britannic Majefty, to Mr. Peter Paul Martin, on the part of his moft Chriftian Majefty, the reftitution thereof is confirmed by the prefent convention, in the terms of the inftrument bearing date the feventh of March, one thousand feven hundred and eightyfive, and figned by Meffis. Hamilton and Martin.

X. The prefent convention fhall be ratified and confirmed in the fpace of three months, or fooner, if it can be done, after the exchange of fignatures between the Plenipotentiaries.

In witnefs whereof, we, Minifters Plenipotentiary, have figned the prefent convention, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto.

Done at Verfailles, the thirty-firft of Auguft, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-feven. Wm. Eden. (L. S.) Le Ce de Montmorin. (L. S.)

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The SUPPLEMENT to the Treaties with FRANCE.

[The following is the FAMILY COMPACT, which is referred to in the Commercial Treaty 1786, between Great Britain and France.]

The Family Compact of the House of Bourbon; figned at Paris, Auguft 15th, 1761.

IN the name of the most holy and indivifible Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen. The ties of blood, which unite the two monarchs now reigning in France and Spain, and the particular fentiments which have animated each other, of which they have given fo many proofs, have engaged their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties to form, and conclude between them, a treaty of friendship and union, under the title of The Family Compact; the principal object of which is to render permanent and indiyifible, as well for their faid Majefties, as for their defcendants and fucceffors, thofe duties which are the natural confequences of confanguinity and friendship. The intention of their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties, in contracting the engagements formed by this treaty, is to perpetuate in their pofterity the fentiments of Lewis XIV. of glorious memory, their common and auguft great grandfather; and to preferve for ever a folemn monument of their reciprocal intereft, which ought to be the foundation of the views of their courts, and of the profperity of their royal families.

With this view, and to attain fo agreeable and falutary an end, their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties have given their full powers, i. e. his most Chriftian Majefty, to the Duke de Choiseul, a Peer of France, Knight of his Orders, and Lieutenant General of his Majefty's armies, Governor of Touraine, High Steward and Superintendant General, and Se

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cretary of State in the department of War and Foreign Affairs; and his Catholic Majesty, to the Marquis of Grimaldi, Gentleman of his Bed-chamber, and his Ambaffador Extraordinary to his moft Chriftian Majefty; who, being informed of the difpofitions of their respective Sovereigns, and after having communicated their credentials to each other, have agreed to the following articles:

1. Their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties declare, that in confequence of their intimate ties of confanguinity and friendfhip, and the union they contract by the prefent treaty, the two Crowns will hereafter confider every Power as their common enemy who fhall become fuch to either of them.

II. The two contracting Kings reciprocally guaranty, in the most abfolute and authentic manner, all the eftates, lands, iflands, and places which they poffefs in any part of the world whatever, without any referve or exception; and the poffeffions, the object of their guaranty, fhall be fixed according to the actual state in which they fhall be found, as foon as either of the two Crowns fhall be at peace with all other Powers.

III. Their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties grant the fame abfolute and authentic guaranty to the King of the Two Sicilies, and to the Infant Don Philip, Duke of Parma, for all the eftates, territories, and places which they poffefs; provided that his Sicilian Majefty, and the faid Infant Duke of Parma, also guaranty, on their part, all the cftates and poffeffions of their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties.

IV. Though the inviolable and mutual guaranty, to which their moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties bind themselves, ought to be fupported with all their power, and though their Majefties thus understand it, according to the fundamental principles of this treaty, that whoever attacks one crown, attacks the other, yet the two contracting parties have thought it proper to afcertain

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