The States General's Ratification of the feparate Article.

THE States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, to all who fhall fee thefe prefents, greeting. Having feen and examined the feparate article of the treaty concluded and figned at Antwerp the fifteenth of the month of November, one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, by the Minifters Plenipotentiaries of his Imperial and Catholic Majefty, of his Majefty the King of Great Britain, and Ours, touching the manner in which the Auftrian Netherlands are to ferve henceforward for the barrier of Great Britain, and of our State, the tenor of which feparate article is as follows.

Separate Articl.

Whereas in the Nineteenth Article of Barrier for the States General of the United Provinces in the Auftrian Netherlands, concluded this Day, the Fifteenth of November, One thousand Seven hundred and Fifteen, &c.

We approving all that our Deputies and Ministers Plenipotentiaries have done, in concluding and figning this feparate article, have confented to, approved, and ratified, confent to, approve, and ratify the fame by these prefents, promifing fincerely and faithfully to keep, obferve, and execute it, without acting contrary to it in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly. In witnefs whereof, we have caufed our great feal to be affixed to thefe prefents, and the fame to be figned by the Prefident of our Affembly, and counterfigned by our Greffier. At the Hague, the fourteenth of January, one thousand feven hundred and fixteen. W. Vander Does.

By command of the above-mentioned Lords the States General,

F. Fagel.

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[The following is printed from the original.] Count Volkra's Declaration, 1716, about the Trade in the Auftrian Netherlands.

Milord,

VOUS m'avez témoigné qu'on fe plaint ici des contraventions à l'article 26. du Traité de la Barrière; et j'ai eu l'honneur de vous communiquer ce que Monfieur le Comte de Kinigsegg a répondu là-dessus.

Je puis vous déclarer outre cela, qu'on fe tiendra à l'avenir exactement à l'obfervation du fufdit article 26. du Traité de la Barrière, du 15 Novembre, 1715, et à la convention de Londres, du 26 Juillet, 1715, comme encore à la déclaration du 14 Novembre, 1715; à favoir, qu'on louera les droits fur la petite draperie d'Angleterre, fur le pied des gros draps, fuivant la diminution exprimée dans la fufdite convention de Londres, fans aucune altération, jufques à ce qu'on en fera convenu autrement entre l'Empereur et le Roi nos maîtres; mais que pourtant les marchands donneront caution de payer le furplus, fi l'affaire fera ainfi déterminée entre les deux refpectives Cours.

J'efpére, Milord, que vous ferez avancer, fans plus

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de delai, l'emprunt de 200 piéces, felon la convention faite là-deffus, en vous affurant que

Je fuis, avec une très-parfaite eftime,

[The following is printed from the copy which was published by authority in 1718.]

The Treaty of Alliance for fettling the Public Peace, figned at London,

22 July

2 Auguft 1718.

GEORGE, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire, and Prince Elector, &c. To all and fingular, to whom these prefents fhall come, greeting. Whereas a certain treaty, containing as well the conditions of peace to be made between the Emperor of the Romans and the King of Spain, and between the faid Emperor and the King of Sicily, as the terms of a mutual alliance made between us and our good brother the faid Emperor of the Romans, and our good brother the moft Chriftian King, and our good friends the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, by Plenipotentiaries on both fides fufficiently furnished with orders and authority for the fame, in our city of London, the twenty-fecond day of July laft paft, O. S. has been concluded and signed in the form and words following:

In the Name of the moft Holy and undivided Trinity, Be it known to all whom it doth concern, or may any way concern.

Whereas the moft Serene and moft Potent Prince, George, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. and the moft Serene and moft Potent Prince, Lewis the Fifteenth, the most Chriftian King, &c. as likewife the High and Mighty States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, being continually intent on preferving the bleffing of peace, have duly confidered, that however, by the triple alliance concluded by them on the 4th of January, 1717, their own kingdoms and provinces VOL. I.

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were provided for, yet that the provision was neither fo general nor fo folid, as that the public tranquillity could long flourish and laft, unlefs at the fame time the jealoufies which were ftill increafing between fome of the Princes of Europe, as perpetual occafions of variance, could be removed: and being convinced by experience from the war kindled the laft year in Italy, for the timely extinguishing whereof, by a treaty made in the year 1718, they agreed

amongst themselves upon certain articles of pacification, according to which a peace might be brought about and established between his Sacred Imperial Majefty and the King of Spain; as likewife between his faid Imperial Majefty and the King of Sicily; and farther gave a friendly invitation to his Imperial Majefty, that, out of his love for the public peace and quiet, he would receive and approve the faid articles of convention in his own name, and accordingly that he himself would accede to the treaty made by them, the tenor of which is as followeth.

Conditions of Peace between his Imperial Majefty and his Royal Catholic Majefty.

I. For quieting the difturbances lately raifed contrary to the peace of Baden, concluded the 7th of September, 1714, as likewife to the neutrality established for Italy by the treaty of the 14th of March, 1713, the moft Serene and moft Potent King of Spain obliges. himself to reftore to his Imperial Majefty, and accordingly fhall immediately, or at the fartheft after two months, to be reckoned from the exchange of the ratifications of this prefent treaty, actually restore to his faid Imperial Majefty the island and kingdom of Sardinia, in the condition wherein he feized it, and shall renounce, in favour of his Imperial Majefty, all rights, pretenfions, interefts, and claims upon the faid kingdom; fo that his Imperial Majefty fully and freely, and in the manner which he judges beft, out of his love to the public good, may dispose of it as of his own property.

II. Whereas

II. Whereas the only method which could be found out for fixing a durable balance in Europe was judged to be this, that it should be an established rule that the kingdoms of France and Spain fhould never go together, or be united in one and the fame perfon, or in one and the fame line, and that those two monarchies fhould henceforward for ever remain feparate; and whereas for confirming this rule, fo neceffary for the public tranquillity, thofe Princes, to whom the prerogative of birth might have given a right of fucceeding in both kingdoms, have folemnly renounced one of thofe two kingdoms for themfelves and all their pofterity; fo that this feparation of the two monarchies. has paffed into a fundamental law in the general affembly commonly called Las Cortes, which was received at Madrid the 9th of November, 1712, and confolidated by the treaties of Utrecht, the 11th of April, 1713; his Imperial Majefty, being willing to give the utmost perfection to fo neceffary and wholefome a law, to take away all ground of fufpicion, and to promote the public tranquillity, doth accept and agree to thofe things which were done, ratified, and established in the treaty of Utrecht, with regard to the right and order of fucceffion to the kingdoms of France and Spain, and doth renounce, as well for himself, as for his heirs, defcendants, and fucceffors, male and female, all rights, and all and every pretenfion whatfoever, not one in the leaft excepted, on any kingdoms whatsoever, dọ. minions, and provinces of the Spanish monarchy, whereof the Catholic King was acknowledged to be the rightful poffeffor by the treaty of Utrecht, and will caufe to be made out in due form accordingly folemn acts of renunciation, which he will caufe to be published and registered in the proper courts, and promises that he will exhibit the ufual inftruments thereupon to his Catholic Majefty, and to the contracting Powers.

III. By virtue of the faid renunciation, which his Imperial Majefty has made out of regard to the fecu