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Wales, and after his death the royal title of king of Great Britain: promifing likewife for herself, her heirs and fucceffors, that fhe will not directly or indirectly give the faid perfon or his defcendents, any aid, counfél or affistance whatfoever, either in money, arms, military equipage, fhips, foldiers, mariners, or in any other manner whatsoever; and that fhe will obferve the fame precaution with regard to thofe perfons who may be com'manded or commiffioned to difturb his Britannick Majesty's government, or the tranquillity of his kingdom, either by open war, or clandeftine confpiracies, or in exciting feditions and rebellions, or in committing piracies upon his Britannick Majesty's fubjects; in which laft • cafe, her facred royal majefty of Sweden promifes that fhe will by no means permit any refuge to be given to fuch pirates in the harbours of her kingdom. Laftly, her royal majefty of Sweden obliges herself, not to give any protection or fhelter in any part of her dominions to thofe fubjects of his royal majefty of Great Britain, who are now, or shall herereafter be declared rebels; and that in cafe there happen to be fuch in her kingdoms, provinces and dominions, fhe will command them to depart her territories in eight days after the warning given them from court. And if his facred royal majefty of Great Britain fhall happen to be invaded in a hoftile manner, the obliges herfelf to fend the fuccours abovementioned, and to do the fame to his defcendents, if they fhall happen to be difturbed in the fucceffion to the crown of Great Britain. And forafmuch as it is of the greatest importance to the Proteftant Religion, to the commerce of the kingdoms of Sweden and Great Britain, and to all Chriftendom, that the Baltick may not be in the power of the Czar of Mufcovy; if therefore the faid Czar refufe to make a peace with Sweden, and to reftore thofe things which are required for the fecurity of the kingdom of Sweden, and to re-establish the fame freedom of Commerce in the Baltick, as both enjoyed before the prefent war, in this cafe his facred royal majefty of Great Britain obliges himself not only to furnish thofe aids which are expreffed in this treaty, for obtaining the fame by force of arms, but he promises to use all

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XVIII. And although the allies fhall be obliged to fend auxiliaries to one another, according to the articles above, yet that obligation fhall not be fo far extended, as that all friendship and mutual correfpondence fhall be taken away and prohibited with the enemies of the other confederate for fuppofing that one of the confederates fhould when required fend his auxiliaries, and not be engaged in the war himself, it fhall then be free for his fubjects and inhabitants to have trade and navigation with the enemies of that ally who is engaged in the war; and it fhall be lawful for them to carry any goods whatfoever to them, thofe only excepted which are exprefsly forbid, and commonly called contraband, and declared fuch by the common agreement of all nations.

XIX. Forafmuch as both their royal majefties abovementioned do hereby declare that they are ftill bound by certain conventions and treaties formerly entered into with other powers, and that they are willing to obferve the fame duly, according to the ftipulations of the faid articles, but that nevertheless they are not at this time bound by any articles and claufes therein contained, which may or ought to weaken and obftruct this prefent treaty in any manner, or under any pretence: to the end therefore, that the faith of the confederates, and their perfeverance in this alliance, may appear the more reciprocal, and that the minds of their fubjects and friends may be the more confirmed, both their royal majefties abovementioned do oblige themfelves and declare, that they will fincerely and bona fide, ftand to all and every one of the articles of this treaty, and that they will not depart a tittle from the genuine and plain fenfe of the faid articles, under any pretexts of profit, friendship, former treaty, contract and promife, or for any other colour whatfoever; but that they will give effectual orders that all the things which they have promised in this treaty, as the ftate of affairs fhall require, be fpeedily and fully put in execution by themfelves, or their minifters and fubjects, according as they

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are expressly stipulated, and this without any limitation, exception or excufe, thofe excepted which are expreffed in the preceding articles of this treaty.

XX. This defenfive treaty fhall laft 18 years, before the end of which the confederate fovereigns may again treat concerning its farther continuance, if it fhall feem good to both of them.

XXI. Whereas this treaty has been concluded pursuant to powers and orders received on both fides, fo the fame ought to be approved and ratified in due and folemn form, by both their facred royal majefties of Sweden and Great Britain, and the inftruments of their ratification be delivered and exchanged at Stockholm within the space of three months, to be reckoned from the time of this fubfcription, or fooner if poffible.

For the greater evidence and confirmation of all things aforefaid, two copies of this treaty have been made, one of which the aforefaid fenators and fecretary of state of her facred royal majefty and the kingdom of Sweden, have figned and confirmed with their feals, as the other has been by the aforefaid ambaffador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of his facred royal majefty of Great Britain, who were all particularly impowered for that end, and that on one and the fame day, viz. the 21ft of January 1720.

The treaty between Great Britain and Spain, concluded at Madrid, June 13, N. S. 1721.

T having pleased the Divine Providence to difpofe the hearts of the moft ferene and potent princes, George, by the Grace of God king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. and Philip V. by the Grace of God king of Spain, the Indies, &c. to forget all the grounds of diffatisfaction and misunderstanding that have given occafion to interrupt, for fome time, the friendship and good correspondence which before flourished between them; and their Britannick and Catholick Majefties being now defirous to renew and re-eftablifh them by the strongest

ties, have ftipulated and agreed by their under-written minifters plenipotentiary, named for that purpose, the following articles.

I. That, for the future, there fhall be, between his Britannick Majefty his heirs and fucceffors, and his Catholick Majefty his heirs and fucceffors, as alfo between their kingdoms, dominions, fovereignties, subjects and vassals, a good, firm and inviolable peace, and a perpetual and fincere friendship, and a general oblivion of every thing that has been done, on both fides, upon occafion of the laft war.

II. The treaties of peace and commerce, concluded at Utrecht on the 13th of July, and the 9th of December, in the year 1713, wherein are comprehended, the treaty made at Madrid in the year 1667, and the cedulas therein mentioned, fhall remain confirmed and ratified by the present treaty, except the third, fifth, and eighth articles of the faid treaty of commerce, commonly called explanatory; which have been annulled by virtue of another fubfequent treaty, made at Madrid the 14th of the month of December 1715, between the ministers plenipotentiary, named for that purpose, by their Britannick and Catholick Majefties, which treaty remains likewise confirmed and ratified; as alfo the particular contract, commonly called The Affiento, for the importation of negroe flaves into the Spanifh Indies, which was made the 26th of March in the faid year 1713, in confequence of the 12th article of the treaty of commerce of Utrecht; and likewise the treaty of declaration, concerning that of the Affiento, made the 26th of May 1716: all which treaties, mentioned in this article, with their declaration, fhall remain in their full force, virtue and vigour, in every thing, wherein they fhall not be contrary to this; and, to the end they may have their entire effect and accomplishment, his Catholick Majefty will caufe his circular orders, cedulas, to be difpatched to his viceroys, governors, and other minifters, to whom it fhall belong, of the ports and towns in America, that the fhips employed for the traffick of negroes by the royal company of Great Britain established at London, may be admitted, with

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out hindrance, to trade freely, and in the fame manner as they did before the last rupture between the two crowns; and the abovementioned cedulas fhall be delivered as foon as the ratifications of the prefent treaty fhall have been exchanged; and at the fame time his Catholick Majefty will give his orders to the council of the Indies, that the junta, compofed of minifters taken out of that council, and appointed for the cognizance (exclufive of all others) of the causes that refpect the faid Affiento, may again have its course, admit of, and confult upon thofe affairs, according to the rule established at the time of its appointment; and as to what regards the observation of the treaties of peace and commerce, circular orders fhall be dispatched to all the governors of Spain, to the end that they may, without any of their interpretations, cause them to be obferved and accomplished; as in like manner shall be given, on the part of his Britannick Majefty, the orders which fhall be demanded, and judged neceffary for the accomplishment of every thing that has been ftipulated and agreed between the two crowns in the abovementioned treaties of Utrecht; and particularly as to what may not have been put in execution of the points fettled by the eighth, eleventh and fifteenth articles of the treaty of peace, which mention the leaving to the Spaniards the free commerce and navigation to the Weft Indies, and the maintaining the antient limits in America, as they were in the time of King Charles II. the free exercife of the Catholick Religion in the ifland of Minorca, and the cod-fifhing in the feas of Newfoundland; as well as with regard to all the other articles which may not hitherto have been put in execution, on the part of Great Britain.

III. Forafmuch as by the feventh article of the treaty of commerce of Utrecht it was agreed, that all the goods confifcated at the beginning of the former war fhould be restored, in regard to the confifcation thereof had been made contrary to the tenor of the 36th article of the treaty of 1667, his Catholick Majefty, in like conformity, will order, that all the goods, merchandizes, money, ships and other effects, which have been seized, as well in Spain as in the Indies, by virtue of his orders of the month of September 1718, or of any other fubfequent orders, at the