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Article 23. No fubjeas of the Most Christian
King shall apply for or take any connmiffion or
letters of marque for arming any ship or ships to
act as privateers against the said United States or
any of them, or against the subjects, people or
inhabitants of the said United States or any of
them, or against the property of any of the inha
bitants of any of them, from any Prince or State
with which the United States shall be at war;
nor shall any citizen, fubje&, or inhabitant of
the said United States or any of them, apply for
or take any commission or letters of marque for
arming any flip or ships to aft as privateers
against the fubjeas of the Most Christian King,
or any of them, or the property of any of them,
from any Prince or State with which the said
King shall be at war; and if any person of either
nation shall take such commission or letters of
marque, he shall be punished as a pirate.
Article 24. It shall not be lawful for any fo
reign privateers, not belonging to the fubje&s
of the Most Christian King, nor citizens of the
said United States, who have comminions from
any other Prince or State at enmity with either
nation, to fit their ships in the ports of either the
one or the other of the aforefaid parties, to fell
what they have taken, or in any other manner
whatfoerer to exchange their ships, merchan
dizes or any other lading ; neither shall they be
allowed even to purchase viduals, except such
as shall be necessary for their going to the next
port of that Prince or State from which they have
commiflions.
Article 25. It shall be lawful for all and sin
gular the fubjeds of the Most Christian King
and the citizens, people and inhabitants of the
said United States, to fail with their ships with
all manner of liberty and security, no diftin&ion
being made who are the proprietors of the mer
chandize laden thereon, from any port to the
places of those who now are or hereafter shall be
at enmity with the Most Christian King or tne
United States. It shall likewise be lawful for
the fubje&s and inhabitants aforefaid, to fail
with the ships and merchandizes aforementioned,
and to trade with the fame liberty and security
from the places, ports and havens of those who
are enemies of both or either party, without any
oppofiLon or disturbance whatsoever, not only
direaly from the places of the enemy aforemen
tioned to neutral places, but allo from one place
belonging to an enemy to another place belong
ing to an enemy, whether they be under the ju
rifdidtion of the fame Prince, or under fcveral.
And it is hereby stipulated, that free ships shall
also give a freedom to goods, and that every
thing shall be deemed tc be free and exempt
which shall be found on board the ships belong
ing to the fubjeds of either of the Confederates,
although the whole lading or any part thereof
Should ' appertain to the enemies of either, con
traband goods being always excepted. It is also
agreed in like mariner, that the fame liberty be
extended to persons who are on board a free ship,
with this effect, that although they be enemies to
both or either party, they are not to be taken
out of that free ship, unless they are soldiers and
in actual service of the enemies.
Article 26. This liberty of navigation and com
merce shall extend to all kinds of merchandizes,
excepting those only which are deftinguifhed by
the name of contraband, and under this name of
contraband or prohibited goods shall be compre
hended arms, great guns, bombs with their fu
fes and other things belonging to them, cannon
ball, gun-powder, match, pikes, fivords, lances
spears, halberds, mortars, petards, grenadoes, falt
petre, maskers, musket ball, bucklers, helmets, breast
plates, coats of mail, and the like kinds of arms, pro
per for arming soldiers, musket rests, belts,, horses
with their furniture, and all other warlike instruments
whatever. These merchandizes which follow shall
not be reckoned among contraband or prohibited
goods ; that is to fay, all forts of cloths, and all 0-
ther manufactures woven of any wool, flax, silk, cot
ton, or any other materials whatever, all kinds of
wearing apparel, together with the species whereof
they are used to be made, gold and silver, as well
coined as uncoined, tin, iron, latten, cepper, brass,
coals ; as also wheat and barley, and any other kind
of corn and pulse, tobacco, and likewise all manner of
spices, salted and fmoaked fleffi, salted Uh, cheese
and butter, beer, oils, wines, sugars, and ad forts of
faits, and in general all provifioms which serve for the
uourifhment of mankind and the faftenance of life ;
furthermore, all kinds of cottoo, hemp, flax, tar,
pitch, ropes, cables, fails, fail-cloths, anchors and
any parts of anchors, also ships masts, planks, boards
and beams of what trees soever, and all other things
proper either for building or repairing ships, and all
other goods whatever which have not been forked in
IP HILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by JOHN DUNLAP, in Market-street.
to the form of any instrument or thing prepared for
war by land or by faa, shall not be reputed contraband,
much less such as have been already wrought and made
up for any other use ; all which shall be wholly rec
koned among free goods; as likewise all other mer
chandizes and things which are not comprehended and
particularly mentioned in the foregoing enumeration
of contraband goods, so that they may be transported
and carried in the freeft manner by the fubjeds of
both confederates, even to places belonging to an ene
my, such towns or places being only excepted, as are
at that tirae besieged, blocked up or invested.
Article 27. To the end that all manner of diffen
tions and quarrels may be avoided and prevented, on
one fide and the other, it is agreed, that in case either
of the parties hereto, should be engaged in war, the
ffiips and vessels belonging to the fubjeds or people of
the other ally must be farnifhed with sea letters or
passports, expressing the name, property and bulk of
the fliip, as also the name and place of habitation of
the matter or commander of the said ship, that it may
appear thereby that the ship really and truly belongs
to the fubjeds of one of the parties, which passport
shall be made cut and granted according to the form
annexed to this treaty,; they shall likewise be recall
ed every year, that is if the ship happens to return
home within the space of a year ; itis likewise agreed,
that such ships being laden are to be provided not on
ly with passports as above mentioned, but also with cer
tificates, containing the several particulars of the car
go, the place whence the ship failed, and whither she
is bound, that so it may be known whether any for
bidden or contraband goods be on board of the fame,
which certificates shall be made out by the officers of
the place whence the ship set fail, in the accustomed
form ; and if any one shall think it fit or advifeable to
express in the said certificates, the person to whom the
goods on board belong, he may freely do so.
Article 28. The ships of the fubjefts and inhabi
tants of either of the parties coming upon any coast be
longing to either of the said allies, but not willing to
enter into port, or being entered into port and
not willing to unload their cargoes or break bulk,
they shall be treated according to the general rules
prescribed or to be prescribed relative to the object
in question.
Article 29. If the ships of the said fubjedts,
people or inhabitants of either of the parties
shall be met with, either failing along the coasts
or on the high seas, by any ship of war of the
other, or by any privateers, the said ships of war
or privateers, for the avoiding of any disorder,
shall remain out of cannon shot, and may fend
their boats on board the merchant ship which
they shall so meet with, and may enter her to the
number of two or three men only, to whom the
master or commander of such ship or veflel shall
exhibit his paflport concerning the property of
the ship, made out according to the form insert
ed in this present treaty, and the ship, when
she shall have shewed such paflport, shall be
free and at liberty to purfae her voyage so as it
shall not be lawful to moled: or search her in any
manner, or to give her chace or force her to
quit her intended course.
Article 30. It is also agreed, that all goods,
when once put on board the ships or veiTels of ei
ther of the two contracting parties, shall be fub
je& to no farther visitation, but all visitation or
search shall be made before hand, and all prohi
bited goods shall be flopped on the spot before
the fame be put on board, unlefsthere are iiiani
feft tokens or proofs of fraudulent practice ; nor
shall either the persons or goods of the fubjeHs
of HisMoft ChriltianMajefty or the United States,
be put under any arrest or molested by any other
kind of embargo for that cause, and only the fub
je& of that State to whom the said goods have
been or shall be prohibited, and who shall pre
furoc to fell or alienate such fort of goods, shall
be duly punished for the offence.
Article 31. The two contracting parties grant
mutually the liberty of having each in the ports
of the other, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Agents and
Commiflaries, whose functions shall be regulated
by a particular agreement.
Article 32. And the more to favor and facili
tate the commerce which the fubjedts of theUnit
ed States may have with France, the Most Chris
tian King will grant them in Europe one or more
free ports, where they may bring and dispose of
all the produce and iflerchandize of the Thirteen
United States ; and his Majesty will also continue
to the fubjedts of the said states; the free ports
which have been and are open in the French if-
Jands of America, of all which free ports the said
fubjedis of the United States shall enjoy the use,
agreeable to the regulations which relate to
them.
Artic> 33. The present treaty shall be ratified
on both lides, and the ratifications shall be ex
changed in the space of fix months, or sooner if
possible.
IN FAITH WHEREOF the refpedive Plenipo^
tentiaries have signed the above Articles both
in the French and English languages ; declare
ing nevertheless, that the present Treaty was
originally composed and concluded in the
French language, and they have thereto affix
ed their seals.
DONE at Paris, this Sixth Dry of February, One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy- eight.
(L. S.) C. A. GERARD.
(L. S.) B. FRANKLI N.
(L. S.) SILAS DEANE.
(L. S.) ARTHUR LEE.
Form of the passports and letters which are to be given to
the ships and barques according to the 27th article of
this treaty.
TO ALL who shall fee these presents greet
ing. It is hereby made known, that leave and
permission has been given to , master
and commander of the fliip called of
the town of burthen tons or
thereabouts, lying at present in the port and ha
ven of and bound for and
laden with After that his fliip has been
visited and before failing, he shall make oath be
fore the officers who have the jurifdiHion of ma
ritime affairs, that the said fliip belongs to one or
more of the subjects of the act whereof
shall be put at the end ofthefe presents ; as like
wise that, he will keep and cause to be kept by
his crew on board, the marine ordinances and
regulations, and enter in the proper office a lift
signed and witnefied containing the names arid
firnames; the places of birth and abode of the
crew of his ship, and of all who shall embark on
board her, whom he shall not take on board with
out the knowledge and permission of the officers
of the marine, and in every port or haven where
he shall enter with his ship, he shall shew this
present leave to the Officers and Judges of the
marine, and shall give a faithful account to them
of what passed and was done during his voyage,
and he fliall carry the colours, arms and ensigns
of the King, or United Slates during his voyage.
In witness whereof we have signed these presents
and put the seal of our arms thereunto and caus
ed the fame to be counterfigued by at
the day of Anno Domini
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State of Neov-Jerfey, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court
of Admiralty will be held at the house of Gilbert
Barton, Inn-holder in Allen-Town, in the county of
Monmouth, on Tuesday the twelfth day of January, at
Ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to try the
truth of the fads alledged in the bills of Yelverton Tay
lor, (who as well, &c.) against th! schooner or vessel
called the Good Intent, lately commanded by John
Rofely ; against the schooner or veflel called the Fame,
lately commanded by Francis Coffin: Of John Leake,
(who as well, &c.) against the schooner or veffd called
the Fortune, lately commanded by Garret Beakmah :
Of Moses Griffin, (who as well, &c.) against the schoo
ner or vessel called the Rambler, lately commanded by
Bayne Smallwood : Of Seth Johmfon, (who aswell, &c.)
against the sloop or vessel called the Charming Polly,
lately commanded by Ebenezer Ward : Of David Ste
vens, (who as well, &c ) against the schooner or vessel
called the Friends, lately commanded by James Conn:
Of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, (who as well, &c.) against
the (loop or vessel lately commanded by Richard Read
ing: Of John Neilfon, (who as well, &: ) against the
sloop or vessel lately commanded by Thomas Crowell,
Jun. with their refpe&ive tackle, apparel, furni^ire and
cargoes: T® the end and intent that the owner or
owners of the said vessels tefpeaively, or any person or
persons concerned therein, may appear and shew cause,
if any they have, why the said vessels and their refpeaive
tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes should not be
condemned, according to the prayer of the said bills.
By Order of the Judge,
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Register.
Alien Toaun, Dec. 21, 1778.
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN MARI E,
In Norris's Alley, the firft door upon the right hand
going in from Second-street,
BEST Coniac Brandy, by the quarter-cask or gal
lon ; Bourdeaux Claret of the nrft quality, by the
quarter-calk or dozen; White Wine Vinegar, by the
quarter-calk or gallon ; Florence Oil in cases; Cam
bricks, Linen Handkerchiefs, fine and coarse Dutch
Sheetings, French Indigo, Green and Souchong Tea in
Cannisters.
N. B. Twelve Shillings per dozen will be given for
empty Wine Bottles. 12.
THOMAS M'F EE, Accomptant,
Living in Carter's Alley,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public in ge
neral, that he polls merchantsand shop-keepers bocks,
and in a regular, clear and mercantile manner adjusts the
most intricate Co-Partnerships, private and almost every
other fort of long or unfettied accounts. Helikewife draws
and copies with neatness, care and expedition such writ
ings as sales, invoices, accounts current, and writes let
ters, &c. &c. Such persons as please to favor him with
their commands may depend upon his observing the utmost
care, punctuality and dispatch.