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given by all commanders of private armed vessels be
fore they are commiffioned.'
Art. 16. It is agreed that the fubjeds or citizens of
each of the contrasting parties, their vcffels and ef
fects, shall not be liable to any embargo or detention
on the part of the other, for any military expedition,
or other publick or private purpose whatsoever. And
in all cases of seizure, detention or arrest, for debts
contrasted or o^ ^ committed by any citizen or
fubjedt of tl y, within the jurisdiction of the
other, the ft e made and prosecuted by or
der and auti t iw only, and according to the
regular cour; edings usual in such cases.
°Art. 17. 11 any vessel or effects of the neutral power
be taken by an enemy of the other, or by a pirate,
and re-taken by that other, they shall be brought into
some port of one of the parties, and delivered into
the custody of the officers of that port, in order to
be restored entire to the true proprietor as loon as due
proof shall be made concerning the property thereof.
Art. 18. If the citizens or fubjeCts of either party,
in danger from tempers, pirates, enemies or other
accident, shall take refuge with their vessels or effects,
within the harbours or jurisdiction of the other, they
shall be received, protected and treated with humanity
and kindness, and shall be permitted to furnifh them
selves, at reasonable prices, with all refrefhments,
provisions and other things necessary for their suste
nance, health and accommodation, and for the repair
of their vcffels.
Art. 19. The vessels of war, publick and private, of
both parties, shall carry freely wheresoever they please,
the vessels and effects taken from their enemies, with
out being obliged to pay any duties, charges or fees to
officers of admiralty, of the customs or any others,
nor shall such prizes be arrefled, searched or put under
legal process when they come to, and enter the ports
of the other party, but may freely be carried out
again at any time by their captors to the places ex
pressed in their commissions, which the commanding
officer of such vessels shall be obliged to shew. But no
vessel which shall have made prizes on the fubjeCts of
his mod Christian Majesty the King of France, shall
have a right of asylum in the ports or havens of the
said United States ; and if any such be forced therein
by tempest or dangers of the sea, they shall be obliged
to depart as soon as possible, according to the tenor
of the treaties existing between his said Molt Chrifti
au Majesty and the said United States.
Art. 20. No citizen or fubjeCt of either of the con
trasting parties shall take from any power with which
the other may be at war, any commission or letter of
marque for arming any vessel to act as a privateer
against the other, on pain of being punished as a pi
rate; nor shall either party hire, lend, or giye any
part of their naval or military force to the enemy of
the other, to aid them offenfively or defenfively against
that other.
Art. 21. If the two contrasting parties should be
engaged in war against a common enemy, the follow
ing points shall be observed between them.
ift. If a vessel of one of the parties, re-taken by
a privateer of the other, shall not have been in posses
sion of the enemy more than twenty-four hours, the
shall be restored to the firft owner for one third of
the value of the vessel and cargo; but if she shall
have been more than twenty-four hours in possession
of the enemy, she shall belong wholly to the re-cap
tor. 2d. If in the fame case the re-capture were by a
publick vessel of war of the one party, restitution shall
be made to the owner for one thirtieth part of the
value of the vessel and cargo, if she shall not have
been in the possession of the enemy more than twenty
four hours, and one tenth of the said value where she
shall have been longer, which sums shall be difeributed
in gratuities to the re-captors. 3d. The restitution in
the cases aforefaid, shall be after due proof of pro
perty, and surety given for the part to which the re
captors are entitled. 4th. The vessels of war, publick
and private, of the two parties, shall be reciprocally
admitted with their prizes into the refpeCtive ports of
each : but the said prizes shall not be discharged nor
fold there, until their legality shall have been decided
according to the laws and regulations of the Rate to
which the captor belongs, but by the judicatures of
the place into which the prize shall have been con
duced. sth. It shall be free to each party to make
such regulations as they shall judge necessary for the
conduCt of their refpedive vessels of war, publick and
private, relative to the vessels which they shall take
and carry into the ports of the two parties.
Art. 22. Where the parties shall have a common
enemy, or shall both be neutral, the vessels of war of
each shall, upon all occasions, take under their protec
tion the vessels of the other going the fame course,
and shall defend such vessels as long as they hold the
fame course, against all force and violence, in the
fame manner as they ought to protect and defend ves
sels belonging to the party of which they are.
Art. 23. If war should arise between the two con
trading parties, the merchants of either country, then
residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine
months to collect their debts and fettle their affairs,
and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects,
without molestation or hindrance: And all women
and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of
the earth, artizans, manufacturers and fifhermcn un
armed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages or
places, and in general all others whole occupations
are for the common subsistence and benefit of man
kind, shall be allowed to continue their refpeCtive
employments, and shall not be molefled in their per
lons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt, or
otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wafted by the
armed force of the enemy, into whole power, by the
events of war, they may happen to fall; but if any
thing is necessary to be taken from them for the use
of such armed force, the fame shall be paid for at a
reasonable price. And all merchant and trading vessels
employed in exchanging the products of different places,
and thereby rendering the neceffarles, conveniencies
and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained,
and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and
unmolested, and neither of the contracting powers
shall grant or issue any commission to any private
armed vessels empowering them to take or destroy
such trading vessels, or interrupt such commerce.
Art. 24. And to prevent the deftrudion of prison
ers of war, by fending them into distant and inclement
countries, or by crowding them into close and noxi
ous places, the two contrasting parties lolemnly pledge'
themselves to each other, and to the world, that they
will not adopt any such practice; that neither will
fend the prisoners whom they may take from the other
into the Kalt-Indies, or any other parts of Alia or
Africa, but that they shall be placed in some part of
their dominions in Europe or America, in wholesome
situations, that they shall not be confined in dungeons,
prison-ships, nor prisons, nor be put into irons, nor
bound, nor otherwise restrained in the use of their
limbs; th^t the officers shall be enlarged on their pa
roles wit 1 convenient diftriCts, and have comfortable
quarters, and the common men be disposed in can
tonments, open and extensive enough for air and ex
ercise, and lodged in barracks as roomy and good as
are provided by the party in whose power they are for
their own troops; that the officers shall also be daily
furnifhed by the party in whose power they are, with
as many rations; and of the fame articles and quality
as are allowed by them, either in kind or by commu
tation, to officers of equal rank in their own army;
and all others shall be daily furnifhed by them with
such ration as they allow to a common foidier in their
own service ; the value whereof shall be paid by the
other party on a mutual adjustment of accounts for
the subsistence of prisoners at the close of the war;
and the said accounts shall not be mingled with, or set
off against any others, nor the balances due on them,
be with-held as a fatisfadion or reprisal for any other
article, or for any other cause, real or pretended, what
ever ; that each party shall be allowed to keep a com
miliary of prisoners of their own appointment, with
every separate cantonment of prisoners in poffeffon of
the other, which commissary shall fee the prisoners as
often as he pleases, shall be allowed to receive and dis
tribute whatever comforts may be sent to them by
their friends, and shall be free to make his reports in
open letters to those who employ him; but if any
officer shall break his parole, or any other prisoner
Iliail escape from the limits of his cantonment, after
they shall have been designated to him, such individual
officer or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the
benefit of this article as provides for his enlargement
on parole or cantonment. And it is declared, that
neither the pretence that war dissolves all treaties, nor
any other whatever, shall be considered as annulling
or suspending this and the next preceding article, but
on the contrary, that the state of war is precisely that
for which they are provided, and during which they
are to be as sacredly observed as the most acknowledg
ed articles in the law of nature or nations.
Art. 25. The two contrasting parties grant to each
other the liberty of having each in the ports of the
other, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Agents and Commiffa-I
ries of their own appointment, whose functions fhall'
be regulated by particular agreement whenever either
party shall clioofe to make such appointment; but is l
any such Consuls shall exercise commerce, they shall
be submitted to the fame laws and triages to which the
private individuals of their nation are submitted in the
fame place.
Art. 26. If either party shall hereafter grant to any
other nation, any particular favour in navigation or
commerce, it shall immediately become common to
the other party, freely, where it is freely granted, to
such other nation, or on yielding the compensation
where such nation does the lame.
Art. 27. His Majesty the King of Prussia, and the
United States of America, agree that this treaty shall
be in force during the term of ten years from the ex
change of ratifications, and if the expiration of that
term should happen during the course of a war be
tween them, then the articles before provided for the
regulation of their conduct during such a war, shall
continue in force until the conclusion of the treaty
which shall re-establish peace; and that this treaty '
shall be ratified on both sides, and the ratifications ex
changed within one year from the day of its fignaturc.
In testimony whereof, the Plenipotentiaries before
mentioned, have hereto fubferibed their names, and
affixed their seals, at the places of their reipettive re
sidence, and at the dates expressed under their several
signatures.
F. G. de Tbulemeir, a la Hague le 10 Septembre,
1785. (L. S.)
(L. S.) (L. S.) (L. S.)
Tho. Jefferfon. B. Franklin. John Adams.
Paris, July 28, Paffy, July 9, London, August 5,
1785. 1785. 1785.
NOW KNOW YE, That we the said United States
in Congress assembled, having conlidered and approved,
do hereby ratify and confirm the said treaty, and every
article and clause therein contained. In testimony
whereof, we have caused our seal to be hereunto
affixed. Witness the Hon. Nathaniel Gorham, our
Chairman in the absence of his Excellency John Han
cock, our President, the seventeenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord one thoufaud seven hundred and
eighty-fix, and of our independence and sovereignty,
the tenth.
On the question to agree to this ratification, it was
unanimously resolved in the affirmative.
Foreign Intelligence.
_LISB O N, April 12.
qrHE late robbery committed upon the Royal Trea-
I fury, becomes every day a more furious affair.
U T R E C H T, May 23.
The province of Zealand has delivered a very ex
traordinary relolution to the assembly of the Rates
general, the substance of which is as follows, viz.
" That the Rates of the province are always ready to
fulfil the duties impoled upon them by the rest of the
confederates, as long as they reciprocally enjoy the
rights and advantages stipulated by the union, which
feives as the basis of the constitution; but that the
principles of that union having been hurt by the re
iolutions of the .afiembly of generality, dated the 17th
day of February and ill of May last, relative to the
direction of the India company, they (the Rates of
Zealand) think they have a right to enforce the just
complaints which they made some time ago on that
fubjeCt, and in consequence they have thought proper
provisionally to limit to the 9th of September next
their consent to the expences brought to their charge
by the war department for the year 1786, and they
hope, that before the expiration of that time their
grievances will be redressed, and if not, the, /ball be
obliged to take other efficacious meafares, and do
jujiice to themselves.”
There is no doubt but the Riong exprefiions of the
above rcfolutions have given rife to the report, that
the province of Zealand absolutely intended to offer
the sovereignty to his Serene Highhefs the Prince
Stadtholder, authorized so to do by the example of
the Rates of Guelderland, who made a similar offer
to William 111. Ihe journey of the Stadtholder to
that province confirms many people in the above ideas;
but if the consequence of such a step are maturely
weighed, it will appear to be totally against the inte
rests both of the province and the prince to bring
about any such revolution.
LONDO N, May 20.
An old man, in the county of Durham, was affiid
ed about two years ago with a mortification in his
feet, so as to be confined to his chair for twelve
months or more, in the course of which he loft two
of his roes, his legs weie dreadfully swelled, so much
as made him be looked upon as incurable ; after try
ing various medicines to no visible effect, he was by
some means advised to eat honey in large quantities,
which he did, to the quantity of eight or nine pounds
a week; the consequence was, that in little more than
half a year, his legs returned to their natural state,
the mortification was flopped, and he is now able to
wear boots, and stir about business. It is not impro
bable, but that an equal mixture of honey and French
brandy applied outwardly to the parts affected, would
greatly forward the cure.---'l he above may be de
pended on as a fact.
A letter from Mahon fays, that there has been a
very smart engagement, within fight of that ganifon
between a Venetian man of war and an Algerine cor
sair, when, after an hour and a quarter's fighting, the
corsair was funk, and all the crew drowned. The
Venetian put in there to repair some damages, and
to get some relief for his wounded men.
According to the letters from France, their trade
to the coast of Africa, particularly to Senegal and
the gold coast, is increased in such a degree, that the
articles imported from thence in the course of the
lift year, 1785, paid in duty, in the out ports, amount
ing to upwards of 37,000). Gerling, exclude of what
V I E N N A,
^pril 29. A most atrocious murder was lately
committed in the diftrift of Piltzner. A butcher, in
passing through a wood, found an infant in'a cradle
suspended to a branch of a tree, with a note, requeu
ing whoever should find the child to be careful of it,
till circumßances should permit its parents to reclaim
it, and faying that 200 florins, left at the foot of the
tree, would provide for its maintenance, and that the
fame sum should be annually deposited there. After
pofi'efling hinifelf of the money, this monster of cru
elty murdered the child, and cutting the body into
pieces, gave them to be eaten by his two dogs. Hea
ven would not permit so horrid an ad to remain con
cealed. Upon the unnatural villain's flopping at the
next publick house, in the presence of many people,
the two dogs discharged all the bony parts of the in
nocent victim, as the lingers, teeth, &c. in consequence
of which the murderer was immediately seized and
secured in prison.
We are credibly informed, that the Ruffian am
bassador has announced, that a rupture between Ruf
ha and the Porte is on the eve of commencing. The
last courier from Constantinople brought such impor
tant despatches as occasioned a council of state ex
traordinary to be held, to which all her Majesty's
ministers were summoned. after the council was
broke up, a courier was dispatched to M. Bulgakow,
the Ruffian minister at Constantinople, with orders, it
is supposed, to return immediately, without taking
leave of the Grand Seignior, and us secretly as polii
ble.
The Treasurer-General, M. J. Henriquez de Souba,
was lately apprehended in his own house, on a charge
of being privy to the tranfadion.