Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-04-18
ALEXANDRIA.
TRADE WITH SPAIN.

are likely to take their ancient course.
we think proper for the information OF
those of our citizens, who may wish to
trade with that country topresent them
the following article of the treaty of
friendship, limits and NAVIGATION signed
At St. Lorenzo inthe year 1895.
Art. XVI. TIL liberty of NAVIGATION
,,dromnerce, Shall extend to all kinds
uerelsnili7c, excepting those only,
mich are ti lTIsssi nguished by the name of
eontra bSiaI:sAnd under this name of
contraband or prohibited goods, shall be
compreheaded arms. great guns, bombs.
With the fasees and other things, belong
;nr to ffeln, cannon-ball, gun-powder,
matches.G pixies, swords, lances. spears.
haIberas, mortars, petards. grenades, salt
ratre. imuskets, musket-balls, bucklers.
helmets. breast-psates, coats OF mail, and
the ike kind Of arms, proper7for arming
sNa;ers. musket-rests, belts, horses with
t,.1r furniture, and all other warlike In.
struments whatever. Tie merchandise
which fellow, shall not be reckoned a.
mong contraband or prohibited goods
That's to say. all sorts of cloths, and all
o,her manufactures woven of any wool,
fax. silk, cotton, or any other materials
shstever; al, kinds of wearing apparel.
together with all species whereof they are
used to be made; gold and silver, as well
coined as uncoined, tic, iron, iatten, cop
psr, brass, coal ;as also wheat, barley and
cats. and any kind of corn and pulse:
tobacco, and likewise all manner of
SPICES. saited and smoked flesh, salted
fish, cheese and butter, beer, ellis. wines,
sugars, and all sorts of salts: and in ge-
neral all provisions which serve for the
sustenance Of life. Furthermore, all
kinds Of cotton, hemp, fax, tar, pitch,
ropes, cables, sails, sail-cloths, anchors.
and any parts of anchors. also
ship masts, plarks and wood Of all kinds,
and other things proper either for bnilti-
Ing orreraring ships and all other goods
whatever, which have not been worked
into the form of any instrument prepared
foraar, by land or by sea, shall not be
reputed eontraband, much less, such as
have been Already wrought and made Ip
!. Tor any other use; all which shall be reck-
oaed among free goods; as likewise all
other merchandise and things which are
notcompgehended and particularly men
toned in the foregoing enumeration Of
coatraoand goods, so that they may be
transported and carried in the freest.
manner by the subjects of both parties,
even to places belonging to an enemy,
sachtowns OF places being only excepted,
as are at that time besieged, blockaded
o. invested. And except the cases in
which any ship of war, or squadron shall
IN consequence of storms or other acct
dents at sea, be under the necessity OF
taking the cargo of any trading vessel or
vessels, in which case they may step TIE
said vessel or vessels, and furnish them
selves with necessaries, giving a recent
IN order that the power to whom the said
ship ofwar belongs, may pay for the ar
ticles SO taken, according to the price
therof, at the port to which they may an
pear to have been destined by the ships
papers: aud the two contracting parties
engage, that the vessels shall not be de-
tanned longer than mar be absolutely ne
cessary for their said ships to supply
themselves with necessaries: That they
viii Immediately pay the value Of their
REGENTS, and indemnify the proprietor for
ali losses which he may have sustained in
consequence Of such transaction.
A rscapitulation of the British loss at
n. orleans, amounting to 4,550, is given
III the Canadian papers without comment.
4 writer in tie Montreal Herald re-
ceaneads, as measure OF future security
ssSnnstlnyasiOn, s that along the whole
iShCer o. Lower Canada, bordering upon
TIE States, there should be depth Of ten
Q hiies at least purchased and laid waste"
~, Along the interior side Of that range
10 ie, there bea close settlement of discharg-
s'Soidiers, or other persons of approved
lo5aity. Thus would be formed as it
we're, a rampant against exterior attack,
: ana garrison to defend that rampant
uhlt assistance could be brought from a
greater distance The writer also de-
sains against permitting natives Of the
e'elS. to settle in the Canadas.
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.