Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-12-21
THE SPANISH TREATY.


The following is a copy of the Treaty agreed up
on at Washington in February last, and which
has been the subject of such general excitement.
TREATY OF AMITY, SETTLEMENT AND
LIMITS, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA AND HIS CATHOLIC MA
JEsTY.
The United States of America, and his
Catholic Majesty. desiring TO consolidate,
on permanent basis, the friendship aud
good correspondence which happily pre-
walls between the two parties, have de-
termined TO settle and terminate all their
differences and pretensions, by treaty,
which shall designate, with precision, the
limits Of their respective bordering terri
tories, 10 North. America.
With this intention, the President OF
the United States has furnished with their
full powers John Quincy Adams, Score
llary of State of the said U. States; and
his Catholic Majesty has appointed the
nest excellent Lord Don Louis dc Gels
Gonsalez Lopez y Vara, Lord Of the
town OF Rayaces, Perpetual Regidor Of
the Corporation Of the City Of Salamanca,
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Ameri-
can Order of Isabella the Catholic, deco.
rated with the Lys cf La Vendee, Knight
Pensioner of the Royal and distinguished
Spanish Order of Charles the Third,
Member Of the Supreme Assembly of the
said Royal Order, of the Counsel Of his
Catholic Majesty, his Secretary with ex-
ercise OF DEGREES, and his Envoy Extra
Ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
near the United States OF America.
And the said Plenipotentiaries, after
having exchanged their powers, have
agreed upon and concluded the following
articles:
Article /. There shall be firm and
inviolable peace and sincere friendship,
between the United States and their citi.
zens, and his Catholic Majesty, his sue
cessors, and subjects, without exception
of persons or places.
Art. 2. His Catholic Majesty cedes to
the United States, in full property and
sovereignty, all the territories which be-
long TO him, situated to the eastward Of
the Mississippi, known by the name OF
East and West Florida. The adjacent
islands, dependant on said provinces, all
public lots and squares, vacant lands, pub
lie edifices, Notifications, barracks, aud
other buildings, which are not private
property, archives and documents, which
relate directly to the property and sove-
reignty Of said provinces, are included in
this article. The said archives and docu-
ments shall be left in possession of the
commissaries, or officers of the United
States, duly Authorised to receive them.
Art. g. The boundary line between the
two countries, west of the Mississippi,
shall begin on the Gulf of Mexico, at the
mouth Of the river Sabine, in the sea,
continuing north, along the western bank
of that river, to the SD degree Of latitude;
thence, by line due north, to the degree
of latitude where it strikes the Rio Roxo,
of N atchitociles, or Red River; then fol-
lowing the course Of the Rio Roxo, west
ward, to the degree Of longitude 100 west
from London, and % from Washington;
then, crossing the said Red River, and
running thence, by line due north, to the
river Arkansas; thence, following the
course of the southern bank of the Arkan-
sas, to its source, in latitude AZ north;
and thence, by that parallel Of latitude, to
the South Sea. The whole being as laid
downin Melish's map Of the United States,
published at Philadelphia, improved to
the lst of January, 1918. But, if the
source of the Arkansas river shall be
found to fall north or south Of latitude AZ,