STATE PAPER S. 
efpective courts of juftice; fo that 
the legality of the faid prizes and 
feizures fhall be decided according 
to the law of natiors, and to trea- 
ties, in the courts of juftice of the 
nation which fhall have made the 
eapture, or ordered the feizures. 
And, in order to prevent ail caufes 
ef complaint and difpute whicl 
may arife on account of prizes 
which may be made at fea after the 
figning of this treaty, it is recipro- 
cally agreed, that the veffeis and 
effeéis which may be taken in the 
Britifh Channeland in the North 
Seas, after the {pace of twelvedays, 
to be computed from the exchange 
of the ratifications of this treaty, 
fhall be reftored on each fide: — 
that the term fhall be one month 
from the Britifh Channel and the 
North Seas, as far as the Canary 
Hlands inclufively, whether in the 
ocean or in the Mediterranean: 
two months from the faid Canary 
Iflands as far as the eguinoétial line 
or equator: — three months from 
the equator to any part to the weft- 
ward of the Cape of Good Hope 
and the eaftward of Cape Horn:— 
and laftiy, five months in all other 
parts of the world, without anv ex- 
ception, or any more particular 
defcription of time or place. 
XII. —The allies of the two par- 
ties, that is to fay, her Moft Faith- 
ful Majefty as ally of his Britannic 
Majefty, and his Catholic Majefty 
and the Batavian Republic as allies 
of the French Republic, fhail be 
invited by the two contracting par- 
ties to accede to this peace on the 
terms and conditions fpecified in 
the three following articles; the 
execution of which the faid two 
eontracting parties reciprocally gva- 
rantee to each other, being thereto 
refpectively authorized by their a- 
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bove-mentioned allies: — And the 
two contra¢ting parties further 
agree, that if their allies refpective- 
ly fhall not have fo acceded within 
the {pace of two months after the 
exchange of the ratifications of this 
treaty, the party fo refufing to ac- 
cede, fhall not receive from its ally 
vay aid or fuccour of any nature 
during the further continuance of 
the war. 
XIII]. — His Britannic Majefty 
engages to conclude a definitive 
peace with his Catholic Majefty on 
the footing’of the ftate of poffef- 
fion before the war, with the ex~ 
ception of 
which fha!ll remain in full foves 
reignty to his Britannic Majefty. 
XIV.—His Britannic Majcity in 
like manner engages to conclude a 
definitive peace with the Baiavian 
Republic on the fame footing of 
the ftate of pofieffion before the 
war, with the exception of 
which fhalk 
remain to his Britannic Majefty in 
full fovereignty, and of 
which fhall be ceded to his Majefty 
in exchange for 
In confideration of thefe reftitu- 
tions, to be hereby made by his 
Britannic Majefty, all property be- 
longing to the Prince of Orange, 
in the month of December 1794, 
and which has been feized and con- 
fifeated fince that period, fhall be 
reftored to him, or a full equivalent 
in money given him for the fame. 
And the French Republic further 
engages to procure for him, at the 
general peace, an adequate com- 
penfation for the lofs of his offices 
and dignities in the United Pro- 
vinces; and the perfons who have 
been imprifoned or banifhed, or 
whofe property has been fequefter- 
ed or confifcated in the faid re- 
public, 
