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nation; and the decifion of the faid , 
commiffioners fhall be binding, and 
without appeal. 
_ XIX. — His Britannic Majefty 
and the French Republic promile 
to obferve fincerely, and bona fide, 
all the articles contained and eftab- 
lifhed in the prefent treaty; and 
they will not fuffer the fame to be 
infringed, direétly or indire¢tly, by 
their refpective fubjeéts; and the 
faid contracting parties guarantee to 
each other, generally and recipro- 
cally, all the itipulations of the pre- 
fent treaty. 
XX.—The folemn ratifications 
of the prefent treaty, prepared in 
good and due form, {hall be ex- 
changed in 
between the contracting parties, 
in the {pace of a month, or fooner, 
if poflible, to be computed from the 
day of the fignature of the prefent 
treaty. 
In witnefs whereof, &c. &c. 
No. 14. (B.) 
Note from Lord Malmefbury to the French 
Plenipotentiaries. 
THE. Minifter Plenipotentiary of 
his Britannic Majefty has the ho- 
nour.of prefenting to the Minifters 
Plenipotentiary of the French Re- 
public, in confequence of the with 
exprefied by them in the confer- 
ence of this morning, the following 
noie: which. he requefts them at 
ihe fame time to confider, not fo 
much in the light of an official pa- 
per as of a verbal and confidential 
communication, and as a proof of 
Ris readinefs to facilitate the pro- 
grefs of the negotiation, by giving 
them, on the very outfet,all the ex- 
planations in his power.on the /ro- 
get of the treaty which he’ has deli- 
vered to them. 
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If, as the Minifters Plenipoten- 
tiary of the French Republic have 
affured him, it is contrary to’ their 
moft pofitive inftructions to enter 
into any difcuffion relative to the 
ceflion of thofe poffeflions which 
belonged to France before the war, 
it is ufelefs to dwell on the VIth 
article, fince the compenfations 
which his Britannic Majefty might 
have demanded by that article, in 
return for the reftitutions which he 
is difpofed to make for the re-eftab- 
lifhment of peace, muft, in confe- 
quence of this declaration, be fought 
for in the ceffions to be made b 
his Catholic Majefty and the Bata- 
vian Republic. ; 
Lord Malmefbury therefore pro- 
pofes to infert in the XIIIth arti- 
cle, after the words /fatws ante bel- 
lum, the following words: “ With 
the exception of the ifland of Tri- 
nidad, which fhall remain in full 
poffeffion to his Britannic Ma- 
jelty.” ; 
Lord Malmefbury imagines that 
it is'unneceflary for him to repeat 
the reafons which induce him to 
infift upon the retaining of this con- 
que{t, unlefs compentation fhould 
be made for it by fome other cef- 
fion which fhall balance the aug- | 
mentation of power accruing to 
France, from the acquifition otf the 
Spanith part of St. Domingo, 
With regard to the XIVth arti- 
cle, Lord Malmefbury propofes, 
that after the words fratus ante Lel- 
lum, fhould besadded, ** With the 
exception of the town, fort, and 
eftablifhment of the Cape of Good 
Hope, and of the poffeffions which 
belonged to the, Dutch before. the 
war in the ifland of Ceylon, and of 
the town and fort of Cochin, which 
fhall be ceded to his Britannic Ma- 
jefty in exchange for),the,town of 
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