ST AF Es PRAT. ES RS. 
‘between France and Spain by the 
treaty of peace concluded at Basle 
on the 4th Thermidor, and the 
third year of the republic, (July 
22, 1795) have resolved to form an 
offensive and deiensive treaty of 
‘alliance for whatever concerns the 
advantages and common defence 
of the two nations ; and they have 
charged with this important nego- 
tiation, and have given their full 
powers to the under-mentioned 
os namely the Executive 
irectory of the French republic to 
citizen Dominique Catherine Pe- 
rignon, general of division of the 
republic and its ambassador to his 
Catholic majesty the king of Spain ; 
and his Catholic majesty the king 
of Spain, to his excellency Don 
Manuel de Godoi, prince of peace, 
duke of Aicudia, &c. &c. &c. who, 
after the respective communication 
and exchange of ther full powers, 
have agreed on the following 
articles : ‘ 
Art. 1. There shall exist for ever 
an offensive and defensive alliance 
between the French republic and 
his Catholic majesty the king of 
Spain. 
2. The two contracting powers 
shall be mutual guarantees, with- 
out any reserve or exception, in the 
most authentic and absolute way, 
of all the states, territories, islands, 
and the places which they possess, 
and shall respectively possess. And 
if one of the two powers shall be 
in the sequel, under whatever pre- 
text itmay be, menaced orattacked, 
the other promises, ‘engages and 
binds itself to help it with its good 
offices, and to succour it on_ its 
requisition, as shall be stipulated in 
the following articles : 
3. Within the space of three 
months, reckoning from the mo- 
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ment of the requisition, the power 
called on shall hold in readiness, 
and place in the disposal of the 
power calling, 15 ships of the line, 
three of which shall be three 
deckers, or of 80 guns, twelve of 
from 70 to 72, six frigates of a 
proportionate force, and four sloops 
or light vessels, all equipped, 
armed, and victualled for six 
moriths and stored for a year. 
_These naval forces ‘shall be as- 
sembled by the power called on in 
the particular port pointed out by 
the power calling. 
4. In case the requiring power 
may have judged it proper for the 
commencement of hostilities to con- 
fine itself to the one-half thesuccour, 
which was to have been given in 
execution of the preceding article, 
it may, at any epoch of the cam- 
paign, call for the other half of 
the aforesaid succour, which shall 
be furnished in the mode and 
within the space fixed. The space 
of time to be reckoned from the 
new requisition. ; 
5. The power called on shall in 
the same way place at the disposal 
of the requiring power, within 
the space of three months, reckon- 
ing from the moment of the re- 
quisition, eighteen thousand, ine 
fantry, and six thousand cavalry 5 
with a proportidnate train of ar- 
tillery, to be readily employed in 
Europe, and for the defence of the 
colonies which the contracting 
powers possess in the Gulf of 
Mexico. 
_ 6. The requiring power shall be 
allowed to send one or several 
commissioners for the purpose of 
assuring itself whether conforma- 
bly to the preceding articles, the 
power called on has put itself in a 
state to commence hostilities on the 
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