STATE PAPERS: 
Shall find itself attacked may treat 
for peace separately, but so as that 
no prejudice may result from thence 
tothe auxiliary power, and that it 
may even turn as much as_ possible 
toits direct advantage, For this 
purpose advice shall be given to the 
auxiliary power of the mode and 
time agreed on for the opening and 
sequel of the negotiations. 
15. Without any delay there 
shall be concluded atreaty of com- 
merce on the most equitable basis, 
and reciprocally advantageous to 
the two nations, which shall secure 
to each of them, with its ally, a 
marked preference for the preduc- 
tions of its soil or manufactures, . 
or at least advantages cqual to 
those which the most favoured na- 
tions enjoy in their respective states. 
The two powers engage to make 
instantly a common cause to repress 
and annihilate the maxims adopted 
by any country whatever, which 
may be subversive of their present 
principles, and which may bring 
into danger the safety of the neu- 
tral flag, and the respect which is 
due to it, as well as to raise and 
re-establish the colonial system of 
Spain on the footing on which it 
has subsisted, or ought to subsist, 
confermably to treaties. 
16. The character and juris« 
diction of the consuls shall be at the 
same time recognized and regulated 
bya particular convention. Those 
anterior to the present treaty shall 
be provisionally executed. 
17. To avoid every dispute be- 
tween the two powers, they shal] 
be bound to employ themselves im- 
mediately, and without delay, in 
the explanation and developement 
of the 7th article of the treaty of 
Basle, concerning the frontiers 
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conformable to the instructions, 
plans; and memoirs, which shall 
be communicated through the mes 
dium of the plenipotentiaries who 
negotiate the present treaty. 
18. England, being the only 
power against which Spain has 
direct grievances, the present alli- 
auce shall not be executed unless 
against her during the present war $ 
and Spain shall remain neuter with 
respect to the other powers armed 
against the republic. 
19, The ratifications of the pre- 
sent treaty shall be exchanged 
within a month from the date of 
its being signed. 
Done at IIldephortso, 2 Fructidor, 
(Aug. 19) the 4th year of the 
French republic, one and in- 
divisible. 
(Signed) Prrienon, and the 
PRINCE of PEACE. 
The executive directory resolves 
on and signs the present offensive 
and defensive treaty of alliance with 
his Catholic majesty the king of 
Spain, negotiated in the mame of 
the French republic by citizen Do- 
minique Catherine Perignon, ge- 
neral of division, founded on 
powers to that effect by a resolution 
of the executive directory, dated 
® Messidor, (Sept. 6) and charged 
with its instructions. 
Done at the National Palace of 
the Executive Directory, the 
fourth year of the French re- 
public, one and indivisible. 
Conformable to the original.’ 
(Signed) 
Revercirere Lepeaux, presi. 
By the Executive Directory, 
Lacarpe, secretary general. 
This treaty was ratified on the 
26 Fructidor, (Sept. 12) by the 
Council of Elders. 
Q4 Treaty 
