298 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



niissary shall see the prisoners as 

 often as he pleases; shall be al- 

 lowed to receive and distribute 

 whatever comforts may be sent to 

 them by their friends; and shall be 

 free to make his reports in open 

 letters to those who employ him ; 

 but if any officer shall break his 

 parole, or any other prisoner shall 

 escape from the limits of his can- 

 tonment, after they have been de- 

 signated to him, such individual 

 officer or other prisoner shall for- 

 feit so much of the benefit of this 

 article as provides for his enlarge- 

 ment on parole or cantonment. 

 And it is declared, that neither the 

 pretence that war dissolves all 

 treaties, nor any other whatever, 

 shall be considered as annulling or 

 suspending this and the next pre- 

 ceding article; but on the con- 

 trary, that the state of war is pre- 

 cisely that for which they are pro- 

 vided, and during which they are 

 to be as sacredly observed as the 

 most acknowledged articles in the 

 law of nature and of nations. 



Art. 25. The two contracting 

 parties have granted to each other 

 the liberty of having each in the 

 ports of the other, consuls, vice- 

 consuls, agents, and commissaries, 

 of their own appointment, who 

 shall enjoy the same privileges and 

 powers as those of the most fa- 

 voured nations. But if any such 

 consuls shall exercise commerce, 

 they shall be submitted to the same 

 laws and usages to which the pri- 

 vate individuals of their nation are 

 submitted in the same place. 



Art. 26. If either party shall 

 hereafter grant to any other nation 

 any particular favour in navigation 

 or commerce, it shrill immediately 

 become common to the other party, 

 freely, where it is freely granted to 



such other nation, or on yielding 

 the same compensation when the 

 grant is conditional. 



Art. 27. His majesty the king of 

 Prussia and the United States of 

 America agree, that this treaty shall 

 be in force during the term of ten 

 years from the exchange of the rati- 

 fications; and if the expiration of 

 that term should happen during the 

 course of a war between them, then 

 the articles before provided for the 

 regulation of their conduct during 

 such war, shall continue in force 

 until the conclusion of the treaty 

 which shall restore peace. 



This treaty shall be ratified on 

 both sides, and the ratification ex- 

 changed within one year from the 

 day of its signature, or sooner if 

 possible. 



In testimony whereof the pleni- 

 potentiaries, before mentioned, 

 have hereto subscribed their 

 names and affixed their seals. 

 Done at Berlin, July 11, 1799- 

 (L. S.) Charles Guillaume 



comte deFinkenstein. 

 (L. S.) Philippe Charles d'Al- 



vensleben. 

 (L. S.) Chretien Henri Curte 



comte d'Haugwitz. 

 (L. S.) John Quincy Adams. 



Speech of the President of the United 

 States of America, on the Meeting 

 of both Houses of Congress, in the 

 Senate Chamber, at Washington, 

 on the 22nd of November. 



Gentlemen of the senate, and 

 gentlemen of the house of 

 representatives. 



IMMEDIATELY after the ad- 

 journment of congress, at their 

 last session in Philadelphia, I gave 

 directions, in compliance with the 



