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duties by the States on the Banks, 

 in the manner most equal and fa- 

 vourable to the commerce of all 

 nations. 



It shall be also inquired and as- 

 certained at the same Con^jress, 

 in what mode, for the purposes of 

 more facile communication, and 

 rendering nations continually less 

 strangers to each other, this dis- 

 position may be extended to all 

 rivers that in their navigable course 

 separate or traverse different States. 



Art. VI. Holland, placed under 

 the sovereignty of the House of 

 Orange, shall receive an increase 

 of territory. The title, and the 

 exercise of its sovereignty, cannot, 

 under any circumstance, belong- to 

 a Prince wearing or designated to 

 wear a foreign crown. 



The German States shall be in- 

 dependent, and united by a fede- 

 rative league. 



Independent Switzerland shall 

 continue under its own Govern- 

 ment. Italy, without the limits 

 of the countries which shall return 

 to Austria, shall be composed of 

 Sovereign States. 



Art. VII. The Island of Malta 

 and its dependencies shall belong, 

 in full possession and sovereignty, 

 to his Britannic Majesty, 



Art. VIII. His Britannic Ma- 

 jesty, stipulating for himself and 

 his Allies, engages to restore to his 

 most Christian Majesty, within 

 periods afterwards to be fixed, the 

 colonies, fisheries, factories, and 

 establishments of every kind which 

 France possessed on the 1st of 

 January, 1792, in the seas or oh 

 the continents of America, Africa, 

 and Asia, with the exception, ne- 

 vertheless, of the islands of To- 

 bago, St. Lucia, and the Isle of 

 France and its dependencies, 



namely, Rodrigueand theSechelles, 

 all which his most Christian Ma- 

 jesty cedes in full property and so- 

 vereignty to his Britannic Majesty, 

 as al»o that part of St. Domingo 

 ceded to France by the peace of 

 Basle, and which his most Chris- 

 tian Majesty, retrocedes to his Ca- 

 tholic Majesty, in full property 

 and sovereignty. 



Art. IX. His Majesty the King 

 of Sweden and Norway, in con- 

 sequence of arrangements entered 

 into with his allies, and for the 

 execution of the preceding Article, 

 consents that the island of Gua- 

 daloupe be restored to his most 

 Christian Majesty, and cedes all 

 the rights which he might have to 

 that island. 



Art. X. His most Faithful Ma- 

 jesty, in consequence of arrange- 

 ments entered into with his Allies, 

 engages to restore to his most 

 Christian Majesty, within a period 

 hereafter fixed, French Guyana, 

 such as it was on the 1st January, 

 1792. 



The effect of the above stipula- 

 tion being to x'evive the dispute 

 existing at that period as to limits, 

 it is agreed that the said dispute 

 shall be terminated by an amicable 

 arrangement, under the mediation 

 of his Britannic Majesty. 



Art. XI. The fortresses and forts 

 existing in the colonies to be re- 

 stored to his most Christian Ma- 

 jesty, in virtue of Articles VIII. 

 IX. and X. shall be given up in 

 the state in which they shall be at 

 the time of the signature of the 

 present treaty. 



Art. XII. His Britannic Majesty 

 engages to cause the subjects of 

 his most Christian Majesty to 

 enjoy, in regard to commerce and 

 the security of their persons and 



