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.amity, and a strict alliance during 

 France ; together 



against 



the war 



with an entire and lasting oblivion 

 of all acts of hostility done on their 

 side, and in the course of the late 

 wars, in which they have been en- 

 gaged against eacli other. 



2. To obviate all complaints and 

 disputes which might arise on the 

 subjectof prizes, captured posterior 

 to the declaration published by his 

 Britannic majesty, on the 4th of 

 July, of the last year, it has been 

 mutually agreed, that the vessels 

 and property taken posterior to the 

 date of the said declaration, in any 

 seas or ports of the world, without 

 any exceptions, and without any re- 

 gard either to time or place, shall 

 be restored by both parties. And 

 as the accidental occupation of any 

 of the ports of the peninsula by the 

 common enemy might occasion dis- 

 putes respecting any vessels, which, 

 in ignorance of such occupation, 

 might direct their course to those 

 ports from any other harbour, ei- 

 ther of the peninsula or the colo- 

 nies; and as cases may occur in 

 which Spanish inhabitants of the 

 said ports or provinces, so occupied 

 by the enemy, may, with their pro- 

 perty, endeavour to escape from 

 his grasp ; the high contracting 

 parties have agreed that Spanish 

 vessels, not aware of the enemy's 

 occupation of any harbour which 

 they are desirous to enter, or such 

 as may succeed in making their es- 

 cape from any harbour so occupied, 

 shall not be captured, nor them- 

 selves nor their cargo be considered 

 as a good prize ; but, on the con- 

 trary, that they shall meet with 

 every help and assistance from the 

 jiaval power of his Britannic ma- 

 jesty. 



3. His Britannic majesty engages 



to continue to assist, to the utmost 

 of his power, the Spanish nation in 

 their struggle against the tyranny 

 and usurpation of France, and pro- 

 mises not to acknowledge any other 

 king of Spain, and of the Indies 

 thereunto appertaining, than liis ca- 

 tholic majesty Ferdinand VII. his 

 lieirs, or such lawful successor as 

 the Spanish nation shall acknow- 

 ledge; and the Spanish government 

 in the name and on the behalf of 

 his catholic inajesty Ferdinand VII. 

 engages never, in any case, to cede 

 to France any part of the territories 

 or possessions of the Spanish mo- 

 narchy, in any part of the world. 



4. The high contracting parties 

 agree to make common cause 

 against France; and not to make 

 peace with that power except by 

 common consent. 



5. The present treaty shall be 

 ratified by both parties, and the 

 exchange of the ratifications shall 

 be made in the space of 2 months 

 or sooner (if it can be done), in 

 London. 



In witness whereof, we, the under- 

 signed plenipotentiaries, have 

 signed, in virtue of our respective 

 full powers, the present treaty of 

 peace, friendship, and alliance, 

 and have sealed it with the seals 

 of our arms. 



iL. S.) George Canning. 

 L. S.) Juan Ruiz deApodaca. 



Art. 1. Separate. — The Spanish 

 government engages to take the 

 most effectual measures for the pre- 

 venting of the Spanish squadrons in 

 all the ports of Spain, as well as of 

 the French squadron, taken in the 

 month of June, and now in the har- 

 bour of Cadiz, from falling into the 

 power of France. For which pur- 

 pose his Britannic majesty engages 



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