38 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Sept. I4. 



the beft v/ay of attainin,^ this falutary obje<5t, would be that o 

 an amicable arranerement, which, fetting afide all retrofpciftiv 

 difciffion of the rights and pretenlions of the two parties, (houl* 

 fix their refpedtive fituations, for the future, on a bafis conform 

 able to their true interefts, as well as to the mutual defire witl 

 which their faid Majefties are animated, of cftablilhing wLtl 

 each othe'« in every thing, and in everv place, the moft perfe^ 

 friendfiiip, harmony, and good correfpondence. In this viev 

 they have named and conilituted for their plenipotentiaries, viz 

 on the part of his Britannic Majefly, Alleyne Fitzherbert, Efq 

 one of his faid Majefty's Privy Council in Great Britain and Ire 

 land, and his AmbafTddor extraordinary and plenipotentiary t( 

 his Catholic Majefty ; and, on the part of his Catholic Majefty 

 Don Jofeph Monino, Count of floiida BJanca, Knight, Granc 

 Crofs of the Royal Sparifh order of Chsries III. Counfellor o 

 State to his faid Majefty, and his principal Secretary of State, 

 and of the difpatches ; who, after having communicated to eacJ 

 other their refpedive full powers, have agreed upon the follow- 

 ing articles: , -> 



Article I. It is agreed that the buildings and tracks of land, 

 fituated on the north-weft coaft of the continent of North Ame- 

 rica, or on iflands adjacent to that continent, of which the fub- 

 je<fls of his Britannic Majefty were difpoflefled, about the month 

 of April 1789, by a Spanifli officer, Ihall be reftored to the faid 

 Britifh fubjefts. 



Article 11. And farther, that a juft reparation fliall be made, 

 according to the nature of the cafe, for all adts of violence or 

 hoftility, which may have been committed, fubfequent to the 

 month of April i7S9,by the fubjefts of either of the contract- 

 ing parties againlt the fiibjedts of the other ; and that, in cafe 

 any of the faid refpedive fnbjeds (hall, fince the fame period, 

 have been forcibly difpoflefled of their lands, buildings, veflels, 

 merchandize, or other property whatever, on the faid continent, 

 or on the feas cr iflands adjacent, they fhall be re-eftablilhed in 

 the pniTeflion thereof; or a juft compenfation fhall be made to 

 them for the loffes which they ftiall have fuftained. 



Article III. And, in order to ftrengthen the bonds of firiend- 

 fliip, and to preferve, in future, a perfedl harmony and good 

 underftanding between the two contiading parties, it is agreed, 

 that their refpedive fubjeds (hall not be difturbed or molefted, 

 either in navigation or carrying on their ftfheries in the Pacific 

 Ocean, or in the South Seas, or in landing on the coafts of thofe 

 feas, in places not already occupied, for the purpofe of carrying 

 on their commerce with the natives of the country, or of mak- 

 ing fettlements there : the whole fubjtd, neverthelefs, to the 

 reftridions ai'.d provilions fpecified in the three following 

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