TREATIES 



CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN. SIGNED 

 AT THE ESCURIAL, OCTOBER 28, 1790. 



[Tran.slation, as laid before Parliaiueut.] 



Their Britannic and Catholic Majesties, being desirous of terminat- 

 ing, by a speedy and solid agreement, the difterences which have lately 

 arisen between the two Crowns, have judged that the best way of at- 

 taining this salutary object would be that of an amicable arrangement, 

 which, setting aside all retrospective discussion of the rights and pre- 

 tensions of the tAvo parties, should fix tlieir respective situation for the 

 futnre on a basis conformable to their true interests, as well as to the 

 mutual desire with which their said Majesties are animated, of estab- 

 lishiug with each other, in everything and in all places, the most per- 

 fect friiMulship, harmony and good correspondence. In tliis view they 

 have named and constituted for their Plenipotentiaries; to wit, on the 

 part of His Britannic Majesty, Alleyne Fitzherbert, Esi}., one of His 

 said Majesty's Privy Conncil, in Great Britain and Ireland, and His 

 Ambassador Extraordinary aud Plenipotentiary to His Catholic Maj- 

 esty; and, on the part of His Catholic Majesty, ])oi! Jose])h Moniuio, 

 Count of Floridaldanca, Knight Grand Cross of tlie Royal Spauish 

 Order of Charles HI., Councillor of State to His said JMajesty, and His 

 Principal Secretary of State, and of the I)isi)atches: who, alter having 

 communicated to each other their respective fidl Powers, have agreed 

 upon the following articles: 



I. It is agreed that the buildings aud tracts of land, situated on the 

 north-west coast of the continent of North America, or on Islands ad- 

 jacent to that continent, of which the subjects of His Britannic Majesty 

 were disi)0ssessed, about the month of April, 1789, by a S])anish oliicer, 

 shall be restored to the said British subjects. 



II. And further, that ai just reparation shall be made, according to 

 the nature of the case, for all acts of violence or hostility, which may 

 have been committed, subsequent to the month of April, ITS'J, by the 

 subjects of either of the Contracting Parties against the subjects of the 

 other; and tliat, in case any of the said resi)ective subjects shall, since 

 the same period, have been forcibly dispossed of their lands, buildings, 

 vessels, merchandize, or other property, whatever, on the said continent, 

 or on the seas or ishiiuls adjacent, they shall be re-established in the 

 possession thereof, or a just compensation shall be made to them for the 

 losses which they shall have sustained. 



III. And, in order to strengthen the bonds of friendshi]), and to pre- 

 serve in future Ui perfect hann()ny and good umlerstaiuling l)etween the 

 two Contracting Parties, it is agreed that their resix'ctive subjects shall 

 not be disturbed or molested, either in uaNigatiug or carrying on their 



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