32 A. D. 1715. 



* Great Britain engages to endeavour to give afliftance to the Spaniards, 



* that the antient limits of their dominions in the Weft-Indies be 



* reftored and fettled as they flood in the time of the catholic king, 



* Charles TI.' 



Article X) ' That all and fingular the fubjeds of each kingdom of 



* Great Britain and Spain, (hall, in all countries and places, on both 



* fides, have and enjoy, at leaft, the fame privileges, liberties, and im- 

 ' munities, as to all duties, impofitions, or cuftoms whatfoever, relating 



* to peribns, goods, and merchandize, fliips, freight, feamen, navigation,. 

 ' and commerce ; and fhall have the like favour in all things as the fub- 

 ' jedls of France or of any other foreign nation the moft favoured, have, 



' pofTefs, or enjoy.' 



By the faid tenth article, Spain yielded for ever to the Britifh crown 

 the full and entire property of the town, port, and caftle of Gibraltar, 

 ' but without any territorial jurifdidion, or any open communication 

 ' by land with the country round about ; whereby abufes and frauds 

 ' may be avoided by importing any kind of goods : yet, as the com- 

 ' munication by fea with the coaft of Spain may not at all times be 

 ' fafe and open, and thereby it may happen that the ganifon and other 



* inhabitants may be brought to great ftraits ; and as it is the intention 

 ' of the catholic king, that only fraudulent importations of goods fhould 



* be hindered by an inland communication ; it was therefor now provid- 



* ed, that in fuch cafes it may be lawful to purchafe, for ready money, in 

 ' the neighbouring territories of Spain, provifions, &c. for the ufc of the 



* garrifon, fo as no merchandize be imported by Gibraltar into Spain ; 

 ' otherwife they fhall be conflfcated.' We may here, however, obferve, 

 that had Gibraltar had a fmall territory annexed to it on the land fide, 

 the Spaniards could not have fince eredled the fort on the ifthmus, fo 

 near the town, as to prove fome obftruftion to fhips from anchoring in. 

 time of war farther up the bay. 



The eleventh article with Spain yields to the Britifh crown the pro- 

 perty of the ifland of Minorca, with the port and forts of Port Mahon, 

 for ever. 



But with refped to Gibraltar and Minorca it was exprefsly ftipulated, 



* that in cafe it fhall feem meet hereafter to the crown of Great Britain 



* to grant, fell, or alienate, the propriety of either, the preference of 

 ' having the fame fliall always be given to- the ci?own of Spain before 

 ' afny others.' 



The twelfth article grants ' to her Britannic majefly, and to the com- 



* pany of her fubjedls appointed for that purpofe (the South-fea com- 



* pany) as well the fubjeds of Spain as all others being excluded, the 

 ' contrad for introducing negroes into feveral parts of the dominions 

 ' of his catholic majefty in America (commonly called, EI pnilo de elaffiento 



* de negros) at the rate of 4,800 negroes yearly for the fpace of 30 years 



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