36 A. D. 1713. 



nor accept any other advantage, either for himfelf or his fubjeds, in 

 commerce and navigation, whether in Spain or in the Spanifli In- 

 dies, belide that which he enjoyed during the reign of the late King 

 Charles II, or that fhall be likewife granted to every other trading na- 

 tion. 



By their proper treaty of commerce, navigation, and marine affairs 

 with France, (confifting of 44. articles, befide a feparate one,) which 

 was to laft for 25 years; the 9th article grants equal liberty to the 

 Dutch as to the fubjeds of France, to carry merchandize from the Le- 

 Tant to Marfeilles, as well by their own fhips as in French fhips, with- 

 out being fubjedl to the 20 per cent, unlefs in cafes where the French 

 themfelves are fubjedt to it. By the loth, the Dutch may freely im- 

 port faked herrings into France, without being liable to repackage. 

 By the 19th, contraband goods are defcribed to be all forts of fire-arms 

 and military ucenfils ; alfo faltpetre, horfes, faddles, holfters, belts, &c. 

 But by the 20th, wheat and other corn, pulfe, oil, wine, and fait, were 

 not to be deemed contraband goods, nor were any other things, in ge- 

 neral, which tended to the nourifhment of life, but fhall remain free, 

 as other merchandize, and may be tranfported even to enemies, except- 

 ing to towns actually befieged or blocked up. By the- 29th, privateers 

 fhall give 15,000 livres tournois, fecurity for their not committing dif- 

 orders, &c. 



The refl of the articles relate to a multitude of points ufual in all 

 other treaties of commerce, concerning mutual liberty of commerce, 

 reception in their ports, captures, contraband goods, tolls, damages, 

 fearching fhips for contraband goods, arrefls, impofts, pafTports, goods 

 belonging to either party found in enemies fhips, feizures, &c. and 

 therefor needlefs to be particularized. But the feparate article flipu- 

 lates, ' that the impofition of 50 fols per ton, laid in France upon the 

 ' fhips of foreigners, fliall entirely ceafe for the future with refped: to 

 ' all Dutch fhips arriving in France, either loaded or in ballafi ; except- 

 ' ing only in one particular cafe, viz. when Dutch fliips fhall load mer- 

 ' chandize in one port of France, and tranfport them to another port 

 ' of France to unload them.' 



In July 1713, there was a temporary or provifional contradi figned 

 at Utrecht between Great Britain and the ftatcs-general, refpeding the 

 commerce of tlie Spanifh Netherlands, now unnecefUxry to be fpecifi- 

 ed. 



To conclude all that relates to the famous grand alliance againfi: 

 France, the Britifh miniftry, by their feparate peace, having left and 

 abandoned the emperor and empire to fliitt for themfelves, it was eafy 

 to guefs thev would not long hold out againll the power of France and 

 Spain. The emperor, therefor, for himfelf, in March 1714, (N. S.) 

 concluded, at Rafladt, a peace with France (the French king being em- 



