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Article IV) ' For the entire deflrudion of the port of Dunkirk: the 



* great paflage of the new fluice of Mardyke, which is 44 feet wide, 

 ' fhall be demolifhed from top to bottom, and the Httle fluice (hall be 



* reduced to 16 feet in breadth. The jettees and fafcine-work to be alfo 

 ' demolifhed : it being hereby the intention of the contrading parties, 

 ' that no more jettees nor fafcine-work fhall ever be again made on the 

 ' fhore of this coaft, for any port or haven at Dunkirk, or at Mardyke, 



* or at any other place whatever within two leagues from either of 

 ' thofe two places. The demolition of the jettees or piers on both fides 

 ' of the old canal, or port of Dunkirk, fhall be entirely finifhed and 



* made level with the ground all the way from the lowefb ebb as far 



* as within the town of Dunkirk : and if there fhall remain any pieces 

 ' of Fort-blanc, Chateau-verd, and Bonne efperance, they fhall be totally 



* laid flat to the ground.' 



Never furely were articles flronger worded for the entire execution of 

 this part of the treaty of Utrecht : and the three contracting parties alfo 

 mutually agree to guarantee this as well as the other articles relating to 

 the order of fucceffion, by refpedively contributing, viz. the two crowns 

 each 8000 foot and 4000 horfe, and the flates 4000 foot and 2000 

 horfe, in cafe either of the allies fhould be attacked by any other po- 

 tentate, or be difturbed by inteftine rebellions, or on any other pretext 

 whatever. And in cafe the faid fuccours be not fufHcient, the allies 

 fliould agree in concert to furnifh a greater, and, if the cafe fliall re- 

 quire it, they fhall declare war againfl the aggrefTors, and affifl; one an- 

 other with all their forces. Articles VI, VII) But, by the feparate ar- 

 ticles, the guarantee and fuccours are both limited to the territories of 

 the refpedive allies in Europe only. 



This year the South-fea company's fir ft annual fhip, the Royal Prince, 

 failed for La Vera Cruz. 



About this time, and for fome time backward, there were great com- 

 plaints againft the Swedes for the unjuft captures of many Britifh mer- 

 chant-fliips and their cargoes, though in time of peace ; and for Ihel- 

 tering Britifh rebels, contrary to treaties, and particularly to that of 

 the year 1700, with this very king of Sweden. Yet matters could not 

 be fettled during his life ; but he being killed the following year, at the 

 fiege of Frederickfhall in Norway, an accommodation was foon after 

 concluded with his fifter and fucceffor Ulrica Eleonora. 



The right of Britifli fubjeds to cut logwood, (or, as the Spaniards 

 term it, Campeacliy wood) came again this year on the carpet *, and 

 the lords commillioners of trade and plantations, in a reprefentation to 

 his Britannic majefty, afTerted, and proved beyond contradiction, the 

 right of his fiibjeds to cut logwood in the bay of Campeachy. This was 



• See above in the vcar 1662. 



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