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dice to either of the high contracting parties : there shall be a general 

 oblivion of everything that may have been done or committed before 

 or since the commencement of the war which is just ended. 



II. The treaties of Westphalia of 1648; those of Madrid between 

 the crowns of Great Britain and Spain of 1667, and 1670 ; the treaties 

 of peace of Nimeguen of 1678, and 1679 ; of Ryswick of 1697 ; those 

 of peace and of commerce of Utrecht of 1713 ; that of Baden of 1714 ; 

 the treaty of the triple alliance of The Hague of 1771: that of the 

 quadruple alliance of London of 1718 ; the treaty of peace of Vienna 

 of 1738; the definitive treaty of Aix la Chapelle of 1748; and that 

 of Madrid, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain of 1750 : 

 as well as the treaties between the crowns of Spain and Portugal of 

 the 13th of February, 1668; of the 6th of February, 1715; and of 

 the 12th of February, 1761 ; and that of the llth of April, 1713, be- 

 tween France and Portugal with the guarantees of Great Britain, 

 serve as a basis and foundation to the peace, and to the present 

 treaty: and for this purpose they are all renewed and confirmed in 

 the best form, as well as all the general, which subsisted between the 

 high contracting parties before the war, as if they were inserted here 

 word for word, so that they are to be exactly observed, for the 

 future, in their whole tenor, and religiously executed on all sides, in 

 all their points, which shall not be derogated from by the present 



treaty, notwithstanding all that may have been stipulated to 

 8 the contrary by any of the high contracting parties: and all 



the said parties declare, that they will not suffer any privilege, 

 favour, or indulgence to subsist, contrary to the treaties above con- 

 firmed, except what shall have been agreed and stipulated by the 

 present treaty. 



III. All the prisoners made, on all sides, as well by land as by sea, 

 and the hostages carried away or given during the war, and to this 

 day, shall be restored, without ransom, six weeks, at least, to be com- 

 puted from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the present 

 treaty, each crown respectively paying the advances which shall have 

 been made for the subsistence and maintenance of their prisoners by 

 the sovereign of the country where they shall have been detained, 

 according to the attested receipts and estimates and other authentic 

 vouchers which shall be furnished on one side and the other. And 

 securities shall be reciprocally given for the payment of the debts 

 which the prisoners shall have contracted in the countries where they 

 have been detained until their entire liberty. And all the ships of 

 war and merchant vessels which shall have been taken since the ex- 

 piration of the terms agreed upon for the cessation of hostilities by 

 sea shall likewise be restored, bond fide, with all their crews and 

 cargoes: and the execution of this article shall be proceeded upon 

 immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty. 



IV. His Most Christian Majesty renounces all pretensions which 

 he has heretofore formed or might have formed to Nova Scotia or 

 Acadia in all its parts, and guarantees the whole of it, and with all 

 its dependencies, to the King of Great Britain : Moreover, his Most 

 Christian Majesty cedes and guarantees to his said Britannic Majesty, 

 in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the Island 

 of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the Gulf and 

 River of St. Lawrence, and in general, everything that depends on 

 the said countries, lands, islands, and coasts, with the sovereignty, 



