16 APPENDIX TO BBITISH CASE. 



XV. In case the stipulations contained in the Xlllth article of 

 the preliminaries should not be completed at the time of the signature 

 of the present treaty, as well with regard to the evacuations to be 

 made by the armies of France of the fortresses of Cleves, Wezel, 

 Guelders, and of all the countries belonging to the King of Prussia, 

 as with regard to the evacuations to be made by the British and 

 French armies of the countries which they occupy in Westphalia, 

 Lower Saxony, on the Lower Rhine, the Upper Rhine, and in all 

 the Empire; and to the retreat of the troops into the dominions of 

 their respective Sovereigns: their Britannic and Most Christian 



Majesties promise to proceed, bond fide, will all the dispatch 

 10 the case will permit of to the said evacuations, the entire com- 

 pletion whereof they stipulate before the 15th of March next, 

 or sooner if it can be done ; and their Britannic and Most Christian 

 Majesties farther engage and promise to each other, not to furnish 

 any succours of any kind to their respective allies who shall continue 

 engaged in the war in Germany. 



XVI. The decision of the prizes made in time of peace by the sub- 

 jects of Great Britain, on the Spaniards, shall be referred to the 

 courts of justice of the Admiralty of Great Britain, conformably to 

 the rules established among all nations, so that the validity of the 

 said prizes, between the British and Spanish nations, shall be decided 

 and judged, according to the law of nations, and according to treaties, 

 in the courts of justice of the nation who shall have made the 

 capture. 



XVII. Hin Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the 

 fortifications which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of 

 Honduras, and other places of the territory of Spain in that part of 

 the world, four months after the ratification of the present treaty: 

 and His Catholic Majesty shall not permit His Britannic Majesty's" 

 subjects, or their workmen, to be disturbed or molested under any 

 pretence whatsoever in the said places, in their occupation of cutting, 

 loading, and carrying away log-wood; and for this purpose, they 

 may build, without hindrance, and occupy, without interruption, the 

 houses and magazines necessary for them, for their families, and for 

 their effects: and His Catholic Majesty assures them, by this article, 

 the full enjoyment of those advantages and powers on the Spanish 

 coasts and territories, as above stipulated, immediately after the 

 ratification of the present treaty. 



XVIII. His Catholic Majesty desists, as well for himself as for his 

 successors, from all pretension which he may have formed in favour 

 of the Guipuscoans, and other his subjects, to the right of fishing in 

 the neighbourhood of the island of Newfoundland. 



XIX. The King of Great Britain shall restore to Spain all the ter- 

 ritory which he has conquered in the Island of Cuba, with the fortress 

 of the Havannah ; and this fortress, as well as all the other fortresses 

 of the said island, shall be restored in the same condition they were 

 in when conquered by His Britannic Majesty's arms, provided that 

 His Britannic Majesty's subjects who shall have settled in the said 

 island, restored to Spian [Spain] by the present treaty, or those who 

 shall have any commercial affairs to settle there, shall have liberty to 

 sell their lancls and their estates, to settle their affairs, recover their 

 debts, and to bring away their effects, as well as their persons, on 



