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the purpose of preventing the carrying of any part of the cargo 

 thereof on shore in any manner contrary to the established laws of 

 revenue, navigation, or commerce) ; nor shall such officers take cogni- 

 zance of the validity of such prizes, but they shall be at liberty to 

 hoist sail and depart as speedily as may be, and carry their said prizes 

 to the places mentioned in their commissions or patents, which the 

 commanders of the said ships of war or privateers shall be obliged 

 to show. 



No shelter or refuge shall be given in their ports to such as have 

 made a prize upon the subjects or citizens of either of the said par- 

 ties; but, if forced by stress of weather or the dangers of the sea to 

 enter them, particular care shall be taken to hasten their departure, 

 and to cause them to retire as soon as possible. Nothing in this 

 treaty contained shall, however, be construed to operate contrary to 

 the former and existing public treaties with other Sovereigns or 

 States; but the two parties agree that, while they continue in amity, 

 neither of them will in future make any treaty that shall be incon- 

 sistent with this or the preceding article. 



Neither of the said parties shall permit the ships or goods belong- 

 ing to the subjects or citizens of the other to be taken within cannon 

 shot of the coast, nor within the jurisdiction described in Article 12, 

 so long as the provisions of the said article shall be in force, by ships 

 of war or others having commissions from any Prince, Republic, or 

 State whatever. But in case it should so happen, the party whose 

 territorial rights shall thus have been violated shall use his utmost 

 endeavours to obtain from the offending party full and ample satis- 

 faction for the vessel or vessels so taken, whether the same be vessels 

 of war or merchant vessels. 



No. 14. 1814, May 30: Extract from Definitive Treaty of Peace and 

 Amity between His Britannic Majesty and France (Paris). 



VIII. His Britannic Majesty, stipulating for himself and his allies, 

 engages to restore to His Most Christian Majesty, within the term 

 which shall be hereafter fixed, the colonies, fisheries, factories, and 

 establishments of every kind which were possessed by France on the 

 1st of January, 1792, in the seas and on the continents of America, 

 Africa, and Asia; with the exception, however, of the Islands of 

 Tobago and St. Lucie, and of the Isle of France and its dependencies, 

 especially Rodrigue and the les Sechelles, which several colonies and 

 possessions His Most Christian Majesty cedes in full right and 

 sovereignty to His Britannic Majesty, and also the portion of St. 

 Domingo ceded to France by the treaty of Basle, and which His 

 Most Christian Majesty restores in full right and sovereignty to His 

 Catholic Majesty. 



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XIII. The French right of fishery upon the Great Bank of New- 

 foundland, upon the coasts of the island of that name, and of the 

 adjacent islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, shall be replaced upon 

 the footing on which it stood in 1792. 



