32 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS 



the definitive treaty of peace, viz. the king of Great Britain, the most 

 illustrious and most excellent Lord George, duke and earl of Man- 

 chester, Viscount Mandeville, baron of Kimbqlton, lord lieutenant 

 and custos rotulorum of the county of Huntingdon, actual privy 

 counsellor to his Britannic majesty and his ambassador extraordinary 

 and plenipotentiary to his most Christian majesty; and the most 

 Christian king, the most illustrious and most excellent Lord Charles 

 Gravier, Count de Vergennes, baron of Welferding, &c. the king's 

 counsellor in all his councils, commander in his orders, president of 

 the royal council of finances, counsellor of state military, minister 

 and secretary of state, and of his commands and finances: who, after 

 having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the 

 following articles. 



ART. I. There shall be a Christian, universal, and perpetual peace, 

 as well by sea as by land, and a sincere and constant friendship shall 

 be re-established between their Britannic and most Christian majes- 

 ties, and between their heirs and successors, kingdoms, dominions, 

 provinces, countries, subjects and vassals, of what quality or condition 

 soever they be, without exception either of places or persons ; so that 

 the high contracting parties shall give the greatest attention to the 

 maintaining between themselves, and their said dominions and sub- 

 jects, this reciprocal friendship and intercourse, without permitting 

 hereafter, on either part, any kind of hostilities to be committed, 

 either by sea or by land, for any cause, or under any pretence what- 

 soever: and they shall carefully avoid, for the future, every thing 

 which might prejudice the union happily re-established, endeavour- 

 ing, on the contrary, to procure reciprocally for each other, on every 

 occasion, whatever may contribute to their mutual glory, interests, 

 and advantage, without giving any assistance or protection, directly 

 or indirectly, to those who would do any injury to either of the high 

 contracting parties. There shall be a general oblivion and amnesty 

 of every thing which may have been done or committed, before or 

 since the commencement of the war which is just ended. 



ART. II. The treaties of Westphalia of 1648 ; 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 ; that of 

 the triple alliance of the Hague of 1717; that of the quadruple alli- 

 ance of London of 1718; the treaty of peace of Vienna of 1738; the 

 definitive treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748 ; and that of Paris of 

 1763, serve as a basis and foundation to the peace, and to the present 

 treaty ; and for this purpose they were all renewed and confirmed in 

 the best form, as well as all the treaties in general which subsisted 

 between the high contracting parties before the war, as if they were 

 herein inserted word for word ; and so they are to be exactly observed 

 for the future in their full tenor, and religiously executed by both 

 parties, in all the points which shall not be derogated from by the 

 present treaty of peace. 



AET. III. All the prisoners taken on either side, 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, in six weeks at latest, 

 to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of 

 the present treaty; each crown respectively discharging 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 



