38 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS 



which may be made in the subsisting treaties are to extend only to 

 arrangements merely commercial; and that the privileges and advan- 

 tages, mnttal and particular, be not only preserved on each side, but 

 even augmented, if it can be done. 



In this view, his majesty has consented to the appointment of com- 

 missaries, one each side, who shall treat solely upon this object. 



In witness whereof, we his Britannic majesty's ambassador extraor- 

 dinary and minister plenipotentiary, being thereto duly authorized, 

 have signed the present declaration, and caused the seal of our arms 

 to be set thereto. 



Given at Versailles, the third of September, one thousand seven 

 hundred and eighty-three. 



MANCHESTER. [L. s.] 



COUNTER DECLARATION. 



THE principles which have guided the king, in the whole course of 

 the negotiations which preceded the re-establishment of peace, must 

 have convinced the king of Great Britain, that his majesty has had 

 no other design than to render it solid and lasting, by preventing, as 

 much as possible, in the four quarters of the world, every subject of 

 discussion and quarrel. The king of Great Britain undoubtedly 

 places too much confidence in the uprightness of his majesty's inten- 

 tions, not to rely upon his constant attention to prevent the islands of 

 St. Pierre and Miquelon from becoming an object of jealousy between 

 the two nations. 



As to the fishery on the coasts of Newfoundland, which has been 

 the object of the new arrangements settled by the two sovereigns upon 

 this matter, it is sufficiently ascertained by the fifth article of the 

 treaty of peace signed this day, and by the declaration likewise de- 

 livered today, by his Britannic majesty's ambassador extraordinary 

 and plenipotentiary ; and his majesty declares, that he is fully satis- 

 fied on this head. 



In regard to the fishery between the island of Newfoundland, and 

 those of St. Pierre and Miquelon, it is not to be carried on. by either 

 party, but to the middle of the channel ; and his majesty will give the 

 most positive orders, that the French fishermen shall not go be- 

 yond this line. His majesty is firmly persuaded that the king of 

 Great Britain will give like orders to the English fishermen. 



The king's desire to maintain the peace comprehends India as well 

 as the other parts of the world ; his Britannic majesty may therefore 

 be assured, that his majesty will never permit that an object so inof- 

 fensive, and so harmless, as' the ditch, with which Chandernagore is to 

 be surrounded, should give any umbrage to the court of London. 



The king, in proposing new arrangements of commerce, had no 

 other design than to remedy, by the rules of reciprocity and mutual 

 convenience, whatever may be defective in the treaty of commerce 

 signed at Utrecht, in one thousand seven hundred and thirteen. 

 The king of Great Britain may judge from thence, that his 

 majesty s intention is not in any wise" to cancel all the stipulations 

 in the above mentioned treaty; he declares, on the contrary, from 

 henceforth, that he is disposed to maintain all the privileges, facil- 

 ities, and advantages expressed in that treaty, as far as they shall be 

 reciprocal, or compensated by equivalent advantages. It is to attain 



