A. D. 1670. 543 



XI) Or if the fhips of either party fliall run upon fund-banks or be' 

 fhipwrecked within the dominions of the other, or fuffer any damage 

 there, the faid perfons Ihall by no means be detained prifoners ; but, on 

 the contrary, fhall have all manner of afTiftance, and fliall have pafTport 

 for their free and peaceable return to their own country. 



XII) But yet, in cafe thofe fliips happen to be three or four together, 

 fo as to givejufl: ground of fufpicion; in fuch cafe they fhall, on their 

 arrival, let the governor or chief magi ftrate of the place know the caufe 

 of their coming ; and (hall tarry no longer there than the faid governor 

 or chief magiftrate will give them leave, after fupplying themfelves with 

 provifions, and refitting their (hips. And they are ever to abftain from 

 putting any wares or bales of goods on fliore to expofe them to fale : 

 neither are they to receive any merchandize on board, nor do any thing 

 that is contrary to this treaty. 



XIII, and XIV) The prefent treaty to be inviolably obferved by both 

 parties and their fubjeds. And particular offences fliall no way preju- 

 dice this treaty : but every one fhall anfwer for what he has done, and 

 be profecuted for contravening it. Neither fhall letters of reprifal, nor 

 any other methods for obtaining reparation, be granted, unlefs juflice 

 fhall be actually denied, or unreafonable delays be ufed ; in which cafe 

 it fliall be lawful to have recourfe to the ordinary rules of the law of 

 nations, until reparation be made to the perfon that has been injured. 



XV) This treaty fhall not derogate from any pre-eminence, right, or 

 ligniory, which either the one or the other of the allies have in the feas, 

 flraits, or frefli waters, of America. And it is always to be underftood, 

 that the freedom of navigation ought by no means to be interrupted, 

 when there is nothing committed contrary to the true fenfe and mean- 

 ing of thefe articles.' 



By this famous treaty, the pirates or buccaneers (who for feveral 

 years had greatly annoyed Spanifh America) were cut off from all fu- 

 ture proted:ion from England in any hoflile attempts on the Spanifli 

 American dominions,, and all commiflions to fuch were called in and 

 annulled ; whereby a very troublefome thorn was taken out of her 

 foot *. 



About this time Sir Jofiah Child publiflied his Difcourfes on trade ; 

 which, he tells us, he wrote at his country houfe in the ficknefs year 

 (1665); and though written fo long ago, yet, taken altogether, it is Hill 

 an excellent book on that fubjed. One of his greatefl and mofl fa- 

 vourite points was to perfuade men how much the low interefl of mo- 

 ney contributes to the advancement of the commerce and riches of a 



* It \va3 on the authority of this treaty (con- length ohh'ged the king of Great Britaii> to de- 



firmed by fubfequent ones) that Englifti veiTels chiie war againft Spain in tlie year i 739. And the 



faihng along, though not landing on, ttie coalls of controverfy remains to this day undecided, though 



the Spaniih dominions in America, have been fo the freedom of navigation was exprcfsly provided: 



much diftrefled by the guarda-coflas, which at for in the fifteenth article of thl« treaty. A. 



