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X) Neither nation fliall harbour the barbarous or wild inhabitants 

 and Oaves, or the goods which they rnay have taken from the fubjeds 

 of the other nation, nor fliall they proted them. 



XI) The governors, officers, and fubjeds, of either nation fliall not 

 molefl: nor difl;urb the fubjeds of the other in fettling their refpedive 

 colonies, and in their commerce and navigation. 



XIT, XIII) The fliips of war and privateers of either nation fhall be 

 ftridly enjoined not to injure the other, as fliall alfo their privileged 

 companies, otherwife they fliall be puniflied, and alfo make fatisfadion 

 for all damages ; for which end they fliall be obliged, before they re- 

 ceive their commiffions, to give fecurity to the amount of Liooo flier- 

 ling, or 13,000 livres ; and if anyfuch fliip has above 150 men, then for 

 L2000 fterling, or 26,000 livres, on pain of forfeiting their commif- 

 fions ; and the fliip fliall alfo be liable to make fatisfadlion for injuries 

 and damages done by her. 



XIV) The governors and officers of either nation fliall be fliridly en- 

 joined to give no afllftance nor protedion to any pirates, of what nation 

 foever they may be ; and fliall alio punifli as pirates all iuch as fliall fit 

 out any fliip without lawful commiilion and authority. 



XV) No fubjed of either king fliall take a commiilion, or letters of 

 mart, for privateering in America, from any prince or fl:ate with which 

 the other is at war, otherwife he fliall be puniflied as a pirate. 



XVI) The French king's fubjeds fliall have liberty to fifli for turtles 

 in the ifland of Cayaman *. 



The other four articles contain the ufual forms of provifos, in cafe of 

 a rupture between the two nations, or of complaints of differences arif- 

 ing on either fide, in America. 



It is eafy to fee by this remarkable treaty, how egregioufly the French 

 king impofed on King James. For, i fl:, France's American ifles were then 

 much more feeble than ours ; and, as the buccaneers from Jamaica 

 might pofllbly have made very free with them, James hereby gave them 

 entirely up as pirates ; 2dly, the uti pojfidetis, hereby flipulated, fecured 

 to France the polTeflion of fonie of her colonies, to which England, till 

 now, had fl;rong pretenfions ; and, jdly, it may be faid, that by this pa- 

 cification France had an advantageous refpite for the improvement of 

 her ifland, and continental colonies in America, and of which Ihe made 

 a very good ufc to our cofl ; 4thly, here is no mention of the four forts 

 taken from our company in Hudfon's-bay, not known in England when 

 this treaty was concluded. 



We muft, however, on the other hand, obferve, that by thefe treaties 

 of peace and neutrality, for America, ift, between Spain and Holland 

 in 1648 ; 2dly, between Portugal and Holland in 1661 ; 3dly, between 

 England and Spain in 1670; and, 4thly, this treaty between England 



* A fmall ifland weft of Jamaica. 



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