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Iferrat, with the fume ftlpulations in favour of the French fubjedls fettled 

 in them, that were provided for the Britifla fubjeds in S^ Lucia and To- 

 bago, by the preceding article. 



9) On the coaft of Africa Great Britain ceded to France the River 

 Senegal, and its dependencies, with the forts of S^ Louis, Podor, Galam, 

 Arguin, and Portendic; and reflored the ifland of Goree. 



10, 11) And France guaranteed to Great Britain the poflefllon of 

 Fort James and the River Gambia, together with the enjoyment of the 

 gum trade on the coaft, extending from, the River S'. John to the Bay 

 of Portendic, but without forming any permanent fettlement ; and it 

 was agreed, that commifTaries, appointed on both fides, fhould fix the 

 boundaries of the two nations. 



12) Both nations were to have equal liberty of reforting to the reft 

 of the coaft of ALfrica, as formerly. 



13) In the Eaft-Indies Great Brita^n reftored to France all the fettle- 

 ments taken in the courfe of the war in Bengal, Bahar, and OrilFa, with 

 the liberty of furrounding Chandernagore with a ditch for carrying off 

 the waters, and engaged to fecure to the fubjeds of France, whether in 

 a company or as individuals, a fafe, free, and independent, trade on the 

 coafts of Orifi'a, Coromandel, and Malabar, as it was carried on by the 

 French Eaft-India company. 



14) Britain alfo reftored to France Pondicherry and Karical, and en- 

 gaged to fecure the two diftrids of Velanour and Bahour to Pondicher- 

 ry as an additional diftrid, and alfo to Karical the four Magans bor- 

 dering upon it. 



15) Mahe and the fadory at Surat were alfo reftored" to the French, 

 with liberty to conducl their trade on that fide of India, agreeable to 

 the principles eftabliftied in the thirteenth article. 



16) It was agreed, that, if the allies in India of either power ftiould 

 refufe to accede to the pacification after receiving four months notice, 

 they ftiould thenceforth have no further afllftance on either fide. 



17) The article in the treaty of Utrecht relating to Dunkirk was en- 

 tirely given up. 



18) It was agreed, that commiflarles fliould be appointed on both 

 fides for fettling new arrangements of commerce between the two na- 

 tions on the bafis of reciprocity and mutual convenience, which fliould 

 be concluded within two years after the i" of January 1784. 



There are fix other articles, which relate to the time fixed for effeding 

 the reftitutions, the decifiou of difputable prizes, &c. 



To the treaty each of the fovereigns fubjoined a declaration, exprefl- 

 ive of his fincere defire to prevent all mifunderftandings refpeding the 

 Newfoundland fifliery. The king of Great Britain engaged, that the 

 French fliould meet with no interruption in the exercife of the tempor- 

 ary fifliery granted to them, or in cutting wood for repairing their fcaf- 



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