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5, 6, 7, 8) For thefe purpofes they agreed each lo equip a Iquadron of 

 eiglit fliips of the line with a proportionate number of frigates, which 

 fhould ad conjundly or feparately, as fhould be judged moft for the 

 common intereft, (the command being regulated by a former conven- 

 tion) and fhould equally defend or convoy the trade of either nation. 



9) The German ftates belonging to both the contrading powers were 

 excepted from this treaty. 



10) The contrading powers declared the Baltic ' a fea fliut up and in- 

 ' acceflible to the armed fhips of diftant powers at war *,' and refolved 

 to maintain the moft perfed tranquillity in it. 



12) In cafe of agreflion by any of the belligerent powers upon the law- 

 ful navigation of their fubjeds and of no redrefs being obtained by 

 amicable negotiations, they refolved to make reprifais in four months 

 after the refufal of redrefs, in which they would mutually afFift each 

 other. 



The king of Denmark immediately gave orders, that all Danifh vef- 

 fels, clearing out for foreign parts, fhould carry the paflports ftipulated 

 with the belligerent powers ; and the commander of every veffel carry- 

 ing goods, which would be deemed contraband if carried to the ports 

 of any of the powers at war, fhould make a declaration of their quant- 

 ity and value, and on his return produce a certificate of their being 

 really landed at the port, for which they were cleared out. 



The Danifh and Swedifh governments claimed indemnity for the vef- 

 fels taken by the Britifh cruifers ; and they infifled that veflels, not car- 

 rying contraband goods, fhould upon no account be detained. In con- 

 fequence of the inveftigations made into the circumflances of the feiz- 

 ures, very confiderable fums were paid to the merchants of Denmark 

 and Sweden. 



In the early part of this year the French were deprived of all their 

 pofTefTions in the Windward iflands of the Wefl-Indies by the Britifli 

 fleet under the command of Sir John Jervis (afterwards earl of S'. Vin- 

 cent j together with an army commanded by Sir Charles Grey. On the 

 25'" of March the whole of the ifland of Martinique fubmitted, after a 

 gallant defence, to the Britifh dominion. The fame troops, who reduc- 

 ed Martinique, immediately invaded S'. Lucie, which furrendered on 

 the 4"" of April. In a few days after they took poffeffion of the fmall 

 iflands called the Saintes, appendages of Guadaloupe : and on the 21" 

 Guadaloupe itfelf furrendered, the other dependent iflands of Mariega- 

 lante and Defirade being included in the capitulation. 



The following ftafement of the condition of thefe French iflands in 



* It may be truely faid of the Baltic, that it is be faid of no other fea in the weftern parts of Eu- 

 mare claufum, a fea completely fliut up, which can rope. 



