520 A. D. 1800. 



Article 2) All mifunderftandings and claims were referred to further 



negotiation. 



3, 4) Prizes taken on either fide fliould be reftored, unlefs they were 

 loaded with contraband goods deflined for an enemy's port: and veflels 

 having commifTions or proper paffports fhould not be molefted. 



6) The trade between the two nations was declared to be free : and the 

 mercantile or warlike veflels of either were to enjoy in the ports of the 

 other all the privileges granted to the moft favoured nations. 



7) The property of the fubjeds of either ftate, dying in the territories 

 of the other, was fecured to their heirs, under ibrae modifications, 



8, 9) In cafe of war between the contrading powers, it was flipulated, 

 that a period of fix months fhall be allowed to the fubjeds of either to 

 remove with their property from the territories of the other, and that 

 their debts, whether public or private, fhould not be confifcated. 



10) Both nations may appoint commercial agents for the protedion of 

 trade, who fhall enjoy all the rights and prerogatives enjoyed by fimilar 

 agents of the moft favoured nations. 



11) Mutual freedom of trade, together with as favourable treatment 

 refpeding duties and privileges, as is given to the mofl favoured nations, 

 is agreed upon for the French in the territories of the United flates, 

 and for the citizens of the United flates in the European territories of 

 France. 



12-15) The veffels of either nation may freely and fecurely trade to and 

 from the ports belonging to the enemies of the other, excepting thofe 

 places which are adually blockaded, befieged, or inverted. Free fhips 

 (hall afTure the freedom of merchandize, though belonging to the ene- 

 mies of one of the contrading parties, excepting contraband goods, the 

 fpecies of which, confifling entirely of warlike and military flores, are 

 enumerated. But all property belonging to the citizens of either na- 

 tion found onboard a velTel belonging to the enemies of the other, is 

 declared liable to confifcation. 



The fubfequent articles relate to the examination of veffels at fea, 

 detentions, captures, privateers, and pirates. By the laft article (27J it 

 is agreed, that neither of the nations fhall interfere with the other in 

 the fiflieries on the coafts of Newfoundland and America, and that the 

 filhery of whales and feals fhall be free to both nations in all parts of 

 the world. 



September 5'" — The French garrifon of La Valette, the capital of 

 Malta, after fuftaining a blockade of two years, furrendered to the Brit- 

 ifh forces. 



In a fhort time Malta became the emporium of the Britifli trade in 

 the Mediterranean, and the refuge of the Britifli merchants, whom the 

 ravages and convulfions of war drove from their eftablifhments in 

 Naples, Leghorn, and Palermo. It is reported, that a very brifk trade 

 was carried on in this ifland, and that from it Britilh goods found their 



