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f^nwrilion deiween his Britannic Majesty and the King of Spain^ signed 

 at London the \\th of July ^ 1786. 



The Kings of England and of Spain, animated with the same desire of 

 consolidating; by every means in their power, the friendship so happily 

 subsisting between thein and their kingdoms , and wishing, with one 

 ■accord, to prevent even the shadow of misunderstanding which might 

 be occasioned by doubts, misconceptions., or other causes of disputes 

 between the subjects on the frontiers of the two monarchies, especially in 

 distant countries, as are those in America, have thought proper to settle, 

 with all possible good faith, by a new convention, the points which might 

 one day or other be productive of such inconveniences as the experience 

 of former times has very often shown. To this end, the King of Great 

 Britain has named the most noble and most excellent Lord Francis, Baron 

 Osborn of Kiveton, Marquis of Carmarthen, his Britannic Majesty's privy 

 •councillor, and principal Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign 

 Affairs, (fee, (fee, (fee; and the Catholic King has likewise authorized 

 Don Bernardo de Campo, Knight of the noble order of Charles the Third, 

 Secretary of the same order. Secretary of the Supreme Council of State, 

 and his minister plenipotentiary to the King of Great Britain; who., having 

 communicated to each other their respective full powers, prepared in due 

 form, have agreed upon the following articles: 



Article 1. His Britannic Majesty's subjects, and the other colonists 

 who have hitherto enjoyed the protection of England, shall evacuate the 

 country of the Mosquitos, as well as the continent in general, and the 

 islands adjacent, without exception, situated beyond the line hereinafter 

 described as what ought to be the frontier of the extent of territory granted 

 by his Catholic Majesty to the English, for the uses specified in the third 

 article of the present convention, and in addition to the country already 

 ^granted to them in virtue of the stipulations agreed upon by the commis- 

 saries of the two Crowns in 1783. 



Art. 2. The Catholic King, to prove on his side, to the King of Great 

 Britain, the sincerity of his sentiments of friendship towards his said 

 Majesty and the British nation, will grant to the English more extensive 

 limits than those specified in the last treaty of peace; and the said limits 

 ■of the lands added by the present convention shall, for the future, be 

 understood in the manner following: 



The English line, beginning from the sea, shall take the centre of the 

 dver Sibun or Jabon, and continue up to the source of the said river; from 

 thence it shall cross in a straight line the intermediate land, till it inter- 

 sects the river Wallis, and by the centre of the same river the said line 

 shall descend to the point where it v/ill meet the line already settled and 

 marked out by the commissaries of the two Crowns in J 783; which limits, 

 following the continuation of the said line, shall be observed as formerly 

 stipulated by the definitive treaty. 



Art. 3. Although no other advantages have hitherto been in question, 

 ^except that of cutting wood for d^^eing, yet his Catholic Majesty, as a 

 greater proof of his disposition to oblige the King of Great Britain, will 

 igrant to the English the liberty of cutting all other wood, without even 

 ^excepting mahogany, as well as gathering all the fruits or produce of the 

 earth, purely natural and uncultivated, which may, besides being carried 

 i^waj in their natural state^ become an object of utility ox of commerce;, 



