
664 Priitical Affirs— Frances 
3d. Every time aft individual hall be 
fued in judgment. for a faét committed 
Prior to the ath Brumaire.- the point 
fhall be afcertained whether it was con- 
neéted with the revolution. In the cafe 
af the affirmative, the amnefty tha!l be 
applied; on the conirary, the inftruétion 
fhall be foilowed dat. 
On the :2th of September.: a treaty 
ef alliance, offenfive and defenfive. be- 
tween the king of Spain and the French 
Republic, was ratified by the ccuncil of 
ancients. 
Copy or THe TREATY. 
Arzicce I. There hall exift in perpetuity 
mr Offenfive and Def-nfive Aliance between 
- the Fronch Republic and his, Catholic Majefty 
he King of Spain. 
Ei The two contracting powers mutually 
guarantee, Without referve or exception, in the 
moff pofitive and abfolute maoner ali the ter- 
tiforial ftates, iflands, and places which they 
p-ffels, refpedively; and thould either of the 
two powers hereaiter, under any pretext what- 
ever, be menaced or attacked, the other pro- 
mifes and engages to affift wih its good offices: 
and, on demana, to grant fu h aid as ihzil be 
ftipulated in the following articles. 
“Ti. Within the {pace of three months from the 
time when aid ihall be demanded, the power on 
whem the demand iball be made thail have 
ready for the ufé of the power demanding, fif- 
teen thips of the line, of which three fhall be 
three-ceckers, or of 80 guns, and twelve of 70 or 
72, Six trgates, of proportionate force, and 
four corvettes, or light veffels, all equipped, 
armec, and victualled for fix months, and fitted 
out fora year. This naval force ihall be af 
fembled by the power of which aidis demanded, 
in fuch of its ports as fhall be pointed out by 
“the other power. 
LV. Inca ¢ the power demanding fuccour fhould 
judge neceflary, at the commencemcnt or hof- 
tilities, to require only half the aid to which it 
has a right by the peceding article; it may atany 
other period of the campaign demand the remain- 
ing haif, wh=h fhall be furnifhea in the fame 
manner, and within the fam= time as the for- 
mer, reckoning fiom the time of the new de- 
mand. 
V. The power from which aid fhall be de- 
mended, fhall, in like manner, within three 
months, reckoning irorh the time the demzend 
fhalibe made, furnith eighteen thoufand infantry, 
and fix thoulend cavalry, with a proportionate 
train of artilicry, to be employed cither in Eu- 
rope, or for the defence of the colonies, which 
the contracting powers poffefs-in the Gulf of 
Mexico. 
VI. The power making the demard fhall 
have permifiion to ferid cne or more commif- 
fioners to alcevtain whether the power on which 
the demand is mace is taking the neceffary 
meaiures to have the flipulated land or naval 
£.xce ready by the time preferibed, 
f Septa 
VII. Thefe fuccours fhall be entirely at the 
difpofition of the requiring power, which fhall ~ 
leave them in the ports or on the territory of 
the povrer required; or employ them in fuck 
~ expeditions as fhall he.deemed propery without 
. being held to give an accoant of the motives 
that fhall have determined #t. 
VII ‘The demand which one ef the powers 
fhall make of the fuccour ftipvlated by the pres 
ceding Articles, fhall be fufficient to prove the 
neceffity of fuch fuccows, and fhall ir pofe on 
the other power the o' ligation of difpofing of 
them without its being neceffary te énter ince 
any difcuffion relative to the queftion, whether 
the war whi.h it propofes be offenfive or de- 
fenfive? and without any explanation whatever 
eing demanded, which might tend to elude 
the moft fpeedy and exact accomplifhment of 
what is ftipulated. 
IX. The troops and fhips required fhall ree 
main at the difpofal of the dcmanding party 
during the -war, without being in any cafe 
maintained’ at its expence. The paty on 
whom the demand fhail have been made fhall 
fupport them wherever its ally withes that 
they thould act, It is, however, provided, that 
as long as fuch troops or fhips fhall remain upon 
the territory, orn the ports of the demanding ~ 
party, the latter fhall tummifh them with what- 
ever is neceflary out of its magazines and arfe= 
nals, in the fame manner and at the fame price 
as to its own troops and fhips. 
X. The party on whem the demand fhall 
have been made, fhall make up its quota of 
fbips and of troops, as foon as any lois may 
have been fuftained by them. 
X1. If the above fuccours fhould prove in- 
fuficient, the contracting parties fhall-put in 
activity the greateft force poffible by fea ayd 
land, againft the enemy of the power attacked, 
which frallufe the faid forces either by com- 
bining them, or making them aét feparately, 
according as the plan {ball have been concerted 
between them. ~ 
XII. The fuccours ftipulated by the pre- 
ceding Articles fhall be turnifhed in ali wars 
which the contra&ting parties may have to car= 
ry on; even in thofe in which One of the parties 
fhould not be immediately interefted, but 
fhould a& asa fimple adxihary. 
XIII. In cafe the motives of hoftilities 
fhould be common to both parties, and they 
fhould declare war by common accord againft 
one or more powers, the above limitations 
fhall not take place, and the two contraéting 
powers fhall aét againfl the common enemy 
with the whole of their forces by fea and land, 
and fhall concert plans to direét them againft 
the mofi vulnerable points, either feparately or 
together. They oblige themifelves, alfo, in this 
cafe, to treat of peace only by common accord, 
that each may obtain true and proper fatii- 
faction, ee 
XIV. In cafe one power fhould a& as auxili- 
ary, the power which fhall have been attacked 
may treat of peace feparately, but im a manner 
5 that 
oo! Pie ee be eee 
