favour; and each and every provision of the Act concerning Navigation, approved on the 18th of April, 1818, and of the Act supplementary thereto, approved on the 15th of May, 1820, shall revive and be in full force." And, whereas, by an Act of the British Parliament, which passed on the 5th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1825, [Cap. 105.] entitled "An Act to repeal the several laws relating to the Customs," the said Act of Parliament of the 24th of June, 1822, was repealed; and by another Act of the British Parliament, passed on the 5th day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1825, in the 6th year of the reign of George the Fourth, [Cap. 114*.] entitled "An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad," and by an Order of His Britannic Majesty in Council, bearing date the 27th of July, 1826, the trade and intercourse authorized by the aforesaid Act of Parliament, of the 24th of June, 1822, between The United States and the greater part of the said British Colonial ports therein enumerated, have been prohibited upon and from the 1st day of December last past, and the contingency has thereby arisen on which the President of The United States was authorized by the 6th Section aforesaid of the Act of Congress of the 1st of March, 1823, to issue a Proclamation to the effect therein mentioned: Now, therefore, I, John Quincy Adams, President of The United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim, that the trade and intercourse authorized by the said Act of Parliament of the 24th of June, 1822, between The United States and the British Colonial ports enumerated in the aforesaid Act of Congress of the 1st of March, 1823, have been, and are, upon and from the 1st day of December, 1826, by the aforesaid two several Acts of Parliament, of the 5th of July, 1825, and by the aforesaid British Order in Council of the 27th day of July, 1826, prohibited. Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this 17th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1827, and the 51st of the Independence of The United States. By the President. H. CLAY, Secretary of State. * See Page 201. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 542 ADDENDUM. SEPARATE ARTICLE to the Treaty between Great Britain and Spain, signed at Madrid, 5th July, 1814*. His Catholic Majesty engages not to enter into any Treaty or engagement with France, of the nature of that known under the denomination of the Family Compact †, nor any other which may affect the independence of Spain, which may be injurious * Presented to Parliament, July, 1823. + Family Compact of the House of Bourbon; signed at Paris, August 15th, 1761.-In the name of the most holy and indivisible Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. The ties of blood which unite the two monarchs now reigning in France and Spain, and the particular sentiments which have animated each other, of which they have given so many proofs, have engaged their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties to form, and conclude between them, a treaty of friendship and union, under the title of The Family Compact; the principal object of which is to render permanent and indivisible, as well for their said Majesties, as for their descendants and successors, those duties which are the natural consequences of consanguinity and friendship. The intention of their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties, in contracting the engagements formed by this treaty, is to perpetuate in their posterity the sentiments of Lewis XIV. of glorious memory, their common and august great grandfather; and to preserve for ever a solemn monument of their reciprocal interest, which ought to be the foundation of the views of their Courts, and of the prosperity of their royal families. With this view, and to attain so agreeable and salutary an end, their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties have given their full powers to, &c.; who, being informed of the dispositions of their respective Sovereigns, and after having communicated their credentials to each other, have agreed to the following Articles : I. Their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties declare, that in consequence of their intimate ties of consanguinity and friendship, and the union they contract by the present Treaty, the two Crowns will hereafter consider every Power as their common enemy who shall become such to either of them. II. The two contracting Kings reciprocally guaranty, in the most absolute and authentic manner, all the estates, lands, islands, and places, which they possess in any part of the world whatever, without any reserve or exception; and the possessions, the object of their guarantee, shall be fixed according to the actual state in which they shall be found, as soon as either of the two Crowns shall be at peace with all other Powers III. Their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties grant the same absolute and authentic guarantee to the King of the Two Sicilies, and to the Infant Don Philip, Duke of Parma, for all the estates, territories, and places which they possess; provided that His Sicilian Majesty, and the said Infant Duke of Parma, also guaranty, on their part, all the estates and possessions of their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties. to the interests of His Britannic Majesty, or may be contrary to the strict alliance which is stipulated by the present Treaty. The present Separate Article shall form an integral part of the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance signed on the 5th day of July*, and shall have the same force and validity as if it were IV. Though the inviolable and mutual guarantee, to which their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties bind themselves, ought to be supported with all their power, and though their Majesties thus understand it, according to the fundamental principles of this Treaty, that whoever attacks one Crown attacks the other, yet the two Contracting Parties have thought it proper to ascertain the first succours which the Power requested shall be obliged to furnish to the Power requesting. V. to XIX. relate to succours, &c., in case of war. XX. Their Most Christian, Catholic, and Sicilian Majesties engage, not only to concur in the maintenance and splendour of their kingdoms, in their present state, but also to support, on every occasion whatever, the dignity and rights of their Houses; so that each Prince, who shall have the honour to descend from the same blood, may be assured at all times of the protection and assistance of the three Crowns. XXI. The present Treaty being to be considered, as hath been already announced in the preamble, as a Family Compact between all the branches of the august House of Bourbon, no other Power but those of that House can be invited or admitted to accede thereto. XXII. The strict friendship which unites the Contracting Monarchs, and the engagements they take by this Treaty, determine them also to stipulate, that their dominions and respective subjects shall partake of the advantages, and of. the union established between those Sovereigns; and their Majesties promise not to suffer in any case, nor under any pretence whatever, their said subjects to do or undertake any thing contrary to that perfect correspondence which ought inviolably to subsist between the three Crowns. XXIII. The more effectually to preserve this harmony, and these reciprocal advantages between the subjects of the two Crowns, it is agreed, that the Spaniards shall no longer be considered as foreigners in France; and consequently His Most Christian Majesty engages to abolish, in their favour, the right of escheatage, so that they may dispose by will, donations, or otherwise, of all their effects, without exception, of what nature soever, which they possess in his kingdom, and which their heirs, subjects of His Catholic Majesty, resident in France or elsewhere, shall have power to receive as their inheritance, even where no will is made, either by themselves, their attornies, or particular order (though they may not have obtained letters of naturalization) and convey them out of His Most Christian Majesty's dominions, notwithstanding all the laws, edicts, statutes, customs, or rights to the contrary, which His Most Christian Majesty hereby annuls, as far as is necessary. His Catholic Majesty engages, on his part, to grant the same privileges, and in the same manner, in every part of his dominions in Europe, to all the French subjects of His Most Christian Majesty, with respect to the free disposal of the effects they shall possess in any part of the Spanish Monarchy; so that the subjects of the two Crowns shall be generally treated (in what regards this Article) in both dominions, as the proper and natural subjects of the Power in whose territories they reside. Every thing above said, respecting the abolition of the right of escheatage, and the advantages which the French are to * See Vol. II. Page 269. therein inserted, word for word, and shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged within 40 days, or sooner, if possible. In witness whereof, we, &c. Done at Madrid, this 28th day of August, 1814. (L.S.) H. WELLESLEY. (L.S.) M. EL DUQUE DE SAN CARLOS. enjoy in the Spanish dominions in Europe, and the Spaniards in France, is granted to the subjects of the King of the Two Sicilies, who shall be comprised under the same condition in this Article: and the subjects of their Most Christian and Catholic Majesties shall reciprocally enjoy the same exemption and advantages in the dominions of His Sicilian Majesty. XXIV. The subjects of the High Contracting Parties shall be treated, with respect to commerce and duties, in each of the two kingdoms in Europe, as the proper subjects of the country in which they live or resort to; so that the Spanish flag shall enjoy in France the same rights and prerogatives as the French flag, and, in like manner, the French flag shall be treated in Spain with the same favour as the Spanish flag. The subjects of the two monarchies, in declaring their merchandises, shall pay the same duties as shall be paid by the natives. The importation and exportation shall be equally free to them as to the natural subjects; neither shall they pay any other duty than what shall be received from the natural subjects of the Sovereign, nor any goods be liable to confiscation, but such as are prohibited to the natives themselves; and as to what concerns these objects, all anterior Treaties, Conventions, or engagements between the two monarchies, are hereby abolished. And further, that no other foreign Power shall enjoy in Spain, any more than in France, any privileges more advantageous than those of the two nations; the same rules shall be observed in both France and Spain, with regard to the flag and subjects of the King of the Two Sicilies: and His Sicilian Majesty shall reciprocally cause to be observed the same, with respect to the flag and subjects of the Crowns of France and Spain. XXV. If the High Contracting Parties shall hereafter conclude a Treaty of commerce with other powers, and grant them, or have already granted them, in their ports or dominions, the treatment granted to the most favoured nation, notice shall be given to the said Powers, that the treatment of Spaniards in France and in the Two Sicilies, of Frenchmen in Spain, and in like manner in the Two Sicilies, and of Neapolitans and Sicilians in France and Spain, upon the same footing, is excepted in that respect, and ought not to be quoted, or serve as an example, their Most Christian, Catholic, and Sicilian Majesties being unwilling that any other nation should partake of those privileges which they judged convenient for the reciprocal enjoyment of their respective subjects. XXVI, and to the end, relate to alliances, precedence, and the ratifications. GENERAL INDEX. 545 AUSTRIA. PRELIMINARY TREATY. Friendship and Alliance. Vol. Page 3 Toplitz, 3d October, 1813. I. Re-establishment of Commercial relations. 3. Vienna, 8th February, 1815. GENERAL TREATY OF CONGRESS... I. 9 Paris, 26th July, 1815. III. 93, 94 DECLARATION OF CONGRESS. (5 Powers.) Slave Trade. Verona, 28th November, 1822. III. 1,2 ACT OF PARLIAMENT. Austrian Loans......16th March, 1824. III. 7 DECREE. Slave Trade and Slavery.... Vienna, 7th Aug. 1826. III. 10, 12 BARBARY STATES. ALGIERS. Treaty. Peace and Commerce. Algiers, 10th Apr. 1682. I. 58 |