20. His Britannic majesty grants to his highness the sum of 15,000l. fterling, to answer the first expences of equipping this corps; payment of which shall be made immediately after the fignature of this treaty, and shall be carried to the account of levy-money.

21. Deferters shall be faithfully delivered up on both fides, and neither the foldiers, nor any other perfons belonging to the corps of Hesse Darmstadt, shall be permitted to fettle in the dominions of his Britannic majesty.

In witness whereof, we the underfigned, authorised by the full power of his majesty the king of Great Britain on one fide, and of his ferene highness the reigning Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt, on the other, have signed the present treaty, and have caused the seals of our arms to be affixed thereto.

Done at Frankfort, this 10th day of

June, 1796.
(L. S.) C. CRAUFURD.

(L. S.) C. B. DE BARKHAUS.

Letter from Sir Gilbert Elliot, Viceroy of Corfica, to the governor of Porte Forrajo.

same design upon the fortress of Porto Ferrajo, hoping, by such means, to facilitate the designs that they meditate against the kingdom of Corfica. These circumstances have determined us to prevent the designs of the enemies of the king, who are equally hoftile to his royal highness, by placing at Porto Ferrajo, a garrifon capable of defending that place; our only' intention being to prevent that fortress, and the whole ifland of the Elbe, from being taken poffeffion of by the French. We invite and request you, fir, to receive the troops, of his majesty, which will appear before the place, under the following conditions:

1. Porto Ferrajo and its dependencies shall remain under the government of the grand duke. The Tufcan flag shall not cease to be respected, and the adminiftration tha l not be altered in any respect; perfons, property, and the religion of all the inhabitants shall be respected. The English commanders shall be careful that their troops obferve strict difcipline.

2. The officers and foldiers compofing the Tufcan garrifon, thall continue to do duty, if they think proper. All persons employed in civil or military capacities shall be continued in their employments, if they conduct themselves properly.

3. The preceding conditions shall be exactly observed, and with the utmost good faith, as far as shall be confiftent with the safety of the place.

4. We promise, in the name of his majesty, in the most folemn manner, to let his majesty's troops retire, and to put the place into the hands of his royal highness in its present state, when a peace K3 takes

takes place, or immediately after all danger of a French invafion is at an end..

If you refuse, fir, to agree to propofitions so conformable to the interest of his royal highness, and which are so just and necessary to our fafety, the officer who is charged with the expedition, has orders and power sufficient to force the place; in which cafe the poffeffion of it will not be limited by any condition.

Not doubting but that prudence and attachment to the true interests of his royal highness will induce you to consent to the only expedient which can fare Porto Ferrajo, and preserve the island of the Elbe from the most cruel scourge.

I have the honour, with the utmost regard and esteem, &c.

Articles proposed by the Governor and town of Porto Ferrajo, and accepted the 10th July by the commander of the English troops.

ART. 1. The English troops shall be received into the place, and the conditions, regulated by his excellency the viceroy, Elliott, shall be fully observed, fo that nothing may alter the law of neutrality imposed upon Tuscany, and which thould be inviolably maintained.

2. Whenever troops or ships of nations at war shall appear before the city or port, neither the garrifon nor any inhabitant shall be bound to take up arms, either in favour of the English or any other party.

3. The island of the Elbe, and especially Porto Ferrajo, being in want of provifions, the commanders of the English troops shall take

care to fend all necessary provisions for the inhabitants to purchase, in order that they may not be exposed to perish by famine,

4. The people of Porto Ferrajo being very numerous, and having but few houses, it will not be poffible to lodge the English foldiers in private houses. They flatter themselves the commanders will have the goodness to take this object into confideration.

5. As the arrival of the Britannic troops has been fudden and unforeseen, the commanders are entreated to agree to a convenient time for preparing quarters and necessary lodgings.

Proclamation by Gordon Forbes, major general and commander in chief of all his Britannic Majesty's forces at St. Domingo, to all the plan ters of the Spanish part of the faid Island.

SPANISH PLANTERS,

YOUR king has ceded to the actual government of France the vast and rich territory occupied and cultivated by your forefathers and you upwards of three centuries. This treaty is on the point of being carried into execution; commifsioners sent by the executive directory are already arrived in your colony, and prepare the deftruction of your property in the same manner as they have effected it in the rich French colony contiguous to yours. Beware, brave Spaniards, of the treacherous infinuations of those enemies of all moral and religious principles, which form the basis of focial life. High minded, loyal, and generous, like your forefathers, you want but a hint of what awaits you. Zealoufly attach

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ed to the worship of the true God, and the august blood of your kings, you, no doubt, prefer the lofs and facrifice of your property to the misfortune and disgrace of fubmitting to the yoke of these new masters of your territory. Follow then, gallant Spaniards, that noble impulse of reafon, honour, and feeling. Depart! the dominions of the Spanith monarch are open for you: go, honourably to live and die there in the thade of your altars, and under the protection of your king. But if any among you, chained down by neceffity to the foil they cultivate, should not be able to leave it, let them not be uneasy: his majesty lends them his powerful and protecting hand. I with they would, for their own happiness, fully rely on the gene rofity and beneficence of fo great a monarch. What other fovereign has fought with more zeal and glory for the sacred cause of religion, royalty, and humanity, against the fool-hardy innovators, who are bent on exterminating them from the whole furface of this globe. I have read, brave Spaniards, the oftenfible instructions given by the directory to the commiffioners of the republic; I have perused the proclamations of those hypocritical and perverse agents, whose first mission to St. Domingo was marked with infurrections, with the firing of the plantations, and the affaflination of their owners. The choice of such men fufficiently shews the misfortunes you have to expect. Read and confider, brave Spaniards, the papers I have juft quoted: compare the promifes which they hold out with those the republic has made to every nation it wished to seduce. What advantages did it

not hold out to its own colonies, to Savoy, Belgium, Holland; in short, to all countries wherein it has established its firange regime!Well, contemplate the horrid and deplorable situation to which are now reduced those provinces, once so populous and flourishing, and judge, brave Spaniards, what would be the result of your credulity. Impressed with your dangers, and feeling for your misfortune, I offer you my fupport. A faithful interpreter of the beneficent disposition of his majesty, I promise and guae rantee to you, under his banners, fafety to your perfons and property. Whatever is facred to you, your religious worship, your prietts, your laws, your customs, your privileges, shall be preferved to you, and you shali aito enjoy the advantage of the most extensive and flourishing commerce in the world. You have frequented our posts, and know the liberty, good faith, and plenty which reign there. Calculate the extent of those advantages, and prepare yourselves to receive the only power able to grant them. As soon as the protection of your king shall be withdrawn from you, and you are given up to the new masters of your territory, arm against them, and on the first signal you give me of your determination, I will fly to your affiftance, and unite my whole force with yours, to repel and exterminate our common enemy.

Given in the king's house, at Port-au-Prince, the 12th of July, in the year of our Lord 1796, and the 35th of his majefty's reign.

G. FORBES. By order of his excellency,

JAMES ESTEN, secretary. Order

Order of Council of the 3d September.

AT the court at Weymouth, the 3d of September 1796, present the king's most excellent majefty in council. Whereas an act passed in the thirty-third year of his majesty's reign, intituled, "An act more effectually to prevent, during the present war between Great Britain and France, all traitorous correspondence with, or aid or affiftance being given to his majesty's enemies;" and another act pafied in the thirty-fourth year of his majefty's reign, intituled, "An act for preventing money or effects, in the hands of his majesty's fubjects belonging to or disposable by persons refident in France, being applied to the use of the perfons exercising the powers of government in France, and for preferving the property thereof for the benefit of the individual owners there

of."

And whereas another act, passed in the thirty-fourth year aforesaid, intituled, "An act for more effectually preserving money and effects, in the hands of his majesty's fubjects, belonging to or difposable by períons refident in France, for the benefit of the individual owners thereof."

And whereas it is expedient that such licence and authority should be granted as is herein after given and granted; his majetty, taking the fame into his royal confideration, is pleased, by and with the advice of his privy council, by this order to grant, and accordingly, with fuch advice, by this order, doth grant licence, according to the authority given by the faid acts refpectively, or fome of them, to all perfons refiding or being in

Great Britain, either on their own account or credit, or on the account or credit, or by the direction of any other perfon or perfons whomsoever, or wheresoever refident or being, to fell, fupply, deliver, or fend for the purpose of being fold, supplied, or delivered, and to agree to fell, fupply, deliver, or fend for fuch purpose, and either on their own account or credit, or on the account or credit, or by the direction of any other perfon or perfons whomsoever and wherefoever refident or being, to cause or procure to be fold, fupplied, delivered, or fent for fuch purpose as aforesaid, or to authorise or direct any other perfon or persons whomsoever, or wheresoever resident or being, to fell, supply, deliver, or fend as aforesaid; or to aid or affift in so selling, fupplying, delivering, or authorifing or directing to be fold, supplied, delivered or fent; and also to buy or procure, or contract or agree to contract or procure, or cause to be bought or procured, or authorise or direct any other perfon or perfons whomfoever, or wherefoever refident or being, to buy or procure, or to contract or agree to buy or procure, or aid or affift in buying or procuring, or authorifing or directing to be bought or procured, any goods, wares, merchandizes, or effects mentioned in the faid acts, or any other goods, wares, merchandizes, or effects, (except such as are herein after mentioned) whether of the growth, production or manufacture of this kingdom, or of any foreign country, to or for the use of any perfons refiding in the territories of the United Provinces, or in the Auftrian Netherlands, or in any part of Italy, or for the purpose of being fent into any part or place within the fame respectively.

Provided nevertheless, that all such goods, wares, merchandizes, and effects, be exported from this kingdom, and in ships or veffels belonging to perfons of fome state or country in amity with his majefty, and that fuch exportation be made under the ufual conditions and regulations; and that fuch security be given by bond, in such' penalty, by fuch perfons, and in fuch manner, as shall be directed by the commiffioners of his majesty's customs, and that the faid goods, wares, merchandizes, and effects, shall be exported to the places proposed, and to none other; and that a certificate shall be produced, within fix months from the date of the bond, under the hand of the British conful or viceconful refiding at the port or place at which fuch goods or commodities shall be landed; and if no viceconsul shall be there resident, then under the hands of two known British merchants refiding there; and if no British merchant shall refide there, then under the hand of the chief magiftrate of the place, testifying that the faid goods have been all duly landed at that port or place.

Provided also, that nothing herein before contained shall be conftrued to licence the exportation, sale, sending, fupplying, or delivering of, or in any manner to relate to any arms, ordnance, ordnance stores, gunpowder, bullets, pitch, tar, hemp, mafts, timber, fail-cloth, cordage, faltpetre, or any naval or military flores whatsoever, nor to relate to any store or article whatsoever, intended for the use of the armies,

troops, fleets, ships, or vessels of the enemies of his majesty; or any articles which are specially prohibited by any other act or acts of parliament, other than the acts before mentioned, to be exported, fold, supplied, or delivered, as aforesaid; or in any manner to affect the provifions of any other act or acts of parliament; or to licence or authorize the several acts, matters, and things aforesaid, further or otherwise than as the fame might be affected by the feveral beforementioned acts of parliament.

Provided also, that every perfon who shall take the benefit of this licence and authority, shall take the fame upon condition, that if in cafe of any proceeding, civil or criminal, under the provifions of any of the acts herein before mentioned, or any thing alledged to have been done contrary thereto, any question shall arife whether the thing done was authorized by the licence hereby given, the proof that fuch thing was done under the circumstances, and according to the terms and conditions of this order, shall lie on the perfons claiming the benefit hereof.

And his majetty, with the advice aforesaid, is hereby further pleased to order, that this licence and order shall remain and be in force and effect until the 25th day of December next enfuing, unless the fame fhall be fooner revoked.

And the right honourable the lords commiffioners of his majefty's treasury, and the Lords commiffioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, to them respectively appertaining.

(Signed) W. FAWKENER.

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