charged to repeat his complaint of. It is from your prudence, noble, grand, and powerful lords, and the refult of your farther deliberations on this fubject, that his majefty expects an answer, speedy and fatiffactory. (Signed) At the Hague, Aug. 6, 1787. DE THULEMEYER. Memorial prefented to their High Mightingfles the States General of the United Provinces, Aug. 14, 1787, by Sir James Harris, K. B. the British mbajador at the Hague. High and mighty Lords, HE king, animated with the truest and most fincere fentiments of friendship for your high mightineffes, cannot without extreme pain see the continuation of the unfortunate troubles which fubfift in the republic of the United Provinces; and which, by their continuation, threaten the moft grievous confequences. The memorials which the underfigned envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary has prefented to your high mightineffes, fince he had the honour to refide here, have. fhewn, that the king his master, as a good friend and neighbour of the republic, has never ceafed defiring to fee peace re-established; and his majefty will be always difpofed to co-operate on his part, in fuch a manner as your high mightineffes may judge proper. His majefty having obferved that the ftates of the provinces of Zealand and Friefland have declared their difpofition to afk the mediation of fome neighbouring powers, His (in cafe that your bigh mightineffes judge fuch intervention neceffary) and that of Zealand, has called to. mind, on this occafion, the repeated affurances which the king has given of his friendship for the United Provinces; the underfigned has express orders to affure your high mightineffes that his majefty has conftantly strongly at heart the reeftablishment of the tranquillity of the republic, the prefervation of the true conftitution, and the maintenance of the just rights and privileges of all its members. majefty feels the greatest fatisfaction, in having reafon to think that the internal means furnished by the constitution itself have power fufficient to accomplish fo falutary if your high mightineffes are dean object. But at the fame time, cided, that it is neceffary to recur vite his majesty; then, in natural to a foreign mediation, and to inconfequence of his affection, and of his good will for the republic, the king will be eager to prove to your high mightineffes his fincere may depend on his majesty to bring defire to employ all the care that the negociation to a happy, folid, and permanent issue. JAMES HARRIS. IFFICULTIES have arifen in the Eaft Indies, relative to the meaning and extent of the thirteenth article of the treaty of peace, figned at Verfailles, Sept. 3, 1783; his Britannic majefty, and his moft Chriftian majefly, with a view to remove every caufe of difpute between their respective subjects in that part of the world, have thought proper to make a particular convention, which may ferve as an explanation of the thirteenth article above-mentioned. In this view, their said majesties have named for their respective plenipotentiaries, to wit, on the part of his Britannic majefty, William Eden, Efq. privy counfellor in Great Britain and Ireland, member of the British parliament, and his envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to his most Chriftian majefty; and, on the part of his moft Chriftian majefty, the Sieur Armand Mark, Count de Montmorin de St. Herem, marshal of his camps and forces, counfellor in all his councils, knight of his order and of the golden fleece, minifter and fecretary of state, and of his commands and finances, having the department of foreign affairs; who, after having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles: I. His Britannic majefty again engages "to take fuch measures as "thall be in his power for fecuring "to the fubjects of France a fafe, free, and independent trade, fuch as was carried on by. the French "Eaft India company," and as it is explained in the following articles, "whether they exercife'it individually, or as a company;" as well in the Nabobfhip of Arcot, and the countries of Madura and Tanjore, as in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, in the northern circars, and in general in all the British poffeffions on the coafts of Orixa, Coromandel, and Malabar. II. In order to prevent all abufes and difputes relative to the impor tation of falt, it is agreed that the French fhall not import annually into Bengal more than two hundred thoufand maunds of falt: the faid falt fhall he delivered at a place of depofit appointed for that purpofe by the government of Bengal, and to officers of the faid government, at the fixed price of one hundred and twenty rupees for every hundred maunds. III. There fhall be delivered annually for the French commerce, upon demand of the French agentin Bengal, eighteen thousand maunds of faltpetre, and three hundred chefts of opium, at the price established before the late war. IV. The fix ancient factories, namely, Chandernagore, Coffimbuzar, Decca, Jugdèa, Balafore, and Patna, with the territories belonging to the faid factories, fhall be under the protection of the French flag, and fubject to the French jurifdiction. V. France fhall always have poffeffion of the ancient houfes of Soopore, Keerpoy, Cannicole, Mohunpore, Serampore, and Chittagong; as well as the dependencies on Soopore, viz. Gantjurat, Alfende, Chintzabad, Patorcha, Monepore, and Dolobody; and thall further have the faculty of establishing new houfes of commerce; but none of the faid houfes thall have any jurifdiction, or any exemption from the ordinary juftice of the country exercifed over British subjects. VI. His Britannic majefty engages to take measures to fecure French fubjects, without the limits of the ancient factories above-mentioned, an exact and impartial adminiftration of juftice in all matters concerning their perfous or properties, or the carrying on their trade, in in the fame manner and as effectually as to his own fubjects. VII. All Europeans as well as natives, against whom judicial proceedings fhall be instituted, within the limits of the ancient factories above-mentioned, for offences committed, or debts contracted, within the faid limits, and who fhall take refuge out of the same, shall be delivered up to the chiefs of the faid factories; and all Europeans, or others whatsoever, against whom judicial proceedings fhall be inftituted, within the said limits, and who fhall take refuge within the fame, fhall be delivered up by the chiefs of the faid factories, upon demand being made of them by the governor of the country. VIII. All the fubjects of either nation refpectively, who fhall take refuge within the factories of the. other, shall be delivered up on each fide, upon demand being made of them. IX. The factory of Yanam, with its dependencies, having, in purfuance of the faid treaty of peace, been delivered up by Mr. William Hamilton on the part of his Britannic majefty, to Mr. Peter Paul Martin, on the part of his moft Chriftian majefty, the reftitution thereof is confirmed by the prefent convention, in the terms of the inftument bearing date the feventh of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and figned by Meffieurs Hamilton and Martin. X. The prefent convention fhall be ratified and confirmed in the fpace of three months, or sooner if it can be done, after the exchange of fignatures' between the plenipotentiaries. In witness whereof we, minifters plenipotentiary, have figned the prefent convention, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Versailles, Aug. 31, 1787. LE CTE. DE MONTMORIN, (L. S.) t Tranflation of the Declaration and Counter-Declaration which were respectively figned and exchanged at Versailles, on the 27th of October, by his Grace the Duke of Dorfet, bis Majefty's Ambaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the Right Honourable William Eden, his Majefty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary, on the Part of his Majefty; and by the Count de Montmorin, bis moft Chriftian Majesty's Minifter and Secretary of State, having the Department of Foreign Af fairs, on the part of his most Christian Majefty. DECLARATION. HE events which have taken THE place in the republic of the United Provinces, appearing no longer to leave any fubject of difcuflion, and ftill less of conteft, between the two courts, the underfigned are authorized to afk, whether it is the intention of his most Chriftian majefty to carry into effect the notification made on the 16th of September laft, by his moth Chriftian majesty's minifter plenipotentiary, which, by announcing that fuccours would be given in Holland, has occafioned the naval armaments on the part of his majefty; which armaments have become reciprocal. If the court of Verfailles is dif pofed to explain itfelf upon this fubject, fubject, and upon the conduct to be adopted towards the republic, in a manner conformable to the defire which has been expreffed on both fides, to preferve the good underftanding between the two courts; and it being alfo understood, at the fame time, that there is no view of hoftility towards any quarter, in consequence of what has paffed; his majefty, always anxious to concur in the friendly fentiments of his moft Chriftian majefty, would agree with him, that the armaments, and in general all warlike preparations, fhould be difcontinued on each fide, and that the natives of the two nations fhould be again placed upon the footing of the peace establishment, as it stood on the first of January of the prefent year. Verfailles, 27th of Oct. 1787. DORSET. WM. EDEN. COUNTER-DECLARATION. tile view towards any quarter relative to what has paffed in Holland. His majefty, therefore, being defirous to concur with the fentiments of his Britannic majefty for the prefervation of the good harmony between the two courts, agrees with pleasure with his Britannic majesty, that the armaments, and in general all warlike preparations, fhall be difcontinued on each fide; and that the navies of the two nations shall be again placed upon the footing of the peace establishment, as it ftood on the firft of January of the prefent year. Verfailles, 27th Oct. 1787. LE CTE. DE MONTMORIN. In confequence of the declaration and counter-declaration exchanged` this day, the undersigned, in the name of their respective fovereigns, agree, that the armaments, and in general all warlike preparations, hall be difcontinued on each fide, and that the navies of the two nations fhall be again placed upon the footing of the peace eftablishment, as it ftood on the first of January of the prefent year. Versailles, Oct. 27, 1787. DORSET. W. EDEN. LE CTE DE MONTMORIN. The intention of his majefty not being, and never having been, to interfere by force in the affairs of the republic of the United Provinces, the communication made to the court of London on the 16th of laft month, by Monfieur Barthelemy, having had no other object than to announce to that court an intention, the motives of which no longer exift, especially fince the king of Pruffia has imparted his refolution; his majefly makes no difficulty to declare, that he will not give any effect to the declaration above-mentioned; and that he retains no hof- To the Right Reverend and Reve The Emperor's Declaratim to the States of his Belgic Provinces, July 3, 1787, in Anfwer to their Remonftrance of the 22d of June. * *This remonftrance contained the motives of their proceedings in oppofition to the emperor's reforms; and which proceedings they declare "have no other "foundation than the firmett perfuafion that the new fyftem is as deftructive to "the interests of his imperial majefty, as to the welfare of his Belgic people." rend rend Fathers in God, noble, dear, and well-beloved, we the Emperor and King. M Y chancellor of ftate has prefented me your remonstrance dated the 22d of June laft; and I wish, in answer to its contents, to acquaint you, by these prefents, that it never was my intention to overturn the conftitution of my provinces in Flanders, and that all the inftructions with which I have charged my governors-general have invariably tended, and without even the fhadow of any perfonal intereft, to the advantage of my faithful fubjects in the Low Countries; at the fame time that I would not deprive the body of the nation of any of their ancient rights, privileges, and liberties enjoyed by them. Every ftep I have taken ought to convince you of the truth of this affertion, if you yet remain willing to render them the juftice which is their due. I occupied myfelf on fome reforms in the adminiftration of juftice, only at the inftance of numerous and repeated requests that were made me, praying to obtain a thorter or lefs difficult mode of proceedings in law; and the fuperintendants appointed in confequence had no other aim than to fee that the laws were put in force, and that thofe who were amenable to them thould pay them proper regard. In regard to many ancient privileges, I only wish to reform, at the defire of thofe concerned, the abuses that were become hurtful, and which had crept in by the lapfe of time, contrary to the intent of their original purpofes. Far, then, from foreseeing any oppofition, and especially one to criminal and bold, I expected that the ftates of my provinces in Flanders would have entered on the new regulations with as much alacrity as gratitude: and I ftill am willing, as a kind guardian, and as a man who knows how to commiserate the ill. advised, and who withes to forgive, to attribute what has yet been done, and what you have dared to do, to amifinterpretation of my intentions, made and spread abroad by perfons more attached to their private intereft than to the general good, and who have no eftate to lose. Be it as it may, it is my pleasure that the execution of the new ordinances in queftion fhould remain,for the pretent, fufpended; and whene their royal highneffes, my lieutenants and governors-general, agreeably to the intentions which I have lately communicated to them, fhall be affembled at Vienna with the deputies of the different ftates, to reprefent before me their grievances aloud, and to learn my intentions, which they will always find calculated, on the principles of the ftricteft juftice, and tending folely to the benefit of my fubjects, we will then agree on fome regulations to be made for the general good, according to the established law of the land. But if, contrary to every intent, this laft token of my goodness towards you thould be difregarded, inafmuch that you should refuse to come and lay before me your complaints, your fears, your doubts, and to litten to me with confidence, and that you continue your fhameful exceffes and unpardonable proceedings,then you will draw on yourselves all the unhappy confequences which muft refult from them, and which I pray God may never come to país. (Signed) JOSEPH. (Counter-figned) A. G. DE LEDEROR. The |