the 8th of July laft, in the condition in which things were on the 11th of June, N. S. in the Weft-Indies, and on the 31ft of October, alfo N. S. in the Eaft-Indies. And every thing befides fhall be re-established on the foot that they were or ought to be before the prefent war.

The faid refpective commiffaries, as well those for the Weft, as thofe for the Eaft-Indies, fhall be ready to fet out on the first advice that their Britannick and moft Chriftian Majesties shall receive of the exchange of the ratifications, furnished with all the neceffary inftructions, commiffions, powers, and orders, for the most expeditious accomplishment of their faid Majefties intentions, and of the engagements taken by the present treaty.

X. The ordinary revenues of the countries that are to be respectively reftored or yielded, and the impofitions laid upon thofe countries for the entertainment and winter quarters of the troops, fhall belong to the powers that are in poffeffion of them, till the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, without, however, its being permitted to proceed to any kind of execution, provided fufficient fecurity has been given for the payment; it being always to be understood, that the forage and utenfils for the troops fhall be furnished till the evacuations; in confequence of which, all the powers promife and engage not to demand or exact impofitions and contributions which they may have laid upon the countries, towns, and places that they have poffeffed during the courfe of the war, and which had not been paid at the time that the events of the faid war had obliged them to abandon the faid countries, towns, and places; all pretenfions of this nature being made void by the present treaty.

XI. All the papers, letters, documents, and archives, which were in the countries, eftates, towns and places which are restored, and thofe belonging to the countries yielded, fhall be respectively, and bona fide, delivered or given up at the fame time, if poffible, as poffeffion shall be taken, or at fartheft two months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty of all the eight parties, in whatever places the faid papers or documents may be, namely, thofe which may have been removed from the archive of the great council of Mechlin.

XI. His

XII. His Majefty the King of Sardinia fhall remain in poffeffion of all that he antiently and newly enjoyed, and particularly of the acquifition which he made in the year 1743, of the Vigevanafque, a part of the Pavefan, and the county of Anghiera, in the manner as this prince now poffeffes them, by virtue of the ceffions that have been made of them to him.

XIII. The moft ferene Duke of Modena, by virtue as well of the present treaty, as of his rights, prerogatives, and dignities, fhall take poffeffion fix weeks, or fooner if poffible, after the exchange of the ratifications of the faid treaty, of all his ftates, places, forts, countries, effects, and revenues, and, in general of all that he enjoyed before the war.

At the fame time shall be likewife restored to him, his archives, documents, writings, and moveables of what nature foever they may be, as alfo the artillery, and warlike ftores, which shall have been found in his countries, at the time of their being feized. As to what shall be wanting, or fhall have been converted into another form, the juft value of the things fo taken away, and which are to be restored, fhall be paid in ready money; which money, as well as the equivalent for the fiefs, which the most ferene Duke of Modena poffeffed in Hungary, if they are not restored to him, fhall be fettled and adjusted by the refpective generals or commiffaries, who, according to the 8th article of the present treaty, are to affemble at Nice in fifteen days after the fignature, in order to agree upon the means for executing the reciprocal reftitutions and putting in poffeffion, fo that at the fame time, and on the fame day as the moft ferene Duke of Modena shall take poffeffion of all his ftates, he may likewise enter into the enjoyment either of his fiefs in Hungary, or of the faid equivalent, and receive the value of fuch things as cannot be reftored to him. Juftice fhall alfo be done him, within the fame time of fix weeks after the exchange of the ratifications, with refpect to the allodial effects of the Houfe of Guaftalla.

XIV. The most ferene Republick of Genoa, as well by virtue of the present treaty, as of its rights, prerogatives, and dignities, fhall re-enter into the poffeffion, fix weeks, VOL. II,

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or fooner if poffible, after the exchange of the ratifications of the faid treaty, of all the ftates, forts, places, countries, effects, of what nature foever they may be, rents and revenues, that it enjoyed before the war; particularly, all and every one of the members and fubjects of the faid republick fhall, within the aforefaid term, after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, re-enter into the poffeffion, enjoyment, and liberty of difpofing of all the funds, which they had in the bank of Vienna in Auftria, in Bohemia, or in any other part whatsoever of the states of the Empress Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and of those of the King of Sardinia; and the intereft fhall be exactly and regularly paid them, to be reckoned from the faid day of the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

XV. It has been fettled and agreed upon between the eight high contracting parties, that for the advantage and maintenance of the peace in general, and for the tranquility of Italy in particular, all things fhall remain there in the condition they were in before the war; faving, and after, the execution of the difpofitions made by the prefent treaty..

XVI. The treaty of the Affiento for the trade of Negroes, figned at Madrid on the 26th of March, 1713, and the article of the annual fhip, making part of the faid treaty, are particularly confirmed by the prefent treaty, for the four years during which the enjoyment thereof has been interrupted, fince the commencement of the present war, and fhall be executed on the fame footing, and under the fame conditions, as they have or ought to have been executed before the faid war.

XVII. Dunkirk fhall remain fortified on the fide of the land, in the fame condition as it is at prefent; and as to the fide of the sea, it shall remain on the footing of former treaties.

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XVIII. The demands of money that his Britannick Majefty has, as Elector of Hanover, upon the crown of Spain; the differences relating to the abbey of St. Hubert the enclaves of Hainault, and the bureaux newly establish. ed in the Low Countries; the pretenfions of the Elector Palatine; and the other articles, which could not be regu. lated, fo as to enter into the prefent treaty, fhall be ami

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cably adjusted immediately by the commiffaries appointed for that purpose, on both fides, or otherwife, as fhall be agreed on by the powers concerned.

XIX. The 5th article of the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance, concluded at London the 2d of Auguft, 1718; containing the guaranty of the fucceffion to the kingdom of Great-Britain in the house of his Britannick Majesty now reigning, and by which every thing has been provided for, that can relate to the person who has taken the title of King of Great-Britain, and to his defcendants of both fexes, is exprefly confirmed and renewed by the prefent article, as if it was here inferted in its full extent,

XX. His Britannick Majefty, as Elector of Brunswick Lunebourg, as well for himself, as for his heirs and fucceffors, and all the ftates and poffeffions of his faid Majefty in Germany, are included and guarantied by the prefent treaty of peace.

XXL. All the powers interested in the prefent treaty, who have guarantied the Pragmatick Sanction of the 19th of April 1713, for the whole inheritance of the late Emperor Charles VI. in favour of his daughter the Empress Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, now reigning, and of her defcendants for ever, according to the order established by the faid Pragmatick Sanction, renew it in the best manner poffible; except, however, the ceffions already made, either by the faid Emperor, or the faid Princess, and those stipulated by the present treaty.

XXII. The dutchy of Silefia, and the county of Glatz, as his Pruffian Majefty now poffeffes them, are guarantied to that Prince by all the powers, parties and contractors of the present treaty.

XXIII. All the powers contracting and interested in the prefent treaty, reciprocally and refpectively guaranty the execution thereof.

XXIV. The folemn ratifications of the prefent treaty, expedited in good and due form, fhall be exchanged in this city of Aix la Chapelle, between all the eight parties, within the space of one month, or fooner if poffible, to be reckoned from the day of its fignature.

In witness whereof, we the under-written their Ambaffadors Extraordinary and Minifters Plenipotentiaries, have

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figned with our hands, in their name, and by virtue of our full powers, the present treaty of peace, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be put thereto.

Done at Aix la Chapelle, the 18th of October, 1748.

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Separate Articles.

(L. S.) W. Bentinck. (L.S.) G.A.Helaer. (L.S.) J. V. Borffele, (L.S.) O.Z.Van Haren.

OME of the titles made ufe of by the contracting powers, either in the full powers, and other acts during the courfe of the negotiation, or in the preamble of the prefent treaty, not being generally acknowledged, it has been agreed, that no prejudice fhall at any time refult therefrom to any of the faid contracting parties; and that the titles taken or omitted on either fide, on account of the faid negotiation, and of the prefent treaty, fhall not be cited, or any confequence drawn therefrom.

II. It has been agreed and determined, that the French language made ufe of in all the copies of the present treaty, and which may be used in the acts of acceffion, fhall not be made a precedent that may be alledged, or drawn into confequence, or in any manner prejudice any of the contracting powers; and that they conform themfelves for the future to what has been and ought to be observed with regard to, and on the part of powers, who are used and have a right to give and receive copies of like treaties and acts in another language than the French.

The prefent treaty, and the acceffions, which fhall intervene, having ftill the fame force and effect, as if the aforefaid practice had been therein obferved: and the prefent feparate articles fhall have likewife the fame force, as if they were inferted in the treaty,

In witness whereof, we the under-written Ambaffadors Extraordinary and Minifters Plenipotentiaries of his Britannick Majefty, of his most Christian Majesty, and of the Lords the States General of the United Provinces, have