tegrity, as foon as poffible, and in fuch manner that the laft hand may be put to that work, at least within the fpace of two years.

VI. As the examination and difcuffion of the other. points which remain to be difcuffed, either between the contracting parties, or any of their confederates, require much more time than can be fpared in this critical fituation of affairs, therefore to avoid all delays which might be too prejudicial to the common welfare, 'tis covenanted and agreed to declare mutually, that all the treaties and conventions which any of the faid contracting powers have made with other Princes and States, fhall fubfift as they now are, excepting only fo far as they may be contrary to any the points regulated by the prefent treaty; and moreover, that all the difputes which are actually between the faid contracting parties, or any of their allies, shall be amicably adjusted as foon as poffible; and in the mean time the contracting parties fhall mutually endeavour to prevent any of thofe who have differences, from having recourfe to arms to fupport their pretenfions.

VII. To take away all manner of doubt from the subjects of the King of Great-Britain, and the Lords the States General, touching their commerce in the kingdom of Sicily, his Imperial and Catholick Majefty has been pleased to declare, that from this time forward, they fhall be treated in the fame manner, and upon the fame foot as they were or ought to have been treated in the time of Charles II. King of Spain of glorious memory, and as any nation in the ftricteft friendship has been usually treated.

VIII. There fhall be included in this treaty of peace, all those who within the fpace of fix months, after its ratifications are exchanged, thall be propofed by either party, and by common content,

IX. This prefent treaty fhall be approved and ratified by his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, by his Sacred Royal Majefty of Great-Britain, and by the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, and the ratifications fhall be given and exchanged at Vienna, within fix weeks, to be computed from the day of figning.

In witness and confirmation whereof, as well the Imperial commiffioners, in quality of ambaffadors extraordinary and plenipotentiaries, as the Minifter of the King of Great-Britain, equally furnished with full powers, have figned this treaty with their own hands, and fealed it with their feals. Done at Vienna in Auftria, the 16th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1731.

(L. S.) Eugene of Savoy.

(L. S.) Philip Lewis of Zindendorf.
(L. S.) Gundacker Thomas of Staremberg.
(L. S.) Thomas Robinson.

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Separate Article.

HOUGH by the firft article of the treaty concluded this day between his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, his Sacred Royal Majefty of Great-Britain, and the Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, the contracting parties did mutually promife, among other things, that they would with all their forces oppofe the enterprizes of any perfon or perfons who fhould (perhaps contrary to expectation) offer to give disturbance to any of the contracting parties, their heirs or fucceffors, in the peaceable poffeffion of their kingdoms, dominions, provinces, countries, rights or immunities, which each of the contractors doth or ought to enjoy at the time of the conclufion of the prefent treaty; the faid contracting parties have nevertheless agreed among themselves, by virtue of the prefent feparate article, That if it fhould happen, perhaps in procefs of time, that the Turks fhould offer to difturb his Sacred Imperial and Catholick Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, in the quiet poffeffion of the kingdoms, dominions, provinces, countries, rights or immunities, which his Imperial Majefty actually doth, or ought to enjoy, the guaranties ftipulated in the faid first article, are not to be extended to this cafe now mentioned,

This separate article fhall have the fame force, &c.

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DECLARATION concerning the Spanish garrifons, which are to be introduced into the strong places of Tufcany, Parma, and Placentia.

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Orafinuch as his Sacred Imperial Catholick Majefty was defirous to have all manner of fecurity, before he would confent on his part to the third article of the treaty concluded this day, which regulates the immediate introduction of the Spanish garrifons into the ftrong places of Tuscany, Parma and Placentia, agreeably to the real views. and intentions contained in the promises made and figned in the treaty of Seville, partly on the 9th, and partly on. the 21ft day of November, Anno 1729; his Sacred Royal Majefty of Great-Britain, and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, have not, only exhibited those promises, bonâ fide, as they are here fubjoined, to his Sacred, Imperial, and Catholick Majesty, but moreover they have not hesitated to affirm in the ftrongest manner, that when they agreed to introduce the Spanish garrifons into the ftrong places of Tufcany, Parma and Placentia, they had no intention to depart in the least from those things which had been fettled by the fifth article of the quadruple alliance, concluded at London 1718, either with regard to the rights of his Imperial Majefty, and the empire, or to the fecurity of the kingdoms and ftates, which his Imperial Majefty actually poffeffeth in Italy, or laftly to the prefervation of the quiet and dignity of those who were then the lawful poffeffors of those Duchies. For this purpose his Royal Majefty of Great-Britain and the High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands have declared, and do declare, that they are entirely difpofed, and ready to give his Imperial and Catholick Majefty, as they do by these prefents, all the ftrong and folemn promises, evictions, or, as they are call'd, guaranties that can be defired, as well in relation to the points above-mentioned, as in relation to all the other points ftill contained in the said fifth article of the treaty called quadruple.

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July 22

This prefent declaration fhall have the fame force, &c.

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DECLARATION concerning the Succeffion of Parma.

T being apprehended that the unexpected death of the late moft Serene Prince, Anthony Farnefe, in his lifetime Duke of Parma and Placentia, might in fome fort retard or obstruct the conclufion of this treaty, it having happened at the very time when it was upon the point of being concluded; his Imperial and Catholick Majesty doth by virtue of this prefent act, declare and engage, that in cafe the hopes of the pregnancy of the moft Serene Duchefs Dowager, wife of the faid moft Serene Duke Anthony whilst he lived, do not prove abortive, and the faid Duchefs Dowager fhould bring a man-child into the world, all that has been regulated, as well by the third article of the treaty concluded this day, as by the act of declaration above recited, fhall take place, as much as if the unforeseen death of the Duke had not happened: but that if the hopes conceived of the pregnancy of the faid Duchefs Dowager should vanish, or the fhould bring a pofthumous daughter into the world, then his faid Imperial Majefty declares, and binds himself, that inftead of introducing the Spanish soldiers into the strong places of Parma and Placentia, the moft Serene Infante of Spain, Don Carlos, fhall be put into the poffeffion of the faid Duchies, in the fame manner as was agreed upon with the court of Spain, by confent of the empire, and pursuant to the letters of eventual inveftiture, the tenor of which fhall be looked upon as repeated and confirmed in all its articles, claufes and conditions; in fuch manner notwithstanding, that the faid Infante of Spain, as alfo the court of Spain, fhall firft of all fulfil the former treaties, wherein the Emperor is a contracting party with the confent of the empire. And whereas upon the decease of the faid Duke Anthony Farnefe, the Imperial troops were not put into the ftrong places of Parma and Placentia, with a view to hinder the eventual fucceffion, as it was fecured to the moft Serene Infante Don Carlos by the treaty of London, commonly called the Quadruple Alliance, but only to prevent any enterprize which might have disturbed the tranquility of Italy; his Sacred Imperial and Catholick Majefty perceiving, that by the treaty concluded this day, the publick tranquility

is restored and confirmed as far as poffible, he doth again declare, that in putting his troops into the ftrong places of Parina and Placentia, he had no other intention than to fupport as far as lay in his power, the fucceffion of the moft Serene Infante Don Carlos, as it is fecured to the faid Infante by the faid treaty of London: and that very far from oppofing the faid fucceffion, in cafe the male branch of the house of Farnefe fhould be utterly extinct;. or from oppofing the introduction of the Spanish garrifons, if the Duchefs Dowager fhould happen to bring a posthumous fon into the world, his Imperial Majefty doth on the contrary declare and promife, that the faid forces fhall by his exprefs orders be withdrawn, either that the faid Infante Don Carlos may be put into poffeffion of the faid Duchies, according to the tenour of the letters of eventual inveftiture, or that the Spanish garrisons may be introduced peaceably, and without any refiftance whatever; which said garifons are to ferve for no other use than to fecure the execution of the promise made to him, in cafe the male branch of the House of Farnefe fhould be utterly extinct.

The prefent Declaration fhall have the fame force, &c.

DECLARATION figned by the Minifters of the King of Great-Britain, and the Lords the States General, by virtue of their full powers.

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HEREAS among feveral articles agreed upon in the treaty of Seville, on the 9th and 21st day of November 1729, in favour of the Great Duke of Tufcany, as well as of the Duchies of Parma and Placentia, it was likewife provided, that as foon as the most Serene Infante of Spain, Don Carlos, or the Prince to whom his rights may devolve, fhould be in peaceable poffeffion of the fucceffion defigned for him, and fecure from any infults of enemies, and against any juft caufe of fear, then his Royal Catholick Majefty fhould prefently give orders for withdrawing his own troops out of the faid Duchies, but not thofe belonging to the Infante Don Carlos, or to the Prince upon whom, as above-mentioned, his rights may devolve.

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