Art. 1. There shall be peace, amity, and good understanding between the French republic and the kingdom of Spain.

2. In confequence, all the hoftilities between the two contracting powers fhall ceafe from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty; and none of them shall, from that period, furnish against the other, in any quality, or under any title, any aid, or contingent, either in men, horfes, provifions, money, warlike stores, hips, or other articles.

3. Neither of the contracting powers thall grant a paffage through their territories to any troops at war with the other.

- 4. The French republic restores to the king of Spain all the conquests which the has made from him in the course of the present war: the conquered places and territories shall be evacuated by the French troops within fifteen days after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty.

5. The fortified places, of which mention is made in the preceding article, fhall be restored to Spain, with the cannons, warlike stores, and other articles belonging to those places, which shall have been in them at the moment of the figning of this treaty.

6. All forts of military contri

butions, requifitions, and payments fhall entirely cease from the date of fifteen days after the figning of the present pacification: all the arrears due at that period, even bills and promiffory notes, given for these objects, shall be of no effect: what shall have been taken or received after the above-named period, thall be gratuitously reftored, or paid for to the amount of its value.

7. There shall immediately be named by both fides commiflioners, for the purpose of adjusting a treaty of limits between the two powers: they shall as much as poffible take as the basis of this treaty with respect to the territories which were difputed before the present war, the tops of the mountains which are the fources of the rivers of France and Spain.

8. Neither of the contracting powers can, at the expiration of a month after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, maintain on their respective frontiers more than the number of troops they had usually been accuftomed to have ftationed there previous to the prefent war.

9. In exchange for the places restored by the 4th article, the king of Spain, for himself and his fucceffors, gives up and abandons to the French republic all right of property in the Spanish part of St. Domingo, one of the Antilles: a month after the ratification of the prefent treaty shall be known in that ifsland, the Spanish troops shall be in readiness to evacuate the places, ports, and establishments which they at present occupy, in order to give them up to the troops of the French republic as foon as they thall arrive to take poffeflion

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10. There shall be respectively granted to the individuals of the two nations reftitution of the effects, revenues, and property of all forts, detained, feized, or confifcated, on account of the war which has fubfifted between the French republic and his Catholic majesty; and likewife the most speedy juftice with respect to the particular claims which these individuals may have in the states of the two contracting powers

11. In the mean time, till there shall be a new treaty of commerce between the contracting parties, all correfpondencies and commercial relations shall be re-established between France and Spain on the footing on which they stood before the present war.

All French merchants shall be allowed to pass into Spain, there to refume their commercial establishments. They shall make new

ones according to their conveni

ence, sebmitting, in common with all other individuals, to the laws aud usages of the country.

The Spanith merchants shall enjoy the fame privileges, fubject to the fame conditions, in France.

12. All the prifoners respec tively made fince the commencement of the war, without regard to the difference of number and rank, comprehending the feamen and marines captured on board French or Spanith vessels, or thofe of other nations, as well as in general all those imprisoned on either fide on account of the war, thall be delivered up within the space of two months at lateft, after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent treaty, without any appeal on either part, difcharging, however, the private debts which the prisoners may have contracted during their captivity. The fame mode shall be adopted with respect to the fick and wounded, immediately after. their recovery or cure.

Commiflioners on either fide shall be immediately appointed to proceed to the execution of the present article.

13. The Portugueze prisoners making a part of the troops of Portugal, who have ferved with the armies and on board the ships of his Catholic majesty, thall be in like manner comprehended in the above-mentioned exchange. It shall be the fame with refpect to the French troops taken by the Portuguese troops in question.

14. The fame peace, amity, and good understanding, ftipulated by the prefent treaty between France and the king of Spain, shall take place between the king of Spain and the republic of the United Pro

fented to have recently perpetrated on hunting parties of the Creeks; which have again subjected that frontier to disquietude and danger, which will be productive of further expence, and may occafion further effufion of blood. Meafures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of fuch outrages; and with the hope of their succeeding, at least to avert a general hoftility.

A letter from the emperor of Morocco announces to me his recognition of our treaty made with his father the late emperor; and confequently the continuance of peace with that power. With peculiar fatisfaction I add, that information has been received from an agent deputed on our part to Algiers, importing, that the terms of the treaty with the dey and regency of that country had been adjusted in fuch a manner, as to authorize the expectation of a speedy peace, and the reftoration of our unfortunate fellow citizens from a grievous captivity.

The latest advices from our envoy at the court of Madrid give, moreover, the pleasing information, that he had received affurances of a speedy and fatisfactory conclufion of his negociation. While the event, depending upon unadjusted particulars, cannot be regarded as afcertained, it is agreeable to cherish the expectation of an issue, which fecuring amicably the very effential interests of the United States, will, at the fame time lay the foundation of lafting harmony with a power, whose friendthip we have uniformly and fincerely defired to cultivate.

Though not before officially difclosed to the house of representa

tives, you, gentlemen, are apprized, that a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, has been negotiated with Great Britain; and that the fenate have advised and consented to its ratification, upon a condition which excepts part of one article. Agreeably thereto, and to the best judgment I was able to form of the public interest, after full and mature deliberation, I have added my fanction. The result on the part of his Britannic majesty is unknown. When received, the subject will, without delay, be placed before congrefs.

This interesting summary of our affairs with regard to the foreign powers, between whom and the United States controverfies have subsisted, and with regard also to those of our Indian neighbours with whom we have been in a state of enmity and misunderstanding, opens a wide field for confoling and gratifying reflections. If, by prudence and moderation on every fide, the extinguishment of all the caufes of external difcord, which have heretofore menaced our tranquillity, on terms compatible with our national rights and honour, shall be the happy refult, how firm and how precious a foundation will have been laid for accelerating, maturing, and establishing the profperity of our country?

Contemplating the internal fituation, as well as the external relations, of the United States, we difcover equal cause for contentment and fatisfaction. While many of the nations of Europe, with their American dependencies, have been involved in a conteft unufually bloody, exhaufting, and calamitous; in which the evils of foreign war have been aggravated by domestic convulfions and infurrection; in which many of the arts most useful to fociety have been exposed to difcouragement and decay; in which fearcity of fubfiftence has embittered other fufferings; while even the anticipations of a return of the bleflings of peace and repose are alloyed by the sense of heavy and accumulating burdens, which press upon all the departments of industry, and threaten to clog the future springs of government; our favoured country, happy in a ftriking contraft, has enjoyed general tranquillity-the more fatisfactory, because maintained at the expence of no duty. Faithful to ourselves, we have violated no obligation to others. Our agriculture, commerce, and manufactures profper beyond former example; the molestations of our trade (to prevent a continuance of which, however, very pointed remonftrances have been made) being over-balanced by the aggregate benefits which it derives from a neutral pofition. Our population advances with a celeriry which, exceeding the most fanguine expecta tions, proportionally augments our ftrength and resources, and guarantees our future security. Every part of the union difplays indications of rapid and various improvement, and with burdens so light as fcarcely to be perceived; with refources fully adequate to our prefent exigencies; with governments founded on the genuine principles of rational liberty, and with mild and wholfome laws; is it too much to say, that our country exhibits a spectacle of national happiness never furpaffed, if ever before equalled?

Placed in a fituation every way fo auspicious, motives of commanding force impel us, with fincere acknowledgment to heaven, and pure love to our country, to unite our efforts to preserve, prolong and. improve our immense advantages, To co-operate with you in this defirable work, is a fervent and favourite wish of my heart.

It is a valuable ingredient in the generalestimate of our welfare, that the part of our country, which was lately the scene of disorder and infurrection, now enjoys the bleffings of quiet and order. The mifled have abandoned their errors, and pay the respect to our conftitution and laws, which is due from good citizens to the public authorities of the society. These circumflances have induced me to pardon, generally, the offenders here referred to: and to extend forgiveness to those who have been adjudged to capital punishment. For, although I shall always think it a facred duty, to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested; yet it appeared to me no lefs confiftent with the public good, than it is with my personal feelings, to mingle in the operations of governinent every degree of moderation and tenderness, which the national juftice, dignity, and safety may permit.

Gentlemen,

Among the objects which will claim your attention in the courte of the feffion, a review of our military establishment is not the leaft important. It is called for by the events which have changed, and may be expected still further to change, the relative situation of

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