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By the UNITED STATES, in Congress affembled. A PROCLAMATION.

7HEREAS in pursuance of a W plenipotentiary commiffion,

given on the 28th day of September, 1782, to the honorable Benjamin Frranklin, a treaty of amity and commerce betwen his majesty the king of Sweden, aud the United States of America, was, on the 3d day of April 1783, concluded by the faid Benjamin Franklin, with a minifter plenipotentiary, named for that purpofe, by the faid king and whereas the faid treaty hath been duly approved and ratified by the United States in Congress affemble d, and a tranflation thereof made in the words following, to wit.

A Treaty of amity and Commerce concluded betwen his majesty the king of Sweden and the United States of North-America.

The king of Sweden, of the Goths and Vandals, &c. &c. &c. and the thirteen United States of North Ame rica, to wit, New-Hampshire, Maffachufets-Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jerfey, Pennfylvania the counties of New Caftle, Kent and Suffex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, defiring to establish in a stable and permanent manner the rules which ought to be obferved relative to the correfpondence and commerce which the two parties have judged neceffary to establish between thier refpectiv countries, ftates and fabjects, his majesty and the United States have thought that they could not better accomplish that end than by taking for a bafis of their arrangements the mutual intereft and advantage of both nations, thereby avoiding all thofe burthenfome preferences, which are ufually fources of debate,embarrassment and discontent, and by leaving each party at liberty to mike, refpecting navigation and commerce, thofe interior regulations which fhall be moft convenient to itself.

With this view, his majesty the king of Swedan has nominated and appointed for his plenipotentary, count Guftavas Philip de Creuz, his

ambaffador extraordinary to his moft Chriftian majefty, and knight, commander of his orders; and the United States, on their part, have empowered Benjamin Franklin, their minister plenipotentiary to his moft Chriftian majefty the faid plenipotentiaries, after exchanging the full powers, and after mature deliberation in confequence thereof, have agreed upon, concluded and figned the following Articles :

ARTICLE I.

THERE fhall be a firm, inviolable and univertal peace, and a true and fincere friendship between the king of Sweden, his heirs and fucceffors, and the United States of America, and the fubje&ts of his majesty and thofe of the faid ftates, and between the countries, iflands, cities and towns fituated under the jurifdi&ion of the king and of the faid United States, without any exception of perfons or places; and the conditions agreed to in this prefent treaty, fhall be perpetual and permanent between the king, his heirs and fuccefiors, and the faid United States.

Art. 2. The king and the United States engage mutually, not to grant hereafter any particular favor to other nations in respect to commerce and navigation, which fhail not immediately become common to the other party, who fhall enjoy the fame favor freely, if the conceffion was freely made, or on allowing the fame compenfation, if the conceffion was conditional.

Art. 3. The fubjects of the king of Sweden fhall not pay in the ports, havens, roads, countries, iflands, cities and towns of the United States or any of them, any other nor greater duties nor impofts of what nature foever they may be, than those which the most favoured nations are or fall be obliged to pay; and they fhall enjoy all the rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and exemptions in trade, navigation and commerce which the faid nat ons do or shall enjoy, whether in paffing from one port to another of the United States, or in going to and from the fame, from or to any part of the world whate

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Art. 4. The fubje&s and inhabittants of the faid United States fhall not pay in the ports, havens, roads, iflands, cities and towns under the dominion of the king of Sweden any ther or greater duties or impofts of what nature foever they may be, or by what name foever called, than thofe which the moft favoured nations are or shall be obliged to pay; and they fhall enjoy all the rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and exemptions in trade, navigation and commerce which the faid nations do or fhall enjoy, whether in paffing from one port to another of the dominion of his faid majefty or in going to or from the fame, from or to any part of the world whatever.

Art. 5. There shall be granted a full, perfect and entire liberty of confcience to the inhabitants and subjects of each party, and no perfon fhall be molefted on account of his worship, provided he fubmits fo far as regards the public demonftration of it to the laws of the country: Moreover liberty fhall be granted, when any of the fubje&s or inhabitants of either party die in the territory of the other, to bury them in convenient and decent places, which fhall be affigned for the purpofe : And the two contracting parties will provide each in its jurifdiction that the fubjects and in habitants refpe&tively may obtain certificates of the death in case the delivery of them is required.

Art. 6. The fubje&s of the contracting parties in the respective states, may freely difpofe of their goods and effects either by teftament, donation, or otherwife in favour of fuch persons as they think proper; and their heirs in whatever place they fhall refide, fhall receive the fucceffiou even AB INTESTATO, either in perfon or by their attorney, without having occafion to take out letters of naturalization. These inheritances as well as the capitals and effects, which the fubjects of the two parties, in changing their abode,fhall bedefirous of removing from the place of their abode fhall be exempted from all duty,called "droit de detraction," on the part of the government of the two ftates refpectively. But it is at the fame time agreed, that nothing contained in this

article shall in any manner derogate from the ordinances published in Sweden against emigrations, or which may hereafter be published, which shall remain in full force and vigor. The United States on their part, or any of them, fhall be at liberty to make refpecting this matter, fuch laws as they think proper.

Art. 7. All and every the fubjects inhabitants of the kingdom of Swedes, as well as thofe of the United States fhall be permitted to navigate with their vessels in all fafety and freedom, and without any regard to those to whom the merchandizes and cargoes may belong, and from any port whatever, and the fubjects and inhabitants of the two ftates, fhall likewife be permitted to fail and trade with their veffels, and with the fame liberty and fafety to frequent the places, ports and havens of powers, enemies to both or either of the contracting parties,without being in any wife molested or troubled, and to carry on a commerce not only directly from the ports of an enemy, to a neutral port, but even from one port of an enemy to another port of an enemy, whither it be under the jurifdi&tion of the fame or of different princes. And as it is acknow ledged by this treaty, with refpect to fhips and merchandizes that free fhips fhall make the merchandizes free, and that every thing which fhall be on board of fhips belonging to fubjects of the one or the other of the contracting parties, fhall be confidered as free, even tho' the cargo or a part of it should belong to the enemies of one or both; it is nevertheless provided, that contraband goods fhall always be excepted; which being intercepted fhall be proceeded againft according to the fpirit of the following Articles. It is likewife agreed, that the fame liberty be extended to perfons who may be on board a free fhip, with this effect, that altho' they be enemies to both or either of the parties, they shall not be taken out of the free fhip, unless they are foldiers in the actual fervice of the faid enemies.

Art. 8. This liberty of navigation and commerce, fhall extend to all kinds of merchandizes except thofe only which are expreffed in the following articles, and are diftinguished by the name of contraband goods.

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Art. 11. In order to avoid and prevent on both fides all difputes and difcord, it is agreed that in cafe one of the parties fhall be engage in a war, the hips and veffels belonging to the fubjects or inhabitants of the other fhall be furnished with fea letters or paffports, expreffing the name, pro

Art. 9. Under the name of contraband or prohibited goods fhall be comprehended, arms, great guns, cannon balls, arquebufes mufquets, bombs, petards, granadoes, fauciffes, pitch, balls,carriages for ordnance, mufquet refts, bandoliers, cannon powder, matches, falt-petre, fulphur, bullets, pikes, fabres, fwords, morions, hel-perty and port of the veffel, and alfo mets, cuiraffes, halbards, javelins, piftols, holfters, belts, bayonets, horses with their harnefs, and all other kinds of arms and inftruments of war for the use of troops.

Art. 10. Thefe which follow fhall not be reckoned in the number of prohibited goods, that is to fay, all forts of cloaths, and all other manufactures of wool, flax, filk, cotton or any other materials, all kinds of wearing apparel together with the things of which they are commonly made; gold, filver coined or uncoined, brafs, iron,lead, copper, latten, coals, wheat, barley, and all forts of corn or pulfe, tobacco, all kinds of spices, falted or fmoaked flesh, falted fish, cheese, but ter, beer, oil, wines, fugar, all forts of falt and provifions, which ferve for the nourishment & fuftenance of man; all kinds of cotton, hemp, flax, tar, pitch, ropes, cables, fails, fail cloth, anchors, and any parts of anchors, fhip-mafts, planks, boards, beams and all forts of trees, and other things proper for building or repairing fhips; nor fhall any goods be confidered as contraband, which have not been worked into the form of any inftrument or thing for the purpofe of war by land or by fea, much less such as have been prepared, or wrought up for any other ufe. All which fall be reckoned free goods, as likewife all others which are not comprehended and particularly mentioned in the foregoing article; fo that they fhall not, by any pretended interpretation be comprehended among prohibited or contraband goods: on the contrary, they may be freely transported by the fubjects of the king and of the United States, even to places belonging to any enemy, fuch places only excepted as are befieged, blocked or invefted, and thofe places only shall be confidered as fuch, which are nearly furrounded by one of the belligerent powers.

the name and place of abode of the mafter or commander of the said veffel, in order that it may thereby appear that the faid veffel really and truly belongs to the fubje&ts of the one or the other party. These pafsports, which fhall be drawn up in good and due form, fhall be renewed every time the veffel returns home in the course of a year. It is alfo agreed, that the faid veffels when loaded fhall be provided not only with fea letters, but alfo with certificates, containing a particular account of the cargo, the place from which the veffel failed, and that of her deftination, in order that it may be known, whether they carry any of the prohibited or contraband merchan dizes, mentioned in the 9th article of the prefent treaty; which certificates fhall be made out by the officers of the place from which the veffel fhall depart.

Art. 12. Although the veffels of the one and of the other party may navigate freely, and with all fafety, as is explained in the 7th article, they fhall nevertheless be bound at all times, when required, to exhibit as wel! on the high fea as in port, their passports and certificates abovementioned. And not having contraband merchandize on board for an enemy's port, they may freely and without hindrance purfue their voyage to the place of their deftination. Nevertheless the exhibition of papers fhall not be demanded of merchant fhips under the convoy of veffels of war, but.credit all be given to the word of the officer com. manding the convoy.

Art. 13. If on producing the faid certificates, it be difcovered, that the veffel carries fome of the goods which are declared to be prohibited or contraband, and which are configned to an enemy's port, it fhall not however

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be lawful to break up the hatches of fuch hips nor to open ny cheft, coffers, packs, cafks er veffels, or to remove or difplace the fmalieft part of the merchandizes until the cargo has been landed in the prefence of officers appointed for the purpose, and until an inventory thereof has been taken; nor thall it be lawful to fell, exchange or alienate the cargo or any part thereof, until legal procefs fhall have been had against the prohibited merchandizes and fentence fhall have paffed declaring them liable to confifcation, faving nevertheless as weil the thips themselves as the other merchandizes which fhall have been found therein, which by virtue of this prefent treaty are to be eiteemed free, and which are not to be detained on pretence of their having been loaded with prohibited merchandize, and much lefs confifcated as lawful prize. And in cafe the contraband merchandize be only a part of the Cargo, and the master of the vessel agrees, contents and offers to deliver them to the veifel, that has difcovered them, iu that cafe the latter, after receiving the merchandizes which are good prize, fhall immediately let the veffel go, and fhall not by any means hinder her from purfu. ing her voyage to the place of her deftination. When a veffel is taken and brought into any of the ports of the contracting parties, if upon examination fhe be found to be loaded only with merchandizes declared to be free, the owner or he who has made the prize, fhall be bound to pay all cofts and damages to the master of the veffel unjustly detained.

Art. 14. It is likewife agreed that what foever fhall be found to be laden by the subje&s of either of the two contracting parties on a fhip belonging to the enemies of the other party, the whole effects, although not of the number of thofe declared contraband, fhall be confifcated as if they belonged to the enemy, excepting neverthelefs fuch goods and merchandizes as were put on board before the declaration of the war and even fix months after the declaration, after which term

none shall be prefumed to be ignorant of it, which merchandizes fhall not in any manner be fubject to confifcation, but fhall be faithfully and fpecifically delivered to the owners who hail claim or cause them to be claimed before confifcation and fale, as also their proceeds if the claim be made within 8 months and could not be made fooner after the fale which is to be public: provided nevertheless, that if the faid merchandizes be contraband, it shall not be in any wife lawful to carry them afterward into a port belonging to the enemy.

Art. 15. And that more effectual care may be taken for the fecurity of the two contracting parties, that they fuffer no prejudice by the men of war of the other party or by privateers all captains and commanders of fhips of his Swedish majefty and the United States and all their fubjects fhall be forbidden to do any injury or damage to thofe of the other party, and if they at to the contrary, having been found guilty on examination by their proper judges, they fhall be bound to make fatisfaction for all damages and the intereft thereof, and to make them good under pain and obligation of their perfons and goods.

Art. 16. For this caufe, every individual who is defirous of fitting out a privateer shail, before he receives letters patent or fpecial commiffion, be obliged to give bond with fufficient fureties, before a competent judge,for a fufficient fam, to answer all damages and wrongs which the owner of the privateer, his officers or others in his employ may commit during the cruise, Contrary to the tenor of this treaty and contrary to the edicts published by either party, whether by the king of Sweden or by the United States, in virtue of this fame treaty, and allo under the penalty of having the faid letters patent and fpecial commiffion revoked and made void.

(To be concluded in our next.)

Monthly

Monthly Chronology for May 1734.

Foreign News.

LONDON, MARCH 10.
X7E learn from Lyons, that on the

2d ult. the Academy of that city declared Mr. Edward de Montgolfer a Fellow of that Society. They announced at the fame time an extraordinary premium of 1200 livres, appropriated by the Steur Fieffels, Intendent of that Generality, and the Marquis de St. Vincent, for "the difcovery of the most certain and fimple method of directing at pleasure the aerofiatic baloon horizontally." The different competitors are to deliver in their pieces on the ift of September, 1734, and the premium is to be diftributed in the public Affembly on the 7th of December following.

March 5. The Academy of Lyons have offered a prize of sol. to the author of the beft effay on the following theme, viz. "To difcover the safeft, leift expenfive, and moft effe&tual means of directing air balloons at pleafure." The candidates are to write in Latin, French, or English, and to fend in their tracts before the firft of Feb. 1785.

13. The late difputes between the Republic of Venice, and the StatesGeneral of Holland, which were occafioned by the latter feizing three Venetian vefels, under pretence of their being concerned in a contraband trade on the coaft of Guinea, we are affured is likely to be fettled to the fatisfaction of both nations by the mediation of the Empress of Russia.

Extra of a Letter from Paris, February 16.

"By an arret of the Council of State of the 11th of January, the king has fuppreffed the exclufive privilege of the negro trade; but through that fpirit of uprightnefs which characterizes him, he grants, as an indemnification to the adminiftrators and grantees, the exclufive privilege of the

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gum trade for nine years, to com mence the ift of July next."

March 25. The town was yesterday thrown into a very great ferment, by one of the moft exraordinary incidents that ever happened in the annals of hiftory. Some robbers having got out of the fields over the garden wall of the Lord Chancellor's houfe, inGreat Crmond Street, from thence found means to get into the area, where they forced two bars of the kitchen window, and pro eeded through it up fairs, made their way into a room adjoining to his Lordship's ftudy. Here they broke open feveral drawers, and at laft coming to that in which the great feal of England is depofited, they took it out of the bag in which it was kept, and carried it off, together with two filver hilted fwords, and about 100 guineas in money.

HOUSE OF LORDS,
WEDNESDAY, March 25.

His Majefly being feated on the Throne, the Commons were fent for, and being come with the Speaker, the King gave the Royal Affent to 17 public and 6 private bills; after which his Majefty made the following moit gracious fpecch from the Throne :

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"On a full confideration of the prefent fituation of affairs, and of the extraordinary circumstances which have produced it.I am induced to put an end to this feffion of Parliament; I feel it a duty which I owe to the conflitution and to the country in Tuch a fituation, to recur as fpeedily as pemble to the fenfe of my people by calling a new Parliament.

"I truit that this meafure will tend to obviate the mifchiefs arifing from the unhappy divifions and difractions which have lately fubfifted; and that the various important objeâs which will require confideration, may be afterwards proceeded upon with lefs interruption and with Lappier effect.

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