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E it known to all those whom it either does or may concern, that the burdenfome war, in which his Pruffian Majefty finds himfelf engaged, laying him under a neceffity of making new efforts to defend himself against the numerous enemies who have invaded his dominions; and being thus obliged to enter into new measures with his Britannick Majefty, in order to provide, reciprocally and jointly, for their mutual defence and common fafety; and his Majefty the King of Great Britain, having at the fame time fignified a defire of ftrengthening the bands of friendship which fubfift between the two courts, and to this end, by an exprefs convention, upon the fuccours, by which he may affift his Pruffian Majefty the moft fpee dily and most effectually their faid Majefties have, for that purpose, named and authorized their respective mi nifters, viz. [The names of the minifters are the fame with those in the treaty immediately preceding.]en

I. It is agreed, that all former treaties, fubfifting between the two courts, of what date or nature foever, and efpecially that of Weftminster of the 16th of January, 1756, as well as the convention of the 11th of April of the current year, fhall be confidered as renewed and confirmed by the prefent convention, in all their points, articles, and clauses, and Thall have the fame force as if they were inferted here word for word.

II. This article is the fame with the first article of the preceding treaty.

III. This article is the fame with the 2d article of the preceding treaty.

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IV. This article is the fame with the 3d article of the preceding treaty.

V. This article is the fame with the 4th article of the preceding treaty.

In witness whereof, &c.

Done a London, the 7th of December, 1758.

VOL. III.

(L. S.) ROBERT HENLEY, C. S.

(L. S.) GRANVILLE, P.

(L.S.) HOLLES NEWCASTLE.
(L. S.) HOLDERNESSE.
(L. S.) HARDWICKE.

(L. S.) WILLIAM PITT.

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Convention between his Majefty and the King of Pruffia, 9th November, 1759.

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HIS treaty is the fame with the preceding, except the alteration of the date; and is figned by the fame minifters.

Convention between his Majefty King George III. and the King of Pruffia, 12th December, 1760.

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is alfo the fame with the preceding, except the alteration of the date; and is likewife figned by the fame minifters.

[To avoid repetition, we have given only one copy and one tranflation, where the treaties were the fame.]

COPY.

The Family Compact of the Iloufe of Bourbon, figned at Paris, Auguft 15th, 1761.

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N the name of the most holy and indivifible Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen. The ties of blood, which unite the two monarchs now reigning in France and Spain, and the particular fentiments which have animated each other, of which they have given fo many proofs, have engaged their Moft Chriftian and Catholick Majefties to form, and conclude between them, a treaty of friendship and union, under the title of The Family Compact; the principal object of which is to render permanent and indivifible, as well for their faid Ma jefties, as for their defcendants and fucceffors, thofe duties which are the natural confequences of confanguinity and friendship. The intention of their Moft Chriftian and Catholick Majefties, in contracting the engagements formed by this treaty, is to perpetuate in their pofterity the fentiments of Lewis XIV. of glorious memory, their common and auguft great grandfather; and to preserve for ever a folemn monument of their reciprocal intereft, which

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which ought to be the foundation of the views of their courts, and of the profperity of their royal families.

With this view, and to attain fo agreeable and falutary an end, their most Christian and Catholick Majefties have given their full powers, i. e. his Moft Chriftian Majesty to the Duke de Choifeul, a peer of France, Knight of his orders, and Lieutenant-general of his Majefty's armies, Governor of Touraine, High Steward and Superintendant General, and Secretary of State in the department of war and foreign affairs; and his Catholic Majefty to the Marquis of Grimaldi, gentleman of his bed-chamber, and his ambaffador extraordinary to his Moft Chriftian Majefty; who, being informed of the difpofitions of their refpective fovereigns, and after having communicated their credentials to each other, have agreed to the fol lowing articles:

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Their Moft Chriftian and Catholick Majefties declare, that in confequence of their intimate ties of confanguinity and friendship, and the union they contract by the prefent treaty, the two crowns will hereafter confider every power as their common enemy, who fhall become fuch to either of them.

II. The two contracting kings reciprocally guaranty, in the moft abfolute and authentic manner, all the eftates, lands, islands and places, which they poffefs in any part of the world whatever, without any referve or exception; and the poffeffions, the object of their guaranty, fhall be fixed, according to the actual state in which they fhall be found, as foon as either of the two crowns fhall be at peace with all other powers.

III. Their Moft Chriftian and Catholic Majefties grant the fame abfolute and authentick guaranty to the King of the Two Sicilies, and to the Infant Don Philip, Duke of Parma, for all the estates, territories, and places, which they poffefs; provided that his Sicilian Majefty, and the faid Infant Duke of Parma, alfo guarantry, on their part, all the estates and poffeffions of their Moft Chriftian and Catholick Majefties. IV. Though

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IV. Though the inviolable and mutual guaranty, to which their Moft Chriftian and Catholick Majefties bind themselves, ought to be fupported with all their power, and though their Majefties thus understand it, according to the fundamental principles of this treaty, that whoever attacks one Crown, attacks the other, yet the two contracting parties have thought it proper to afcertain the first fuccours, which the power requested fhall be obliged to furnish to the power requesting.

V. The two Kings have agreed, that the crown requefted to furnifh fuccours, fhall, within three months after fuch requifition, have twelve fhips of the line, and fix armed frigates, in one or more of its ports, at the entire difpofition of the requesting court.

VI. The power requested fhall have ready, within the fpace of three months, at the difpofition of the power requesting, 18,000 foot, and 6ooo horfe, if France fhall be the power requested; and if Spain, being the power requested, 10,000 foot and 2000 horfe. In this difference of number, attention must be paid to the greater number of forces actually kept on foot in France than in Spain; but if it fhould at any time fo happen, that the number of forces kept on foot by them fhall be equal, then the obligation fhall alfo be equal to furnish reciprocally the fame number. The power requested engages to affemble the ftipulated fuccours, and to place them in fuch fituations (without immediate marching them out of the kingdom) as the party requesting fhall appoint, in order that they may be the more readily employed in the fervices for which the faid troops were demanded; and when, to gain fuch place of deftination, a paffage by fea, or marches by land may be neceffary, the expences thereof fhall be borne by the power requested, to whom the faid fuccours properly belong.

VII. As to what regards the difference in the faid number of troops to be furnished, his Catholick Majefty excepts the cafe, wherein they may be found neceffary to defend the poffeffions of the King of the Two Sicilies, his fon, or thofe of the Infant Duke of Parma, his brother; fo that freely acknowledging the preference, which the ties of blood and kindred impofe on him, then the Catholick

Catholick King, in thofe two circumftances, promises to furnish the fuccours of 18,000 foot and 6000 horfe, and even to employ all his forces, without claiming of his Most Chriftian Majefty any more than the number of troops above specified, and fuch other effects, as his tender friendfhip for the princes of his own blood may induce him to exert in their favour.

VIII. His Moft Christian Majefty excepts alfo, on his part, the wars he may engage in, either as principal, or auxiliary, in confequence of the engagements he has contracted by the treaty of Weftphalia, and other alliances with the German and other Northern powers; and confidering, that the faid wars can in no manner interfere with the crown of Spain, his Moft Chriftian Majesty promises not to demand any affistance from his Catholick Majefty, unless fome maritime powers fhould take part in the faid wars, or that the event should be fo unfavourable to France, that she should be attacked by land in her own territories; then, in this laft cafe, his Catholick Majesty promises to furnish his Moft Chriftian Majefty, without any exception, not only with the faid 10,000 foot and 2000 horfe, but even in cafe of neceffity, with 18,000 foot, and 6000 horfe, being the number ftipulated to be furnished, for the ufe of the Catholick King, by his Most Christian Majefty; his Catholick Majefty engaging, in fuch cafe, to pay no regard to the difproportion between the land forces of France and thofe of Spain.

IX. The requesting power fhall be permitted to fend one or more Commiffaries, chofen from among their own fubjects, in order to affure themfelves, that the power requested has collected, within the three months from the time of requifition, in one or more of their ports, twelve fhips of the line and fix armed frigates, as well as the ftipulated number of land forces, ready to march.

X. The faid fhips, frigates, and troops, fhall act agreeably to the will of the power that fhall have occasion for and demand them; and the power requested shall be allowed to make no more than one reprefentation concerning the motives or objects to which the faid land and feaforces are destined.

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