sincere amity, and a strict alliance during the war against France; together with an entire and lasting oblivion of all acts of hostility done on their side, in the course of the late wars, in which they have been engaged against each other. 2. To obviate all complaints and disputes which might arise on the subject of prizes, captured posterior to the declaration published by his Britannic majesty on the 4th of July of the last year it has been nivtually agreed, that the vessels and property taken posterior to the date of the said declaration, in any seas or ports of the world, without any exceptions, and without any regard either to time or place, shall be restored by both parties. And as the accidental occupation of any of the ports of the peninsula by the common enemy, might occasion disputes respecting any vessels, which, in ignorance of such occupation, might direct their course to those ports from any other harbour, 'either of the peninsula or the colonies; and as cases may occur in which Spanish inhabitants of the said ports or provinces, so occupied by the enemy, may, with their property, endeavour to escape from his grasp; the high contracting parties have agreed that Spanish vessels, not aware of the enemy's occupation of any harbour which they are desirous to enter, or such as may succeed in making their escape from any harbour so occupied, shall not be captured, nor themselves nor their cargo be considered as a good prize; but, on the contrary, that thy shall meet with every help and assistance from the naval power of his Britannic majesty. 3. His Britannic.majesty engages VOL. LI. to continue to assist, to the utmost of his power, the Spanish nation in their struggle against the tyranny and usurpation of France, and pro-mises not to acknowledge any other king of Spain and of the Indies thereunto appertaining, than his catholic majesty Ferdinand VII. his heirs, or such lawful successor as the Spanish nation shall acknowledge; and the Spanish government, in the name and on the behalf of his catholic majesty Ferdinand VII. engages never, in any case, to cede to France any part of the territories or possessions of the Spanish monarchy, in any part of the world. 4. The high contracting parties agree to make common cause against France; and not to make peace with that power except by common consent. 5. The present treaty shall be ratified by both parties, and the exchange of the ratifications shall be made in the space of two months or sooner (if it can be done) in London. In witness whereof, we, the under signed plenipotentiaries, have sigued, in virtue of our respective full powers, the present treaty of peace, friendship, and alliance, and have sealed it with the seals of our arms. (L. S.) GEORGE CANNING. (L, S.) JUAN RUIZ DE APODACA. gages to co-operate by all means in his power. The present separate article shall have the same force and validity, as if it were inserted, word for word, in the treaty of peace, friendship, and alliance signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time. In witness whereof, we, the under signed plenipotentiaries, have signed, &c. (L. S.) GEORGE Canning. (L. S.) JUAN RUIZ DE APODACA. Article II. Separate. A treaty shall forthwith be negociated, stipulating the amount and description of succours to be afforded by his Britannic majesty, agreeably to the third article of the present treaty. The present separate article shall have the same force and validity, as if it were inserted, word for. word, in the treaty of peace, friendship, and alliance signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time. In witness whereof, we, the undersigned plenipotentiaries, have signed, &c. (L. S.) GEORge Canning. (L. S.). JUAN RUIZ DE APODACA. Additional article. The present eircumstances not admitting of the regular negociation of a treaty of commerce between the two countries, with all the care and consideration due to so important a subject, the high contracting parties mutually engage to proceed to such negociation as soon as it shall be practicable so to do, affording in the mean time, mutual facilities to the commerce of the subjects of each other, by temporary regula tions founded on principles of reciprocal utility. The present additional article shall have the same force and validity, &c. (L. S.) GEORGE Canning. (L. S.) JUAN RUIZ DE APODACA. King's Speech in the House of Lords. Jan. 19. This day the House of Lords met pursuant to prorogation, when the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Camden, and the Duke of Montrose took their seats in their robes upon the woolsack as his majesty's commissioners; and the speaker and members of the House of Commons being in attendance, the Chancellor delivered the following speech from his majesty:-- My Lords and Gentlemen, "We have it in command from his majesty to state to you that his majesty has called you together, in perfect confidence that you are prepared cordially to support his majesty in the prosecution of a war, which there is no hope of terminating safely and honourably, except through vigorous and persevering exertion. "We are to acquaint you, that his majesty has directed to be laid before you, copies of the proposals for opening a negociation, which were transmitted to his majesty from Erfurth; and of the correspondence which thereupon took place with the government of Russia and of France; together with the declaration issued by his majesty's command on the termination of that correspondence. His majesty is persuaded that you will participate in the feelings which were expressed by his majesty, when it was required that his majesty should consent to com mence the negociation, by abandoning the cause of Spain, which he had so recently and solemnly espoused. "We are commanded to inform you, that his majesty continues to receive from the Spanish govern ment the strongest assurances of their determined perseverance in the cause of the legitimate monarchy, and of the national independence of Spain; and to assure you, that so long as the people of Spain shall remain true to themselves, his majesty will continue to them his most strenuous assistance and support. His majesty has renewed to the Spanish nation, in the moment of its difficulties and reverses, the engagements which he voluntarily contracted at the outset of its strug gle against the usurpation and tyranny of France; and we are commanded to acquaint you, that these engagements have been reduced into the form of a treaty of alliance; which treaty, so soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged, his majesty will cause to be laid be fore you, "His majesty commands us to state to you, that while his majesty contemplated with the liveliest satisfaction the atchievements of his forces in the commencement of the campaign in Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally from the presence and oppressions of the French army, his ma jesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his majesty has felt himself obliged forurally to declare his disapprobation. "We are to express to you his majesty's reliance on your disposition to enable his majesty to continue the aid afforded by his majesty to the King of Sweden. That monarch derives a peculiar claim to his majesty's support in the present exigency of his affairs, from having concurred with his majesty in the propriety of rejecting any proposal for negociation to which the government of Spain was not to be admitted as a party. "Gentlemen of the House "We are conmmanded by his majesty to inform you, that he has directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. His majesty relies upon your zeal and affection to make such further provisions of supply as the vigorous prosecution of the war may render necessary; and he trusts that you may be enabled to find the means of providing such supply without any great or immediate increase of the existing burthens upon his people. "His majesty feels assured it will be highly satisfactory to you to learn that, notwithstanding the measures resorted to by the enemy for the purpose of destroying the commerce and resources of his kingdoni, the public revenue has continued in a course of progressive improvement. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "We are directed to inform you, that the measure adopted by Parliament in the last session, for establishing a Local Militia, has been al3 B 2 ready ready attended with the happiest success, and promises to be extensively and permanently beneficial to the country. "We have received his majesty's commands most especially to recommend to you, that, duly weigh ing the immense interests which are at stake in the war now carrying on, you should proceed with as little de lay as possible to consider of the most effectual measures for the augmentation of the regular army, in order that his majesty may be better enabled, without impairing the means of defence at home, to avail himself of the military power of his dominions in the great contest in which he is engaged; and to conduct that contest, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to a conclusion compatible with the honour of his majesty's crown, and with the interest of his allies, of Europe, and of the world." Decree of the Supreme Junta. His majesty, considering that the French, in the unjust and barbarous war which they wage against Spain, pay no regard to any principle of the law of nations, that they shamelessly violate the most solemn treaties, as has been verified with respect to the capitulation of Madrid, since contrary to the stipulations thereiu made, they imprison, persecute, and "banish peaceable citizens and respectable magistrates, imposing, at the same time, the most disgraceful punishments on other unfortunate persons on the slightest suspicions and most frivolous pretexts; Seeing that they continue every where to defile the sanctity of temples, the purity of domestic honour, and to trample on the rights of hu manity-that acts of the most atrocious kind, and which make human nature shudder, are daily heard of, such as the death of a nun, who threw herself into a well, to avoid the brutality of a Frenchman; the cruel murder of a mother, whose breasts were cut off in the act of giving suck to her son, by those monsters, who afterwards sabred her infant; and, a number of other cases equally horrible;, atrocities painful to write, dreadful to read, and degrading to endure;-finally, his majesty being convinced, that still to observe the laws of natural equity with those who respect no law whatever, would not be moderation and justice, but the most culpable indifference and the basest meanness, has resolved to repress and punish those crimes. Calling therefore all Europe to witness the awful necessity which has compelled him to resort to the means of retaliation, by returning on a sanguinary banditti violence for violence, he hereby decrees: to 1. That no quarter shall be given any French soldier, officer or general, who may be made prisoner in any town or district, in which acts contrary to the laws of war have been committed by the enemy, but that such persons shall be immediately put to the sword, as an example to their companions and a satisfaction to outraged humanity. 2. That the present decree shall be printed, proclaimed, and distri buted in the Spanish armies, in order to its due execution. You are also required to make arrangements for the fulfilment of the same. The Marquis of ASTORGA, MARTIN DE GARAY. Copies of three Decrees in favour of 1. In consequence of the urgent By order of his majesty, this notification is made to your excellency, both for information and observance of the same. May God preserve you many years. SAAVEDRA. (Signed) 2. In order, that in the existing circumstances, all impediments may be as much as possible removed, which interrupt the intercourse with English ships, and induced by repeated applications of the minister of his Britannic Majesty, the same Supreme Central and Governing Junta, &c. &c. have determined to permit all English goods disembarked in our ports, which may not be sold in the country, to be re-exported on the payment only of two per cent. and no further duties are, in such case to be required. By order of his majesty, this notification is made, &c. &c. (ut ante.) (Signed) sists between this port and that of London, and in consequence of the assistance the latter has given us, which deserves to be returned by profound respect, his majesty has our warmest attachment, and most condescended to allow to the ships of Great Britain to convey to the ports of Spain the articles of bacallao (dried cod fish) the same duties being payable thereon which were required before the war of 1779.— Such cargoes so received may be sent to our settlements in South America, in the national vessels. By order of his majesty this notification is made, &c. &c. (ut ante.) SAAVEDRA. (Signed) His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has appointed Gen. William Car Beresford, Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army. It appears from an Extraoron the 1st instant, that the division dinary Gazette, published at Seville of Spanish troops commanded · by the Duke of Alberquerque, was attacked on the 22d ult. in the position of Consavigra, by a French force of 11,000 foot and 3000 horse; which attack was made with the enemy's usual impetuosity, but completely failed, owing to the uncommon intrepidity displayed by the Spanish troops. The French were repulsed and defeated with the loss of upwards of 400 men. Field Marshal Beresford has issued the following General Orders: "His Royal Highness the Prince SAAVEDRA. Regent of Portugal havin g : 3. The near alliance which sub graciously been pleased to entrust to Field Marshal Beresford the command 3 B3 |