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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
IMPORTANT STATE PAPER .
SFFICIAL COPY OF THE OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVFJTREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN " FRANCE AND SPAIN . HPHE Executive Directory of the French Republic and his Catholic Majesty JL the King of Spain , animated by a wish to strengthen the bonds of amity anil good understanding , happily re-established between France and Spain , by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Basle , on the 4 th Thermidor / and the third year of the Republic ( July 22 , 1795 , ) have resolved to form an Offensive and Defensive Treaty of Alliancefor whatever concerns the advantages and common defence
, of the two nations ; and they have charged with this important negotiation ,- and have given their full powers to the undermentioned persons , namely ¦ ' the Executive Directory of the French Republic to Citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon , General of Division of the Armies of the Republic , and its Ambassador to . his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain ; and his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain to his Excellency Don Manuel de Godoi , Prince of Peace , Duke of Alciidia , & c . & c . & c . Who , after their respective communication and exchange of their full powers , have agreed on the following articles :
ARTICLE I . There shall exist for ever an Offensive and Defensive Alliance , between the French Republic and his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain . II . The two contracting powers shall be mutual guarantees , without any reserve or exception , in the most authentic and absolute way , of all the states , territories , islands , and places , which they possess , and shall respectively posses ? . And if one of the two powers shall be in the sequel , under whatever pretext it maybe , menaced or attacked , the other promises , engages , and binds itself to
help it with its good offices , and to succour it on its requisition , as shall be stipulated in the following articles . ' ' ' III . Within the space of three months , reckoning from the moment of tlje requisition , the power called on shall hold in readiness , and place in the disposal of the power calling , 15 ships of the line , three of which , shall be three deckers or of So guns , twelve of from 70 to 7 :, six frigates of a proportionate . force , and four sloops or light vessels , al ! equipped , armed , and victualled for . six months ,
and stored for a year . These naval forces shall be assembled by the power called , on in the particular port pointed out by the power calling .-IV . In case the requiring power may have judged it proper for . the commencement of hostilities , to confine to the one half the succour which was to have been given in execution of the preceding article , it may , at any epoch of the campaign , call for ihe other half of the aforesaid succour , which shall be furnished in the mode and . within the space fixed . This space of time to be reckoned from the new requisition .
V . The power called on shall in . the same way place at the disposal of the requiring power , within the space of three months , reckoning from the moment of the requisition , eighteen thousand infantry , and six thousand cavalry , with a proportionate train of , artillery , to be readily employed in Europe , and for the defence of the colonies which the contracting powers possess 111 tho Gulf . of Mexico . VI . The requiring power shall be allowed to send one , or several Commissionersfor the purpose of assuring itself whetherconformably to the preceding
, , articles , the power called on has put itself in a state to commence hostilities on tbe day fixed , with the land and sea forces . VII . These succours shall be entirely placed at the disposal of the requiring power , which may leave them in the ports and on th « territory of the power called VOL . vn , D d
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Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
IMPORTANT STATE PAPER .
SFFICIAL COPY OF THE OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVFJTREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN " FRANCE AND SPAIN . HPHE Executive Directory of the French Republic and his Catholic Majesty JL the King of Spain , animated by a wish to strengthen the bonds of amity anil good understanding , happily re-established between France and Spain , by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Basle , on the 4 th Thermidor / and the third year of the Republic ( July 22 , 1795 , ) have resolved to form an Offensive and Defensive Treaty of Alliancefor whatever concerns the advantages and common defence
, of the two nations ; and they have charged with this important negotiation ,- and have given their full powers to the undermentioned persons , namely ¦ ' the Executive Directory of the French Republic to Citizen Dominique Catherine Perignon , General of Division of the Armies of the Republic , and its Ambassador to . his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain ; and his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain to his Excellency Don Manuel de Godoi , Prince of Peace , Duke of Alciidia , & c . & c . & c . Who , after their respective communication and exchange of their full powers , have agreed on the following articles :
ARTICLE I . There shall exist for ever an Offensive and Defensive Alliance , between the French Republic and his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain . II . The two contracting powers shall be mutual guarantees , without any reserve or exception , in the most authentic and absolute way , of all the states , territories , islands , and places , which they possess , and shall respectively posses ? . And if one of the two powers shall be in the sequel , under whatever pretext it maybe , menaced or attacked , the other promises , engages , and binds itself to
help it with its good offices , and to succour it on its requisition , as shall be stipulated in the following articles . ' ' ' III . Within the space of three months , reckoning from the moment of tlje requisition , the power called on shall hold in readiness , and place in the disposal of the power calling , 15 ships of the line , three of which , shall be three deckers or of So guns , twelve of from 70 to 7 :, six frigates of a proportionate . force , and four sloops or light vessels , al ! equipped , armed , and victualled for . six months ,
and stored for a year . These naval forces shall be assembled by the power called , on in the particular port pointed out by the power calling .-IV . In case the requiring power may have judged it proper for . the commencement of hostilities , to confine to the one half the succour which was to have been given in execution of the preceding article , it may , at any epoch of the campaign , call for ihe other half of the aforesaid succour , which shall be furnished in the mode and . within the space fixed . This space of time to be reckoned from the new requisition .
V . The power called on shall in . the same way place at the disposal of the requiring power , within the space of three months , reckoning from the moment of the requisition , eighteen thousand infantry , and six thousand cavalry , with a proportionate train of , artillery , to be readily employed in Europe , and for the defence of the colonies which the contracting powers possess 111 tho Gulf . of Mexico . VI . The requiring power shall be allowed to send one , or several Commissionersfor the purpose of assuring itself whetherconformably to the preceding
, , articles , the power called on has put itself in a state to commence hostilities on tbe day fixed , with the land and sea forces . VII . These succours shall be entirely placed at the disposal of the requiring power , which may leave them in the ports and on th « territory of the power called VOL . vn , D d